Not What You Think covers the important stuff that doesn’t fit in the news cycle. You know: that low key stuff that isn’t on our radar.

The small, important stuff.

For our fifth season we’re taking a closer look at everyday drones, peace journalism and fashion. None of these are likely to be stories you’ve heard before.

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Season 5

501: Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi)

War in the news is kind of hard to watch. Conflict gets presented like sports — two sides: one wins, one loses. Advocates of peace journalism think that war can be covered better than this. And, by reporting more to us than just a zero-sum game, it can offer ways of dealing with conflict that aren’t just about violence and who’s committing it.

Zainab Abdul-Nabi is a former journalist who’s especially interested in using peace journalism to look at Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Bahrain pro-democracy uprising in 2011, during the “Arab Spring”. 

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Links from this episode:

Zainab’s article looking at Bahrain’s uprising through the lens of Peace Journalism.

Jay Rosen’s original piece on how some journalists seem to want to become political insiders. (No relation.)

If want to know even more about peace journalism, the Peace Talks Radio podcast has a deeper dive.

502: Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson)

There are exciting drones and there are definitely scary drones. But drones have quieter things going on as well. They’re already at work doing ordinary stuff: working in agriculture, in infrastructure, filming the news.

Peter Robinson is a journalist at the ABC, and has been working on pioneering some of those moves for the organisation.

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Links from this episode:

CASA’s Can I Fly There? app.

Four Corners’ water theft story, with its drone-shot footage.

The drone battery fire on board a plane at Melbourne airport.

New York Mag writer Benjamin Wallace Wells described a drone as something that can move you “back and forth between the intimate and the vast.”

Wanna buy a drone now? The Wirecutter has a guide to buying a cheapish one.

503: Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen)

Just because you don’t see people like yourself up on stage in international fashion shows doesn’t mean you don’t want good fashion of your own. There are great designers making clothes that include Fijian design, hijabs or Vietnamese fabric. And all of those just in Sydney’s western suburbs.

Filmmaker Thuy Ngyuen made the documentary Against the Grain about the Western Sydney Fashion Festival. She also helped make the Festival happen in the first place.

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Links from this episode:

Keep up to date with the Western Sydney Fashion Festival

See some of the designers we were talking about in Thuy’s short doco about the Festival, A