Australian music has changed enormously, but many of those changes happened because women and gender-diverse artists refused to accept an industry that told them to be quieter, smaller or simply grateful to be there. Former Camp Cope bassist Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich discusses her new book It’s Not For You, featuring conversations with artists including Marcia Hines, Courtney Barnett, Amy Taylor, Angie McMahon, BARKAA, Julia Jacklin and Vika and Linda Bull. It’s a conversation about sexism, safety, creativity, solidarity and the artists who changed Australian music by insisting on doing things their own way.

Guest: Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich, musician, writer and author of It’s Not For You

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Watching a drama set in 1981 feels very different when you actually remember living through it. Suzy Wrong joined JOY Drive to explore Disney+ series The Shards and the world its queer teenagers inhabit, hiding parts of themselves, discovering desire and growing up without the technology that follows young people everywhere today. It also prompts a more haunting reflection: watching 1981 with the knowledge of what the AIDS crisis would soon bring, when the young people living through that moment had no idea what was coming.

Guest: Suzy Wrong

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Australia exports enormous quantities of gas and multinational companies have made billions from our natural resources, so why don’t Australians benefit more? Economist Richard Denniss argues the country has struck an extraordinarily poor deal on gas and makes the case for a 25% Gas Export Tax. He explains who currently profits, what countries such as Norway have done differently, whether taxing exporters could raise billions for Australians, and why successive governments have been reluctant to fundamentally change the system.

Guest: Richard Denniss, economist, author and Executive Director of The Australia Institute

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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After her mother died, acclaimed Australian author Sue Woolfe discovered that the childhood story she had grown up believing wasn’t true. Her mother hadn’t attended the exclusive convent school she claimed — she had spent part of her childhood in an abusive orphanage and carried the secret for the rest of her life. Sue discusses how that discovery inspired her novel The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves, the largely hidden history of Australia’s orphanages, and what happens when trauma, secrets and silence pass from one generation to the next.

Guest: Sue Woolfe, acclaimed Australian author of The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Why can one person be ready for sex in seconds while another needs time, affection or connection before desire even begins? In the first of JOY Drive’s new monthly conversations about sex, relationships and sexual health, psychologist Lucy Street explores spontaneous and responsive desire, the difference between attraction and desire, our sexual “accelerators and brakes”, and why understanding your own roadmap to pleasure can take the pressure out of intimacy.

Guest: Lucy Street, sexual health therapist and relationships counsellor at Ships Psychology

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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How much of our lives are spent following scripts about who we’re supposed to be? Christian O’Connell joined JOY Drive to discuss his new book ‘Unscript: The Radical Act of Being Yourself’, exploring loneliness, vulnerability, talking to strangers, the power of the human voice and why genuine connection often begins when we stop trying to present the perfect version of ourselves.

Guest: Christian O’Connell, broadcaster and author of ‘Unscript: The Radical Act of Being Yourself’

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Ariana Grande has new music out, but much of the online conversation has once again centred on her body rather than her work. Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne examines “concern trolling”, why apparently well-intentioned comments about somebody’s weight or appearance can still cause harm, and what the endless public scrutiny of celebrity bodies teaches everyone else scrolling through the conversation.

Guest: Dr Lauren Rosewarne, Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can create outfits, mood boards and design concepts in seconds, but some emerging fashion designers are deliberately going the other way. Jye Marshall explores why a new generation is defending sketching, draping, experimentation, and even failure as essential parts of creativity; where AI genuinely can help designers; and why the future of fashion may belong to people who know when not to use it.

Guest: Jye Marshall, Lecturer in Fashion Design at Swinburne University of Technology

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Most Australians say they want to support people experiencing homelessness, yet many admit they’ve walked past someone sleeping rough without acknowledging them, often because they’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. Orange Sky’s Shayne Herriott explores Australia’s growing empathy gap, why conversation became as important as laundry and showers in Orange Sky’s work, and how something as small as eye contact, a smile or a genuine hello can help someone feel seen.

Guest: Shayne Herriott, Chief Operating Officer at Orange Sky

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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When a label says “Australian made”, “premium”, “natural” or “artisan”, how much can we trust what we’re being told? Following the ABC Four Corners investigation Duped, Lisa Asher examines food fraud, the marketing language designed to influence shoppers, supermarkets’ responsibility for the products on their shelves, and how consumers can make more informed choices without becoming suspicious of everything they buy.

Guest: Lisa Asher, retail and consumer behaviour expert from the University of Sydney

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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