Long-time friend Liz Ralph and Nyadol Nyuon are mothers of young children who had to navigate childcare, work and homeschooling during two lockdowns.In this episode, we reflect on parenting challenges amid a pandemic, what makes us happy, how

Disembody Connection and Fractured Truth

Dec 18th, 2020 36m 21s

Michael Gwenda is an established journalist and former editor-in-chief of The Age newspaper from 1997-2004. In this episode, we discuss not only the personal impacts of the lockdown but how the pandemic has exposed the lack of unbiased reporti

An Unprecedented Season

Dec 10th, 2020 23m 50s

Bigoa Nyuon’s first year playing professional football coincided with an unprecedented season for the AFL.Bigoa explores how being drafted into the premiership-winning Richmond Football Club is a life-altering event. In this episode, we discus

A State of Disaster

Dec 3rd, 2020 24m 37s

Atong Atem views Melbourne’s lockdown due to COVID, as not just a political state of emergency but an emotional one too.Atong is an internationally acclaimed South Sundanese artist and writer whose exhibition ‘To Be Real’ at the Melbourne Immi

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Introduction to It’s Been Hard Lately: Salvage and resurrect an inner life

Nov 28th, 2020 11m 45s

During COVID, Melbourne’s stage four lockdown saw our lives change in unprecedented ways. We had an 8 pm curfew, we were restricted to five kilometres of our home and banned from visiting family and friends. This podcast investigates how lockdo

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