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The Feed: Feb 22 – 25

Next week on The Feed, K-Pop stardom, Indigenous health care and fringe US politics.

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Next week on The Feed, K-Pop stardom, Indigenous health care and fringe US politics.

Monday 22 February

Prince Mak and the Price of K-Pop Stardom
Henry Mak was your typical Australian-born Chinese kid from the western suburbs of Sydney until one day he literally ran away to China. He was cherry picked by Jackie Chan no less to become part of a Pan-Asian Korean Pop group JJCC. With them he’s hit staggering heights including a number one single in China – but it’s come at an incredible cost.

Marc Fennell takes him back to his teenage dance class where he candidly opens up about the exacting standard of Korean beauty, the staggering working conditions K-pop starlets are put through and the pain of being away from his family for four years. Was the price of fame too high?

Tuesday 23 February

Meet the Hensioners
Aubrey Lavis is in his 80s and he has a new female in his life, Priscilla. “She’s real cunning, you know. If she can get away with something she’ll try. But she just loves being in her basket.”

Aubrey and Priscilla met at the aged care facility where they both live. So what’s so different about this friendship? Priscilla is a chicken. In a bid to curb the rise of depression among the elderly, one aged care provider is currently trialing a chicken keeping program.

In Australia, over 52 per cent of residents in aged care show signs of depression. Henpower is already showing great results. “It’s brought a lot more life and a lot more laughing and a lot more opportunities to joke and to tease each other.”

Wednesday 24 February

Following in Fred’s footsteps
Forty years ago Sydney eye doctor Fred Hollows made a ground breaking journey that would change the lives of thousands of indigenous Australians and shine a spotlight on the appalling state of Indigenous health and disadvantage in Australia. Fred and his team treated thousands of people and saved the sight of many Indigenous Australians suffering from trachoma, an eye disease usually only found in third world countries.

Now four decades on, his wife Gabi along with a group of health workers are remaking part of the journey from Sydney to Bourke to reflect on Fred’s legacy and also highlight the health challenges still faced by Indigenous Australians.

Dr Kris Rallah-Baker was not even born when Fred Hollows’ team made the journey back in 1976 but he is following Fred Hollow’s footsteps both on this journey and in his daily life. He is on the cusp of becoming the first Indigenous ophthalmologist in Australia.

Thursday 25 February

The President Eternal
Marc Fennell is on the US Campaign Trail with the leading and controversial nominee for the American Transhumanist Party.

While most US candidates have confined themselves to platforms involving tax, healthcare and blaming Mexicans for everything, Zoltan Istvan is the only party that is selling a future without death. He wants to drastically overhaul the US with a focus on cryogenics, robotics and uploading our brains into computers. He sounds crazy but, well, isn’t nearly as much as you think he is.

Monday – Thursday at 7:30pm, on SBS 2.

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