Migration on ABC Life Matters

Today on abc.net.au/rn/lifematters Richard Aedy interviewed Professor Kerry Carrington, Chair of Sociology in School of Social Science, University of New England, Armidale (NSW).

Story: www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2007/1988078.htm
Report: The social costs and benefits of migration into Australia,
Kerry Carrington, Alison McIntosh and Jim Walmsley, Centre for Applied Research in Social Science – The University of New England, via Australian Government DIAC www.immi.gov.au (various chapters are listed as .pdfs to download)

Jim Lehrer on heat & light in news-journalism

In today’s conversation with Jim Lehrer on the Media Report, ABC Radio National, Lehrer explained the difference, in news-journalism terms, between creating heat and light.

• Heat can easily be created by letting guests with opposing view attack each other.
• Light, on the other hand, serves to illuminate a topic and build an understanding about related issues.

Jim Lehrer is one of the icons of broadcast journalism. The long-time anchor of NewsHour on the American Public Broadcasting Service is also a familiar face to viewers of SBS here in Australia, and he joins us for a revealing chat [more].

Green Gecko Project

From today’s Saturday Extra on ABC Radio National
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2007/1913314.htm

In the first of our ‘Traveller’s Tales’ we hear from a woman who was peripatetic and journeyed to many places around the world, but she never wanted to visit South East Asia.

Yet in 2004 she found herself in Cambodia and despite the difficulties she ended up staying.

Tania Palmer is now married to a Cambodian man and has no immediate plans to return to Australia – but she wishes her Cambodian mother-in-law would not put grasshoppers into some of the evening meals.

Guest: Tania Palmer, traveller and founder of the Green Gecko Project http://www.greengeckoproject.org

Presenter: Geraldine Doogue
Producer: Jo Jarvis
Story Researcher and Producer: Julie Browning

Empowerment in the developing world

From today’s Media Report on ABC Radio National

Using media as a tool for empowerment in the developing world

Development agencies in various parts of the developing world are having considerable success in using old and new media technology as tools for empowerment. But are governments and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) too starry-eyed about the Internet and its potential for social change? Read Transcript

Google Earth & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Geraldine Doogue, on ABC RN, today presented a fascinating interview with Larry Swiader, chief information officer (CIO) with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org):

A US museum has teamed with internet search engine company Google on a project to demonstrate the complexities of the violence in Dafur.

The online mapping project allows users to examine photographs of events in the Sudan by using Google Earth.

Story Researcher and Producer is Jo Jarvis.

Links

• http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/
• http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2007/1896668.htm
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1894585.htm
• http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/projects/darfur/

Mujahid Ahmed: Adelaide based comedian from Sudan

From the PM program on ABC Radio National

Mujahid Ahmed came to Australia six years ago as a refugee from Sudan. [See PM - Comedian tackles racial prejudice, 30 March, 2007, Nance Haxton - reporter]

He’s Australia’s greatest African comedian, a science graduate who works as a community health worker when he’s not performing comedy in the Adelaide Fringe festival.

See Nance Haxton’s report on the Adelaide Fringe, Friday, 30 March , 2007 at: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1886255.htm

Also

• Mujahid’s article on the multicultural mental health web site: http://www.mmha.org.au/mmha-products/synergy/2006No1/inmyopinionLS/
• Transcript of Big Laughs From Sudan, broadcast: 30/03/2007 on Stateline South Australia, a very funny interview with ABC reporter Jason Om

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars’ album “Living like a refugee”

The Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars‘ album Living like a refugee is album of the week on ABC RN.

Artist: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
CD details: ABC Music, distributed by Warner Music: 5144200902