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Now that we've said sorry, what do we do with the heritage? Do we demolish and move on, or do we commemorate so we can move on?Meet Phylis Read.Phylis spent her childhood as an 'inmate' at Ballarat Orphanage. She has dedicated her life to making sure the abuse she and many other children endured is not lost within the bureaucratic debates about significance.  She wanted to tell us why she felt so strongly that the buildings of the former Ballarat orphanage site- a place where children were abused, tortured, raped and enslaved should be saved from development and made into a museum or memorial. We travelled to outback South Australia in June 2018, where she lived with her daughter and her house birds to listen to her perspective.   In the absence of a site to remember what can people do? Be a part of the remembering. Help us build a memorial. Send images of your favourite plants to aussiesarcup@gmail.comThis episode is part one of a four-part series. This project is funded by Public Records Office Victoria. With very special thanks to Nicky Stott from 3CR and Christian Bianco at Terra Firma sound.

Welcome of episode #2. Art as heritage activism. Meet Erin.Erin lives in Ballarat and makes films. She wants audiences to listen and to empathise with the people who's stories she documents. When it comes to saving Ballarat orphanage, Erin wants us to stop the bureaucratic bullshit, and listen to those for whom this hell hole was home. Erin agreed to chat with us over coffee, on a windy winter's day, in Ballarat. DO SOMETHING! Be a part of the remembering. Help us build a memorial. Send images of your favourite plants to aussiesarcup@gmail.comThis episode is part two of a four-part series. This project is funded by Public Records Office Victoria. With very special thanks to Christian Bianco at Terra Firma sound.

It's early April, 2020 and we are stuck at home doing the Covid-19 lockdown thing. And then it dawns on us - there are people stuck here, in Australia, with bills, rent and all kinds of fees to pay, but no job, no government support, no family, no way to get home and not much to go home to.Meet Raffy - student, bartender, future Australian. She'll respond to calls from our Prime Minister for temporary visa holders to 'go home' and explain why its just not that easy. So, this episode we arc up about our Australian hospitality. Just a few weeks ago, these young 'global citizens' were our cash cows in a globalised economy. Now, it seems being a local is the difference between security and falling through the cracks.