Gerald Wilkie had a normal life - a family, a dog, a mortgage. Until one day, he went to work and lost more than he could have ever imagined. Fighting For Fair is a partnership between Mamamia and Maurice Blackburn, Australia’s leading social justice law firm. More on Maurice Blackburn: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/ Your host is Corinne Grant. Podcast produced by Beth Gibson. Podcast concept by Maurice Blackburn. Executive Producer of Podcasts at Mamamia is Monique Bowley. Head of Entertainment is Holly Wainwright.Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Fighting For The Serenity
You probably know Michael Caton from a little film called ‘The Castle’. But did you know he’s also a battler for the environment? Fighting For Fair is a partnership between Mamamia and Maurice Blackburn, Australia’s leading social justice law firm. More on Maurice Blackburn: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/ Your host is Corinne Grant. Podcast produced by Beth Gibson. Podcast concept by Maurice Blackburn. Executive Producer of Podcasts at Mamamia is Monique Bowley. Head of Entertainment is Holly Wainwright.Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mohamed and Goliath
Mohamed had a dream. To come to Australia and study architecture. But when he got here, his dream slowly began to turn into a nightmare. Fighting For Fair is a partnership between Mamamia and Maurice Blackburn, Australia’s leading social justice law firm. More on Maurice Blackburn: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/ Your host is Corinne Grant. Podcast produced by Beth Gibson. Podcast concept by Maurice Blackburn. Executive Producer of Podcasts at Mamamia is Monique Bowley. Head of Entertainment is Holly Wainwright.Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This Place We Call Muckaty
Kylie Sambo was a regular teenager. Then, everything changed. The government wanted to put a nuclear waste dump on Muckaty Station, home for Kylie and countless generations of Indigenous Australians. Could 15-year-old Kylie fight the government and save her land from toxic waste? Fighting For Fair is a partnership between Mamamia and Maurice Blackburn, Australia’s leading social justice law firm. More on Maurice Blackburn: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/ More on Maurice Blackburn and Kylie’s fight against the nuclear waste dump: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/about/media-centre/media-statements/2014/muckaty-station-nuclear-waste-dump-will-not-go-ahead-aboriginal-traditional-owners-succeed-in-legal-challenge/ Your host is Corinne Grant. Podcast produced by Beth Gibson. Podcast concept by Maurice Blackburn. Executive Producer of Podcasts at Mamamia is Monique Bowley.Head of Entertainment is Holly Wainwright.Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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In My Blood
CEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis is an Australian to be proud of. But growing up Greek in a town of Smiths and Joneses, life was tough; sometimes he didn’t think he could go on. Fighting For Fair is a partnership between Mamamia and Maurice Blackburn, Australia’s leading social justice law firm. More on the ASRC: https://www.asrc.org.au More on Maurice Blackburn: https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/ Your host is Corinne Grant. Podcast produced by Beth Gibson. Podcast concept by Maurice Blackburn. Executive Producer of Podcasts at Mamamia is Monique Bowley. Head of Entertainment is Holly Wainwright.Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Meet 12 extraordinary people who’ll change your life. Mamamia has partnered with Australia’s leading social justice law firm Maurice Blackburn to bring you incredible true stories about Australians fighting for a fairer society. You’ll hear people from all walks of life. From sports heroes to transgender women, rappers to lawyers, pacifists to activists, workers to the wounded, all with one thing in common; they’re fighting for a world that gives everyone a fair go, and they are not giving up.
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