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With a love of stories forged around campfires on weekend and holiday adventures, Piia Wirsu was always going to be a storyteller. A journalist and producer of ten years, Piia has interviewed, written about, and told the stories of people from all walks of life - from politicians to refugees to community heroes. The host and senior producer of Expanse, one of ABC's top performing and award-winning podcasts, Piia Wirsu has turned her storytelling nous to creating longform narrative podcasts including Dig: Saving the Franklin, which won the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union's Best radio documentary. She lives in Tasmania. Mick Doleman is an Australian maritime worker and trade union official who started work as a 16-year-old deck-boy. At age 18, Mick was a crew member of the M.V. Blythe Star which sank in the southern ocean off Tasmania and among the remaining crew found almost two weeks later on a remote peninsular. He gave evidence at the enquiry into the sinking, which led to significant changes in maritime practice, and he continued a high profile domestic and international maritime career in senior roles in the Seamen's Union of Australia, as Deputy National Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, and currently as International Executive Officer for the Maritime International Federation. Mick was actively involved in the MUA's campaign in the Patrick's waterfront dispute in 1998 and was appointed as White Ribbon Ambassador in 2011 for his advocacy to end violence against women. He lives in Victoria.
