In this final episode of Koori Mail News (formerly The BLAKroom podcast) for 2021, your host Nick Paton yarns with pop music sensation Isaiah Firebrace about his petition on change.org which has more than 293 thousand signatures so far. Nick talks to Bundjalung woman Kylie Caldwell, and Gamilaraay woman Sophie May about their involvement with the Art on Bundjalung Market coming up on December 18 in Lismore, NSW. Nick also has a yarn with Sophie and Kylie about both women being selected as finalists in the first ever Koori Mail Indigenous Art award, worth $10,000.  The Koori Mail News podcast is a Koori Mail production. The music featured in this podcast is ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ by Isaiah Firebrace. Sign Isaiah’s petition here: www.change.org/p/aboriginal-history-class-to-be-implemented-into-primary-and-secondary-education?signed=true More on the Art On Bundjalung Market: www.artonbundjalung.com TWITTER: twitter.com/koorimailnews @koorimailnews FACEBOOK: facebook.com/koorimail/ @koorimail INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/koorimailnewspaper/ Edition 765 of the Koori Mail Newspaper is ON SALE NOW! Subscribe to the Koori Mail Newspaper here: www.koorimail.com Podcast enquiries: podcast@koorimail.com If this podcast raises any issues for you please contact the National Indigenous Critical Response Service on 1800 805 801 or Lifeline on 13 11 14. At the Koori Mail, we acknowledge and pay our respects to the Bundjalung Nation, and the lands of the Widjabul Wiabul people upon which our offices sit, and to all Ancestors and Elders. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE, ABORIGINAL LAND