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Join Henry and Russell Hanby for What's Making News. The duo talk about what made news this week in Melbourne, Australia.

This conversation was broadcast on 97.7FM Casey Radio in June 2024. Produced by Rob Kelly.

Henry talks with Dany Elachi, the founder of the Heads Up Alliance, a growing movement of Australian families who are concerned about the harmful effects of social media and smartphones on children. Members of the Heads Up Alliance have made mutual commitments to each other to delay giving their children smartphones and social media accounts until at least the end of Year 8. 

This conversation was broadcast on 97.7FM Casey Radio in June 2024. Produced by Rob Kelly.

Henry interviews Adriano Di Prato, one of Australia’s prominent educational thought leaders and an authority on curriculum learning design and change management, who actively promotes agency, self-determined learning, growth mindset, and holistic wellness of all students.

Di Prato recently became founding partner in a School for tomorrow, a new global educational network supporting students, teachers, and school leaders to thrive in a new world environment. He also launched a new educational podcast series, titled “Game Changers,” which serves those who want to change the game of schooling, featuring prominent Australian and international educators as weekly guests to discuss learning for today’s world. The podcast now has a huge global following, recently ticking more 250,000 listens, across all podcast streaming service platforms.

Di Prato co-authored two continuous learning toolkits that provide school leaders and teachers across the globe with research-driven guidance to best respond to the COVID-19 crisis. These free publications have hit a staggering 20,000 download impressions. Another of Di Prato’s recent achievements was the design and launch of Polaris at Marcellin College, which aimed to equip young people with the foundational knowledge, capability skills, and necessary character attributes to thrive successfully in the next phase of the 21st century.

This conversation was originally broadcast on 3SER's 97.7FM Casey Radio in May 2022. It was produced by Rob Kelly.

Join Henry and Russell Hanby for What's Making News. The duo talk about what made news this week in Melbourne, Australia.

This conversation was broadcast on 97.7FM Casey Radio in June 2024. Produced by Rob Kelly.

Henry talks with Jane Caro, a Walkley Award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator. She spent 35 years as an award winning copywriter and 7 years teaching Advertising Creative in the School of Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. These days she is a full time writer, social commentator, speaker and broadcaster.

Jane has published twelve books, including three novels Just a Girl, Just a Queen and Just Flesh & Blood – a trilogy on Elizabeth Tudor, and a memoir Plain Speaking Jane. She created and edited Unbreakable featuring stories women writers had never told before, which was published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. Her latest book Accidental Feminists about the life story of women over 50 was launched in 2019. She is currently working on a novel.

Jane appears frequently on ABC Radio, The Drum, Sunrise & Weekend Sunrise. She created and presented 5 documentary series for ABC Compass, airing in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She and Catherine Fox present a popular podcast with Podcast One, Austereo Women With Clout. She writes regular columns in Nine Newspapers and her opinion pieces appear regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Big Smoke.

This conversation was originally broadcast on 3SER's 97.7FM Casey Radio in September 2021. It was produced by Rob Kelly.

Henry talks with AFL legend Kevin Sheedy about the most iconic Australian sportspeople of his time, paying tribute to the 28 men and women whose feats have most inspired him during a life in sport.

From Jack Brabham and Evonne Goolagong Cawley to Ash Barty and Cadel Evans, this pantheon of Aussie greats also includes illuminating interviews with John Bertrand, Michelle Payne and Jessica Watson.

An old footy rival gets a guernsey too – with Sheedy honouring Denis Pagan, the former player and coach who reinvented himself as a horse trainer and won the Australian Derby at his first attempt.

In this interview, Henry talks with Kevin Sheedy about his career and new book.

This conversation was originally broadcast on 3SER's 97.7FM Casey Radio in November, 2021. It was produced by Rob Kelly.