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My Home Life

My Home Life: James Dunn

29.04.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Are we living in a two-speed property…

Breaking Waves

Breaking Waves: Episode 58

26.04.22

Alex and Arabella talk customer service experiences on this week’s episode of Breaking Waves.…

My Home Life

My Home Life: Antonio Mesiti on Rent

22.04.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Rents are higher than ever in Australia’s…

Boiling Point

Making Science into Comedy

20.04.22

Scientists are trying to communicate their research all the time to the general public, sometimes with great success, but sometimes the research can come across as difficult to understand, difficult to relate to, or difficult to convey its importance. But what if there was another way to not only communicate your research but also make…

Breaking Waves

Breaking Waves: Episode 57

19.04.22

This week on Breaking Waves, Alex and Arabella are discussing formative experiences – times in their lives when they’ve received advice that’s changed their lives.…

Boiling Point

Why do great white sharks attack people?

17.04.22

‘I am surprised they don’t attack us more often’. Andrew Fox’ reply might seem surprising. But indeed, when we enter the ocean, we automatically become part of the sharks’ world and hence part of the marine food chain. Andrew Fox is the son of Australia’s famous champion spearfisherman and shark bite-victim Rodney Fox. Rodney invented…

My Home Life

My Home Life: Andrew Cox – Election edition

15.04.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! This week Stacey sat down with Andrew…

My Home Life

My Home Life: Penny Johnston

15.04.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! This week, Stacey was joined by Penny…

Boiling Point

No friends means no offspring – the tough life of male dolphins

09.04.22

Being social is essential for dolphins in Shark Bay, WA. Especially the male dolphins form lifelong friendships. Our guest, the behavioural ecologist, Dr Livia Gerber, from the University of New South Wales Sydney, wondered why the male dolphins spend so much time nurturing their relationships. Eventually she found, reported in a freshly published paper, that…

My Home Life

My Home Life: Paul Christie

08.04.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Buying your dream home is a massive…

Breaking Waves

Breaking Waves: Episode 55

05.04.22

Episode 2 of John and Riley’s series on travel features more discussion of John’s trip to Bali in this week’s Breaking Waves.…

My Home Life

My Home Life: Melissa Gerke

01.04.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Have you ever had a dispute with…

Boiling Point

Underwater weather reports – made in Sydney

30.03.22

Sydney’s underwater world has a lot to offer. There are the sponge gardens, the very rare and yet docile grey nurse sharks and the playful and always hungry blue gropers, so basically a whole world to explore. Our guest helps Sydneysiders to do exactly that, to feel at home underwater and to always keep up…

Breaking Waves

Breaking Waves: Episode 54

29.03.22

Join John and Riley for the next three weeks of Breaking Waves as they share some of their favourite travel stories.…

My Home Life

My Home Life: Kevin

25.03.22

Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! This week Stacey was joined in the…

Boiling Point

PFAS and polar bears – chemical pollution in the Arctic

23.03.22

PFAS or per- and polyfluorinated substances are everywhere, in rivers, the ocean and they have even made their way to the most remote places like the arctic. Polar bears show similar PFAS levels as people working at a PFAS production plant. The problem: PFAS are man-made chemicals that stay in the environment and our body…

Drive

Miriam Hechtman: Alphabet of Women on Thursday Drive

22.03.22

Miriam Hechtman joined us on Thursday Drive to talk about her new poetry book, Alphabet of Women. The book is a collaboration between 26 female poets, who wrote works inspired by a specific letter of the alphabet, and address issues in womanhood such as politics, the body, motherhood, tenderness, and everything in between.…

Breaking Waves

Breaking Waves: Episode 53

22.03.22

In this week’s instalment of Breaking Waves Shai and Geoff visit the Netherlands for an unguided exploration of all things Dutch, including Shai’s thoroughly multi-culti heritage. Yes, you thought the Dutch were just famous for windmills, tulips, dykes, bicycles, Van Gogh and being tall cheese loving people with a tolerance for freedom of expression. But…

Boiling Point

Fighting creepy with crawly: Spider venom in drug discovery

19.03.22

Are you afraid of spiders? Our guest, Dr Samantha Nixon, certainly was very afraid before she started studying spiders. By now, she is a venom scientist and regularly handles spiders to milk them for their venom. Spider venom has turned out to be very useful for a number of medical purposes. For instance, they appear…