Journalism & Radio work by students at Ultimo TAFE
A country far from home opens AMANDA PARKINSON’S eyes to a world vastly different from her own. Egypt’s ancient culture and diversity of landscapes was the perfect stage for an introduction to the Middle East. Featured photo: Egyptian sunset. Photo: Pixabay/CC
Apostle birds, Gulargambone, NSW. Photo: Brett Donald/flickr BY AMANDA PARKINSON Farming is changing. Most farmers are used to the tweeting of birds on their land, but Australian farmers are doing a lot of the tweeting themselves. Farming group AgChatOz is an organisation whose aim is to use social media site Twitter to connect rural […]
BY STEPHANIE MANKINN The RSPCA is demanding the Australian Government release the cause of death of 263 cattle on board the MV Ocean Shearer, destined for Egypt earlier this year. “A 1.6% mortality rate at sea is very high for cattle and the RSPCA urges the Australian Government to release the details of what happened […]
BY AMANDA PARKINSON Aunty Simone calls the kids in for dinner. Silence falls over the street. Looking around, only few homes are lit; most are boarded up, the residents gone. In mid-September The Block‘s 75 residents were issued with 60-day eviction notices as developers prepare to demolish and rebuild the site. The Block is bound […]
By Amanda Parkinson Skaters and local council have united to push for a skate park in the $6 billion Barangaroo redevelopment, but local opposition has forced the proposal to be refused twice now amidst fears it would spark antisocial behaviour and noise complaints. Locals fear their community will be ‘tagged’ with graffiti and become a local […]