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Ahead of Australia's federal election on May 3rd, we’re bringing you another episode of Voters’ Voices. This week we're focusing on Marginal Melbourne — the city’s most tightly-contested electorates. Our reporters investigated the seats on a knife’s-edge this year and the hot-button issues that could decide their futures. Featuring pieces by Ruby Perryman, Daniel Gawne, Ashleigh Wyss, and August Mikleus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Voters’ Voices: Demographic Divides 17:31

8 days ago17:31

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Last week, we focused on young, disaffected voters ahead of the federal election on May 3rd. For episode two of Voter’s Voices, our reporters zoomed out. They went to a broader mix of voters, from retirees to small business owners. They found values were front of mind this year – like political honesty and social and environmental concerns. Featuring reporting by Maxine Ford, Morgan Reinwald, Kai-wern Koo, Daniel Gawne, and Nicole Wang. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Voters’ Voices: Generation Now 16:36

16 days ago16:36

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Ahead of Australia's federal election on May 3rd, we're launching a new series — Voters’ Voices. Episode one is all about what young voters really care about. Gen Z and millennial voters will outnumber baby boomers for the first time this year. It’s being called a cost-of-living election and our reporters investigated whether that’s true.They learned that young Australians feel poor, alienated, and not represented by major parties. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Visa Victory: A Family’s Fight Against Ableism 13:06

22 days ago13:06

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After more than a decade apart, a disabled 14 year old in Indonesia will be reunited with his parents in Australia. Despite being born in Melbourne, Jonathan Lumintang was later denied residency due to his cerebral palsy. A ministerial intervention has allowed him to stay — but other families aren’t as lucky. Our student Kristian Oka Prasetyadi reported on this issue for The Citizen and the ABC. For today’s episode, The Yarn spoke to him about the family’s struggles, and Australia’s ableist migration policies. Show notes Kristian Oka Prasetyadi's article for the ABC Kristian Oka Prasetyadi's article for The Citizen See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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A War Cry From Wieambilla 27:11

29 days ago27:11

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Australia's first ever Christian terrorist attack — that's how Queensland police classified the 2022 mass shooting in the rural township of Wieambilla. This week, producer Kirralee Nicolle revisits the incident in detail. She explores how Christian fundamentalism can turn deadly, especially in tandem with online conspiracies and mental illness. This episode contains a high degree of violence and references to sexual assault. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Angling for Defence Contracts at Fisherman’s Bend 17:14

5 weeks ago17:14

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Today we're focusing on the ties between the University of Melbourne and weapons manufacturers. While the University has downplayed these ties, our reporter James Costa has found it’s still pursuing new defence partnerships. In particular, the university is spruiking its forthcoming inner-city campus at Fisherman's Bend. The University’s behaviour during student protests last year has also come under scrutiny, particularly its use of wifi to surveil students; one critic is calling it "twenty-first century McCarthyism". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Three Years of News Bites 20:57

6 weeks ago20:57

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We’re continuing our centenary celebrations by revisiting highlights from our News Bites series. Over the last three years, we’ve featured more than 40 of Australia’s top journalism experts. These include newspaper editors, podcasters, war journalists, and our very own staff. Today you’ll hear some of their top tips for aspiring journalists, from making your first pitch to covering conflict zones. Thanks to Jeff Sparrow, Bernadette Nunn, Louisa Lim, and Sami Shah for conducting the interviews and organising News Bites events. Show notes: News Bites playlist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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The Yarn at 100 22:39

7 weeks ago22:39

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Today marks the 100th episode of our award-winning student podcast, The Yarn. In the three years since we started, we’ve featured work from 151 emerging journalists and won the Climate Award at the Australian Podcast Awards. To celebrate our centenary, we’re revisiting the highlights from our environmental reporting. From the centre of a bee swam to a trip along the Murray River, we’re taking you to unexpected places. We're also airing the voices of young Australians as they muse over eco-anxiety — and what can be done to counter global heating. Show notes: Making the Murray River Sing Tales of the Environment Part 2: Our Disappearing Forests Climate Generation: Eco-anxiety Swarm Episode 7: Pest or Protected? Not Natural: Disrupting Decline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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News Bites: Journalism Survival Guide 29:52

9 weeks ago29:52

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Intimidated, lucky, chaotic: this is the emotional rollercoaster of the first days working in a newsroom. This episode is our survival guide to starting out in journalism, as delivered by three of our graduates. Gwen Liu from the Ballarat Courier, Harry Sekulich from the Daily Aus, and freelancer Wing Kuang speak to Senior Tutor Bernadette Nunn about how to survive and thrive when starting out in journalism. "The only way to do better is just by doing," says Harry, while Gwen's advice is simple, "you need courage, you need to be brave." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Uncurated: DONATIONS 9:06

22 weeks ago9:06

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The Baillieu Library is the largest library here at the University of Melbourne. Walking through the library, the shelves are filled with books on everything from philosophy and history, to science and computing, all from a Western Eurocentric perspective. But the library also holds one of the largest collections of Rare East Asian books and materials in the Southern Hemisphere. Throughout this episode, Jiaxuan Zhu explores how knowledge has been built here at the University of Melbourne and reflects on the importance of diversity and looking past just Eurocentric knowledge foundations. INTERVIEWEES: Dr Shiqiu Liu This podcast is on the exhibition “Learning Beyond Borders: Thomas Chong’s Study and Practice of Medicine”, presented by the Archives and Special Collections of the university. MUSIC CREDITS Epidemic Sound: Sowing the Summer Barley by Francis Wells Epidemic Sound: Shrines by David Celeste See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Special Report: US Election Postmortem 15:25

24 weeks ago15:25

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After President-elect Donald Trump's landslide win and a federal election looming, Australian politicians have lessons to learn from the US election. The Yarn spoke to two US political analysts, on different sides of the political aisle, to get a breakdown of the Republicans' success. Tim Lynch is a professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne. Cory Alpert is a former Biden-Harris White House staffer, now a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. James Costa is a journalist at The Citizen . Elliot Rodriguez was the producer of this episode. Louisa Lim was the executive producer. American Flag image by Gordon Johnson, Pixabay. Map of Australia image by Free Vector Maps. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Uncurated: COLLECTORS 17:07

24 weeks ago17:07

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The Harry Brookes Allen Museum is one of many collections at the University of Melbourne. The University has collected artefacts that has contributed to a wealth of knowledge that is vital to Melbourne, Australia and the world. But the way University scholars collected these artefacts was not always done in an ethical way. Reporter Haoyue Deng learns how a rare marsupial mole is the key to the forgotten people behind some of the University's collections. INTERVIEWEES: Rohan Long, Curator of the Harry Brookes Allen Museum at the University of Melbourne Emma Kowal, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University Inspiration for this episode was informed by the recently published book Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australi a by Ross L. Jones, Dr. James Waghorne, and Professor Marcia Langton of the University of Melbourne. If you would like to know more about The University of Melbourne’s response, you can download the book for free here . MUSIC CREDITS Bird(Magpie) sound from Freesound Bush walking from Freesound Mouse squeak from Pixabay Snake from Pixabay Eternality by Nathan Zammit from the Living Instruments Project Tundra by Jack Burmeister from the Living Instruments Project Marimba by Olivia Marsh from the Living Instruments Project See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Uncurated: COUNTRY 19:13

26 weeks ago19:13

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What would Australia look like if we had monkeys swinging around our cities? In the late 19th Century, a number of associations called “acclimatisation societies” sprung up across Australia with the goal of bringing familiar plants and animals to what the British colonists saw as an impoverished landscape. This episode explores the massive ecological transformation that shaped what the university’s environment looks like today, and how Indigenous knowledge about land preservation was ignored for decades. INTERVIEWEES Dr Pete Minard (historian of colonial science and environmental history) Prof Lynette Russell AM (historian of Indigenous Australians and colonial anthropology) SOUND ATTRIBUTIONS axe chopping (in the forest) by Selector, accessible at www.freesound.org/s/410768 , License: Creative Commons 0 1.0 Pied Currawong Strepera graculina by Sunny Tseng, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/871215 , License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus by Peter Boesman, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/859826 , License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Australian Raven Corvus coronoides by Zebedee Muller, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/801431 , License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Laughing Kookaburra Daceolo novaguineae by Ken George, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/858185 , License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Common Myna Acridotheres tristis by Greg McLachlan, accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/331396 , License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical Share Alike 4.0 Peace Piano song by Calvin Clavier. https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-peace-piano-song-216338/ Birds and Insects near Dam - Cathedral Ranges by Sassaby, accessible at freesound.org/s/427877 , License: Creative Commons 0 1.0 180081 Sheep Farm 01 by FST18008, accessible at https://freesound.org/s/441801 , License: Attribution 4.0 Cinematic rythmline by SamuelFJohanns from Pixabay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Uncurated: STONES 18:32

27 weeks ago18:32

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The Old Quadrangle is one of the most photographed spots on the University of Melbourne campus, with students and tourists alike posing under its iconic archways. The romantic European architecture feels like you've been transported to the set of Hogwarts, but did you know that the stones used to create this effect were stolen from Indigenous lands in Tasmania? Reporter Giulia Scenna investigates the history of our campus's architecture and its relationship with Indigenous Australia. — Interviewees: Dr Philip Goad, Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne Dr James Waghorne, Senior Research Fellow and University Historian at the University of Melbourne Inspiration for this episode was informed by the recently published book Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia by Ross L. Jones, Dr. James Waghorne, and Professor Marcia Langton of the University of Melbourne. If you would like to know more about The University of Melbourne’s response, you can download the book for free here . MUSIC CREDITS (In order of appearance) Our Fingers Cold from Blue Dot Sessions Cold Summers from Blue Dot Sessions Crosswire from Blue Dot Sessions Temperance from Blue Dot Sessions La Costilla from Blue Dot Sessions 10 Minutes Past from Blue Dot Sessions Watercool Quiet from Blue Dot Sessions Tape Player Sounds -Free for use under the Pixabay Content License A Common Pause from Blue Dot Sessions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Uncurated: REMAINS 18:39

28 weeks ago18:39