Fear, Loneliness and Love
In Australia, one in 10 babies are born pre-term, and one in six are admitted to a NICU, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Five mothers describe the experience of spending months inside the alternate universe that is the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit.
ABC Online - Fear, Loneliness and Love
Believe me, Germans don’t ignore WWI
While Germans didn’t throw big WWI Centenary commemorations, it's wrong to say Germans ignore WWI. While they may not remember the details of their own family history, the larger geopolitical history is burned into their collective memories, and so is the guilt, writes Jennifer Macey.
ABC The Drum - Believe me, Germans don't ignore WWII
The longer it takes, the harder it gets
A year after international climate talks collapsed at Copenhagen, the annual UN gathering this time in Cancun managed to get the negotiations back on track. But for the climate, it’s an incremental improvement with time running out for substantive action writes Jennifer Macey.
ABC The Drum - The longer it takes, the harder it gets
Feral Cat Cull
Australia plans to kill 2 million feral cats by 2020 in a bid to protect endangered native species. But some animal rights activists say there are better ways to deal with the feline predators.
DW Online - Feral Cat Cull
Former illegal loggers work in Elephant Sanctuary
To curb deforestation in Indonesia one group of illegal loggers have retrained as elephant keepers.
ABC Online -Former Illegal Loggers Work in Elephant Sanctuary
The Science of Play
The science behind children’s play is being studied and practiced with vigour at a new research centre. The research centre also houses Australia’s first children’s museum at the University of Wollongong near Sydney. Jennifer Macey goes along for the ride with some little people.
DW Online - The Science of Play
Refugee students get homework help
After school on Tuesdays and Thursdays in a not-so-quiet room in Wollongong city library, retired teachers and other volunteers are helping students with their homework, but these high school students have very different needs to most kids their age.
ABC Illawarra- Refugee Students Get Homework Help
Aboriginal Fishing Rights
Aboriginal groups have called on both sides of New South Wales politics to formally recognise cultural fishing rights, saying without these legal protections Indigenous Australians are going to jail unnecessarily.
ABC Online - Aboriginal Fishing Rights
Edelweiss Pirates
They wore their hair long, sang songs by banned Jewish composers and fought the Nazi regime. But history has so far remembered Cologne's Edelweiss Pirates as criminals rather than resistance fighters...until now.
DW Online - Edelweiss Pirates - campaigning for Cologne’s maligned resistance