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triple j's hack: Aboriginal TV
25/09/2007
If you live in a small remote community, when you turn on the TV you can pretty much forget seeing any stories from your town. If you're an Aboriginal person in that town, there's probably even less chance of seeing stories that represent you. With so much news coverage focussing on problems in Aboriginal communities, there's even more need for Aboriginal people to tell their own stories. In north-west WA, there's a small indigenous TV station trying to do just that but first they had to get themselves a new name. The station used to be called JTV that's until they realised we already had dibs on that name. Ronan Sharkey recently went along to the station to find out how they went with a new name.
triple j's hack: Queer and Iranian
24/09/2007
We love all nations. We're friends with the jewish people. Gay people don't exist in Iran. Just some of the things Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinajad said during his address at Columbia University in New York overnight. And boy was he given a warm welcome by the University's President.
triple j's hack: Cover your MUFF!
23/09/2007
Two women having actual sex for the camera has been ruled a little too hot for the Office of Film and Literature classification. The independent film, Ashley and Kisha: Finding the Right Fit , is the story of a lesbian relationship. And was to be screened at this weekend's Melbourne Underground Film Festival. But not anymore! THE OFLC has ruled that if classified, the film would be rated X and that means it CAN'T be played at a festival in Australia. In a moment, you'll hear from the filmmaker Tony Comstock, But first Richard Wolstoncroft is the festival director of the Melbourne Underground film festival. He says the decision is hypocritical.
triple j's hack: Abdel Bari Atwan
17/09/2007
The Australian government is racist and scared of muslims. That's what the London based writer Abdel Bari Atwan told us last week while he was waiting to come to Australia. Then the editor in chief of the arabic newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi, was still waiting for his visa six weeks after he put in his application. Now he's here, visa in hand after missing several of his speaking dates. But he's not backing down saying he still thinks the Australian government is racist.
triple j's hack: The Great Barrier Reef Swindle
16/09/2007
Anyone who's been to the Great Barrier Reef knows just what a mammoth piece of nature it is. And the debate about the health of the Reef can get pretty firey. Recently there's been a pretty interesting addition to the debate with a paper called 'The Great Great Barrier Reef Swindle' written by Dr Peter Ridd, a physicist at James Cook University in Townsville. He argues that the coral on the reef is much more resilient than most people think and that the dire warnings about the health of the reef are simply not true. Here he is, with Doctor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg a Marine Scientist from the University of Queensland
