Throughout 2010 the Australian Missionary News IPTV had travelled extensively, across the continent to Perth, Western Australia interviewing Grand Slam tennis champion the Reverend Margaret Court, Diamonds (Australian Netball) defender Susan Fuhrmann, young award winning scientist Nathanael Yates and radical Christian leader Jarard McKenna.
The crew travelled to Darwin, Kakadu and Alice Springs, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane and also overseas to Hawaii for the Baptist World Congress where they ran 40 short interviews of Baptist leaders across the world – as an example, Baptist people from Russia, Austria, Serria Leone, Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, India, Bangladesh and others.
Mark Tronson has now found it critical to bring along a new group of anchors and interviewers, as the burden has become too much for one person.
So, at last year's mini conference for young sportswriters, three of the new writers were tutored so as to bring on a new generation of personnel; namely Jeremy Dover from Geelong, Rosie Timmins from Melbourne and Clayton Hinds from Sydney.
During the 90 minute luncheon break at the 2011 mini-conference in June, which now includes an expanded group of young opinion writers for Christian Today Australia as well as the sports writers - they will interview each of the conference participants, who come from fifteen different parts of Australia.
Once edited and uploaded, these interviews will also be transcribed for articles to be published in Christian Today Australia.
Both the training of new interviewers and the mini-conference for young writers is part of the succession planning for Mark Tronson's mission activities in Well-Being Australia.
