Sensational headlines, fear campaigns and dehumanising language can be all that we hear about migrant and refugee communities settling in Australia. And too often migrant women are framed only as the mother of the children or the wife of the male refugee. But each one has her own story and reasons for travelling across the world to put down new roots in a strange land. On New Home, hear from migrant and refugee women who are quietly building new lives in regional Australia, making friends, a ...
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The Culinary Archive Podcast is a series from the Powerhouse with food journalist Lee Tran Lam exploring Australia’s foodways: from First Nations food knowledge to new interpretations of museum collection objects, scientific innovation, migration, and the diversity of Australian food. Contributing editor Lee Tran Lam is a freelance journalist who has worked with The Sydney Morning Herald, Gourmet Traveller, The Guardian, SBS Food, FBi, ABC, Australian Financial Review, Rolling Stone and Turk ...
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In 1770, naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander reportedly saw wild soybeans in Botany Bay. The following century, the Japanese government sent soybeans to Australia as a gift. Thanks to Chinese miners in the 1800s, tofu was most probably part of gold rush diets, but it wasn’t until just a few decades ago – with the growing vegetarian movemen…
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The tomato was dismissed as poison for 200 years in Italy, though it’s now celebrated as a staple of its cuisine. Italian migration to Australia helped make the tomato a mainstream ingredient here. Learn about the people who grow it, preserve it or cook it — whether it’s Italian Australians bottling passata in their ‘second kitchen’ (garage) in Syd…
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Australia is famous for its coffee culture, but it didn’t begin with Italian post-war migration. There was the rise of coffee palaces during the 19th century temperance movement and the influential Depression-era coffee shops run by Russian migrant Ivan Repin (who offered fresh-roasted beans when stale, day-old coffee was standard). The impact of I…
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Australian colonial history begins with beer: the Endeavour left England with 250 barrels on board. The drink reflects the changing fortunes of women, from Australia’s first female licensee to the 1960s feminist fight to allow women into public bars. Beer has always bubbled over into politics, with Reschs’ owner, Edmund Resch, thrown into a local i…
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Long before local authorities tried to ban sliced bread, Australia was home to the world’s first bakers. Grindstones, some 65,000 years old, suggest Indigenous communities have been baking for millennia and there’s an amazing effort to bring back this cultural knowledge and revive Indigenous grains. While Australia has had a fraught relationship wi…
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The history of Australia can be told in an oyster shell. For thousands of years, First Nations communities feasted on these mollusks and collected them in middens – a millennia old example of sustainability. Sydney was literally constructed from oysters. Our roads were paved with them because the shellfish was so abundant, and the crushed-up shells…
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Ever wonder how a by-product of beer gave us Vegemite, an Australian icon? Have you heard about the bakers producing pide, damper or Johnny cakes from ancient Middle Eastern or Indigenous grains? Did you know our roads and buildings used to be constructed from oysters? Or that soybeans can be transformed into plastic and cars? To find out about all…
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Earlier this year, people gathered to mark Refugee Week at an old school building nestled in the bush at Fryerstown in Victoria. The event was a celebration of refugees and the community they are a part of. There was music, an abundance of food, and several familiar faces from this series.
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Ten years after fleeing Afghanistan Hussnia is still grateful for the simple things
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Hussnia and her family fled Afghanistan more than ten years ago as refugees. Even after many years living in regional Victoria, nothing is taken for granted in her household.
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Ku Htee’s journey from a Thai refugee camp to community leader in Bendigo
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Before arriving in Australia Ku Htee had never been outside of the Thai refugee camp she had grown up in. She had never been in a car, and she barely spoke any English.
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Baby whisperer: Joy's midwifery skills in demand from Kenya to Horsham
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Originally from Kenya, Joy moved to Australia as a skilled worker. The people of Horsham welcomed her and her family, but Joy had to work extra hard to prove her skills as a midwife.
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Nita created her own sense of community in Australia with Gamelan
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When Nita first moved to Australia from Indonesia with her husband Aaron, she found it hard to connect to a community. She was used to a culture where you had people surrounding you all the time. It took time and a move to the regional city of Bendigo to work out how to find a community here in Australia.…
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Teen Rebel: Rebecca's path from South Sudan to Bendigo
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Running away from home at the age of 16 to join the rebel army sounds like a plot from young adult fiction, but that decision was the start of Rebecca Wour's journey to find home in Australia.
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Full circle: Duang’s journey from Northern Thailand to Central Victoria
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When she was five years old, Duang sold home grown vegetables at the local market in her small town in Thailand to help her family survive. Seventy years later, after a full and varied life, Duang is once again selling food at her local farmers markets here in Australia.
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Lhamo's journey across the Himalayas by night, to a new life in Australia
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Lhamo was heavily pregnant with her daughter Tenzin Nagi when she escaped across the Himalayas, moving only at night with her husband and other refugees. 28 years later they live in regional Victoria, with Tenzin grown up and working as a nurse. She helps her mother share their journey in this episode of New Home.…
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New Home: a podcast about refugee and migrant women in regional Australia
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Sensational headlines, fear campaigns and dehumanising language can be all that we hear about migrant and refugee communities settling in Australia. And too often migrant women are framed only as the mother of the children or the wife of the male refugee. But each one has her own story and reasons for travelling across the world to put down new roo…
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