Kangaroo Cuddles
Come inside a neo-natal intensive care unit, where the lives of premature babies hang in the balance. Four mothers remember the excitement and the agony of their babies' first few months of life. Jennifer Macey wrote and produced this feature based on her own experience with her first born daughter.
ABC RN Earshot - Kangaroo Cuddles
Discovering an online community of sewers
When Producer Jennifer Macey was gifted a sewing machine, she fell down a rabbit hole on social media. She began looking at pictures of other home sewers and independent pattern makers posing in their hand-made outfits and soon decided to embrace the hobby for herself. Before long, she'd formed a whole new community.
ABC RN Life Matters - Discovering an online community of sewers
How Bobby found her forever home.
When wedding photographer, Bobby Hendry turned the camera lens on herself for a photography exhibition to illustrate the theme ‘home’, the results were unexpected. As a child, Bobby lived in 40 ‘homes’ and with 16 different foster families. At 15, Bobby’s teachers threw her a lifeline, and gave her a home for life.
ABC RN LifeMatters - How Bobby Found her Forever Home.
Make Do Library
A community has sprung up around a library of things in Bulli on the NSW South Coast, where you can borrow tools and other handy things. Producer Jennifer Macey spoke to some of the volunteers and library members and found that the Make Do library is about reducing waste, creating connections and reviving a disused meeting place.
ABC RN LifeMatters - Make Do Library
A Secret Garden
In 2016 Jennifer Macey and Jo Upton took part in KCRW’s 24 hour radio race based on the theme ‘Out of Range’ and with the clock ticking raced to create this story about a hidden patch of rainforest on the site of an abandoned cokeworks in the Illawarra, Australia. They won third place.
Apeeling Price
There's a fruit and veg shop at the foot of the Bulli Pass, on the busy highway into Wollongong, and drivers groan at the appalling puns on their signs that advertise the weekly specials. But when the early morning workers come in to unpack the boxes from the markets, there's often an unwanted surprise waiting for them.
ABC RN PocketDocs - Apeeling Price
Hotter, drier Australia
Seasonal bushfires are a part of Australia's history and landscape. But scientists warn that they will become more severe and frequent with climate change. This year, the bushfire season has started early, with record heat waves recorded across the country. As Jennifer Macey reports, the early outbreak of bushfires could be a taste of what's to come.
DW Living Planet - A Hotter, Drier Australia
Australia’s War on Renewables
Ever since Australia's conservative led government came to office in 2013, it has shown little support for renewables. Meanwhile, the country's share of brown and black coal electricity generation has increased - and so too have its emissions. As Jennifer Macey reports, Australia's war on renewables is stymieing the clean energy industry.
DW Living Planet - Australia's War on Renewables
Aboriginal Cultural Fishing Rights
Aboriginal groups want the New South Wales governmen to formally recognise cultural fishing rights, saying without these legal protections Indigenous Australians are going to jail unnecessarily.
ABC The World Today - Aboriginal Cultural Fishing Rights
Former illegal loggers work at Elephant sanctuary
Indonesia is home to 10 per cent of the world's remaining tropical rainforests, but officials estimate 10 million hectares have been lost to illegal logging. But thousands of people are dependent on this industry for their income. So a group in northern Sumatra is taking an innovative approach and retraining former illegal loggers to work as elephant keepers. Jennifer met the elephant keepers and their elephants.
Aceh’s reconstruction efforts
Indonesia is no stranger to natural disasters. The Indonesian archipelago sits on the edges of three tectonic plates, making it vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. In 2010 Jennifer Macey visited Yogyakarta and Aceh which was devastated by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami to learn more about reconstruction efforts.
ABC Sounds of Summer feature - Aceh's Reconstruction Efforts
Batik producers rebuild lives four years after quake
In 2006, an earthquake killed nearly 6,000 people in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta and left half a million people homeless. Aid agencies now say they're using their efforts there as an example of how to respond to a natural disaster but locals say they still need more help, as Jennifer Macey reports.
ABC The World Today- Batik producers rebuild lives four years after quake
More than Motels needed to house the homeless
Motels in Sydney's western suburbs increasingly become half-way houses for homeless families. The New South Wales Government says its temporary accommodation budget has blown out by more than $9-million this year as it pays for an extra 643 people each month to stay in motels or caravan parks. Mission Australia has recently built 16 townhouses in Sydney's west specifically designed to accommodate families.
ABC AM - More than Motels
Tasmanian Dairy Farmers in price war with National Foods
Dairy farmers in Tasmania are embroiled in a bitter dispute over milk prices with a key dairy company. Farmers are angry at the price that National Foods is offering per litre of milk. They say it's less than the cost of production. After a tough winter in the state many farmers are unable to pay bills. Some are on the verge of going broke. A few are on suicide watch.
ABC PM - Tasmanian Dairy Farmers in price war