Tanya Talaga, Darlene Silva Soberano, Think Tanger podcast, Casual university workers

Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Tanya Talaga, Anishinaabe journalist and author, about her recent book All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism. We will hear a number of poems by Darlene Silva Soberano. Darlene is a poet whose work has appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Peril Magazine, Going Down Swinging, and elsewhere. Darlene currently serves as a poetry editor for Voiceworks Magazine, and is a recipient of a Hot Desk Fellowship from The Wheeler Centre in 2020. Deakin University students that participated in last year's Global Journalism Exchange program to Morocco present part one of a three part podcast. In a series of interviews with the creative minds behind Think Tanger co-founder Amina Mourid and communications manager Youssef el Idrissi, the topics covered include urbanisation in Tanger and the region, creative spaces and art as a tool to build stronger solidarity between communities through artistic mediums and research.Priya speaks with Jordy Silverstein, a historian and casual academic working at Macquarie University in Sydney, and Deakin, Monash, Latrobe Universities in Melbourne, about the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education in so-called Australia, and the way that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing issues in the sector. We discuss the actions of universities, the National Tertiary Education Union or NTEU's Jobs Protection Framework, and resistance from casual university workers.