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10/11/2017

BEYOND THE BARS

For 16 Years, as part of NAIDOC Week, 3CR have presented Beyond The Bars, a program that in the face of Australia’s appalling Aboriginal incarnation rates, has made for an opportunity for light to be shed, and voice given to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters from inside prisons and correctional centres…
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30/10/2017

EQUALITY NOW

It’s incredible to think that in 2017 and in a country such as Australia, there are sections of our community that are still fighting for the same rights that the vast majority can happily take for granted. It was John Howard back in 2004 who changed the Marriage Act to include the definition of marriage…
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25/10/2017

QUESTIONS FOR THE NATION

Opening Wheeler Centre’s Festival of Questions, this discussion asks the audience to ask questions of themselves and of others. Deborah Frances-White opens with a rallying call to action that taps into the repercussions of Brexit and populism in the UK, and from here drawing parallels between geographical locations, class, generation and privilege. In the ring here,…
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19/10/2017

JUST A JUMP TO THE LEFT

What is right? This is a loaded question in the age of political correctness, when for whatever reason, it feels as if our society is collectively walking upon egg shells, scared to hold opinions that may offend, however much they ring true and resonate with the individual. Part of Wheeler Centre’s Festival of Questions, What…
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18/10/2017

A MODERN PHILOSOPHY

The Wheeler Centre’s Festival Of Questions’s Philosophical Fight Club could perhaps be better described as a session of philosophical mediation; this diverse line-up sought not to fight, but instead find common ground. The panel offered up many moments of illumination and insights. Hosted by the ever charismatic Geoffrey Robertson, a broadcaster, human rights barrister, academic and…
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16/10/2017

TALE OF A HANDMAID

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” Margaret Atwood’s famous words from The Handmaid’s Tale now ring truer than ever, In The Handmaid’s Tale’s dystopian America, women are enslaved by the patriarchy, repeatedly raped in what is poorly disguised as ceremony, and subjected to violent and bodily repercussions should they dare disobey. Now,…
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