By Van Thanh Rudd

 MELBOURNE - Over a long period of time, like many visual artists and students, I was carrying my artworks on trams and trains to my studio either wrapped up or facing inwards, away from public view. I began to ask, ‘why should an artist deny the public this opportunity to view art, especially if the artist feels strongly about issues facing society at large such as inequality, racism and war?’ 
 

By Colm McNaughton

 MELBOURNE - In my first radio documentary Awakening from History? the listener is invited into my own story as a way to enter the vexing question of intergenerational trauma in the North of Ireland.

In what follows, I examines some of the difficulties encountered and the strategies pursued both in the field and the studio to producing this piece.

The documentary was aired on the Radio Eye program on Radio National, and won a Walkley award for best radio documentary in 2008.

By Eskias Mengistie

 MELBOURNE - Many of the roughly 20,000 Ethiopians living in Australia headed for Melbourne in the last week of December for their annual cultural festival and soccer tournament.