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. 

You can listen to our podcast on these platforms.

Cindy Smith: Values and Leadership
6 Dec 2022
Social workers draw on knowledge, skills and experiences from their professional and personal lives in all sorts of ways, to bring about changes they...
Mental Health and Human Rights: From a communal underwear cupboard to Allyship
1 Nov 2022
When Anne-Maree Newbold OAM commenced her career, the residents of the large stand-alone psychiatric hospital in which she worked slept in...
The man with badges on his cap
4 Oct 2022
For Mark Silver, improving the mental health of older people starts when we all respect their story of their lives. He has pioneered...
Health through the widest lens, Part 2: Kim Hobbs and ground-breaking research
6 Sep 2022
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...
Looking at health through the widest lens Part 1, Rosalie Pockett AM
2 Aug 2022
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...
Still Plenty to Fight For
5 Jul 2022
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...
Only Everything Changes
31 May 2022
Julie Kulikowski OAM has received an Order of Australia for her work in haematology, palliative care and bereavement counselling. She has sat beside...
Alliances and recognition: Pamela Cohen AM on being influential
3 May 2022
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...
AASW responds to the ABC on the Coroner’s findings on the deaths of Amber Rose Rigney and Korey Lee Mitchell – further comment
22 Apr 2022
Sonya Feldhoff returns to Patricia Muncey later in the story - The Deputy State Coroner has found the 2016 domestic violence deaths of two South...
AASW responds to the ABC on the Coroner’s findings on the deaths of Amber Rose Rigney and Korey Lee Mitchell
22 Apr 2022
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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