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Your car is who you are

Buckle up for a ride through Sydney’s vibrant car culture where a car is more than a set of wheels. A car is who you are - an extension of yourself and an expression...
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Alternative voices, new points of view
Alternative voices, new points of view
Alternative voices, new points of view
Alternative voices, new points of view
Alternative voices, new points of view
Alternative voices, new points of view
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Hands off! Nail art industry protective of migrant heritage

Gen Z and millennial social media influencers are setting up nail businesses from home and dominating a space that was traditionally reserved for Vietnamese migrants.
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“This culture of togetherness is how Western Sydney has been able to foster world-class musicians. Music is not a commodity - but a community.” The New Point Magazine drills into the Western Sydney music scene.
Life Music
In a Malaysian cemetery, I learned how to speak to the dead for the first time. The end of 2023 was when I was able to visit my 公公 kung-kung (my maternal grandpa)’s final resting...
Life Community Religion Travel
Buckle up for a ride through Sydney’s vibrant car culture where a car is more than a set of wheels. A car is who you are - an extension of yourself and an expression of...
Multimedia Art Community Entertainment Video
A big part of the reason why the Hyderabadi Muslim community struggles with accepting mental health as a valid health concern is due to its cultural stigmas and religious misconceptions it has deemed to be...
Life Health & Wellbeing
We Persians have an expression that says: ‘That person has a worm.’ This is something akin to English phrases involving ‘bug’. I am sick. I have the bug of writing.
Community Art Language
The corner shop is a colourful hallmark of suburbia. It’s where many kids are first allowed to walk by themselves, a pocket of consumerism in the quiet of the streets. But it’s common nowadays to...
Life Community Food Multimedia
Can cultural traditions keep pace with modern life? In multicultural Sydney, Greek and Polish youth navigate a journey of belonging, blending heritage with contemporary life. This video explores how they bridge the past and present...
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Interfaith encounters break down stereotypes

In a classroom in Castle Hill, Christian and Muslim high school students from across Western Sydney are getting to know each other. The conversations going on in the room are stimulating, energetic, honest, loud....
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A community with a storied culture is reconciling past and present through museums and music.
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Tears welled in my eyes, but I was careful to not let any of them out and into the salty ghormeh sabzi. My grandfather has planted a seed of doubt in the centre of my...
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Coffs Harbour on Gumbaynggirr country has opened its arms to refugees from war-torn countries since the mid-2000s. Now a local anti-racism initiative has found creative ways to unite the regional coastal town.
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In this StoryCasters podcast episode, Mega, an Indonesian woman who married an Australian man and followed him to Australia, tells her migration story to Jhames Montemayor. Mega found out her husband was not the man...
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Can cultural traditions keep pace with modern life? In multicultural Sydney, Greek and Polish youth navigate a journey of belonging, blending heritage with contemporary life. This video explores how they bridge the past and present...
Multimedia Art Community Entertainment Video
In a Malaysian cemetery, I learned how to speak to the dead for the first time. The end of 2023 was when I was able to visit my 公公 kung-kung (my maternal grandpa)’s final resting...
Life Community Religion Travel
We Persians have an expression that says: ‘That person has a worm.’ This is something akin to English phrases involving ‘bug’. I am sick. I have the bug of writing.
Community Art Language

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Agents of change challenge conspiracy theories and fake news

Fake news and online conspiracy theories are flourishing. Here’s how young people are learning to spot the fakes and take a stand as digital citizens.
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In this episode of The Viewpoint, Daniel Nour delves into the complex interplay between online gaming and extremism, misogyny, and hate speech. Is it all just fun and games?
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‘Involuntary celibates’ – or self-styled ‘incels’ – are a weird and dangerous breed of extremists that have emerged from an online ecosystem where misogyny and hate can thrive.
Digital Extremism Online Harms Tech
The Codebreakers project uses social media, digital platforms and art to engage young people from Western Sydney in critical conversations about culture, identity and belonging.
Community Culture Digital Multimedia
The internet was built to connect us — a digital space where distance was no barrier to connection. But somewhere along the way, the very platform designed to unite us began driving us apart.
Digital Hate Online Harms The Pointy End
Over 100 amazing, interesting and talented people attended the COMPACT X DIGI Engage Summit in December. This is how they are empowering young people to build a cohesive future.
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Bridging divides through poetry and music in the South Asian community

While religious divisions are deepening in India, music and poetry are helping to bring people together here in Australia.
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Distant relatives we couldn’t recognise told Fatema it was “your time”. The woman who cut Fatema was my aunt’s friend. The cutting took place in the middle of a noisy bush with the sounds of...
The World at Home Humanitarian
Tears welled in my eyes, but I was careful to not let any of them out and into the salty ghormeh sabzi. My grandfather has planted a seed of doubt in the centre of my...
Community Culture Language Religion
We Persians have an expression that says: ‘That person has a worm.’ This is something akin to English phrases involving ‘bug’. I am sick. I have the bug of writing.
Community Art Language

The Pointy End

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Online misogyny breeds weird forms of extremism

‘Involuntary celibates’ – or self-styled ‘incels’ – are a weird and dangerous breed of extremists that have emerged from an online ecosystem where misogyny and hate can thrive.
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A powerful new digital storytelling initiative is inspired by the real stories of resilience of Australian and New Zealander survivors of terrorism.
The Pointy End Extremism Hate
Young authors Jinyoung Kim and Sabina Patawaran skilfully explore Australian trends in racism and anti-racism in their accessible new book, Anti-Racism Kit: A Guide for High School Students
The Pointy End
The internet was built to connect us — a digital space where distance was no barrier to connection. But somewhere along the way, the very platform designed to unite us began driving us apart.
Digital Hate Online Harms The Pointy End
Fake news and online conspiracy theories are flourishing. Here’s how young people are learning to spot the fakes and take a stand as digital citizens.
Digital Hate Industry Racism

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