DEAD AIR #97

Language shift, maintenance and death

‘Lost for words: fears of ‘catastrophic’ language loss due to rising seas’ - The Guardian.

‘Saving Indigenous languages from extinction’ – ABC News.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies - AIATSIS

‘Why "Death Acceptance" instead of "Death Positivity"?’ – Taboo Education.

The Bottom Drawer Book – CALL OUT for bad (& good) experiences. DM or email: Lisa@thebottomdrawerbook.com.au

Artist Anne Paulson IWD celebration at Castlemaine Cemetery, memorial to be unveiled by Maree Edwards MP Friday 8 March 2024, 9:15am.

The Order of the Good Death Fellowship – due 13 March.

The Australian Death Studies Society Prizes - Student Paper Prize / Published Paper Prize / Creative Work Prize. Email: info@deathstudies.org - due 31st March.

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday 12pm Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine. Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic  

TRACKS: The Psychedelic Aliens - Blofonyobi Wo Atale / Alpay - Daglar Engel Oldu / Gareth Skinner – Amateur Hour

DEAD AIR #86

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. Located at 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.

Five dead, seven injured after car ploughs into Daylesford beer garden - The Age

‘Surviving Traumatic Grief When Loved Ones Die in a Disaster’ FREE book by people who have survived traumatic grief.

‘A dinner party for dead guests serves up surprising connections’ - The Guardian

Lifting the Lid Festival - An international, online festival that lifts the lid on everything death & dying. Fri, 17 Nov - Mon, 20 Nov 2023 BOOK HERE

Instagram @spookeats, Cemetery symbolism call out for an upcoming book, looking for sybmols – Hammer, Key, Lotus, Wheel.

TRACKS: Paul Kidney Experience – Rhyxali / Buddhadatta – Mara’s Attack / DEAD – Beasts / Brain Ticket – Places of Light

DEAD AIR #66

Volunteer Week Australia 15-21 May 2023 - Why I am a volunteer presenter at MainFM and a bit about my work :)

‘Burst of brain activity during dying could explain life passing before your eyes. New study hints at how consciousness can continue after the heart stops.’ By Sara Reardon.

‘Washing and dressing our dead: The movement challenging how we grieve.’ By Sophie Aubrey.

Diego Ramirez ‘Vampires of The Earth’ exhibition - MARS Gallery, 7 James Street, Windsor, 27 April – 20 May.

Maldon Goldfields Gothic Ghost Tours – Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas, 4-5 Aug 2023, 6.30pm & 8pm, 1.5 hour long tours.

SOLD! - A historic country chapel and cemetery, Lawitta TAS

TRACKS: The Whispering Cup - Linda Smith, Nancy Andrews / Si ma chanson pouvait – Valerie Lagrange / R die glatze – Klaus Beyer / Jumping on the Death Bed – Uma Seedlings

DEAD AIR #62

‘I paid tribute to my nan by singing at her funeral’ SBS News, published 27 March 2023 by Claudia Weiskopf.

‘Human composting is being legalised in some places overseas – should we be considering it Australia?’ Conversation hour, ABC Radio, broadcast 24 March 2023.

‘Why Melbourne's booming west will be home to Victoria's biggest new cemetery in a century’ ABC News, by Margaret Paul, 16 March 2023.

La Corbicyclette (Bicycle hearse) designed by Isabelle Plumereau from Le Ciel & La Terre Funerals, Paris.

‘The Latest In Green Funerals: A Bicycle Hearse’ by Abby Stutsman, 26 Nov. 2022.

CDAS conference schedule announced, 5-7 May 2023.

TRACKS: In Between – K5 / Born in the Heat – CIVIC / Bitch – Future Suck / Polished Rings – The Faculty / To Hell with Poverty – Gang of Four

DEAD AIR #56

‘Packed with Love’ – condolence and memorial seeds, based in Bendigo.

DEDTalks – Sat. 5 August. Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas. Submissions by 17 Feb, 5pm.

NDAN talk – Revisiting Resomation (Alkaline Hydrolysis, Australia & NZ). Saturday 11th February 2023 9AM AEST (Zoom)

Remembrance Parks – Adornment Policy furore Latest News

PETITION: “Save our right to personalise our loved one's final resting place”

‘Families upset about crackdown on grave decorations’ ABC Radio - Jan 19

PROTEST Tuesday Jan 31: Eaglehawk Cemetery.

‘Remembrance Parks Central Victoria under fire for gravesite decoration crackdown’ ABC Central Victoria - Jan 31

‘Eaglehawk Cemetery chair breaks her silence over removal of items from graves’ ABC Radio Central Victoria - Feb 2

‘Remembrance Parks Central Victoria CEO stood down over gravesite decoration removals’ - Feb 3

‘Cemetery agency CEO stood down amid protests over treatment of grave sites’ A Current Affair Channel 9 - Feb 3

TRACK: You’re No Good - ESG

DEAD AIR #54

BOOKS:

‘The Lottery’ Shirley Jackson, 1948 [from ‘Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories’ Penguin Classics, USA 2009]

‘Monster, She Wrote – The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction’ Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson, Quirk Books USA 2019.

PODCASTS:

‘Goodnight Lovelies’ (Memento Mori meditation ) & ‘The Adventures of Memento Mori: A Skeptic's Guide for Learning to Live by Remembering to Die’ - Remember to Die D.S Moss

‘Family forced to put funeral on hold’ - Midland Express 20/01/2023

TRACKS: Boghz – King Woman / Delusion – Stonefield / Sore Afraid - Woorms