Wavelength

Welcome back to the first episode of Wavelength for this year! We have a brand new Executive Producer and Host, the beautiful Jamie and Cass debuts hosting for the first time, we also have an entirely new crew. We miss you David and Hamish, but alas new year, new show.   With Fringe and Adelaide’s festival season in full swing, our episode is very on brand, Cass and Alex speak with Libb...

Welcome to wavelength, sparking the convos about Adelaide you should be having. Its our last show of 2021! We have a jam-packed episode this week so get pumped! Our newest recruit Cass talks to the president and leader of Adelaide’s all gay rugby team Cameron , who walks us through inclusivity within team sports, how it all got started and most importantly how to join! We also speak to Tammy...

Following the recent boarder opening in South Australia and Adelaide becoming no longer a Covid free state, David and Hamish digest and discuss what the boarders opening looks like for South Australians. We talk to the CEO of Car Next Door, the future of car sharing as we know it. Car next door are committed to suitability and have the facts to prove it, Cass our new spunky recruit talks to Will D...

  Wavelength this week is missing our beautiful Hamish and Jamie, but don’t worry, David has brought a friend Angela Skujins. We miss you Hamish, but congratulations on your wedding!! We discuss the funeral of the hospitality industry, an eye-catching event that has everyone talking. David speaks to Simone Douglas from the Duke of Brunswick about the spectacle, how South Australian laws...

This week on Wavelength Jamie is gone but David is back! This week we wonder what the bloody hell has been happening in Glasgow this week, world leaders met to discuss the climate crisis, but will anything come from it? We answer your questions about sexual and reproductive health you may be too scared to ask. Jamie has sat down with Amy Moten from Shine SA an organisation that provides sexual hea...

This week on Wavelength, we are missing our beloved David, not to fear Jamie and Hamish have soldiered on.  We discuss what it’s like to find work as someone living with a disability, in 2021s covid impacted the Australian economy. To understand how South Australia fits into this national picture, Cass talks to Carolyn Mounce the director from Job Edge about stigmas regarding people wit...

This week on Wavelength, we discuss if the government should be stepping in to build more social housing for survivors of domestic violence and family violence.  While Hamish gets fired up over a recent COVID conviction. We talk to the South Australian young entrepreneur of the year Luke Timmins , the co-founder of Adelaide Hills lawn and Gardens.  Also, we interview Kate Colvin from the...

This week on Wavelength, we discuss the proposed changes to the legalisation of sex work. The SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens recently weighed in on the topic, stating he would only support the notion if a number of regulations were introduced to stop an ‘insurgence’ or organised crime into the industry. To understand more about this debate, Amila spoke to the general manager of S...

This week’s show for Wavelength is all about dancing, following a huge push from Adelaide’s local Let. Us. Dance ., SA has been relatively COVID free for months- so why can’t we hit the dance floor? We talk to Adam Cope one of the promoters about their petition to get South Australians back on the dance floor. We also interview Late Night Tuff Guy about his set over the weekend a...

  This week, We interview Jemma Finn an Adelaide writer who was left homeless and stranded on the South Australian border after losing her job due to misinformation she received from SA health.  Meanwhile, we give you a rundown on the Melbourne protests and what the potential fallout will be.   Also, on the show we discuss the new nuclear submarines putting Adelaide in the global sp...

This week, we give you a rundown on how the Federal government has promised to pay Paralympians the same amount as their Olympic counterparts for reaching the podium. The Australian Olympic Committee will deliver $20,000 prizes for each athlete who receives a medal after the inequity was pointed out by SBS and sparked calls for change. Also on the show, with roughly 50% of Australians experiencing...

It's a very chatty episode of Wavelength this week, as we discuss South Australia's ongoing mask mandate. With such a high risk from New South Wales and Victoria, we're having to wear masks just about everywhere, including eateries. We chat all things masks and whether we could potentially modify the rules. Also this week, we got a chance to see Hibernation , the latest production from the State T...

In an Orygen survey of 749 AIS-supported athletes, one in five reported they sought treatment for a mental health problem. With a clear need for elite athletes to be supported, what is being done to help them? We speak with rugby player and breakthrough Foundation ambassador Zahn Anthony, as well as Mental Health Commissioner John Mannion about the problems in the system and what more needs to be...

Wavelength is back with a big show! We begin by chatting about the biggest issue currently facing Australia. That's right, it's COVID-19. With multiple states and territories currently in lockdown, authorities are racing to get the population vaccinated. We had a chat with Charlotte, who shifted from Melbourne to just near Byron Bay in NSW, about people's attitudes towards the jabs. We also have a...

While South Australians endured a week of lockdown to keep COVID-19 at bay, our neighbours have not been so lucky. Just recently, Queensland went into a snap lockdown and Melbourne announced the extension of their own lockdown. As all Aussies face this strong sense of deja vu, we can only ask one question - how is this still happening? We talked to Labor MP Steve Georganas about where Australia&rs...

This week, we profile some of the big winners from the 2021 Young Achiever Awards! Winner of the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency Rural Health Award, 21 year-old Tessa Deak from Mount Gambier has been a strong advocate for people living with disability and chronic illness. Hosting a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Night, she’s shared her story to help others understand her circumstanc...

Young people are increasingly taking on new ways to smoke, with many teens and adults familiar with e-cigarettes and vaping. For those aged 18-24, the use of these devices has doubled since 2013. But with it so new to the market, how is being sold to teens and what is it doing to our bodies in the long term? To get to bottom of it, Associate Professor Jonine Jancey from the School of Public Health...

Cryptocurrencies are often touted as the future of finance, but is this actually the case? Whether it’s Bitcoin, Dogecoin, even Ethereum, these forms of currency are often volatile as we’ve seen recently after Elon Musk simply tweeted about his company no longer accepting Bitcoin. So could they actually be the future of payment, and what concerns surround them? Wavelength had a ch...

Currently, there are 430,000 participants in the NDIS. Under a new government proposal, they would be required to undergo a mandatory assessment with government-contracted health professionals rather than providing evidence from their own doctors and specialists. While the scheme would be free of charge, it has received considerable pushback from disability advocates, as well as Labor and the Gree...

With Adelaide dubbed the “cannabis capital” of Australia, it’s clear more and more people are becoming open to the idea of using the drug. But when it comes to medical practice, what kind of benefits can it bring? To understand how cannabis works, we talked to Body Mind Psychic Expo and Australian Hemp & Cannabis Expo Organiser Alex Fragnito. And to see how current laws are i...

Unemployment, It’s a figure that’s constantly on the mind of South Australian’s and in particular young South Australia. Fresh in partnership with the Marshall Liberal Government have launched a new initiative to help kickstart your careers. The online platform, which can be accessed at freshjobs.com.au, is designed to help connect job seekers with services, training and informat...

With events like Black Summer and more recently, the 2021 Eastern Australian floods, it has become impossible to ignore the natural disasters happening in Australia. With two ‘once in a century’ disasters happening only a year apart, are we prepared for what’s to come? In order to understand how the change is climate is contributing to extreme weather, we were joined by Professor...

30 years on since the 1991 report into Indigenous deaths in custody and the preceding Royal Commission looking into the issue, we are still seeing a startlingly high number of these deaths. Since the start of March, we've seen 7 First Nations people pass away in custody. So why is this still happening and what can be done to change it? Tammy Franks  MLC , a Member of the Greens in the SA Parl...

Consent classes have now been made mandatory for students in Victoria after concerns the issue wasn't being adequately and openly addressed in the education system. As a result, there’s been a call on other Australian states and territories to follow the example and teach students about sexual consent. So, should it be implemented to help kids understand what consent means? We talked to advo...

Refugees have never been far from the news over the past few years here in Australia, particularly since the election of the Coalition Federal Government back in 2013. The government has made no apologies for its strategy to stop people seeking asylum by boat, and has often drawn flak for its offshore detention programmes. Here in Adelaide, around 10 men are currently in temporary detention, some...