MTC Audio Lab
We kick off our new series of audio dramas, MTC Audio Lab, with Great Australian Speeches.
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Mark Coles Smith recites Australian poet Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River.
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Izabella Yena reads the 1943 Maiden Speech of Dorothy Tangney, the first woman to be elected to the Australian Senate.
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Leonie Whyman reads Ellen van Neerven’s poems 'Politicians Having Long Showers on Stolen Land', 'White Excellence' and 'All That is Loved'.
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Marg Downey records Dame Enid Lyons's Maiden Speech as the Member for Darwin on 29 September 1943.
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Leonie Whyman recreates Australian civil rights activist Faith Bandler's speech from the Talkin’ up Reconciliation Convention in 1999.
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Mark Coles Smith reads Jack Patten’s opening address from the 1938 Day of Mourning protest.
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Greg Stone recreates the 1941 broadcast in which Australia's 14th Prime Minister John Curtin announces that Australia is now at war with Japan.
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Shareena Clanton reads Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue's speech which opened the National Congress of Australia’s First People on 8 June 2011.
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Izabella Yena recreates Australian author Miles Franklin's homage to fellow writer Henry Lawson.
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Greg Stone reads Ned Kelly letter to Victorian Parliamentarian, Donald Cameron seeking justice for allegations of criminal activity.
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Marg Downey brings Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba’s 1924 farewell speech to life.
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Mark Coles Smith reads former Prime Minister Robert Menzies's iconic 1942 speech.
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Shareena Clanton reads her own essay, ‘The Age of Ignorance is Over’, originally published in the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance Equity Magazine in Autumn 2018.
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Marg Downey reimagines Australian suffragette and social reformer Vida Goldstein’s 1916 open letter.