Therapy dogs helping making life a little less ‘ruff’
University of Canberra, Katie Golding
July 29, 2020
It’s Friday afternoon and Harry has just clocked on for his weekly shift in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Canberra Hospital. Machines are beeping and buzzing in every direction. Nurses are scurrying around the corridors while doctors monitor critically ill patients. An intensive care unit...
NSW Koala Inquiry: the fate of populations and habitats after bushfires
University of Sydney, Marco Stojanovik
July 28, 2020
The impacts of bushfires, land clearing and forest logging were key concerns during the NSW Upper House Inquiry into Koala Populations and Habitat, writes Marco Stojanovik. Rows of empty trees stretched far into the distance, branches stripped of leaves, barks singed black. Almost three months after...
Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the waka
Auckland University of Technology, Sri Krishnamurthi
July 27, 2020
Loimata – The Sweetest Tears isn’t just a true story of one of the Pacific’s great waka builders and sailors that has been captured in a stirring and visually gripping and poignant documentary. It is also about the friendship between the aiga (family) of Ema Siope, a Samoan-born Kiwi and master...
COVID-19 would “spread like wildfire” in prisons say legal advocates
University of Sydney, Cindy Cameronne
August 3, 2020
Overcrowding and social isolation leave prisoners vulnerable to COVID-19 but NSW Corrective Services has no plans to release prisoners on early parole. The NSW Government passed laws in March enabling the Commissioner to release certain inmates on early parole to prevent an outbreak in correctional facilities but this power has not yet been used....
Food aid and ‘Blessing Boxes’ a lifeline for jobless Australians
UTS, Ashlea Wheeler
July 13, 2020
Community organisations have set up food pantries and emergency centres to make sure no-one goes hungry during COVID-19.
For cultures hit by earlier pandemics, memory cues instinct to panic early
University of Melbourne, Connor Amor-Bendall
July 7, 2020
The lockdown has reignited a lingering legacy of trauma for some, and laid down a new template for others, writes Connor Amor-Bendall for our special series Clayton 3168: Lockdown on the strip.
‘I bury people nearly every day, what was our sin?’
Auckland University of Technology, Matthew Scott
July 31, 2020
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images – the drowned Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, camera in hand and a huge smile on his face. Mugshots of two captured French DGSE secret agents – a fake honeymooning pair jailed for manslaughter, but later spirited off to Hao atoll and freedom. Sun-drenched tropical beaches and a ship with a gaping hull, sinking into the frigid Auckland Harbour on a winter’s night. READ MORE: 35 years on, Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind Newspaper headlines expressing disbelief that something like this could happen in peaceful New Zealand. It is fitting that the discussion began with such an array of images. The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 is one episode in a large and complex geopolitical story – a story that isn’t over yet. A panel of academics, journalists...
Hong Kong’s first minority social worker runs for local council
La Trobe University, Shazma Gaffoor
June 25, 2020
From breaking the law to changing the law - a member of a Hong Kong ethnic minority is running for council elections.
John Doyle: the man in the irony mask
UTS, Charlotte Biggins
June 23, 2020
Charlotte Biggins talks to comedian John Doyle about “Rampaging Roy Slaven”, storms in a thimble and laughing in the face of COVID-19. “I couldn’t tell a joke to save myself. I couldn’t write a joke. I just can’t do it.” So says John Doyle, better known as Roy Slaven, one half of the comedy duo Roy and HG. It’s a peculiar revelation, both for long-time fans and new listeners alike. Tune into Bludging on the Blindside, their return to ABC Radio, or almost anything from their decades-long career and you’d probably disagree with him. But for Doyle, comedy is more than just jokes. It’s a mask; a tool with which he can expose the ignorant, the ridiculous, or the serious. And in the age of COVID-19, it’s something that the world – eventually – will need. Humour, in some form, was part of Doyle’s life from an early age. Talking to him in his Sydney...
Food aid and ‘Blessing Boxes’ a lifeline for jobless Australians
UTS, Ashlea Wheeler
July 13, 2020
Community organisations have set up food pantries and emergency centres to make sure no-one goes hungry during COVID-19.
Shenhua keeps coal plans alive as report predicts koala extinction
UTS, Tys Occhiuzzi
June 29, 2020
China-owned coal company Shenhua Watermark, wants a fourth extension to its north-west NSW exploration licence, despite a report confirming koalas are on the verge of extinction.
Detainee rights and totalitarian creep
USC, Verena Power
June 8, 2020
Nauroze Anees has spent five years detained in Australia’s onshore detention facilities. In this podcast, he is vocal about the human rights violations suffered by detainees
Overcrowding and social isolation leave prisoners vulnerable to COVID-19 but NSW Corrective Services has no plans to release prisoners on early...
Marco Stojanovik looks at programs that aim to keep indigenous kids out of the justice system. “Alright everybody, same combo: double jab,...
Overcrowding and social isolation leave prisoners vulnerable to COVID-19 but NSW Corrective Services...
In an innovative new development, Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) will partner with the Pacific Media Centre on a “climate and covid” project to help improve...