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The Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show - 13/07/24 Bushy Martin from Realty Talk and KnowHow Property Finance reveals new tenant trends Georgina Downey, owner of Canberra’s brand new Renovation Shop explains the idea behind the concept Marcus Mills-Smith, Head of Sales, Marketing & Communications at Ginninderry provides all details regarding Ginninderry’s request for expressions of interest for a unique 1.9ha block See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-07-1514 min
INSPIREEpisode 15. How a small café is making a big impact. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Vanessa Brettel.Located in the gallery space of the historic Strathnairn Arts Homestead, Café Stepping Stone founders Vanessa Brettel and Hannah Costello are doing more than serving fantastic vegetarian food. Their business model employs migrant and refugee women to give them hospitality experience, learn and improve their English and obtain a Certificate III in commercial cookery or hospitality to advance their skills further.
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2023-05-1013 minINSPIREEpisode 14. How to invest ethically. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Dave Rae.Could your money help save the world? Dave Rae, Financial Advisor at Ethinvest, believes it can. He talks us through why it’s important to invest ethically and how we can go about it, from identifying what issues are important to you to changing your super fund investments and making informed decisions on our everyday purchases.
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2023-05-1013 minINSPIREEpisode 13. How adaptive reuse is reenergising communities. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Stuart Harrison.New York’s famous High Line Park (which used to be a train line) and London’s Tate Modern (formerly Bankside Power Station) are great global examples of adaptive reuse projects – an approach that breathes new life into empty or unused structures and places. Stuart Harrison, Architect and Good Design Advocate, talks about the key considerations and examples of adaptive reuse both globally and locally.
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2023-05-1012 minINSPIREEpisode 12. How meaningful design can influence community wellbeing. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Imogen Featherstone and Tulitha King.Walkability, green spaces, access to nature. These are some of the elements that, if incorporated into our community, can enhance our wellbeing. Imogen Featherstone, Planning Development Manager and Tulitha King, Community Development Manager from Ginninderry, talk about how this development has created the infrastructure that allows for greater community interactivity and events.
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2023-05-1014 minINSPIREEpisode 11. Changing our relationship with snakes. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Dr Gavin Smith.While Australia is home to some of the world’s most dangerous snake species, they play a vital role in maintaining our delicate ecosystem. Dr Gavin Smith, Associate Professor in Sociology, despite hailing from Scotland, has gained a local reputation as being a ‘snake whisperer’. Through his research on the Eastern Brown snake, he hopes to help humans and snakes to coexist better.
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2023-05-1017 minINSPIREEpisode 10. Importance of play in our community. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Dr Cathy Hope.No matter your age or ability level, play is important for your health, wellbeing and sense of community. Through her Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Project, Dr Cathy Hope is partnering with Ginninderry to push the boundaries of traditional park infrastructure by creating vibrant, fun spaces that cater to everyone’s needs.
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2023-05-1013 minINSPIREEpisode 9. How to be a sustainable fashionista. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Emma Batchelor.Australia is the second-largest consumer of textiles globally, with 93% of non-renewable, non-degradable, and synthetic materials
ending up in landfills, taking hundreds of years to break down and releasing carbon emissions. But Emma Batchelor, Author of Building a Conscious Wardrobe (and other fun things), shows us how to enjoy fashion in a sustainable way.
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2023-05-1015 minINSPIREEpisode 8. Become a frog watcher. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Anke-Maria Hoefer.Frogs are the most threatened species group globally, and their declines and losses of species have been described as the single biggest
threat to our biodiversity. But Anke-Maria Hoefer, ACT & Region FrogWatch Coordinator with the Ginninderra Catchment Group explains how we can all do our bit by volunteering to become a FrogWatcher. It’s easy and fun.
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2023-05-1015 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 25/03/23 Will the RBA pause interest rate rises next month? Michael Yardney, CEO of Metropole Property Strategists shares his thoughts It’s auction day at the Strathnairn Charity House. Marcus Mills-Smith, Head of Community, Marketing & Communications at Ginninderry talks about the importance of the project This is the final interview in Cam and Renee’s 4-Part Series on sustainable living in Canberra. Jo Farrell, General Manager ACT Kane Constructions talks about the sustainable inclusions built into the Strathnairn Charity House See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-03-2713 min
ACT Greens PodcastThe 2023 bus timetable. Ft. Jo Clay MLA. On Monday 30th January Network 2023 was launched. Canberra’s bus users are not happy, I have heard this loud and clear. We are trying to encourage more people to use public transport in the short term due to construction disruption in the city, and in the longer term to address climate change and traffic congestion. But this network has gone backwards. Canberrans want a better bus network. People from all across Canberra in all parts of the community and from all walks of life have spoken to me about the need to improve our bus network. This is...
2023-02-1607 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 29/10/2022 Mario Sanfrancesco, Sales Consultant and Auctioneer at Blackshaw explains why the Aranda Property with 2 houses on the one block is so special. Natasha Stoka, Managing Director at Regal Homes provides must know info for anyone thinking about a knock-down, rebuild. Jo Farrell, General Manager ACT Kane Constructions has the latest update from the Strathnain Charity House at Ginninderry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-3116 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 16/7/2022 Steve Lowe, Director at the Agent Team Canberra highlights the important things to know about when bringing a settlement date forward Jo Farrell, General Manager ACT Kane Constructions provides an update on the Strathnain Charity House at Ginninderry George Southwell, Director & Owner at Ray White Rural Canberra and Yass talks about trending real estate activity in the Yass region See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-07-1815 min
INSPIREEpisode 7. The program helping women return to work. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Deborah Fulton and Emma SckrabeiA return to work after a career break can be daunting for anyone. And research shows that these career interruptions are much more common for women.
With this in mind, Ginninderry has created a program specifically aimed at getting women back into the workforce, in partnerships with Empowered Collective and the ACT Government Office for Women.
Head of Ginninderry’s Community, Training & Employment, Emma Sckrabei, says that the program is free for eligible women and is part of the suite of courses offered by Ginninderry’s award-winning SPARK Training and Employment Program.
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2022-06-1417 minINSPIREEpisode 6. Community batteries giving power to the people. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Michael Jansen and Jessica StewartAs Australia rapidly moves towards a renewable energy future, the excess energy that household solar panels are currently producing is creating instability for the grid. But community scale batteries offer a solution, bridging the gap between large utility-scale grid storage systems and costly household battery systems
According to Michael Jansen, Managing Director of PowerTec Engineered Solutions, they offer energy storage for around 100 households, with power capacities up to 5MW and have the potential to play an integral role in Australia’s transition to a decentralised grid.
Ginninderry is trialling Canberra’s first community-scale storage battery and...
2022-06-1415 minINSPIREEpisode 5. The rise of urban farming. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Jessica StewartUrban agriculture is already taking off in our cities, our suburbs and our backyards – challenging the big supermarkets and the energy and waste generated by industrial agriculture.
Ginninderry is trialling Canberra’s first commercial-scale urban indoor growing facility that deploys cutting-edge vertical-farm technology designed by ambitious Sydney urban-agtech start-up InvertiGro. Jessica Stewart, Ginninderry’s Sustainability Manager, says that the modular units are designed for the highest quality and productivity of crops, in the least amount of space by using less water and energy than any other hydroponic system.
Ginninderry’s unit grows over 200 plants every few week...
2022-06-1413 minINSPIREEpisode 4. Jumping onto the e-bike trend. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Zuleka ChanZuleka Chan, Project Officer at SEE-Change which runs Canberra’s only e-bike library.
E-bike sales have been rising steadily across the world with Deloitte predicting that 130 million electric bikes will be sold between 2020 and 203[1]. And is it any wonder? They’re easy to use – with an in-built electric motor and rechargeable battery that boosts riders up hills and long trips, environmentally friendly and Covid travel-Safe.
Canberrans have embraced the trend, due to great bike path infrastructure, and SEE-Change – Canberra’s only e-bike library – is giving people the opportunity to borrow an e-bike and try for themselves...
2022-06-1413 minINSPIREEpisode 3. How to prevent our things from going into landfill. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Monica Andrews and Tuli KingOne of the biggest causes of the world’s most challenging problems is our ‘take, make, dispose’ consumption patterns that deplete our natural resources and fill our land and oceans with harmful waste. But people such as Monica Andrews and Tuli King, Ginninderry’s Community Manager, are helping to make small but meaningful changes. Armed with a host of practical skills from sewing right through to soldering, Monica and her husband John are teaching people in the community to mend, restore or transform their items so that they can continue to be used.
One of these cafes is hoste...
2022-06-1413 minINSPIREEpisode 2. Make your backyard a wildlife haven. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Matthew FrawleyOur suburbs have not been created for wildlife to coexist. The clearing of mature trees leaves many birds and animals without a home. Conventional gardens with lawns, garden beds and European flora don’t offer much food or habitat for our native wildlife. And our beloved pets can harm or scare wildlife away.
However, according to Matthew Frawley, Ginninderry’s Landscape Manager, there is now a trend towards creating natural habitats in gardens that encourage native wildlife such as birds, bats, lizards, frogs, bees and butterflies to return to our urban environments. And it’s easier than you th...
2022-06-1412 minINSPIREEpisode 1. Creating community. Hosted by Genevieve Jacobs with Nick Tebbey and Tulitha KingAccording to The Australian Loneliness Report released by Relationships Australia in late 2018, one in four people experienced an episode of loneliness, while one in two people said they felt lonely for at least one day each week. And that was before the spread of COVID-19 which has left people across the world feeling more socially isolated and lonely than ever before.
That’s why feeling like you belong to a community is so vitally important. In this episode we talk to Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer at Relationships Australia and Tulitha King, Ginninderry Community Development Manager about ho...
2022-06-1412 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 29/1/2022 Steve Lowe, Director at Agent Team Canberra reviews Domain’s latest House Price Report and discusses Canberra as the city with the now second highest medium house price in Australia, Ginninderry recently unveiled Canberra's newest suburb – MacNamara. Ginninderry Project Director Steven Harding explains what he thinks future residents with love about living there In which essential part of a house has the Building Code failed to keep up? Shannon Battisson, Australian National President (ELECT) at the Australian Institute of Architects + Director at local firm The Mill Architecture & Design provides the answer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
2022-01-3013 min
SubjectACTBuild Like A Girl And SPARK: Supporting Women In Trades And ConstructionWomen make up 1% (or less) of our tradies and construction workers in the ACT. But now change is afoot… From out-dated claims that ‘the work is too heavy’ to ‘no female amenities on site’, women and business are coming together to effect change in the right direction!
Build Like A Girl: https://buildlikeagirl.org/
SPARK Ginninderry: https://ginninderry.com/environment-and-people/training-employment/view-programs/
2021-04-0326 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 13/3/2021Break 1- With the current property market booming, is it too late to get into the market or are there still good purchasing opportunities? Steve Lowe, Principle of Agent Team in Belconnen, says – No!Break 2 - Meet Kylie Dennis, new Group General Manager of one of Canberra’s best known property brands.Break 3 - Emma Sckrabei, Ginninderry Training & Employment Manager had some exciting news about the brand new Strathnairn Charity House project.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-03-1513 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 12/12/2020What are the 3 things in 2020 that most surprised Kevin Turner, host at Real Estate Talk and Realty TV? David Maxwell, Managing Director at Ginninderry joined Cam and Renee for an update on what’s happening at Canberra’s only 6 Star, Green Star Community.Allhomes celebrated 20 years of property marketing in 2020. Danielle Harmer, AllHomes General Manager joined Cam and Renee for a look back and a look forward.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-12-1418 minThe Real Estate ShowMix 106.3's Real Estate Show Podcast - 25/7/2020Steve Lowe, Principle of Agent Team in Belconnen, answered the question – What should you do if your settlement is delayed. David Maxwell, Managing Director at Ginninderry speaks about the importance of the Parkwood land re-zoning announcement. Susie Weaver, Executive Property Manager from LJ Hooker Canberra City has the number one thing you need to do to ensure you get the best rental.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-07-2715 min