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Who Gets to be Human?

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Content note: This episode contains discussion of suicide.  

After 235 years of colonisation, who truly gets to be human in so-called Australia?    

Join Wik and South Sea Islander rapper and 2024 Festival Curator Ziggy Ramo, Munanjahli and South Sea Islander author Chelsea Watego, and Egyptian-Australian writer Lamisse Hamouda, with host Osman Faruqi as they read original work, considering who gets to be human in today’s world and how we can confront the past to finally move forward.    

Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival 2024.  

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