Job vacancy: Office Manager, ANTaR Qld
Commencing: Feb 2010
ANTaR Qld is a people’s movement, committed to the rights of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to determine their own future. Education and advocacy are central to our work. We organise events, forums, lobbying, petitions and specific campaigns such as the Stolen Wages and the Close the Gap Indigenous Health Campaigns. We seek a part time Office Manager to manage the smooth day-to-day running of our office and provide administrative support for our Management Committee and campaign staff. This includes maintenance of our database and email lists. There are a small number of administrative and campaign volunteers whom the Office Manager will coordinate and support.
This position will suit you if you have good interpersonal skills and excellent office skills. You need to be self-directed and have organisational skills, be able to use your initiative, problem solve and have a commitment to social justice. You also need high levels of integrity and confidentiality and an ability to work in a small team environment.
Salary: SACS Level 4.
Part-time: Two five hour days per week with some additional hours offered for busy times.
Contract end: 17th December 2010
Contact ANTaR Qld office@antarqld.org.au for the job description and selection criteria.
Applications addressing selection criteria and the names of two referees must be received by 5pm, Wednesday 13th January 2010.
Short listed applicants will be contacted within one week for interviews.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Switch 1197AM
Switch 1197AM, a community radio station based on Edward St in Brisbane, is looking for people to write and eventually present the news and weather in the mornings.
The bulletins are recorded the night before and people would need to contribute by writing two sixty word stories by 9.30pm three times a week.
The station is a dance radio station, similar to Radio Metro on the Gold Coast so the news needs to be targeted at a youth audience.
Any applicants can contact me, Sarah McAlpine, at sarah@switch1197.com for a start in January.
You can check the station out and stream live at http://www.facebook.com/l/4256a;www.switch1197am.com/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,125/
The bulletins are recorded the night before and people would need to contribute by writing two sixty word stories by 9.30pm three times a week.
The station is a dance radio station, similar to Radio Metro on the Gold Coast so the news needs to be targeted at a youth audience.
Any applicants can contact me, Sarah McAlpine, at sarah@switch1197.com for a start in January.
You can check the station out and stream live at http://www.facebook.com/l/4256a;www.switch1197am.com/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,125/
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Students Interested in being part of Contribute Issue # 3
Contribute Magazine is a United Nations Student Association's (UNSA) publication, focusing on international issues and events.
The next edition - "The Road Ahead" - will be released on the University of Queensland's in Semester 1, 2010.
Contribute aims to create a lively and open forum in which debate on international affairs, foreign policy, human rights, economics, and the environment can flourish. By providing the space for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and the odd practitioner, Contribute stimulate discussion and raise the profile of international issues amongst the student community.
We are looking for any students with skills, experience or the desire to contribute to the next issue through marketing, production and design over the Summer 2009/2010 period. If you would like to take this opportunity to become directly involved in an exciting student publication, please send your expression of interest to: Contribute.Advertising@gmail.com by December 20th 2009.
And remember: everyone has something to Contribute!
The next edition - "The Road Ahead" - will be released on the University of Queensland's in Semester 1, 2010.
Contribute aims to create a lively and open forum in which debate on international affairs, foreign policy, human rights, economics, and the environment can flourish. By providing the space for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and the odd practitioner, Contribute stimulate discussion and raise the profile of international issues amongst the student community.
We are looking for any students with skills, experience or the desire to contribute to the next issue through marketing, production and design over the Summer 2009/2010 period. If you would like to take this opportunity to become directly involved in an exciting student publication, please send your expression of interest to: Contribute.Advertising@gmail.com by December 20th 2009.
And remember: everyone has something to Contribute!
A climate for change
Can we reach the agreement we need for a safe climate?
If the world's governments listen to the world's people: Yes.
If you want to know what is happening now & what you can do, visit: http://www.aclimateforchange.org
For live coverage: http://live.tcktcktck.org/
If the world's governments listen to the world's people: Yes.
If you want to know what is happening now & what you can do, visit: http://www.aclimateforchange.org
For live coverage: http://live.tcktcktck.org/
Making change, giving change
2009 has been a year of phenomenal storytelling in film and in theatre, a year of artists telling stories that create change in our world. Consider two films, in particular, that illustrate how the lowest circumstances can give rise to the highest achievements and how we are all lifted when a single person is helped.
You're probably aware of Lee Daniels' Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, which began its journey at the '09 Sundance Film Festival and has now touched audiences around the world. Precious is the unbelievable true story of an impoverished and abused teenage girl who finds hope through an alternative school that changes her life forever. It's a must-see and is in theatres now.
In the documentary realm, Garbage Dreams profiles a Cairo recycling organization that utilizes proceeds from recycling to fund programs benefiting Egyptian youth. Made by first-time Egyptian-American director Mai Iskander, the film received a 2007 Sundance Documentary Fund Production/Post-Production Grant for $30,000. Seeing Garbage Dreams inspired The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to give $1 million to support the work of The Spirit of Youth Association, the organization highlighted in the film.
Consider the power of these stories. These Sundance Institute supported films demonstrate that individual artists can inspire audiences to think -- and act -- differently. You too can make a difference in the upcoming year by supporting the Institute's work to advance independent artists and share their stories with the world.
Any contribution helps our artists. And, if you make a gift of $75 or more before December 31, we will send you a DVD of Garbage Dreams in thanks for your support and in hopes that you'll share this groundbreaking story with others.
YES, I WILL MAKE A GIFT IN SUPPORT OF INDEPENDENT STORYTELLERS AROUND THE WORLD.
Warm regards,
Cara Mertes
Director
Documentary Film Program
Sundance Institute
P.S. Are you or anyone you know attending the 2010 Sundance Film Festival? Please consider joining the Patron Circle. There's still time to sign up and receive VIP access to the Festival. To join, please contact Jamie Lattman in the Patron Circle Office at 310-492-2327 or jamie_lattman@sundance.org. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Facebook privacy changes and more...
APN restructure puts ad man in charge of “content”
According to a memo from APN Australian publishing boss Martin Simons circulated this week, there have been changes at the top of APN. Stephen Tait, formerly a senior ad executive at News Ltd before joining APN this year, has been put in charge of, as the memo puts it: “Commercial and Content (editorial) teams”.
Summer subbing
The NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union is seeking a sub-editor for a book which will be published early next year (600 pages/140,000 words). For more information contact Alison Ornbo on 02 9218 3444 or email office@fbeu.net
Facebook in privacy stoush
New privacy “controls” introduced by Facebook this week create a default position that will allow their users' content to be viewed by anyone with an internet connection. Read the story, then check your privacy controls: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/facebook-privacy/
How tabloid news does look
And for those of us who like to get our news on dead trees, here's a tongue-in-cheek advert for The Sun. People already are paying for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMnmTFxAjA&feature=player_embedded#at=12
This is fun, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1QwExp0_g&feature=response_watch
Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
According to a memo from APN Australian publishing boss Martin Simons circulated this week, there have been changes at the top of APN. Stephen Tait, formerly a senior ad executive at News Ltd before joining APN this year, has been put in charge of, as the memo puts it: “Commercial and Content (editorial) teams”.
Summer subbing
The NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union is seeking a sub-editor for a book which will be published early next year (600 pages/140,000 words). For more information contact Alison Ornbo on 02 9218 3444 or email office@fbeu.net
Facebook in privacy stoush
New privacy “controls” introduced by Facebook this week create a default position that will allow their users' content to be viewed by anyone with an internet connection. Read the story, then check your privacy controls: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/facebook-privacy/
How tabloid news does look
And for those of us who like to get our news on dead trees, here's a tongue-in-cheek advert for The Sun. People already are paying for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMnmTFxAjA&feature=player_embedded#at=12
This is fun, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1QwExp0_g&feature=response_watch
Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Walk Against Warming, Festival & Concert
Join the GLOBAL DAY for a SAFE CLIMATE on Saturday, 12 December at one of thousands of concerts, walks and other events around the world - call for a fair & effective UN climate agreement, and for everyone to do what they can to help us reach a safe climate.
Brisbane will be one of the first cities to appear in the global news day, giving you a place of importance in the chain of events on December 12.
Following speakers and the walk over beautiful Kurilpa bridge, there will be a concert and festival in King George Square with artists, musicians and speakers, and a festival of foods, sustainable living, and displays from climate groups.
Join in, learn, enjoy, and contribute to a safe climate future!
Everyone is invited to visit the displays for CCNQ - Community Climate Network QLD, Oxfam Australia and Make Poverty History – and join us to walk together with Pacific Island communities.
Brisbane will be one of the first cities to appear in the global news day, giving you a place of importance in the chain of events on December 12.
Following speakers and the walk over beautiful Kurilpa bridge, there will be a concert and festival in King George Square with artists, musicians and speakers, and a festival of foods, sustainable living, and displays from climate groups.
Join in, learn, enjoy, and contribute to a safe climate future!
Everyone is invited to visit the displays for CCNQ - Community Climate Network QLD, Oxfam Australia and Make Poverty History – and join us to walk together with Pacific Island communities.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Global Conscience Initiative Cameroon
GLOBAL CONSCIENCE INITIATIVE CAMEROON – APPEAL FOR JOURNALISM PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS FOR PENPAL PROGRAM
The Global Conscience Initiative is a grassroots NGO working to establish a human rights framework in Cameroon, West Africa. One aspect of GCI is the Media Watch Project, which aims at ironing out human rights abuses in the media, government censorship, and the hegemonic styles of press that restrict truthful reporting.
The Media Watch Project has had many successes in its short lifetime, undertaking interviews with regional journalists, submitting press releases, running a radio program, and collating their data into accessible research to be used as secondary for larger international humanitarian media groups.
I am an Australian working in the Buea office in the Anglophone region of Cameroon. One of the new aims of the project is to establish contact between practicing human rights journalists in Australia and the UK, with those working here in the Anglophone region.
I ask you to forward this email to any journalists who would be interested in this quasi-penpal system. If you are a practicing journalists, or a postgraduate journalism student I ask you to get involved in this initiative.
For those interested, I will forward a guide of expectations and put you in contact with a local English speaking journalist. If you have a specific interest (eg. Development journalism, women’s issues) then I can try to arrange a corresponding local journalist in this area. We then establish an email exchange of articles and stories for editing. This process of constructive criticism will be especially useful for reporting difficult subjects such as torture, rape and corruption.
We hope to be of assistance for the style and practice of journalism in this region, helping to bring a more objective international method to the press. I again ask you to forward this email to your contacts, or if you have any more questions please don’t hesitate to email: fiona.mcalpine@gcicameroon.org
Sincerely,
Fiona McAlpine
Media Watch Project Coordinator
www.gcicameroon.org
The Global Conscience Initiative is a grassroots NGO working to establish a human rights framework in Cameroon, West Africa. One aspect of GCI is the Media Watch Project, which aims at ironing out human rights abuses in the media, government censorship, and the hegemonic styles of press that restrict truthful reporting.
The Media Watch Project has had many successes in its short lifetime, undertaking interviews with regional journalists, submitting press releases, running a radio program, and collating their data into accessible research to be used as secondary for larger international humanitarian media groups.
I am an Australian working in the Buea office in the Anglophone region of Cameroon. One of the new aims of the project is to establish contact between practicing human rights journalists in Australia and the UK, with those working here in the Anglophone region.
I ask you to forward this email to any journalists who would be interested in this quasi-penpal system. If you are a practicing journalists, or a postgraduate journalism student I ask you to get involved in this initiative.
For those interested, I will forward a guide of expectations and put you in contact with a local English speaking journalist. If you have a specific interest (eg. Development journalism, women’s issues) then I can try to arrange a corresponding local journalist in this area. We then establish an email exchange of articles and stories for editing. This process of constructive criticism will be especially useful for reporting difficult subjects such as torture, rape and corruption.
We hope to be of assistance for the style and practice of journalism in this region, helping to bring a more objective international method to the press. I again ask you to forward this email to your contacts, or if you have any more questions please don’t hesitate to email: fiona.mcalpine@gcicameroon.org
Sincerely,
Fiona McAlpine
Media Watch Project Coordinator
www.gcicameroon.org
Justice for murdered journalist and more...
Mission supports Filipino journalists: Alliance federal president Ruth Pollard is leading an International Federation of Journalists mission to the Philippines to provide solidarity and support to families of at least 30 journalists killed in a massacre in Mindinao province last week. The mission will also call on the Arroyo government to properly investigate the atrocity and bring the perpetrators to justice. A global day of solidarity will be held on December 9. You may donate through the Alliance Safety and Solidarity Fund - BSB: 944300 A/C: 012146838. Send your message of solidarity and sympathy via our guestbook at http://www.alliance.org.au/option,com_jambook/Itemid,148/
Justice for murdered journalist: The Alliance has written to Federal Attorney-General, Robert McClelland requesting the referral of ABC cameraman Paul Moran’s murder to the AFP for further investigation, with the possible aim of extraditing the man responsible to Australia to face war crimes charges. The mastermind of Moran’s death in a suicide bombing in Iraq in March 2003 is widely recognised as Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, currently Oslo resident and noted as a key lieutenant of UN-listed terrorist organisation Ansar al-Islam.
Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
Justice for murdered journalist: The Alliance has written to Federal Attorney-General, Robert McClelland requesting the referral of ABC cameraman Paul Moran’s murder to the AFP for further investigation, with the possible aim of extraditing the man responsible to Australia to face war crimes charges. The mastermind of Moran’s death in a suicide bombing in Iraq in March 2003 is widely recognised as Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, better known as Mullah Krekar, currently Oslo resident and noted as a key lieutenant of UN-listed terrorist organisation Ansar al-Islam.
Courtesy of Australia's Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
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