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Nov 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Lisa Divissi |Alan Weedon
Den Barber is a Wiradjuri man who runs the Indigenous cultural consultancy Yarrabin Cultural Connections and is the founding director of Koori Country Firesticks Aboriginal Corporation. He shares his experiences in fire management from elders past and present and reflects on how this can inform the protection of our towns and cities into the future. This interview first aired in January 2022.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Lisa Divissi |Alan Weedon
Gamilaraay man and former ABC Top 5 Arts residential scholar Beau de Belle visits the house of his mentor and friend, the revered architect Richard Leplastrier. A longer version of this interview first aired in May 2021.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Alan Weedon |Timothy James
Most of us know that exposure to nature is good for us, because we’ve experienced it ourselves. Doctors can even prescribe time in nature to patients, for the health benefits. But increasingly, we’re understanding – and measuring - just how nature helps us – our minds, bodies, and society. This event is brought to you by the Australian Land Conservation Alliance as part of the National Private Land Conservation Conference held in Canberra on October 17, 2023.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |Alan Weedon |Emrys Cronin
You’ve probably heard the expression “I don't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it”. But in the age of social media, cancel culture, keyboard warriors, fake news, algorithms, corporate influence, far right extremism and all the rest, does that lofty ambition still have currency? What has happened to civil debate and the reasonable exchange of competing ideas in public, to conversations that might lead to productive compromise, or simply agreeing to disagree?
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Alan Weedon |Claire Slattery |Carey Dell
Public libraries are for everyone, but last year, the LGBTIQA+ community became a target for exclusion by anti-queer campaigners, when drag story time events – designed to celebrate diversity and embrace rainbow families –were shut down or postponed due to threats, protests and abuse. Librarians, drag artists, families and council staff were on the frontline of these attacks.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Alan Weedon |Claire Slattery |Carey Dell
US singer, songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek is known as one of the most inventive pop musicians working in the industry today, pushing the boundaries of what the genre is, and what it means for the people who listen to it. Off the back of her acclaimed seventh album, ‘Desire, I want to turn into you’, Polachek opens up about her creative process, her varied career, and why pop should be respected as an artform in its own right.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Alan Weedon |David Le May
Harvard University has been running the world's longest study into happiness. The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been running since 1938, and in that time of researchers have observed how Americans experience and understand happiness, and how that's changed over time.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Alan Weedon
Who sets the agenda when it comes to designing houses? More often than not wealthy developers call the shots. And the result is cheaply-made hot boxes, unaffordable to live in, and poorly designed for human habitation. How did it come to this, and how can citizens and architects seize control? Meet 3 international trailblazers who want to change who controls what we get to call home — what housing looks like, how it feels to live in, and how affordable it is.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Alan Weedon |David Le May
In its simplest definition, orientalism refers to the patronising depictions of the 'Eastern world' — a term that encompasses North Africa, the Middle East and Asia — by writers and artists from the West. And it's no stranger to the Australian stage. Major commercial musicals with orientalist underpinnings such as The King and I, Madame Butterfly, or Miss Saigon regularly grace Australian stages, which give a vital leg-up to emerging stage workers.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Alan Weedon |David Le May
Where once photography gave us images of the world as seen by machines, photography under AI gives us images of machine images… seen by machines. Major global companies including Bing and Adobe are heavily investing in generative image models to produce the next AI advance in photography. But in this moment, what has become of the still image? Does it begin with the shutter, or is it now traced from computational models that power the AI-generated image?
