For the second year in a row Walkley Award-winning journalist and Griffith’s journalist-in-residence Nance Haxton is a finalist in the New York Festival’s World’s Best Radio Program awards.
Nance is a finalist in the Histories and Community Profiles categories for her radio documentary on Blackbirding which tells the story of the more than 60,000 South Sea Islanders forcibly brought to Australia to work as labourers on sugar cane and cotton farms in the 19th century. In 2017 Nance took out the Bronze Award for her radio documentary on Stradbroke Island.
Nance with her bronze award at the New York Festival Radio Awards in 2017.
“I am beyond thrilled to have this recognition for my doco, with the publicity from this hopefully shedding more light on this shameful chapter of Australia’s history, with some calling it Australia’s slave trade,’’ Nance says.
She said it was a wonderful validation as she begins her PhD on Blackbirding
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