As a journalism student and an aspiring documentarian, I often ask myself (and my teachers) if I have the skills needed to take on a project as massive as a documentary. Are the skills I learn in journalism school – idea generation, research, interviewing talent, and coming up with an angle for a story – […]
Inequality will worsen when AI displaces jobs
Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo recently made the news for defeating the world’s top Go contender, Ke Jie, at a game of Go. As the creators of the AIphaGo retired their AI as the undefeated champ of Go, they expressed their excitement at the next great thing their AI could accomplish. They named curing […]
Refugees need protection. Can Australia do more?
Whilst researching for a news assignment, I attended an event organized by the activist group, Solidarity. There, I had the privilege of meeting a Syrian refugee who had resettled in Australia. Miream Salameh fled Syria more than five years ago at the start of the Syrian revolution. “It’s a revolution, not a war”, she explained, […]
Should Australia make learning Chinese compulsory for her young?
I interviewed a Chinese language teacher last week as research on bilingualism. The Melbourne-based private school she teaches in piloted a new language program to teach their students Chinese. The program is surprisingly intense, with students having a Chinese lesson every school day. More radically, part of the curriculum that is traditionally taught in English, […]
Grace Zhiwei Tan 