ALANA MOLLER & LOUISE MARTIN

It can be a hard case to argue… that your children should be subsidised to attend a private boarding school. But when you live in rural and remote Australia, boarding school is really the only option.

LOUISE MURRIHY & ROCHELLE OLSEN

In this special episode of Ducks of the Pond, we hear individual stories of grieving and baby loss, as well as a collective response from a group of Warrnambool mothers, who call themselves “the Electric Eight”. It’s a support group that started forming 13 years ago, for mothers whose babies have died.

ASHLEY MOLLOY

Ashley has been a police officer, worked in marketing, built her own home and now designs jewellery. Each chapter seems very different on face value. But Ashley sees her life as a continuity of growth; in skills, experience and understanding what’s right for each chapter of life.

SARAH NOLET & EBONY GREAVES

We are hearing more and more about the use of agtech for precision farming tech, for water level monitoring, soil carbon accounting, and so much more. So where do you even start? And is it even worth the time and effort?

CYNTHIA MAHONEY & GILLIAN FENNELL

We’re in the middle of a Federal election campaign…and you can already see that issues such as the cost of living, housing, health and crime are going to be crucial areas of focus for pretty much any candidate hoping to get elected. But what if the issue that matters most to you, or to your family or your community… is NOT one of those hot button topics?

KAREN FOSTER & JODIE FLEMING

Do you have a goal or dream that you want to pursue, but stop yourself because you feel it’s too selfish or you don’t have enough time? Sometimes we women formulate the idea that we need to be of service to others…  in order to be loved. And it’s not our fault.

CATHERINE MARRIOTT & KIRSTEN DIPROSE

Agriculture isn’t just the act of growing crops or tending to the animals, as the dictionary likes to define it. It’s actually a complex system …which impacts and is impacted by a variety of things from government regulation, people, climate change, politics and so much more.

EMILY KING

Tea tree oil and nanotechnology for fly strike and foot-rot resistant sheep…. These are just some of the exciting innovations happening in agriculture. But how do you lift an entire sector or industry? It’s not always easy in farming when most of us work alone or with family.

LEXIE LEONARD

Owning a home these days is hard enough, so what about building your own farm from scratch? Dr Lexie Leonard is a vet, an animal health trainer and a farmer who is building her own farming business alongside her husband and their young children in Balmoral, Victoria.

RACHAEL MCGRATH

Women have a powerful voice in agriculture, but would you call it equal to men? In Australia, there are more than 88,000 women working in agriculture across multiple industries. The numbers are growing, but women only make up one third of the overall ag workforce.

TARA MCGRATH-WEST & BEC MALSEED

Chances are, when you were growing up, the idea of becoming a professional female footballer or even a female footy umpire for men’s games… was simply impossible. But NOW, it is.

REBECCA SAUNDERS & PAIGE CROSS

If you’ve spent a decade or more building a professional career - the idea of starting a business might seem out of reach. But you have plenty of skills already, in fact you are probably REALLY good at a couple of things… that people will actually pay you for.

MARION SAUNDERS & OLIVIA THWAITES

Clothing is not trivial, it’s actually an expression of self. This episode is not about needing to look like a supermodel or spend ridiculous amounts of money on clothes (gosh, there’s enough pressure on us as women to do that already!).

MALINDA GUEST & KATJA WILLIAMS

There are suggestions that Australia is in the middle of a loneliness epidemic; in fact one in three people experience it. Country towns are pretty good at welcoming people in, but making close, meaningful relationships takes time and it takes effort.

LOUISE O’NEILL

How do we get our men to actively participate in a stand to stop violence against women?  This is a tricky conversation. Clearly, it would be great if men just stop being violent. But telling men to simply ‘stop it,’ isn’t working.

LEILA MCDOUGALL

With gender roles for men not being as defined as perhaps they once were, what does this mean for our rural men who grew up with certain ideas of 'what a man should look like?'

KELLY BARNES & CHRISSY SYMEONAKIS

Being diagnosed with a chronic illness is a massive change. And most people who have experienced this, speak about a grieving process for your old life and even your old identity, especially if it was based on being physically active.

KRYSTIE HOLLEY, HEATHER BALDOCK & DANNA KASSEBAUM

There’s this persistent notion that starting up a retail store in the main street of town is just too hard. From the high rents, cost of living crisis, to the relatively low foot traffic in country towns, finding a physical space to sell things, the ‘ye olde way’ can seem impossible.

ANGIE ARMSTRONG & NATALIE EGLETON

It’s important for community projects and local businesses to come from the bottom up. It’s the people on the ground who know what’s actually needed and how to best deliver it. But so many grants and programs are top-down.

JOSEPHINE CROFT

She’s a film producer and actor, based in Melbourne, but is part of a movement that’s making film more accessible to women. This includes job sharing on film sets, shorter hours and looking after the mental health of film crews.