A conversation with writer and director Jon Bell, whose feature film The Moogai debuted at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival (SFF), winning the Audience Award for Best Feature, and premiered globally at the…

Professort Tamar Hopkins from the Racial Profiling Data Project, joins host Daniel James to discuss the project's latest findings. Her research demosntrates there is still a significant problem with racial profiling by police…

Today’s episode serves as a wrap up of Krystal’s favourite event of the year, PAX, the three day gaming exposition held in Naarm celebrating all things nerdy and new. We speak with Wiradjuri…

It's Banksia's 100th episode with Vanessa Morris as host! For this episode, she speaks with Jarra Karalinar Steel about love.exe, a playful installation at Arts House, North Melbourne, where shrines are devoted…

Allara Briggs Pattison joins Vanessa to yarn about curating Ganbu Gulin at Darebin's FUSE festival and her upcoming tour with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.

A conversation with Wiradjuri astrophysicist and science communicator Dr Kirsten Banks, known to her hundreds of thousands of online followers as Astro Kirsten. In 2024 Kirsten became the first Aboriginal woman to graduate…

Daniel yarns with Amy McQuire on her new book Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media and the role of objectivity in Australian journalism.

A conversation with Wergaia/Wemba Wemba multimedia artist Kelly Koumalatsos about her new book Madjem Bambandila, which is a stunning celebration of Kelly's artistic and cultural practice, whose art has been exhibited and…

The first part of today’s show is a conversation with Noongar and Yawuru writer and Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Elfie Shiosaki, whose new collection…

Kaanju and Birri/Widi woman and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commisioner, Kaite Kiss joins host of The Mission Daniel James. The pair talk about the Commisioner's priorities, the fallout from the Voice referendum…