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From Local to Global is a new current affairs program that will be launching on Canberra community radio 2XX in late August, 2022. We'll be covering local Canberra stories as well as national and international stories that make a difference to our community. Importantly, we'd like you to join us on this journey and be part of shaping this dynamic new program. Find out how... Contact us via the 2XX website: https://www.2xxfm.org.au/ Email: fromlocaltoglobal2xxfm@gmail.com

Canberra Refugee Support provides good neighbour support for families from refugee backgrounds living in Canberra. In 2022, this local charity is supporting more families than ever before. CRS President, Doug Hynd, discusses the work of CRS and the challenges in 2022.

Join Virginia Haussegger AM for a very stimulating, hopeful and wide ranging conversation about gender equality plus so much more. First aired in 2021. Virginia is an award winning journalist, gender equity advocate and communication strategist. Many of you may remember her as the Canberra ABC TV News presenter.

Australia's new security partnership, AUKUS, will see Australia acquiring nuclear powered submarines, and yet, such a significant development has had little scrutiny, particularly within the Australian parliament. Dr Sue Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War, discusses AUKUS and the risks it poses in escalating nuclear militarisation and conflict in the Indo Pacific region.

Save Bluetts block! Helen Oakey, Executive Director, Conservation Council, ACT Region talks about the biodiversity value of this block of land in Molonglo, why everybody's talking about it, and what's being done to save it from the developers' bulldozers. For more info: https://conservationcouncil.org.au/

Rediscovering Music. Kristen Sutcliffe, audiologist and bassoonist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, outlines the CSO and Better Hearing Canberra's free concert program for music lovers that live with hearing loss. It starts next Tuesday, 1 March, so be quick! For ticket enquiries call 62626772. Details: https://cso.org.au/event/rediscovering-music-2022-1/ pic © Martin Ollman

Join Helen Oakey, Executive Director of the Conservation Council ACT Region in this summer edition encore interview. The Conservation Council's Save Lawson Grassland campaign aims to stop the Defence Housing Australia from building a suburb right over critically endangered grassland here in Canberra. https://conservationcouncil.org.au/our-campaigns/nature-waterways/save-lawson-north-grasslands/ Also in the show: The Tassie Devil – Aussie Ark rewilding mainland Australia.

We take a deep dive into Canberra's creative scene. From art, illustrations, murals to music, we interview some of Canberra's most inspiring artistic talent. We speak with street artist, muralist and illustrator Bjarni Wark, otherwise known as ‘Happy Decay'. Bjarni spent ten years adding splashes of colour and quirk to deteriorating walls and lacklustre public spaces around Canberra, before moving his practice along Australia's south coast. We talk about his work, inspirations and experiences of being a Canberra-based visual artist. You are able to view Bjarni's artworks at: https://happydecay.com.au/ We also talk to Keo, a local producer and owner of Darling Street Studios. Earlier this year, Keo achieved his dream of building his very own creative studio! Darling Street is a brand new modular creative space in Mitchell ACT, specialising in music recording, music production, press photography, music video and digital content. A very interesting and insightful discussion about what Keo did to turn his dream into a reality and what he loves most about working with local talent. For more information about Darling Street Studios, please visit: https://www.darlingstreetstudios.com/

Hearing the news that you have a spinal cord injury is devastating, and the world as you know it changes forever. Patrick Will, Co-ordinator of the Peer & Family Support team, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, talks about a new service in Canberra that's there to help you navigate your way forward. Spinal Cord Injuries Australia: https://scia.org.au/ E: info@scia.org.au T: 1800 819 775

Join Michelle Robertson, CEO, RSPCA ACT, as she talks about the tips and tricks to help your pet adjust to life after lockdown, plus how to keep your forever friends safe and happy over the holiday season. RSPCA Adopt a Pet: https://www.rspca-act.org.au/adopt-pet

The tragic drowning of a close friend from a refugee background has prompted Annie Gao and Clare McBride Kelly to establish the Refugee & Migrant Swimming Project, in partnership with Royal Life Saving ACT. This project will provide people living in Canberra from a refugee and migrant background to learn to swim and critical water skills.

Refugees trapped in Indonesia, with no work or education rights, live without economic security and have little prospects of finding permanent resettlement in a third country. Canberra's Hanalei Bickley is swimming the length of Lake Burley Griffin to raise money in her bid to secure freedom for one refugee in Indonesia, her friend, Elijah.

Dr Dana Bergstrom, winner of the National 2021 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science, talks about Aliens in the Antarctic plus plus ecosystem collapse from Antarctica to the Australian tropics. How can we best respond? Pic: Dr Dana Bergstrom © Photographer/Australian Antarctic Division

It's FrogID Week and you can help make frogs count! Thousands of sick and dying frogs are being reported across Australia. What's going on? Dr Jodi Rowley explains the urgency and need for us to learn about our froggy friends and how to join this citizen science project. FrogID Week: https://australian.museum/event/frogid-week-2021/ Pic: Dr Jodi Rowley © Stuart Humphries

Operation Not Forgotten is a potential lifeline for refugees subject to Australia's offshore detention regime to resettle and rebuild their lives in Canada under that country's Community Sponsorship Program. Three Canberra women - Sister Jane Keogh, Robyn Fetter and Julie Demicoli - with Operation Not Forgotten, speak about creating a pathway of freedom for people who have been in immigration detention for 9 years and more.

In October 2001, a small fishing boat left Indonesia with over 400 people en route to Australia dreaming of safety, reuniting with family and building a home. Tragically, 353 people died when the SIEV X sank. The background to this horrific event was John Howard's 2001 election during which people seeking asylum were demonised and scapegoated. We commemorate the SIEV X, and honour those who lost their lives and remember their families 20 years on.

After well over three years, the Muruguppan family - Priya, Nades and their two little girls - are out of prison-like immigration detention. But they are still prevented from returning to their home and community in the Queensland town of Biloela as the youngest child is in 'community detention'. Home to Bilo campaign lead, Angela Fredericks discusses the situation facing the family and the campaign to get them back home.

The ACT is experiencing one of the strictest and longest lockdowns since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic. For some of us, this may be the first or longest period of having to work from home. While restrictions are easing from the 15th of October 2021, it may still be a number of months until many of us are able to return to our offices or places of work. We are joined by organisational psychologist Dr. Shanta Dey to discuss the challenges, benefits and impact that this new mode of work is having on us. Dr Dey is a workplace coach at Atlassian, and is an academic and researcher at the University of Sydney. Listen for some helpful tips on what you can do to make the most of working from home in COVID19. If you are struggling with working from home, please consider reaching out to the Employee Assistance Programs available at your workplace. Alternatively, you are able to contact Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636.

Jeannie Paterson, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, discusses the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition data in Australia: its permutations, ramifications, and why we should care!

Prompted by government inaction on climate change and its continuing support for coal mining, environmental activists, Anna Molan and Elle Lawless, took part in a non-violent direct action at the Newcastle Port in 2018. They share their story of this action and what followed.

Building on the success of their first survey of Canberra women, YWCA Canberra is returning to survey women and non-binary persons aged 16 years and over, to build a snapshot of what life is like for these groups in the ACT. Subject ACT caught up with Frances Crimmins, CEO, YWCA Canberra to chat about this survey. You can take their 15 minute survey by following this link: https://ywca-canberra.org.au/advocacy/the-our-lives-women-in-the-act-survey-returns-for-2021/

Roundabout Canberra is a local Canberra charity supporting new mums, dads and children in need with essential quality goods. CEO Jeanette Dyer talks about the work of Roundabout Canberra and the impact that the Covid 19 lockdown is having on the charity and the families that they support.

Canberra's domestic and family violence services are essential services and will remain open during lockdown. You can contact the YWCA Domestic Violence Support Service during business hours on 6185 2000. If you need to urgently leave your relationship or require crisis support, call: • The Domestic Violence Crisis Service 24/7: 6280 0900 • 1800 RESPECT 24/7: 1800 737 732 • Or call 000 if you're experiencing an emergency. YWCA Canberra's Domestic Violence Support Service: https://ywca-canberra.org.au/community-services/domestic-violence-support-service/ Canberra Domestic Violence Crisis Service: https://dvcs.org.au/

First aired in January 2021, Chris Johnson, WWF-Australia, speaks about the impacts of climate change, Antarctic tourism and geo-political forces, while Anna Kelly, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, talks about her discovery of microplastics in the Antarctic sea ice and the implications of that finding. Microplastic in sea ice: https://www.imas.utas.edu.au/news/news-items/microplastic-pollution-recorded-for-first-time-in-antarctic-sea-ice?fbclid=IwAR0xzOABRpyCDaiU2vRPGUtoYSMHlWsXRsreQJ4Os321qgj2EXPz35DkfE WWF in Antarctica: https://www.wwf.org.au/what-we-do/oceans/antarctica?fbclid=IwAR01RHU9Zf6Z7EIdSMSRJ5ainzJnTHeRLHacCipW_ls5Rbqx3px8LObUkUk#gs.qlzlzw

In this encore episode from 2020 Garry Mills, speaker for Beyond Blue, talks openly about his own experience of depression, how he came through, and how to get support while in lockdown. Also in the show: Frances Crimmins, CEO, YWCA Canberra, talks about their survey, ‘Our Lives: Women in the ACT'. Beyond Blue: https://www.beyondblue.org.au/ Our Lives: Women in the ACT 2021 Survey: https://ywca-canberra.org.au/advocacy/the-our-lives-women-in-the-act-survey-returns-for-2021/

The campaign to stop the Adani coal mine from going ahead is being waged in cities and towns across Australia as well as at the Carmichael Basin mine site itself and the Bowen coal port. Annie Close, from the Stop Adani Canberra Group, joins us to discuss the campaign and its strategies for climate justice.

Extinction Rebellion have the strategy of non-violent direct action at the core of their fight for climate justice. Karlo Paasonen discusses the theory and practice of NVDA and the challenges of building a mass movement to stop climate change.

The Practical Guide to Law and Protest in the ACT takes activists through planning and preparation for protests and non-violent direct action in Canberra. The Guide ranges from permissions, to defamation and rights and obligations if you're arrested. Vanessa Sporne, from GreenLaw, takes us through the Guide.

One from our archive. In 2017 Subject ACT's Nathan Gruber sat down with Richard Denniss from the Australia Institute to talk about Richard's book: ‘Curing Affluenza: How to buy less stuff and save the world', available through Black Inc. As relevant today as then.

Secret trials, whistleblowers being charged, defendants hidden behind black screens - what's going on? Australia has more security legislation than other western democracies, how are these laws being used and what are the possible implications for the justice system in this country? Kathryn Kelly discusses the charges against lawyer, Bernard Collaery, his client Witness K and former soldier, David McBride.

With recent amendments to the Migration Act, passed by the Coalition government with ALP support, policies towards people seeking asylum and refugees in Australia even more complex. Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne, discusses the recent changes and why Labor gave its support for these.

It's Plastic Free July! Join Dr Mark Browne, UNSW School of Science, as he discusses the impact of microplastics on health, current research trends, and issues that need attention. Also in the show: Ryan Lungu, Executive Director of the Canberra Environment Centre, gives us tips and tricks on how to break up with single use plastic without feeling guilty or overwhelmed. It's not as hard as you may think. Take the pledge today! Microplastics: https://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/micro-plastics/11016302 Plastic Free July: https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/about-us/ Canberra Environment Centre: https://www.canberraenvironment.org/

We take a look at the Fathering Project, a not-for-profit organisation focused on improving child development outcomes by facilitating effective fathering. Psychologist Dr James Brown and David Forrest join us to discuss the project and their recent launch in the ACT.

Lauren Brown & Grant Battersby -Jerrabomberra Wetlands & Mulligans Flat by SubjectACT

Quizzing is really popular, but what's its like being on a 'real' quiz show? Nathan Gubler took the plunge and tested his knowledge of the history of Canberra in the hot seat of Mastermind.

Canberra's very own and unique film festival, Stronger Than Fiction, is back. Co-director, Hannah de Feyter talks about the great films and the exciting new format for the festival for 2021.

Late last year the Conservation Council, ACT Region, called upon Defence Housing Australia to rethink a proposed development at Lawson North in the Belconnen area of Canberra. If this development goes ahead, it will significantly extend the suburb of Lawson across critically endangered grassland. https://conservationcouncil.org.au/nature-waterways/save-lawson-north-grasslands/

The Manyana Matters campaign is striving to save precious unburnt bushland from development on the Shoalhaven south coast – land that has great ecological significance. Find out how you can help. Manyana Conservation Fund: https://fnpw.org.au/news/latest-news/fnpw-launches-manyana-conservation-fund/

Intv Jennie Cameron & Marilyn Chalkley - Canberra International Music Festival by SubjectACT

Subject ACT covers some interesting fundraising and charity activities going on in and around the Nation’s Capital. In the first part of the program, we are joined by local Photographer Ina Jalil from Ina J Photography to discuss her up and coming fundraising book project called the Tails of Canberra. The Tails of Canberra is a coffee table book showcasing photos of Canberra dogs with the aim to raise funds for dogs in need and the ACT rescue and foster. We take this opportunity to discuss Ina’s work more broadly as a Canberra-based photographer. Image supplied by Ina J Photography Link: https://inajphotography.com/ In the second part of the program, we are joined by Nick who is an executive member of the Regional Education Support Network (RESN) to discuss how the organisation is addressing education gaps and barriers faced by regional high school students across Australia. RESN provides free tutoring and academic support services to regional high school students. Nick is passionate about his cause having experienced some of the disadvantages of completing his high school studies in the rural town of Grafton in northern New South Wales. Regional Education Support Network Link: https://www.resn.org.au/ The program wraps up with a music track called ‘Facing Backwards’ by Sydney-based artists Fatcop featuring Bobnic. You can follow this artist on Soundcloud and Twitter. Fatcop Links: https://soundcloud.com/iamfatcop & https://twitter.com/iamfatcop

Women make up 1% (or less) of our tradies and construction workers in the ACT. But now change is afoot… From out-dated claims that ‘the work is too heavy’ to ‘no female amenities on site’, women and business are coming together to effect change in the right direction! Build Like A Girl: https://buildlikeagirl.org/ SPARK Ginninderry: https://ginninderry.com/environment-and-people/training-employment/view-programs/

Virginia Haussegger & Judy Waters - Women & Gender Equality 2021 by SubjectACT

A discussion about the barriers, stigmas and issues around mental health that affect young persons from culturally and linguistically diverse or ‘CALD’ backgrounds. I speak with multicultural youth advocate Swathi on her insights, experiences and opinions on this topic, and on her work with the REVERB Project at the Centre for Multicultural Youth which seeks to specifically address this issue.

Running from 17th to 28th March, 2021, the Canberra Short Film Fest is bringing you a huge array of local, national and international films over two packed weeks. Join Adi Watters, Assistant Director of the festival, as she talks about what’s on offer and the talent involved. Find the program at https://www.csff.com.au/program.

Photographer Mervyn Bishop has been witness to many poignant and historical moments over the past 60 years, including the quiet yet powerful moment between Vincent Lingiari and Gough Whitlam in 1975. Join Coby Edgar as she talks about Mervyn and an exhibition of his work that is now on at the National Film and Sound Archive until 1 August, 2021

Nicola Wakefield Evans 30% Club & Nicole Duncan, South 32 - Women, Advocacy, Gender Equality by SubjectACT

Virginia Haussegger from the 50/50 Foundation talking gender equality & the gender gap in Australia by SubjectACT

The world is made up of stories, with each of us having out own unique past, present, and future. Our guest, Canberra woman Caitlin Welch – videographer and digital producer - works with others to tell their stories of asylum, survival, and of rebuilding.

In this podcast we travel to Antarctica: the most remote, protected, and pristine place on Earth. But is this very special place under pressure? Chris Johnson, WWF-Australia, talks about just what is going on down there. Also in the show, Anna Kelly, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, discusses a very disturbing finding she and her team made last year.

Dr John Minns from the School of Politics and International Relations at the ANU talks about migration, refugees, and Australia’s response since WWII.

In this show, we are joined by the founders of Zalia Labs, an artificial intelligence start up business that is quickly growing traction in the ACT. Josh and Samantha share their experiences of being young entrepreneurs in Canberra.