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Breakthru Generation
Sunday Night with Mal Garvin
The Conversation of the Nation
Great guests, enjoyable competitions and useful prizes, “Sunday Night with Mal Garvin” is rightly dubbed “the conversation of the nation.” From the studio of Heart FM in Poatina, Tasmania, the show is broadcast nationally via satellite and now internationally on the web www.heartfm.org
Stay tuned to this site each week and you can listen to one of the interviews from Mal Garvin's Conversation of the Nation show.
August
July 22nd 2007
Click here to listen to the interview with Helen Townsend (4.5Mb)
Helen Townsend
William Irwin was an Irish farm boy who migrated to Australia during the Irish potato famine. He set himself up in the gold rush town of Ballarat which was one of the wealthiest 19th century cities in the world. It was there that he witnessed and participated in the Eureka Stockade a landmark event that shaped colonial history. Mal talked with William Irwin’s great grand daughter Helen Townsend whose research has discovered much about her family history, the impact of migration into Australia as well as the roots of one of the first truly modern cities – Ballarat.
Click here to listen to the interview with Captain David Shrimpton (4.1Mb)
Captain David Shrimpton
For over 60 years the Salvation Army “Flying Padre” has been a much needed service to the many isolated properties in the drought ridden outback throughout the top end of Australia. Mal talked with Captain David Shrimpton who clocks up around 300 hours per year visiting properties and supporting people in an area of 1.25 million square miles, about his passion for the outback and his role to the people in the area and how they are coping in the drought.
Click here to listen to the interview with Bill Jennings (4.8Mb)
Bill Jennings
Adolescent education expert Bill Jennings' research believes that boys would behave better if fathers played a more active role in their sons' lives. Creator of the program “Being a man…Becoming a man” Bill Jennings is committed to working with fathers and sons to combat the growing epidemic known as ‘fatherlessness’ where dads are increasingly absent either physically or emotionally from their kids' lives. Mal talked with Bill about this epidemic and practical ways in which fathers and communities can support one another to make a difference.
July 15th 2007
Click here to listen to the interview with Rick Swinard (2.9Mb)
Rick Swinard
Every day ordinary Australians do extraordinary things in their communities. They are our unsung heroes whose contribution to a better way of life are not widely known or recognised by the general public. These remarkable Australians inspire us to help make Australia a better place to live. Mal talked with Rick Swinard the Corporate Affairs Manager with the Melbourne Herald Sun about the “2007 Pride of Australian Media”. Rick will share some of their stories and let us know how we can nominate an unsung hero.
July 8th 2007
Click here to listen to the interview with Paul Cleary (5.7Mb)
Paul Cleary
In the year 2000 one of the poorest nations on earth East Timor began negotiations with Australia over rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea. The revenue from the oil and gas fields would give East Timor a chance to secure its economic future, that is if Australia would allow it. Mal talked with Paul Cleary author of “Shakedown – Australia’s Grab for Timor Oil” and discovered the inside story of how Australia attempted to bully East Timor out of a one hundred billion dollar future.
Click here to listen to the interview withDuncan Armstrong (3.5Mb)
Duncan Armstrong
He was raised in Rockhampton and rose to national and international fame at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where he broke the world record to win the Gold medal in the 200 metres freestyle. His involvement in media and commentating has taken him to several Olympics with the Australian Swimming team. His name is Duncan Armstrong, and Mal talked with him about his career, what's important to him and his philosophy on success.