Aaron

The inability to access a medium which enables free expression to flow
is only one part of the problem in sharing our thoughts with others. I
firmly believe that access opens itself to people who are determined
to obtain it, and yet so many people misuse that ability or surrender
themselves to lesser dreams once the opportunity presents itself.

That's why the VoiceBox is such a brave, challenging and view-altering
show. Balancing the thin tightrope between the abyss of impossible
universalism and self-absorbed individualism is one of the biggest
obstacles for any meaningful expression, and VoiceBox shows itself
capable of this mammoth task with an amazing 30 minutes each week.

Fuelled by the heartfelt truth of these bright young
Vietnamese-Australian women, an exciting and relevant world of
dialogue is opened up in an unprecedented fashion- a world many people
would have never thought possible.
Conversations of the VoiceBox wonderfully harmonize two streams of
social awareness- that which acknowledges our common humanity, and the
other, often neglected stream in the media, which stresses the
importance of realizing that differences in gender, background and
experience must be understood in order to create a meaningful
self-identity.

The result: proof that such conversation can be both assertive of the
individual view and inclusive of the wider community. With such
pioneer programs leading the way in forging intercultural
understanding, many problems which seemed unlikely to ever be
understood are beginning to take a coherent form. I can think of no
better place for the birth of such realisation then in a public forum
created by those who face the same problems in their everyday lives.

Whilst growing numbers of youth spurn the media and grow more and more
self-involved in an increasingly dangerous fashion, the dreams and
efforts of these young women who have chosen to take a different road
are creating a tangible difference beyond the waves on which they
emerge.

Please show your support and encourage this fresh and positive
approach to the issues which rarely come to air with such a
personalised feel!You managed to talk about a lot of things and remain "on point" and it didnt sound contrived like a lot of these kinds of shows end up feeling. often on community radio it sounds too false, you know, or like its this ideological view or this uneducated kind view or a view thats not really engaging. I think that Vietnamese girls who listen to it would feel a coherent kind of identity emanating from it that seems to have a world-view which make sense, not a monolithic kind of view, you know, of course, cos opinions are different, but at least a way of saying "im a female vietnamese-australian" and seeing that offers a departing and returning point to look at and discuss other issues and affairs. Instead of being a kind of non-issue that's swept under the rug the way a lot of things are treated in the non-committal multiculturalism we seem to have in this country

Aaron