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In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, tens of thousands of refugees fled their country to start a new life in Australia. Many of them found jobs as outworkers — fashion workers who sewed from home instead of at garment factories. Although they played an important role in Australia's fashion industry, their work was often overlooked, unregulated, and deeply exploitative.  

This week, we're bringing you the first episode of the Critical Fashion Studies Podcast, a series about how sustainability and diversity are shaping Australia's fashion industry. To hear the rest of the series, subscribe here. 

For episode one, lecturers Harriette Richards and Anissa Beta spoke with Emma Do and Kim Lam about their book, Working from Home: Stories of Vietnamese Outworkers in the Australian Fashion Industry.

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The Critical Fashion Studies Podcast

Emma Do's Instagram

Kim Lam's Instagram

Working from Home

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Our fifth News Bites guest is Jenny Cai, a former University of Melbourne journalism student who now works in the ABC's Asia Pacific newsroom.  

She spoke to Louisa Lim about getting a foot in the door, covering the war in Ukraine, and how to survive and thrive in a fast-paced newsroom. 

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Our fourth News Bites guest is Louisa Lim, a senior lecturer who spent a decade as an audio journalist in China for the BBC and NPR.  

During that time, she was on the ground for some of the region’s most consequential events, including the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.  

More recently, she published a book about Hong Kong called Indelible City and produced a related podcast series for the ABC called The King of Kowloon. The latter tells the story of a Hong Kong folk hero whose distinctive graffiti turned him into a revered outsider artist. 

She talked to Jeff Sparrow about reporting from China and her process for audio storytelling and longform writing.

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Our third News Bites guest is Dr. Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, a journalist who has spent over 20 years reporting on climate change, human rights, and other issues affecting the Pacific Islands.

She spoke about Australia's coverage of the Pacific with Petra Stock, a Citizen reporter, and Kate Lyons, the Pacific editor for Guardian Australia. 

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A thesis, glass tubes, a bronze plaque. This is the evidence left to remember world-class atmospheric physicist Jean Laby. She was the first woman to achieve a PhD in the School of Physics in 1956. But on a campus that lacks recognition of historically significant women, this prompts the question: how would Laby have been commemorated if she was a man?

In this week's episode, Jade Murray explores the University of Melbourne Parkville campus to search for the forgotten stories of women in science. 

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Interviewees:

• Elisabetta Barberio – Professor of Physics and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence
• Katie Wood – Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives
• Em Bawden - Immunologist from the Peter Doherty Institute
• Joe Pascoe - Poet and co-curator of the Jean Laby exhibit 

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from Pixabay

 ‘Order’ - ComaStudio

‘Space Chillout’ - penguinmusic

'Tuesday' - amaksi

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This week on Uncurated, Caitlin Duan and Isabella Vagnoni go on a road trip to learn about the forgotten history of Percy Lindsay. Along the way, they discover stories about the Chinese-Australian experience from the gold rush era to the present day.

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Interviewees:

• Alyssa Bunbury - Curator of the Grimwade Collection at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
• Juanita Kwok - History and Heritage consultant with an interest in local histories in Australia and Chinese communities in rural Australia
• Charles Zhang - Committee member of the Chinese library and President of the Chinese Australian Cultural Society of Ballarat

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from https://www.purple-planet.com and https://www.FesliyanStudios.com under relevant licensing agreements. 

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For First Nations people, art has been a vehicle to tell personal and universal stories for over 60,000 years. Ngarrindjeri artist Trevor Nickolls’ story is complex, exploring the history of dispossession and loss, and the hope and beauty of finding a way back to knowing. Breaking free of the assumptions and prejudices placed on First Nations artists by white society, his ground-breaking career inspired artists across the country to express their own identities. This week on Uncurated, Sean Ruse and Prealene Khera explore Nickolls’ life and legacy through his long-lost painting “Tightrope Walking”.

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Interviewees:

• Judith Ryan - former Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria
• Angelika Tyrone - Director and Owner of Australian & International Arts
• Tiriki Onus - Head of the Wilin Center for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne
• Richard Bell - Renowned Artist and Activist 

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from freesound.org, freemusicarchive.org, Blue Dot Sessions and ABC News under relevant licensing agreements.

Dany Pkl by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).

Piano Tape Loop by Daniel Birch (https://freemusicarchive.org/home)

Trevor Nickolls’ interview with Emma Sleath on ABC (https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2009/11/27/2754081.htm)

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The thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian Tiger, remains one of Australia’s most identifiable animals despite having gone extinct almost 100 years ago.

In its time, it was hunted, mishandled and neglected, yet people are still captivated by it today. They desperately hope the animal still exists in hiding, and one scientist at the University of Melbourne is on the brink of a discovery unlike any other...one that could reverse the fate of the thylacine and right the wrongs of the past.

This week on Uncurated, Aania Tandon and Sasha Gattermayr explore the story of this mystical animal and why it has not been forgotten.

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Interviewees:

• Rohan Long - Curator, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology at The University of Melbourne
• Professor Andrew Pask - Professor in Epigenetics at The University of Melbourne

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from SoundCloud, Incompetech, Adobe Sound and Youtube under relevant licensing agreements:

Ethereal - "Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Galvanic Birds by Jade Then - https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/jade-then-galvanic-birds

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Our city streets are filled with statues of men who did things, with little permanent reminder of the women who have shaped Australian society. Julia Bella Guérin is one of these women.

Famous in her time for her achievements as Australia’s first female university graduate and a noted teacher, writer, orator and political organiser, Guérin has been all but forgotten by the history books.

This week on Uncurated, reporter Meghan Dansie sets out on a journey to examine the power of legacy and the politics of forgetting. 

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Interviewees:

• Katie Wood – Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives
• Professor Clare Wright – Award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator. Current Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. 

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Music and sound effects for this episode of Uncurated were sourced from Purple Planet (https://www.purple-planet.com/), Pixabay, BBC Sound Effects (https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/), and SoundCloud under relevant licensing agreements.

1. “Hope”/ Charlotte Chew/ Living Instruments/ https://soundcloud.com/user-839269279/charlotte-chew-hope 
2. “Forward Thinking”/ Purple Planet/ https://www.purple-planet.com/tracks/forward-thinking 
3. “Bright Ideas”/ https://www.purple-planet.com/tracks/bright-ideas 
4. “Crowd, interior, twenty men, club atmosphere”/ BBC Sound Effects/ https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07039082 
5. “Audience in hall, cheers and applause” /BBC Sound Effects / https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07047090 
6. “Harp Flourish”/ Nathan Manaker/ Pixabay/ https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/harp-flourish-6251/ 
7. “Inspiring Piano”/ Purple Planet/ https://www.purple-planet.com/tracks/inspiring-piano

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An oil painting lost in a storeroom for decades, a dusty student card, a misplaced animal skull; these are some of the objects in the University of Melbourne's twelve museums. Each was forgotten in a different way.

Join students from the Centre for Advancing Journalism on a journey of unforgetting as they ask why some objects—and even people—were lost to history, and what this says about Australia.

Uncurated is a new six-part series coming very soon from the Centre for Advancing Journalism. Subscribe now to make sure you never miss an episode. 

Episode 1 will be released on October 12.

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