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Good Weekend Talks

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Good Weekend Talks features in-depth conversations with the people fascinating Australians right now, from sport to politics to the arts, business and beyond, interviewed weekly by the country"s top journalists. Consider it a magazine for your ears.

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33:25

Author Anke Richter on the lure of a sex cult

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2022/11/04

Warning: This episode contains mentions of sexual assault and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please contact Lifeline 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636. If there is one common denominator to all sex cults, it’s the exploitation of women, with an estimated 40 per cent of female participants suffering sexual abuse, according to a new book called Cult Trip by New Zealand-based journalist Anke Richter. In this episode, Richter speaks with deputy editor Greg Callaghan about her

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36:23

Wendy Whiteley on creativity, gardening and fame

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/10/28

A great interview has range and depth, humour and pathos, and who better to deliver that than Wendy Whiteley, former wife of the late artist Brett Whiteley and creator of Wendy’s Secret Garden in Sydney’s Lavender Bay, in discussion with her friend, journalist Ashleigh Wilson, who has just written a book – A year with Wendy: Conversations about Art – to be released next week by Text Publishing.In this episode, Whiteley opens up about everything from the way great women are hidden within our

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32:08

Zookeeper Lucy Truelson on the impending birth of...

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2022/10/21

Three baby elephant calves are due for delivery at Melbourne Zoo in November, December and January, and it sounds as though their arrival is well timed. Not only are the elephants due for transfer to an expansive new habitat in Werribee in 2024, but the zoo itself has adopted a new elephant-led approach to their care, in which the animals have greater autonomy - including everything from choosing when to offer up their ear for a blood test to when (and whether) they might enter a crate for

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38:39

Acclaimed TV producer Tony Ayres on the filmmaking...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/10/14

Australia is rushing towards a filmmaking crisis due to the paucity of locally-produced shows on which up-and-coming writers, directors and other key creatives can develop their skills. So says acclaimed producer Tony Ayres, whose hit shows include Glitch, Stateless, The Slap, Barracuda, Seven Types of Ambiguity and Clickbait. On this week's episode Ayres discusses the skills shortage he expects to hit in about five years time, along with the high and low points of his own career and life, with

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28:26

How the way Aussies travel has changed post-pandemic

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/10/07

After years of pandemic-restricted movement, travel is back with a vengeance. The past three months have been the busiest in two years, says Michelle Rheinberger from boutique travel company Adventum Travel. Rheinberger speaks with Good Weekend senior writer Amanda Hooton in this episode of Good Weekend Talks about our increasing desire for deep immersion over tick-things-off vacations, what her move to the NSW town of Millthorpe taught her about regional hospitality, and the things you shouldn't

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28:44

Plastic surgeon Fiona Wood on the next big thing for...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/09/30

Nearly two decades ago, Professor Fiona Wood was the face of Australia’s response to the Bali bombings – the single largest loss of life due to an act of terror in our national history. The plastic and reconstructive surgeon was the co-creator of a revolutionary burns treatment known as spray-on skin, which helped save the lives of many Bali bombings victims. This October 12 will mark the 20-year anniversary of those attacks. In the intervening years, Wood has continued to drive groundbreaking

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37:29

Grace Tame on pursuing activism, managing being...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/09/23

Grace Tame admits that “sometimes I can be too rigid in my opinions” but she makes no apology for her obstinacy in advocating for survivors of child sexual abuse, pointing to a law change in the Australian Capital Territory as her first victory. “It has translated into a reality of dissolving and redirecting the shame … we’ve seen a law change in the ACT,” she says. “Just to change that word, to remove that word ‘relationship’ from the crime of persistent child sexual abuse, that’s a huge

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35:48

Author Anita Heiss on writing, footy, marathon...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/09/16

It’s been a big year for Anita Heiss, author, playwright, public speaker and University of Queensland academic. In May, she won the Indigenous Writers Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In June, she was appointed a member of the Order of Australia. And this month sees the release of an anthology of personal stories by Wiradjuri elders, which Heiss, herself a Wiradjuri woman, has edited. Topping that off, her first play, adapted from her novel Tiddas, is on at Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre

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33:05

Back to Back Theatre director Bruce Gladwin on its...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/09/09

The members of Geelong’s Back to Back Theatre had no idea they were about to be awarded the so-called “Nobel Prize for theatre” – the International Ibsen Award – when they sat down for a Zoom meeting in March with Norway's Ministry of Culture.In this episode, the company's artistic director, Bruce Gladwin, tells Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland about that happy phone call, what the prize money will mean for the 35 year old company, and how he and a core ensemble of actors who are neuro-diverse

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32:29

Netflix's Australian content director on soapies,...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/09/02

As the Director of Content for Netflix Australia, Que Minh Luu is one of the most influential people on the Australian TV landscape. In this episode, she talks soapies, streaming and representation with culture news editor Osman Faruqi. Luu discusses one of her most significant commissions, a reboot of Heartbreak High, as well as Netflix's goals in the local market, the desire for shows that reflect the diversity of the community, and the need to balance idealism with audience expectations.See

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27:33

Stella Prize winner Evelyn Araluen on poetry, prizes...

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2022/08/26

As the six-month anniversary of her Stella Prize win approaches, First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen has issued a call-to-arms to the arts and publishing industries: don’t let verse slip through the cracks and ensure your attempts at inclusion are more than tokenistic.Earlier this year Araluen became the first person to win the $60,000 Stella prize for a book of poetry – Dropbear – which has since gone on to sell nearly 15,000 copies.Araluen discusses the importance of writing, prize money,

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41:16

David Hallberg on the transition from top dancer to...

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2022/08/19

A former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet, David Hallberg took over as artistic director of the Australian Ballet in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks with Amanda Hooton about the shift from dancing to directing - the loneliness but also the liberation, how he misses the sweat but loves not having to think about how his foot is turned. He discusses, too, the shock of taking the reins at a major arts company as performances were cancelled en masse, his

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38:55

Pioneering Peggy O’Neal prepares to farewell Richmond...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/08/12

Naive is a word no one would associate with Peggy O’Neal, except perhaps the woman herself - albeit eight years ago, when she became president of the Richmond Football Club. O’Neal was already the first female board member in the club’s history, but admits she simply didn’t recognise the significance of becoming the first female figurehead in AFL clubland - or the backlash it would spark.Fast-forward almost a decade and O’Neal’s incredibly successful time at the helm of the club - an era that has

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43:46

Andrew Quilty on photography in a combat zone

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/08/05

The cars with blown-out windscreens stood out, as did the demolished shopfronts. Things like this led photojournalist Andrew Quilty closer and closer to the heart of ground zero in Kabul, where a bomb had been detonated, following the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.Quilty is the focus of a feature story in this Saturday’s Good Weekend — “As the Taliban advanced on Kabul, Andrew Quilty landed at its airport” — and the award-winning photographer is joined in conversation by the author of that

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34:04

Helping kids navigate the online world: Tips from...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/07/29

Julie Inman Grant leads the world’s first regulatory agency designed to keep people safe online, after an influential career working with US Congress, as well as in senior positions at Silicon Valley giants Microsoft and Twitter. But she’s also just a mum, albeit one who understands better than most the pressures parents face in keeping their kids out of harm’s way online.Inman Grant speaks with senior writer Konrad Marshall about the kind of disturbing content that comes through her office; what

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33:18

The inside story of the woman who took down Josh...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/07/22

For independent MP Monique Ryan, unseating federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg at the May election was an incredible feeling. “It was the most fun night of my life,” Ryan says of becoming the member for Kooyong, a blue ribbon Victorian seat that had always been Liberal. “There’s no doubt about it.”And yet in the wash up - assessing the three month election campaign and the three months since her win - she’s also come to see politics as a “very brutal blood sport”, filled with emotional and

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46:37

Ben Crowe on the art of being human

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/07/15

Ben Crowe has been mindset coach to the stars (including everyone from Ash Barty and Dylan Alcott, to Dustin Martin and Stephanie Gilmore) in a marketing and mentoring career spanning 25 years. Good Weekend senior writer Melissa Fyfe recently profiled Crowe, examining his work counselling everyone from CEOs to students to soldiers, and now hosts an in-depth chat with the man himself. In this latest episode of Good Weekend Talks - a magazine for your ears, in which top journalists from across The

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33:29

Jaguar Jonze on the cost of speaking out

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/07/08

Despite being the very public face of the Australian music industry’s #MeToo movement, singer Jaguar Jonze still feels gagged by the country’s onerous defamation laws. The Taiwanese-Australian indie-pop darling was among the first to speak out against the poor treatment of women in the local music industry when she posted allegations on Twitter about being sexually assaulted by two producers in 2019. Jonze speaks to host of sister podcast Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper about the cost of speaking

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36:26

Dylan Alcott on life after tennis, his mornings...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/07/01

Paralympic gold medalist, winner of tennis’s uber-rare Golden Slam and Australian of the Year, Dylan Alcott feared he'd miss tennis when he stopped playing earlier this year. He didn't - not one jot. On this, the relaunch episode of Good Weekend Talks, he discusses with Konrad Marshall his post-tennis career plans, what he really wants to achieve as Australian of the Year, and why people with disabilities, aka "natural born problem solvers", make for great employees. Good Weekend Talks is a weekly

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32:27

South Sudanese Australian artist Atong Atem on art,...

Good Weekend Talks ·

2022/06/17

They say the personal is political – that our own intimate experiences can’t help but inform larger social structures. The same is true in the stunning photographic work of visual artist Atong Atem, whose hyper-saturated images are at once joyous, traditional, surreal and deeply connected to her familial roots in South Sudan. Atong Atem talks art, politics and family with Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland on the latest episode of Good Weekend Talks.Atem is the inaugural recipient of

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