# Streets of Your Town: The Journo Project Walkley Award winning journo interviewing Oz's best journos Page: Feed: --- ## [Barcaldine artist and cultural champion Suzanne Thompson](https://soyt.substack.com/p/suzanne-thompson) _2026-08-07 · Nance Haxton_ Barcaldine artist, cultural champion and Indigenous advocate Suzanne Thompson was awarded a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering last year, in recognition of her cultural and scientific knowledge. ## [Morven legend Les Heaydon shears 100 sheep for his 80th birthday](https://soyt.substack.com/p/les-heaydon) _2026-07-27 · Nance Haxton_ Today we meet a true living legend of the Australian shearing industry. Well known Morven local Les Heaydon picked up his first shearers’ handpiece at the age of 14, and just recently shore 100 sheep in one day to celebrate his 80th birthday. ## [Jennie Feldmeier the bush chaplain for one of the most remote regions in the world](https://soyt.substack.com/p/jennie-feldmeier) _2026-07-17 · Nance Haxton_ The vast distances of the outback are daunting and hard to comprehend for many city people. Jennie Feldmeier’s patch dubbed the Cunnamulla-Burke and Wills Remote area, is a ten hour drive from top to bottom, and about eight hours from east to west. ## [Flying Doctor Aidan Fenoglio and his love for working for the RFDS](https://soyt.substack.com/p/aidan-fenoglio-rfds) _2026-07-14 · Nance Haxton_ The Royal Flying Doctors Service in Queensland operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year, doing aeromedical retrievals across the vast expanse of the state, and caring for more than 330,000 Australians each year. ## [Mother Funkers Go Outback and the importance of community legal centres in Caxton's 50th year](https://soyt.substack.com/p/mother-funkers-caxton-legal) _2026-07-07 · Nance Haxton_ The first episode of Streets of Your Town - The Outback Project double feature brings you Mother Funkers Go Outback and the Caxton Community Legal Centre. ## [Gold Coast Seaway celebrating 40 years of world-first infrastructure](https://soyt.substack.com/p/gold-coast-seaway) _2026-06-24 · Nance Haxton_ It’s not often we celebrate a world-first feat of engineering that underpins the society surrounding it, but a technological triumph built four decades ago at the Gold Coast and still going strong today is now being recognised as one of the most important developments in the region’s history. ## [Weaving traditional stories with Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins at the Museum of Brisbane](https://soyt.substack.com/p/weaving-traditional-stories-delvene-cockatoo-collins) _2026-06-08 · Nance Haxton_ Acclaimed Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins has brought a beautiful insight into an ancient story from her people to the Museum of Brisbane. ## [Aboriginal owned and led fashion label Magpie Goose stitching stories one garment at a time](https://soyt.substack.com/p/magpie-goose) _2026-03-17 · Nance Haxton_ The story of proudly Aboriginal owned and led sustainable fashion label Magpie Goose can be summed up in its motto ‘stories you wear’. ## [Kris Mizzi on finding beauty in hardship through songwriting](https://soyt.substack.com/p/kris-mizzi) _2026-03-09 · Nance Haxton_ Kris Mizzi is a troubadour and quintessentially Australian singer songwriter, who knew his calling for musical storytelling from an early age. ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Y8oqRYTNpxu0) _2026-03-09 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Danielle Caruana explores the decay and transformation of love as Mama Kin in album Promises](https://soyt.substack.com/p/danielle-caruana) _2025-12-05 · Nance Haxton_ Danielle Caruana is spellbinding singer and percussionist who taps into the DNA of generations of creatives before her as half of the duo Mama Kin Spender—mesmerising audiences with their firebrand performances and courageous songwriting.