Hyperlocal: Community Action

This week, we’re bringing you three stories about neighbours banding together — either to help each other out or unite against a mutual adversary.  It’s the first episode of Hyperlocal, our new series about the big issues impacting small communities in Melbourne.   Featuring stories by Filmen…

Seven Years with All the Best

For the last seven years, producers from the podcast All the Best have mentored Melbourne University's audio journalism students.   It’s part of an initiative that teaches emerging storytellers the ins and outs of audio production, culminating in a series of student-produced documentaries. Today,…

News Bites: Erik Jensen, Editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media

Today, we're bringing you another episode of News Bites — a series of live interviews showcasing the work of local journalists.   This week’s guest is Erik Jensen, the editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media.  Erik’s career has been multipronged.  He began working as a music critic when he was only fif…

Climate Generation: Eco-injustice

The Pacific island of Kiribati could be completelysubmerged by rising sea levels in just seventy years, but the nation is among the world’s lowestemitters of C02.   Australia, on the other hand, is among the highest. In 2019, we emitted twenty-one times more C02 per capita than Kiribati.   Today,…

Climate Generation: Eco-anxiety

Eco-anxiety is the chronic fear of environmental doom.  While the American Psychiatric Association acknowledges its existence, it doesn’t classify it as a pathology. It’s a rational response to the world around us. And it’s especially prevalent among young people.  At best, eco-anxiety can motiva…

Neighbourhood Watch: Flood Warning

Victoria’s coastlines are receding, inland waterways are flooding more frequently, and things are only expected to get worse.  This week, we’re bringing you two more interviews about The Citizen’s environmental reporting.  One about Gippsland abandoning fossil fuels in the face of a coastal clim…

Neighbourhood Watch: Air Pollution

Melbourne’s West has a pollution problem and residents are fed up with government inaction.  This week, you’ll hear about original reporting from students working on two separate projects — one looking into freight truck exhaust fumes, another investigating years of fires at a landfill near resi…

Breaking the Binaries: Gender

The moral panic about gender has been dominating conservative headlines lately, but gender nonconformity is nothing new.   The Hijra people of South Asia have been recognised as an additional gender for centuries, as have the Faʻafafine of Samoa, and the Femminielli of southern Italy.   This …

Breaking the Binaries: Place

There’s this word — “Solastalgia”. It describes homesickness when you’re still at home... because that home is changing in ways you can’t control.   This week, we’re bringing you three stories about our relationship to place. Places in flux and places that aren’t what we thought they were.   It’s…

News Bites: Making News on TikTok and Instagram

Today we're bringing you another episode of News Bites, a series of live interviews showcasing the work of local journalists.   This week, we’re joined by Matilda Boseley, The Guardian’s TikTok queen whose videos often garner tens of thousands of views.  We’re also joined by Zara Seidler, the co-…