The tragic drowning of a close friend from a refugee background has prompted Annie Gao and Clare McBride Kelly to establish the Refugee & Migrant Swimming Project, in partnership with Royal Life Saving ACT. This project will provide people living in Canberra from a refugee and migrant background to learn swimming and critical water skills.

It’s FrogID Week and you can help make frogs count! Thousands of sick and dying frogs are being reported across Australia. What’s going on? Dr Jodi Rowley explains the urgency and need for us to learn about our froggy friends and how to join this citizen science project.

FrogID Week: https://australian.museum/event/frogid-week-2021/

Dr Dana Bergstrom, winner of the National 2021 Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science, talks about changes in the Antarctic environment and ecosystem collapse from Antarctica to the Australian tropics. How can we best respond?

Dr Dana Bergstrom, Eureka Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0UUfEX2dS8

@AusAntarctic #AusAntarctic

Operation Not Forgotten is a potential lifeline for refugees subject to Australia's offshore detention regime to resettle and rebuild their lives in Canada under that country's Community Sponsorship Program. Three Canberra women - Sister Jane Keogh, Robyn Fetter and Julie Demicoli - with Operation Not Forgotten, speak about creating a pathway of freedom for people who have been in Australia's immigration detention for 9 years and more.

In October 2001, a small fishing boat left Indonesia with over 400 people en route to Australia dreaming of safety, reuniting with family and building a home. Tragically, 353 people died when the SIEV X sank. The background to this horrific event was John Howard's 2001 election during which people seeking asylum were demonised and scapegoated. We commemorate the SIEV X, honour those who lost their lives and remember their families 20 years on.

After well over three years, the Muruguppan family is finally out of prison like immigration detention. But they are still prevented from returning to their home and community in the Queensland town of Biloela as the youngest daughter remains held in community detention. Home to Bilo campaign lead, Angela Fredericks, discusses the situation facing the family and the campaign to get them home.

Join Jeannie Paterson, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, as she discusses the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition data in Australia: permutations, ramifications, and why we should care!

Environmental activists, Anna Molan and Elle Lawless, share their story of a direct action on the Newcastle port in 2018 to protest the climate damage caused by coal mining and government inaction to address climate change.

Building on the success of their first survey of Canberra women, YWCA Canberra is returning to survey women and non-binary persons aged 16 years and over, to build a snapshot of what life is like for these groups in the ACT.

Subject ACT caught up with Frances Crimmins, CEO, YWCA Canberra to chat about this survey.

You can take their 15 minute survey by following this link:

Our Lives: Women in the ACT survey: https://ywca-canberra.org.au/advocacy/the-our-lives-women-in-the-act-survey-returns-for-2021/

Roundabout Canberra is a local Canberra charity supporting new mums, dads and children in need with essential quality items. CEO Jeanette Dyer talks about the work of Roundabout Canberra and the impact that the Covid 19 lockdown is having on the charity and the families they are supporting.