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I'm an international audio producer, an award-winning radio journalist and an author with a keen interest in creating hybrid forms of storytelling.
I have over thirty years’ experience in the arts, media and publishing, and I've worked as a writer, editor, consultant, researcher, workshop facilitator and project manager.
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Not quick enough to be sudden; too sudden to come to terms with: how do we find dignity in death?Interview with Jos Hall from Dying With Dignity
This piece discusses death, dying and grief.
First broadcast on 11 December 2017
The doctor talks about ‘active dying’; ‘non-active dying’; ‘range of life’; ‘treatment options’. We speak in months, weeks, days. He’s professional and factual. ‘Three to nine months,’ he says. The cancer has stolen everything from mum and now her body is betraying her on every level: because she’s not ‘actively dying’ she can’t go to the hospice, and because she won’t recover she can’t stay in hospital.
I’m unsure what ‘active dying’ is. I think: ‘If I can’t have forever, I’ll take nine months.’ I begin steeling myself for the worst: only three months. Before leaving, the doctor says mum can return home with community health support. Dad follows him out of the room to ask more questions.
Mum starts crying (the only time I see her cry while she's dying). ‘I can’t wait so long,’ she says, ‘it’s too much pain; why won’t they let people die when they want.’
Everything inside me stops. My mum’s a tiny bundle held together by the flimsy hospital gown. Breathing is so painful that they’ve put her on oxygen. Here she is, right next to me, bracing herself for Her worst: nine months. My wanting nine more months feels selfish.
Between mum’s terminal diagnosis and her passing was six weeks: six of the longest and shortest and worst weeks of my family’s lives.
30 Jul 2026
Distant Voices
Fractured Voices; Muted Voices; Healing Voices
Recorded 25-28 August 2017First broadcast September 2017
‘Distant Voices’ is a non-linear soundscape that captures the texture, emotion and feel of QPF2017: it takes you there. The three-acts: Fractured Voices; Muted Voices; Healing Voices, honour the 2017 theme, and pay tribute to the writers, activists and poets of this continent and beyond. Recorded across the QPF’s four main days, ‘Distant Voices’ weaves together our shared stories of isolation, curiosity, understanding and resilience.
Thank you to everyone who performed at the 2017 QPF, it’s a shame I couldn’t fit everyone in.
Order of appearance:
Shannon Ruska
Ali Cobby Eckerman
Quinn Eades - “Monday, June 27, Going First”.
Clozapine Clinic
Tim Heffernan
Benjaman Freighter
Alise Blayney
Stuart Barnes
Verity La editor/poet Michele Seminara
Andy Jackson - Part 2 of “Each Map of Scars”
Ellen Van Neervan
Sashim Park Owins
Writing Through Fences: Poetry and Displacement – “Through the Moon” performance
Featuring:
Hani Abdile, Juan Garrido Salgado, Janet Galbraith
Voices of Colour open mic event at the Brisbane City Library
WrICE Writers immersion and Cultural Exchange writer:
Martin Villanueva
Omar Musa
Sara Holland-Batt
Hera Lindsay Bird
Tusiata Avia (NZ)
Kiri Cooper
Courtney Sina Meredith (NZ).
Mark Doty.
And we finished the piece as we began, with Quinn Eades’ beautiful “Monday, June 27, Going First”.
Music:
Love for Sale – George Benson Quartet
Successionist - Part 2 of ‘Each Map of Scars’ (by Rachael Guy, Andy Jackson & Leonie Van Eyk), music by Kristin Rule and Rose Ertler.
Cello Before Time – Joseph Burgess
Diary – bangarra
Sunshrine – James Blackshaw
No Lines and Audio Forensic (dub) - High Pass Filter
Mapnduma – Music Can Rise Above Tyranny
30 Jul 2026
Sex Work is Real Work
Fair Rights for Sex Workers because everyone has the right to be safe at work and come home at the end of their shift
4ZZZ’s ‘Brisbane Line’ and 3CR’s ‘Stick Together’ talk to Elena Jeffereys from Respect Inc. (QLD) and Jane Green from Vixen Collective (Victoria) about sex work and how these collectives organise in a space which has legal barriers faced by no other group of Australian workers.
First broadcast on 11 June 2018
The legal status of sex work in Australia is convoluted, not because of any inherent complexity in the work itself, but because of myriad discrepancies between state and territory jurisdictions, and the countless legal and regulatory contradictions within state laws themselves.
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