All the episodes of the podcasts “Streets of Your Town”, “A Middle Ground”, and “Remarkable Tales”
In this special podcast for Miro Magazine, Nance Haxton aka The Wandering Journo reviews Everyday Requiem, the latest production from Expressions Dance Company which debuted on Friday night in Brisbane Australia. This is the last show for Artistic Director Natalie Weir, and as Nance Haxton discovered, it’s a triumph for the company. The show continues at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre until October 20.
In this episode we go to the beautiful paradise of Stradbroke Island in sparkling Moreton Bay. We speak to Michael Bulloch, the owner and operator of Coffee in Cylinder’s, a pop-up coffee shop on Cylinder Beach.
In this episode we find out about the pop culture phenomenon of cosplay. Justine – or as she is more well known Jus-Z – tells us how dressing up as your favourite character is not a task for the faint-hearted.
In this episode we find out about a special convoy raising awareness for post traumatic stress disorder, that is about to make its way through many Australian country towns.
Leading Indigenous entrepreneur Dean Foley has overcome many challenges to become a driving force supporting and empowering Australia’s First Nation’s youth. His Barayamal Centre of Entrepreneurship attracts young people from across the country, helping their Indigenous startups and businesses grow.
In this episode, Nance speaks with Professor Anne Tiernan on the state of Australia’s democracy, the benefits of Westminster over a presidential model and why politicians must renew faith with voters. She also comes to grips with Australia’s Drought Dilemma, speaking to farmers on the ground, and Griffith University Climate Change Institute Professor Brendan Mackey and Economics Professor Fabrizio Carmignani about how government policies need to shift to better respond to the changing climate.
In this episode we meet Ruthie Ackerman, editor at Forbes Magazine, in New York. We find out about the favourite Streets of Her Town, and the literary geniuses who lived there before her, in Brooklyn.
In this episode we go to New York to meet Aussie entrepreneur Meggie Palmer, whose start-up “PepTalkHer” is making its mark in one of the toughest cities in the world
We meet Marie Scoutas, the amazing Greek Australian carving out her dream life in New York. We find out about the favourite Streets of Her Town, near Union Square in the heart of Manhattan.
In this episode of ‘A Middle Ground’ Nance Haxton speaks with Professor Caitlin Byrne Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at the launch of Australia’s Pacific Partnerships announcement by Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
ABC Bundaberg presenter Scott Lamond interviews me about the silver and bronze trophy I won at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for my radio documentary on Blackbirding. My radio documentary reported on the calls for better recognition of what more than 60,000 Pacific Islanders went through when they were brought from their island homes to Australia to work in horrendous conditions on sugar farms.
In this segment I chat to Kelly Higgins-Devine on Brisbane ABC about my finalist nomination on the New York International Festivals Radio Awards, and talk about my stories on Lockhart River and blackbirding – Australia’s slave trade.
On Griffith University’s podcast, “A Middle Ground”, we speak with investigative journalist Chris Masters.
We go to the beautiful and remote Aboriginal township of Lockhart River, nestled overlooking the rainforest and Great Barrier Reef in far north Queensland’s Cape York.
We meet authors Jas Rawlinson and Nicole Gibson, and discuss that most difficult of subjects – our mental health – and how we need to take away the stigma of talking about suicide.
What happens when the sisterhood turns on it’s own tribe? Time to crack out the bikinis and go down to the beach in protest I say! I loved being part of this panel on the amazing Kelly Higgins-Devine’s ABC Brisbane evening show, in this segment of “What Do you Reckon?”, joined by the wonderful Akua Afriyie Ahenkorah.
An Aboriginal community in far north Queensland could hold the key to cleaner and more reliable power supply for isolated indigenous communities throughout Australia and the Pacific.The small township of Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula is nestled in bushland, 800 kilometres north of Cairns, surrounded by pristine beaches and rainforest.
It’s idyllic, but incredibly remote. So much so it’s not even on the national power grid. Lockhart River relies on expensive and dirty diesel fuel to keep the lights on, and power the town’s businesses and homes. Until now. And it all comes down to solar power.
In this special edition collaboration episode with Miro Magazine we meet Artistic Director of modern dance ensemble Expressions Dance Company Natalie Weir, and find out about how her latest co-production with Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company “4 Seasons” is building bridges between the two cultures.
We meet Marcus Brady, or That Tourism Guy, who takes us on a bushwalk through his favourite streets of the tiny town of Speewah, deep in the far north Queensland rainforest.
In this special episode collaboration with Miro Magazine we meet renowned contemporary fine artist and street artist Matt Stewart and emerging digital creative force Spectator Jonze. They’ve combined their artistic forces to raise money and awareness about mental health as part of the Arts&Minds project.