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We are delighted to share the exciting news that current Year 12 SIDE student, Jillian, from Norseman in Ngadju Country, and former Year 11 Pannawonica-based SIDE student, Sammy, from Ardyaloon (also known as One Arm Point) in Bawa Jawi Country, have just been announced as 2025 ABC Heywire Winners!

In Term 1, 35 ABC HEYWIRE Winners, from all parts of rural, regional and remote Australia, travelled vast distances to Canberra to share their stories and work together to advocate for changes needed to support their communities.

Three SIDE students are to represent WA in Canberra.

We are delighted to report that Asharnta and Adrianna , two of our Year 12 students from 2022, represented SIDE, their communities, and the state of Western Australia at the Heywire Summit in Canberra in March.

SIDE Student from Shark Bay – Mulgana and Nhanda Country - Selected as 2022  ABC Heywire Winner

We were thrilled to have Noongar Wongi hip-hop Artist Flewnt visit SIDE this week to run an exciting online writing workshop.

Rania Adim Habena has been chosen as an ABC Heywire winner for 2021.

SIDE is delighted to congratulate Year 11 student Brielle Hunt, from Dunsborough, on becoming a regional winner in the ABC’s 2020 Heywire storytelling competition. Heywire is open to young people aged 16-22 living in regional or rural Australia. It encourages them to tell stories in text, photo, video or audio about their life. ABC staff provide mentoring and technical support to winners to produce their stories for radio. Winners are flown to Canberra for the Heywire Youth Summit.

In December 2018 SIDE student Raymond Binsiar from Buttah Windie near Meekatharra was a regional winner of the Heywire competition.