Ann Arnold

Sydney

Journalist and Producer at ABC News (Australia)

ABC Radio National journalist/producer [email protected] https://t.co/z9I1S5K77p Occasional print freelancer

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Articles

Disclosures: how much should our politicians tell us about their money?

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

Australian politicians are not always brought to account on declarations of interest, such as gifts and property ownership. A small band of federal politicians and other advocates have been pushing for transparency and disclosure rules to be toughened. Guest: Sean Johnson, a former Liberal party staffer at both NSW state and federal levels.
The power of hand gestures

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

Gestures such as a handshake, a finger to the lips to say 'quiet', or the shrug, are so widely understood that they are an assumed common language. Philosopher and author Damon Young has analysed the history and various meanings of thirteen gestures, for his book 'Immortal gestures: journeys in the unspoken’ (Scribe)
How First Nations resisted colonisation in the River Country

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

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Reckoning with the West

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

'One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.' That tweet, by Omar El Akkad, in October 2023, three weeks after Israel invaded Gaza, has been viewed over ten million times. Its author, Omar El Akkad, has now written a book of searing essays, asking, among other things, what it is that 'polite liberal progressives' actually stand for.
Lost in the jungle

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

The indigenous underpinnings and contradictory accounts behind the incredible tale of four children lost after a plane crash in the Amazon jungle in Colombia, in 2023. Author of 'Forty days in the jungle: behind the extraordinary survival and rescue of four children lost in the Amazon' (Scribe)
How prison architecture can change lives

1 month ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

Should prison architecture be used for punishment, or could it be used to create hope, instead. Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes has helped design prisons in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. And visited others in Norway, Spain and Japan. Guest: Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Bath University. Author of ‘An architecture of hope: reimagining the prison, restoring a house, rebuilding myself’ (Scribe)
Robert Dessaix's life reflections

1 month ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

Writer Robert Dessaix, now based in Hobart, was named Thomas Robert Jones by his adoptive parents. His name change to Dessaix, to reflect his French family heritage, is just one of many shifts Robert has made through his long life, around sexuality, friendships, appreciating art and travel, and facing the end of life.
The painter, the painting and the political controversy: Blue Poles revisited

1 month ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

In 1973, the highest price ever paid for a painting in the USA - US$2million - was offered by.. the Australian Government. The painting was Blue Poles, by Jackson Pollock. It created huge division in Australia, and would contribute to the downfall of the Whitlam Government. A new book revisits this important intersection of art and politics. Guest: Tom McIlroy, political correspondent, the Australian Financial Review.
Geologist and more: the multi-faceted genius who was loathed and revered in colonial Australia

1 month ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

Unearthing a mysterious figure from Australia's colonial times. Ferdinand von Sommer was Western Australia's first government geologist. He was also, in various parts of the world, a doctor, missionary, journalist, lecturer, naturalist and more. Was he a fraudster, or a genius? • Guest: Professor Alexandra von Ludewig, scholar of German and European Studies, University of Western Australia Article
Vanuatu still rattled by biggest earthquake in memory

2 months ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

The earthquake that hit Vanuatu the week before Christmas has taken the disaster-prone nation to a new level of despair and anxiety, with ongoing aftershocks and cyclones rattling people’s nerves. For the local Red Cross, the quake hit in the middle of a post-cyclone celebratory Christmas lunch.