Kurt Fearnley's Tiny Island

This 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". 

ACDC. 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.

Today 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 opportunity in life. Here's a few yarns with people helping to break that cycle in one of the toughest pla...

I'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. 

We'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, Nose and Throat Surgeon - the FIRST Aboriginal surgeon in Australia in any field. Every day he is helpi...

What 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, winning at the right time and how we can build on the incredible history of our First Peoples to stren...

With 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 Olympic Games, won two Commonwealth Games marathon races and was Australia's first track and field world c...

Sam 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 than a decade as a Commissioner with the Australian Football League - the first woman to ever be appointe...

Barry 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 Kokoda Track, crossing paths many times over the next decade. In this chat, Kurt and Barry talk about t...

Layne 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 into life post-competitive sport and what drives them to succeed in their lives. 

Kurt 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!