Arc Up Australia!

Society EN ↓ 6 episodes

Two oral historians with the same face and super similar voices investigate what it means to be Australian. Vox pop, candid conversations and interviews set the record straight on the past, the present, the places and the politics that shape who the Australians are and what they could be. Arc Up Australia! is presented by Katrina Lolicato and Gracie Lolicato and made in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

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From This Place: Talking Rubbish in Lalor Episode 1 - Patrick 21.02.2026 11:16

Meet Patrick Welcome to Lalor Library, one of Melbourne’s hardest working Libraries. Situated in one of the most disadvantaged suburbs in Victoria, this local library is far from being the silent, dusty, bound up old institution of the past! This is a community hub and a place that ‘fills the gaps’. It’s where people go for entertainment, tutoring, friendship, a creative outlet, personal and profe...

From This Place: Italian-Australia, Wogs Like Us 01.05.2023 25:27

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools - Salman Rushdie  Wogs, Dagos, Post-War migrants, New Australians, Zips, Marios and Marias, I-Ties, Multicultural Australia. This episode we meet heaps of Italo-Australians to subtly address these labels, some embraced, some forgotten and some derogatory by asking the question: Can we define ourselves?...

From This Place: Talking Rubbish in Lalor 30.04.2023 12:59

Meet Patrick Welcome to Lalor Library, one of Melbourne’s hardest working Libraries.  Situated in one of the most disadvantaged suburbs in Victoria, this local library is far from being the silent, dusty, bound up old institution of the past! This is a community hub and a place that ‘fills the gaps’. It’s where people go for entertainment, tutoring, friendship, a creative outle...

From This Place: Remembering and Forgetting in Ballarat 01.06.2020 35:23

Now that we've said sorry, what do we do with the heritage? Do we demolish and move on, or do we commemorate so we can move on? Meet Phylis Read. Phylis spent her childhood as an 'inmate' at Ballarat Orphanage. She has dedicated her life to making sure the abuse she and many other children endured is not lost within the bureaucratic debates about significance.  She wanted to tell us why she f...

From This Place: Remembering and Forgetting in Ballarat 31.05.2020 25:14

Welcome of episode #2. Art as heritage activism. Meet Erin. Erin lives in Ballarat and makes films. She wants audiences to listen and to empathise with the people who's stories she documents. When it comes to saving Ballarat orphanage, Erin wants us to stop the bureaucratic bullshit, and listen to those for whom this hell hole was home. Erin agreed to chat with us over coffee, on a windy winter's...

From This Place: Stuck in Melbourne Covid 19 29.04.2020 35:10

It's early April, 2020 and we are stuck at home doing the Covid-19 lockdown thing. And then it dawns on us - there are people stuck here, in Australia, with bills, rent and all kinds of fees to pay, but no job, no government support, no family, no way to get home and not much to go home to. Meet Raffy - student, bartender, future Australian. She'll respond to calls from our Prime Minister for temp...