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BroadTalk
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BroadTalk is a podcast about women, power, and the wayward world. Presented by Virginia Haussegger, the series casts a razor-sharp gender lens over politics and policy and explores big ideas and imperfect lives. For series three we take a look at Australia's Federal Election 2022 and cast a gender lens over the policies, commitments, and pork-barrelling of the campaign. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Rosie Batty - Changemaker
In the final episode for this series, we talk to the amazing Rosie Batty AO. Rosie became a household name in Australia for all the wrong reasons. After her beloved son, 11 year old Luke was brutally killed by his father at a cricket game in 2014, Rosie faced the media and in a spell binding...
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Anne Summers - Changemaker
Dr Anne Summers AO is a journalist, writer and lifelong women’s rights activist. To many she is the ‘godmother of Australian feminism’ and founder of the nation’s first refuge for women, Elsie. Anne shot to fame back in 1975 with her first book – now a treasured Australian classic - Damned Whores...
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Natasha Stott Despoja - Changemaker
Natasha Stott Despoja AO is a feminist trailblazer at every turn! Her tireless leadership spans decades: from the brutal politics of being Australia’s youngest woman to enter Federal Parliament at the age of 26, to her 13 years as a South Australian Senator and role as youngest Leader of the...
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Sally McManus - Changemaker
Sally McManus is Secretary of the powerful Australian Council of Trade Unions, and a committed ‘movement builder’. She’s also something of an enigma. Not only because she is the first woman to head the ACTU, or because this diminutive, former pizza delivery driver and cleaner (with a degree in...
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Bronwyn King - Changemaker
Dr Bronwyn King AO is a force of nature. A radiation oncologist in the lung cancer unit at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, turned anti-tobacco advocate, whose singular presence and powerful way with words has diverted $16 Trillion dollars of investment funds away from tobacco companies. It all...
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Mary Crooks - Changemaker
Mary Crooks AO is a feminist advocate and changemaker who exemplifies what some might call ‘old school’ feminism. She is a champion of grassroots democracy and collective power building. As Executive director of the Victorian Women’s Trust since 1996, Mary is perhaps best described as the…
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Senator Mehreen Faruqi - Changemaker
Mehreen Faruqi has more identity titles than most! She’s a Muslim, a migrant, a mother, a feminist, an engineer, an academic and a Greens Senator. She also has a number of ‘firsts’ to her name. Most notably, the first Muslim woman to sit in an Australian parliament (NSW 2013) and later the first...
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Chanel Contos - Changemaker
In the first of our new BroadTalk series on Australian Women Changemakers, Virginia talks to Chanel Contos, whose pioneering work started a movement around holistic consent and sexuality education. In 2021, aged just 22, Chanel Contos, kicked off a nationwide media storm when she exposed the...
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Chris Wallace, Annie O'Rourke & Catherine Fox
Professor Chris Wallace calls it a ‘genderquake’, a moment in time in which the “tectonic plates of Australian politics shifted.” In this final episode of our BroadTalk Election22 series we rip into what happened to turn the Australian federal election into a watershed moment for women and why!…
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Jess Hill, Carol Schwartz, and Nikki Gemmell
The prevailing mood across the Australian electorate is dark right now. At the end of what feels like a long and bitter federal election campaign, this week Virginia is joined by award winning journalist, Jess Hill, acclaimed author Nikki Gemmell, and one of Australia’s most powerful…
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Jill Marsh, Helen Dalley-Fisher, and Sally Moyle
With Virginia away, Jill Marsh takes the hot seat for a big broad chat with Helen Dalley-Fisher and Sally Moyle. The BroadTalkers tackle the leaked draft judgement in the US that threatens to fundamentally shift the dial back on abortion rights, the spectacle of soft-shouting blokes at the…
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Chris Wallace, Jenna Price, & Helen Dalley-Fisher
It's week four of Australia's Federal election campaign and we've made it past the half way mark. Give yourself a big pat on the back for your perseverance, and enjoy this week's outstanding panel casting a razor-sharp gender lens over the week that was. Joining Virginia Haussegger AM this week…
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Yasmin Poole, Georgie Dent & Jane Caro
What does Elon Musk's potential takeover of Twitter mean for women's opportunities to engage in public debate? What's the best way to deal with online trolls and abuse? And what does John Howard calling the Teal independents 'anti-Liberal groupies' say about the state of the Liberal party?…
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Catherine Fox, Emily Dwyer, and Sally Moyle
It's week two of Australia's Federal Election campaign - a week of hard hats and hi-vis, of infrastructure and economy announcements, and a culture war attack on the rights of trans women. Joining Virginia Haussegger to wonder when we're going to get some substance to go along with the spin and…
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Jane Caro and Georgie Dent
We're back, BroadTalkers! And in this special series we cast a razor-sharp gender lens over the politics, policy, and pork-barrelling of Australia's Federal Election 2022. Joining Virginia Haussegger to discuss the first week of campaigning are Jane Caro and Georgie Dent. This week the BroadTalk...
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BroadTalk Election 2022: coming this Friday
We're back! And for our special series that starts this Friday, 15 April, we'll be casting a gender lens over the policies, commitments, and promises of Australia's Federal Election 2022. Join Virginia and a brilliant cast every Friday during the election campaign. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Virginia Haussegger
What’s it like when the professional inquisitor becomes the subject of inquisition? Well, you’re about to find out! In this special episode of BroadTalk we flip the microphone around and put host Virginia Haussegger in the ‘hot seat’. Recorded in front of a live audience at the National Portrait...
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Elizabeth Ames
Elizabeth Ames is a one of those super, savvy young Australian women who left our shores in her 20’s with big dreams and an insatiable hunger for a career challenge. And she found it! Now in her mid 30’s, it seems most Australian politicians, diplomats, or business people of note passing through...
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Wendy McCarthy
Virginia chats with an exceptional icon of Australian feminism - Wendy McCarthy AO. Wendy is perhaps most fated for her mentorship of hundreds, if not thousands, of women executives, business leaders, political aspirants and MP’s. She has sat on dozens of corporate and not-for-profit boards with...
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Julia Banks
Julia Banks was a successful corporate lawyer with a couple of decades of leadership under her belt. Not one to shy away from an argument, or a challenge, she felt the tug of politics around 5 years ago. In 2016 she decided it was time to try and toss out the Labor member for the Melbourne seat…
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Jocelynne Scutt
What do you do when you see gender injustice …and then can’t make yourself ‘unsee’ it? Well, if you are a leading feminist lawyer such as Jocelynne Scutt you dedicate your life to fighting it. Jocelynne Scutt AO first grabbed media attention in her 30’s when she became one of Australia’s most...
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Biff Ward
What do those ageing Women’s Libbers make of the March4Justice movement? And how does Australia’s current explosion of feminist activity connect to our past? Writer and activist, Biff Ward is one of the original, so called ‘Brazen Hussies’, those fiery feminist activists of the 1960’s and ‘70’s…
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Janine Hendry
How does a woman, single-handedly, start a social movement in 2 weeks that brings over 100,000 people onto the streets to rally? And has Australia’s March4Justice unleashed a public roar against gender inequity that will echo around the globe? Janine Hendry is an academic with a love of visual…
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Aminata Conteh-Biger
How does a young woman who is subjected to brutal sexual slavery in Sierra Leone, escape a civil war, land in Australia and rebuild her life? And why does motherhood send her back to the land that terrorised her, as she tries to empower some of the most disempowered women & girls on earth.…
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Helen Dalley-Fisher
Is Australia on the brink of a powerful, new women’s movement? Could this be the change we’ve been waiting for? And what happens after so much venting of such raw anger? This week has seen a public show of force unlike anything we’ve witnessed in decades, with over 100,000 people chanting ‘Enough...
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Isobel Marshall and Eloise Hall
How do two 17-year-old school girls, with a passion for a global social enterprise, turn their dream into reality and a thriving business? And why focus on period poverty and menstruation products? The 2021 Young Australian of the Year, Isobel Marshall, and her ‘bestie’, Eloise Hall, are using…
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Licia Heath
Have you ever arrived at work, taken a good look around and felt your heart sink? Perhaps in one of those moments you’ve realised your personal values, just don’t fit the corporate lingo or company goals. Financial advisor Licia Heath was on a yacht, on Sydney Harbour, sipping champagne with...
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Ashleigh Streeter-Jones
How can ambitious young women forge forward in a world not shaped for them? Or by them? When gender inequality snaps at their heels, no matter where they look … at work, at play, and in those bastions of male power – politics and parliament. What can the future look like, when the ‘now’ is…
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Julia Gillard
What is it about Julia Gillard? As Australia’s first female Prime Minister she was both loved and loathed. Once the nation’s most taunted political figure, she also captured more hearts and shaped more female ambition than possibly any other woman in Australian history. So, what has her...
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Trish Bergin
What does it take to be a leader in the face of enormous flux, where disruptive change is not an endpoint, but the new daily norm? And what drives leadership ambition in some women and not others? Well, if you’re Trish Bergin, a talented economist and seasoned leader in both the public and…
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Jane Halton
Jane Halton AO PSM has a CV that makes heads spin. A formidable, trailblazing woman in the Australian public service, she’s a giant in health policy leadership and right now the global ‘go-to’ girl on government responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. There is little Jane doesn’t know about…
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Lt Gen David Morrison AO
In the fourth episode of BroadTalk, journalist Virginia Haussegger challenges former Chief of the Australian Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison, to verbal combat over women, leadership, the power of male command and “that video”. David Morrison became a global sensation when his furious…
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Kate Ellis
In the third episode of BroadTalk, journalist Virginia Haussegger chats with the woman who set tongues wagging when as Australia’s Minister for Sport she dared strut in a figure-hugging leather dress and sky-high Gucci heels. Despite being dubbed the “sexiest politician” in parliament, Kate Ellis...
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Dame Annette King
In the second episode of BroadTalk, Virginia Haussegger chats with a trailblazing Kiwi political warrior, Dame Annette King, about her extraordinary life in politics and managing the leadership spotlight. Dame Annette is New Zealand’s longest-serving female MP and now NZ High Commissioner to...
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Senator Marise Payne, Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs
In the very first episode of BroadTalk, Virginia Haussegger chats to Australia's Foreign Minister, Senator Marise Payne about her journey to the top job, her personal motivations, and her passion for feminisim. As Foreign Minister, Senator Marise Payne is currently Australia’s most powerful…
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BroadTalk is a podcast about women, power, and the wayward world. Presented by Virginia Haussegger, the series casts a razor-sharp gender lens over politics and policy and explores big ideas and imperfect lives. Following Series 1 in 2020 which focused on ‘new leadership’ – a ‘feminised’ style of...
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BroadTalk is a podcast about women, power, and the wayward world. Presented by Virginia Haussegger, the series casts a razor-sharp gender lens over politics and policy and explores big ideas and imperfect lives. For series three we take a look at Australia's Federal Election 2022 and cast a gender lens over the policies, commitments, and pork-barrelling of the campaign.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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