The Score

CEO of the Migrant Workers Centre, Matt Kunkel, goes over the findings of their new survey on discrimination facing migrant workers with host Samira Farah. Then musician, Gold Fang, calls in to talk about all things Caribbean music and his debut mixtape Smoove Killa.

On this special International Women’s Day episode, Leah Avene fills in for Samira, talking with artist Amrita Hepi on her exhibition,  The Anguilla Pursuit  at the  Gertrude Glasshouse.  Chairperson for not-for-profit organisation  Prosper (Project Australia),  Yatha Jain, discusses the economic and social impacts of sexism on Australian women, particularly women of colour. Deline Briscoe comes in...

Leah Avene fills in as host chatting with Dr Quinn Eades on the complex history of pride, protest and resilience, poetry and community. DJ, Lady Shaka explains how her queerness and Indigeneity inform her music practice. While Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, and performer, Jeremy Dutcher lends his own perspective on where Indigenous and queer identities meet in art .

Indigenous Australian dancer and choreographer, Amelia O’Leary and Chinese-Malaysian dance artist, Janelle Tan explain how their show, A Certain Mumble for Darebin Arts Speakeasy, compares their experiences as outsiders within Australian society . Shelterbox Australia’s CEO Mike Greenslade explains what’s happening with the Türkiye and Syria Earthquake crisis and how to help. Finishing out this hu...

Researcher and PhD candidate Damilola Ayeni talks about her article for The Conversation, which looks at how social media platforms, and in particular Facebook, are managing vaccine misinformation at this stage in the pandemic. With presenter Samira Farah.

CEO of the Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), Catherine Liddle talks about National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day, a day for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities to celebrate the strength and culture of their children. Next, student journalist Danya Daoud talks about her experience participating in the annual Yo...

Artist and curator Tamsen Hopkinson talks about Polyphonic Reverb , a group exhibition on display at the Gertrude Contemporary. The exhibition brings together works by a selection leading of artists to reflect the connections to, histories in, and ongoing resonances of the near Pacific, with an emphasis on Polynesia and Melanesia; Next, co-director of Democracy in Colour Neha Madhok talks about th...

Researcher and senior lecturer at Southern Cross University, Doctor Kathomi Gatwiri talks about ‘Reclaiming racial dignity: An ethnographic study of how African youth in Australia use social media to visibilise anti-Black racism’; Next, Yorta Yorta man and creative director of Yalinguth, Jason Tamiru talks about Yarns in the courtyard, an event at The Builders Arms which explores the history of th...

Executive director of Digital Right Watch, James Clark talks about a recent investigation by CHOICE Australia that found three major retailers using facial recognition technology - often without customers realising; Doctor Amrita Malhi talks about her recent article for The Conversation  ‘Should the census ask about race?’; and Triple R Presenter and music journalist Sosefina Fuamoli joins The Sco...

Najma Sambul - reporter at The Age and fellow Triple R presenter - joins The Score for a pop-culture wrap-up. They cover everything from the recent TV Logie Awards,  Beyoncé's long-awaited upcoming album, and more; Tamil activist and union organiser Aran Mylvaganam discusses the new Labor government’s continuation of the inhumane immigration and asylum seeker policies put in place by the Coalition...

Artists and curators Kate ten Buuren & Maya Hodge discuss ‘Collective Movements’, their exhibition, publishing project, conversation, and workshop platform. ‘Collective Movements’ is a wide-ranging project focusing on the work of historic and contemporary First Nations creative practitioners and community groups that recognises collectivity as integral to Indigenous knowledges and ways of bein...

Proud Gunditjmara man, and singer/songwriter, author, and filmmaker Richard J. Franklin talks about his latest show ‘No More Sugar No More Tea’. The show tells stories through letters from First Nations women to their husbands and sons on the frontlines during World War 1; next, academic Brian Makundi joins The Score. Brian’s work is directed towards understanding and addressing the social configu...

Multidisciplinary artist Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman talks about his latest exhibition 'YAL'. The exhibition presents a selection of photographic work and large painted shields created with members of the artist's Yuri tribe of Simbu Province, and his diasporic family from Papua New Guinea; and Melbourne-based artist, rapper, designer, and DJ Mulalo talks about her music, upcoming gigs, and projects. W...

This week on The Score, artist Roberta Joy Rich talks about her current exhibition ‘The Purple Shall Govern’ displayed at Footscray Community Arts Centre. The works will be presented as part of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts’ Big Picture exhibition series ‘Who’s Afraid of Public Space?’; next on the show is Dr Sangeetha Pillai, Senior Research Associate at the University of NSW. Sange...

Co-Director at Democracy in Colour, Neha Madhok talks about the now shelved religious discrimination bill. Democracy in Colour is a national organisation for racial and economic justice led by people of colour; next, journalist and economist Erica Ifill talks about the crisis in Canada with a gridlock of truckers protesting mandatory COVID-19 vaccines; and finally, Australian songwriter and multi-...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with Elaine Pearson , Australian Director of Human Rights Watch and Jane Favero , Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, on Australia ending offshore processing on Papua New Guinea while continuing the practice on Nauru. Samira also chats with Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) regarding their open letter to US Presiden...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with psychologist and PhD candidate Hannah Yared as they review and discuss ABC series 'The School That Tried To End Racism'. Samira also chats with Melbourne artist Papaphilia  about their latest release 'Remembrance of Things to Come' and the politics of dance music.

This week on The Score, Samira chats with Arrernte and Jamaican multidisciplinary artist Aurora Liddle-Christie about Dreamy, an online project that highlights First Nations storytellers with sleep stories for people to listen to.

This week on The Score, Samira chats with artists Jenna Lee and Sharn Geary on their new works as part of Koorie Heritage Trust's upcoming exhibition, Blak Jewellery . Samira also chats with student activist and member of School Strike 4 Climate Natasha Abhayawickrama on the release of the IPCC's latest report on climate change, and artist and curator Nada Osman on their new Shelter 2 project. Sam...

This week on The Score, Samira speaks with Dr Melani Anae , Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, on the recent apology by Aotearoa/New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern for the infamous 1970s 'dawn raids', and being an original member of the the Polynesian Panthers movement. Samira also chats with reporter and writer Najma Sambul on the latest in media and on-the-ground updates f...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with social media extraordinaire and author Nathan Lyons on their brand new cookbook Kooking with a Koori , featuring Indigenous Australian soul foods that won't break the bank. Samira also speaks with Young Voltaire Human Rights Award winner and Liberty Victoria's Mohamed Semra , on their activism and work in the community and support of social justice cause a...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with Mimi Crowe & Penelope Benton , Co-Directors of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) on the release of the new report Imagining 2030: Preparing for a National Arts Culture and Creative Plan . Samira also speaks with Veronica Pardo, CEO of Multicultural Arts Victoria about the call for submissions for Diasporas Commissions and Bumpy ahead...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with Noura Mansour , Executive Member of The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) on the latest from Palestine and Israel, and the importance of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.  Samira is also joined by Wiradjuri writer, poet, and Melbourne University Associate Professor  Jeanine Leane on their latest piece for Overl...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with writer  Abdul-Aliy A Muhammad  about their recent article published for the Philadelphia Inquirer on Penn Museum and the MOVE bombing and London-based artist  Alfa-Mist. Samira is also joined by journalist/writer  Najma Sambul  on everything pop culture and media, including the online discourse surrounding Israel's on-going apartheid of Palestinian people...

This week on The Score, Samira chats with musician Cam Murphy  about AMPLIFY , a performance night and arts showcase facilitated via the Music Makers, project celebrating Deaf and disabled music makers and highlighting the experience of deaf and disabled artists in the music industry; Arts Generator Coordinator Tania Cañas and artist John Mashar  on their project Three Fold Rise as part of the Art...