‘I’m not half of anything’

Posted in Audio, Autobiography, Interviews, Media Archive, Oceania on 2017-07-05 18:28Z by Steven

‘I’m not half of anything’

It’s Not A Race
Radio National
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2017-06-29

Beverley Wang, Presenter


So how about this idea that biracial and multiracial children are the key to a post-racial future utopia?

And how does it measure up to the lived experience of biracial Australians?

It’s Not A Race explores what it’s really like to grow up as a biracial Australian with Faustina Agolley, Lucie Cutting, Nkechi Anele, and the Hameed sisters, Leona and Monique.

Listen to the podcast (00:24:57) here.

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Children of the Occupation

Posted in Audio, History, Media Archive, Oceania on 2013-03-11 17:48Z by Steven

Children of the Occupation

Radio National
Big Ideals
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2013-03-11

For a decade following the end of the Second World War, foreign troops occupied Japan.  During that time, thousands of mixed race children were born, the result of relationships between the occupying servicemen – Australians, Americans, Brits – and Japanese women.  What became of those children after their fathers returned home?  Former ABC Tokyo based correspondent, Walter Hamilton, has been finding out.

Listen to the episode here. Download the episode here.

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