Thursdays@3 by Palliative Care Australia

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Our conversation today takes us to Cairns to meet, among many other achievements, one of the first Aboriginal doctors in Australia, Dr Mark Wenitong. Press play to join this special Reconciliation Week conversation… Show notes and more info: Learn more about Mark’s research into culturally...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today, we are spending some time with a Queensland based service supporting parents, health professionals, and the wider community through the distress, grief, and confusion that can grow when a baby or child dies. For more than a decade, Precious Wings has been at work with bereaved paren...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today’s conversation centres on the role of carers – the family and friends who lean in to support a loved one living through terminal illness. It’s care that can last years, months, weeks before someone dies – important work that often allows people to be looked after at home and fulfill...

Today our conversation takes us to Western Australia to meet Dr Jonathan Ramachenderan – a GP whose career and work has centred around pain medicine and palliative care, but he also has a particular interest in the wellbeing of those he works with. Click play to join this thoughtful conversation. Show notes and more information: Watch Jonathan’s TED x Talk – HERE Read Jonathan’s blog – HERE PCA Se...

Today’s episode takes us to the US to meet the people behind the Palliative Story Exchange – which will be one of the highlights National Palliative Care Week this May. Alexis Drutchas is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Richard Leiter is palliative care physician, writer, and researcher at the Dana-Farber...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today’s conversation takes us to the UK to meet Professor Brian Dolan, who is one of our keynote speakers at the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference this September in Brisbane. Brian has a 30 plus year career in various nursing, leadership, academic and consulting roles focusing on system r...

Today’s conversation takes us to Tasmania, to meet the cheerleader of a global kindness charity that is at work within our palliative care community Sarah De Jonge, was nominated as Tasmanian of the Year this year for her work as the leader of 1000 Hearts. 1000 Hearts and its community of crafters and sewers around the world make and distribute little love bombs – little felt pocket hearts that ca...

Today we’re off to the centre of Australia, a place as tough and as beautiful as the person we are meeting. Jodie Clarkson is a mum, and a teacher – and she has been living with brain cancer since 2017 – 8 years. When we spoke, Jodie was just about to travel to Gosford in New South Wales to receive radiation therapy. Click play to join the conversation. Jodie has also shared her story as part of o...

Palliative Care Australia and our members are making access to palliative care an election issue! Yep - we are competing with some other big issues for attention, but few issues will touch every family the way access to palliative care does. Jean Kittson, one of Australia's most loved performers shares her family's trauma in trying to access palliative care as a way of raising awareness. Hit play...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today a connection with our friends in South Africa, and a palliative care leader who is having a global impact - Joan Marston. Joan is a nurse and midwife who has worked in hospice and palliative care since 1989 at a local, national and international level. Since 1998, Joan has specialise...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today we are spending some time with Jonathan Muller, and Community Brain Cancer Navigator with the Peace of Mind Foundation, Jonathon has also worked as a palliative care nurse. More information and show notes: Peace of Mind Foundation website - HERE Advocacy on gaps between NDIS and heal...

Today a conversation about the leading cause of death in Australia – heart disease, and work to improve the end-of-life experiences of people with end stage heart disease. Dr Gursharan Singh is a Research Fellow in Palliative Care within the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at the School of Nursing, at Queensland University of Technology. Her work has influenced and changed models of car...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today, we head across the ditch to speak with our friends at Hospice New Zealand, the CEO is Wayne Naylor. Wayne came to the CEO role after a long career in nursing including as a Director of Nursing, a Clinical Nurse Specialist, and a Nurse Lecturer. Show notes and more info: Hospice New...

Welcome to a brand new season of Thursdays@3! A big conversation today, with one of Australia’s biggest and most respected creators. But also, someone who has been pushing health systems, pushing health policy, and pushing our society to confront dying and death for a long time – inspired by the death of his beloved dad Kit Denton in 1997. It’s a passion that in 2016 led him to establish ‘Go Gentl...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. We have had some big conversations in this season, we take that up a notch today with a man who has spent his life advocating for children. Sir Albert Aynsley-Green has over forty years’ experience working with governments and organisations worldwide – being a voice for children. He was th...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. A special episode today looking at the role pharmacists play in our health and wellbeing. Last week our friends at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) launched a new partnership with the ‘Pals’ program – which stands for Pharmacy Addressing Loneliness and Social-isolation. This f...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Today, on the back of Micheal J Fox taking to the stage with Coldplay at Glastonbury recently, we explore life and death with Parkinson’s Disease. Sharing his experience is Victor McConvey, who is the Manager of Health, Clinical and Community Services at Fight Parkinson’s. Victor is one of...

This episode takes us back to Queensland to learn more about music therapy and the role it plays in palliative care. Angela Delaney is a music therapist at the Queensland Children’s Hospital and the National Allied Health Educator with Quality of Care Collaborative Australia (QuoCCA). Click play to meet Ange and learn more and experience a very special performance. Show notes and more info: Angela...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. Our special guest today is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at last year’s National Palliative Care Awards - Dr Geoffrey Mitchell Geoff has been a GP in the Ipswich community in Queensland for almost 40 years, and a busy academic as Emeritus Professor at the University of Queen...

Welcome to Thursdays@3 our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. A real treat today – a face, voice and talent you will be very familiar with, a performer and writer who has occupied treasured space on stage, TV, radio, coffee tables and book shelves – for decades, the one and only Jean Kittson! What you might not realise is that when it comes to aging,...

In May 2024, Palliative Care Australia launched the National Palliative Care Week Lecture - a tradition we’re wanting to grow each year in and around National Palliative Care Week where we invite a distinguished member of the palliative care community to challenge our thinking and our work. We’re off to a strong start in 2024. The demographics of living, dying and caring are evolving rapidly. With...

Welcome to Thursdays@3, our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life – a special edition for National Palliative Care Week with none other than 5-time gold Logie winner Ray Martin! We could spend all day talking about Ray’s 50 years in news and media, but in this episode, we focus on Ray’s latest project – a TV series for SBS that we will see later this yea...

Welcome to another Thursdays@3 episode! Today’s guest joins us from regional Victoria, Vitor Rocha is the Palliative Care Lead with Murray Primary Health Network, base in Bendigo. Vitor is a gay, Brazilian born, overseas trained GP, researcher, and palliative care public health advocate. Among other things his work supports diverse communities with their end-of-life journeys, which most recently i...

Welcome to Thursdays@3, our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. This time we meet the winner of the 2023 award for Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Palliative Care – Kate Munro! Kate is Nurse Manager at Hunter New England Health, centred around Newcastle in NSW. Kate will retire in the coming weeks and opened up about her career which start...

Welcome to Thursdays@3, our regular series of conversations with people living and working at the end of life. This time we go inside one of Australia’s most highly regarded palliative care services – the Concord Centre for Palliative Care in Sydney. Our tour guide is a palliative care specialist at the Centre and PHD candidate at the University of Technology - Dr Jessica Lee. Press play to meet J...