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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Macau, the Portuguese city in southern China

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

Macau is best known now for its casinos, and has been overshadowed by nearby Hong Kong. But it was the first European city in Asia, remained a Portuguese colony for 500 years, and contains many colourful and significant stories within its walls.
Kim Il-Sung, North Korea's tyrannical first leader - ABC listen

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

Kim Il-Sung is the ‘darkest figure in all of Korea’s history’ , according to Seoul-based scholar and author Fyodor Tertitskiy. With access to archives from Japan, China and Russia, biographer Tertitskiy has painted a grim picture of a man whose ego replaced his ideology, and whose legacy is that North Koreans, as one of the poorest populations in Asia, are on average several inches shorter than South Koreans.
The good men who hunted down the perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre

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

There are not many colonial heroes in Australia's frontier wars, but some emerged after the unprovoked 1838 massacre of at least 28 Wirrayaraay people in northern NSW. They ensured that the perpetrators were identified, and prosecuted. Guest: Mark Tedeschi KC, Sydney barrister, photographer and author Book: ‘Murder at Myall Creek: the trial that defined a nation’ (Simon & Schuster, 2016) Producer: Ann ArnoldHistory, Indigenous Australians, Law, Crime and Justice, Unrest, Conflict and War
How the US got so divided

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

An anthropologist set out to talk to his fellow Americans, to try and understand why so many fear people who are different to them; and why people want to separate themselves, in gated communities and big cars. Guest: Anand Pandian, professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
PIE: the world's most important language

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

The English language, and Sanskrit, have some elements in common. So do Hindustani and Spanish. And Russian and Greek. They all, it is now becoming clear, evolved from a very early language, known as PIE – Proto-Indo-European. More than half the world's population speak languages stemming from PIE. Guest: Laura Spinney, Paris-based writer and science journalist. Author of ''Proto: how one ancient language went global' (Harper Collins) Producer: Ann ArnoldHistory, Language, Science, Immigration
Merle Oberon's false identity

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

Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was born in poverty in India. To make it in the movies, first in London and then Hollywood, she had to invent a new life story that concealed her race. Her advisors came up with Tasmania as her birth place.
National security - how it started and how it's changed

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

It was Franklin Roosevelt who came up with the notion of national security, to persuade Americans to get involved in World War ll. His pitch was that Americans had social security, domestically, under the New Deal. But to keep the world's instability at bay, and protect the 'American way of life', participation in world affairs was necessary.
Possible Burrup gas extension and the rock art that might be at risk

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

May 31 is the due date for a Federal Government decision on granting another 40 years to the controversial North West Shelf gas operations on the Burrup Peninsular in WA. Its operators, Woodside, are also looking to expand their activities in the area, where critics say over 1 million pieces of world-famous rock art could be damaged. Guest: Marian Wilkinson, celebrated investigative journalist, writing a Quarterly Essay on Woodside and its Kimberley operations.
The Antarctic - an extension of Australia?

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

Australia had ambitions of creating an Empire that included the Southern Ocean, a new book argues. Rohan Howitt, an environmental historian at Monash University, says Australia was a leading example of 'small state imperialism', looking to claim land, sea and resources. This explained Australia's willingness to fund Antarctic exploration and rescues, as a demonstration of its authority.
Message sticks: small items with big cultural power

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

The humble message stick may be one of the most significant, but underrated, cultural artefacts of Australian First Nations people. Guests: Piers Kelly, linguist at the University of New England. Founder of the Australian Message Stick database. Alwyn Doolan, Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka man, from Queensland. In 2019, he walked 8,500kms from North Queensland to Canberra, carrying message sticks, to present to the incoming Prime Minister.