Nothing says ‘Australia’ like the kangaroo. From the 1960’s TV sensation Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, the green & gold Made in Australia logo and the Qantas flying kangaroo to indigenous dreamtime mythology. Producer:Kate Elliott3CR, Melbourne Mentor: Martin Walters (CBAA/CRN) The kangaroo is an icon that crosses generations and cultures. You possibly even have a few …
So much in my life overlaps with music.I’d say it’s my number one passion. And my other passions, well, they’re interwoven with music as well somehow.Because…when I hear music, I hear so much more.And when we talk about music, we talk about so much more. Producer:Maddy MacfarlanePBS FM, Melbourne Mentor: Chloe Collins What We Talk …
Over 150,000 Koreans have been adopted overseas since the Korean War Armistice in 1954. And I am one of them. I was born in South Korea. I was adopted to Australia when I was a baby and raised by white Australian parents. I never knew my birth parents. All I knew was that my mother …
To the Motherland – Korean adoptees searching for birth family Read More
Riot Grrrl: loud, brash, ferocious. Riot Grrrl is not simply a period of feminist punk in the early 90s, but is a movement whose ongoing thoughts, ideas and challenges have enriched human liberation. Riot Grrrl is a recurring motif for empowering females, placing Grrrls at the centre of music and for showing everyone the saviour …
Adelaide tap water tastes disgusting. It’s renowned for being the worst in Australia and people go to great lengths to get good drinking water from anywhere but the tap. I used to get rain water from my Nans house in the Adelaide hills but she’s moved and I really miss the taste of her old …
Tales from the Well – stories about water, place and memory Read More
When I would ask people about ketamine, for those who knew about it, a few ideas were evoked: an animal sedative, a hallucinogenic party drug or an anaesthetic for children. But when I mentioned ketamine to people rarely did anyone think of it as a treatment for depression. However, right now in clinics across Australia …
IMAGINEYou get a letter.Your house is to be ‘compulsorily acquired’ for a toll road.The house you were born in.The house you have lived in for 70 years.This is what happened to Keith Fitzgerald, residen of Collingwood, Melbourne in 2013.Keith and hundreds of other Melbournians join together in a campaign of resistance against the East West …
In the spirit of the second decade of the twenty-first century, we’ve named our documentary using a ubiquitous marker of our times: the hashtag. Producers:Adelaide Rief, Yen Eriksen and Farz Edraki.2XX FM, Canberra Mentor: Kevin Klehr #CityOfLove was trending on Twitter as the ACT government made moves towards making laws to create marriage equality in …
I am 46, single female with no kids. I find loud noises and shopping centres extremely stressful. Then you add small children having tantrums and I find the experience completely. intolerable. Producer:Melanie DohenyWild Horse FM, Yarraman Mentor: Chloe Collins Why can’t parents just bloody-well deal out some discipline and consider those around them? I just …
In Western Australia, Aboriginal children make up more than half of all children in out-of-home care or what is known as foster care. Yet Aboriginal children only make up 5 per cent of the population in the state. Aboriginal foster carer Carol Dowling goes on a journey to investigate whether she and her community are …
