Radio Award: The Place You Cannot Imagine: Radio Eye, ABC Radio National
The Place You Cannot Imagine: A Family and Detention in Australia, Radio Eye, ABC Radio National - Lea Redfern and Phillip Ulman
About this winner
- Year: 2003
- Level: Winner
- Award category: Media award
About the 2003 nomination
The Place You Cannot Imagine: A Family and Detention in Australia, Radio Eye, ABC Radio National - Lea Redfern and Phillip Ulman
The Place You Cannot Imagine: A Family and Detention in Australia is an evocative and hauntingly produced piece of radio. It follows the story of Gyzele Osmani, an Albanian woman who fled Kosovo in 1999 with her husband and five young children. They came to Australia but were placed in Port Hedland Detention Centre after refusing to return to East Kosovo, which they believed was still unsafe for them.
According to the judges, it is a humanising story that 'avoids the trap of stereotyping by examining the life of this one woman and her family'. It is the story of a mother watching her children grow up behind bars, with little control over their education, safety and health care. The judges were impressed not only with the themes in the story, but also by the quality of the radio craft which was displayed in telling that story.
About the Human Rights Awards
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