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Full shows, and the podcasts of the great show Get This, listen along fifteen years on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s 2006, and terror scaremongering in the media has rattled the residents of sleepy, suburban Dunlop Crescent. When a Maori family moves into number 14, the local cranks assume they are Middle Eastern terrorists hell-bent on destroying the Australian way of life. Rumour has it that they plan to turn their house to face Mecca. This sets off an extraordinary chain of events that embroils the entire neighbourhood as well as cynical media figures, bumbling antiterrorist police and a gang of white supremacists with a radical plan to wake up the country and ‘preserve Australian values’.

Comedian Tony Martin has strip-mined his often unremarkable life to tell sixteen small tales fraught with laughter and detail. Choosing to ignore his many dubious achievements in the world of Australian show business (Martin/Molloy, The Late Show, a short-lived but torrid affair with Sharon on Kath & Kim), New Zealand-born Martin instead recalls dozens of tiny life-changing moments that, frankly, could have happened to anybody.

This book will inspire you to: thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete; manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them; plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations; surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest; use challenges to become a better leader; use creativity to move past trauma; and understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.

Written for professionals and autistic women alike, the female profile of autism is demystified and associated subjects including sexuality, relationships, professional life and routes to diagnosis are explored including a lived-experience case study by Annyck Martin. In addition, an assessment questionnaire is provided, tailored specifically to the diagnosis of autism in women. Each question is supported by clinical commentary from Autism experts Tony Attwood, Isabelle Henault, Valentina Pasin and Bruno Wicker to help the reader interpret answers and reach informed conclusions.

FROM THE HIDEOUT is a collection of amusing conversations between the unique friendship group that is Pete Smith (Channel 9 Voice Over Legend), Tony Martin (Sizzletown, Have You Been Paying Attention?) and Djovan Caro (Lessons with Luis, The Backside of Television). Recorded with state-of-the-art microphones, transmitting monthly. Music by Mitch McTaggart. Produced by Alex Amster and Djovan Caro. Copyright 2023. Thank You For Your Time.

Winner of Best Comedy at the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards, CHILDPROOF is an unproduced TV sitcom written by Tony Martin and Sarina Rowell. The six episodes were performed live at the 2017 Melbourne Fringe by Tony Martin, Geraldine Quinn, Roz Hammond, Andrew McClelland, Damian Cowell, Cristina Laria, Djovan Caro and Lachy Hulme, with a gaggle of guests, narration by Jay Mueller and audio production by Matt Dower. It concerns those controversial types, the ‘childfree by choice’. They’ve been called ‘selfish’, ‘immature’, ‘unfulfilled’ and even ‘unAustralian’ – by their ...

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality.

Classic Radio Drama and Comedy foryour entertainment. In addition there is a fundraiser for my cause,I am an RAF Veteran who lost my leg recently and need help. Please click on the QR code for my Gofundme page. Thank You.

"This book has the important element that is missing in most of the books and articles on Garvey - a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about." (John Henrik Clarke, The Black Scholar) A classic study of the Garvey movement, this is the most thoroughly researched book on Garvey's ideas by a historian of Black nationalism.

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Here, at last, is an audiobook that addresses the real heart of workplace safety: you. Your attitude, your priorities, and your mind-set all have more to do with how safe you are at work than you’ve probably ever imagined. Tuning In to Safety is about taking charge of a factor you can control: specifically, your thought process. The listener is challenged to define personal safety goals, then to reflect on how they think in regard to safety. Many will be shocked to realize their own thinking is working against them in their efforts to keep themselves and their coworkers safe.