Introducing — Fierce Girls series four

Fierce Girls

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Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

What do rad surfer and skater, Sabre Norris, world-famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba and star AFL player Tayla Harris have in common? They're FIERCE! And their stories are going to be told in a brand-new series of Fierce Girls. Fierce Girls tells the stories of extraordinary Australian women read by other fierce ones like actors Yael Stone and Claudia Karvan, singer Amy Shark and Australia's first-ever female Governor-General Dame Quentin Bryce.

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0:00.0	Yes. Or maybe you heard me narrating the fierce girl's story about Vina Saajuala, the girl who turned
0:15.4	trash into treasure.
0:17.8	If you haven't heard it, go on, have a listen.
0:20.7	And hey, I've got some super exciting news for you.
0:25.0	New episodes of fierce girls are coming out next Friday.
0:31.6	We have so many stories we're going to tell you about girls with guts, determination, and spirit.
0:38.0	You'll hear the story about Elisa Azar. She climbed Mount Everest when she was just 19. And then went back and did it again.
0:52.0	There's also an amazing story about Abigail Allwood, who's the boss of NASA's mission to Mars.
1:00.0	You're going to love the story about Taylor Harris.
1:06.0	She's a footy playing fierce girl who took on the trolls and won.
1:11.0	Plus, you know the Bush Ranger Captain Thunderbolt?
1:18.0	Well, did you realize his side kick was a ferocious female Bush ranger called Mary Ann Buck.
1:25.0	And what about Saver Norris?
1:29.0	You've got to have heard of her.
1:30.0	She was the first girl in Australia to land a 540 on a skateboard at nine years old.
1:37.0	And you'll get to hear her story next week.
1:43.0	Saba Norris was used to millions of people watching her.
1:47.0	Like the time she was the first Australian girl to do a 540,
1:52.0	an aerial skateboard trick. It got 2 million YouTube views.
1:57.5	And the time she got invited to compete in a professional surfing contest and told a reporter should spend the prize money on
2:05.4	donuts, 4 million views, and then 55 million views when Saba was on the Ellen show.
2:14.8	Then came a different kind of video about Sabre's health.
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