Episode 17

A conversation with Dr Melinda Hinkson

Welcome to the Heartbeat of the Mallee podcast series, which is proudly brought to you by TASCO Inland Petroleum.

In this episode, host John Dooley is speaking with Dr Melinda Hinkson, Adjunct Associate Professor Climate Change Adaptation at La Trobe University Bundoora Campus. Dr Hinkson is also are social anthropologist, a farmer, and a research leader with wide ranging interests and expertise. She has a close involvement with the Mildura Writers Festival and in 2023 she was the Festival’s ‘Writer in Residence’, presenting the keynote lecture: ‘Farming Futures: Views from the Millewa-Mallee’.

Dr Hinkson resides on a 7000 acre dryland farm near Werrimull in Victoria’s Millewa region.