TV – First Contact – SBS TV

First Contact | SBS TV and NITV | 3 episodes, 18, 19, 20 November First Contact shines a light on the deep divide between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the nation by taking six non-Indigenous people and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time. To watch the programme on YouTube, clink the…

BITM – Andrew Tink – Australia 1901-2001

Andrew Tink | Australia 1901 – 2001: A Narrative History | NewSouth Books 9781742234083 | A$34.99 | Nov Andrew Tink’s superb book tells the story of Australia in the twentieth century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A century marked by the trauma of war and the despair of the depression, balanced by extraordinary achievements…

BITM* – Susan Greenfield – Mind Change

Susan Greenfield | Mind Change | Random House 9781846044304 | £20 | August 2014 In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, because…

Radio – 702 ABC Sydney

With the clocks going back to GMT in the UK on 26 October, Today on Radio 4 now starts at 08:00 SAT rather than 07:00, so I thought I’d look for something different to listen to while I waited for Today to start. Wanting a change from the the Beeb, the obvious alternatives were the…