From the Wandering Journo at Stories that Matter Studios this is The Streets of Your Town, the podcast that takes you on an audio journey through the theatre of the mind highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode. In episode 3 we take you to the famous beaches of Australia’s Gold Coast.
In this episode of Remarkable Tales, join the 37 Griffith University students who were embedded in the Griffith University Commonwealth Games pop-up newsroom for three weeks.
The Royal Ballet came to Brisbane and Nance was there to review their performance of “Woolf Works” for the international theatre magazine Miro.
From the Wandering Journo at Stories that Matter Studios this is The Streets of Your Town. The podcast that takes you on an audio journey through theatre of the mind highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode. In episode 2 we meet entrepreneur Kathryn Lyons, on a world-wide mission to make toilets accessible for all.
The new Griffith University podcast “Remarkable Tales” will regularly highlight the impact of Griffith University in the wider community. In this episode, listen to the amazing musical creations of Brisbane performer and DJ extraordinaire Busty Beatz who tells us about the show she’s part of called Hot Brown Honey.
This is one of my arts radio stories that was played on ABC Radio on the incredible conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Allondra de la Parra.
This is one of my arts stories on Opera Underground – played on ABC Radio’s national current affairs program AM – about the incredible Brisbane company which performs in a former water reservoir that it describes as “the perfect acoustic environment”.
In episode 1 we meet renowned artist and former Brisbane Deputy Mayor David Hinchliffe, and find out about the Streets of His Town, in Brisbane’s vibrant Fortitude Valley.
This is the review I did on Robbie Williams’ AMAZING concert in Brisbane. It played live on ABC Brisbane on 612AM.
I was given one hour to come up with a story on the theme “Left Behind” for the Kelly Higgins-Devine evening show on ABC Brisbane. This is the result.
The fight to save the rare breeding grounds of the giant cuttlefish on South Australia’s remote coastline.
This radio documentary investigates a part of Australia’s history that many Australians do not know about – and what many are now dubbing the country’s secret slave trade. This story is about the ancestors of many modern day Australians. They were brought here against their will and forced to toil in the hot sun of a wide brown land far from home. They were more than 60,000 South Sea Islanders who in the latter half of the 19th century worked for a pittance on Queensland sugarcane and cotton farms.
Winner of the New York Festivals Radio Awards silver and bronze trophies.
The great Australian tradition of the Woodchop event at the Ekka is enjoying a resurgence with record entries and more women and children competing in the sport.
For generations Stradbroke Island’s unspoilt sand dunes have made it a well-loved tourist destination. Those rolling dunes have also been the source of extensive sandmining operations under a range of mining companies since the 1940s. But that era is about to come to an end, causing a massive change to the local economy.
This radio documentary investigates how two young men died after boxing matches in the space of five years in Queensland, raising questions about the safety of the sport. Queensland is the only state in Australia without formal regulations and legislation controlling combat sports such as boxing.
This radio documentary investigates what happens to mining towns such as Moranbah once the mining boom has come and gone.
This radio documentary investigates how Aboriginal people were legally excluded from serving in Australia’s armed forces, but that didn’t stop hundreds of them from lying about their heritage, so they could fight for their nation in many wars. They were equals on the battlefield, but when they returned, they were not given the recognition or entitlements that they deserved.
This radio documentary investigates the impact of reported “race riots” on the multicultural community of Logan in south-east Queensland.
This radio documentary investigates proposed changes to Queensland’s surrogacy laws, particularly how that would impact gay couples.
This investigative radio documentary that Nance Haxton produced, reported and mixed on her own, won the Walkley Award for Best Radio News and Current Affairs Reporting in 2012. It was also awarded a highly commended in the Association of International Broadcasters Awards in London and the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2012 Best Radio award for this investigation.