What can it be like to manage an Aboriginal radio station in the West Kimberley as a white woman? Miki Venn-Brown, who was with us for more than ten years, has been doing that for two years up in Derby. She told us about it on What’s Going On?

Diet and Mark also heard about a new local programme to help disadvantaged job seekers in the Noosa and Caloundra areas, the dedication of a Eumundi couple to helping injured wild animals and commentary on how council amalgamation has cost us and will keep costing us.

“Indigenous males do find it hard to take orders from a white female”

Miki Venn-Brown was with 101.3 for more than ten of our nearly 16 years. She had her own show, was training coordinator, our computer geek and vice-president when she took off for Derby about two years ago to manage 6DBY. The Shire of Derby in West Kimberley covers a vast area of 118,560 square kilometres and is located more than 2,000 kilometres north of Perth. Mark began their conversation by asking Miki how many years she’d been with us:

 

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Run time: 14′25″

“From our assessment there has not been one positive for Noosa, but many negatives”

The people still stirring to get Noosa Council back, Friends of Noosa, said at the end of 2009 that amalgamation has only cost us so far, and will cost us even more. Here’s a commentary by their spokesman, Bob Ansett.

 

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Run time: 3′ 16″

One-stop help shop for disadvantaged job seekers

Is personal hardship perhaps preventing you from getting and keeping a job? There’s now a free service to help you, provided by Noosaville-based United Synergies. Mark talked to its coordinator, Lindsey Nelson.

 

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Run time: 7’ 56”

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“We hit the deck running at half past five in the morning and if I’m lucky I crawl into bed by 11”

A retired couple out Eumundi way, Gill and Col Brownhill, have dedicated their life to rehabilitating injured wildlife. Gill was hand-feeding a tiny possum hardly bigger than a foetus when she started her conversation with Diet.

 

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Run time: 15’ 46”

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