The Australian Bite
Posts Tagged ‘ art’
Unfair pay, remote food & dressing up statues
21 October 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we’ll hear about the challenges involved in getting good healthy food into remote communities. We’ll take a look at why women working in Australia’s financial industry are generally paid way less than men. And we meet two women who have been dressing up some of Sydney’s public statues in colourful costumes – and telling their stories through art.
Bollywood, booze & icebergs
10 June 2010
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Australians have a reputation for being partial to a drink or two – but this week on the Bite we’ll find out why local experts are calling for greater regulation of alcohol sales and marketing. We’ll also meet the producer of the new Bollywood movie that’s been filming in Melbourne. Crook: – It’s Good to be Bad is a love story set against the backdrop of last year’s attacks on Indians in Australia. And we’ll take a trip to Antarctica with sound artist Philip Samartzsis and find out what an iceberg sounds like underwater.
Australia geared up for the Shanghai World Expo
9 April 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we have a sneak preview of the Australian pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, which opens on the 1st of May. We also find out why many young Australians fear the Australian Dream of owning their own home is fast disappearing, and take a look at an exhibition of Aboriginal art which challenges the audience to think again about sterotypes.
Buildings, bees and sistagirls
3 December 2009
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Bee in macro by StephenMitchell (flickr)
This week on the Australian Bite, landscape architect Andrew Prowse will tell us about his great job designing a town high on the side of a mountain in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province. We’ll hear about a tiny mite that strikes terror into the hearts of Australian beekepers. And artist and photographer Bindi Cole will explain the background to the photograph that’s just won her a major indigenous art award – the Deadly Art Award.
