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26 April - Dave Roberts-Thomson

19 April - Andrew Bate

A Tasmanian tulip farm helps to open up opportunities for continued tourism through the Table Cape area.

Andrew and his wife Jocie have been creating innovative robotic technology for Australia's agricultural industry.

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12 April - Darriea Turley

5 April - Katie van den Brand

Broken Hill Mayor, Darreia Turley, discusses the opportunities that renewable energy bring to the region, leading to the development of a 53 MW solar farm and the new 200 MW Silverton wind farm.

Katie was leading Maker & Co, a co-working and entrepreneurial space in south-west WA, when, after a chance meeting, she realised there were several similar hubs springing up all over the state.

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29 March 2018 - Catherine Baker

22 March 2018 - Christine Britton

A colour consultant by day, Catherine Baker is also a hunter, working to help control feral animals across the NT. Catherine challenges the perception of female stereotypes in more ways than one.

Chris is a prostate cancer specialist nurse and care coordinator in southern NSW. At first glance, prostate cancer may seem like a “men’s issue,” but Chris knows all too well that it touches whole communities.

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15 March 2018 - Cynthia Lui MP

8 March 2018 - Katrina Sasse

Cynthia has made history as Australia’s first Torres Strait Islander elected to parliament. She talked to Regional Voices about her role as a representative, and her hopes for her community and people.

What brings farming daughters back into the business? What we need to do differently to lift the number of daughters taking on the farm? Women only represent about 10% of farm leaders – so what needs to change?

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1 March 2018 - Mary Jane Gibbs

While Mary Jane thought about how to make ends meet, she started experimenting with making sustainable packaging wraps using natural bees wax. Today she’s working full time in her own business, Waxiwraps.

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February 2018 - Education

1/2/2018

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22 February 2018 -
Christine Roberts-Yates

Murray Bridge High School leads the way for new approaches to learning with a disability, and we hear Christine's efforts to give students new, practical ways to learn.

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15 February 2018 -
Chris Wheatcroft

Dealing with a changing business environment can be tough for farming families, and Chris discusses how continuous learning helps keep farming programs alive.

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8 February 2018 - Helen Thomas

1 February 2018 - Tiani Cook

King Island is home to around 1,600 people. Local youth need to leave the island to study once they finish Year 10. A new course will help build the local skillset, especially in industries with great growth potential.

Tiani Cook spent a month on horseback riding the 1,000km road from her home in the Tanamai Desert to Darwin, raising money and awareness for education access issues in remote Australia.

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December 2017 - Innovation

7/12/2017

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28 December 2017 - Rachel Power

21 December 2017 - James Barlow

Rachel owns Waterfalls Café in Mt Field National Park and won Tasmania’s 2017 Innovator of the Year award. Her marketing efforts has helped to see park visitation grow by almost 90%, and has opened up jobs for the community.

Cotton grower James Barlow, a young farmer by farm industry standards, has embraced innovative technology through irrigated cropping. Today he irrigates 1,600 acres all from his smart device which not only saves on water but labour as well.

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14 December 2017 - Simone Eyles

7 December 2017 - Tim Pannell

Simone has become a spokesperson for the opportunities and potential for innovation in regional Australia. The 365 Cups creator chats to us about her hometown of Wagga Wagga and why innovation is ripe regionally.

Quite literally a mover and shaker in Australia’s agricultural industry, Tim invented the “Reefinator” to address a major challenge for producers – land that couldn’t be farmed because of hard, embedded rock.

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November 2017 - Safety

1/11/2017

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30 Nov 2017 - Pamela Sandlant

23 Nov 2017 - Andrew Puglisi

Together with the community and the local fire service, Anglesea Primary School developed an award-winning program to teach bushfire awareness and safety.

As we gear up for the festive season, Andrew Puglisi from Kinkawooka Shellfish talks to Regional Voices about safely producing, transporting, choosing and cooking seafood.

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16 Nov 2017 - Fleur McDonald

One of Australia’s best-selling novelists, Fleur talks safety in country towns and shares stories of dealing with everything from stock theft to laser beams to cyber crime.

9 Nov 2017- Dr Randall Greenberg

It takes a bit of planning to keep safe in this huge country of ours, especially when you realise that if you do get into trouble, medical care could be several hours away.

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2 Nov 2017 - Charles Armstrong

Could a safety rating system help curb the number of quad-bike related accidents on farm? Charles Armstrong from Farmsafe Australia discusses this important topic.

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Sport - October 2017

5/10/2017

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26 October 2017 - Dean Morpeth

19 October 2017 - Tony Elletson

In 2015, a fire devastated the Woorinen Cricket Club. Club President, Dean Morpeth, talks about the resilience of the local community and why sport remains so important to regional Australia.

A new initiative in the Limestone Coast of regional South Australia gives a group of young athletes access to elite trainers, developing big opportunity despite the distance from big cities.

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12 October 2017 - George Hill

5 October 2017 - Vicki Agnew

Rising polo star, George Hill, talks about the upcoming World Polo Championships, the difference between polo and polocrosse, and why the sport is "not all Pretty Woman."

Australian Rules Football is big in the Pilbara. This week we hear about budding AFL talent and the spiking involvement of girls and women in the sport.

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Older and Bolder - September 2017

7/9/2017

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28 September 2017 - Fiona Cooper

21 September 2017 - Anne Lewis

The Women's Shed in Orange, NSW, equips women to learn new skills and rely on themselves for household maintenance and projects. Many are older women who previously relied on husbands for these tasks.

Anne Lewis served as a pilot in the Women’s Air Force and later as one of very few female commercial pilots. Now 90 and living in Burnie, Tasmania, she tells us where life takes her these days.

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14 September 2017 - Dave Walker

Dave Walker started his working life as an electrician, became a social worker, tried retirement for three weeks then at 67 opened up a blacksmithing business in Cargo, New South Wales.

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7 September 2017 - Ross Edwards

Ross Edwards tells us how signing on as a car parking attendant in 1966 led to him to his current position as chair of the Henty Machinery Field Days in NSW.

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Employment - August 2017

3/8/2017

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31 August 2017 - Caroline Evans

24 August 2017 - Jan Devlin

Yarra Valley Dairy CEO, Caroline Evans, talks to us this week about new jobs that open up as regional businesses grow and the challenges of casual workforces in regional areas.

Heard of Galileo's gravity experiment? Did you know you can do the experiment in regional Western Australia? Jan Devlin, CEO of the Gravity Discovery Centre & Observatory, tells us about the experiment and the work that happens at the facility.

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17 August 2017 - Ian Conway

10 August 2017 - Fiona Nash

300km from Alice Springs is Kings Creek Station. Manager Ian Conway discusses how Kings Creek finds staff, what it’s like to work in a place where you can’t go home at the end of the day and how a stint on an outback station can teach skills that last a lifetime.

As Deputy Leader of the National Party, Senator Fiona Nash discusses regional employment, mobile connectivity, and the importance of education in regional areas to ensure Australia’s growth and global competitiveness.

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3 August 2017 - Ella Shannon

Before founding AgDraft, Ella split her time travelling around the country as a consultant to big agri investment funds and helping out on the family property because her parents could never quite find enough staff. Something had to change.

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Education - July 2017

5/7/2017

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27 July 2017 - Roger Vater

Being in regional Australia is no excuse for not training and upskilling your team. Roger Vater of A.W. Vater & Co in South Australia shares his philosophy on training and the success it has brought to his business, and why it is vital for business to invest in their people in order to keep growing.

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20 July 2017 - Claire Wright

Claire Wright, one of the 2016 ABC Heywire winners, has been travelling Australia to build her project LGBTQandA which works to provide new, inclusive side events as part of existing regional festivals that help empower young LGBTQ+ people and give voice to issues that are important to them.

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13 July 2017 - Matt Linnegar

Matt Linnegar is Chief Executive of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. He shares about the different ways people can lead and why there are as many answers to the ‘what is leadership’ question as there are leaders.

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6 July 2017 - Dr Michael Meyers

Dr Michael Myers has seen kids from across Australia, including regional areas, demonstrate an amazing capacity for creative problem solving, as they compete in teams to design and build formula one cars and submarines.

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New Beginnings - June 2017

1/6/2017

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29 June 2017 - Ian Henderson

22 June 2017 - Maree Gooch

Ian runs a state of the art facility in regional Queensland and talks about everything from the secret to attracting highly qualified staff, to regional business, to his experiments with over 60 different vinegar flavours.

Maree is a business mentor and life coach working with people in regional Australia helping them to get back on track and find their personal and professional mojo.

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15 June 2017 - MP Darren Chester

8 June 2017 - Tim Hicks

The long awaited inland rail is finally about to start so what does this mean for farmers and rural communities who have always looked for a way to get their products to market more quickly and more cheaply?

Tim has always wanted to own a farm but if you don’t have a way in it can be nearly impossible. So Tim, his wife and best mate come up with a way of connecting investors with farmers.

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1 June 2017 - Daniela Riccio

After 15 years travelling the world Daniela Riccio and her husband decided to pursue a lifelong dream and start their own alpaca farm in the Hunter Valley.

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26 April - Dave Roberts-Thomson

19 April - Andrew Bate

12 April - Darriea Turley

5 April - Katie van den Brand

29 March 2018 - Catherine Baker

22 March 2018 - Christine Britton

15 March 2018 - Cynthia Lui MP

8 March 2018 - Katrina Sasse

1 March 2018 - Mary Jane Gibbs

22 February 2018 - ​Christine Roberts-Yates

15 February 2018 - ​Chris Wheatcroft

8 February 2018 - Helen Thomas

1 February 2018 - Tiani Cook

28 December 2017 - Rachel Power

21 December 2017 - James Barlow

14 December 2017 - Simone Eyles

7 December 2017 - Tim Pannell

30 Nov 2017 - Pamela Sandlant

23 Nov 2017 - Andrew Puglisi

16 Nov 2017 - Fleur McDonald

9 Nov 2017- Dr Randall Greenberg

2 Nov 2017 - Charles Armstrong

26 October 2017 - Dean Morpeth

19 October 2017 - Tony Elletson

12 October 2017 - George Hill

5 October 2017 - Vicki Agnew

28 September 2017 - Fiona Cooper

21 September 2017 - Anne Lewis

14 September 2017 - Dave Walker

7 September 2017 - Ross Edwards

31 August 2017 - Caroline Evans

24 August 2017 - Jan Devlin

17 August 2017 - Ian Conway

10 August 2017 - Fiona Nash

3 August 2017 - Ella Shannon

27 July 2017 - Roger Vater

20 July 2017 - Claire Wright

13 July 2017 - Matt Linnegar

6 July 2017 - Dr Michael Meyers

29 June 2017 - Ian Henderson

22 June 2017 - Maree Gooch

​15 June 2017 - MP Darren Chester

8 June 2017 - Tim Hicks

​1 June 2017 - Daniela Riccio

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