The Drowning Sound won the Ballarat Southern Cross short story competition in 2015.
Author Helen Garner has been a huge influence on my writing ever since I read Monkey Grip all those years ago as a young nurse travelling up the west coast of Australia. She showed me the importance of writing about things closer to home. I wrote a small homage to Garner in Revisiting Chapters of the Heart
In 2014-15 I worked several contracts as a remote area nurse (RAN). When RAN Gayle Woodford was murdered in a remote community in South Australia in 2016 nurses voiced their concerns around doing afterhours oncall alone and I wrote Remote Area Nurses: We are Angry and we dont want Gayle Woodford’s death to be in vain one night after being overwhelmed at the thought of heading out on my next contract.
I was working as a community palliative care nurse during Covid. In those early days when so much remained uncertain I wrote about the possibility of returning to ICU if needed.
ABC Online interview May 2020 with Iskhander Razak on life during Covid working as a community palliative care nurse specialist and the clients we care for.
SBS Online interview September 2020 on life during Covid as a palliative care nurse specialist.
SBS News Radio interview October 2020
ABC Online interview June 2024 with Iskhander Razak about death and dying .
ABC Radio July 2024 with Renee Krosch chatting about life working in palliative care.
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