Past Programs
Discrimination - 2008
Germaine Greer on rage
29/08/2008
In her opening address at the 2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival Germaine Greer spoke about rage, which is also the subject of her recently published essay - On Rage.
Please note that this broadcast is not available as a podcast.
Growing up Asian in Australia Read Transcript
15/06/2008
When she was growing up, Alice Pung says she was called a 'powerpoint', a derogatory term for Asian people in Australia. Alice Pung and Shalini Akhil break through the stereotypes in this discussion of Growing up Asian in Australia, a collection of accounts about mateship, battlers, leaving home and being 'unAustralian'.
Growing up Asian in Australia
11/06/2008
When she was growing up, Alice Pung says she was called a 'powerpoint', a derogatory term for Asian people in Australia. Alice Pung and Shalini Akhil breakthrough the stereotypes in this discussion of Growing up Asian in Australia, a collection of accounts about mateship, battlers, leaving home and being 'unAustralian'.
Reading by touch -- braille
08/06/2008
In braille, words and meaning are formed by dots on the page, fingers do the reading. It's an ingenious system that was developed by Louise Braille so that people with no vision could still have access to the world of ideas and information contained in fiction, but also street directories and train timetables.
Braille is as important for blind people as print is for sighted people, but, only a small portion of all printed texts are translated into braille.
The International Council of English Braille conference was held in Melbourne recently, and to coincide with this event, a public art installation called Braille Window was set up in the foyer of the conference venue.
The outside surface of the large streetfront window was covered with braille embossed A4 transparencies. The braille text was written by blind and low-vision people.
For the Book Show, Sarah L'Estrange spoke to the creators and contributors to the Braille Window.
Reading by touch -- braille
03/06/2008
In braille, words and meaning are formed by dots on the page, fingers do the reading. It's an ingenious system that was developed by Louise Braille so that people with no vision could still have access to the world of ideas and information contained in fiction, but also street directories and train timetables.
Braille is as important for blind people as print is for sighted people, but, only a small portion of all printed texts are translated into braille.
The International Council of English Braille conference was held in Melbourne recently, and to coincide with this event, a public art installation called Braille Window was set up in the foyer of the conference venue.
The outside surface of the large streetfront window was covered with braille embossed A4 transparencies. The braille text was written by blind and low-vision people.
For the Book Show, Sarah L'Estrange spoke to the creators and contributors to the Braille Window.
