Sarah Allely

Australia

Producer and Journalist at ABC News (Australia)

Freelance Producer at Brain on Nature

ABC Journalist/producer - curr Late Night Live, also freelance @brainonnature prev @insightSBS

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The Māori lesbian activist trailblazer who broke academic records

3 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku has led such a rich, full life already that her memoir only covers the first 26 years of her life - from 1949-1975. And it’s a rollicking ride. The emeritus professor was the first Maori woman to get a doctorate from a New Zealand university. She later became first Maori woman professor. But that all happens later. This memoir charts her formative years, including her founding role in Gay and women’s liberation movements and also significant Maori activism.
Backstory to Assange's secret deal for freedom

4 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

A year ago this week Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was released from prison after a 14-year fight for freedom. Assange accepted a guilty plea of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. documents in exchange for being returned home to Australia. But how did this deal come about and what happened in the lead-up to his return home? Journalist Andrew Fowler shares the inner-dealings and joins the dots on the backstory of the negotiations to release Assange.
The fallacies of the global fertility crisis

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

In the face of falling fertility rates, the United Nations argues that the real fertility crisis the world faces is not too many babies or not enough babies but the lack of freedom women have to choose whether or not, and when, to have kids. A new UN Population Fund study warns governments against alarmist narratives and regressive policies around fertility.
Unraveling the mysteries of ancient string writing

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

Over millennia, humans have been better at inventing ways of writing than remembering how to read what we’ve written. We use marks and pictures and letters and symbols, but what they mean can disappear over time. We’re only now figuring out how to read the string writing of the Indigenous people of Peru, which until recently was thought to be essentially indecipherable.
Early Māori were kūmara farmers, not just hunter-gatherers

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

Kūmara or sweet potato originally comes from South America, but how did it become one of the national foods of Aotearoa New Zealand? The Polynesians that first settled New Zealand around 1300 were thought to just be hunter-gatherers and only later turn to farming. But archaeologists have used new research technology to prove the Māori arrived with plans and sophisticated techniques for growing kumara, and even started off in the cooler climate of the South Island.
The Haka Party Incident - ABC listen

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

Maori MPs were issued record bans from the New Zealand Parliament recently for their impromptu haka last year protesting a bill to wind back the Treaty of Waitangi. But haka has been pivotal in race relations in Aotearoa before. An event in 1979 at the University of Auckland triggered significant debate and change. Yet the incident was buried until Katie Wolfe helped dig it up to create first a play and now a documentary.
Young men converting to Russian Orthodoxy in the US

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

Russia and the US have not traditionally been close culturally but there’s a few shifts going on. The Trump administration has a very different relationship and attitude towards Moscow than usual. And mirroring that is an increased conversion to the very conservative, traditional and some say masculine Russian Orthodox Church in pockets of the US. Journalist Lucy Ash has spent a lot of time reporting from Russia... and found some converts who had even left the US for Russia to deepen their ties.
Why do societies collapse and how can we avoid their mistakes?

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Baker |Sarah Allely

Does every society have a use-by date? The fact that we're not bumping into Aztecs or Byzantines around the place does suggest that they all end at some point. States can slowly decline and fade, or morph into new entities, while a few simply collapse in on themselves. "This is something which has haunted even the most powerful of empires," Luke Kemp, a research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, tells ABC Radio National's Late Night Live.
Water is the new battlefront for India and Pakistan

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Sarah Allely

Water and the rivers that carry it are becoming increasingly prized. Our warming planet, increased droughts and burgeoning populations make control of water more and more important. And when there are disagreements, the fallout can be very serious. Pakistan and India have stopped bombing each other after short but intense fighting erupted in Kasmir last month. Now a potentially more catastrophic tension is building over a long-standing water sharing agreement.
Have food critics become too nice? - ABC listen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Sarah Allely

Food criticism has changed a lot since John Lethlean wrote for publications like The Age and The Australian. Over a 25 year career, John chronicled Australia's shifting tastes, watching dining fads come and go. Ultimately, his career came to an end after one line in a review got him into hot water. • Guest: John Lethlean - former restaurant critic and author of Post Script: The good, bad and occasionally ugly bits from a 25 year career in Australian food writing