Special Features
Sunday 25 May 2008
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On the 'mainland' it is generally accepted that Tasmania is fox free, however this may not be necessarily so. Franz Docherty went and spent a couple of days with the members of the Fox Eradication Program and an hour or two with a true blue sceptic, to find the answer to the ongoing question, 'Are there foxes in Tasmania?'
We also meet a doubter, someone who doesn't believe all is as it seems, and find out the reasons for their scepticism. It is not the first argument in Tasmania over a creature's existence, as many still believe the Tasmanian Tiger is out there in the wilderness. In the end this program will expose the real situation.
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Sunday 02 March 2008
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Aspire to dance: Dance to inspire. It's never too late as we discover when we visit a small hall in a Masonic Centre in suburban Sydney. It has been the home of the Glynn and Moriarty Ballroom Dance Studio for 23 years. This is no ordinary studio though, Alan Glynn and Joan Moriarty have been teaching for 42 years. They have even taught teenagers who are now mothers and their daughters are now learning as teenagers!
The studio attracts people from all walks of life, all ages and a mix of nationalities. They come to gain medals, train for competitions or just learn for enjoyment.
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Sunday 04 February 2007
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The Australian Catholic University is the first local institution to implement the ideas of Earl Shorris, an American who believes in teaching the humanities to the poor. He said that by teaching the disadvantaged literature and art, you would help move them from their journey of poverty.
We join lecturer Michael Griffith and director John Gibson as they introduce their students to the Michael Gow play, Away. This is the final stage of a literature course, and they have to perform a rehearsed reading of the play in order to pass.
Our adult students talk about their lives and share their poetry, as we eavesdrop on their journey to discover the inner thespian. [find out more...]
Saturday 18 May 2005
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Virginia and Sereana share a sorry story. Both women came to Australia on tourist visas more than ten years ago, fell in love, married, had children and stayed living here illegally. Both were picked up by the Immigration Department and sent to Villawood Detention Centre in 2002. They have been there ever since - separated from their children. [find out more...]
This program won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association-Amnesty International Human Rights Program Award in Februry 2006.
Saturday 02 June 2004
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Why would someone go fight in a war they didn't have to; become part of a struggle that had been going on longer than they'd been alive?
In 2004 Street Stories' Cath Dwyer interviewed Asaf Namer, the young Israeli-Australian who recently died in a Hezbollah ambush in southern Lebanon where he was serving in the Israeli Army, and other young Israeli-Australians about the choice they were making to move to Israel and do their military service. They talked about why they were going - religious reasons, a deep love of Jewish culture and the Jewish people, because it just feels like home - and what they were leaving behind. There's a word for the choice they made - Aliyah. [find out more...]
"Making Aliyah" was first broadcast in June 2004.
