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David Marriott – Scots PGC College

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I love my job. I need to tell you that because today’s chat was with someone who clearly loves their job too.  To understand what I do, you need to understand that when families undertake to explore a boarding school education for their child it is, arguably, the most important decision they’ll make on behalf…

Lesa Fowler – St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School

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Today’s chat is with the Director of Boarding at Brisbane’s St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, Lesa Fowler. Lesa is a familiar figure in the remote and rural areas of Queensland having overseen the education of so many girls from these regions. She’s been nurturing and encouraging her boarders for 16 years and it’s a position…

Tom Floyd – John Paul College

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Welcome back to Destination Boarding and our series of conversations where we introduce you to the schools that are heading up to Mount Isa with us, along with a few of the families that call the north west of Queensland and the Territory home. Today I had the loveliest conversation with Tom Floyd from John Paul College in…

Takeover Thursday… Destination Boarding with Kambala, Sydney

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It’s that time of year where one can feel energised to kick through until the end or completely overwhelmed with the ‘process’ to get there. Me? I prefer to procrastinate my way to the end, hoping that gifts miraculously appear, the house flips itself into a Martha Stewart set and the Paul Bangay fairies work…

Stuart Delaney – St Peters Lutheran College

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We’re back with another episode of A Road To Mount Isa and today I’m chatting with Head of Boarding at St Peters Lutheran College, Stuart Delaney. I was hit by the fan girl syndrome again with this chat… and if you can’t imagine why I would be fan girling over a conversation with a boarding school then…

Sharon Currie – The Glennie School

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Hello again. Most of you listening to this series where we introduce you to the amazing schools that are coming with us to Mount Isa will know just how beautiful Toowoomba is – best known as the garden city and only an hour or two from Brisbane. Today we’re chatting with Sharon Currie, Head of…

Genevieve McDonald – Brightlands Station

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Welcome back to our series ‘A ROAD TO MOUNT ISA’. This week we are having the most authentic real time chat with Genevieve McDonald. Gen is from Cloncurry in north west Queensland – well about 40 minutes south of Cloncurry on their family cattle station Brightlands. However, I caught up with Gen while she was at mini…