I finally made my first foray outside of Southern Tasmania and Launceston to do a couple of interviews in Devonport, Tasmania's third...

Words like "resilience" and "inspirational" are perhaps overused expressions these days, but resilience just seemed to be the perfect...

One of the really fascinating things about doing this podcast over the last year or so has been hearing stories that give you a window...

People are complex and often their stories have many threads, and this is perhaps even more true for those who have migrated to our...

With each new episode I seem to uncover something a little different but which nevertheless speaks to a kind of common humanity or...

Up until now, almost all my interviewees have come from places where English was not the first language, and, of course, the language...

One of the challenges of a project like 177 Nations of Tasmania is that you can't really take a one-size-fits-all approach to the wide...

The last two episodes I've done have been with the two oldest people I've interviewed so far, though you would certainly not have guesed...

Jenny aka Yenni has written several books in English, including two of an autobiographical nature, a remarkable achievement for someone...

Tasmania has received many Ukrainian migrants since the large migrations began just over 70 years ago. Many were displaced people as a...

Greenland is a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, perhaps comparable to Scotland and Northern Ireland within the United...

So I made another trip up to Launceston to met with Edward, who works for the Northern Tasmanian Development Corporation, to find out a...

With these interviews, I really like to try and understand the environment where people grew up and how that may have influenced their...

Finland is a country that often gets mentioned in Tasmania in regards to various social problems , as a place which offers some models of...

This episode is hopefully the first of a series of migrants living up in the north of Tasmania, in this case, Launceston. I have done one...

One of many reasons why I started this podcast was that I could see how easily misconceptions and stereotypes about a certain country or...