March 18 to 26 March 2017 was Cultural Diversity Week in the state of  Victoria. Chrissie Warren, Education Volunteer Co-ordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, talks about teaching English for refugees and communication across cultures. Education for international students is a Australia's second biggest export earner. Sophie Arkoudis, Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at Melbourne University explains how univesities need work harder to address diverse cultural codes of communication in teaching and learning settings.

For the mind, for the mall: music and communication

This show casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week we mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then consider: what impacts and what consequences?