Podcasts about Eureka Street

A call for calm in Worcester two days after "ICE" detains two people on Eureka Street. Tufts PhD candidate Rumeysa Ozturk freed after more than six weeks in an "ICE" Detention Center. A big win for accesibility in Wellseley as local lawmakers elebrate Wellesley Square's first accesible MBTA Commuter rail Station. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

Episode 7: 25 June 2024All the things mentioned in this episode:Danielle Terceiro's article for Eureka Street on asylum SeekersDanielle Terceiro Thinking Out Loud on #CathlicoreKathryn Baikie on her first job Michael Wear's interview with Life & FaithThis week's episode of Life & Faith with Dr Darrell BockRandall Sullivan's book The Devil's Best TrickIf you'd like to see these things in your inbox weekly, subscribe to our newsletter here.Instagram: Check out Justine on Instagram at @justinetoh.Producer: Allan Dowthwaite Assistant Producer: Clare Potts

Some of today's top storiesStanley cups and bottles have been flying off the shelves across the country.    But soon... they'll be banned from some schools in Kern County. The Rosedale Union School District notified parents about the ban yesterday.    It states that drink containers that have any metal or glass in them -- will be prohibited from campuses after students return from spring break on April 2-nd.    The district did not elaborate on why the ban will be put in effect.... but says any metal or glass drink container found on campus will be confiscated... and parents will have to pick it up after school.Turning to an update on an officer-involved shooting.    After conducting a use-of-force investigation... the California City Police Department says an officer was *justified* in shooting a dog.    We must warn you... the video you're about to see may be disturbing to some viewers. It all happened during a welfare check last week at a home on Alder Drive.    Police say the dog was chained to a tree, but when the officer approached the home, the dog broke free and charged toward him.     That's when the officer pulled the trigger one time... striking the dog.      The owner says the dog survived.     Cal City Police Chief Jesse Hightower says an investigation determined the officer's use of force was within department policy.A vacant home under renovation went up in flames in East Bakersfield The Bakersfield City Fire Department giving us a first-hand look at the firefight through a helmet camera.     The fire broke out yesterday morning on Eureka Street near Owens Sreet.    No one was hurt. Turning to our 17 follow up file and more on the rescue of a Bakersfield girl who was allegedly abducted by a man she met online. While She was found safe, this case highlights a big problem: the number of missing children in Kern County. 17's Mikhala Armstrong with some safety tips for parent and kids - plus another family's hope that their loved one will also be found safe.     Arson units are investigating. 

La policía de Victoria arresta a un hombre de 22 años por la desaparición de Samantha Murphy, de 51 años, en Ballarat. La madre de tres desapareció el pasado 4 de febrero después de salir de su casa en Eureka Street para hacer ejercicio alrededor de las 7 de la mañana. Escucha estas y otras noticias del día.

Samantha Murphy, 51, was last seen leaving her property in Eureka Street in Ballarat East at about 7am on Sunday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Staying healthy and in shape can be a difficult task for anyone at the best of times, but try keeping trim when you have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Today on Brainwaves we examine what drives people to binge eat with our special guest - writer and poet Isabella Fels. Isabella has since a young age had trouble with her eating habits, exacerbated by her mental health conditions and OCD, but more recently has been on the improve.Evan and Isabella try to get to the root of the problem and highlight what steps you can take to a better life and stay healthy trying to manage or even overcome such a problem.We hear some of her poetry on the subject too.Isabella is a good friend and I hope you enjoy the show!Look out for her writing in Q Magazine, Eureka Street and Medium website too. She really loves to help others with her writing.www.3CR.org.au 

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show. MARTIN PHIPPS Coming from a musical background (he is Benjamin Britten's godson), Martin read drama at Manchester University and fortunately for the acting profession, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Since scoring his first TV drama, Eureka Street in 2002, he has won 2 BAFTAs, 5 Ivor Novello Awards and received multiple Emmy nominations for writing music to many of the most interesting series of recent years. These include the BBC's War and Peace, Hugo Blick's The Honourable Woman, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror and season 3 through 6 of the acclaimed Netflix series The Crown. ANTHONY WILLIS Anthony Willis is a BAFTA-nominated composer, known for his evocative scores for Emerald Fennel's Oscar's Winning Promising Young Woman Blumhouse's Ai hit M3gan, and Fennell's latest psychological thriller Saltburn from MGM/Amazon starring Barry Keoghan & Jacob Elordi. He was named one of Variety's Top 10 Artisans to Watch in 2023 at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. His recent projects also include Dreamworks' Animation's Annie award-winning How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, Seasons 6-8 of Epic's video game sensation Fortnite, and Michelle Morgan's comedy It Happened in L.A. As a protege of Oscar-nominated composer John Powell and Henry Jackman, Anthony has also contributed additional music to many of Hollywood's most beloved franchises including: How to Train your Dragon, Jumanji, Wreck it Ralph, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean and Rio. Originally from London England, Anthony trained as a chorister of St. George's chapel, Windsor Castle, UK before earning a First class honors degree in Music from the University of Bristol and a later graduate degree in Film Scoring from University of Southern California. Recently Martin has scored Sir Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Ed Perkins' The Princess, and Amazon Studios' series Solos starring Morgan Freeman. Other film credits include Woman In Gold (scored with Hans Zimmer), starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren, Fox Searchlight's The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Brown and Brighton Rock. Studio Soundtracks is made possible in part by the generous support of Spitfire Audio, makers of inspiring sounds and scoring tools for film, in collaboration with the world's best composers, musicians and engineers. More details available at spitfireaudio.com.

In this episode, we speak to author and essayist Ellena Savage. We discuss hierarchies of power within the arts and the precarity of writing for a living, as well as what it means to work both within and in opposition to literary and academic institutions. We address ideas of consumption and capitalism, as well as the dream of a classless society which makes space for beauty and pleasure. We explore the experimental essay form as a means of capturing the fractured nature of memory and time, and the subversion of catalogues and archives as a feminist tool. We discuss what it means to write 'memoir' or 'anti-memoir' and the intersection of these ideas with gender and social class. We also chat about complex notions of home and belonging, amidst gentification and colonial histories. Ellena Savage's debut essay collection, Blueberries, was published by Text Publishing and Scribe UK in 2020. It was shortlisted for the 2021 VPLA and long-listed for the Stella Prize. She has written essays, stories and poems for Sydney Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, Literary Hub, Meanjin, Overland, Cordite, Mirror Lamp Press, Kill Your Darlings,The Big Issue Fiction Edition and The Lifted Brow (where she was an editor). She has also written for periodicals such asThe Age, Guardian Weekend and Eureka Street, where she wrote a monthly cultural politics column between 2011-2016, and in the anthologies Open Secrets (2021), The Cambridge History of the American Essay (forthcoming), Choice Words (2019), The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume Two (2017), Poetic Justice (2014), and The Emerging Writer (2013). She has written for gallery and performance contexts via Darebin City Council, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and ArtsHouse. She also published a chapbook, Yellow City with The Atlas Review in 2019. References Blueberries by Ellena Savage Little Throbs (newsletter) by Ellena Savage Memnoir by Joan Retellack (Chain #7: Memoir/Anti-Memoir edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr) Bhanu Kapil Crabcakes: A Memoir by James Alan McPherson Poetry is not a Luxury by Audre Lorde As always, visit Storysmith for 10% discount on Ellena's work.

A woman has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after what is believed to be a workplace incident in High Wycombe. The woman, aged in her 50s, was taken under priority conditions to Royal Perth Hospital after St John Ambulance paramedics were called to the incident on Eureka Street about 11am. Early information suggests she has serious injuries after she was trapped in the doors of a small, stationary bus. Department of Fire and Emergency firefighters were also called to the scene to help free the woman. Sunrise correspondent Matt Tinney has the details.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning! I finally carved out some time to do a Eureka Street episode. In this episode I talk about how event though the market is down, crypto and web3 are still as strong as ever. The market is just shaking out all the chodes and crappy projects in the space. Then Jack Dorsey claims that web3 will die and that web5 is where it's at. Web5 is a decentralized internet and identity layer that will sit on top of Bitcoin. Is that even bitcoin anymore? Or is he trying to force bitcoin to become ethereum now? Sources: https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1535792869868552192 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jack-dorseys-tbd-presents-bitcoin-based-decentralized-web5  

This is the first episode of the Metaverse Thinktank series in conjunction with the founders of the MGH DAO (metagamehub.io).  In this episode we cover the basics of the Metaverse.  

In this episode I go deeper into the concept of MetaFi with Camilo Echeverri, and Nicholas Weber of the MGH DAO (metagamehub.io).  

The fourth annual Eureka Street Art Festival -- one of the few events that hasn't been canceled by the recent surge in COVID cases -- is officially underway! On this week's episode, local artists Blake Reagan and Lucas Thornton chat with us about the huge mural they are adding to the I Street side of the Humboldt County Courthouse.

Dr Blanche Verlie (pictured) has written and published a wonderful book that helps readers better understand how to better cope emotionally, intellectually and philosophically with the quickly emerging rigours of climate change. The book, "Learning to Live with Climate Change; from anxiety to transformation", can be downloaded, in its digital form, at no cost from the Sydney Envioronment Institute. Blanche regularly appears on The Conversation, with one article being "Bushfire Education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world" and the other being "Now Australian cities are choking on smoke, will we finally talk about climate change?". Along with three other authors, she contributed to an artricle on Eureka Street entitled: "Climate is disrupting children's education". Climate Conversations encourages listeners to enjoy "Music for as Warming World".

Our guest this time is Dr Amy Coopes - journalist, writer and editor at Croakey News, a social journalism collective for health, and a junior doctor with the Victorian Rural Generalist Program. She is a recently graduated medical student at the University of New South Wales and a John Flynn scholar, now . She left full-time journalism to pursue a career in medicine, after a decade in news reporting including five years as Australia correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Amy is an editor at Croakey and continues to freelance for publications including The BMJ, Eureka Street, Crikey and Fairfax.

“When someone is calling you out they are doing you the favor. They’re taking the time and emotional labour to tell you how your privilege is perpetuating institutions and stereotypes that are harmful.” Contribute to our Patreon! we also have a Patron through Podbean so just throw coins at us like we're a medieval courtroom jester. thanks!  Follow us on Twitter! Citations Brooke Kato. “What is cancel culture? Everything to know about the toxic online trend”. New York Post. https:// nypost.com/article/what-is-cancel-culture-breaking-down- the-toxic-online-trend/ (accessed on August 27, 2020) Martine, Tess. Tessmartin.medium.com. Medium. “So You’ve Been Called Out: A White Person’s Guide to Doing Better”. https://tessmartin.medium.com/so-youve- been-called-out-a-white-person-s-guide-to-doing- better-918493706c49 (Mar 22, accessed Dec 28, 2020)  Mahoney Neve. Eureka Street. What to do when you get called out. https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/ what-to-do-when-you-get-called-out (Mar 11, 2018, Accessed Dec 28, 2020)  

Martin Phipps is the featured guest on this Score to Screen podcast. The Crown: Season Three composer reveals how he captured the emotions of each character to allow the audience to lean more into the drama. Listen to Phipps discuss his experience working alongside show creator Peter Morgan and his team of directors. The third season of The Crown sees a new guard sweep into Downing Street, as Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family struggle to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing Britain. From cold-war paranoia, through to the jet-set and the space age – the exuberance of the 1960s and the long hangover of the 1970s – Elizabeth and the Royals must adapt to a new, more liberated, but also more turbulent world. Written by Peter Morgan, The Crown also stars Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, Tobias Menzies as The Duke of Edinburgh, Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles, Erin Doherty as Princess Anne, Ben Daniels as Lord Snowdon, Jason Watkins as Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten. Coming from a musical background, Martin studied drama at Manchester University. Fortunately for the acting profession, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Since scoring his first TV drama, Eureka Street (2002), he has won 2 BAFTAs and 5 Ivor Novello Awards, and gone on to write music for many of the most interesting series of recent years, including the BBC's War and Peace, Hugo Blick's Black Earth Rising, Peaky Blinders and Black Mirror. Martin's credits include the Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds movie Woman In Gold (scored with Hans Zimmer), Fox Searchlight's The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Brown and Brighton Rock. The Score to Screen podcast series is produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Listen to The Crown: Season Three Soundtrack here and get the vinyl here. Listen to The Crown Official Netflix Series playlist here. To learn more about Sony Soundtracks visit: https://lnk.to/sonysoundtracksPD

Fiona Katauskas is a cartoonist, illustrator, and author of “The Amazing True Stories of How Babies Are Made’, a children’s book about conception, and childbirth that is relevant to our current social word. Fiona once studied politics at the Australian National University, and travelled extensively, working in overseas aid and human rights. After that, she became a full time cartoonist, with work appearing in a wide range of publications, like Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Bulletin, The Chaser, Eureka Street and New Matilda; not to mention other events and anthologies. Fiona has illustrated many books for just about every publisher, designed cards for the Ink Group and t-shirts for Mambo.Fiona loves how cartoonists are able to take all their experiences, beliefs, bile and passion, wrap them up in a metaphor and get inky fingers in the process and while having fun. In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with Fiona about her book ‘The Amazing True Story of How Babies are Made’. We really speak about sex education for young people, appropriate messaging in education tools and resources, and how this education can imprint and shape not only our attitudes toward sex but also our relationships with our bodies. Enjoy this conversation and check out the animation of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made through www.amazingbabies.tv or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldXBfTkM5Iw&feature=emb_logoFind Fiona through Email: fkatauskas@iprimus.com.au or on Twitter @fionakatauskas or through her website www.fionakatauskas.com

In this episode of Australia, Explained, we break down who owns what news media in Australia, why it's important to know, and why it's being talked about right now.Bits and pieces mentioned:A list of Rupert Murdoch + NewsCorps's assetsGovernment scraps media ownership lawsKevin Rudd calls out Rupert MurdochThis week, Tania recommended The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, a 3 part documentary on ABC iView covering the history and scandals of the Murdoch family. Vanessa recommended Neel Kolhatkar's YouTube skit Australian Media in 2 minutes, a funny impersonation of our media landscape. Warning, this one does contain explicit language.We also promised you all a list of our favourite independent media outlets. Here is that list!Websites: ABC News, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian AU, The Conversation AU, SBS News, Crikey News, Eureka Street, The New Matilda, Mumbrella.Instagrams: @thedailyaus, @thesquiz, @crikey.news, @satpaper, @guardianaustralia, @abcnews_au and most importantly, @australiaexplainedpod!!If you're new to Australia, Explained, we are a weekly news podcast dedicated to helping Aussies get on top of things Down Under. You can support us by clicking ‘Subscribe' or ‘Follow' on your preferred podcast app, leaving a review, and most importantly - share this podcast with your friends!Follow us for more short, sweet and simple Aussie content on Instagram & TikTok @australiaexplainedpod. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode In this episode of Inform, we explore talking about your disability at work. We speak with Fiona Murphy, a deaf writer who also works as a physiotherapist. Her memoir, The Shape of Sound is forthcoming from Text Publishing in 2021. Also in this episode, we hear from  Daniel Valiente-Riedl. Daniel is the general manager of Job Access, which is the national hub for workplace and employment information for people with disability, employers and service providers. We discuss the legal obligations and the legal protections you have. We look at the reasons why you might want to talk about your disability at work and we have some great advice if you’re thinking about discussing your disability with your employer or colleagues. It's your choice Choosing if and how you might talk about your disability at work can be tricky to figure out. It’s probably not a surprise to learn that while there are approximately 1.5 billion people with a disability around the world, only 12% of people with a disability choose to disclose it. People may be curious about your condition and how to manage it. And it is up to you how much you want to say. Be as open and honest as you feel comfortable with. It is your decision. If people do not respond well, remember that is not your responsibility to change people's attitudes towards disabilityDaniel Valiente-Riedl In 2018, Fiona wrote a personal essay for the website Eureka Street that discussed her experiences talking about her disability. ‘Disclosure,’ Fiona wrote, ‘is widely perceived as in invitation for questions about your body, from how it functions and to how it deviates from normal’. I'd always been taught to kind of just blend in and try my best and work really hard, but I had never really been taught about access. It was only my late 20s that I actually heard about what access is. And it was more through the disability community itself and learning from other people with disabilities, of how to ask for access, and that it's actually my right to ask for access that I'm not asking above and beyond what is reasonable. Fiona Murphy Resources Fiona Murphy Deciding to disclose an invisible disability Job Access Transcript You can find a transcript of this episode here: Inform Podcast Episode 11: Talking About Your Disability At Work—TranscriptDownload Share your story Do you have a story that you’d like to share? Get in touch at inform@iagroup.org.au Inform is a production of Independence Australia. If you’re keen to hear more, you can go back and listen to our past episodes at: www.informonline.org.au/listen Stay tuned for the next episode of Inform. In the meantime, subscribe for free on your preferred podcast listening platform to be the first to hear about new episodes. Host and producer: Kirby FenwickManaging editor: Alison Crowe Our thanks to Fiona Murphy and Daniel Valiente-Riedl, general manager of Job Access.

Celeste Liddle is an Arrente woman, a trade unionist and Leftist who's written for Eureka Street, The Guardian and SBS.  Celeste Zoom'ed me from her couch to discuss how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting First Nations people, over-policing and deaths in custody, culture warring about Captain Cook and the "Indigenous alt-right".  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Ads-Up are doing great work helping out refugees from Nauru and Manus Island who have been resettled in the US and are struggling during COVID-19 You can see me on Stan Australia's Lockdown Comedy Festival from this Saturday @Utopiana Celeste's blog Black Feminist Ranter ARTICLE: Vulnerable Indigenous man jailed over locked up by police in 'string of errors' during coronavirus pandemic (ABC) ARTICLE: Tanya Day inquest: coroner refers death in custody of Aboriginal woman for possible protection (Guardian Australia)  ARTICLE: Social responsibility means care for all of the vulnerable by Celeste Liddle ARTICLE: Why the term "Australian" can be an imposition on Aboriginal people by Celeste Liddle  ARTICLE: Cook wanted to introduce British justice to Indigenous people. Instead, he became increasingly cruel and violent by Shino Konishi endeavour250.gov.au  Cause of the Week: Djirra (djirra.org.au)

In 1822, Irish thief Alexander Pearce joined seven convicts fleeing a penal colony in western Tasmania. As they struggled eastward through some of the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, starvation pressed the party into a series of grim sacrifices. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow the prisoners on their nightmarish bid for freedom. We'll also unearth another giant and puzzle over an eagle's itinerary. Intro: Two presenters at an 1884 AAAS meeting reported on "musical sand" at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. In scenes of pathos, Charles Dickens often slipped into blank verse. Sources for our feature on Alexander Pearce: Paul Collins, Hell's Gates, 2014. Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, 2012. Robert Cox, A Compulsion to Kill: The Surprising Story of Australia's Earliest Serial Killers, 2014. Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, and Stephen Carleton, Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives, 2015. "Alexander Pearce," Convict Records of Australia (accessed Oct. 27, 2019). Roger W. Byard and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, "Cannibalism Amongst Penitentiary Escapees From Sarah Island in Nineteenth Century Van Diemen's Land," Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology 1:3 (September 2018), 410–415. Therese-Marie Meyer, "Prison Without Walls: The Tasmanian Bush in Australian Convict Novels," Antipodes 27:2 (December 2013), 143-148. Michael A. Ashby and Leigh E. Rich, "Eating People Is Wrong ... or How We Decide Morally What to Eat," Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 10:2 (June 2013), 129–131. Gananath Obeyesekere, "'British Cannibals': Contemplation of an Event in the Death and Resurrection of James Cook, Explorer," Critical Inquiry 18:4 (Summer 1992), 630-654. Craig Cormick, "Confessions of a Cannibal," MARGIN: Monash Australiana Research Group Informal Notes, Issue 62, April 2004. Cassie Crofts, "Australian History: The Cannibal Convict," National Geographic, Jan. 8, 2016. "Alexander Pearce," Australian Geographic (accessed Oct. 27, 2019). Simon Morris, "No Person Can Tell What He Will Do When Driven by Hunger," Australian Geographic 94 (April-June 2009), 74-79. "The Convict Cannibal," Australian Geographic 94 (April-June 2009), 77. Tim Kroenert, "Cannibal Convict's Tour of Hell," Eureka Street 19:18 (Sept. 25, 2009), 5-7. "John Hagan: On the Trail of a Cannibal," Belfast Telegraph, May 12, 2007, 1. Paul Kalina, "Grisly Confession of a Cannibal Convict: Cover Story," The Age, Jan. 22, 2009, 12. Christopher Bantick, "Mind of a Maneater," Sunday Tasmanian, Aug. 10, 2008, A.8. Rebecca Fitzgibbon, "Our Own Breed of Horror," Sunday Tasmanian, Nov. 2, 2008, 68. Anita Beaumont, "Cannibal Convicts: Cover Story," [Newcastle, N.S.W.] Herald, Jan. 23, 2009, 5. Fran Cusworth, "Meat on the Hoof," [Melbourne] Herald Sun, Dec. 7, 2002, W.21. "A Real Life Horror Story of the Irish Cannibal Who Terrorized Australia," IrishCentral, Oct. 4, 2018. Rebecca Fitzgibbon, "Heart of Darkness," Sunday Tasmanian, Sept. 20, 2009, 25. LJ Charleston, "'We Ate Each Other One by One': The Gruesome Story of Alexander Pearce the Cannibal Convict," news.com.au, May 5, 2019. Greg Clarke, "Heavenly Signs at Gates to Hell," Sunday Tasmanian, Aug. 3, 2008, A.18. "Colonial Crime: Alexander Pearce, the Cannibal," Nightlife, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dec. 20, 2018. "Alexander Pearce (1790 - 1824)," WikiTree (accessed Nov. 1, 2019). Listener mail: A. Glenn Rogers, "The Taughannock Giant," Life in the Finger Lakes, 1953. Charley Githler, "A Look Back At: Home-Grown Hoax: The Taughannock Giant," [Ithaca, N.Y.] Tompkins Weekly, Dec. 26, 2017. Charley Githler, "Local Legend: The Taughannock Giant," Ithaca.com, June 15, 2019. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Sharon. Here are two corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

“I would hope that the readers say ‘these are mighty people, these are great people in this book’ and maybe they’ll think of others outside the book that are equally mighty people” – Tony Birch In 'The White Girl', Tony Birch tells the story of Odette Brown raising her granddaughter Sissy on the fringes of a small country town. When the menacing Sergeant Lowe arrives, any freedom that Odette and Sissy enjoy comes under grave threat. In conversation with Laura La Rosa, Tony speaks of domesticity, love, trauma, grief, and some of the true stories of the Stolen Generation that informed 'The White Girl'. This is an edited recording of a live event held at Richmond Library. 'The White Girl' is currently a Red Hot Read at Yarra Libraries. You can find a copy or place a reservation at your local branch. If you’d prefer to visit our website, you can use it to place a reservation or access the e-book or audiobook through our digital resources. TONY BIRCH Tony Birch is the author of Ghost River, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. He is also the author of Shadowboxing and three short story collections, Father’s Day, The Promise and Common People. In 2017 he was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award. Tony is a frequent contributor to ABC local and national radio and a regular guest at writers’ festivals. He lives in Melbourne and is a Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University. LAURA LA ROSA Laura La Rosa is a proud Darug woman, originally from Western Sydney, now living on Wurundjeri land. She is the founder of creative collective, Woolf Communications, as well as a writer, producer, and graphic designer. Passionate about grassroots collectivism and storytelling, Laura's work is focused on fostering disruptive discourse and the elevation of vital voices through various mediums. A dabbling columnist, Laura has appeared in The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Real, and Eureka Street. YARRA LIBRARIES RECOMMENDS The White Girl – Tony Birch Ghost River – Tony Birch Common People – Tony Birch Blood – Tony Birch Shadow Boxing – Tony Birch Father’s Day – Tony Birch The Promise – Tony Birch The White Girl (electronic resource) Common People (electronic resource) Blood (electronic resource) The Best Australian Stories 2017 - Maxine Beneba Clarke (editor) From the Outer: Footy like you’ve never heard it – Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes (editors)

It's common to build a picture in our minds about new neighbours based on the sounds that come through the walls - but what if this eavesdropping becomes the stuff of vivid sexual fantasy? In this episode, Ali and Emma discuss a variety of reactions to noisy neighbours when they listen to Paulette Smythe's 'When B Moved In' narrated by Alex Neal. About The Author PAULETTE SMYTHE lives in Melbourne where she teaches English to migrants and refugees. Her writing has previously been published in Antipodean SF, Bewildering Stories, Verandah and Eureka Street. 'When B Moved  In' is published in the Spineless Wonders' anthology of sound-themed microlit, Shuffle edited by Cassandra Atherton. About the actor ALEX NEAL  graduated QUT Acting in 2017, and has been living and working in syd for 4 months.  In that time he has completed a TVC for ESS super and is currently working  on an AFTRS short film and will appear in the Australian film, Danger Close. Credits Presenters: Ali Morris and Emma Walsh Producer: Bronwyn Mehan Theme music: James Seymour Production Assistant: Hannah Oakshott Coffee Pod|cast has been produced with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and we wish to also acknowledge the support of Little Fictions by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and the City of Sydney Matching Grants program.  

Earlier this month human rights lawyer Lizzie O'Shea wrote an article for Eureka Street that ought to trouble anyone concerned about the expanding power of the surveillance state in this country, as well as the grotesque hypocrisies that lie at the heart of the Australian political class. A former intelligence officer, known only as Witness K, and his lawyer, potentially face up to two years in jail, for exposing a 2004 operation to bug the cabinet offices of the East Timorese government. O'Shea spoke to Indymedia's Alex Whisson.

Although women have been sidelined from power structures within the Catholic Church, history is replete with their examples of service and leadership. So why aren't these women as familiar to us as other workers in the early church and since? And what standards do they set? Eureka Street editor Tim Kroenert introduces a special episode, in which ChatterSquare host Fatima Measham addresses these questions. Recorded at a pub in inner city Melbourne, she talks to members of a Catholic community about why women are critical to the future of the Church. With thanks to St Carthages, Parkville. Theme: Aces High by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com under CCBYA 3.0 licence.

Fatima Measham is a social and political writer and activist. She is a regular columnist and consulting editor for the online publication, Eureka Street and co-host of their Chattersquare podcast. In this interview Fatima discusses how moving from the Phillipines to Australia triggered her feminism, how she uses her writing to unpack social issues and her perspective on the scaffolding of the new wave of feminism post #metoo.Fatima will be on the "It's Personal: Feminism and Narrative Nonfiction" panel at the Feminist Writer's Festival on May 26th, with authors Sarah Krasnostein and Maria Tumarkin, as they discuss whether writing about women's real lives can effect social change.Pick up tickets at www.feministwritersfestival.com Writes4Women are proud to be the podcast partner for the Feminist Writers Festival SHOWNOTES: FWFWebsite - www.feministwritersfestival.comFacebook and Twitter@feministwritersfestFATIMA MEASHAMWebsite - www.fatimameasham.netEureka Street - www.eurekastreet.comChattersquare Podcast - https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/Search.aspx?sid=429W4WWebsite - www.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter/Instagram @w4wpodcast

L'écrivain culte irlandais revient sur l'accord de paix pour l'Irlande du Nord signé il y a vingt ans. L'occasion de parler du Belfast d'aujourd'hui, de Paris où il est installé et de Charlie Hebdo où il est chroniqueur.Il y a 20 ans était signé entre toutes les forces politiques du pays, l’accord de paix pour Irlande du Nord. Un anniversaire passé inaperçu malgré un petit raout organisé pour l'occasion avec les artisans de cet accord, Tony Blair et Bill Clinton. Et pourtant, cette paix est plus fragile qu’on ne le pense. Parce qu’elle n’a pas réussir à abattre les murs et que le Brexit met en danger cet équilibre fragile en faisant resurgir le spectre des frontières.Cet anniversaire injustement célébré était un excellent prétexte pour un long entretien avec l’écrivain Robert McLiam Wilson, auteur notamment du roman culte, Eureka Street. Avec son humour tout irlandais, il revient sur le Belfast d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, le Brexit, Paris où il réside depuis près de dix ans, et Charlie Hebdo où il est désormais chroniqueur. Et de nous glisser une information capitale à ceux - comme moi - qui attendent un nouveau roman.Quelques conseils de lecture et autres :- « Voyage dans l’Irlande du Brexit », numéro spécial de Courrier International- tous les romans de Robert McLiam Wilson, "Eureka Street", Ripley Boogle, La douleur de Manfred… (éditions Christian Bourgois)- les romans de Sorj Chalandon ayant trait à l’Irlande, "Mon Traître" et "Retour à Killybegs" (éditions Grasset)- les documentaires Irlande l’aube d’un pays et L’Europe des écrivainsCRÉDITS« L'entretien / Binge actu » est un podcast de la rédaction de Binge Audio, réalisé par David Carzon (directeur de la rédaction). Conversation enregistrée en avril 2018. Direction artistique : Julien Cernobori. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. Design : Sebastien Brothier (Upian). Crédits photo : Mathieu Bourgois. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 1977, a young woman named Robyn Davidson set out to pursue what she called a "lunatic idea" -- to lead a group of camels 1,700 miles across western Australia, from the center of the continent to the Indian Ocean. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow Davidson's remarkable journey alone through the Outback and learn what it taught her. We'll also dive into the La Brea Tar Pits and puzzle over some striking workers. Intro: O.E. Young of Petersburg, Va., assembled a two-story house from the marble headstones of 2,000 Union soldiers. In 1946 Stan Bult began recording the faces of London clowns on eggshells. Sources for our feature on Robyn Davidson: Robyn Davidson, Tracks, 1980. Paul Smethurst, Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840, 2012. Robert Clarke, Travel Writing From Black Australia: Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality, 2016. Amanda Hooton, "Travels of the Heart," Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 8, 2014. Robyn Davidson, "Walk My Country," Mānoa 18:2 (Winter 2006), 7-17. "The Inspiration: Robyn Davidson," Australian Geographic 90 (April-June 2008), 112-112. Dea Birkett, "The Books Interview: Robyn Davidson -- Landmarks of an Accursed Art," Independent, Aug. 4, 2001, 9. Luke Slattery, "10 Questions: Robyn Davidson, Writer, Traveller, 59," Australian Magazine, Oct. 13, 2012, 10. Michele Field, "Robyn Davidson: A Literary Nomad," Publishers Weekly 243:46 (Nov. 11, 1996), 52-53. Cathy Pryor, "Tracks Author Robyn Davidson Reflects on a Changing Australia, 40 Years After Her Desert Trek," ABC News, Dec. 8, 2017. Richard Feloni, "16 Striking Photos of One Woman's 2,835km Trek Across the Australian Outback," Business Insider Australia, Feb. 15, 2015. Robyn Davidson, "Tracks: The True Story Behind the Film," Telegraph, April 19, 2014. Duncan Campbell, "Making Tracks: Robyn Davidson's Australian Camel Trip on the Big Screen," Guardian, April 21, 2014. "Indomitable Spirit," Canberra Times, Sept. 29, 2012, 8. Coburn Dukehart, "Rick Smolan's Trek With Tracks, From Australian Outback to Silver Screen," National Geographic, Sept. 19, 2014. Brad Wetzler, "Australian Camel Odyssey: A Voyage of Self Discovery," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Jan. 2, 1993, E1. Eleanor Massey, "Women Who Discovered the World," Eureka Street 21:2 (Feb. 11, 2011), 1-2. Mary Warner Marien, "Desert Journeys With Women Are Anything But Dry," Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 1997. Jennifer H. Laing and Geoffrey I. Crouch, "Lone Wolves? Isolation and Solitude Within the Frontier Travel Experience," Geografiska Annaler, Series B, Human Geography 91:4 (December 2009), 325-342. Gary Krist, "Ironic Journeys: Travel Writing in the Age of Tourism," Hudson Review 45:4 (Winter 1993), 593-601. Robert Clarke, "Travel and Celebrity Culture: An Introduction," Postcolonial Studies 12:2 (June 2009), 145-152. Richard Snailham, "Tracks by Robyn Davidson," Geographical Journal 148:1 (March 1982), 116-117. Ihab Hassan, "Australian Journeys: A Personal Essay on Spirit," Religion & Literature 34:3 (Autumn, 2002), 75-90. Rachael Weaver, "Adaptation and Authorial Celebrity: Robyn Davidson and the Context of John Curran's Tracks (2013)," Adaptation 9:1 (March 2016), 12-21. Listener mail: Helen Lawson, "'My Job Stinks': The Diver Who Has to Swim Through Sewers to Unblock the Drains of Mexico City," Daily Mail, March 23, 2013. Michael Walsh, "It's A Dirty Job: Meet Mexico City’S Official Sewer Diver," New York Daily News, March 23, 2013. Eric Hodge, Phoebe Judge, and Rebecca Martinez, "Criminal: La Brea Dave's Deep Dive," WUNC, Dec. 18, 2015. Wikipedia, "La Brea Tar Pits" (accessed April 19, 2018). "FAQs," La Brea Tar Pits & Museum (accessed April 19, 2018). Andrew Blankstein, "Police Find Evidence Linked to Homicide in La Brea Tar Pits," Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2013. Wikipedia, "Grapheme-Color Synesthesia" (accessed April 19, 2018). Maggie Koerth-Baker, "Magnetic Letters Taught Us More Than How to Spell," National Geographic, March 9, 2016. "Synesthesia," Psychology Today (accessed April 19, 2018). Nathan Witthoft, Jonathan Winawer, and David M. Eagleman, "Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes," PLOS One 10:3 (March 4, 2015), e0118996. A.N. Rich, J.L. Bradshaw, and J.B. Mattingley, "A Systematic, Large-Scale Study of Synaesthesia: Implications for the Role of Early Experience in Lexical-Colour Associations," Cognition 98:1 (November 2005), 53-84. Wikipedia, "Synesthesia" (accessed April 19, 2018). Patricia Lynne Duffy, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds, 2011. This week's lateral thinking puzzle is from Paul Sloane and Des MacHale's 2014 book Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

How are we to engage with views that we disagree with – when they are held by groups that we are part of or that are part of us? In this special episode of ChatterSquare, we present 'Dissent Within', the Eureka Street panel at the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival. Dr Naama Carlin and Angus McLeay talk about their encounters with people who challenged their long-held assumptions, and the distance required to see one's privilege clearly. Naama is an Israeli-Australian academic who is against the Occupation of Palestinian territories. Angus is an Anglican minister from an evangelical background who supports same-sex marriage. Both have found that the basic tenets of faith can reconcile tensions between loyalty and integrity, but also offer ways forward. This event was chaired by Eureka Street editor Tim Kroenert, with thanks to the Melbourne Writers Festival for the recording. Music: Aces High by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)licensed under CCBYA 3.0.

What are the implications for the legal profession as blockchain technologies, smart contracts, apps and online dispute resolutions shift our approach to matters of law? Kate Galloway joins us to talk about how tech is disrupting the way we think about lawyering. She is a Eureka Street columnist, former practicing lawyer, and academic, with a keen interest in the intersection between tech and legal practice. In this episode, she discusses how digital access to information has democratised the way people engage with the law, whether lawyers can remain relevant, and how liability fits into algorithm-driven decisions. She also touches on the legal and ethical problems posed by tech, especially when legislators have limited understanding of it. Music: Aces High by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)licensed under CCBYA 3.0.

Climate change continues to be politically charged in Australia, even as other countries ramp up their renewable energy investments. It raises questions around salesmanship. Evidence and expertise seem to only be part of the argument for action – so how can we build momentum? Do conservatives in fact have a role? Greg Foyster is a Eureka Street columnist and freelance journalist, specialising in environmental issues. He is also a communications manager for Environment Victoria and used to work as an advertising copywriter. In this episode, Greg walks us through the language and approaches that have fallen short. He also opens up conservative arguments that could potentially lead to breakthroughs. Music: Aces High by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)licensed under CCBYA 3.0.

Luke Williams is an author and freelance journalist. I first became aware of his writing when The Saturday Paper published his feature story, 'Life As A Crystal Meth Addict', in August 2014. In that story, he wrote about his decision to investigate the issue of crystal methamphetamine abuse by moving into a sharehouse with a couple of addicts, but it wasn't long before the writer became addicted to the drug, too. It was an eye-opening article for which he later became a finalist in the feature writing category at the Walkley Awards that same year. I emailed Luke after I read that initial story, and we've been in sporadic contact since, as we're both freelance journalists with an interest in writing honestly about drug use. That story in The Saturday Paper led to a book deal with Scribe, and the result was published in May 2016. Entitled The Ice Age: A Journey Into Crystal-Meth Addiction, it's a lengthy and detailed exploration of the drug's surge in popularity from both a personal and journalistic perspective. When I reviewed the book for The Weekend Australian, I wrote that it offers something that has never before been attempted by an Australian author, and I described it as "a ­remarkable, original and compelling journey". When he visited Brisbane in early May for an event at Avid Reader bookstore, I launched The Ice Age for Luke before a highly engaged audience, who appreciated the rare chance to speak openly about the realities of crystal meth use and abuse. In the afternoon before the book launch, I met with Luke at his hotel room in inner Brisbane. Our conversation touches on how he went about pursuing a book deal immediately after the publication of that story for The Saturday Paper; how he pitched to his drug-addicted housemates the fact that he planned to write a book about their lives; how he approached the tricky task of writing about his drug-induced psychosis; how he became a reporter for Triple J's current affairs program, Hack; and why he now prefers to work as a freelance writer while living in south-east Asia, rather than in Australia. Luke Williams is an Australian journalist and author. He has previously worked as a reporter and broadcaster at ABC Radio. His written work has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, Brisbane Times, Crikey, The Global Mail, The Weekend Australian and Eureka Street. In 2013 he was nominated for a Human Rights Media Award for a long-form investigative piece in The Global Mail, and in 2014 his article on ice addiction, 'Life as a Crystal Meth Addict', was a finalist in the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. His book The Ice Age: A Journey Into Crystal-Meth Addiction was published in May 2016 by Scribe. Show notes and links to what was discussed in this episode: http://penmanshippodcast.com/episode-25-luke-williams/ Luke Williams on Twitter: @LukeWilliamsj Penmanship on Twitter: @PenmanshipAU penmanshippodcast.com

SISTA ZAI is a storyteller who uses spoken word to explore the political through her personal and lived everyday experiences. Zai’s social justice work takes place within the Stillwaters Women’s Storytelling Collective, which she founded in 2011 with the intention of making diverse and underrepresented voices and issues heard in the mainstream. Sista Zai is also a radio announcer on 3CR’s Hip Sista Hop show (Monday @ 1pm on 855am), where she showcases music by women and indigenous Australians and a spoken word segment featuring live readings from local poets.JAMIE KING-HOLDEN's first book of poetry, Chemistry, was published by Whitmore Press in 2011. Her poetry has appeared in Antipodes, Capsule, Cordite, Dotdotdash, Eureka Street, Ekleksographia, Mascara Literary Review and Verandah. She was shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize in 2010 and was guest emerging writer for the Mildura Writers festival in 2011.

In this episode, Bo Bennett speaks with author and journalist Antony Lowenstein about his latest book, Disaster Capitalism, dealing with a broken political system in need of fixing. Antony Loewenstein is an Australian independent freelance journalist, author, documentarian and blogger. He has written for the The Guardian, Washington Post, New Statesman, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, The Daily Star, Le Monde Diplomatique English, Foreign Policy, The National, Al Akhbar English, Dawn, Haaretz, The Nation, New Internationalist, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, BBC World Service, Adbusters, Al Masry Alyoum, Juan Cole, Mondoweiss, Tehelka, Sydney's Sun-Herald, New Zealand Herald, Sydney Ideas Quarterly, The Australian Financial Review, Crikey, Melbourne's Age, Brisbane's Courier Mail, Canberra Times, Online Opinion, New Matilda, The Conversation, ABC Unleashed/The Drum, Amnesty International Australia, Green Left Weekly, Eureka Street, Kill Your Darlings, Tikkun, Adelaide's Advertiser, The Bulletin, Znet, Overland, Sydney PEN, The Big Issue, Counterpunch and many others.