Uncle Jack Charles on The Mission re his book "Born Again Blakfella"

Last year, Professor Marcia Langton released her book Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia, which was intended to preserve and map out the collective memory of Aboriginal and Torres Strait…

Stan Grant is a television journalist, Indigenous and International Affairs Analyst for the ABC, and Global Affairs Professor at Griffith University. In his previous work, Stan has looked into how Australia’s democratic and…

Greens member Lidia Thorpe calls in to talk to The Mission host, Daniel James, about the current state of affairs in Djab Wurrung. She discusses the lack of meaningful dialogue between the Victorian…

Author and essayist Melissa Lucashenko was recently awarded the 2019 Miles Franklin award for her seventh novel, Too Much Lip. Melissa joins host of The Mission Daniel James to discuss her process as…

Housing Week is happening from August 4 to 10 and seeks to raise awareness about homelessness in Australia. During this time, Elizabeth Morgan House Aboriginal Women’s Services (EMH) will be heading out to…

Only 250 kilometres west of Melbourne lies Budj Bim, one of the world’s oldest aquacultural systems, built by the Gunditjmara people around the crater of a dead volcano. For thousands of years, the…

Heart disease is the leading contributor to the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The first Aboriginal cardiologist and proud Yorda Yorda man, Associate Professor Luke Burchill, joins The Mission to discuss…

Australian history has painted Indigenous people as hunter-gatherers, almost completely ignoring the agricultural knowledge and farming systems, which were in place well before the arrival of Europeans. Bruce Pascoe, Indigenous writer from the…

In the inaugural episode of The Mission, host Daniel James is joined by Jill Gallagher AO, proud Gunditjmara woman and the first Victorian Treaty Advancement Commissioner. Jill has a long and distinguished…