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  • Stuart Buchanan


    Stuart Buchanan presents FBi Radio’s Out From Under. He has presented for ABC Double J, the Community Radio Network and…

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  • Dut Gurang


    Dut is from Sudan and his family came to Australia when he was four. He struggled getting friends in his…

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  • Michael Lamonato


    Michael Lamonato is a Melbourne-based motoring journalist, presenter on the ABC Grandstand F1 podcast Box of Neutrals, and co-hosts the ABC’s Motor…

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  • Jonathan Green


    Jonathan Green has been a working journalist since the late 1970s. This makes him both very old and reasonably experienced….

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  • Nicole Hayes


    Nicole Hayes is an author of books that allow her to indulge in subjects she loves the most – footy, politics,…

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  • Erin Kyan


    A writer and speaker who turns his attention to many different media, Erin performs original spoken word pieces a few…

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  • Alicia Carter


    Alicia Carter is a writer, teacher, traveller, and podcaster. She is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing with a…

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  • Omar Sakr


    Omar Sakr is an award-winning poet born and raised in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is…

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  • Mozhgan Moarefizadeh


    Co-host and reporter on The Wait, Mozhgan is also a human rights advocate, public speaker and refugee law paralegal, with…

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  • Kyran Wheatley


    Kyran Wheatley is a comedian, broadcaster, podcaster and frequently falls down stairs. He presents Weekend Arvos on ABC triple j…

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  • Osman Faruqi


    Osman is the co-host of Backchat– FBi Radio’s alternative to talkback radio.  He is a Sydney-based writer, broadcaster and former political campaigner….

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  • Dirk Tomsa


    Dr Dirk Tomsa co-hosts Talking Indonesia and is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at La Trobe University.

  • Dave McRae


    Dave McRae co-hosts Talking Indonesia. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Institute in the Faculty of Arts at…

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  • Bethany Atkinson-Quinton


    Beth Atkinson-Quinton is a broadcaster, audio producer and artist living and working on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation….

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  • Julie Posetti


    Julie Posetti is a research fellow with the World Association of News Publishers and the World Editors Forum based in…

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  • Eric George


    Eric George is a Walkley Award winning journalist and podcast producer at the Australian. He currently hosts Three Feet Away, a…

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  • Hagar Cohen


    Hagar Cohen is a Walkley Award winning journalist who is fluent in Hebrew and English. She is a reporter with Background…

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  • Elin Andersson


    Elin is the co-producer of the podcast Private Parts. She is also an illustrator and graphic designer. Her work explores sexuality, politics and play.

  • Brodie Lancaster


    Brodie Lancaster is a Melbourne-based editor and writer whose work explores pop culture, feminism and feelings. Her writing has been…

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  • Craig Bruce


    Craig Bruce is the host of the Game Changers: Radio podcast. He has hosted breakfast and drive shows on commercial radio, and…

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  • Richard Fidler


    Richard Fidler is a writer and broadcaster. For more than a decade now he’s presented his national radio show, Conversations with Richard Fidler – an…

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  • Andrew Davies


    Andrew Davies is the Digital and Engagement Editor at ABC Audio Studios. He was a social media and distribution editor…

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  • Jennifer Macey


    Jennifer Macey is a freelance journalist and podcast and documentary producer with more than 15 years experience, based in Bulli,…

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  • Zeinab Mourad


    Zeinab is passionate about influencing positive change and making a difference in the world. She was involved in Season 1…

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  • Lee Hooper


    Lee Hooper is co-creator, co-host, researcher and writer for Dead and Buried. She has a love of old creepy houses, unlocking…

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  • Rudi Bremer


    Rudi has been a radio broadcaster since 2012. Having honed her skills at community radio, Rudi initially joined the ABC…

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  • Glyn Davis


    Professor Glyn Davis has been Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Melbourne since January 2005, and is Professor of…

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  • Carl Smith


    Carl is a Walkley Award-winning science reporter and kids’ presenter at the ABC, working for RN and ABC Science. He makes…

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  • Sarah McVeigh


    Sarah McVeigh is a reporter and producer, and the co-creator of Resistance at Gimlet Media. She was also a founding…

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  • Yasmin Parry


    Yasmin Parry is the co-host and producer of Control Z, and a digital producer for ABC Radio Current Affairs. She…

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  • Rebecca Shaw


    Rebecca Shaw is a Brisbane-based writer and co-host of the fortnightly comedy podcast Bring a Plate.

  • Izzie Austin


    Izzie Austin is a zinester and postgraduate student who grew up in Brisbane with several cats, and now lives in…

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  • Kaeleb Ngatai


    Kaeleb worked as a maker on Artful Dodgers Studios Braided podcast in Season 1. After his mental health worker recommended…

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  • Lauren Butterworth


    Lauren Butterworth is an Adelaide-based writer, podcaster, traveller and intermittent blogger with fiction and essays in Meanjin, Verity La, Wet…

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  • Matt Warrel


    Matt Warrel makes the podcast Developing the Frame. He’s a live music, food and macro photographer from Brisbane, Australia.

  • Nakkiah Lui


    Nakkiah Lui is a writer and actor and Gamillaroi/Torres Strait Islander woman. She co-presents Pretty for an Aboriginal with Miranda Tapsell,…

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  • Kyla Brettle


    Kyla Brettle is a radio feature maker and academic. Her audio work, produced for ABC Radio National, has won awards…

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  • André Dao


    André Dao is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the co-founder of Behind the Wire, an oral history…

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  • Belinda Lopez


    Belinda Lopez currently produces This is About for ABC Radio National.    She is a public and community radio fangirl,…

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  • Kate Seear


    Dr Kate Seear is a feminist legal academic and practicing lawyer. She has written extensively on issues at the intersection…

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  • Lee Tran Lam


    Lee Tran Lam makes The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcast. She’s a book/mag/blog-worm who writes, podcasts, DJs on FBi radio and is guilty of taking too many food pics.

  • Hannah Reich


    Hannah Reich is a radio documentary producer, editor, screenwriter, and researcher. She is a producer for The Messenger podcast and…

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  • Linda McGinness


    Linda started as an ABC typist at the ABC in 1977 and broke into programs at Late Night Live and…

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  • Ruby Schwartz


    Ruby Schwartz is an audio producer, storyteller and researcher. Before 7am, Ruby worked at Pineapple Street Media in New York, providing…

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  • Michael Green


    Michael Green is a journalist and a producer of The Messenger — a podcast about Sudanese refugee Abdul Aziz Muhamat…

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  • Justine Hanna


    Justine Hanna is a librarian with Melbourne Library Service, a co-host of Dear Reader with Natalie Mason, and an avid…

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  • Siobhan McHugh


    Siobhan McHugh is a documentary-maker, oral historian and writer whose work has won prestigious awards including the NSW Premier’s Prize…

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  • Elizabeth Duck-Chong


    Elizabeth Duck-Chong is a writer, photographer and acoustic guitarist who enjoys dabbling in experimental, affirmative podcasting. She currently works in…

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  • James Parkinson


    James Parkinson hosts and produces By Association, a narrative podcast about football.

  • Nicole Curby


    Nicole Curby is the producer and co-host of The Wait podcast. Her work has been published by The Guardian, ABC…

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  • John Jacobs


    John works at ABC Radio National, where he co-founded the experimental arts and culture audio adventure The Night Air –…

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  • Angelina Hurley


    Angelina Hurley is an Aboriginal woman from Brisbane, Australia. Her heritage is of Jagera, Gooreng Gooreng, Mununjali, Birriah and Kamilaroi…

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  • Matt Beard


    Matthew Beard, from The Ethics Centre, is a regular contributor to the ABC’s Short and Curly podcast. He is a moral…

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  • Hamish Blake


    Hamish Blake is an Australian comedian, actor, and author from Melbourne. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part…

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  • Aden Rolfe


    Aden Rolfe is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sydney. His audio work includes several productions and plays for…

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  • Annie Last


    Annie Last is an actor, performer, voice artist and voice teacher. She’s the voice of the Zoos Victoria podcast Fauna,…

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  • Katharine Murphy


    Katharine Murphy is Guardian Australia’s political editor. She has worked in Canberra’s parliamentary press gallery for 15 years. In 2008,…

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  • Phillip Adams


    Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. As presenter of Late Night Live, he has…

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  • Bridie Jabour


    Bridie Jabour is assistant news editor at Guardian Australia. She has reported on federal politics, state elections and social issues…

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  • Johanna Bell


    Johanna Bell is an award-winning author, Churchill Fellow and the Director of StoryProjects, a Darwin-based production house that elevates new…

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  • Mia Freedman


    Mia Freedman is the co-founder and creative director of the Mamamia Women’s Network (MWN), Australia’s largest digital women’s media company….

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  • Peter C. Hayward


    Peter C. Hayward is the producer of Being Honest With My Ex and Let’s Write a Film. He is also…

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  • Tim Young


    Tim Young is a video journalist with Fairfax Media based at the Age in Melbourne. He is also the producer of…

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  • Fran Kelly


    Respected radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent, Fran Kelly hosts RN Breakfast and co-hosts The Party Room podcast with Patricia…

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  • Kylie Sturgess


    Kylie Sturgess is a philosophy teacher, award-winning podcaster and presenter/producer at community radio station RTR FM. She currently teaches creative…

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  • Jaye Kranz


    Jaye Kranz is an Australian radio producer, writer and musician. She’s one of those people who blames radio for a lot…

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  • Jessica Hamilton


    Jessica Hamilton is a Sydney-based writer and radio producer working across documentary and fiction. She produces podcasts with Audiocraft Agency…

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  • Mary


    Mary is a young South-Sudanese Melbournian living in the south-eastern suburbs. She is currently involved in Artful Dodgers Studios Braided…

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  • Lane Sainty


    Lane Sainty is a reporter for BuzzFeed News, and co-host of Is it on?. She is based in Sydney, Australia.

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied


    Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-born Muslim, and the co-presenter of Motor Mouth, a podcast about Formula One motor racing. She…

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  • Ellen Leabeater


    Ellen Leabeater is an audio producer for Guardian Australia, currently working on the daily news podcast Full Story. She has worked…

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  • Lorena Allam


    Lorena Allam is from the Gamilarai-Yawalaraay peoples of north west New South Wales, and grew up listening to stories (tall…

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  • Timothy Nicastri


    Timothy Nicastri is a sound engineer, drummer, and of course – a radio-maker! He’s half of radio-duo, postbake with Mike Williams. His…

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  • Yumi Stynes


    Yumi Stynes is a second-generation Japanese Australian who’s worked in the media for almost two decades. She’s known for her…

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  • Will Ockenden


    Will Ockenden is the co-host and producer of Control Z, and a reporter for ABC Radio Current Affairs. He started…

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  • Emily Naismith


    Someone once described Emily as the Hunter S. Thompson of weird food science, which is not too far off seeing as she…

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  • Laura Murphy-Oates


    Laura Murphy-Oates is a Ngiyampaa Weilwan woman and the 2018 Walkley Young Journalist of the year. She is the presenter…

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  • Allan Clarke


    Allan is a Muruwari man and an award-winning investigative journalist, producer and presenter. His previous reporting on Mark Haines’ death…

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  • Evana Ho


    Evana is the creator Love Canberra, a podcast exploring love, sex and relationships in Canberra.

  • Robin Waters


    Robin Waters contributes music, direction and audio production to Dead and Buried. Robin records, mixes, produces, writes, and plays music for himself and…

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  • Karl Kruszelnicki


    Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is a TV and radio broadcaster and science communicator who has co-produced two series of the Sleek Geeks podcast…

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  • Tommy Dassalo


    Tommy is a stand-up comedian, writer, and co-host The Little Dum Dum Club podcast with Karl Chandler. In 2005, he was…

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  • Tim Roxburgh


    Tim joined ABC RN’s Background Briefing as a producer in 2016, and was vitally involved in discussions about story and story direction,…

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  • Matt Leach


    Matt Leach co-hosts the podcast Australian Design Radio. He is a graphic design fan first, and graphic designer second. He…

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  • Allison Tait


    Allison Tait is the author of the bestselling children’s adventure series The Mapmaker Chronicles, one of the presenters of the…

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  • Kate Evans


    Kate Evans presents RN’s BooksPlus. She has worked in radio, TV, book publishing and universities. She joined RN in 1997, and…

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  • Miles Martignoni


    Miles Martignoni is the head of audio at Guardian Australia, where he has worked on award-winning podcasts including The Reckoning and Breathless,…

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  • Gretchen Miller


    Lately, her work and PhD research has focussed on building engagement through citizen storytelling. Her recent work includes a legacy…

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  • Tom McKendrick


    Tom McKendrick is senior producer for Metro Video at Fairfax Media, and the producer of the Age‘s true crime podcast, Phoebe’s Fall.

  • Kermie Breydon


    Kermie Breydon roams a range of media and substantial swathes of continent. Their artistic and critical practice explores interrelations between…

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  • Hannah May Reilly


    Hannah May Reilly is a writer, performer, director and broadcaster. She is currently working as a writer/director/presenter on The Checkout…

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  • Rachel Carbonell


    Rachel Carbonell is a journalist, producer and presenter. She is currently the presenter of the Law Report on RN.

  • Madeleine Dore


    Madeleine Dore is a writer, interviewer and speaker fluent in storytelling, content strategy, online events and inspiring creativity on the…

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  • Scott Stephens


    Scott Stephens is editor of the ABC’s Religion and Ethics website, specialist commentator on religion and ethics for ABC radio…

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  • Stephanie Van Schilt


    Stephanie Van Schilt co-hosts Sisteria. She’s a writer and editor whose work has been published in the Saturday Paper, the Guardian and the Big Issue, and a former…

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  • Ruby Jones


    Ruby Jones is an award-winning investigative journalist who has worked across Australia. She started her career reporting on crime and…

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  • Anthony Dockrill


    Anthony Dockrill has had a career in radio spanning over two decades, and is an experienced producer and presenter. He…

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  • Nicky Phillips


    Nicky Phillips is science editor for the Sydney Morning Herald, and the host/producer of its Science is Golden podcast. Nicky…

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  • Andrew Levins


    Andrew Levins (known by most as Levins) co-hosts the Hey Fam podcast with his good mate Angus Truskett. He is also a DJ,…

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  • Amy Hanley


    Amy Hanley is an emerging radio maker and sound artist based in Melbourne, currently studying Communications (Media) at RMIT. Her…

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  • Michelle Ransom-Hughes


    Michelle Ransom-Hughes is a producer of ABC Radio’s flagship podcast Conversations and host, producer and editor of Oh My Dog.

  • Rachael Brown


    Rachael Brown started her career as the ABC’s Melbourne cadet in 2002. In 2008, she won the Walkley award for…

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  • Lynne Malcolm


    Lynne Malcolm is the host of All in the Mind – an exploration of the brain and behaviour, and the fascinating connections between them – and the…

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  • Marc Fennell


    Marc Fennell created and presents ABC Radio National’s award-winning weekly technology radio programme, Download This Show. It was listed as a Best…

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  • Chris Dengate


    Chris Dengate is a digital and audio journalist. He is a self-professed podcast geek with an interest in global politics,…

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  • Andy Lee


    Andy Lee is an Australian comedian and musician. He is known for working alongside Hamish Blake as part of the…

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  • Wil Anderson


    Wil is a stand up first and foremost, touring Australia and the world at every opportunity, performing more than a…

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  • Natalie Kestecher


    Natalie Kestecher is an award-winning writer and radio producer. She was the host of ABC RN’s PocketDocs, and her satirical…

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  • Ninah Kopel


    Ninah learned to love radio in the studios of 2ser where she first came into contact with passionate podcast listeners…

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  • Atticus Bastow


    Atticus Bastow is an artist and sound technician. His work explores spatial and placial perception, and has been featured at…

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  • Rocket Bretherton


    Rocket Bretherton is a 39 year old woman who grew up in NSW and QLD and now calls Darwin home….

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  • Karl Chandler


    Karl co-hosts The Little Dum Dum Club podcast with fellow comic Tom Dassalo. He is a comedian, and one of the…

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  • Shevonne Hunt


    Shevonne Hunt is the presenter of Kinderling Conversation, a daily parenting show on Kinderling Kids Radio.

  • Silvi Vann-Wall


    Silvi Vann-Wall is an audio producer and podcaster, with a strong journalism background. She loves making weird and wonderful audio…

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  • Ruby Jones


    Ruby Jones is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary host who has worked across Australia. She was the Marchbanks Young…

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  • Patricia Karvelas


    Patricia Karvelas has been a prominent senior journalist in the Australian media for two decades, beginning her professional career in…

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  • Amruta Nargundkar


    Amruta Nargundkar is the producer and presenter of Heckin’ Concerned — a podcast about things that scare millennials. She is…

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  • Peter Taggart


    Peter Taggart was born on the glittering Gold Coast and raised in St George – a small farming township in…

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  • Russell Stapleton


    Russell Stapleton is a sound engineer, producer and composer at ABC Radio National. He loves working on programmes which blur…

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  • Lea Redfern


    Lea Redfern has been making radio since the early 1990s when she was seduced by the intimacy, independence, and creative…

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  • Kim Handley


    Kim was born and raised in Melbourne where she grew up in the cultural melting pot which is Footscray. She…

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  • Nick Mason


    Nick Mason (aka ‘Maso’) co-hosts The Weekly Planet.

  • Miles Herbert


    Miles Herbert is a Walkley Award winning journalist and radio producer. His work as a journalist and producer has appeared…

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  • Rhys Nicholson


    Rhys Nicholson is a comedian based in Sydney who is quickly garnering international acclaim. After winning Best Newcomer at Sydney…

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  • Elle Marsh


    Elle Marsh has a film and audio-storytelling background. She has worked in radio, podcasting and documentary-making, previously at The Age and also…

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  • Flyn Tracy


    Flyn Tracy co-hosts the podcast Australian Design Radio. He is a creative working in design, education and events. His career…

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  • Mark Whittaker


    Mark Whittaker is the investigative journalist and presenter of season three of SBS’s True Stories podcast. He is a freelance writer based…

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  • Fleur Kilpatrick


    Fleur Kilpatrick is the co-host of Melbourne-based independent podcast Contact Mic.  She’s a playwright, theatre director and arts commentator, as well…

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  • Sharon Davis


    Sharon is an award winning documentary producer and journalist whose body of work spans more than 20 years. She has…

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  • Maddison Miller


    Maddison Miller is a Darug Woman and archaeologist. Maddi advocates for broader acceptance and incorporation of Aboriginal knowledge systems in…

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  • Boe Spearim


    Boe Spearim is a Gamilaraay & Kooma radio host and podcaster who lives in Brisbane. He is the creator, host…

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  • Emma Lancaster


    Emma Lancaster is a multi-platform journalist. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism and was most recently working at…

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  • Graham Panther


    Graham Panther is a writer and mental health advocate based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-founder of the Big…

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  • Leigh Sales


    Leigh Sales is an award-winning journalist and author who hosts TV current affairs program 7.30 on ABC1, and co-hosts the…

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  • Astrid Edwards


    Astrid Edwards is a writer, teacher, podcaster and director. She is one half of Bad Producer Productions, where she produces The…

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  • Andrei Shabunov


    For over 20 years, Andrei Shabunov has been working as a sound engineer at the ABC.

  • Annabel Crabb


    Annabel Crabb is one of Australia’s most popular political commentators, and the co-host of the podcast Chat 10 Looks 3. At…

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  • Dan Box


    Dan Box is the producer of Bowraville, and an award-winning national crime reporter with the Australian newspaper. He has previously worked for…

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  • Martin Peralta


    Martin Peralta is a sound engineer, musician and digital producer. He currently works at ABC Radio National, Gimlet Media, and…

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  • David Lewis


    David Lewis is a journalist with the investigative radio documentary programme Background Briefing on ABC RN. He joined the show…

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  • Leona Hameed


    Leona Hameed is a podcast producer currently freelancing in London. Previously, she produced It’s Not A Race, ABC RN’s podcast…

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  • Gabrielle Jackson


    Gabrielle Jackson is an executive producer of Guardian Australia’s Full Story podcast. She is also an associate news editor there,…

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  • Izzy Roberts-Orr


    Izzy Roberts-Orr produces Sisteria and The Rereaders. She is a Melbourne-based writer, editor and poet, and co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival. Izzy…

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  • Emma Race


    Emma Race is a former talent manager, broadcaster and producer at 3RRR, Nova, Triple FM ABC 774, C31, Network Ten, ABC…

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  • Selena Shannon


    Selena Shannon is the executive producer of All The Best. She began her radio adventures at FBi Radio in 2014 and…

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  • Lindsey Green


    Lindsey is also the Operations Manager at SYN, a Melbourne community media organisation committed to providing broadcast and leadership opportunities…

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  • Jay Mueller


    Jay Mueller is the founder of Bad Producer Productions, where he produces the Game Changers: Radio podcast and In the Pocket….

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  • Miyuki Jokiranta


    Miyuki Jokiranta is the presenter and producer of ABC RN’s documentary programme, Earshot. She was formerly the producer and presenter Soundproof (2014–2017), RN’s…

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  • Ramona Curmi


    Ramona Curmi is the producer of the Classic Flow podcast – guided yoga and meditation set to a bespoke classical…

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  • Camilla Hannan


    Camilla Hannan is a sound artist working across a range of arenas. She uses field recordings as the source material…

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  • Rowdie Walden


    Rowdie Walden is an Indigenous-Australian TV host, writer and podcaster. His most recent podcast Search Engine Sex (2020) looks to…

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  • Jemma Purdey


    Jemma Purdey co-hosts Talking Indonesia. She is an Indonesian studies scholar, with a particular interest in political biography and ethnic minorities….

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  • Charlotte Setijadi


    Charlotte Setijadi is a co-host of Talking Indonesia. She is a visiting research fellow in the Indonesia Studies programme of the…

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  • Wendy Carlisle


    Wendy Carlisle has been wandering the hallways of ABC RN, producing – amongst others – Phillip Adams at Late Night Live….

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  • Olivia Rosenman


    Olivia Rosenman is an audio producer and journalist who daydreams about sound, stories and technology. She is currently consulting on podcast…

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  • Amy McMurtrie


    Amy McMurtrie has over 18 years experience working with communities. Amy’s community practice has been foreground by the interpersonal, advocacy…

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  • Michael Dulaney


    Michael Dulaney is an award-winning writer and journalist. He is a digital journalist with the ABC in Sydney, and former…

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  • Bec Fary


    Bec Fary meditates on sleep, circadian rhythms and the subconscious through their audio project SleepTalker, which originated as an independent…

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  • Ben Tupas


    He’s the co-founder of storyARC, an artist-run collective for local digital storytellers, and teaches podcast production to high school students….

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  • Lenore Taylor


    Lenore Taylor is Guardian Australia‘s editor. She has won two Walkley awards and has twice won the Paul Lyneham award…

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  • Kamna Muddagouni


    Kamna Muddagouni is a lawyer and writer. Her writing focuses on her experiences as a member of the South Asian diaspora,…

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  • Patrick Abboud


    Patrick Abboud is a Walkley nominated journalist, TV presenter, radio broadcaster, podcaster and award winning documentary maker. Pat is currently…

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  • Jess O’Callaghan


    Jess O’Callaghan is Festival Manager and podcast producer at Audiocraft. She has worked on news, documentary and audio fiction programs…

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  • Jessica Bineth


    Jess Bineth is a co-founder of Audiocraft, where she leads production and new show development. As a producer she’s worked…

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  • Cinnamon Nippard


    Cinnamon Nippard is an Australian freelance writer, journalist and radio producer, focusing on contemporary art, music, culture, human rights, science,…

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  • Kyla Slaven


    Kyla Slaven is a radio and podcast producer from Sydney. She’s worked in daily reporting, features and also as a university tutor.

  • Honor Eastly


    Honor Eastly is an artist, writer, podcaster and professional feeler of feelings. Right now, she’s fascinated by the interplay of…

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  • Sarah Mashman


    Sarah Mashman is an audio and content producer with ABC RN in Sydney. She’s currently producing Stop Everything! and has…

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  • Paul Barclay


    Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award winning journalist and broadcaster with an appetite for ideas and in-depth analysis and discussion. Paul…

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  • Taylor Fuller


    Taylor Fuller is a freelance journalist and radio producer based in Sydney. He typically reports on politics, public policy and…

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  • Irit Pollak


    Irit is the producer of the independent podcast Private Parts. She also drives design for social impact in her role as…

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  • Osman Faruqi


    Osman Faruqi is a journalist, writer and editor. He is the editor of 7am, the daily news podcast of The…

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  • Aaron B


    Aaron is a singer/songwriter from a small country town called Mooroopna which is just outside of Shepparton. He was involved…

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  • Natasha Mitchell


    Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award winning ABC journalist, presenter, podcaster and documentary maker. She has hosted ABC RN’s Life Matters (2012-2016) and…

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  • Sarah Allely


    Sarah Allely is a Sydney-based audio producer and award-winning journalist from New Zealand. She previously produced Insight on SBS TV, Australia’s multicultural…

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  • Karishma Luthria


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    Maddy Macfarlane is an audio creative, community radio broadcaster and a PhD student from the Faculty of Music at the University of…

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  • Michael Brydon


    Michael Brydon is a Melbourne based radio producer and is a host of the weekly documentary and storytelling program All…

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  • Martin Hodgson


    Martin Hodgson is a journalist and human rights defender who works as a senior advocate with Foreign Prisoners Support Service, and…

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  • Andrew Dodd


    Andrew Dodd has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, working in radio, TV, print and on-line. He has worked…

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  • Jess Ong


    Jess Ong is the Creative Producer of SPUN Stories, and host of its new podcast. She works as a Communications Manager…

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  • Ian Walker


    Ian Walker took over the running of the ABC’s fledgling podcast unit, First Run, in 2015. Since then, he has helped…

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  • Dr Chelsea Bond


    Dr Chelsea Bond is an Aboriginal and South Sea Islander Australian and a descendant of the Munanjahli people of Beaudesert….

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  • Sarah Walker


    Sarah Walker is the co-host of Melbourne-based independent podcast Contact Mic. She’s a theatre and film photographer, writer and arts facilitator, as…

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  • Felicity Race


    Felicity is a business owner, football lover and mother of three boys. She is a host on The Outer Sanctum podcast.

  • Nicole Pingon


    Nicole Pingon is a multidisciplinary artist, theatre maker and facilitator working across live performance, installation and digital mediums. Her work…

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  • Joe Koning


    Joe is an audio producer, writer, sound-maker and musician. He has produced radio features for ABC Radio National, FBi Radio,…

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  • Mara Schwerdtfeger


    Mara is a multidisciplinary artist and composer. Primarily working with sound, she creates performed pieces and commissioned soundtracks for dance,…

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  • Molly Daniels


    Molly Daniels is an Australian actress best known for starring in ABC3’s shows Tomorrow When the War Began and You’re…

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  • Kween G


    Kween G (Kibone) is a radio producer, hip hop artist, MC and sound mixer. Since age 16 she has worked…

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  • Dallas Rogers


    Dallas produces radio and podcast pieces on a broad range of contemporary urban issues. He is a founding producer of the SoundMinds Radio show that…

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  • Ayan Shirwa


    Ayan Shirwa is a Somali Australian presenter and producer for Accent of Women, Tuesday Breakfast, and Women on the Line…

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  • Beź Zewdie


    Beź Zewdie is an African-Australian content and events producer. A Bachelor of Arts (Monash) and Master of Journalism (UniMelb) graduate,…

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  • Michael Schubert


    Michael Schubert co-hosts SoundMinds Radio with Dallas Rogers. He is also the broadcast manager at BayFM Community Radio in Byron Bay, northern…

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  • Lee Davis-Thalbourne


    Lee has been helping out behind the scenes in many productions and demonstrations over the years, as well as front…

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  • Wintana Kidane


    Wintana Kidane is the co-founder, producer and presenter of Bittersweet Podcast. She is a writer, facilitator and event organiser.

  • Angus Truskett


    Angus Truskett is a comedian and the co-host of Hey Fam and The Green Light Boys podcasts.

  • Tegan Taylor


    Tegan Taylor is co-host of the ABC’s Coronacast and a health and science journalist in the ABC Science Unit, where…

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  • Joel Werner


    Joel Werner was almost lost to the elbow-patched world of research psychology before joining ABC RN as a science/health reporter in January…

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  • Meaghan Dew


    Meaghan Dew started working on Panorama, a current affairs radio show at SYN in Melbourne, eight years ago – and…

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  • Louise Terry


    Louise Terry is a multi-faceted musician, producer and performer working across the music industry, education and the community cultural development…

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  • Gina McKeon


    Gina McKeon is a Walkley Award-winning multimedia journalist and producer. She has been the digital editor for Unravel. She has…

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  • Tamar Cranswick


    Tamar Cranswick is a producer at the ABC and is currently contributing research to the Days Like These podcast. She…

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  • Ben Birchall


    Ben is a creative director, journalist, broadcaster, writer, and the co-host of Ingredipedia, a factual food fight podcast. He has worked…

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  • Carly Godden


    Carly Godden is the co-creator, co-host, writer and producer of Dead and Buried. Carly works at Public Record Office Victoria,…

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  • Emma Hart


    Emma Hart began making radio in 2014 on 3CR Community Radio’s Tuesday Breakfast Current Affairs Show, a show produced and…

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  • Ange Lavoipierre


    Ange is the co-host of the ABC’s daily news podcast The Signal and has been a reporter at the ABC’s…

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  • Udhara Samarasekara


    Udhara Samarasekara is always looking to find creative ways to look at different issues, so she decided to make a…

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  • Fiona Pepper


    Fiona is the presenter of Radio National’s new program, Fictions. She has also made radio documentaries for Off Track, Earshot…

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  • Sophie Harper


    Sophie Harper is creator/producer of Not By Accident, an audio documentary series about choosing to become a single mother and coping with being one.

  • Ann Jones


    Ann Jones presents Off Track on ABC Radio National. Before Off Track, Ann presented for ABC Local Radio in South Australia and…

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  • Lucy Race


    Lucy is a host on The Outer Sanctum podcast. She is also a business owner, prolific letter writer, media monitor and football…

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  • Wendy Zukerman


    Wendy is a science journalist who regularly discusses science and technology on radio and TV. She is the creator and…

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  • Paddy Manning


    Paddy Manning is a reporter with Background Briefing on ABC RN. He is an author, essayist and investigative journalist. He has…

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  • Sumarlinah Winoto


    Sumarlinah (they/them) is the creator of transomatics. They are trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance practices. They also curate…

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  • Kate Montague


    Kate Montague is the Managing Director and co-founder of Audiocraft and the co-founder of the Australian Audio Guide. As a…

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  • Tom Ballard


    Tom is a stand-up comedian, TV and radio host and the podcaster behind Like I’m A Six Year Old.  From 2010-2013,…

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  • Masako Fukui


    Masako Fukui is a writer and award winning radio documentary producer based in Sydney. She was previously a radio and print…

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  • Waleed Aly


    Waleed Aly is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author, academic, rock musician and former AFL mascot. One of the hosts…

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  • Veronica Sullivan


    Veronica is a writer and editor from Melbourne interested in literature, feminism and pop culture. She’s a co-host of Sisteria, and…

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  • Matisse Laida


    Matisse is a young queer creative involved as a maker and host of Artful Dodgers Studios Braided podcast. She challenges…

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  • Amanda Smith


    Amanda Smith hosts The Body Sphere on ABC Radio National. She trained as a ballet dancer, but eventually realised she was more…

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  • Daniel Kanani


    Daniel moved to Melbourne 2 years ago from Uganda. He is passionate about rap music and is studying to be…

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  • Mundanara Bayles


     Mundanara Bayles is the host and creator of the Black Magic Woman podcast and is connected to the Wonnarua and…

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  • Rhoda Roberts


    Rhoda Roberts is a member of the Bundjalung nation, Widjabul clan of Northern NSW and South East Queensland. She is the host of Deadly…

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  • Elizabeth Kulas


    Elizabeth Kulas is the host of the ABC podcast, Days Like These.  In 2019, she created and hosted 7am, a…

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  • Erik Jensen


    Erik Jensen is the editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media. He is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper. Erik has won the…

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  • Ellen Van Neerven


    Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning author, editor and educator of Mununjali (Yugambeh language group) and Dutch heritage. They write…

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  • Rachel Fountain


    Rachel Fountain has criss-crossed the country as a journalist and is currently an executive producer with ABC Audio Studios. Prior…

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  • Jessie Borrelle


    Jessie Borrelle is a writer, editor, producer and co-founder of Australasian podcast Paper Radio. Originally from New Zealand, she has…

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  • Jesse Cox


    Jesse Cox was a radio producer with a passion for storytelling. He won Silver for Best Documentary at the Third Coast…

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  • Claudia Taranto


    Claudia Taranto has worked at ABC Radio National since 1988 on a variety of programs including Life Matters, Street Stories and The Listening Room….

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  • Valerie Khoo


    Valerie Khoo is the CEO of the Australian Writers’ Centre – the country’s leading centre for writing courses – and one of…

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  • Joe Gelonesi


    Joe Gelonesi has been a key member of ABC RN’s executive editorial team for the past decade. He has guided…

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  • Jake Morcom


    Jake Morcom’s career in radio is much like what his parents said when they found out they were pregnant with…

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  • May Jasper


    May Jasper is the host of the independent podcast Random Article. Before getting into radio, she spent 15 years as a published playwright…

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  • Alice Workman


    Alice Workman is the political reporter for BuzzFeed News, based in the Press Gallery at Parliament House. She’s the Friday political…

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  • Kirsti Melville


    Kirsti joined RN in 1994. Before The History Listen she made radio features for Earshot, 360documentaries, Street Stories, Hindsight, Women Out Loud, Background Briefing, and…

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  • Alice Ansara


    Alice Ansara is an actor across theatre, film and TV and has experience with audio through her show In the Ladies…

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  • Jenny Curran


    Jenny Curran is an eccentric art-lover from Ireland who moved to Australia four years ago in search of new adventures….

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  • Jon Tjhia


    Jon Tjhia is a Melbourne-born radio maker, musician and writer whose career-long focus has been on dissolving distinctions between pop…

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  • Eoin Hahessy


    Eoin Hahessy is an editorial board member of 3010, the University of Melbourne magazine. He works at the university as Advisor…

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  • Michelle Grattan


    Michelle Grattan AO is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded political journalists. She has been a member of the…

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  • Linh Do


    Linh Do has a background in climate change action, where she is equally comfortable organising in social movement spaces or…

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  • Tom Tilley


    Tom Tilley is the host of Hack – Triple J’s daily current affairs program. He was plucked from the depths of…

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  • Sam Twyford-Moore


    Sam Twyford-Moore is the founding host of The Rereaders, a fortnightly literary and cultural podcast. He was the Festival Director…

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  • Kaitlyn Sawrey


    Kaitlyn Sawrey is an Aussie transplant in NYC, and senior producer of Gimlet Media‘s podcast Science Vs. After helping commission…

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  • Natalie Mason


    Natalie Mason is a librarian with Melbourne Library Service and a co-host of Dear Reader – a books podcast –…

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  • Joel Supple


    Joel Supple is a multimedia producer who specialises in facilitating community audio projects. She previously managed the Radio department at…

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  • Rosa Ellen


    Rosa Ellen is a journalist and radio-maker living in Darwin. She works for ABC News and has produced a feature…

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  • Kieran Ruffles


    Kieran Ruffles produces the Melbourne-based independent podcast Contact Mic, along with its co-hosts Fleur Kilpatrick and Sarah Walker. He’s an electronic musician and a…

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  • Heidi Pett


    Heidi has reported for ABC Radio’s AM, PM and The World Today and works as a producer on RN Breakfast. At FBi…

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  • Michael Williams


    Michael Williams was the inaugural host of RN’s Blueprint For Living. He was subsequently the presenter of Talkfest. Williams has…

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  • Monique Bowley


    Monique Bowley is a podcaster, writer, producer and speaker. She’s spent more than 13 years producing radio both commercially and with…

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  • Jordan Raskopoulos


    Jordan Raskopoulos is a comedian, actor, writer, singer and digital content creator, and the host of the podcast This Is About….

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  • Seja Vogel


    Since 1998, Seja Vogel has been an integral member of Brisbane synth-punk trio Sekiden, who have released two albums and…

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  • Zacha Rosen


    Zacha Rosen is an arts journalist and radio producer. He has written for Concrete Playground, the Sydney Latin American Film…

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  • Amy McQuire


    Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist who currently presents the Let’s Talk programme on Brisbane Indigenous radio…

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  • Stephen Smiley


    Stephen Smiley is the co-host of the ABC’s daily news podcast The Signal and is a reporter in the Audio…

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  • Sherre DeLys


    Sherre’s radio art and documentaries have been made and played in USA, UK, Europe and Australia for two decades, earning some…

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  • Sophie Townsend


    Sophie Townsend is the Editor of Creative and Digital Audio at ABC RN. She’s also a radio features maker and…

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  • Miranda Tapsell


    Miranda Tapsell is a co-host (with Nakkiah Lui) of Buzzfeed Australia’s Pretty for an Aboriginal podcast, and an actor of stage and…

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  • Tamara Kohler


    Tamara Kohler is the host and producer of the SYN Media podcast MythirdEar.  She is a flautist, chamber musician and inter-disciplinary artist….

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  • Adam Spencer


    Adam Spencer has been a breakfast radio announcer on Triple J and ABC Sydney, TV personality on the comedies Good News…

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  • Kate Sherington


    Kate Sherington grew up in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane. As a teenager, she was the junior division winner of…

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  • Cherie Minniecon


    Cherie Minniecon is a proud Yorta Yorta woman based in Naarm with her husband and two daughters. Cherie is a…

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  • James Milsom


    James Milsom is a lawyer, producer and composer from Melbourne. He makes The Rule Book, a podcast about the rules we make, and sometimes break.

  • Elijah Augustine


    Elijah is a young Nyul-Nyul, Jabirr-Jabirr and Ngumbarl Saltwater man from the coastline of the Kimberleys, living in Melbourne with…

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  • Jessie Stephens


    Jessie Stephens is a content producer at Mamamia Women’s Network and appears on Bach Chat, Mamamia Out Loud and This Glorious…

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  • James Clement


    James Clement co-hosts The Weekly Planet. He appears and provides anonymous film reviews variously (and formerly, anonymously) as ‘James’, or as the YouTube…

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  • Rijn Collins


    Rijn Collins is a writer based in Melbourne. She’s been a guest panellist and performer at multiple literary festivals, and an…

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  • Andrew McMillen


    Andrew McMillen is an author and freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. He hosts Penmanship, a podcast about Australian writing culture,…

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  • Agum Maluach


    Agum Maluach is a maker and host of the Artful Dodgers Studios podcast, Braided. She is a hardworking mother to…

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  • Alicia Sometimes


    Alicia Sometimes is an Australian writer, poet and broadcaster. She is a regular guest on ABC 774 Melbourne and Radio National. She…

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  • Andrew Denton


    Andrew Denton is a media personality, writer and producer based in Sydney. His first podcast, Better Off Dead, was produced in…

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  • Tiger Webb


    Tiger Webb is the producer of Given Names, an ABC Radio National Showcase Series. He is a broadcaster, writer and an unusual…

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  • Sarah L’Estrange


    Sarah is presenter of Animal People on RN. She is also a producer on RN’s Books and Arts. Prior to…

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  • Brendan White


    Brendan White is the host of The Hungry Gamers podcast and creator of Ate Bit – a publishing project at the nexus of…

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  • Iris Lee


    Iris Lee is a white trans writer and activist living on east Kulin nations land. She also presents on 3CR…

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  • Rahel Davies


    Rahel Davies is the co-founder, producer and presenter of Bittersweet Podcast.

  • Heather Jarvis


    Heather Jarvis is a broadcast and online journalist with more than 20 years experience. She’s been a reporter, presenter and producer at…

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  • Sam Loy


    Sam Loy produces the independent podcast Human/Ordinary. He also co-hosts Just Below Their Purpose, a podcast about stay-at-home parents. In mid-2016,…

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  • Daniel Browning


    Daniel Browning first joined the AWAYE! team on a short-term basis in 1997 and has produced and presented AWAYE! since…

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  • Michelle Macklem


    Michelle Macklem is an audio producer and artist. Her work explores the relationship between people and their environments through sound….

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  • Mike Williams


    Mike Williams works across ABC radio as a digital producer and documentary maker. Starting as an intern with RN’s features…

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  • Anya Saravanan


    Anya Saravanan is a queer Tamil woman, producer and presenter at 3CR Community Radio, and a community lawyer.

  • Norman Swan


    Producer and presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio National, Dr Norman Swan is a multi-award winning producer and…

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  • Lily Serna


    Lily Serna is an Australian mathematician and television presenter, working on shows such as Letters and Numbers and Destination Flavour….

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  • Bridie Smith


    Bridie Smith is a freelance podcast producer and the co-writer and producer of Fauna, commissioned by Zoos Victoria. She has…

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  • Amy Thunig


    Amy Thunig is a Gomeroi/Gamilaroi/Kamilaroi yinarr who resides on the unceded lands of Awabakal Nation. An associate lecturer at Macquarie…

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  • Alex Lollback


    Alex Lollback is an ABC radio executive producer, content maker and team leader with vast experience in radio, TV, podcasts…

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  • Georgia Willmott


    Georgia, who is in her early twenties, grew up in NSW and moved to Melbourne almost 5 years ago looking…

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