Zoe Pook and her family live in Cobargo, NSW. She was travelling with her 2 children to Adelaide for a wedding when the firewall hit Cobargo and incinerated much of the town. Her husband, a volunteer firefighter, stayed to battle the fire and s

Writes 4 Climate Change Special

Feb 23rd, 2020 1h 7m

. 3 respected writers and journalists came together to discuss reporting, writing and telling stories in the age of fake news and denialism.This special episode on Writing 4 Climate Change is taken from the Writes4Women podcastare all fightin

Karen Viggers

Feb 22nd, 2020 30m 28s

Karen Viggers lives in Canberra, she is a Vet who works with native wildlife in the field. This January she volunteered her services to help the animals and saw first hand the impact of the catastrophic bushfires on flora and fauna. Karen has h

Sulari Gentill

Feb 8th, 2020 42m 2s

Sulari Gentill lives in the NSW town of Batlow, home of the Batlow apple. Her husband, Michael and son, Edmund, are both volunteer firefighters with the RFS. They have been fighting fires for years but they have never experienced anything like

Pamela Cook

Feb 4th, 2020 20m 45s

Pamela Cook is an Author living on the South Coast of NSW. Her daughter, son in law and 2 year old grandson all live and work on her property in Milton. The young family run their business out of that property, it is how they earn a living. Not

Sophie Masson

Feb 4th, 2020 14m 46s

Sophie Masson is an author living near Armidale in Northern NSW. Sophie has always thought she was safe out there and water was a given. In 2019 both drought and fires hit for the first time. She did not lose her home but she now knows what fea

Catastrophic "Do you have a story?"

Jan 12th, 2020 6m 33s

Catastrophic" is a raw collection of short stories from people all over Australia giving their first hand accounts of what it is like to live through catastrophic bushfires and face the aftermath. It is a way for people to express their fear an

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