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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 38 - Chile and challenges

With each new episode I seem to uncover something a little different but which nevertheless speaks to a kind of common humanity or...

177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 30 - A bit of Nigeria in Launceston

So I made another trip up to Launceston to met with Edward, who works for the Northern Tasmanian Development Corporation, to find out a...

177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 29 - Postivity and realism from Brazil

With these interviews, I really like to try and understand the environment where people grew up and how that may have influenced their...

177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 28 - Facts about Finland

Finland is a country that often gets mentioned in Tasmania in regards to various social problems , as a place which offers some models of...

177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Episode 27 - Made in South Korea, living in Launceston

This episode is hopefully the first of a series of migrants living up in the north of Tasmania, in this case, Launceston. I have done one...

Episode 26 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Understanding Iran

One of many reasons why I started this podcast was that I could see how easily misconceptions and stereotypes about a certain country or...

Episode 25 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Discovering Bangladesh

Arman's journey from growing up in rural Bangladesh, through boarding school near Dhaka to studying in Tasmania, has in some ways...

Episode 24 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Japan

Having lived and worked in Japan myself many years ago, and having taught many many students from Japan over the years, I was already...

Mark Thomson