Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode. Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work https://lnk.to/p2NSuH (HERE)
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And now to another episode of my Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project - bringing the great characters and sounds of Australia’s bush to you. This episode coincides with and helps commemorate Vietnam Veterans’ Day in Australia, this year marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan - one of the major military engagements in Australia’s wartime history. In the tiny town of…
And now to another episode of my special Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project - bringing the great characters and sounds of Australia’s bush to you. The Charleville base for the Royal Flying Doctors Service serves a vast and isolated population in one of the most remote areas of Australia, covering an area more than 622,000 square kilometres, which is almost the size of the United…
And now to another episode of my special Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project - bringing the great characters and sounds of Australia’s bush to you. In all my years of reporting from outback Australia, one organisation has stood out to me from all others in all my travels, for having the respect and appreciation of everyone in the bush. And that’s the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The…
And now to another episode of my special Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project - bringing the great characters and sounds of Australia’s bush to you. 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…
And now to another episode of my special Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project - bringing the great characters and sounds of Australia’s bush to you. Today we meet renowned Barcaldine artist, cultural champion and Indigenous advocate Suzanne Thompson. Suzanne was awarded a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering last year, in recognition of her…
And now to the second episode of the special Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project. 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. But that’s part of the joy and challenge of the job for…
And now to the first episode of the special Streets of Your Town series - The Outback Project. Fittingly I recorded this intro at the beautiful outback town of Barcaldine - hopefully you can hear those sounds of birds, outback winds, and road train trucks in the background as I gather everything into Mildred the cantankerous kombi for today’s travels. But firstly for this launch episode - we head…
It’s a dilemma faced by many people - where to go for justice when all your legal avenues are exhausted - mainly because of your financial situation. In Australia, there is a broad grassroots social movement that responds to this enduring problem - out of the belief that the legal system is inaccessible to many people, and that too often it operates without challenge or scrutiny. Caxton Community…
It’s not often we celebrate a world first feat of engineering that underpins the society surrounding it. But today on Streets of Your Town, we pay tribute to a technological triumph built four decades ago at the Gold Coast, and still going strong today, which is now being recognised as one of the most important developments in the region’s history. Before the Gold Coast Seaway was built, the…
Acclaimed Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins has brought a beautiful insight into an ancient story from her people to the Museum of Brisbane. The artist-in-residence from Minjerribah/Stradbroke Island continues to evolve her arts practice, and this time has reimagined the Museum of Brisbane’s creative space into an interactive and immersive realm exploring the ancestral story of…
