# Deng Adut

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186: Overcoming Adversity

This week's episode is a supercut, a compilation, a best of, a mix tape! It features some of the best moments of the show over the last year or two that share the theme of overcoming adversity. We start with the Hon. Leeanne Enoch, Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy and Minist…

The Two of Us

In this touching session we listen to the stories of two vastly different friendships and reflect on what ties us together. With Deng Adut, Ben Mckelvey, Ailsa Piper, Tony Doherty and chaired by Rosemarie Milsom.

Season 5 Episode 2 Spotlight on the Arts | Meet the Talent Series | Nick Stathopoulos | Artist & Visual Arts Mentor

Nick Stathopoulos has been a finalist in this year's Archibald Prize and many times in Australia’s Archibald and Doug Moran Portrait prizes and his 2016 portrait ‘Deng’ of refugee lawyer Deng Adut was awarded the Archibald Prize’s People’s Choice award. He has been shortlisted in the renowned BP Po…

The horrors of being a child soldier

Deng Adut was taken away as a 6-year-old to fight for the Sudan People's Liberation Army. In part one he tells Gary about the traumas of his childhood and the moments that gave him hope.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coming to Australia

In part two of Gary's chat with Deng Adut, he talks about escaping his home country and arriving in Australia as a refugee. Deng overcame adversity to become a lawyer, a refugee advocate and NSW Australian of the Year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Freedom From Fear: Songs of a War Boy Book Review

Freedom From Fear: Songs of a War Boy Book Review   This is the story of Deng Adut [pronounced Dang Ahh-doot] called “Songs of a War Boy.” At 6 he is taken from his family in South Sudan and trained as a soldier in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army.  He is marched for 33 days to Ethiopia alon…

English the vampire language, sucking life from other tongues

We investigate “word aversion” and our host Ivan ends up with a bad case of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, a 35-letter word meaning fear of long words. Our guest Deng Adut was a child soldier in Sudan. After arriving in Australia as a teenage refugee, he learned English by singing along with …