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Nov 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Isabella Tropiano
Embodying a character in games like Dungeons and Dragons "exercises the empathy muscle" and helps us expand our sense of self — at least according to the Dungeon Master Pastor. Even regular internet use provides ample opportunity to play with who we are and what might be possible. Rev Rory Philstrom is a Lutheran pastor and founder of the Roll for Joy,.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Hong Jiang |Isabella Tropiano
There's an intangible sense of connection and interrelationship between things that's just as important as the things themselves. Depicting these relationships in art is a perennial challenge, and inspires us to new heights of creativity. Melanie Eastburn is the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Lee Ufan Quiet Resonance exhibition is showing at the gallery until September 2025.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Rohan Salmond |Isabella Tropiano |Roi Huberman
What happens when your deepest convictions aren't reflected in the society around you — how do you navigate that gap? Meet two women who have been living out this question, both in the religious contexts of their youth, and as migrants to Australia. Dr Farjana Mahbuba is a researcher with Australian Catholic University and ABC Top 5 Humanities scholar, studying the experiences of migrant women and how they are affected by financial abuse.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hong Jiang |Isabella Tropiano
In 2016, the Religion and Ethics Report revealed that several Australians who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria were implicated in sexual violence against Yazidi women. Eight years on, there's been a renewed campaign to bring the perpetrators to justice. The UN has urged an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to allow a mass vaccination campaign to prevent an outbreak of polio. And on the frontline of these efforts are aid workers, both local and international.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Isabella Tropiano |David Le May
On the doorstep of Gaza comes the remarkable story of the world's first peace treaty — a 3200-year-old text. Egyptologist Dr Camilla Di Biase-Dyson joins Big Ideas host Natasha Mitchell to share a political and personal soap opera that brought an enduring peace to a region now suffering from a bloody war.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Richard Aedy |Whitney Fitzsimmons |Isabella Tropiano
People are drinking less alcohol, especially Millennials and Gen Z. And the drinks industry has noticed. Low-alc and no-alc drinks make up a tiny fraction of the market. But it’s growing at 7 percent a year. And, as more of us either moderate our drinking or stop altogether, the future for these drinks look bright. But the way they’re advertised, marketed and packaged makes them look very like alcoholic drinks and there’s some concern they may act as a gateway to alcohol.
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May 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hong Jiang |Isabella Tropiano
The federal budget is in, and foreign aid funding has fallen well short of international targets. Catholic aid agency Caritas has asked for a doubling of the emergency aid fund, but did they get any of what they sought? Each year, about two million people visit Auschwitz in Poland, and many of them are Jewish teenagers. But how young is too young to visit the largest death camp of World War II?
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May 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Hong Jiang |Isabella Tropiano |Andrew West
The Vatican's secret role in the birth of IVF, how young is too young to visit Auschwitz? and did aid agencies get what they sought for in the federal budget?
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Karin Zsivanovits |David Le May |Isabella Tropiano
Nicole Kitman, Errol Flynn, Peter Finch and David Gulpilil… they all are Australian actors who made their fortune in Hollywood. Australian talent is in fact very popular in the glitzy and cut-throat cinema business. Why is that? The book Cast Mates looks behind the Hollywood curtain, from the Golden Age in the 1930s to the streaming wars of today.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Meredith Lake |Karen Tong |Rohan Salmond |Isabella Tropiano
This program was originally broadcast on 21 November 2021. William Shakespeare's world was marked by social change, spiritual tumult, and cosmic disorientation. Elizabeth I was on the throne, defining and defending England's Protestant reformation, and Europe now knew the Earth wasn’t the centre of the universe. So how secular — or perhaps, enchanted — was Shakespeare himself?
