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Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Thérèse Rein
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 28, 2019 20:50 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThérèse Rein is one of Australia's leading entrepreneurs. She founded Ingeus, an international employment and business psychology services company, is the recipient of the human rights medal, a mother of three, and part of the Paralympic family as the daughter of one of Australia’s first Paral...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Father Rod Bower
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 22, 2019 10:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFather Rod Bower is an Anglican Priest at the Archdiocese of Gosford. He gained national notoriety with billboards supporting social justice issues that conflict with the beliefs of more conservative approaches to Christianity. He speaks about what drives him towards activism & what he believes...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Carly Findlay
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 14, 2019 02:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis week is a yarn with one of Australia's most well known disability advocates, Carly Findlay. Carly is a voice that every day encourages a proud identity in disability. I hope you enjoy out chat and find time to check out her book "Say Hello".
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: The Wiggles
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 07, 2019 18:51 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsACDC. Inxs. Silverchair. The Wiggles. Australian music gods, The Wiggles are one of Australia's most loved exports. They came by Newcastle last month so I took my kids along for their show and snuck backstage to see what makes them tick.
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Ruben Centre
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - April 01, 2019 02:47 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday you're going to hear some stories that I recorded while I was in Kenya. I've been to some far off places learning more about disability. Around the world, 66% of people who need a wheelchair to get around don't have one. More than that number can't attend school or university, hampering op...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Bill Shorten
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - March 24, 2019 22:14 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsI've known Bill Shorten for about a decade from his days as Disability Services Minister and a key driver to create the NDIS. This was a great opportunity to share some time with the man who could be our Prime Minister in a couple of months and learn about what keeps him up at night.
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Associate Prof. Kelvin Kong
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - March 16, 2019 04:08 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe've spoken a lot on this podcast about the importance of our First Peoples in our national identity but this the first time I've managed to line up a yarn with an Indigenous Australian! This episode is a chat I had with fellow adopted Novocastrian, Associate Professor Kelvin Kong. He's an Ear...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Maxine Beneba Clarke
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - March 09, 2019 02:09 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat was it like growing up in 1980s Western Sydney as a woman from Afro-Caribbean descent? Award-winning writer and slam poet Maxine Beneba Clarke and I chatted about the point in your life when you realise you might be a little bit different to everyone else. Learn about Maxine's love of words...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Robert de Castella
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 27, 2019 03:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWith what seems to be an everlasting dominance of African athletes in long-distance running events, it's hard to believe that Australia's own Rob de Castella was the world-record holder over the marathon distance in the 1980s. Rob set the world record in 1981 and represented Australia at four O...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Sam Mostyn
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 24, 2019 22:27 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSam Mostyn is a non-executive director and sustainability advisor, with a long history of sports governance. Her current board roles include Mirvac, Transurban and Virgin Australia, and she is the Chair of Citi Australia. She joined the board of the Sydney Swans in 2017, after serving for more t...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Barry O'Farrell
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 17, 2019 18:33 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsBarry O'Farrell is a former politician and was Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) from 2011-2014 having led the NSW Liberal Party to a landslide election victory, ending 16 years of Labor government. Barry and Kurt first met in 2009 in the lead up to Kurt's crawl across the...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Layne Beachley
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - February 10, 2019 20:23 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLayne Beachley AO is regarded as the most successful female surfer in history. Winning seven world championships, including six in a row, Layne helped forge the way for professional women's surfing around the world. In this chat, Kurt and Layne reflect on their sporting careers, the transition i...
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island: Preview
Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island - January 31, 2019 02:13 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsKurt Fearnley's Tiny Island is yarn with some amazing Aussies about their passions, what makes them tick and what it is to be an Australian. Here’s a snippet of what’s to come. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!
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