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Streets of Your Town

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From the Wandering Journo at Stories that Matter Studios this is The Streets of Your Town. The podcast that takes you on an audio journey through theatre of the mind highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.


 

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Anita Heiss on First Nations writing

March 31, 2022 23:02 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

This week on Streets of Your Town, we speak to renowned author and proud Wiradjuri woman Dr Anita Heiss, who is a special guest of the 60th Brisbane Writers Festival coming up in May.  It's a pivotal year for Anita, as its ten years since the original edition of her book "Amy I Black Enough For You" was released, and it's also the 60th anniversary of the festival itself. In Brisbane, and many areas around south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, floods have inundated our homes, t...

Daylesford's Chill Out Festival with Mathew Charlesworth

March 07, 2022 02:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

I figured we all need some light and hope in the world right now, so I’m bringing Streets of Your Town to you from Daylesford in regional Victoria, where the Chill Out Festival takes over the town from March 10 to 14. Many of you will know plenty about the party that is Sydney Mardi Gras. What you may not know is that little Daylesford is on the map for its own pride festival, which this year celebrates its 25 year silver jubilee. The town comes alive with a Carnivale, champagne and Chill Ou...

Karen Jacobsen

December 24, 2021 00:26 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB

Karen Jacobsen's voice is familiar to the users of more than a billion devices worldwide, as the voice of Siri. But her movements in the past year are less well known than her voice, which has directed people to their destination through GPS devices around the globe. The pandemic meant she picked up from her home of 20 years in New York, and returned to Australia. She tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast, that she thought this would be a short sojourn. But more than 18 months down the ...

Rhianna Patrick

December 05, 2021 22:12 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB

While many people have heard of the Torres Strait Islands at the northern tip of Australia, not as many know the fascinating history and influence this archipelago paradise has played in Australia's history and future. From the tip of Cape York to the borders of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, the Torres Strait—or now increasingly known as Zenadth Kes—covers an area of more 200 islands over 48 thousand square kilometres. The Queensland Museum is bringing a touch of this beauty and complexit...

Delvene Cockatoo-Collins

October 13, 2021 03:39 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

Today we're going to North Stradbroke Island in the sparkling jewel that is Moreton Bay in Queensland’s south-east. It’s known as "Straddie" to some. But to the Quandamooka Aboriginal people, who have a connection to the island going back more than 20,000 years, it is known it as Minjerribah, meaning “island in the sun”. Delvene Cockatoo-Collins is a First Nations artist based here, like generations of her family before her. Her works are now sold around the world and were featured in her de...

Billy Hoade

September 30, 2021 00:11 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

"Tucked away in the hustle and relentless movement of Cairns’ famous Rusty’s Markets on Sheridan Street, is a local institution.  Billy’s coffee has its own loyal gathering of locals every market day, and behind the coffee machine coordinating the barista symphony is the ever smiling Billy Hoade. He’s been serving up coffee from his beloved Papua New Guinea for more than 15 years, expanding now to running his own roastery. And today, on Streets of Your Town, we’re going to find out from Billy...

Stephen O’Grady

September 03, 2021 01:48 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB

This episode of Streets of Your Town straddles two continents on opposite sides of the world - Ireland and Australia. Where the wild Atlantic ocean whips the rocky cliffs of Ireland’s west coast, the people of the small county of Mayo are contemplating whether they can overcome a hoo doo of 70 years. Is it a Coincidence or a curse? I delve into the mystery of how this county has not won an All Ireland Gaelic Football Final since 1951, despite making it to the finals of arguably Ireland’s most...

Dale Mundraby

August 25, 2021 02:30 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

Across the sparkling Trinity Inlet that separates Cairns from the southern beaches beyond, is a small Indigenous community that’s successfully renewed its sacred country from years of degradation, and is now on the cusp of great success. Mandingalbay Yidinji country straddles two great world heritage areas in far north Queensland, the Wet Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef, stretching out to the Coral Sea. In this episode of Streets of Your Town Executive Director Dale Mundraby tells us stori...

Blackbirding Apology - Streets of Your Town

August 06, 2021 00:48 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MB

This week in Bundaberg, on Queensland’s central Coast, a small but significant ceremony started to turn a long history of exploitation and shame around. And we bring it to you on this episode of Streets of Your Town. Bundaberg Mayor Jack Dempsey, took the step of becoming the first representative of any government in Australia, to say sorry for blackbirding, the practice where more than 62-thousand Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia from the 1860s to the turn of the 20th century. Man...

Scattered People

July 26, 2021 01:07 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MB

This week on Streets of Your Town we feature the extraordinary project, called Scattered People. The documentary was a six year labour of love, following two young Iranian asylum seekers navigating Australia’s immigration detention system, and the unexpected connections they make through music. Musicians such as John Butler, Missy Higgins, Dan Sultan, Archie Roach, Baker Boy, Michael Franti, and Katie Noonan all took part. Scattered People is a heartfelt story about connection and the powe...

Scattered People - Streets of Your Town

July 26, 2021 01:07 - 26 minutes

This week on Streets of Your Town we feature the extraordinary project, called Scattered People. The documentary was a six year labour of love, following two young Iranian asylum seekers navigating Australia’s immigration detention system, and the unexpected connections they make through music. Musicians such as John Butler, Missy Higgins, Dan Sultan, Archie Roach, Baker Boy, Michael Franti, and Katie Noonan all took part. Scattered People is a heartfelt story about connection and the power o...

Dig In for the homeless - Streets of Your Town

July 02, 2021 00:58 - 21 minutes

In efforts to bring you a little lock down cheer and hope in the world, in this episode of Streets of Your Town we’ll meet a group of people who cook home made meals for the homeless, rain, hail, or pandemic shine. "Dig In" hasn’t missed a single service to the people who eagerly await their homely meal, with hundreds of volunteers on the roster to cook every Saturday since it was started by four school mates on October 28th 2017. Come with me on this episode of Streets of Your Town to meet t...

Dig In for the homeless - Streets of Your Town

July 02, 2021 00:58 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB

In efforts to bring you a little lock down cheer and hope in the world, in this episode of Streets of Your Town we’ll meet a group of people who cook home made meals for the homeless, rain, hail, or pandemic shine. "Dig In" hasn’t missed a single service to the people who eagerly await their homely meal, with hundreds of volunteers on the roster to cook every Saturday since it was started by four school mates on October 28th 2017. Come with me on this episode of Streets of Your Town to meet...

Becky Dart - Streets of Your Town

June 14, 2021 21:25 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

It’s a giant grass that many Australians would be familiar with seeing, but not so familiar with eating. When properly prepared, Bamboo is nutrient-rich, and is in fact a staple of many Asian country’s diets. Big Heart Bamboo founder, farmer and entrepreneur Becky Dart is forging a new industry on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast - growing, cooking and preserving bamboo to eat. We walk around her bamboo farm on this episode of Streets of Your Town, and Becky explains how Bamboo is the world’s l...

Becky Dart - Streets of Your Town

June 14, 2021 21:25 - 20 minutes

It’s a giant grass that many Australians would be familiar with seeing, but not so familiar with eating. When properly prepared, Bamboo is nutrient-rich, and is in fact a staple of many Asian country’s diets. Big Heart Bamboo founder, farmer and entrepreneur Becky Dart is forging a new industry on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast - growing, cooking and preserving bamboo to eat. We walk around her bamboo farm on this episode of Streets of Your Town, and Becky explains how Bamboo is the world’s l...

Birrunga Wiradyuri - Streets of Your Town

June 02, 2021 14:47 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MB

As part of Reconciliation Week in Australia, Streets of Your Town speaks to trailblazing Aboriginal entrepreneur and proud Wiradyuri man Birrunga Wiradyuri. His gallery and dining experience in the heart of Brisbane, aptly named Birrunga, has overcome the challenges of COVID to continue as the only Indigenous-owned and operated commercial Cultural hub in Meanjin, otherwise known as the Brisbane CBD. As well as being an accomplished artist of international renown, Birrunga is well known for hi...

Daniel Awiyawi on blackbirding - Streets of Your Town

April 13, 2021 04:07 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

While Australia’s history of blackbirding is becoming more well known and understood, there are many local histories that are only now coming to light. It’s estimated more than 62,000 Melanesians were brought to Australia to work as indentured labour on farms between 1863 and 1904. A garden and gathering place nestled peacefully next to the Caboolture River at North Harbour just north of Brisbane, stands as tribute to the kanakas, or South Sea Islanders, many of whom were brought against the...

Daniel Awiyawi on blackbirding

April 13, 2021 04:07 - 20 minutes

While Australia’s history of blackbirding is becoming more well known and understood, there are many local histories that are only now coming to light. It’s estimated more than 62,000 Melanesians were brought to Australia to work as indentured labour on farms between 1863 and 1904. A garden and gathering place nestled peacefully next to the Caboolture River at North Harbour just north of Brisbane, stands as tribute to the kanakas, or South Sea Islanders, many of whom were brought against thei...

Katie Noonan - Streets of Your Town

April 05, 2021 02:51 - 30 minutes

Australian singer extraordinaire Katie Noonan is refusing to let the Covid-19 pandemic get in the way of her dreams. This incredibly prolific musician has produced 20 albums, and won five Aria’s for her endlessly innovative body of work. Her creativity knows no bounds, from leading the Queensland Music Festival as artistic director, to putting a jazz spin on 80’s classics in her last album The Sweetest Taboo. Now, as Katie tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast, she is giving audiences the...

Katie Noonan

April 05, 2021 02:51 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

Australian singer extraordinaire Katie Noonan is refusing to let the Covid-19 pandemic get in the way of her dreams. This incredibly prolific musician has produced 20 albums, and won five Aria’s for her endlessly innovative body of work. Her creativity knows no bounds, from leading the Queensland Music Festival as artistic director, to putting a jazz spin on 80’s classics in her last album The Sweetest Taboo. Now, as Katie tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast, she is giving audiences the...

Andi Snelling Happy Go Wrong - Streets of Your Town

April 01, 2021 06:04 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB

While I was in Adelaide recently for the city’s world renowned fringe festival, it was wonderful to see the city buzzing again in the aftermath of the Covid-19 devastation on the region’s all important arts sector. All the little theatres were full of innovative creativity and people happily walking through alleyways underneath glittering lights as they made their way from one show to the next. One of these little productions I stumbled upon absolutely blew me away - Happy Go Wrong by Andi Sn...

International Women's Day with Nance Haxton - Streets of Your Town

March 11, 2021 22:52 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

This week we celebrate International Women’s Day around the world, and the achievements of women through the ages. As part of those celebrations I was invited to speak for a group of senior hospital administrators at a celebratory breakfast for International Women’s Day. This year’s theme was Choose to Challenge - so I looked at how that has driven my journalism and inspired my love and respect for the power of audio storytelling. Part of my speech talks about my investigation into a pivotal...

International Women's Day with Nance Haxton

March 11, 2021 22:52 - 17 minutes

This week we celebrate International Women’s Day around the world, and the achievements of women through the ages. As part of those celebrations I was invited to speak for a group of senior hospital administrators at a celebratory breakfast for International Women’s Day. This year’s theme was Choose to Challenge - so I looked at how that has driven my journalism and inspired my love and respect for the power of audio storytelling. Part of my speech talks about my investigation into a pivotal ...

Yoyo Tuki - Streets of Your Town

February 23, 2021 00:32 - 15 minutes

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is the most remote island on earth, more than 3700 kilometres off the coast of Chile.  For many people the main thing they know about Rapa Nui is the hundreds of giant stone statues standing up to 20 metres high, looking out over the island. And while these colossal statues known as Moai are incredible, there is so much more to this remote volcanic island, where the civilisation remained largely untouched by external influence for a thousand years. Yoyo Tuki com...

Yoyo Tuki - Streets of Your Town

February 23, 2021 00:32 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is the most remote island on earth, more than 3700 kilometres off the coast of Chile.  For many people the main thing they know about Rapa Nui is the hundreds of giant stone statues standing up to 20 metres high, looking out over the island. And while these colossal statues known as Moai are incredible, there is so much more to this remote volcanic island, where the civilisation remained largely untouched by external influence for a thousand years. Yoyo Tuki com...

Streets of Your Town - Mel Manley

February 01, 2021 01:55 - 29 minutes

How do you come back from devastating defeat? What do you do to recover when you realise something you believed in, is not anything like what you thought it was? Mel Manley is the owner of The Imperial Hotel at Eumundi, which under her creative guidance has become the main meeting place in this bohemian hamlet in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.  She is also a great believer in giving back, and so supported the establishment of an orphanage and charity in Nepal, in the hope of giving children...

Streets of Your Town - Mel Manley

February 01, 2021 01:55 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

How do you come back from devastating defeat? What do you do to recover when you realise something you believed in, is not anything like what you thought it was? Mel Manley is the owner of The Imperial Hotel at Eumundi, which under her creative guidance has become the main meeting place in this bohemian hamlet in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.  She is also a great believer in giving back, and so supported the establishment of an orphanage and charity in Nepal, in the hope of giving children...

Natasha Stott-Despoja - Streets of Your Town

November 27, 2020 08:31 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

Today on Streets of Your Town podcast, we talk to former Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja about her appointment to a top United Nations role aimed at ending discrimination against women. This interview is brought to you in conjunction with Griffith University's Gender Equity Research Network, as a special co-production to mark the international campaign of 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Natasha Stott-Despoja will begin her four-year term in January as one of 23 independent ex...

Artist Liz Gallie - Streets of Your Town

November 23, 2020 21:28 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MB

Nestled in far north Queensland Wet Tropics rainforest that stretches from the surrounding mountains to the ocean, is the small settlement of Mission Beach. The World Heritage Area is brimming with natural beauty and incredible vistas, looking out to the the Great Barrier Reef and the tropical paradise of Dunk Island in the distance. Conservationist and artist Liz Gallie tells us on his episode of Streets of Your Town podcast how she has made this town her home for decades, and sees it as par...

Senator Jordon Steele-John - Streets of Your Town

September 28, 2020 23:47 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MB

Many people will remember Senator Jordon Steele-John crying as he read the names of 34 Australians with disabilities who had died from abuse and neglect to an almost empty Senate chamber two years ago. It was his stirring words that finally ended an almost decade long fight to bring the Commission into being. But he is now concerned that failures in the legislation supporting that investigation, are putting the entire Commission process at risk. He tells me on this episode of Streets of Your ...

Dinesh Palipana - Streets of Your Town

August 24, 2020 22:50 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

Ten years ago, halfway through completing his medical degree, Dinesh Palipana's car crashed, leaving him a quadriplegic. Dinesh lost all sensory and motor function below his chest, affecting his fingers and half his arm. It took him seven months of recovering in hospital, but he emerged still determined to become a doctor. He went on to complete his medical degree, and now works as a resident at Gold Coast University Hospital in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country. Dinesh'...

Brian Courtice on blackbirding - Streets of Your Town

July 16, 2020 09:01 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB

As the Black Lives Matter movement gathers pace around the world, prompting Australians to reflect on race and discrimination in this country, debate is growing about Australia's legacy of blackbirding. More than 60,000 Pacific Islanders, then known as kanakas, were forced, coerced or deceived into leaving their native lands and shipped to Australia between 1863 to 1904. They worked in often cruel conditions, and were paid a pittance as indentured labourers on farms. Their graves, many unmark...

Gerard Ryle - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

April 30, 2020 06:57 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB

This episode of Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project podcast features Gerard Ryle, the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Before becoming the ICIJ's first non-American director almost ten years ago, Gerard spent more than 20 years working as an investigative reporter and editor in Australia, writing on subjects from politics to financial and medical scandals, and police corruption. He led the worldwide team of journalists working on the Panama Papers a...

Nas Campanella - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

April 21, 2020 01:46 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB

This episode of Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project features Nas Campanella, who is thought to be the only blind newsreader in the world. Nas is a journalist and radio newsreader on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's national network, Triple J, and a proud journo who has wanted to do this job since her teens. She secured a highly sought after ABC cadetship in 2011, spending her first year newsgathering in Sydney before moving to Bega where she began newsreading. Nas lost her sigh...

Kate McClymont - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

April 13, 2020 06:46 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB

This fearless multi-Walkley award winning journo has exposed corruption in almost every realm of society, from unions to rugby league, in health and politics, to behind the scenes of the media itself. Kate McClymont is an investigative journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald. She was awarded the Gold Walkley for her coverage of the Bulldogs salary cap rorts saga, and in 2017, was inducted into the Media Hall of Fame. Kate's latest book, Dead Man Walking, tells the story of the lives and sho...

Damien Cave - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

April 07, 2020 05:59 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB

The New York Times Australia Bureau Chief Damien Cave has reported from locations around the globe from Mexico to Baghdad, and is still getting his head around some of Australia's colloquialisms and quirks. On this episode of the Journo Project, Damien Cave sends a warning about the lack of press freedom in this country, saying Australia is one of the most secretive democracies he has ever reported from. He says that has greater implications now in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. See ...

Matthew Condon - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

February 15, 2020 01:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MB

This renowned journo and multi-award winning author started his career as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin, going on to write for some of the most respected broadsheets in Australia. To many people, Matthew Condon is now more well known as a true crime author, writing a series of books that now make up the definitive history of Queensland's corruption years before the famous Fitzgerald Inquiry. He's also the author of ten fiction books. And yet Matthew still proudly introduces himself, as a...

Helen Pitt - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

January 14, 2020 08:33 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

It took ten years of research and writing through some of the toughest times in her life, but journo Helen Pitt's determination was rewarded. She not only completed her book on the machinations of building the Sydney Opera House, simply called "The House", but her work was also recognised with the 2018 Walkley Book Award. Helen is a senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, and credits the skills she learnt there, with being able to see such a monumental project through to fruition. I...

Chris Reason - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

December 29, 2019 01:07 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MB

This episode of The Journo Project podcast features one of the great stalwarts of Australian journalism - Walkley Award winning television reporter Chris Reason. He has travelled the world telling stories, starting his life in journalism delivering papers for the Redland Times in south-east Queensland's sleepy bayside, going on to become the youngest correspondent in Seven Network's history, when he was posted to London. He's now Seven's Chief Reporter. His television reports are seen all ove...

Zoe Daniel - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

December 20, 2019 02:48 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

Zoe Daniel is returning to Australia with her family after finishing her four year stint as Washington Bureau Chief for ABC News. In that time she has travelled from Alaska to Washington and to 44 states from one side of the United States to the other. But as well as her Washington posting, this brave storyteller has worked on the frontline of some of the world's worst disasters and most protracted conflicts. On this episode of The Journo Project podcast she tells us about the life of a forei...

Sandra Sully - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

December 10, 2019 22:27 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB

This veteran broadcaster is one of the great journo survivors. Sandra Sully's face and honeyed dulcet tones are familiar throughout Australia in her role as Network Ten journalist, presenter and Consulting News Editor for 10 Daily. She's delivered the biggest news around the world ever since she was the first Australian television journalist to cover news of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Sandra tells me on The Journo Project podcast how she continues to be a story leader, as the first w...

Leigh Sales - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

December 03, 2019 03:16 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB

This three-time Walkley award winner is the Anchor of one of the ABC's flagship television programs 7.30, presenting the current affairs show for a decade in one of Australia's most competitive work environments. And in this episode of The Journo Project, she still proudly introduces herself as a journalist first. Leigh Sales has just won the 2019 Walkley Book Award for Any Ordinary Day, with its intertwined stories of people enduring unimaginable tragedy selling more than 100,000 copies in A...

Tony Barrass - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

November 25, 2019 21:44 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MB

From starting his reporting career in the working class suburbs of Newcastle, to making his way over to the wild west coast, Tony Barrass has worked as a journo all around this wide brown land. The longtime newspaper man is now a stalwart of the West Australian media landscape, having won many awards for his writing on a range mastheads and rounds. He was tested far more than many journo's early in his career, when he was jailed for a week for contempt of court for refusing to reveal a source...

Kirsti Melville - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

November 19, 2019 03:30 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

This multi-award winning radio documentary producer specialises in telling taboo stories that most people flinch at, bringing important societal issues out of the shadows. Perth based radio documentary producer Kirsti Melville challenges the traditional assumption that journalists shouldn't mine their own experiences for their stories. On this episode of The Journo Project, she talks about her struggles with bringing to light social justice issues that also expose individual people's pain. He...

Amanda Gearing - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

October 08, 2019 00:21 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB

This investigative journo, author and broadcaster has brought stories to light from some of the most remote corners of Australia. From a range of rural towns around Queensland, Amanda Gearing has covered national news for The Australian, The Times in London, ABC Radio National and Crikey. Amanda tells me on this episode of Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project podcast that it all started from a small office in Mt Isa, where her career began. "I think my model of journalism is probably a l...

Karni Liddell - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

October 01, 2019 02:42 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB

Speaker, broadcaster and reporter for Channel 7's Great Day Out program, Karni Liddell, is not only a renowned journo and speaker. She's also travelled the world competing as a swimmer at the highest level, ultimately as the Captain of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic swimming team. She tells me on The Journo Project podcast, that her greatest hope is that she can soon stop talking about the disability discrimination she sees every day, because it doesn't exist anymore. Her TED talk was watched by...

Dominique Schwartz - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

September 24, 2019 02:59 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB

Today on Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project podcast we meet someone whose passion for journalism hasn't waned since the reporting fire first started in her belly at seven years old. Listen to the amazing Dominique Schwartz tell us about travelling the world as a founding member of ABC's iconic program Foreign Correspondent, being shot at in the Middle East, and now travelling Australia in her role as Rural and Regional Affairs correspondent. She also talks about her concerns for press ...

Angelique Donnellan - Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project

September 17, 2019 05:08 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MB

This tenacious journo was recently recognised as South Australia's Journalist of the Year for the second year in a row, for her relentless investigations. Angelique Johnson believes in the power of gut instinct, and tells me on The Journo Project podcast how she would encourage all journalists to spend time nurturing and developing this undervalued resource, in their quest to uncover stories that matter. Her groundbreaking stories exposed abuse and mismanagement at the Oakden nursing home, s...

Maureen Mopio-Jane - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

September 10, 2019 01:13 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

This brave journo reported from the highlands of Papua New Guinea before women were given the proper credit they deserved for the stories they gathered. Maureen Mopio-Jane has covered some of that country's most difficult stories, from Bougainville, to the horrendous levels of domestic violence that continue to haunt the nation's families. She tells me on this episode of Streets of Your Town-The Journo Project podcast, how crucial radio continues to be in Papua New Guinea, and how from a very...

Peter Ryan - Streets of Your Town The Journo Project

September 03, 2019 11:08 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB

Peter Ryan's expose of the Commonwealth Bank scandal and more than 53-thousand alleged breaches of anti-money laundering and terror financing laws, won him a Walkley Award for the best coverage of a major event or issue. But renowned ABC senior business correspondent Peter Ryan proudly tells The Journo Project, that he doesn't have a business degree, and doesn't need one to keep the big financial players in Australia accountable. Peter Ryan has used the same journalistic rigour for all the ro...

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