Special Report: US Election Postmortem

After President-elect Donald Trump's landslide win and a federal election looming, Australian politicians have lessons to learn from the US election.   The Yarn spoke to two US political analysts, on different sides of the political aisle, to get a breakdown of the Republicans' success.  Tim Lync…

Uncurated: COLLECTORS

The Harry Brookes Allen Museum is one of many collections at the University of Melbourne. The University has collected artefacts that has contributed to a wealth of knowledge that is vital to Melbourne, Australia and the world.  But the way University scholars collected these artefacts was not alw…

Uncurated: COUNTRY

What would Australia look like if we had monkeys swinging around our cities? In the late 19th Century, a number of associations called “acclimatisation societies” sprung up across Australia with the goal of bringing familiar plants and animals to what the British colonists saw as an impoverished la…

Uncurated: STONES

The Old Quadrangle is one of the most photographed spots on the University of Melbourne campus, with students and tourists alike posing under its iconic archways.  The romantic European architecture feels like you've been transported to the set of Hogwarts, but did you know that the stones used to…

Uncurated: REMAINS

Between the 1800s to1950s, anthropologists at the University of Melbourne were digging up burial sites of First Nations ancestors who had been laid to rest and collecting, rather stealing, their bodies. And while some of these human remains were returned to land and reburied, one collection remaine…

Introducing Uncurated Season 3

On the surface, the University of Melbourne is a historical spectacle – with its grand arches, stone facades, echoing hallways, and the chimes of the old clocktower. But this university is also home to many secrets, from human remains unearthed on university grounds, to its role in nuclear testing…

News Bites: Threats to Journalism with Silvia Montaña-Niño

This week, we're bringing you another episode of News Bites, a series of live interviews about the craft of journalism.    Today’s guest is Silvia Montaña-Niño. Silvia is a new CAJ lecturer and was a journalist at El Espectador, one of Columbia’s most important newspapers.   At the start of her c…

News Bites: Racing the Clock with Dr Caroline James-Garrod

Today’s News Bites guest is journalist and CAJ Lecturer Dr Caroline James-Garrod. Caroline got her start as a cadet at Leader Community Newspapers in Melbourne. Since then, she’s had an expansive career working across the country and abroad.  She’s also seen major industry upheavals, from the rise…

News Bites: Journalism in Times of Crisis with Khalid Amiri

This week, we're bringing you another episode of News Bites, a series of live interviews about the craft of journalism.   Today’s guest is Khalid Amiri, who was a prominent news presenter for the Afghan state broadcaster RTA. He’s known for his courageous reporting and outspoken criticism of the T…

Sci-Fi: Myths and Monsters

In Victorian London, a persistent rumour spread of a murderer who could leap between the city’s alleyways to avoid detection. Newspapers called him spring-heeled jack—one of the first ever urban legends.  He wasn’t real, but the fears that inspired him were. Fears of rapidly changing urban spaces …