The APA launches its third season of The Deadly Physios podcast to celebrate 2023 NAIDOC Week, recognising this year’s theme ‘For Our Elders’, by amplifying leading voices on how embodying allyship can address healthcare inequity. 

Proud Kamilaroi man and podcast host Cameron Edwards is back with an impressive line-up of guests, including Nick Kenny, former Brisbane Broncos rugby league footballer and now a practice director and physiotherapist with experience working in remote indigenous communities. 

This season provides listeners with valuable ways to become better allies and improve interactions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. Mr Edwards said he was incredibly proud of the quality of conversations this season. 

“This season provides allied health practitioners with practical examples on how they can better display allyship, through skill and leadership development exercises, undertaking cultural reflection and responsiveness training, and engaging with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services and communities to build and maintain relationships,” Mr Edwards said.

“These examples apply for physiotherapists working in many different areas, be that in private practice or community practice, and for those working in education, among others. This podcast is an important addition to the ongoing dialogue around allyship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in allied health,” said Mr Edwards.  

This year’s NAIDOC Week theme aims to recognise the important role Elders have played, and continue to play, in our community. Proud Palawa man and APA National President Scott Willis said launching the podcast during NAIDOC Week provided a significant opportunity to embrace this theme by empowering our guests as leaders in the field.

“It is incredibly important that the next generation of allied health professionals have allyship woven into the fabric of their training and professional development to enhance cultural safety within the health system,” he said.

The first episode kicks-off NAIDOC Week on Monday, 3 July 2023, featuring Nick Kenny and Matt Hoffman, who set the scene for the season by discussing the inextricable link between cultural safety and the quality of healthcare, and how people can show genuine allyship.

Other guests this season include Professor Dawn Bessarab, Dr Ivan Linn and Dr Ngaree Blow. 

Listen to The Deadly Physios podcast each fortnight on the APA website, Spotify, Google Podcasts or Apple Podcasts.

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