Podcasts 2022
Social work podcasts - 2022
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.
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6 Dec 2022
Cindy Smith: Values and Leadership
Social workers draw on knowledge, skills and experiences from their professional and personal lives in all sorts of ways, to bring about changes they...
1 Nov 2022
Mental Health and Human Rights: From a communal underwear cupboard to Allyship
When Anne-Maree Newbold OAM commenced her career, the residents of the large stand-alone psychiatric hospital in which she worked slept in...
4 Oct 2022
The man with badges on his cap
For Mark Silver, improving the mental health of older people starts when we all respect their story of their lives. He has pioneered...
6 Sep 2022
Health through the widest lens, Part 2: Kim Hobbs and ground-breaking research
This episode follows from our previous episode with Rosalie Pockett AM. Like Rosalie, Kim Hobbs didn’t intend to make her career in hospital social...
2 Aug 2022
Looking at health through the widest lens Part 1, Rosalie Pockett AM
Rosalie Pockett AM never intended to stay in hospital social work. At first its scope was too narrow, but once she ‘widened the lens’ she was using...
5 Jul 2022
Still Plenty to Fight For
The work and life of Max Cornwell OAM have been guided by a humanistic impulse; a preference for the democratic and emancipatory. He joined the...
31 May 2022
Only Everything Changes
Julie Kulikowski OAM has received an Order of Australia for her work in haematology, palliative care and bereavement counselling. She has sat beside...
3 May 2022
Alliances and recognition: Pamela Cohen AM on being influential
For Pamela Cohen, it wasn’t enough that the cardiac patients in the hospital where she worked received the best care. Pamela wanted that level of...
22 Apr 2022
AASW responds to the ABC on the Coroner’s findings on the deaths of Amber Rose Rigney and Korey Lee Mitchell – further comment
Sonya Feldhoff returns to Patricia Muncey later in the story -
The Deputy State Coroner has found the 2016 domestic violence deaths of two South...
22 Apr 2022
AASW responds to the ABC on the Coroner’s findings on the deaths of Amber Rose Rigney and Korey Lee Mitchell
The Deputy State Coroner has found the 2016 domestic violence deaths of two South Australian children could have been prevented if child protection...
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