Media
I’m also sharing my stories beyond the pages of a book. Follow my recent media features, press, and radio discussions here.
Melbourne book launch Podcast
Launched at Temperance Hall, Georgina and Robyn Butler discuss Back to Bangka along with a live reading from a selected chapter.
Eureka Street
15 March 2024 | ‘My grandmother never mentioned her sister’s name. Then I received a surprising invitation.’
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.’ – George Orwell, 1984 ‘Rigorous pursuit of the truth, without regard to criticism, has never been more...
Mamamia
28 July 2023 | ‘My grandmother never mentioned her sister’s name. Then I received a surprising invitation.’
It was November 2016 and I was ignorant of the iconic history buried in my family. Out of the blue, I had received an invitation to...
ABC Radio
25 June 2023 | How a treasure trove of letters shed light on a WW11 massacre of Australian Nurses
Songs and Stories with Brain Nankervis
The Australian
19 June 2023 | ‘I felt torn between maintaining the nurses’ memory and finding out the truth’
I fell into Bud’s story, I think, if I’m honest. There was no hero’s journey, no desperate discontent. Maybe my gradual uncoverings began with a murmur from the other side of the grave. Or a crack in the family silence when Dad…
ABC Nightlife Radio
13 June 2023 | Nightlife History - Return to Bangka Island
Georgina Banks, actor and businesswoman and now first time writer was contacted by an amateur historian in 2016 and invited to a 75th memorial service of the massacre of a group of Australian nurses by…
ABC Online
2 June 2023 | 'A war crime has been censored': Truth revealed about a WWII massacre on Bangka Island
World War II Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of a wartime massacre, and prisoner of war of the Japanese for three and a half years.But for the rest of her long life, she remained a prisoner of…