Radio Yak: Magz Hall

Radio Yaks: A Soundproof series in which eminent producers and sonic luminaries from around the world share audio they’re crazy about, and tell us why. Magz Hall is a sound and radio artist, teacher, and co-founder of Radio Arts. Her work explores the artistic potential of radio and it's use beyond conventional settings. Taking as her point of departure a hypothetical future characterised by vacant airwaves, Magz Hall's work re-imagines radio's utopian potential. For Radio Yak, she chooses five pieces that variously explore psychic life and reflect on conscious and unconscious human experience. Dream Vessels IMAGE: DREAM VESSELS (SUPPLIED: MAGZ HALL) Magz Hall's sound work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the British Museum and the Sainsbury Centre. She is a senior radio lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. She co-runs Radio Arts, an artist led group who promote radio art and the Expanded Radio Research Group. She was awarded a practice-based PhD from Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRISAP) University of the Arts London entitled: Radio After Radio: Redefining Radio Art in the Light of New Media Technology through Expanded Practice. Magz' playlist: Deep Swimmer - Holy Mountain Productions, BBC Radio 4, 2016 Dream Vessels - Magz Hall, radio installation, V&A, 2016 The Stone Tape - Somethin' Else, BBC Radio 4, 2015 AllEco - Louise Harris, Resonance 104.4fm, Borealis Festival Radio Bergan , Radiophrenia CCA Gallery Glasgow, Phonic FM, Wave Farm’s WGXC-FM and via Radio Arts Gallery, 2015 Sex and the Cyborgs - Anna Louise Walter, student winner of Canterbury Christchurch University Kent Creative Radio Award, 201

Negotiating the Contested Terrain of Drug Testing in the Australian Workplace

Alcohol and illicit substance abuse in the workplace is an important human resource and industrial relations issue. Although more sophisticated measures have been developed to test and monitor drug use in the workplace, and despite tacit union support on occupational health and safety grounds, the implementation of drug testing procedures remains contentious. This paper examines the arguments for and against drug testing in the workplace using an Australian case study where drug testing resulted in industrial disputation that led to legal intervention and remedy