Wide Open Air Exchange

Wide Open Air Exchange

A program for lifelong learners seeking to expand their general knowledge, the Wide Open Air Exchange is a place to meet people with fascinating vocations, interesting ideas and special interests. Hosted by Christine Gallagher.

Episodes

Fran Grant returns for a vocational chat

August 18, 2025 • 56 mins
Fran Grant is a Yuin woman, educator, and advocate with vocational experiences as an early childhood educator and classroom teacher and frontline roles in the airline industry. During her time in the airline industry Fran was Chair of Daramu, QANTAS' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employee network.
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Introduction to Hurling, Richard Bromhead

August 11, 2025 • 45 mins
An introduction to the Irish sport hurling with Richard Bromhead aka Bromy who coaches a kids' team in Dublin.  This conversation covers some of the history and contemporary culture of hurling and a discussion of the skills that are required to do well at hurling from an early age and beyond.
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KCRW Music Executive Producer, Ariana Morgenstern

August 4, 2025 • 32 mins
Ariana Morgenstern is Executive Producer of Music at radio station KCRW in Los Angeles where she leads the station's music curation and works on live events and other special projects. Joining KCRW as a volunteer in 1983, Ariana went on to become producer of the signature music program Morning Becomes Eclectic from 1984–2015. With a commitment to public radio and the station's wider community, Ariana is motivated by helping to grow...
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Labor and Environmental movements, Associate Professor Andy Scerri

July 28, 2025 • 54 mins
Andy Scerri from the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech is a Fulbright Scholar with research interests in environmental political theory and policy. Some of his research looks at the tensions that have emerged between labor movements and environmental movements, and what these tensions mean for democracy. This conversation also covers some of Andy's earlier experiences working in the building and construction industr...
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NAIDOC Sportsperson Award winner, Danielle Ponter

July 10, 2025 • 30 mins
Danielle Ponter is winner of the NAIDOC Sportsperson Award. Danielle advocates for more opportunities for Aboriginal players in the AFLW and cares deeply about helping the next generation. As a guest on the Wide Open Air Exchange, Danielle made time to honour her Uncle Michael Long who was awarded the NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award. The conversation covers some of Danielle's story of playing club football in Darwin from age ele...
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NAIDOC Education Award winner, Professor Eddie Cubillo

July 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Professor Eddie Cubillo is winner of the 2025 NAIDOC Education Award, and he kindly spoke with the Wide Open Air Exchange program about his reaction to the award in the context of the ongoing problems he sees as an educator and academic, lawyer and advocate.
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NAIDOC Innovation Award winner, Troy Benjamin

July 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Blak Brews is winner of the 2025 National NAIDOC Innovation Award. Entrepreneur Troy Benjamin is co-founder of the premium tea business together with his wife Cerisa Benjamin.
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Higher education teaching, Associate Professor Liz Giuffre

July 1, 2025 • 51 mins
Dr Liz Giuffre is an Associate Professor of Media and Journalism at UTS and shares some of her approach to higher education teaching. Liz is a music journalist and commentator who has been writing for street papers and the online versions for many years and is a regular contributor to ABC radio. As an academic, Liz researches popular music and popular cultures and has taught music and sound design, journalism, and communications. ...
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Senior Art Gallery Curator, Rhonda Davis

June 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Rhonda Davis shares her approach to art curation ahead of the exhibition Eric Smith: The metaphysics of paint which is on at the Macquarie University Art Gallery from June 18th to August 1st 2025. Rhonda is Senior Curator of the gallery and its collection with 25 years of experience.
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Fran Grant on healing and Reconciliation

May 26, 2025 • 43 mins
Fran Grant is an educator, advocate and Yuin woman who is on a journey of learning about her family as the child of a Stolen Child, her father. Fran is planning PhD research informed by her own experience of using DNA to explore family connections. Fran is a lecturer at UTS and Director of Koori Education offering cultural consultancy services.
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Working Class Literature, Emma O’Neill-Sandham

May 9, 2025 • 75 mins
A conversation about Western Sydney Literature and Working Class Literature with creative writer Emma O’Neill-Sandham who is a PhD researcher at the University of Sydney. Emma's research and creative writing are in part informed by her own life experiences in Western Sydney. This episode features Emma reading parts of her creative nonfiction piece 'The Salon' set in her mother's home hair salon. Emma is interested in stories th...
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Astrostatistics and data science, Dr Benjamin Pope

April 28, 2025 • 79 mins
Dr Benjamin Pope is an Associate Professor in Statistical Data Science at Macquarie University at the Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre. Since being awarded a DPhil in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford, Ben has been a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow and an ARC Decra Fellow among other accomplishments. Ben is active in public science communication and other meaningful civil society engagement. This is a g...
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Racial Dignity Framework, Dr Kathomi Gatwiri

April 22, 2025 • 64 mins
Associate Professor Kathomi Gatwiri has led the development of a Racial Dignity Framework informed by her academic research and clinical practice as a psychotherapist. Dr Gatwiri is an Afro-diasporic scholar, an ARC DECRA Fellow at Southern Cross University, and founder and director of Healing Together Psychotherapy.
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Media specialist, Clint Drieberg

April 17, 2025 • 58 mins
In a career spanning 25 years, Clint Drieberg has worked across radio and television in production, presenting and management roles, and as a showbiz reporter and entertainment interviewer. Clint shares family influences and the story of his entry into media along with insights into navigating life as a media specialist and his approach to leadership as a radio program director. We also go behind the scenes of The Graham Norton Sho...
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Swing dancing, Michael Jones

April 14, 2025 • 45 mins
An introduction to swing dancing with discussions of Lindy Hop and Balboa and other styles including Shag. Michael Jones has been involved in the Sydney swing scene for more than twenty years and participates in events around the world, particularly for Balboa these days.
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Lifelong learner, Haydee Rojas-Judd

April 9, 2025 • 47 mins
Haydee Rojas-Judd is a senior lawyer with an impressive approach to being a lifelong learner. Haydee has a Diploma of Counselling and is part way through a Bachelor of Health Science (Acupuncture Therapies) motivated by her love of learning. She had also taken singing lessons for a few years as a way to challenge herself. This conversation will be of interest to you if you're starting out in your vocational life, if you're consider...
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Brigit Busicchia’s ‘What Job Is that?

March 31, 2025 • 30 mins
This week's episode features three vocational stories by Brigit Busicchia. These were originally produced for a radio segment called 'What Job is That?' on Brigit's Thursday Drive program on 2SER 107.3FM Sydney. This episode features the voices of Tugboat Master Andy Wilson, Activist Liz Millen, and Philosopher Simon Lumsden.
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Horologist and watch repairer, Oliver Broos Revitt

March 24, 2025 • 38 mins
An insight into what is horology and the training and apprenticeships system in Australia. Oliver Broos Revitt trained in Australia and followed with qualifications from the American Watch and Clockmakers Institute and the British Horological Institute. He now runs his own watch repairs business, OBR Horology in Adelaide.
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Irish poet Anne Casey

March 16, 2025 • 86 mins
Dr Anne Casey is an internationally acclaimed poet from west Clare in Ireland. Throughout this conversation, Anne kindly reads and introduces several of her poems and shares insights from her academic research. Anne Casey's doctoral research was on 'The second-wave impact in Australia of the Great Irish Famine: reviving lost histories through poetics of resistance'. We hear about some of Anne's archival research and her own family...
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Barista Charles Babinski

March 10, 2025 • 59 mins
Former US champion barista Charles Babinski is now in Sydney as owner-operator of Cafe 143 in Bronte.  In this conversation, Charles reflects on some of his vocational experiences as a coffee specialist and his approach to running a coffee shop.
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