Podcast Episodes

Melanie Kawa: PNG rugby union star makes brunch club confessions

Melanie Kawa lives and breathes rugby union. 

You may recognise her from her time playing on the field when she was captain of the Papua New Guinea Pa…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

PNG filmmaker Alana Hicks talks about creative storytelling, professional liars and shapeshifting

Born in Papua New Guinea and raised in Australia, award-winning writer and filmmaker Alana Hicks has built a career weaving resilience, humour, and i…

1 year ago

PNG filmmaker Alana Hicks talks about creative storytelling, professional liars and shapeshifting

Born in Papua New Guinea and raised in Australia, award-winning writer and filmmaker Alana Hicks has built a career weaving resilience, humour, and i…

1 year ago

PNG artist Lesley Wengembo fulfils a grandfather's prediction

When Lesley Wengembo was just 10 years old, he picked up a pencil and drew a portrait of his grandfather.

His grandfather looked at it and made a pred…

1 year ago

Monica Paulus was accused of socercy, so she became a human rights activist for PNG women

Monica Paulus is a human rights activist and co-founder of both the "Highlands Women Human Rights Defenders Network" and "Stop Sorcery Violence". Mon…

1 year ago

Monica Paulus was accused of socercy, so she became a human rights activist for PNG women

Monica Paulus is a human rights activist and co-founder of both the "Highlands Women Human Rights Defenders Network" and "Stop Sorcery Violence". Mon…

1 year ago

Koteka Wenda's unique position as an exiled-woman reimagines the Free West Papua movement

Koteka Wenda's childhood is full of bittersweet memories and lessons. Her early memories are of her family fleeing West Papua as political-refugees t…

1 year ago

A decade later, Uein Buranibwe re-tells his survival story of being lost at sea

Uein Buranibwe has always been a skilled fisherman; fishing has been part of his routine for his whole life. There is always a risk of being lost at …

1 year ago

Professor Katerina Teaiwa believes if we heal the land of Banaba, we heal the people

Katerina Teaiwa’s family was forced from their home of Banaba in Kiribati when almost the whole population was displaced and relocated to Rabi Island…

1 year, 1 month ago

Lydia Gah's story of survival is harrowing, but by telling it, she hopes to educate and save others

Lydia's story of her marriage with her first husband details 12 years of significant abuse, but she's using it to educate others who may be experienc…

1 year, 1 month ago