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Melbourne Calling
by Melbourne Calling
Conversation with some of Melbourne's most colourful inhabitants
Episodes
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Star athlete Tayla Harris talks about footy, fighting, and life in the spotlight
Queensland born athlete Tayla Harris has racked up an impressive list of achievements at just 24. The marquee player spent several years with AFLW clubs Brisbane and Carlton before landing at premiership contenders Melbourne this year. Harris is also an accomplished fighter with a 7-0 record in…
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How to win (not whinge) in politics
Stephen Jolly talks to Cllrs Daria Kellander and Gaetano Greco. Thanks to Catherine Mililli. Follow us on social media: Twitter / Facebook / Instagram Visit our Website
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Melbourne Calling - #9 - Bee Jay, Angel and Oscar
It's all sex and the city in this episode of Melbourne Calling. From turning Melbourne into Australia's Berlin, to being a naked psychologist, to trans men being underrepresented in the sex industry, to online censorship, to finding common ground with the local church. Recorded in Eagle Leather....
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Melbourne Calling - #8 - Brendan and Laurence
Australian troops are finally leaving Afghanistan after 20 years of war. The fighting may be over but the struggle continues for many of the 40,000 Australians who served, with suicide and mental health issues at epidemic levels. Stephen sat down with Army veterans Brendan and Laurence for...
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Melbourne Calling - #7 - Stacey and Ben
"You lose everything when you walk in those gates - your family, your job, everything. And after you've done your time, you walk out those gates with nothing." What's life really like inside Victoria's crowded prisons? Stephen sat down with two recently released prisoners for a revealing…
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Melbourne Calling - #6 - Doris Yanzi and Sean Song
Sean Song and Doris Yanzi are two ordinary Chinese Australians talking about what it’s like living in Australia today in a time of growing tensions between Australia and China. There are discussions around racism, the economic situation, social issues and the impact of Covid. Thanks for…
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Melbourne Calling - #5 - Tim Gurner
Tim Gurner is a Melbourne property developer with an enormous fortune and an even bigger reputation. His company - GURNER - has more than 5700 apartments under construction with a reported value of $3.8 billion across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.The Rich Lister sits down with Steve…
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Melbourne Calling - #4 - Alison Pennington, Guy Rundle, Jeff Sparrow and Tom Ballard
Stephen sits down with a panel of prominent leftists to discuss the troubling state of the Left, the future of the union movement in Australia, whether the Greens could ever win over the working class and much more. Alison Pennington is a senior economist with the Australia Institute’s Centre for...
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Melbourne Calling - #3 - Gary Foley
Professor Gary Foley is an historian, academic and freedom fighter of Gumbainggir descent who has been on the front line of Aboriginal rights and justice battles for more than 50 years. In 1972 he helped establish the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra which came to be a defining event in the...
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Melbourne Calling - #2 - Mick Gatto
Domenic "Mick" Gatto is a mediator, debt collector and ex-boxer with a colourful reputation linked to Melbourne's underworld. Gatto is often called a 'survivor' for having lived through one of the most violent periods in the city's history - the Gangland Wars of the 2000s which saw a number of…
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Melbourne Calling - #1 - John Setka
When COVID hit Victoria, the building industry was in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of jobs were at risk during the prolonged lockdown. Then the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) stepped in with a plan to keep construction going while safeguarding workers...
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Conversation with some of Melbourne's most colourful inhabitants
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