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The Five Minute Advocate Podcast

Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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Australian perspectives on the week's neglected social aspects of life, too often ignored by economics-driven priorities. These undermine our options for good societies, not just growth. Eva Cox is a well-known sociologist and public feminist commentator with a long involvement in advocacy for more civil societies. Julie Macken has a wealth of experience as a journalist for AFR and New Matilda and has worked with a variety of non-profit organisations. Produced for community radio stations ac ...
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All The Best is for new Australian storytelling. Hear from a Melbourne-based cannibal, how the Australian Wallabies used theatre workshops to improve their game, anxiety attacks in a Tantric sex class, and what the shopping centre Santa Claus is really thinking, all on All The Best. We're a weekly radio show and podcast produced at FBi Radio in Sydney in association with SYN and Triple R in Melbourne, and broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network. We’ve been telling stories in a v ...
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The Closeout - A Bodyboarding Podcast

Benny Oborne, Chris Watson & Shane Britten

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The Closeout is a regular broadcast where we share the stories of the minds closest to the sport, culture and community of Bodyboarding, both locally in Australia and worldwide. Join hosts Benny Oborne, Chris Watson & Shane Britten as the Australian Bodyboarding luminaries discuss the ever shifting state of bodyboarding, plus dig in to the juicy stories and experiences of some of Bodyboarding's great personalities, all with the candid banter and down to earth appreciation for the sport that ...
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Acclaimed presenter, journalist, actor, producer and arts guru Rhoda Roberts returns to our airwaves to present Deadly Voices from the House, recorded live from Sydney Opera House. Featuring a diverse selection of guest appearances from prominent Indigenous leaders from the music, arts and culture sector, Deadly Voices from the House provides an important platform to discuss critical issues facing the Indigenous community and gives voice to a variety of upcoming indigenous music, arts and cu ...
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Bubble Pop Podcast

Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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So, what actually goes on in Parliament House? Two journalists new to the Canberra press gallery chat about the week in politics, breaking down what happens in the nation’s Parliament for people who don’t live inside ‘the Canberra bubble’. Join Amanda Copp and Sarah Ison for a 30-minute chat as they pop the coded language to tell you what's really going on.
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From The Embers

Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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In 2020, the first series of From the Embers premiered, focusing on communities across Australia who had faced fire and smoke and homes destroyed in what was one of the most difficult summers has ever seen, the 2019-20 bushfire season. In 2022, From the Embers 2: Phoenix returns to several places featured in the first series, including Mallacoota, Kangaroo Island, and the forests of the Far north of New South Wales to explore how communities are recovering from the fires and the issues that ...
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Eighteen of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast we talk to Drop Knee Sessions creator Clayton Pickworth. The conversation includes growing up bodyboarding in Port Macquarie during its most influential era, running the PMBA, DK on the World Tour, the inception of DKS and the creation of the new event, the Bodyboardin…
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In this episode of the Five Minute Advocate, Julie Macken unpacks the aftermath of Senator Fatima Payman’s decision to cross the floor in support of urgent action for Palestine and critiques Labor’s dismissal of the Australian public’s concerns over international issues. Julie challenges the Prime Minister’s warning about single-issue parties threa…
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This week we're bringing you the second half of All The Best's collaboration with Outloud Arts, working with young people in Bankstown to make an audio walking tour about the places that matter to them. For those who aren’t familiar with Sydney, Bankstown is a suburb located in the South-West Sydney region. Due to the multicultural immigrant demogr…
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This week on The Five Minute Advocate, Michael Walker commemorates NAIDOC Week by emphasizing the vital importance of celebrating Indigenous Australia. Michael calls for non-Indigenous Australians to collectively reject the distorted colonial narratives that have long shaped perceptions of Indigenous Australia. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva…
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This week, we’re bringing you more bird stories. i love birds First up, Matt Cooper explores his neighbourhood’s relationship to birds and learns a thing or two. Produced by Matt Cooper, with special thanks to Lea Redfern. Mothercluckers Then, Dione Green investigates the politics of free range chickens. This story was produced as part of the 2020 …
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Seventeen of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast we have a full and comprehensive wrap up of Australia’s premiere bodyboarding event, The Shark Island Challenge. Contest Director Luke O’Connor walks us through the highs and lows, and all the behind the scenes action of 2024’s SIC. Presented by Bodyboarding Victoria …
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In this episode of The Five Minute Advocate, Eva Cox explores the unsettling trend away from social democracy and trust in government, emphasising the importance of fairness and inclusivity in maintaining a healthy democracy. She argues for a return to these foundational principles to ensure governments prioritise citizen needs and foster genuine d…
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The traditional owners of this land, Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, have a connection to and understanding of country that is thousands of years old. Right now we’re living in a time of climate change and natural disasters, of warmer winters and colder summers and it often feels like our understanding of mother nature and her seasons…
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Sixteen of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast we the Winner of the 2024 Shark Island Challenge, Ben Sawyer. Ben discusses growing up in The Shire, Gath Helmets, Big Wave Surfing, and Fulfilling a Dream. Presented by Bodyboarding Victoria and ATTICA Wetsuits. The Closeout Podcast is proudly presented by Bodyboarding…
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In this episode of The Five Minute Advocate, Julie Macken revisits the nuclear power debate in Australia. She critiques former Prime Minister John Howard's 2006 plan to make Australia a nuclear hub, which failed due to high costs, safety issues, and community opposition. Julie also takes aim at Peter Dutton's recent push for nuclear reactors, highl…
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This week we’re bringing you stories that question and expand our national identity. A content warning, this episode contains racial slurs, racism, and violence so please listen with care. The Ocean and the Desert Flower In our first story, Zeinab shares the things she loves about her home, and ruminates on the various contradictions involved withi…
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Fifteen of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast we talk to former CEO of the Australian Bodyboard Association, Nick Chandler. We discuss Nick’s time with the ABA, Sydney Bodyboard Club, Recruiting for the Surf Industry, and the sad passing of Mauricio ‘Moz’ Abrunhosa. Presented by Bodyboarding Victoria and Limited Ed…
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In this episode of The Five Minute Advocate, Michael Walker delves into Australia's housing crisis, highlighting the grim realities renters are facing. Michael shares insights from renters' forums where many, including himself, express the direct impacts of skyrocketing rents and negligent property management. He calls for urgent reforms to address…
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This week we’re bringing you another feature from our partnership with the podcast ‘177 Nations of Tasmania’. In this podcast, host and producer Mark Thomson aims to interview subjects from each of the 177 nationalities represented in Tasmania’s last census. This story belongs to Anne from Papua New Guinea. She enthusiastically shares her childhood…
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate Eva Cox reflects on the state of Australia’s childcare sector specifically its shift from a community led and controlled service to what it is today - just another avenue for privatisation. Eva calls for a return to the government's responsibility in providing childcare as a community service and urges the Labo…
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Please listen to this week's episode with care as it includes accounts of displacement and detention in Palestine. Last week, we heard about Amal's everyday life growing up in Aida Refugee Camp, in the West Bank Palestine. We heard stories of regular young people, living between wars, with hopes for the future. Amal no longer lives in the camp, so …
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate, Julie Macken again plays with the idea of imagination being a tool in nation building and this week asks us to envisage a society where bullying is no longer a part of the culture in our corporate and media landscape. Julie implores us to take courageous action and accountability to shift towards a society whe…
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A content warning for this episode, we’re going to be talking about the past and present of Palestine, which may be difficult for some listeners to hear. Discretion is advised. Over the next two weeks, we’re playing stories from a radio project from the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank, Palestine. It’s called Radio Lajee. It began in 2008, when A…
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Fourteen of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast we see a fan favorite Matt Lackey return, as well as guest host Michael Jennings. We discuss the new Nick Ormerod documentary “Fragor”, Gambling in Bodyboarding, Wave Pools around the world, tragic news regarding surf trips, the DK World Tour, and Ryan Hardy’s new book…
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate Michael Walker unpacks the recent Happy Planet Index report which revealed that those of us who burned the most CO2, particularly the wealthiest 10%, are in fact scarcely happier than those living more modest lifestyles. Michael argues that this finding challenges the notion that addressing climate change requi…
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This week we embrace the strange, and delve into those open, uncomfortable parts of life - and death. The Coffin in the Garage First up, Miles and his family get into a sticky situation regarding his grandfather’s coffin. Written and read by Miles Mazzocato, with production support from Phoebe Adler-Ryan. Ghost Girlfriend Next, the highs and lows o…
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate, Eva Cox criticises the Labor government’s 2024 Budget for prioritising economic concerns over addressing pressing social issues. Eva laments the budget’s lack of impact on social improvement and its failure to instill optimism in its citizens for a fairer society. Eva advocates again for a shift towards priori…
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Over the past few months, All The Best has worked with local young people in Bankstown to make an audio walking tour about the places that matter to them. Stories From Here is an audio walking tour of Bankstown featuring recorded monologues written by local young people aged 16-24 about their experiences in the area and the places that matter to th…
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Thirteen of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast the team talk to 3 young men making an impact on our sport right now: Luke O’Connor discusses his management of the Shark Island Challenge and Riptide Podcast, Tassie Legend Sam Thomas discusses his Wildcard into the SIC, and Tom Morris discusses his journey to Chile’ …
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This week on The Five Minute Advocate, Julie Macken deep dives into Irish sociologist Benedict Anderson’s most famous theories – that nations are imagined political communities. This idea reminds us to take the role of imagination in nation building seriously, because it is what makes this country what it is, for better or worse. So, in this editio…
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If you had to tell the story of your life, what moments would you share? This week we hear from people who have lived well and have the yarns to prove it. Silence of the Irish In our first story, Grace brings to light a deeply held secret of her Irish Catholic grandparents. Produced by Grace Macpherson. The supervising producer was Eugenia Zoubtche…
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This week, tales of open water swimming - from the beauty of plunging into parkland ponds to the freedom of venturing into wild waves. Wild Swimming In our first story, Corey needs a swim, and finds themselves wading through British cultural norms to find one. This story was written, recited and produced by Corey Green. Jasmin Alavuk was the Story …
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In Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel’s influential work ‘Modernisation, Cultural Change, and Democracy’ it’s noted that increasing a society’s affluence leads to increasing tolerance - as societies become more affluent and self-confident, their citizens will become more open and tolerant. This week on the Five Minute Advocate, Michael Walker hi…
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This week we feature two Australian-Turkish writers, who ruminate on the topic of belonging, home and immigration. In their distinctive creative ways, Ela Pinar and Eda Gunaydin unpack the confusion of feeling homesick for a land that was never truly ‘home’ to begin with. 1.10 - In This Version of Home First, Ela tells the story of her journey to T…
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate Eva Cox reflects on the impactful events of this past weekend when around the country thousands gathered to end men’s violence against women, calling upon the government to declare this epidemic a national emergency. As a long standing and prominent figure in the feminist movement, Eva reflects on the current s…
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate Julie Macken dives deeper into AUKUS agreement and criticises the government’s questionable prioritisation of defence spending over citizen and community welfare. Julie highlights the failings of the two-party system, calling out their failures to offer meaningful policy differences with both Labor and the Coal…
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This week, stories about breaking the rules of modern society. And just a heads up - it’s the punk episode - so there might be some swears. Please Come to My Show In our first story, we’re gonna hear from five people looking back at their young, punk selves, and how the politics, music, and spirit of this community has continued to shape their live…
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Send us a Text Message. In Episode Twelve of The Closeout Bodyboarding Podcast the team discuss all the latest News and Comp Updates, including The Shark Island Challenge, The IBC World Tour, Box Fest, Drop Knee Sessions Vs Bodyboarding Victoria Urbn Surf Comp, as well as chat about April Fools Jokes, and The Joker himself Damien King. Presented by…
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Do you remember your first heartbreak? This week, three storytellers take us through their break up journeys and the sometimes strange and unexpected ways we move on. Traffic Our first story explores the way that memories of a relationship can replay in your mind, over and over, on loop. Traffic was produced and performed by Bea. With sound design …
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This week on the Five Minute Advocate Michael Walker tackles the AUKUS submarine deal, highlighting its exorbitant cost of $368 billion, which he argues could be better spent on uplifting the quality of life for millions of Australia through options like public housing, electric vehicles, or high-speed rail. Michael suggests that this deal is an ex…
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This week our storytellers compare their youthful expectations of life and love, to their less naive realities. Rom Coms Ruined My Life In our first story, Danni revisits the movies they loved as a teenager, and finds they don’t quite hold up to modern day scrutiny. Produced by Danni Stewart. Byron Bay, A Time and Place Then, Holly shares the story…
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