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Chinese Australian dissident artist Badiucao on being followed, threatened - and imp…

11/22/2024 • 49 min

In this week's episode we speak with Shanghai-born, Melbourne-based artist Badiucao, who explains what it's like to remain under suspicion and surveillance for his political artwork. Badiucao, a Walkley-award winning artist with The Age, speaks with opinion editor Patrick O'Neil about his early life in China, the kind of things that still happen to him here in A… Play episode

Hannah Diviney on acting, ableist language and not having to always strive…
Gina Chick on the beauty and power of strangeness
Kate Winslet on photojournalism, sexism, and women in film
Author Joe Aston on what went wrong for the Qantas brand
British author Jon Ronson on why psychopaths rule the world - and how we s…
Literary editor Jason Steger on 25 years of wrangling books, authors and p…
Mark Manson, author of 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k' on how the se…
Norman Swan researched the best way to parent kids under ten. Here's what …
Eric Beecher on media, moguls and what it's like to be sued by a Murdoch
Tim Minchin on social media, doubt and the surprising advice he gives uni …
Author Markus Zusak on the magic - and mayhem - of mongrels
Missy Higgins on turning adolescent angst and mid-life heartbreak into song
From Sydney to Singapore, Melbourne to Manila: meet the man playing Alexan…
What impact has that 'controversial' $443m investment made to the Great Ba…
Best-selling author Roxane Gay on body positivity, Trump and Channing Tatum
'Like a hurricane was inside the house': a survivor's tale of the Beirut p…
Grappling with twin tragedies and tax reform: Allegra Spender's life as a …
Debunking milk myths: Farmer and food writer Matthew Evans on the white st…
Solving Australia's chronic housing crisis
‘Live, give, get uncomfortable’: Nedd Brockmann on that epic run across Au…
'I've got to work out who the hell this guy is:' The true story behind 'Fa…
Athletics champ Tamsyn Manou on Australia’s ‘resurgence’ in the lead-up to…
Max Chandler-Mather on housing, heckling and the perfect door knock
Liz Ellis on healing the wounds within netball
Did Robert Farquharson kill his three sons? A science-led reappraisal
Introducing: Trial by Water
How the world-famous Bondi Icebergs pool became a literal life saver
The law student who thought Kathleen Folbigg innocent - then went on to se…
What lessons are there still to learn from the Holocaust?
Bestselling author Johann Hari on the whole Ozempic conundrum
Moving from anger towards love: a Miles Franklin winner's writing process
Surviving 650 days in Myanmar’s notorious Insein Prison
Wealthy Australians are terrible at giving. How can we change that?
How Neil Perry became the unofficial mayor of Double Bay
Sydney's gay hate crimes and the lawyer representing victims
3AW's Tom Elliott on stepping out of Neil Mitchell's shadow - and that of …
Paraplegic surfing - world champion Joel Taylor on reclaiming the ocean
What happened to Nam Le? The return of one of Australia's brightest litera…
Former army lawyer David McBride on the cost of being a whistleblower
Inside the groundbreaking trial using psychedelics to soothe the terminall…
How Hunter Johnson helps young men navigate the 'manosphere'
Brian Ritchie on the Violent Femmes, MONA, and his meditative flute
How Eric Bana and Robert Connolly survived filming in 'Leech Gully'
How we can harness intuition to make better decisions
Jelena Dokic on abuse and resilience, body positivity and trolls
GWT summer: Are there seven stages to go through after discovering an affa…
GWT summer: Hugh van Cuylenburg on feeling happier through GEM
GWT summer: RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi on her inspiration - and …
GWT summer: Guy Pearce on fatherhood, films, cults and that Neighbours reb…

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