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Australian Femicide Watch and The Red Heart campaign founder Sherele Moody, and Gold Coast-based Burundian-Australian artist Beckah Amani

Journalist Sherele Moody, founder of Australian Femicide Watch and The Red Heart campaign, talks to Samira about the importance of remembering and tracking women and children's murders.

And Gold Coast-based Burundian-Australian artist Beckah…

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Dr Sam Whiting, Guewel, Hyphenated Projects, and Colonialists Can’t Dance

This week Samira is joined by Dr Sam Whiting, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University and a 2024 Churchill Fellowship recipient, to discuss challenges faced by grassroots music venues in Australia and…

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'Beneath Roads', the A.W. Bell Community Picket, and Tjum Tjumba

General Vibes fills in for Samira this week. They speak with Jenna Rain Warwick, a First Nations artist and ACMI curator, about her latest exhibition 'Beneath Roads', a three-channel work at ACMI running…

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Indian Politics and Election Updates, 13 YARN and Disrupt Wars

Samira is joined by PhD cadidate Aviroop Gupta about the recent election that took place in India. Shes also joined by Aunty Marjorie Anderson, who is the national spokesperson for 13 YARN, as…

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Stephanie Wescott & Steven Roberts on the detrimental manosphere and live coder, Nū

This week, Samira is back to keep the important conversations coming.

Starting off with Monash University scholars, Stephanie Wescott and Steven Roberts, who recently published their research into how the manosphere and men’s…

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Labor's deportation bill controversy, Maria Birch-Morunga, Brown Women Comedy and the West Papua Film Festival

This week, Samira is joined by Jana Favero, ASRC’s Head of Systemic Change & Betia Shakiba, Human Rights Lawyer and Refugee Advocate, to discuss Betia’s op-ed for The Guardian on Labor’s Deportation bill…

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Prof Sunil Bhar on the high level of depression in aged care homes and the lack of mental health care older Australians receive

Samira speaks with Professor Sunil Bhar on how half of all Australians in aged care live with depression; the challenges older Australians face in receiving mental health care; and his new research on…

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House of Gods, the Indonesian election and Families for Palestine

This week, Samira is joined by actor and screenwriter Osamah Sami on his new ABC TV series, ‘House of Gods’. Having grown up with a father who was the head cleric, Osamah took…

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Gela Pour, Microplastics and The Halo Vocal Ensemble

Samira Farah speaks to Iranian-Australian singer/instrumentalist and one half of band ZÖJ, Gela Pour who will be composing a special live performace set to the screening of the 1925 silent documentary film GRASS…

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The Whisper, the ICJ ruling and MUDRAT

This week, Samira is joined in the studio by Brodie Murray, Wamba Wamba and Ngarrindjeri storyteller, playwright and performing artist. Brodie talks through his debut production ‘The Whisper’, which is playing at Fortyfivedownstairs…

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