Episodes
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21: 2018 Festival of Open Minds - Jan Harris
Jan Harris and her family lost their proud Vimy Ridge home in the Tathra and District Bushfire of March 18, 2018. At the Festival of Open Minds in 2018, Jan spoke of her loss, "I am adrift without the anchors of my life" she told the 350 people gathered before a standing ovation.
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20: David Nyuol Vincent in Bega, ‘The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die’
David Nyuol Vincent, was a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars and 17 years in refugee camps to build a new life in Australia, is September of 2019 he visited Bega at the invitation of Bega Valley Quakers and the Social Justice Advocates of the Sapphire Coast. David was a little boy when…
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19: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall
Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall spent his teenage years in Tathra and went to uni to become an engineer. After working in the industry for a few years, he decided to swap steady, profitable work for life as a comedian, creating his first Melbourne Comedy Festival show in 2013 – and he hasn’t stopped...
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18: Paul West back where River Cottage Australia started
Paul West has become a favourite some of the Far South Coast of New South Wales. The time and energy he brought to the region and its people as host of River Cottage Australia made him so. Filming on the TV series based at Tilba ended four years ago, having moved away Paul and his young family…
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17: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Sassi Nuyum
The Festival of Open Minds was proud to showcase Sassi Nuyum, a performer, person, and soul travelling life’s road with a compelling insight and honest creativity that rises above the barriers that sometimes block cultural understanding and open conversation. Sassi Nuyum, aka Meaghan Holt, has…
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16: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Aly Khalifa
Currently living in Wollongong, Aly Khalifa is an innovator of global stature focused on social impact and sustainability. Aly is driven by harvesting plastic waste from our oceans to turn it into useful products for a circular economy. His training as both a designer and mechanical engineer,...
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15: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Nas Campanella
Nas Campanella is a journalist and radio newsreader with the ABC and Triple J. She lost her sight when she was six months old. Nas also has a sensitivity condition which means she can’t read Braille. Winning an ABC cadetship in 2011, Nas spent her first-year news gathering and reading in here in...
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14: Jan Reynolds, Yankees Gap Bushfire survivor
Marking the first anniversary of the vast and long-running Yankees Gap Bushfire west of Bega takes in a few different dates. The fire started on Yankees Gap Road at Bemboka on August 15, 2018. Warm gusty winds stirred a smoldering pile burn that had been ringing alarm bells in the week before....
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13: 2019 Festival of Open Minds - Tim Costello
The Rev Tim Costello is one of Australia’s most respected community leaders and a sought-after voice on social justice issues, leadership and ethics. For 13 years until October 2016, Tim was Chief Executive of World Vision Australia, and up until earlier this year, he was World Vision’s Chief...
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12: 2019 Festival of Open Minds - The Panel of Oomph!
The Festival of Open Minds held in Bega on Friday and Saturday (September 14/14, 2019) attracted some of the nation’s big thinkers to regional New South Wales, but loud in our mind is always making a place for local voices to take centre stage and add their own weight. The theme for Open Minds…
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11: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Hugh Mackay, Australia’s most respected and experienced social researcher
Australia’s most respected and experienced social researcher, Hugh Mackay, believes something is wrong with our nation and in the lives of its citizens. At the inaugural Festival of Open Minds in September 2018, Hugh came to Bega to explain what and why, but more importantly how he thinks we can...
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10: Disaster recovery takes time
Local support services speak of people still in need, still in emotional distress, still foggy and unable to cope with too much more. In episode two of this special three-part podcast series, we hear from Anne Leadbeater who was the recovery coordinator for Kinglake following the 2009 Black...
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9: Reimagining the housing dream at Cobargo Folk Festival
The 'Ideas from the Edge' forums at the Cobargo Folk Festival, "are an opportunity to refresh your activist spirit, meet with local troublemakers, activists, and thinkers, as they discuss their ideas and visions for a better world," according to the Yuin Folk Club. At the festival held earlier…
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8: Bushfire 12 months on - Reedy Swamp, Vimy Ridge, Tathra
As the one year anniversary of the Reedy Swamp, Vimy Ridge, and Tathra Bushfire approaches many in the community will be feeling the effects of the last 12 months. It's been a crazy busy time for many. Activity always implies progress and suggests a 'recovery' that should be well advanced, but…
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7: NSW Cancer Council, election priorities forum - Bega
Cancer and health advocates from the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla have made their pitch to those standing for election to the NSW Parliament on March 23. The NSW Cancer Council's Saving Life Forum attracted around 100 people to the Bega Civic Centre, all there to add their weight and in some…
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6: Gillian Triggs, 'Speaking Up' in Bega
Gillian Triggs has made a rallying call for the freedoms we take for granted to be safeguarded during her Friday (November 2) night lecture in Bega. With the doors of the Bega High School theatre wide open to catch any passing zephyr, Triggs started a conversation just as hot as the day had been....
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5: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - climate activist Jo Dodds
Vimy Ridge resident and Bega Valley Shire Councilor, Jo Dodds strongly believes climate change is at play in her community, she points to the bushfires of March 18 that ripped through her community at Tathra. Sixty-five homes were lost on that day, Jo's home was very lucky not to be one of them....
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4: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services - Linda Burney MP
Linda Burney was elected the federal member for Barton in 2016, following a 14-year career in the NSW Parliament as Member for Canterbury. Linda began her career as a teacher in western Sydney and then as an education bureaucrat before being appointed Director General of the Department of...
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3: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Zachary Sequoia, digital innovator and serial entrepreneur
Zachary Sequoia is an innovator and serial entrepreneur who has worked within the digital technology industry since the mid-1990’s starting in San Francisco. For the last 20 years, he has worked for some of the world’s best known digital brands on three different continents. At the Festival of…
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2: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Author and teacher, Gabbie Stroud
Gabbie Stroud and her powerful and moving memoir ‘Teacher’ has captured Australia’s attention and is part of the current news cycle. In 2014, Gabbie was a very dedicated teacher with over a decade of experience. Months later, she resigned in frustration and despair. Her ground-breaking essay...
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1: Festival of Open Minds Podcast -Jo Saccomani from Two Sheds Workshop.
Jo Saccomani is the founder of Two Sheds Workshop, she is one of the bright sparks of the Bega community and inspired 300 plus people at the recent Festival of Open Minds. Despite growing up with parents who built, renovated and decorated the family home, it was by chance that Jo became a...
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