Roots with Mariam: Media diversity in Australia is long overdue

Roots with South Asian Today

12/02/21 • 33 min

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Australian media is overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic and European. Why does a country that claims to be multicultural find itself to be white-dominated time and time again?
In the podcast's fourth episode, we speak with Afghan-Australian lawyer and the brand new CEO of Media Diversity Australia, Mariam Veiszadeh.
Mariam was born in Afghanistan and she came to Australia in 1990 with her family as a refugee. She talks about what her vision to diversity Australia's journalism sector is, when does she feel seen, and whatever shall happen to the many international students who come to Australia to study media but are not qualified to apply for any internships or cadetships - much like our host, Dilpreet.
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12/02/21 • 33 min

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Roots with South Asian Today - Roots with Mariam: Media diversity in Australia is long overdue

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Dilpreet Kaur00:00:01.530

Hello, and welcome back to Roots with South Asian Today. It's December already, like I have no idea where this year has gone. It's almost like Weren't we literally sharing memes about what a shit show 2020 is, and suddenly it's the end of 2021. And even though I have a hard time looking back, you know, trying to figure out timelines, what happened when we still have done some good shit this year. We have published more stories about caste, we