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Coffee Chats with Matt Collins

Mar 31, 2019

Professor Patrick McGorry was the 2010 Australian of the Year. Not bad for a bloke born in Ireland. After four years of studying general medicine in the early 80s, Pat could see the mentally ill were getting 'an extremely raw deal,' so he turned his focus to psychiatry. In those days patients were locked up and it was...


Mar 29, 2019

At 17, most girls are thinking about boys, music, their friends and their Instagram accounts. When Connie Boglis was 17, she was assisting peolple with shizophrenia to function in day-to-day life. By her early 20s, she was working in prisons and youth detention centres gaining the respect of troubled kids. She is one of...


Mar 24, 2019

The criminal world is one unlike the majority of us live in. An eye for an eye is common practice. After 30 years involved in organised crime, Graham 'Abo' Henry knows more about this dangerous world than most. From armed robberies, break and enters and attempting to murder his own father as a teenager, Graham...


Mar 19, 2019

Jeff Amatto believes our prison system is not helping people to rehabilitate. And he would know, he experienced it first hand. He was an alcoholic at 13 and performing break and enters at the same age. As a former drug addict and criminal, Jeff learnt more about crime in jail than out. He saw many desperate things in...


Mar 14, 2019

You will be 'Reminiscing' with this chat which is sure to be 'A liittle ray of sunshine'. A 'Cool change' in fact. Founding member of Little River Band, and many other successful bands, Glenn Shorrock shares the ups and downs of his remarkable career. A career which has taken him all over the world. He has played...