The 2023 Creators of Ipswich Summit kicked off the Spark Ipswich arts festival this week.

The Queensland Summit gave participants the chance to learn skills such as how to pitch to publishers and how to start a podcast.

Author and Queensland University of Technology lecturer Melanie Saward and journalist Rhianna Patrick facilitated two of the workshops.

Melanie and Rhianna spoke about the Summit and what its like being First Nations women in their creative fields.

Image: Melanie Saward, Christine Anu and Rhianna Patrick at the Spark Ipswich Festival. (Image supplied)

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Featured In Story: Melanie Saward Bigambul and Wakka Wakka writer, editor and QUT lecturer, and Rhianna Patrick Torres Strait Islander journalist and broadcaster

First aired on The Wire, Friday 7 July 2023

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Robodebt Royal Commissioner Catherine Holmes delivered a damning assessment of federal ministers and public servants in her final report released today.

She makes 57 recommendations to change public service and government processes, as well pleading for a shift in cultural attitudes towards welfare recipients.

Theres also a sealed section of the report that recommends referring some unnamed individuals for civil and criminal prosecution.

The scheme now known as robodebt used income averaging to identify overpayments to welfare recipients, then pursued people for debts.

But, many of these debt notices turned out to be wrong, and many people didnt owe any money at all.

Produced By: Amanda Copp

Featured In Story: Dr Darren ODonovan Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law at La Trobe Law School

First aired on The Wire, Friday 7 July 2023

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International migrants in Australia face many challenges, and one of them is being at risk of HIV infection, according to a new research.

The Pre-exposure prophylaxis antiretroviral tablet (known as PrEP) reduces the risk of infection in a 99 per cent, and is easily accessible to Australian citizens.

But migrants dont have this access, and along with the stigma of HIV and a lack of awareness, migrants are vulnerable.

For more information on how to obtain PrEP, go to the website PrEPaccessNOW

Produced By: Eduardo Jordan

Featured In Story: Jason Ong Associate Professor at the Monash University Central Clinical School

First aired on The Wire, Friday 7 July 2023

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First Nations communities are being encouraged to share their knowledge with STEM researchers in a new initiative aimed at addressing underrepresented issues.

The National Indigenous Innovation Challenge, hosted by Monash University, aims to support traditional Indigenous knowledge with STEM research to identify issues in First Nations communities and find sustainable solutions.

Program lead and proud Wadjak/Ballardong Noongar man, Associate Dean Professor Christopher Lawrence, says First Nations communities have knowledge which crucial to addressing long-standing issues.

The problem were talking about is the legacy of colonisation that has impacted on our community, and what we want our indigenous people to tell us, is what they think the problems are and what they think the innovative solution can be to help solve those problems.

Part of my role at the faculty of IT at Monash is to actually change that narrative around how we perceive indigenous knowledge I think they were doing amazing things that were only now starting to discover how extraordinary their work was and is and how that actually informs a lot of the work that we do now. The machines that they created, like the flying machine, the boomerangthese are the sorts of tools that were around way before Da Vinci, way before Galileo, our people were astronomers as well.

Associate Dean Professor Lawrence encouraged all those who want to be involved to reach out to him or the Monash University National Indigenous Innovation Challenge.

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Featured In Story: Associate Dean Professor Christopher Lawrence Program lead and proud Wadjak/Ballardong Noongar man at Monash University

First aired on The Wire, Friday 7 July 2023

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