ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Two First Nations lawyers in a studio with LOTS to say. Blaksiders is the no-holds-barred conversation about news and current affairs that hosts Gemma McKinnon and Peta MacGillivray feel like talking about.
Gemma McKinnon is a Barkindji woman, a mother of 6, and an Aries. Gemma likes administrative law and country music. She recently moved to the Blue Mountains and is learning to care for chickens.
Peta MacGillivray is a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander woman who grew up in Central Queensland. Peta is now a die-hard Sydney-sider, who loves finding the city’s best breakfast sandwiches. She also likes indie R&B and collecting vinyl records.
Blaksiders is produced on Gadigal land at 2SER 107.3FM
Gemma McKinnon is a Barkindji woman, a mother of 6, and an Aries. Gemma likes administrative law and country music. She recently moved to the Blue Mountains and is learning to care for chickens.
Peta MacGillivray is a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander woman who grew up in Central Queensland. Peta is now a die-hard Sydney-sider, who loves finding the city’s best breakfast sandwiches. She also likes indie R&B and collecting vinyl records.
Blaksiders is produced on Gadigal land at 2SER 107.3FM
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
31 minutes
English
United States
86 episodes
since Jan. 22, 2024
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
For our last episode of Blaksiders in our weekly show format, Pete and Gem look back at the news and current affairs highlights we've loved talking to you about over the past two years. Farewell for now!
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This week, Peta and Gemma pick-up a conversation started by Canadian journalist Geoff Turner about Ozempic in his CBC podcast 'On Drugs'. Ozempic and similar brands (GLP-1s) are a pharamaceutical drug that have been described as the viagra of our generation. We disucss the implications of trying t…
This week, Gemma and Pete dabble in critic culture and give their hot take on Ryan Murphy's 'All's Fair'. This episode was broadcast on Monday 17 November 2025.
Pete and Gem disucss the news from the week involving the police. We're asking, when is a 'system error' more likely a systemic feature of modern policing? And who's job is it to fix it?
This week Peta and Gemma talk climate change and the Coalition's biggest challenge yet.
In this week's show, Gem and Pete reflect on the Cronulla Riots, which unfolded 20 years ago this December. This show went to air on Monday 27th October.
This week Pete and Gem are giddy to discuss Barney Joys' flirtation with One Nation as he struggles with relevancy deprivation. This show went to air on Monday 20th October.
This week Gem and Pete discuss the notion of 'social cohesion' and the misuse of the concept in attempts to silence dissent.
This week Gem and Pete check-in about the Greens and how they've travelling in the the 6 months since the federal election.
This week Peta and Gem draw upon their year 11 and 12 Modern History knowledge to try and read the week's events in International Relations. Is Albo our lifetime's Billy Hughes?
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