Terps Talks

In December last year, I was lucky enough to interview my fantastic personal trainer, John Ghastine, as a guest on Terps Talks. John is a personal trainer who has a thriving PT business in Rosanna. He'd been training clients for over 20 years. Through his profession, he is able to touch the lives of many locals, helping his clients to be the best version of themselves. Not only does he help people better themselves through exercise, he mentors younger clients, offering a safe place, and a positive male role model. In this episode, we discuss how John came to be a personal trainer, and the ways in which he positively impacts the community by supporting local youth.

Join me for this fascinating talk, in the latest and last episode of Terps talks for 2025, I interview Brian Rix. Brian is a former homicide squad detective who was on the beat during the infamous underbelly years in Victoria. He then became President of the Police Association advocating for police officers working conditions.He now finds himself as a community representative on the Motorcycling Community Engagement Panel with me as Chair. Together we work with other community voices in the motorcycling community to advocate for the needs of motorcyclists on our roads.But in Brian's retirement, he has now an authored an amazing book called: Circle to Circle, where he chronicles his journey on his motorcycle with his wife Shirley, shipping his motorcycle overseas, travelling to far flung places like Siberia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iran, Pakistan and much more.

Tonight on Terps Talks, this Halloween special peels back the polished façade of Victorian Parliament House to reveal stories staff and security say still linger in its corridors: books flying off shelves, echoing footsteps where no one walks, and the ghostly sight of a little girl in the gardens whose handprints mysteriously reappear on rear doors. These are first-hand accounts reported and corroborated by people who work in the building, whether coincidence or something more, they make for an unnerving listen.

Have you ever been made to feel like you don't fit at work? The way you speak mocked?Class based discrimination is real, and women from working class backgrounds often experience hidden and covert discrimination where cultural elitism cloaked as inclusion can have real and lasting impacts.In the first Episode of Terps Talks, Join Sonja Terpstra MP, Labor Member for the North Eastern Metropolitan Region in Melbourne, Victoria with Professor Nareen Young for this engaging fireside chat on all things gender and class.Professor Nareen Young is Associate Dean, Indigenous Engagement and Leadership, Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Professor Indigenous Policy (Indigenous Workforce Diversity) at UTS Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research and Director of the UTS Jumbunna/UTS Business School Centre for Indigenous People and Work.As one of Australia’s most respected workplace diversity practitioners and thought leaders, Professor Young is responsible for introducing many valuable concepts to Australian diversity practice over the years, for which her leadership has been acknowledged with many awards and accolades.Bringing her First Nations and culturally diverse heritages to all her work, Professor Young continues to hold numerous governance and advisory positions in the community, government and corporate spheres.