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About Regional Podcast

About Regional is a digital regional news and opinion platform that celebrates the colour and unique perspective of country people. Going beyond what you might expect from a traditional news agency, About Regional facilitates conversations, builds connections, and creates experiences based on life under a gum tree rather than a skyscrapper. Our readers, viewers, and listeners are active participants and add to the depth and variety of our stories. Those who contribute live at the heart and soul

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21: 2018 Festival of Open Minds - Jan Harris

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2019/12/20

Jan Harris and her family lost their proud Vimy Ridge home in the Tathra and District Bushfire of March 18, 2018.At the Festival of Open Minds in 2018, Jan spoke of her loss, "I am adrift without the anchors of my life" she told the 350 people gathered before a standing ovation.

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20: David Nyuol Vincent in Bega, ‘The Boy Who...

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2019/12/15

David Nyuol Vincent, was a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars and 17 years in refugee camps to build a new life in Australia, is September of 2019 he visited Bega at the invitation of Bega Valley Quakers and the Social Justice Advocates of the Sapphire Coast. David was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. For months David and his father walked across southern

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19: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Alasdair...

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2019/12/13

Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall spent his teenage years in Tathra and went to uni to become an engineer. After working in the industry for a few years, he decided to swap steady, profitable work for life as a comedian, creating his first Melbourne Comedy Festival show in 2013 – and he hasn’t stopped since. And the secret to having a show at a comedy festival? “I’ll tell you the secret,” Alasdair says, lowering his voice, “it is unbelievably easy. You have to be able to come up with $550 to register

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18: Paul West back where River Cottage Australia started

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2019/11/05

Paul West has become a favourite some of the Far South Coast of New South Wales. The time and energy he brought to the region and its people as host of River Cottage Australia made him so. Filming on the TV series based at Tilba ended four years ago, having moved away Paul and his young family are back in the region and putting down roots at Bermagui, south-east of the old River Cottage farm. "The whole time we were the away we mythologised the South Coast, it served as our North Star to where we

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17: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Sassi Nuyum

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2019/10/28

The Festival of Open Minds was proud to showcase Sassi Nuyum, a performer, person, and soul travelling life’s road with a compelling insight and honest creativity that rises above the barriers that sometimes block cultural understanding and open conversation. Sassi Nuyum, aka Meaghan Holt, has been writing since she was a little girl – writing runs in her family’s blood. Meaghan lost her mother at the age of 9 and has since been raised predominately with her Aboriginal family, extended and

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16: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Aly Khalifa

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2019/10/08

Currently living in Wollongong, Aly Khalifa is an innovator of global stature focused on social impact and sustainability. Aly is driven by harvesting plastic waste from our oceans to turn it into useful products for a circular economy. His training as both a designer and mechanical engineer, coupled with deep international manufacturing experience, has enabled him and his team to launch products for some of the most recognised consumer brands. His work has been celebrated internationally,

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15: 2019 Festival of Open Minds, Nas Campanella

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2019/09/26

Nas Campanella is a journalist and radio newsreader with the ABC and Triple J. She lost her sight when she was six months old. Nas also has a sensitivity condition which means she can’t read Braille. Winning an ABC cadetship in 2011, Nas spent her first-year news gathering and reading in here in Bega at ABC South East. In 2013 Nas joined Triple J, where she produces, writes and reads the news several times a day. Nas Campanella is the only blind radio newsreader in the world. Sound

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14: Jan Reynolds, Yankees Gap Bushfire survivor

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2019/09/23

Marking the first anniversary of the vast and long-running Yankees Gap Bushfire west of Bega takes in a few different dates. The fire started on Yankees Gap Road at Bemboka on August 15, 2018. Warm gusty winds stirred a smoldering pile burn that had been ringing alarm bells in the week before. September 15 was another bad day with communities closer to Bega and even Bega itself put in harm's way when the fire had a second run. The fire fighting effort on land, water and in the air lasted and

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13: 2019 Festival of Open Minds - Tim Costello

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2019/09/19

The Rev Tim Costello is one of Australia’s most respected community leaders and a sought-after voice on social justice issues, leadership and ethics. For 13 years until October 2016, Tim was Chief Executive of World Vision Australia, and up until earlier this year, he was World Vision’s Chief Advocate. In his evocative memoir that has just been released - A Lot with a Little, Tim explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a fighter for the world’s most challenging

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12: 2019 Festival of Open Minds - The Panel of Oomph!

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2019/09/16

The Festival of Open Minds held in Bega on Friday and Saturday (September 14/14, 2019) attracted some of the nation’s big thinkers to regional New South Wales, but loud in our mind is always making a place for local voices to take centre stage and add their own weight. The theme for Open Minds 2019 is ‘People With Oomph’ inspired by Bega Valley song man Damon Davis and his song of the same name. The line up of speakers included Tim Costello of World Vision, Nas Campanella - blind Triple J

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11: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Hugh Mackay,...

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2019/08/06

Australia’s most respected and experienced social researcher, Hugh Mackay, believes something is wrong with our nation and in the lives of its citizens. At the inaugural Festival of Open Minds in September 2018, Hugh came to Bega to explain what and why, but more importantly how he thinks we can change for the better. "It's at the local level that we will transform Australia and where we will be able to begin addressing the twin problem of social fragmentation and rising anxiety," he told the 350

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10: Disaster recovery takes time

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2019/07/03

Local support services speak of people still in need, still in emotional distress, still foggy and unable to cope with too much more. In episode two of this special three-part podcast series, we hear from Anne Leadbeater who was the recovery coordinator for Kinglake following the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria. She is ten years down the track and still feeling the influence and impact of her communities bad day. "I am not sure you ever get back to your full capacity. What that tells

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9: Reimagining the housing dream at Cobargo Folk...

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2019/03/22

The 'Ideas from the Edge' forums at the Cobargo Folk Festival, "are an opportunity to refresh your activist spirit, meet with local troublemakers, activists, and thinkers, as they discuss their ideas and visions for a better world," according to the Yuin Folk Club. At the festival held earlier this month, the Ideas agenda took in climate change, education systems, and Aboriginal culture. Region Media's Ian Campbell facilitated the lunchtime Saturday session, 'Reimagining the Housing Dream;

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8: Bushfire 12 months on - Reedy Swamp, Vimy Ridge,...

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2019/03/04

As the one year anniversary of the Reedy Swamp, Vimy Ridge, and Tathra Bushfire approaches many in the community will be feeling the effects of the last 12 months. It's been a crazy busy time for many. Activity always implies progress and suggests a 'recovery' that should be well advanced, but that is not everyone's experience. Milestones, like March 18, will challenge those expectations and perhaps stir new or festering discontent and emotion. Clinical psychologist David Younger wants people

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7: NSW Cancer Council, election priorities forum - Bega

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2019/02/11

Cancer and health advocates from the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla have made their pitch to those standing for election to the NSW Parliament on March 23. The NSW Cancer Council's Saving Life Forum attracted around 100 people to the Bega Civic Centre, all there to add their weight and in some cases, lived experience to the Council's four key election recommendations: 1. Strengthen the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000 to ensure that people working or socialising in a bar or club in NSW are protected

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6: Gillian Triggs, 'Speaking Up' in Bega

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2018/11/05

Gillian Triggs has made a rallying call for the freedoms we take for granted to be safeguarded during her Friday (November 2) night lecture in Bega. With the doors of the Bega High School theatre wide open to catch any passing zephyr, Triggs started a conversation just as hot as the day had been. As President of the Australian Human Rights Commission between 2012 and 2017, Triggs was often in conflict with the government of the day around asylum seeker policy in particular. With speculation

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5: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - climate activist...

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2018/11/02

Vimy Ridge resident and Bega Valley Shire Councilor, Jo Dodds strongly believes climate change is at play in her community, she points to the bushfires of March 18 that ripped through her community at Tathra. Sixty-five homes were lost on that day, Jo's home was very lucky not to be one of them. Her appeal to the Prime Minister in the week after those flames captured the attention of author, environmentalist, and co-founder of the global change agent – 350.org, Bill McKibben. Mr McKibben

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4: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Shadow Minister...

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2018/10/12

Linda Burney was elected the federal member for Barton in 2016, following a 14-year career in the NSW Parliament as Member for Canterbury. Linda began her career as a teacher in western Sydney and then as an education bureaucrat before being appointed Director General of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 2000. During her state political career, she served as minister in a number of senior portfolios including as Minister for Community Services and later as Deputy Leader of the

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3: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Zachary Sequoia,...

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2018/10/04

Zachary Sequoia is an innovator and serial entrepreneur who has worked within the digital technology industry since the mid-1990’s starting in San Francisco. For the last 20 years, he has worked for some of the world’s best known digital brands on three different continents. At the Festival of Open Minds, he urged his audience of around 300 people to embrace innovation and accept it as part of our shared futures. "We need to become engaged in helping the transition of skills and make sure the

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2: Festival of Open Minds Podcast - Author and...

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2018/09/28

Gabbie Stroud and her powerful and moving memoir ‘Teacher’ has captured Australia’s attention and is part of the current news cycle. In 2014, Gabbie was a very dedicated teacher with over a decade of experience. Months later, she resigned in frustration and despair. Her ground-breaking essay ‘Teaching Australia’ in the February 2016 Griffith Review outlined her experiences and provoked a huge response from former and current teachers around the world. In her powerful memoir ‘Teacher’, Gabbie

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