Acknowledgement of Country//

Headlines:

• Supreme court ruling on public housing class action

• Gaza updates

• University of Melbourne updates wi-fi terms of use, surveils protestors

• Geelong Council plans to close in-home aged care service

• Myanmar earthquake updates 

We hear a speech by Palestinian activist Mai Saif from the Sunday 23rd March Rally for a Free Palestine, where Mai condemned the Australian government's double-standards that suppress Palestinian voices and prioritise Jewish feelings over Muslim lives. Weekly rallies for Palestine are back every Sunday from 12PM outside the State Library of Victoria.//

We listen to part 2 of Priya's conversation with staff and students from The Pavilion School, a State School based in Naarm's northern suburbs that focuses on flexible education and a supportive environment for students who have been disengaged or excluded from mainstream schooling. Participating in this conversation are students Sarah, Nathaniel and Jannaya, student support worker and former student Stephanie, and Mes, who is also a student support worker and is doing their PhD in education at La Trobe. In the second half of this conversation, we hear about Mes' doctoral research, which has been co-designed with staff and students at The Pavilion School and aims to evaluate the impact of the school's alternative education model. Listen back to part 1 of our conversation here.//

We hear a conversation between Inez and Nigerian-Australian photographer Dr Ayooluwatomiwa ‘Ibukun’ Oloruntoba about his exhibition We Outside, which captures event spaces created by and for young African-Australians in Melbourne. Video and images bring to life the resilience, diversity and richness of the African-Australian community. Ayooluwatomiwa is an analogue photographer based in Melbourne. With an MD/PhD in AI and dermatology from Monash University, his medical interest in the human condition informs his passion for documentary photography, capturing people, events, and cultural narratives. We Outside is running from Friday the 14th of March until Thursday the 17th of August, 10AM-5PM at the Grand Foyer, Community Gallery at Melbourne's Immigration Museum.//

Giulio Ponte, Research Engineer at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide, joins us to discuss the risk to cyclists of selective attention by motorists, and what can be done to improve cyclist safety. Giulio has a degree in mechanical engineering and a graduate diploma in transport and traffic engineering, and has considerable experience in at-scene crash investigation, and vehicle-pedestrian safety assessment. Giulio also has an ongoing involvement in the pedestrian testing program undertaken for the Australasian New Car Assessment Program. Read Giulio and Jamie McKenzie’s article ‘‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road,’ published by The Conversation on April 2nd, here.//