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08/02/2011

How Anthony Steel shaped the Australian festival season

Broadcast date: Monday 07 February 2011

08/02/2011

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52 min
25/01/2024

Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance

The hardship, cruelty and loneliness of the mission system during the Great Depression didn't crush Aunty Ruth Hegarty's spirit. She found her voice, God and her family. In 1929 during the Great Depression, Ruth Hegarty travelled with her mother and grandparents to Barambah, later known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission. After being told someone there would help them find a new home, they soon discovered they weren't allowed to leave. At 4 years of age, Ruth was separated from her family. She grew up as a dormitory girl, and was sent out to work as a domestic servant when she turned 14. But the cruelty and loneliness of the mission system didn't crush Ruth's spirit. Ruth found her voice, she found God, and she became a matriarch to five generations of descendants. Content warning: this episode contains discussions about abuse, family violence, and Stolen Generations Further Information Ruth's books Is that you, Ruthie? and Bittersweet Journey are published by University of Queensland Press. Ruth's life story has been adapted into a play written and directed by Leah Purcell. To binge even more great episodes of the ‘Conversations podcast’ with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, singers, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

25/01/2024

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52 min
05/10/2015

Mental Health Week: Jayne Newling

Jayne is a print journalist and mother of three sons.

05/10/2015

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45 min
17/05/2017

A revolutionary idea to stop good food going to waste

When Ronni Kahn realised shocking amounts of good food were going to waste, she had to act (R)

17/05/2017

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50 min
02/07/2024

Finding home on the Tooraweenah Aerodrome

Mark Pitts needed to find peace after a hard life in the rugby and boxing worlds. So he went back to the airstrip that his aviator grandfather made famous when he flew home from England for love, breaking a world record in the process

02/07/2024

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49 min
28/09/2023

Meaghan's connections to family, town and country

Meaghan Katrak Harris with stories from her life as a teenage mother and raising a multicultural family, and her working life as a social worker and an academic

28/09/2023

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26 min
20/04/2009

Megan Axelsen explains her ongoing battle with anorexia

Broadcast date Monday 20th April 2009

20/04/2009

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52 min
28/09/2015

Stephen FitzGerald: Australia's vital relationship with China

Dr Stephen FitzGerald was a Gough Whitlam's China adviser before he was appointed as Ambassador in 1973.

28/09/2015

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49 min
26/10/2018

Anne Summers on taking centre stage

Anne has worked in the midst of power on both sides of the Pacific, as a prominent journalist, policy advisor and magazine editor

26/10/2018

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53 min
15/10/2019

Kumi’s Japanese inheritance

Australian journalist Kumi Taguchi grapples with divided loyalties after the death of her father

15/10/2019

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51 min

To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.