Streets of Your Town

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 Swe...

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. On...

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 fo...

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 civ...

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 s...

Today on Streets of Your Town podcast, we talk to former Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja about her appointment to a top United Nations... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nestled in far north Queensland Wet Tropics rainforest that stretches from the surrounding mountains to the ocean, is the small... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many people will remember Senator Jordon Steele-John crying as he read the names of 34 Australians with disabilities who had died from... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ten years ago, halfway through completing his medical degree, Dinesh Palipana's car crashed, leaving him a quadriplegic. Dinesh lost... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Black Lives Matter movement gathers pace around the world, prompting Australians to reflect on race and discrimination in this... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project podcast features Gerard Ryle, the director of the International Consortium o... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

This fearless multi-Walkley award winning journo has exposed corruption in almost every realm of society, from unions to rugby league,... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The New York Times Australia Bureau Chief Damien Cave has reported from locations around the globe from Mexico to Baghdad, and is... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This renowned journo and multi-award winning author started his career as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin, going on to write for... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It took ten years of research and writing through some of the toughest times in her life, but journo Helen Pitt's determination was... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of The Journo Project podcast features one of the great stalwarts of Australian journalism - Walkley Award winnin... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zoe Daniel is returning to Australia with her family after finishing her four year stint as Washington Bureau Chief for ABC News. In... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This veteran broadcaster is one of the great journo survivors. Sandra Sully's face and honeyed dulcet tones are familiar throughout... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This three-time Walkley award winner is the Anchor of one of the ABC's flagship television programs 7.30, presenting the current... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From starting his reporting career in the working class suburbs of Newcastle, to making his way over to the wild west coast, Tony... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This multi-award winning radio documentary producer specialises in telling taboo stories that most people flinch at, bringing important... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This investigative journo, author and broadcaster has brought stories to light from some of the most remote corners of Australia. From... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Speaker, broadcaster and reporter for Channel 7's Great Day Out program, Karni Liddell, is not only a renowned journo and speaker.... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on Streets of Your Town - The Journo Project podcast we meet someone whose passion for journalism hasn't waned since the reportin... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.