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Celebrating Community Leadership. This four-episode series speaks to thirteen community leaders about how they each harnessed and developed new skills in the face of disruption — featuring the voices of some of the Bega Valley's most active and creative emerging leaders. They share insights about how the Far South Coast NSW not-for-profit sector is now planning collaboratively for the future, through a place-based capacity building partnership program. From the regions to the cities, this se ...
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A podcast series exploring how people stay hopeful, how they deal with loss, and the resilience that binds the Bega Valley. It focusses on community experiences in the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this series, you’ll hear from a range of people across the Bega Valley — from nurses to school students, artists to small business owners, grocery workers to retirees. Stories of grief or ingenuity, told with humour, warmth or rawness.
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In this episode, you’ll hear three local Community Leaders reflect on Leadership, what that word means to them; what leadership means to people in rural and regional areas; and of what community leadership in regional places like the Bega Valley can teach us all, no matter where we live, about community leadership as a whole You’ll meet Clair Mudal…
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In this, our final, episode we hear from different communities from around the Shire. We know that communities come in all shapes and sizes, and that people's relationships are central to resilience. When people come together adnd collectively do whatever they can to support each other, relationships are preserved, nurtured, strengthened and enrich…
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In this episode we hear from three very different Bega Valley businesses, and while these stories can’t fully capture the breadth of enterprises in the shire — because, like so many places, the nature of business in the Bega Valley is just so diverse — this episode does give valuable insights into how community goals can co-exist alongside financia…
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In this episode we look at education from both sides of the classroom, speaking with students and teachers alike, and touching on the lives of rural young people during those early pandemic years. We hear about what school's like when no-one’s at school; how both students and teachers coped during the lockdowns; and the challenges younger and older…
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In this episode — the second of two parts — we hear about the personal worries our healthcare workers faced as they tried to keep their communities, families, friends, colleagues and themselves safe. These rural stories, that are rarely told, tell of the complexities in how people in a single rural shire prepare for, confront and live through COVID…
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In this episode — the first in a two-part focus on Health — we hear people's reflections on those first days of the pandemic. The complexities and nuances in how people in a single rural shire prepare for, confront and live through the pandemic is telling. Even in a local bushfire crisis, many people were already tracking COVID-19 closely. These ru…
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The story of COVID-19 in the Bega Valley isn't a single crisis but a compounding cumulative one. So while COVID-19 is global, the experiences of these last few years can't be separated from local stories. These are stories of grief and ingenuity, told with humour, warmth or rawness. These stories explore the different ways people stay hopeful, deal…
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