News Therapy 101

News therapy with Jonathan Green and SamiShah – covering the sad, bad and mad news for the week on @774abcmelbourne #newstherapy #needcoffeetherapy #rainedin #reignedin #tasneemchopra #crossculturalconsultant

Drum Roll: Fees, Guns, Votes & Leakes

Tonight on @abcthedrum we talked #GP fees, #gunlaws #illegalvoting and #WikiLeaks. Host was John Barron and copanellists were the Guardian Australia’s Paul Farrell, and the Executive Director of Schools in the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta, NSW Greg Whitby....

Commodified Compassion

Memo to Govt & Media: This is Omran. He and a few others were just rescued following the  bombing of his home in Aleppo last night. ...

Islam. I. Am; A doco in the wings

Tonight in Parramatta, the Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) hosted a forum attended by Muslim screen-based artists, filmmakers and journalists, keen to hear about ISLAM. I AM, an early development opportunity coordinated by Jungle in association with...

From Aus Pol to Pokemon in 30 minutes!

Tonights Drum episode was moderated by John Barron. My co-panellists included, Jackie Kelly (former Howard minister), Shane Wright (WA Times, Finance editor), and live from UK, Tom McTaigh (Politico, editor).  A lively conversation ensued on various topics...

Reflections & Forecasts on LaTrobe  Life

Back at my old Masters haunt, LaTrobe Uni, participating in a ‘Living Histories’ project, leading up to their 50th Birthday in 2017.  I shared my reasons for studying a Masters in International Development, highlights of campus life, takeaways post...