They are both as bad as one another. I just feel Molk is sick of Robs ‘I know everything’ approach.
Molk is usually the voice of reason and gets annoyed with Rob’s stubbornness. Rob needs to listen more. You listen for diverse opinions. Let everyone speak!
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SBS wants to hear from diverse voices for new podcasts
SBS wants to hear from diverse Australian voices who have new ideas to share, as it continues to grow its collection of distinctive podcasts.
SBS is calling out to Australian podcasters to submit their concepts, inviting pitches showcasing originality and diverse storytelling, as it looks to build on its offering of podcasts providing news, information and entertainment in more than 60 languages.
Submissions are open to podcasters with all levels of experience, and projects can be multilingual or in any language. Shortlisted submissions will be invited to work with the SBS Audio & Language podcast team to further develop the idea, with new podcast commissions announced later this year.
David Hua, Director of Audio and Language Content at SBS, said: “SBS has always championed the voices of contemporary Australia, and today our podcasts provide an exciting platform for us to approach topics and stories that help us to bring the SBS Charter to life, in innovative and engaging ways.
“SBS is fluent in 60 languages and we are keen to expand our role as Australia’s multicultural broadcaster with even more on demand audio. We want to hear from diverse voices with unique ideas and perspectives. We are looking for distinctive and compelling concepts that align with who we are and our purpose at SBS, to help us to explore more ways to inform, educate and entertain all Australians.
“We love seeing the way audiences connect with our podcasts, which span languages and topics, and we’re excited to see what the next SBS podcasts might be as we look to grow our offering.”
Since the launch of the network’s first podcast in 2008, SBS has continued to grow its podcast collection and currently produces podcasts in more than 60 languages, with more than 45 million unique downloads in 2020. Across the network SBS has produced award-winning and popular podcast series, including Eyes on Gilead , Slow Italian Fast Learning , My Arab Identity , The Uluru Statement from the Heart in your language and NITV’s Take It Blak .
Submissions are now open and will close on Monday 4th October. All ideas must be original, have a clear concept, and be submitted via the online form on the SBS website: sbs.com.au/podcastpitch
The podcast episode will be released weekly, with the first coming tomorrow (September 9).
The ABC had hosted the Outer Sanctum podcast for the past four years.
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Jessica Rowe has come under fire because she interviewed controversial politician Pauline Hanson in her latest episode.
I see that Jess is also trending on Twitter with lots of negative comments.
Jessica Rowe has taken down the podcast that featured Pauline Hanson.
Does anyone think this seems manufactured and planned? Surely Jess would’ve known the twitter mob would come at her for interviewing Pauline. As a result, everyone is now talking about Jess and her podcast, that’s one way to gain new listeners…
I might be wrong. But maybe the intention was to always remove Pauline’s episode to get more listeners.
Very cynical view there just for publicity, I don’t think this will do her or her image any favours as a result of this outrage.
Not sure I agree with it being taken down, not particularly interested in listening with it either and that’s the great thing about having the choice.
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Hmmm, I don’t know, I’m seeing lots of comments on twitter of people saying they’ll now listen to Jess’ podcast because she removed Pauline’s episode.
But I think it was completely the wrong move to take it down. Firstly, no one’s being forced to listen to it. I managed to listen to the first half of it before it was removed, mostly because I wanted to hear how one of our politicians acted in more of a relaxed manner. Very dangerous behaviour to be cancelling people because of their views.
Today is International Podcast Day, a day aimed at spreading the word of podcasts and connecting creators and listeners around the world.
A recent survey of 54 countries shows podcasts were most popular in Sweden, with 47% of respondents claiming they listened to at least one podcast in the last 12 months. Australia is in the 30-39% range.
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has released his own podcast, co-hosted by Sarah Grynberg. Episode will be released via LiSTNR each month.
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Gripping true crime podcast Bondi Badlands exposes brutal gay hate murders
ACCLAIMED HERALD AND THE AGE JOURnALIST GREG CALLAGHAN EXAMINES AUSTRALIA’S MOST HORRIFIC GAY HATE MURDERS ON THE BONDI CLIFFTOPS
The gripping true story of how the scenic clifftops of iconic Bondi became the epicentre of a series of brutal gay hate murders is the focus of new true crime podcast Bondi Badlands from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
The five-part series, by Good Weekend deputy editor Greg Callaghan and based on his acclaimed 2007 book of the same name, will launch this Friday, October 1 with weekly episodes available on all major podcast platforms.
Bondi Badlands is an investigation into a series of callous murders and mysterious disappearances in Sydney in the late 1980s and early Nineties.
All victims were gay, and the series explores the slaying of four young men – WIN TV weather reporter Ross Warren, barmen John Russell, Thai national Kritchikorn Rattanjurathaporn and Frenchman Gilles Mattaini – who met their grizzly deaths at the bottom of the cliffs between Bondi and Tamarama beaches.
The brutal violence occurred on the clifftops near Marks Park which, at the time, was so notorious for targeted gay bashings that the area was nicknamed Bondi Badlands. While Bondi is now the domain of multi-millionaires and a progressive population, during the 1980s it was at the intersection of a cultural change where the rough working class was being usurped by gentrification and a new, confronting social change.
With Marks Park a renowned gay beat, gangs would regularly lie in wait and randomly attack those on the headland under the cloak of darkness, using the cliffs as murder weapons. Some victims, like Kritchikorn, were discovered by divers in the water in 1990, while others like Ross disappeared forever in July 1989 after his body was swept out to sea.
In what would easily shock a nation now, the series of attacks remained unsolved and garnered little police attention – until May 2000 when Detective Sergeant Stephen Page from Paddington Police Station came across a bunch of letters from Ross Warren’s mother Kay pleading for her missing son to be formally declared deceased so she could find some closure.
Page’s interest in the case started Operation Taradale, which eventually led to an inquest by the Deputy State Coroner. Over the course of four decades, there have been at least 88 murders of gay and transgender people in Sydney, with 30 cases unsolved.
“What caught my eye [in May 2000] was that attached to the file was a letter from Kay,” says the now former detective Stephen Page. “There were many other letters that Kay had kept asking NSW Police asking for assistance and support and nothing had been done.
“I just felt for Kay. I had a young son myself and I thought how horrible as a parent to have a child missing and you just want some support to find out what’s happened to them. I took it up then and there.”
“Either side of the disappearance of Ross Warren – about 18 months either side of July 1989 – there was a lot of violence associated around Marks Park. There was one victim that survived, and that was in December 1989 – and we refer to him as the one that got away…”
The series, containing moving and sometimes chilling interviews with key players including Detective Sergeant Page and those close to the victims, is sponsored by Waverley Council and community health organisation ACON.
Each episode centres on the murder of the Bondi men, with episode four also examining the 2005 inquest, crucial prison phone taps and the story of how David McMahon became Page’s star witness after escaping almost certain death. The final episode covers the case of Scott Johnson, whose body was found at the base of cliffs near North Head, Manly, in 1988. A man was arrested by police in May 2020 after a key informant came forward to help break the cold case. A pre-trial hearing is set for early 2021.
Journalist Greg Callaghan pieces together the murders, the senseless and tragic loss of lives, and the effect the murders have had on friends and families, many of whom have never received justice or closure.
“It’s been a slow road to justice for most of the victims’ families,” says Callaghan. “The victims were good, loving men killed only because they were gay.”
New episodes of Bondi Badlands will be released every Friday from October 1 on APPLE, GOOGLE and SPOTIFY
Greg Callaghan has written an accompanying article for this week’s Good Weekend magazine, on the Bondi murders.
ABC pandemic podcast wins national science prize
ABC podcast RN Presents…Patient Zero has won a national prize for outstanding science journalism for exploring the origins and impacts of pandemics such as COVID-19.
The win marks the second year running that an ABC audio series has won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Science Journalism, following the success of Radio National’s Coronacast in 2020.
Conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic and produced during state lockdowns, the eight-part audio documentary series and podcast RN Presents…Patient Zero cut through the deluge of daily news to help audiences understand major disease outbreaks – where they begin, why they happen and how the world had found itself in the middle of a really big one.
Executive Producer Joel Werner described the series as “true crime but for disease outbreaks”. “The Eurekas are Australia’s most prestigious science awards and we’re still pinching ourselves that Patient Zero won the prize for science journalism,” he said.
“The series was produced almost entirely in lockdown, from a collection of living room offices and cobbled-together home studios across the country. And while most of our episodes focused on disease outbreaks of the past, we didn’t shy away from the obvious – producing an in-depth, richly produced and journalistically rigorous documentary about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as we were living through it.
“We wanted to find an audience beyond scientifically literate consumers and give everyone a means of learning more about the complexities of pandemics. To do this, we assembled a multidisciplinary team of science journalists, true crime producers and audio specialists from across the ABC. I couldn’t be prouder of the Patient Zero team – this award is just recognition for all their hard work.”
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, established in 1990, honour excellence across the areas of research and innovation, science leadership and engagement and school science.
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ABC podcast series tells LGBTQIA+ stories of coming out – and staying in
Everyone comes out in their own way, in their own time. ABC Podcast Innies + Outies brings you fascinating stories from diverse LGBTQIA+ Australians about coming out or staying in.
Hosted by Walkley Award-winning journalist Mon Schafter, the ABC is proud to launch this new podcast on National Coming Out Day, Monday 11 October 2021.
“As a proud queer Australian, I’m so excited to share these incredible rich human stories and to provide a platform for LGBTQIA+ voices,” says Mon. “Even though we live in a country that has marriage equality, coming out can still be the hardest or scariest experience of your life.”
Each episode of Innies + Outies is packed with life lessons for queer Australians and the people who love them.
Exploring a range of topics like coming out in high school, queer comedians who turn their trauma into jokes, and LGBTQIA+ folks who choose not to come out, Innies + Outies shares first person stories, as well as the perspectives of parents, partners, friends, colleagues and teammates who’ve been on these journeys too.
“Some of the chats I’ve had with folks while recording this podcast have left me in tears, while others have cracked me up,” Mon shares. “Particularly some of the surprising things that parents have said. They’re often more clued in than you think.”
Guests include multi-award-winning comedian Rhys Nicholson, the first openly gay Indigenous parliamentarian Chansey Paech, and everyday Australians with incredible stories.
You’ll meet a teacher who helped launch the first student pride group in a region that voted overwhelmingly against marriage equality, a trans doctor working on the frontline of COVID, and a sawmill worker from regional Australia who affirmed her true gender after more than two decades at the same company.
“ Innies + Outies is a first for the ABC and I think it has something for everyone. Even if you’re not part of the rainbow community yourself, we’re all connected in some way through family and friends – and these stories capture what everyone goes through,” says Mon.
Rich Listers reveal how they build their wealth in new podcast series by the Australian Financial Review
Some of Australia’s most prominent entrepreneurs reveal how they built their fortunes from scratch and offer the secrets to their success, in a new podcast series How I Made It, from The Australian Financial Review.
Financial Review Rich List co-editor Julie-anne Sprague talks to Australia’s top business builders about their backgrounds and how they turned their dreams into realities. The series canvasses stories from a broad range of entrepreneurs, highlighting growth from a range of industries. Among the interviews are fast food king Jack Cowin, women’s fashion retailer Jane Lu, Flight Centre’s Graham “Skroo” Turner, software developer Tony Walls and former NRL player-turned Rich Lister Wes Maas.
While their backgrounds may all differ, they all have one thing in common – starting phenomenally successful businesses that have landed them on the Financial Review Rich Lists.
How I Made It steps out of the boardroom and into the entrepreneur’s minds to find out what it takes to build wealth from the ground up, the lessons learnt and how taking big risks can pay off.
Episode one features Jack Cowin, who introduced Australians to KFC and Hungry Jacks, and built Dominos into a $12 billion giant. Worth almost $5 billion and ranked 17th on the Rich List, Cowin opens up about his childhood and what it takes to make a business empire. He has 13 lessons for life and one of those is to never give up if you think you are right.
“Sometimes in combat, big companies take advantage of the fact that the little guy will fold,” Cowin tells How I Made It .
Cowin was raised in Canada, at one point selling trees and shrubs door-to-door while studying psychology at university.
“That was the best education I ever had,” Cowin says. “I was making more money in a summer job than the university professors were – and they hated it! No matter where you end up, being able to create an image of someone that can be successful at whatever the task is important. Do the best you can because people are watching, and if you’re successful that carries forward.”
The How I Made It series, sponsored by Charter Hall, is now available on all podcast platforms and through afr.com. Host Julie-anne Sprague says the series offers a rare glimpse into how some of the nation’s best business builders think.
“What I love about How I Made It is it offers a fireside chat with some of the nation’s best business builders. You can learn so much by hearing how they interpret events and how they reflect on what they’ve created. “
3MP breakfast co-host Jon Vertigan has launched a new podcast called I Was a Teenage Prize-Pig, on his teenage experience of calling various Melbourne radio stations in the 1980s and winning prizes on air. On the podcast, he plays some of that audio and catches up with the announcer that gave him the prize to formally apologise for being a ‘teenage prize-pig’.
The first episode with Kevin Hillier will be released tomorrow (October 15).
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/i-was-a-teenage-prize-pig-jon-vertigan-1nKvXuWPVFE/
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10 Speaks podcasts in 2022:
Plus: 2022 will have everyone scrambling for their AirPods when 10 Speaks delivers a fascinating range of must-hear podcasts, including Football Companion , The Project, Short Black , Professor and the Hack , Cocktails and Roses , Australian Survivor: Talking Tribal and an incredible true crime podcast.
Few new mentions in there, Football Companion, The Project and a new true crime podcast.
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