HiRise & Human Rights in the Media – Mid-Week Reviews
This week Athena Rogers reviews the refugee Melbourne Fringe Festival performance HiRise, and Pia White takes a look at discussions of violence in the media in the monthly media review.
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The Election Media and Human Rights: August 2013 – Mid-Week Review
How have human rights issued fared during the campaign coverage and exactly what role is the media playing? Pia Ella White examines the media’s performance.
Human Rights in the Media: July 2013 – Mid-week Review
A series of events with sexism at their core exposed tensions in the media narrative on women’s rights during July, writes Jessica Szarcbord in this month’s review of human rights in the media.
Pushing the Limits
By Sarah Barton. This article is part of our April and May focus on Art and Human Rights. In 2001 my good friend and colleague Greg Dee was appointed Station Manager at Channel 31, the community television station in Melbourne. The station has a licence to broadcast programs that are representative of diverse communities across Melbourne […]
Six secrets to being more persuasive on issues you care about
By Sarah Hunt. I have worked for many years using the media to educate and persuade people to develop more compassion on human rights, multiculturalism and social change issues. One thing I have learnt is just how challenging it is to persuade someone to change their mind. Here are several ideas I want to share […]
Human Rights in the Media – The Mid-Week Review
By Jessica Szwarcbord In our second review of human rights in the media we look at Victoria’s new trial plan on how to deal with “aggressive beggars”, asylum seekers arriving in numbers more than double this time last year, and rock art at risk in the face of uranium mining. A new trial by the […]