Broadcast Documentaries

Suzanne has also produced a number of series and documentaries for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). They include

Billy Jagar's BreastplateThe Long Journey of Billy Jagar's Breastplate

When the Aboriginal elder Billy Jagar died in a fringe camp in Cairns in 1930, his King Plate also disappeared, presumed lost forever until, 60 years later, two American sisters became curious about the crescent shaped brass object that had hung in the family lounge room throughout their childhood ...

Power in a Union

One of the longest industrial disputes in post war Australian history took place in the mining town of Mt Isa in 1964. ..

Chasing Paradise

While Far North Queensland is these days a well-worn stop on the tourist trail, 30 years ago it was better known as a destination on the hippie trail, an end point for hundreds of young people who walked out on their suburban futures ...

I couldn't Live Down South

12 local people living beyond the confines of the big smoke talk about their lives and their love of North Australia ...Listen In to Suzanne

World War Two in the Torres Strait

As the war in the Pacific warmed up through 1942, the Torres Strait Islands became Australia's front line ...

Sugar Town to Tourist Town

It took just ten years to transform Cairns from a sleepy tropical backwater to
one of Australia's major international tourist destinations - not long
for the social, economic and physical landscape of a small community to be
completely redrawn.

The Daintree Blockade

Daintree. It's the best known of all Australian rainforests and shorthand for the exotic landscape of Far North Queensland's World Heritage Listed wet tropics region.

Ironic, isn't it, that it was a road that first thrust Daintree to national and international attention ..

It was a good industry

The story of the rise and fall of our most controversial crop and the roller coaster lives of the people who grew it.

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