Special guests
Joining passengers aboard the 2008 Qantas Pathfinders Charity Flight will be ABC radio personality, Adam Spencer, RIDBC Ambassador and author, Tara Moss, the RIDBC Signing Choir, and Ngapartji.
Adam Spencer
Adam Spencer is one of Australia's most well-known radio and media personalities.
Adam Spencer began his career in radio by winning the Triple J Raw Comedy championship in 1996. From there, Adam became a casual presenter, and eventually took over the coveted Triple J breakfast time slot, co hosting with Wil Anderson from 1999 - 2004. A consummate learner, Adam holds a first class honors degree in Pure Mathematics and has an immense interest in science.
These passions lead Adam to hosting a number of ABC TV programs including Quantum and FAQ from 1998 to 2001. Prior to this Adam was a regular guest on Channel Ten's Good News Week, and ABC's The Fat and was a regular guest on The Glasshouse.
Adam has had extensive experience on various boards and authorities; he continues to serve on the Senate of the University of Sydney, the NSW Premier's Advisory Committee on Greenhouse and Global Warming and the NSW Health Department's Clinical Ethics Review Committee as well as being an ambassador for the Fred Hollows Foundation and helping out with numerous charities.
Adam returned to radio in 2006 where he still presents the highly coveted breakfast show for ABC 702.
Tara Moss
Tara Moss is one of the world's bestselling crime writers.
Australia's number one selling crime writer and model, Tara Moss, is a long-standing ambassador for RIDBC, and has helped in a variety of ways. Tara is the author of the internationally bestselling crime novels Fetish (1999), Split (2002), Covet (2004), and Hit (2006), published in ten countries in six languages.
Tara is a regular supporter and host of the Qantas Pathfinders Charity Flight and she is also a favourite of RIDBC's signing choir!
RIDBC Signing Choir
A performance by the signing choir of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children is an incredibly visual and moving experience that has to be seen to be understood.
The children in the choir are all students of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC), are profoundly deaf, and communicate using Australian Sign Language (Auslan).
The choir love to perform and its resume is impressive. It has performed with the likes of Julie Anthony, Monica Trapaga and The Wiggles, and at events as diverse as the Premier Children's Week and the Amnesty Australia National Candle Launch.
The choir has quite a large repertoire of songs which it performs in Auslan. Their teacher/choirmaster, who is hearing, provides guidance for the rhythm and timing.
Ngapartji Ngapartji
Ngapartji Ngapartji is a cross cultural social change project using arts-based community development. The project was developed by Scott Rankin, Trevor Jamieson and the Jamieson family in an attempt to draw awareness to and halt the irreplaceable loss of Indigenous language and culture.
The project acknowledges the pain and hardships of people living away from their homelands and that of Indigenous people being forced to play host to others across their land.
Five performers from Ngapartji Ngapartji will entertain passengers on this year's Charity Flight during the luncheon with their beautiful vocal harmonies.
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