Myanmar and the Media

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Australian journalist Liam Cochrane, a former foreign correspondent for the ABC, who has traveled the Asia-Pacific region filing for television, radio, and digital platforms. As a specialist VJ – a solo video journalist – he has held ABC postings in Thailand and covered Myanmar extensively.Cochrane currently lectures at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He spoke with Luke Hunt about colleagues who have been detained by the military junta in Myanmar.Listen here..

A Podcast with Lindsay Murdoch AOM

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Australian correspondent Lindsay Murdoch has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to journalism after spending most of his five decades in journalism covering upheavals across Southeast Asia.Murdoch began his career working on the Warragul Guardian in southeast Australia in 1968 and joined The Age in Melbourne in 1977 as a police reporter. Starting from the mid-1980s, spent he spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent throughout Asia for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Murdoch is also a veteran of the wars in Iraq, was among the first journalists to reach Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, and covered the carnage in East Timor in....

Out of Afghanistan, a podcast with Lynne O'Donnell

Published on Jun 15, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Veteran Australian war correspondent Lynne O’Donnell has returned to Afghanistan to cover the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces, two decades after the troubled country was invaded following the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. The Taliban and the government of Ashraf Ghani are positioning themselves for renewed struggle, and O’Donnell says Afghans are worried about their future amid a sharply reduced U.S. military presence. Between 2009 and 2017, O’Donnell was bureau chief in Kabul for The Associated Press and the French news agency AFP. She now writes for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, Tortoise Media, and the South China Morning Post. She holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London, where she is....

Mafia and War in Myanmar

Published on Jun 2, 2021 by Luke Hunt

 a podcast with Australia-based security-risk consultant Ross Milosevic who has worked across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for almost three decades but his focus has often remained on Myanmar, which has been torn apart by the February 1 military coup.The bloody protests that followed have pushed Myanmar to the brink of nationwide civil war, with the many ethnic insurgents and ousted politicians rallying against the generals through the establishment of the National Unity Government and the People’s Defense Force.Those military leaders – Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win, Brigadier General Than Oo and Brigadier General Aung Aung – also head the list of those most wanted by United Nations-backed investigators for the ethnic cleansing of more than....

Mud Between Your Toes, a podcast with Peter Wood

Published on Jun 2, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Peter Wood, the author and producer of the Mud Between Your Toes podcasts, interviews Luke Hunt, author of the Punji Trap. They discuss their work and surviving frontlines. Listen here. .