Inclusion

Carol Duncan - councillor, Novacastrian, and former radio personality

This is the first episode of our new podcast, Conversations with Annie & Kate - our very kind guest is Carol Duncan. She is a long time friend, Novacastrian Councillor, Twitter personality (@carolduncan, and former ABC radio personality. Enjoy :)

A huge thank-you to Carol for taking a punt and agreeing to be our first guest.

We had a wide-ranging discussion that included cancel culture, the challenges of reinventing oneself in mid-life, and the slowness of change in the workplace.

Carol Duncan is a media and communications professional with a radio career that spanned 25 years around Australia in both commercial radio (1989 – 2001) and as the presenter of a daily program on ABC Local Radio (2001 – 2014). She is a highly experienced writer, interviewer, speaker, consultant, and multi-platform content creator in areas including news, health, education, science, politics and music.

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