Carmel Rooney

Australia

Executive Producer at ABC Brisbane

EP, ABC Conversations Producer of Pods, Radio, Film, TV & Apps. 💕 pictures, stories, songs and shtick.

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Heroin addiction, Ivan Milat's dentist, and beginning again

1 day ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski

Claude Robinson is the manager of Rainbow Lodge, a home in inner Sydney for men just out of prison. Claude knows the place well because nearly 20 years ago he was sent there himself. At the time, Claude was a heroin addict who did crime to pay for his habit and wound up in a minimum security jail. Then after he assaulted a prison guard, he ended up in one of Australia's toughest prisons - Goulburn Correctional Centre.
From Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage - ABC listen

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Winnie Dunn was born into a big Tongan family in Western Sydney but she felt conflicted about her heritage growing up. While at high school the Chris Lilley character, 'Jonah from Tonga’, became a national joke and her first trip to Tonga as a teenager was a disaster. But over time Winnie’s understanding of what it means to be Tongan evolved, and at the age of 28, she became the first Tongan Australian to have a novel published.
Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski

Briana Blackett began her career in TV News in Wagga Wagga, in country NSW with the story of a rogue sheep gone wild in a ‘ram raid’ at the local shops. Within a few years she was working in television in London. Then she got a call asking her if she’d like to join a new TV network in Qatar. With her then-husband, she started working at Al Jazeera as a journalist when it began in 2005. Briana's first son, Max, was born in Doha. He was a toddler when Briana realised he wasn't responding to his name.
Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski

Ray Seidler was one of Sydney's most loved doctors, he lived in a wealthy area with his wife and four children and his uncle was the famous architect Harry Seidler. To outsiders, it may have looked as if Ray had a lucky life, but behind closed doors he was locked in a herculean struggle with his own mental health. His regular bouts of depression caused him to regularly 'run away' from his own home and family, and eventually led to his suicide.
Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler

Mawunyo Gbogbo grew up as a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. Her parents met in Ghana, migrating to Australia when she was a baby. At high school, Mawunyo fell hard for a charismatic boy, and for the first time, she was introduced to hip hop music. When she was offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she grabbed it.
Life and cake - ABC listen

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

Gillian Bell has the best job in the world — baking sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a couple's story through taste, texture and fragrance. Cake has been a staple in Gillian's life, through immigration, adventure and loss. Her motto is 'has whisk, will travel'. Gillian was a teenager when her family immigrated to Australia from Sussex, England in 1969. She eventually trained as a social worker, and met a family who had fled Communist Czechoslovakia.
Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II. The sailor was a crewman on HMAS Sydney, which fought a fierce battle with a German warship off the coast of WA in 1941. Both ships sank and every Australian crewman on board was killed. But months after the battle, the remains of a sailor from HMAS Sydney were found floating on a life raft near Christmas Island.
Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world - ABC listen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Sarah Kanowski |Carmel Rooney

In 2013, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth lost their beloved farm in Wales, it was where they'd lived for 20 years and raised their children. In the same week, Moth was diagnosed with a rare degenerative brain disease and doctors gave him just two years to live and doctors gave him just two years to live. Homeless and with their future together rapidly shrinking, Raynor and Moth decided to walk the South West Coast path.
The secret world of the human ear

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. It's vital to how many of us understand each other, and how we understand ourselves. The Worimi man is the third doctor in his family, and is now an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation. He performs highly intricate lifesaving procedures, and also more simple medical interventions that are equally as impactful, because by tending to untreated ear disease in children, he can change the entire trajectory of their lives.
Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

In 2018, Dr Bo Remenyi was made the Northern Territory’s Australian of the Year for her work as a paediatric cardiologist. But her path to receiving that honour, and to her work in remote communities, has been filled with unexpected twists and risks. After escaping communist Hungary as a child, she got her first job flipping burgers in a Townsville Hungary Jacks. From there, she put herself through medical school by cleaning the very lecture theatres in which she was studying.