Asian Australian voices amplified

A new podcast takes a deep dive into everyday lives, from the footy fields, to a tofu factory, to the Bendigo dragons.

Shifting Subjects is a new podcast series telling stories from and about Asian Australian life, with each episode a self-contained documentary in itself. ArtsHub reached out to its creator, journalist and radio producer Lisa Divissi, to find out more about this initiative – a partnership between Liminal (an anti-racist literary platform with a focus on the Asian Australian experience) and Broadwave (a curated network of Australian podcasts telling community-driven stories).

‘I’ve had feedback that people were pleasantly surprised to find that Shifting Subjects was not the usual “podcast s**t”, which made me laugh, even though I’m a big podcast listener myself. I think what they meant is that it isn’t formulaic or made to be consumed and forgotten.’

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Thuy On is the former Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian. She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025). Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy