TONTS.

My guest today is David Martin Harris. They are the CEO of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, they have worked for the Australian centre for contemporary art, as the chair person and co-curator of SEVENTH gallery, they have been the co-recipient of an FBI Smack Award for best NSW arts program and they were also on the board of directors for Mooghalin Performing Arts. David has also worked for the West Australian Ballet and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and while all of this is really impressive credentials what I loved so much about this interview was David’s story shared in their keynote address to a group of young queer visual artists and their families at a Monash Gallery of Art exhibition.

To find out more about the Melbourne Queer Film Festival you can head to https://mqff.com.au/

For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti

Show credits:

Editing - RAW Collings, Claire Tonti, David Martin Harris

Music - Avocado Junkie

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My guest today is bestselling author Jane Harper. Jane's first novel The Dry following the story of Detective Aaron Falk was written in 2016 and has since sold over 1.5m copies in Australia and 3.5m worldwide. It also became a hit film in 2020, starring Eric Bana as Falk. The Dry is now the 15th highest-grossing Australian movie ever; another adaptation is in the pipeline for Harper’s second Falk novel, Force of Nature, which will also star Bana. She has also written two stand alone crime thrillers The Lost Man and The Survivors set, as all her books are, against the backdrop of the wild Australian landscape. Her latest release Exiles is the third book in her Falk series where he finds himself in the lush South Australian wine country. Run don't walk to pick up a copy!

Born in Manchester in the UK, Harper moved to Australia with her family when she was eight. There, she lived in the outer Melbourne suburb of Boronia, and eventually acquired Australian citizenship. As a teen, Harper returned to the UK with her family and resided in Hampshire. Later, she attended the University of Kent and studied English. After spending time working on her career as a print journalist, she moved back to Australia. She now lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children. In this episode we discuss Jane's approach to her writing, what it was like to go from a relatively unknown print journalist to an international bestselling author and how motherhood has changed her. We also talk about mother guilt and it was so comforting to know that even Jane Harper shares this experience!

For more from Jane Harper and to purchase a copy of her latest book Exiles you can head to https://janeharper.com.au/

You can find more from Claire Tonti at www.clairetonti.com or on instagram @clairetonti

Show credits:

Editing - RAW Collings

Music - Avocado Junkie

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Freya Lawler is a bachelor qualified nutritionist, naturopath and natural fertility educator specialising in reproductive health, fertility and hormones. She is passionate about helping people achieve whole body wellness through a root-cause approach to women's health. In this episode we talk PCOS and gut health, fertility, heavy periods, PMS and PMDD, how to eat better for our blood sugar levels, alcohol and how it effects us as we age, breastfeeding from a nutrition perspective, perimenopause and menopause. To find specific answers to questions that are especially relevant to you, you can follow the time codes below.

00:00 Becoming a Naturopath

01:45 Love For Farmers

04:16 Power of Nature

07:32 Support Hormonal Health

15:50 Other Conditions

18:13 Claire's Story

19:50 What To Do and Why Adrenals Are Important

23:42 Dangers

30:24 Perimenopause

39:26 What To Do with PMDD

41:48 Balance Mood with Food

44:34 The Plate Rule

46:34 The Order We Eat Stuff

49:15 PCOS

55:11 Alcohol and Hormones

01:01:58 Nausea with Periods

01:04:04 Breastfeeding

01:07:25 Where To Find Help

For more information and support you can find Freya at the links below:

Instagram: @freyalawlernaturo

Website: https://www.freyalawler.com.au/

You can find more from Claire Tonti at www.clairetonti.com or on instagram @clairetonti

Show credits:

Editing - RAW Collings

Music - Avocado Junkie

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Tim Loveday is a poet, a writer and editor. He writes primarily on masculinity, intergenerational violence and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. Look out for his forthcoming book titled Your Father Was A Bastard. Tim is the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Wheeler Centre Fellowship, a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship, a 2022 Bundanon Residential Fellowship, 2022 Melbourne City Arts Grant, and a 2022 Writing Space Fellowship. His poetry/prose has appeared in Meanjin, Victorian Writers, The Griffith Review, Cordite, Mascara, The Big Issue, Meniscus, TEXT, Foam:e, and The Big Smoke; and is forthcoming in the Overland and The Suburban Review, among others. His spoken word has been featured on 3RRR and FBI Radio, and he has been a feature performer at Melbourne Spoken Word and at events throughout Victoria. His work has been shortlisted for numerous awards, and was highly commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Prize. A Neurodivergent dog parent, he the editor for The Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion and IPEd’s former Student Adviser (Victoria Branch).

Originally from rural NSW, Tim currently resides in North Melbourne, the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people, where he recently completed his studies in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. As an avid fan of the full stop, he’s afraid of sentences longer than 6 words; this bio is trying.

For more from Tim head to:

Instagram: @t.j.loveday

Twitter: @TimLovedaypoet

Website: https://www.timloveday.com/

You can find more from Claire Tonti at www.clairetonti.com or on instagram @clairetonti

Show credits:

Editing - RAW Collings

Music - Avocado Junkie

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My guest today is Astrid Edwards. The host of The Garret: Writers on Writing, you can also read her book reviews in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Future Women, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue and Australian Book Review. In 2021 Astrid contributed to the anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia. 

She is one half of Bad Producer Productions, an independent podcast network specialising in arts, comedy and sport (she represents the Arts part). Astrid also judges literary prizes and teaches in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University. She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is also a Member of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council advising the Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers, making her debut appearance on Q+A in 2021.

Before embarking on this creative storytelling career, Astrid was an economics and policy consultant for almost a decade. She specialised in climate and social policy, and to this day is trying to figure out how stories can help save the planet.

After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2013, Astrid left the consulting world to pursue what she loves: books, ideas and storytelling. And the world is so lucky she did.

You can find Astrid on instagram @_astridedwards_ or you can head to www.astridedwards.com

You can find more from Claire Tonti at www.clairetonti.com or on instagram @clairetonti

Show credits:

Editing - RAW Collings

Music - Avocado Junkie

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New season of TONTS. coming out tomorrow.

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Editing - RAW Collings

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The last highlight before I'm back from holidays is with the wonderful triple J radio host, comedian and host of Do Go On one of the best podcasts going round Jess Perkins.

Editing:

RAW Collings

Music:

Happy Ukelele

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The One About Failure with Mr Sunday Movies and Chanel Lucev

Editing:

RAW Collings

Music:

Happy Ukelele

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A highlight from Just Make The Thing with comedian Geraldine Hickey.

Editing:

RAW Collings

Music:

Happy Ukelele

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A highlight from my other podcast Just Make Thing while I am away for August.

This one is a funny, frank chat with the indomitable Kate 'Monty' Dimond.

Editing:

RAW Collings

Music:

Happy Ukekele

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