7.15am Kim Sampson, the president of the Victorian branch of the Australia Vietnam Friendship Society spoke about the AVFS, its beginnings, purpose and heads into discussions of Vietnam politics and economy.

7.45am Julian Cribb an Australian author and science writer about the continuing and emerging debate about whether COVID 19 had its origins in a laboratory, in so called gain of function experiments.
https://johnmenadue.com/did-a-us-funded-biotechnology-experiment-ignite-the-worst-pandemic-of-modern-times/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372946677_Open_Letter_To_Nature_Medicine
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/timeline-the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/
https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/t335agp59fnltwp4te9zggsta6rmc8
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Final-Report-7.pdf

8.10am Gamilaroi and Dharug man Travis De Vries, founder and managing director of Awesome Black, a creative agency and foundation, which tells stories, makes cool sh*t happen and helps individual creatives and organisations execute meaningful, authentic and professionally awesome projects.
https://awesomeblack.studio/
https://awesomeblack.org/shows/frontier-war-stories/

https://www.instagram.com/awesomeblackfoundation/

Songs

Jess Hitchcock - Homeward Bound

Andrew Gurruwiwi Band - Yaa Djamarrkuli