Future Perfect

Talks and interviews spanning current affairs, politics, society, culture, and music. From the offbeat to the upbeat. The local to the global. Taking stock of where we are, where we've been, and where we're going.

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    Antoinette Lattouf on her legal battle with the ABC and Women Who Win

    In late 2023, Antoinette Lattouf had a five day contract to host the mornings program on ABC radio Sydney. It’d normally be a light and breezy week of broadcasting in the pre-Christmas wind down. Instead, it became the central flashpoint in a legal saga – when she was taken off air by management two days early, after reposting a Human Rights Watch report about Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. In response, Lattouf sued the ABC for unlawful termination – and won. It was a huge result for the journalist personally, but also one of broader significance, throwing up questions around the power of the pro-Israel lobby, the integrity of ABC management’s decision making processes, and freedom of speech. Antoinette’s new book is called Women Who Win, and it places her struggle in a larger context - of women throughout history who have taken on authority. It’s part memoir, part roadmap for change, asking what it takes to succeed when the odds and systems are stacked against you. “[Establishment media are] so concerned about advertisers or lobby groups – like the ABC running scared of the next attack by the Murdoch Press or the chain of complaints from pro-Israel lobbyists or gas lobbyists … Are they really giving a voice to the voiceless, or are they just making power comfortable? And when journalism in this country walks alongside or in step with powerful institutions and people, then our democracy is in a bit of trouble."

    46 min
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    Francesca Albanese on the Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine

    Francesca Albanese is a human rights expert, legal scholar, and one of the world's most significant voices on Palestinian struggle. As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, she has spent years documenting what she and others, including the International Court of Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have described as genocide. This has made her a target for the pro-Israel lobby. She’s been sanctioned by the US government, threatened with arrest in Germany, and has faced repeated death threats for her unwavering commitment to calling out Israel's attrociies. Her new book is called While the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine – its part memoir, told through the stories of ten people she’s met in her life and career as legal expert on Palestine, and a rallying cry for the world to stop the horrors that the international human rights system is supposed to prevent. In this conversation, she reflects on her life and career spent face to face with human suffering, the moral imperative to mobilise against genocide, and where she finds hope. "Documenting human rights violations in a time of genocide are excrutiating for the mind, for the body....I've been swalling death and horrible things that humans have done to other humans for over three years now. "The genocide has changed my life forever. I don't think there is a way to repair it other than being good, to being caring towards myself, towards my loved ones...I have two young children. Preserving my sanity is something that goes hand in hand with being their mum. "I know that if all good people on Earth did what they could, and what they know they can do, the world will heal sooner than we think."

    29 min
  3. 2024-11-25

    Tackling the manosphere, George Megalogenis on the new state of Aus politics, St Vincent + more

    Content warning: this episode contains discussion of gendered violence. If you find any of this distressing, you can seek support via 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732. Dylan is joined by Dr Stephanie Wescott, Lecturer in the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University, to discuss the interventions that could address young men and boys being susceptible to the manosphere and its ties to violence against women, as explored in her ongoing research for ANROWS. (1:10) Jana Favero, Deputy CEO and Head of Systematic Change at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, discusses the ASRC’s new campaign to foster support and inclusion for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. (16:56) Author and journalist George Megalogenis looks ahead to next year’s federal election amid a shifting political landscape in the country, as explored in his new Quarterly Essay Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics. (30:15) Plus, Emily Naismith and Ben Birchall, hosts of podcast Ingredipedia, drop by to talk about the show’s new miniseries ‘Zombie Snacks’, which brings nostalgic Australian snacks back from the dead. (52:29) And finally, Grammy Award-winning artist Annie Clark aka St. Vincent returns to Future Perfect to chat about what has shaped her live shows for the tour of her album ‘All Born Screaming’, ahead of her shows in Melbourne for Always Live Victoria. (1:12:04)

    1 h 24 min

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