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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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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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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Andrei Shabunov

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sam Wicks

Sam Wicks is a podcast and digital radio producer at ABC Audio Studios and Double J. He is currently a…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rachel Carbonell

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

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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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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Wintana Kidane

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Karishma Luthria

Karishma Luthria is a Sydney-based, Mumbai-born-and-raised freelance audio producer and journalist. Her audio projects and commentaries can be found on…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Evana Ho

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

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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Carlisle

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

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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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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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Rahel Davies

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

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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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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Areej Nur

Areej Nur is a radio producer, presenter and educator. Areej hosts The Rap on Triple R, is the co-founder of…

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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Maddy Macfarlane

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kellie Riordan

Kellie Riordan is the former founding editor of ABC Audio Studios, a podcast production house responsible for some of Australia’s…

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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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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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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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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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Shevonne Hunt

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Angus Truskett

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

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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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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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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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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James Parkinson

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Matt Warrel

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

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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Nick Mason

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

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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Felicity Race

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

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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Anya Saravanan

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lane Sainty

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

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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rebecca Shaw

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

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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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