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ERIN RIETDYK The 2020 Ekka kicks off today but, like most things in 2020, it’s life, but not as we know it. This year the RNA’s Royal Queensland Show is going online to get around the social restrictions created by the ongoing COVID-19 … [Read more...]
IRIS ZHANG AND TRISH KETELS Brisbane residents will be in for a fashion treat today as workers and students around the city put on their daggiest jumper to help support homeless youth. Daggy Jumper Day is the brainchild of the Brisbane Youth … [Read more...]
Photo Essay by Dylan CrawfordThe images taken over a ten-week COVID lockdown visualise the eerie silence and sense of isolation that cast a shadow over Brisbane, a bustling city of 2.3 million people. From the empty Brisbane river foreshore to row … [Read more...]
https://soundcloud.com/user-101730111/episode-23-integrity-20 In this special edition of Remarkable Tales, we take you to Integrity 20, featuring some of the most provocative and profound minds in Australia, all gathered at Brisbane’s Conservatorium … [Read more...]
Kumi Taguchi - photo by Rhett Kleine by Monique Pueblos Everyone wants to live a moral life which can seem increasingly difficult in an immoral world. Host of ABC-TV’s Compass program Kumi Taguchi spoke at Integrity 20 about what a … [Read more...]
by Faith Stolz Peter van Onselen led a panel of experts on the rising power of China, "When China Rules The World", featuring Linda Jaivin, Richard Mcgregor and Dr Yi Wang at Griffith University’s Integrity 20. The political editor at Network Ten and … [Read more...]
Misha Glenny - photos by Rhett Kleine by Jesse O'Keefe Award-winning British journalist and historian Misha Glenny gave an electrifying keynote talk at Integrity 20 on the global criminal underworld, corrupt political networks and the rise of … [Read more...]
Tara Tiba - photo by Rhett Kleine by Athena Zelandonii It’s hard to believe that Tara Tiba is banned from singing in public, in her home country of Iran. Despite laws banning women from recording or performing with their voices, Tara honed … [Read more...]
Madawi Al-Rasheed - photo by Faith Stolz by Emily Lowe Saudi Arabian Professor of Social Anthropology Madawi Al-Rasheed has taken the stage at the Integrity 20 conference in Brisbane with her keynote “The Saudi Lie” about the corrupt Saudi … [Read more...]
Ms Saffaa is a self-exiled Saudi Arabian street artist who uses murals to highlight women’s and human rights violations in that country. Ms Saffaa’s murals first came to the spotlight when her “I am my own guardian” mural went viral in 2016. She is … [Read more...]
