By Frud Bezhan

 Melbourne - For the women of Afghanistan, it is yet another brutal message — that death awaits those who choose a public life.

By Katie Fraser

 Melbourne - When I first started working with African clients six months ago at a Community Legal Centre in Melbourne’s western suburbs, I had a slightly sensationalized idea of what I might expect. Disaffected youths picked up for loitering, concealed weapons, and drug possession? Crimes involving gang violence and assault?

By Rosemary Kelada, CEO, Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre

  Melbourne - An opportunity is knocking for both employers and retrenched manufacturing workers, like the latest group from Pacific Brands. It is easy to become depressed about the global financial crisis and to consider the prospective unemployment of many of the manufacturing workers, many of them migrant men and women, as being a further layer of disadvantage for them. In our experience, however, migrants have much to offer potential employers.

By Sean Morris 

 MELBOURNE - Why does anyone leave their country permanently?  For a better, safer life and more opportunities.

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.