Podcasts 2021
Social work podcasts - 2021
Welcome to the AASW podcast space. In each recording, we delve into the key issues impacting social workers across Australia, from frontline practice and policy developments to workforce challenges and professional wellbeing. Whether you’re a student, practitioner, or advocate, this podcast is your space to stay informed, inspired, and connected to the broader social work community.
You can listen to our podcast on these platforms.
7 Dec 2021
Orienteers, Pilgrims, Explorers
Dr Ann O’Neill AM has survived the unimaginable. In fact she has done more than survive: Ann has used her experience as the basis for further...
2 Dec 2021
Social work registration: ABC Mornings South Australia interview
This is an interview with Angela Coe Smallacombe of ABC Mornings in South Australia, discussing the registration of social workers in South...
26 Oct 2021
Not ‘international’ but ‘global’
Australia’s first Professor of Pasifika heritage, Jioji Ravulo, is the Chair of Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney. His story...
5 Oct 2021
Imelda, Michael and his Fairweather Friends
Imelda Dodds was in her first job as a social worker when she came across Michael who needed to be protected from his ‘fair-weather friends’. At that...
31 Aug 2021
Holding onto the core throughout a lifetime of change
For Margarita Frederico, AM the core of social work is its drive for social justice and its respect for human rights; and its richness comes from the...
3 Aug 2021
One good brick in the edifice of life
When Norma Tracey AM started working in Sydney’s Children’s Hospital, the children were tied to their beds and their parents were allowed to visit...
6 Jul 2021
Leaving Matilda: From Elite Sport to Social Work
When Ellen Beaumont was in the Young Matildas, she trained every minute that she wasn’t working, eating or sleeping. She put her education and career...
28 May 2021
Brave and Impactful: Pat Turner, AM on Reconciliation
The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2021 is ’More than a word, Reconciliation takes action’. It recognises that many of us are aware of the...
4 May 2021
The Storehouse of Wisdom
From the day she graduated from Queens University Belfast, Mary Jo McVeigh OAM has maintained her absolute faith in her social work profession. She...
6 Apr 2021
Gender, Climate Change and Other People’s Blindspots
As she was observing the consequences of the millennium drought on her rural community, Margaret Alston realised that there was hardly any discussion...
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