WiseLines

22/09/2020

Wiselines: Episode 17 The Future

What do you see in the future? Consider what’s ahead with our six interviewees as they mull over politics, the environment, the role of women and much more.

17/09/2020

Episode 16: Love

Why does Mike Carlton say “love is everything”? Why does Ian Chappell hate hugging? Why does Wendy McCarthy say we take love for granted? It’s our love episode. ❤

15/09/2020

Episode 15: Loving Yourself

What makes Jenny Kee say the most important thing is to love yourself? Noni Hazlehurst says loving yourself is allowing to stumble, fall and forgive yourself - even though you’re not going to be perfect.

10/09/2020

Episode 14: Growing Up Ian Chappell

What life lesson did Ian Chappell learn as an 11-year-old losing sports captain who bawled his eyes out? His father made him congratulate the opposing team: something he did throughout his career as the Australian Men's Cricket Team captain.

08/09/2020

Episode 13: Failure

Have you ever failed? Ian Chappell reckons you learn more from failure than you do from your successes, observing: “it’s how you deal with failure”. Our interviewees talk openly about failure, both in personal relationships and business.

03/09/2020

Episode 12: Growing Up Mike Carlton

“I’d love to have had a father who watched me play football,” muses Mike Carlton. He says not having a father is a vacuum he can never fill. Hear about him growing up with a widowed mum, who worked her fingers to the bone raising two boys.

02/09/2020

WiseLines' interviewee Mike Carlton was recognised in this year's Queen’s Birthday Honours. In the interview below, he spoke about the current tough time for media and journalism. Catch the premiere of our episode about his growing up years right here on our page on Thursday September 3 at 6.45pm.

Mike Carlton, Robyn Nevin and Tottie Goldsmith are among the media and arts personalities appointed Order o...

01/09/2020

Episode 11: Parenting

“I’d love to have had a father who watched me play football,” muses Mike Carlton. He says not having a father is a vacuum he can never fill. Hear about him growing up with a widowed mum, who worked her fingers to the bone raising two boys.

31/08/2020

Mike Carlton told guests at Margaret Fulton’s State Memorial that when she wrote "pineapple can bring a delightful Hawaiian touch to your meals", his own mother took the advice to heart. In our Parenting episode premiering here at 6.45pm on Tuesday (Sep 1), Mike reflects on being a parent himself.

A who's who of Australia's culinary and publishing circles gather to celebrate the life of Margaret Fulton — and learn her 10 life lessons — at a State Memorial Service in Sydney.

27/08/2020

Episode 10: Growing Up Jenny Kee

As a little kid on cracker night, Jenny Kee had a racist insult hurled at her – along with a firecracker that left a physical scar. How did that set her on a path to become a top designer and artist? She decided: “I’ll show you!”

26/08/2020

How Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson invented Australiana high fashion – in pictures (1975-1986) via Guardian Australia. Just wow. Our Jenny Kee "Growing Up" episode premieres on this page at 6.45pm, Thursday August 27. 👀

A new exhibition celebrates four decades of work from the designing duo whose signature style engages with Australia’s natural environment

25/08/2020

Episode 9: Death

“Why, why… why me? Why did I survive?” That’s what Jenny Kee asked herself when she got out of the 1977 Granville train disaster with her toddler in her arms. Now she tells us why she wouldn’t have missed being in that crash “for anything in the world”.

25/08/2020

Money, religion and death were Jenny Kee’s Dicey Topics when she rolled the die with Benjamin Law in Good Weekend Magazine. At 6.45pm this evening we premiere the WiseLines Death episode on our page: Jenny Kee explains why she wouldn't have missed being in the Granville train crash for anything in the world.

The fashion designer talks on nearly losing all her finances, how deaths impacted her life and finding Buddhism after the Granville rail disaster.

20/08/2020

Episode 8: Growing Up Geoff Cousins

What did Geoff Cousins discover about his father when he was 15? He talks about that and how he still thinks about his father a lot - and remembers a safe, happy and untroubled childhood where he felt secure.

19/08/2020

“Businessmen don’t talk like this,” wrote Elizabeth Farrelly in The Sydney Morning Herald, of Geoff Cousins opening an S.H. Ervin Gallery show last year. Read why. And find out about Geoff Cousins' upbringing in his Growing Up episode, premiering on our page at 6.45pm Thursday August 20.

Yes, we should fear disturbance in the heavens, as wrought by climate change.

18/08/2020

Episode 7: Fear

What was it that terrified Geoff Cousins as CEO of Optus? Why does Wendy McCarthy think fear is important? Without fear, Mike Carlton reckons life would be bland and boring. What is his most terrifying fear of all?

14/08/2020

Thanks to Tonic magazine for talking with Anita Jacoby about our WiseLines project and giving us "must-watch" status. We're honoured!

Anita Jacoby Gets Aussie Legends To Open Up For The Camera. By Ute Junker

14/08/2020

You can listen to ABC Radio Sydney now (1.30pm Friday) to hear Wendy McCarthy talk with James Valentine about WiseLines.

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13/08/2020

Episode 6: Growing Up Wendy McCarthy

What would Wendy McCarthy tell her childhood self? “Take the risk, hold your nose and jump!”. For 50+ years as a mentor, business leader and feminist, she’s worked for change. But what was it like growing up with no electricity, lots of books and a father “unravelling into alcoholism”?

13/08/2020

Women's Agenda named Wendy McCarthy its first Hall of Famer back in 2013. Tonight at 6.45pm (Thursday August 14), hear about the childhood that shaped her, by visiting our page for the premiere of our Wendy McCarthy "Growing Up" episode.

Wendy McCarthy AO became Women’s Agenda’s inaugural Hall of Fame inductee at the NAB Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards on Thursday, in recognition of her groundbreaking career and long service in helping women achieve.

11/08/2020

Episode 5: Wisdom
*𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨*

What is wisdom? Our six interviewees speak of what they’ve learned from making mistakes, about generosity of spirit, consideration, marrying the present to the past – and much more.

07/08/2020

We're in the news today! Here's a behind-the-scenes shot of our executive producer Nathan Earl with Jenny Kee in this story from HelloCare.

WiseLines is the brand new web series that talks to iconic figures of the Australian mediascape, welcoming us into their worlds, as they impart pieces of wisdom learned throughout their varied and storied lives.

06/08/2020

Episode 4: Growing Up Noni Hazlehurst

As a kid, Noni Hazlehurst found the world “a bit disconcerting and overwhelming”. Discover the upbringing that shaped her: classes in ballet, piano and singing, plus learning accents and comic timing from her British born vaudevillian parents.

04/08/2020

Episode 3: Reflections

If you could offer your childhood self a little advice, what would it be? 🤔 Noni Hazlehurst reckons it’s “don’t be afraid.” Wendy McCarthy says: “Grab every opportunity, take the risk, hold your nose and jump.” Dive in for six compelling answers.

30/07/2020

Episode 2: Happiness

What makes you happy? Wendy McCarthy and Mike Carlton say it can be the birth of a child. For Jenny Kee, it is looking after your parents when they are dying. Geoff Cousins reflects on being happy and on what would make him happiest.

28/07/2020

Episode 1: Friendship

Ever considered what you’d do for a friend? Even though he wasn’t much of a letter writer, Ian Chappell wrote to a former teammate in jail and he reveals the importance of that friendly act.

27/07/2020

Noni Hazlehurst AM has been loved by Australian film and television viewers - and theatre audiences - for 40 years.

Recently in A Place To Call Home, she is also known for Play School and The Sullivans, as well as Redfern Now and Better Homes & Gardens. Her film roles have taken her from Monkey Grip to Little Fish, Candy and Ladies in Black.

On stage, she has performed in sell-out tours of the one woman play Mother and the Sydney Theatre Company’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Following Ruth Cracknell, Noni was the second woman to be inducted into the TV Week Logie Hall of Fame (2016).

Born in Melbourne to British-born vaudevillian parents, Noni was the only Australian-born member of her immediate family. She is the mother of two sons.

26/07/2020

Business leader, ad man and environmentalist, Geoff Cousins AM was one of the most successful advertising men of the 1980s. He started with the George Patterson ad agency at 21 and had a 27-year career there, including time as chairman.

His corporate life includes a stint as CEO of Optus, as well as serving as a board director for 10 public companies. Geoff was also the founding chair of the children’s cancer charity Starlight Children's Foundation Australia and Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He was president of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 2014 to 2018.

In 2007 he fulfilled a lifelong ambition to write a novel, with the publication of a boisterous thriller about corruption and excess in the corporate world, The Butcherbird (Allen & Unwin).

25/07/2020

Broadcaster, journalist and author Mike Carlton AM had a Sydney suburban childhood where every penny counted. Unable to afford a university education, he left school at 16 to begin a life in journalism that would propel him to the top.

Working in journalism for more than 50 years, Mike became one of Australia’s best-known media figures. He has been a radio and television news and current affairs reporter, foreign correspondent, radio host and newspaper columnist.

Mike has also had a lifelong passion for naval history and is the author of books including Cruiser (William Heinemann Australia, 2011), First Victory (Random House Australia, 2013) and Flagship (William Heinemann Australia, 2016). He tells his own story in On Air (Ebury Australia, 2019).

24/07/2020

Bondi-born to a Chinese father and English/Italian mother, Jenny Kee AO is internationally acclaimed as an artist and designer. Her vibrant work as a pioneer of Australian style reflects her passion for our unique and precious environment.

Early on, Jenny worked with style guru and vintage trailblazer Vern Lambert at London's Chelsea Antique Market: “My university of fashion and life.”

Back home in 1973, she opened her frock salon Flamingo Park in Sydney’s Strand Arcade. Together with designer Linda Jackson, an Australian fashion identity was created. Flamingo Follies shows became legendary. Across 40 years, Jenny's work has appeared on silk, paper, wool, cotton, ceramics and canvas.

Jenny wrote her autobiography A Big Life (Penguin, 2006) at her home in the Blue Mountains wilderness.

23/07/2020

South Australian-born Ian Chappell captained Australia in 30 cricket Tests between 1971 and 1975. While he was in charge, Australia didn't lose a series.

The statistics show he scored 5,345 runs at an average of 42.42 in 75 Test appearances, including 14 centuries, with a highest score of 196 against Pakistan in Adelaide in 1972. In the field, Ian's leg spinners returned him 20 wickets and his safe slips hands took 105 catches.

Ian has been inducted into the halls of fame of Sport Australia (1986), F**A Cricket (2000), Cricket Australia (2003) and ICC Cricket (2009).

He has more than a dozen books to his name, including Chappelli: Life, Larrikins and Cricket (Penguin, 2012). Ian is also known as a broadcaster and refugee advocate.

22/07/2020

Growing up in a house with no electricity and lots of books, Wendy McCarthy AO has spent her life driving change. Across 50 years she has worked as a mentor, speaker, writer, social activist and company manager.

Wendy’s career began as a secondary teacher. In 1968, she moved out of the classroom and into public life. A feminist, she was a founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby, Australia and remains an advocate for women.

Her corporate life includes board roles with major companies. She has also established several businesses, including the consulting practice McCarthy Mentoring, which specialises in providing mentors to major corporations, the public sector and not for profit organisations. Her daughter Sophie McCarthy bought the practice in 2012 and Wendy continues as a mentor.

Wendy has written several books including her memoir, Don’t Fence Me In (Random House, 2000).