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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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  • 1 day ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Tamar Cranswick |Sarah Kanowski

    Jayashri Kulkarni’s family moved from India to Australia in 1961. They found there were no Indian grocery stores, few spices of any kind, and plain yoghurt wasn’t available. But the Kulkarnis adapted to their new home, teaching their neighbours how to cook Indian food, and encouraging Jayashri's love for studying. Jayashri became a doctor, and during her training as a psychiatrist she became fascinated by the relationship between women's hormones and mental health.

  • 5 days ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Sarah Kanowski

    Martha Wainwright is descended from extraordinary songwriters on both sides of her family. Her mother was folk musician Kate McGarrigle and her father is Loudon Wainwright III. Despite a lifetime of witnessing painful family truths delivered through song, she made it her life’s work too. A few years ago her beloved mum was diagnosed with cancer while Martha was pregnant with her first child. As Kate succumbed to her illness, she passed the baton of life onto Martha's premature baby boy.

  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Richard Fidler

    Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason is a former English academic and the mother of seven extraordinary children. All of them are gifted classical musicians. Her eldest daughter, Isata wrote and performed her first piano concerto at the age of eleven. Her son Sheku mastered the cello and performed at the royal wedding of Harry and Megan Markle. Every day the seven Kanneh-Masons, who range from early teens to the mid-twenties, fill the family home with glorious, sometimes chaotic, music.

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

    Sean Sweeney grew up as a child of deaf adults and was the first hearing baby to be born to his mother's family in four generations. Sean first signed the word for 'bottle' to his mum at 10 months. He grew up in a tight-knit deaf community with a lot of pride in their uniquely Australian version of sign language, named Auslan in the 1980s. In his twenties, Sean rebelled against the deaf world, and began to look for a new life in the hearing one. But after eighteen years, he returned.

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

    Warren Ward's patients are often critically ill with diseases like anorexia. Warren says asking someone with anorexia to eat is like asking an arachnophobe to put their hand in a jar full of spiders. As a psychiatrist, Warren uses psychotherapy to help his patients. He encourages those with an eating disorder to approach their mental illness as one part of their whole self.

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