DR. KAY DANES, OAM

Kay Danes in the Spotlight: Notable Media Moments

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FEATURED PRINT MEDIA

 

• The Mandarin News: Senate hearings into Australia's recent role in Afghanistan

• Financial Review: Feature story by Fiona Carruthers. Evacuating people is a growing business. 

• SBS News: More than 100,000 Afghans apply for humanitarian visas

• Sunday Mail: Feature Story by Cydonee Mardon. Time for all in Uniform to get Justice. 

• Sunday Mail: Opinion by Dr Kay Danes—Top brass heads must roll in ADF.​

• Canberra Times News:  Government departments claim no list has been made to estimate how many left stranded in Afghanistan. ​

• Courier Mail Newspaper: Former political prisoner Kay Danes hopes to inspire others with her story 

• Lifestyle News: Hostage rescues fellow victims.

• Curtin University Postgraduate Bulletin: Advocacy from Adversity.​

• Women's Skills Bureau Magazine: (International distribution) Issue 32, pp.7-8, Inspiring Women: Kay Danes.

• Gold Coast Blanc Magazine: Feature, Jailed, lauded, striving for Change.​

• Courier Mail Newspaper: ‘Kay Danes is dedicated to helping others after appalling treatment in Laos’.

• Sunday Mail Newspaper: Lifting the Veil on a Country in Crisis.

• Gold Coast Bulletin Newspaper: Freedom Fighter. Interview with Kay Danes

• Life Magazine: Day by Day in a Bali Jail. ​

• The Australian Newspaper: No Swap if Family Don't Pay. Interview.

• Sydney Morning Herald Editorial: The Torture of being locked up a long way from Home.

• LinkedIn Editorial: 'Let us rally under the banner of justice, courage and respect for our military heroes. (2024)  

• Sunday Mail Newspaper: Opinion by Dr Kay Danes about Top brass heads must roll in ADF.​

• Canberra Times Newspaper: ​Government departments claim no list has been made to estimate how many left stranded in Afghanistan. 

• Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper: Aussie tells Congress of terror in Laos jail

• Globe Media Asia: Kay Danes talks about her arbitrary detention in Laos. 

• Jimboomba Times: Humanitarian Kay Danes inspires Jimboomba Community to dig deep

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RADIO

 

• ABC Radio National: Hope running out for former Australian Embassy Guards stranded in Afghanistan

• ABC Radio National: Conversations with Richard Fidler.​

• New Zealand National Radio: Kay Danes helping prisoners held abroad.

• 882 6PR Radio: Chris Ilsley Drive Program (LIVE), Perth Tonight. Interview ‘Humanitarian work worldwide’.

• ABC Radio Australia: ‘Laos social justice advocate appointed to the Order of Australia’.

• 4BC116 News Talk: Families Behind Bars. Interview with Greg Carey.​

• ABC Radio National: Aid work in Afghanistan: Kay Danes. Life Matters.

• ABC Radio National Kay Danes, survivor of a Laos Prison.

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​TELEVISION

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• The Project, Network 10: Killed-in-Service Campaign. Honouring ADF and First Responders.  ​

• Sky News Australia: (Host: Jaynie Seal) Discussion on the Afghanistan Humanitarian Crisis: ‘Afghan LEE Visa Program.’ ​​

• Sky News Australia: (Host: Alan Jones) Discussion on National War Crimes Investigation: ‘Defence Force hierarchy are ‘ganging up’ on soldiers with inquiries like Brereton.’  

• Sky News Australia: (Host: Alan Jones) ‘Defence top brass and government are the ‘biggest coverup merchants.’ ​​​​

• Sky News Australia: (Host: Alan Jones) ‘The handling of the Brereton Report’ 

• Documentary Style Production: Australian Department of Defence ‘Surviving with Dignity’

• ABC The Australian Story: ​​​​​‘On their Honour’ - (The exclusive "story behind the story" of Kerry and Kay Danes, the Australian business couple arbitrarily detained in Laos and released at the end of a year, after Federal Government intervention.)

 

PODCASTS

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• The Voices of War Podcast. Dr Kay Danes – On Interpreters and Locally Engaged Staff stuck in Kabul. ​

• Tom Ravlic, Podcast. Interview with Dr Kay Danes, ‘Do defenders of our rights and freedoms have any themselves within the Defence ‘ecosystem’?​