National Features & Documentary Series

FBI Radio's Bernadette Nguyen speaks to her Vietnamese-Australia mother, as well as young Korean migrant, and a Wiradjuri woman to find out how much of the world multilingual people can take on.

Supervising production from Celeste Macintosh. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

They say that to speak a language is to take on a world, but for people from different cultural backgrounds living in Western spaces it’s easier said than done. Bernadette Nguyen speaks to her mother, a young Korean migrant, and a Wiradjuri woman, to find out how much of the world multilingual people can take on in My Mother Tongue.

Special Thanks

• Jayden Lee, Peta-Joy Williams and my mother Phuong Mai Nguyen for being so generous and sharing their stories.
• Jerome Blazé and Gemma Navarrete for kindly allowing me to use their music.
• Celeste Macintosh, Giordy, Heli and the team from the CBAA and CMTO for all the support during the entire program.

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From 6HFM in Perth, Fiona Mayers and Killian Keating talk to temporary visa holders with lives in a country they are locked out of during the pandemic.

Supervising production from Lynda McCaffery. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

Imagine this: you’re living in Australia on a visa but need to travel home. Whilst you’re there, Covid-19 breaks out. Borders close.

Want to return to your life Down Under? Sorry mate! 

When Australia’s travel restrictions came into force, thousands of people who normally live here found themselves locked out.

This feature speaks with just a few of the thousands of people who were affected.

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What happens to layer hens when their egg production drops? Bay FM's Dione Green meets the Mother Cluckers.

Supervising production from Lynda McCaffery. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

Mother Cluckers: do you give a cluck?

What happens to layer hens when their egg production drops?

Here's a hint: it’s not pretty... But there is a solution.

Join Bay FM 99.9’s Dione Green and meet the people rescuing the unsung heroes of the free range egg industry, one cluck at a time.

Featuring Julie O’Shea from Who Gives a Cluck and Oliver Bora from Oliver’s Hens

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A memoire of a life between generations, Radio Adelaide's Victor Weetra looks at his family life and his personal patterns.

Supervising production from Agnes Cusack. Special thanks to Nikki Marcel. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

My name is Victor Weetra, I am a Nurrunga man and I live in Adelaide.

For a long time I was lost. Looking for things and places. But all I needed to do was look on the inside.

No confidence, lack of self esteem and just going where the wind would take me.

Going to rehab has grounded me and made my decision making easier.

Now I have control of my life and live every day happier. But most of all being able to share it with my daughter.

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From 8CCC in Central Australia, MJ Bakewell asks: what does ‘justice’ even mean if no one speaks your language?

Supervising production from Belinda Lopez. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

There are over 17 Aboriginal languages spoken in and around Alice Springs – but there’s only been an Aboriginal interpreter service since the year 2000.

MJ Bakewell looks to the past, and one Yankuntyjatjara man’s legacy, to see how far we’ve come to ensure Aboriginal language speakers have the right to understand, and be understood.

Music

• Trailrunner by Blue Dot Sessions
• Algorithms by Chad Crouch
• Passed Tense by Anne van Schothorst
• Low Coal Camper by Blue Dot Sessions
• 4th Chair by Blue Dot Sessions.

Sound Effects

• Power Down by peepholecircus
• hospital_lobby by tim.kahn
• cassette-tape by albertomarun.

Special Thanks

• Linda Rive for indulging me with her recollections and suggestions
• Rob Rosenthal for his structural guidance and generous feedback
• Natalie at AIATSIS for helping me dig out the archive tape
• Avery special thanks to Karina Lester, who opened her home to me.

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It’s legal to homeschool. 4ZZZ's Max Rowley asks why parents are going it alone and homeschooling outside the law.

Supervising production from Anthony Frangi. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

Homeschooling has been on the rise across Australia over the past decade.

It’s legal to homeschool if you register, yet an estimated one in two families are going it alone and homeschooling illegally. 

Max Rowley finds out why an increasing number of children are learning from home, and why some homeschooling parents feel torn between protecting their child and obeying the law. 

Links  

• For more info: Homeschooling is on the rise in Australia. Who is doing it and why?
• You can find Eve’s book reviews at Busters Books
• More work from me at maxwellrowley.com 
• Listen to 4ZZZ 102.1fm or check out 4ZZZ News on facebook or twitter 

Special thanks to

• The families who opened up their homes and shared their stories with me 
• My mentor, Anthony Frangi 
• Giordana and Heli from the CMTO and the CRN’s Andrew and Abe 
• 4ZZZ radio station and manager Grace Pashley

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Danni Stewart of FBi Radio reflects on the state of Aged Care in Australia with her late grandmother.

Supervising production from Sharon Davis. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

This started out as a story about how dementia care can be improved. But, throughout production I found there was another question which became more prevalent - why is the aged care system so bad?

As I reflected on my grandma’s experience in residential aged care the Royal Commission hearings revealed deep seeded issues within the sector. 

What I found is that the current substandard conditions in Aged Care can be traced back to neoliberal thinking and the Aged Care Act 1997. 

Then COVID-19 began to spread through the corridors of Aged Care homes and the problems created by the Act were laid bare.

For the last months of my grandma’s life visiting was heavily restricted. 

I was able to say goodbye. Many families weren’t so lucky. 

Caring for our aging population, particularly those with dementia is one of the greatest challenges our society faces.

It’s estimated there will be one million Australians living with dementia by 2050 and it’s clear that in order to care for them the Aged Care Act needs to be reformed and the current system needs to be rebuilt. 

Special Thanks

• Sharon Davis - My Supervising Producer 
• Giordana Caputo - CMTO 
• Heli Newton - CMTO 
• Andrew McLellan - CBAA
• My Mum - For letting me interview her about something so personal and emotional. 
• Claire Cao - For being kind enough to share her experience with me. 
• Lindsay Riley - For emotional support. 

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3CR's Megan Williams returns to the infamous site of the Menindee fish kills and the drying Murray-Darling basin.

Supervising production from Richard Dinnen. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

In January 2019, millions of native fish perished in a mass fish kills that made headlines around the globe.

The demise of the Darling-Barka River is one of the greatest man-made disasters in Australia’s history, but little has changed since this disaster rocked the little town of Menindee.

In Murky Waters is an exploration of how river management has gone up the creek in the past 100 years. It zeros in on the shock of the 2019 Menindee fish kill.

Future episodes coming in 2021 can be found at inmurkywaters.com.au

Specials Thanks

• Giordana Cauto training and assistance
• Richard Dinen for mentoring and supervision
• Michael O’dwyer for the original music
• Anne Marie Taberdo for the original artwork
• Kate McBride, Tolarno Station
• Badger Bates, Barkindji man
• Alan Whyte, water junkie

• And everyone that has been interviewed to date!

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The Australian Muslim Cameleers opened up the interior of Australia to settlers during the 19th and 20th centuries. Their work was tough and the life that they lived is a largely a forgotten chapter in Australia’s history.

Join Saad Khalid, from 1CMS, as he explores how the ‘Ghans contributed to the development of today’s Australia.

Produced for the 2019 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.
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In the Pilbara, the duties of a Yurala are handed down from father to son through the generations, as they are called on to perform songs and dances to make it rain.

Ngaarda Media’s Marion Cheedy, tells the story of the last known rainmaker of the Yindijbarndi nation, who died of a broken heart following the construction of the Harding River Dam.

Produced for the 2019 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.
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