Overview

Living in limbo

This story explores the experience of asylum seekers living in legal limbo in both
Australia and the UK. It would explain the current system of asylum in both countries, what
toll the legal limbo can take on people in search of identity and belonging, and some advice
on coping mechanisms.
It features academics from both the UK and Australia who have worked with
asylum seekers and refugees on this issue. For example, Blerina Kellezi at Nottingham Trent
University and Madeline Gleeson, University of New South Wales.

Podcast launch date 10 March 2022

 A history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

This story will tell the history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, which celebrates its
50th continuous year in 2022, and why ongoing questions of sovereignty and land rights are
so central to its continued existence.

Featuring Professor Bronwyn Carlson, Professor of Indigenous Studies and
Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures at Macquarie University in Australia.
She would help us tell the history of the Tent Embassy. We would also consider approaching
Professor Gary Foley, who was involved in the creation of the embassy in the 1970s.
Format: A story of around 15mins to feature within an episode of TC Weekly running in

Podcast launch date 31 March 2022 

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