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

Roots with Mariam: Media diversity in Australia is long overdue

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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India has the largest Tribal and Indigenous population globally, yet there are only 20 National Open Scholarships for about 110 million Tribal people. Why?
Our third episode is a special interview with social justice scholar Ashok Danavath about the lack of tribal representation in Indian embassies in the west and the institutionalised casteism many Indigenous, Dalit and Tribal students face. Those who screen students, take care of administration, or are responsible for allocating funds are overwhelmingly upper caste. As we know, wherever South Asians go, they pack caste along.
Ashok Danavath is a Tribal graduate scholar currently at the international institute of social studies in the Netherlands. His ongoing research pertains to the marginalisation of Tribal communities in India, and the host for this special episode is Mudit Vyas, a graduate researcher at Monash University. He specialises in the anthropology of creative industries.
They talk about the role of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs of India, how the lack of further support affects students who do get the scholarships, and what happens to the many students who don't.
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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