The Palestine Laboratory, Drop Site News (2024)

Producer

A four-part investigation into how Israel is using Palestinian territories as a testing ground to develop its occupation-enforcing technology industry. Hosted by investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein and based on his recent book, this podcast series examines how Israel is reshaping conflict and population control globally. What happens in Palestine never stays there. 

1. Start-Up Nation

2. How to Make Friends

3. Privatizing the Occupation

4. After October 7

Elle Marsh is the series producer, Tim Jenkins is the sound engineer, field recordings by Cinnamon Nippard, recordings at 2SER by Michael Jones and Jonathan Chang, original music by Ara Koufax and music direction by Sunless Studio.

Highly commended for Podcasting in the 2025 Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism. Finalist in Best Audio Documentary Category at the 2025 Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) Awards.

Saving The Franklin, ABC (2023)

Supervising Producer

Saving The Franklin revisits Australia’s biggest environmental protest: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. Hosted by Jo Lauder, we investigate how this movement beat the odds and came to inspire a new generation of environmental activists who have shaped Australian politics.

Today, more people are concerned about the planet than ever before…so in a fight for the environment, this series asks: What does it take to win?

1. A mystery in paradise, before the Franklin River fight

2. The battle lines: 'Greenies' vs workers

3. Secret cave: a game-changing rediscovery no one expected

4. 'All we had was our bodies': The blockade begins

5. Threats, accusations and a Federal election

6. West Coast shockwaves; a new era for politics and protest

Saving The Franklin was created with Jo Lauder, Piia Wirsu, Tynan King, Clare Rawlinson, Tim Roxburgh, Ruby Schwartz and John Jacobs.

Life Matters, ABC Radio National (2023)

Senior Producer

An Australia-wide daily radio show exploring news, relationships, health, money and work.

Select stories I pitched and produced:

• Men’s violence against women is preventable

• Climate change apathy and how to avoid it

• Roe v Wade, one year on

• How can tiny houses help alleviate the housing crisis?

• Ellen Van Neerven on sports capacity to connect, empower, and divide us as individuals, teams, and society.

• How motherhood affects creativity with Megan Cheong and Aseel Tayah

• Jen Cloher on reconnecting with her ancestral language

Life Matters is hosted by Hilary Harper and Beverley Wang.

Bad Taste, SBS (2022)

Series Producer

Bad Taste is a six-part podcast series about who we are through the foods we eat. Join food writer Jess Ho on a journey through their pantry to dissect how Australian palates came to be. Meet expert eaters, farmers, researchers and chefs fighting to have their voice recognised - through the ingredients they champion, the aisles they stock, the prices they charge and the people they hire. People who dare to think differently and are all curious about the same question: what is good taste anyway?

1. Spam: yuck or yum?

2. Will native grains be the key to saving Australia’s water?

3. That fabulous funk: The story of Kimchi

4. What is East African Lasagne?

5. How much should banh mi cost?

6. Instant noodles: junk food or delicacy?

Bad Taste was created with Jess Ho, Michelle Macklem, Beź Zewdie, Nicole Pingon and Zoe Tenannt.

Overwhelmed and Living, ABC (2022)

Producer

Did you make a promise to change things during lockdown?  COVID made Judith take a good, hard look at her life and she didn't like what she saw. Is she capable of change? And can that change help not just her, but the planet? Probably not, but she's going to find out anyway.

Created with Judith Lucy, Tom Wright, Lisa Divissi and David Le May.

Full Story, The Guardian (2021)

Producer

Full Story is Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast. Each episode features journalists sharing a deeper understanding of the news in Australia and beyond.

Select episodes I produced with the team at Guardian Australia:

• Sick, broke and waiting for the disability support pension

• The families hit hardest by remote learning

• Madison de Rozario’s path to wheelchair-racing fame

• The NSW experiment: will Gladys Berejiklian’s plan pay off?

Full Story is created by Laura Murphy-Oates, Karishma Luthria, Jane Lee, Ellen Leabeater, Joe Koning, Camilla Hannan, Miles Martignoni and Gabrielle Jackson.

7am from the publishers of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly, Schwartz Media (2021)

Host

7am is a daily news podcast that tells the news through in-depth interviews and sharp analysis. 7am is a smart, strong, character-driven account of the big story of the day: the background, who’s involved, and why it matters.

Select story highlights:

• Bob Brown on the fight to save the Tarkine

• Oscar Schwartz on the faulty technology that’s being Australian Immigration Department

• Lizzie O’Shea on the growth of digital surveillance

• Chris Cheers giving a psychologist’s advice for surviving lockdown

• Karen Middleton on the debate over vaccinating children

7am is created by Erik Jensen, Osman Faruqi, Ruby Schwartz, Atticus Bastow, Elle Marsh, Anu Hasbold, Michelle Macklem, Kara Jensen-Mackinnon and Brian Campeau.

Tender, Broadwave (2021)

Producer

Tender is a thoughtful podcast series about what happens when women leave abusive relationships.

Funded by Creative Victoria and Victorian Women’s Trust, season two follows one woman’s story as she slowly—but surely—gets to know herself again.

Season two is produced alongside Madison Griffiths and Roia Atmar, with sensitivity editing by Shakira Hussein, sound engineering by Jon Tjhia and assistant production by Danae Gibson.

Watch the season two trailer here.

Book It In, The Guardian (2022)

Producer

What do books tell us about the world we live in? Join Lucy Clark, Paul Daley and Zoya Patel for conversations with top authors about the ideas that shape their work.

Some episodes I’ve produced with the team at Guardian Australia include: Chelsea Watego on sovereignty, survival and self-determination in the colony, Heidi Everett on foxes, care and the language of the mental health system.

Book It In is created by Allison Chan, Jane Lee and Daniel Semo.

Better Off Dead, the Wheeler Centre and Go Gentle Australia (2021)

Producer and Editor

Andrew Denton investigates the stories behind Victoria’s landmark Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) law: Who seeks to use it, and why? Who are the doctors stepping forward to help them? And how does the Church continue to resist a law it describes as ‘evil’?

Co-produced by Go Gentle Australia and the Wheeler Centre, season two of Better Off Dead looks at what happened in Victoria after the legislation came into effect in June 2019. Listen here.

This season was created with Andrew Denton, Martin Peralta, Kiki Paul, Steve Offner and Alex Gow.

A Fluorescent Feeling, Broadwave (2021)

Producer

A Fluorescent Feeling is a new podcast about pain and our bodies – how we talk about them and live inside them. Over three million Australians live with chronic pain. Being in pain can be lonely, boring, scary and frustrating. But what if it could also be beautiful, colourful and textural? What if we could share it with others? 

Funded by Creative Victoria, this audio mini-series season encourages listeners to look at pain differently: asking questions about how we might record pain in new ways, how pain intersects with power and how pain and intimacy are related.

A Fluorescent Feeling is produced with Georgia Mill and Michelle Macklem. Logo design by SG Creative.

Notes: Order, the Wheeler Centre (2020)

Editor and Supervising Producer

Order is a a special audio edition of Notes, the Wheeler Centre's digital publishing series. It’s a word that brings to mind structure, organisation, command or subjugation. It’s both a state of being and a method of containment. Think: the natural order, alphabetical order, out of order. It’s a title, descriptor, an alternative. A holy order, a tall order, or law and order? It can be a direction, or a request. Get your house in order. Take your marching orders.

Listen and read as Maddi Miller delves into the hidden stratigraphy of Melbourne, Nicole Pingon explores memory and sonic imagination, in relation to Yum Cha, and Karishma Luthria reflects on moments, travel and the fluidity of ‘home’.

This series was created with Maddison Miller, Nicole Pingon and Karishma Luthria; artwork by Kate Banazi. With thanks to Jon Tjhia and Scott Limbrick.

Australian Audio Guide, Audiocraft and the Wheeler Centre (2020–2021)

Co-Editor

Created by Jon Tjhia and Kate Montague in 2016, the Australian Audio Guide is a website offering short reviews of Australian podcasts and radio series, and interviews and features about how – and why – they were made.

Illustration by Connor O’Brien

All Ears, Broadwave (2020)

Editor and Supervising Producer

A podcast about the ways music challenges, comforts and connects us.

Won a Bronze ‘Bullseye’ Award in 2020 Australian Podcast Awards for podcasts that produce an exceptional listening expereince for niche audiences and those underrepresented in the media. A 2021 Webby Awards nominee for Music Podcasts.

Created with Annaliese Redlich, with musical compositions by Davey Lane. Artwork by Neryl Walker.

Signal Boost, the Wheeler Centre (2020–2021)

Producer

Produced in collaboration with Jon Tjhia, Signal Boost is an inclusion - and experimentation - focussed audio storytelling programme. Participants received $10,000 each in funded learning, tailored mentorship, tools and equipment, practical support and paid work experience.

To celebrate the launch of the 2020 programme, I interviewed veteran audio producers: Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist, Answer Me This, Veronica Mars Investigations; UK), Daniel Browning (Awaye!), Jess O’Callaghan (Audiocraft, The Party Room, Background Briefing, RN Fictions) and Elizabeth Kulas (Planet Money, 7am, Reply All) – plus musician Becky Sui Zhen, and 2019 Signal Boost pilot participant Ivy Shih.

The Glasshouse, Triple R (2018–2022)

Broadcaster and Producer

A weekly radio show and podcast interrogating the craft of storytelling and its role in shaping cultural narratives. Authors, poets, artists and audio storytellers are interviewed each show. Past guests include: Uncle Archie Roach, Tanya Talaga, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tayari Jones, Kim Scott, June Thomas, Helen Zaltzman, Ben Okri and Behrouz Boochani.

This show is created with thanks to Triple R Talks Producer, Elizabeth McCarthy, and Program Manger, Bec Hornsby.

Illustration by Michelle Pereria.

The Empathy Museum: A Mile in My Shoes, Arts Centre Melbourne (2019)

Producer

Created in collaboration with Big Issue vendor, Lionel Farnham, this is an audio story about his experience sleeping rough, and living and working with disability.

A Mile in My Shoes is a travelling shoe shop and storytelling exhibition where visitors are invited to take a walk in someone else’s shoes – literally. The Melbourne season in November 2019 featured a library of audio stories from Melbournians based on the theme of water, contributed by people from all walks of life.

This story was commissioned and created with support from Camilla Hannan.

Future Echoes: Provocations & Postcards from the Future, Express Media and Arts Centre Melbourne (2019)

Programmer and Event Producer

Look out over the horizon, fast forward your watch, is the apocalypse closer than you think? For Future Echoes Festival 2019, Express Media curated an immersive, stirring and playful hour of young writers who propelled us forward in time and shared their visions for the future. One emerging arts leader delivered a provocation -- a creative, critical and poetic response to an imagined tomorrow. Following that, four young artists responded by sharing short postcards from their travels to the future.

This series was created with thanks to all the artists and Express Media’s former General Manager, Lucy Hamilton.

National Editors and Writers Conference (NEWS), Express Media and RMIT (2018–2020)

Programmer and Event Producer

A two-day event aiming to bring together student media editors and writers from across Australia. Through a busy programme of workshops, panels and presentations, participants learnt the nitty-gritty of publishing and editing from the best in the business, including journalists, writers, media professionals and editors.

Broadwave, (2018–)

Co-Founder and Co-Director

An award-winning podcast network with a community-centred approach to collaboration and audio storytelling.

Our current podcast roster includes: Dramageddon (2020), All Ears (2020), A Fluorescent Feeling (2021), Tender (2021), Shifting Subjects (2023) and Tramlines (2023).

We have partnered with Audiocraft Podcast Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, National Young Writers Festival, Liminal, Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office, The Allusionist Podcast and more.

Created in collaboration with Areej Nur and Izzy Roberts-Orr.

The Breakfast Spread, PBS 106.7FM (2017–2018)

Broadcaster and Producer

A daily music radio programme presented alongside Nick Brown. Interview guests included: Uncle Archie Roach, Aldous Harding, Sampa The Great, Sophia Brous, Tetsuya Umeda, Camp Cope, Kaiit, Baker Boy, and Uncle Jack Charles.

Sound As Ever, Arts Centre Melbourne (2017–2018)

Mentor and Supervising Producer

An Australian Music Vault podcast produced by young content producers and radio makers. Season one was created in collaboration with SYN Media and delves into challenges and issues facing the Australian music industry.

Season one was produced by Rebecca Maakasa, Bridget Bourke, Elsie Bath, Shejuti Hossain, Erin Dick, and Paul Waxman; with mentorship and supervising production alongside Jacinta Parsons, Julz Hay and Kylie Northover.

Access Training Programme, PBS 106.7FM (2017–2018)

Producer

An inclusion-focussed music broadcasting training programme. Participants received free learning, tailored mentorship, practical support and access to host and producer radio programme Cross Pollinate.

Created with thanks to Namila Benson, Areej Nur, Carly Findlay, Fi Wright and Tracee Hutchison.

Without Words: Big Brother, FBi’s All The Best and ABC Radio National’s PocketDocs (2016)

Producer

An audio story about non-verbal communication. What if you didn’t have words to communicate? What if we just choose not to speak? How would this change the way we interact with one another? These are all questions Holly Masson was out to answer when she committed to Vipassana.

Supervising production from Bec Fary and Jess O’Callaghan

Her Game, Community Radio Network, Triple R’s Max Headroom and FBi’s All The Best (2015–2016)

Journalist and Audio Producer

Created ahead of the launch of AFLW, Her Game is a podcast exploring gender within Australian rules football. Featuring interviews with players, coaches, football club presidents, reporters and supporters, this is a podcast about the intersection between sport, gender and national identity. It was reviewed by the Australian Audio Guide here.

This series was originally produced at Triple R 102.7FM for the Community Radio Network and was made possible by the Community Broadcasting Foundation. This series first aired in February 2016.

Connect, Learn, Share: Life In Australia, Australian Red Cross (2015–2016)

Producer

A podcast created in collaboration with young people from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds to act as an additional peer-to-peer resource for other newly arrived young people to use outside of the time spent with caseworkers. From language to culture, food to healthcare, education to transport, everything’s different in a new country – and often, folk knowledge is left off the official documentation. Life in Australia is available in English, Tamil and Farsi.

This project was created in collaboration with Mohammad, Hafiz, Reza, Saaed and Sajid, alongside Migrant Support Programmes Senior Caseworkers Hanna Kopel and Fiore Cioffri.