The ABC’s International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) 2025 Storyteller Scholarship has been awarded to Taylor Harvey and Mark du Potiers.
The Storyteller Scholarship, run by the ABC in partnership with the Department of Social Services, promotes emerging content creators with a disability, helping to break down barriers and challenge community perceptions.
It was open to content creators who had previously been engaged with the ABC through the IDPwD Content Commissioning Fund.
Justin Stevens, ABC Director of News, said he was looking forward to seeing more of Mark and Taylor’s work with the ABC.
“Both winners bring a strong vision to explore a diverse range of topics, with plans to cover content that reflects regional communities and amplifies perspectives from marginalised communities,” he said.
Mark is a Magandjin/Brisbane visual artist who has exhibited his work at national and international exhibitions around Australia and in India, the US and Hong Kong.
For last year’s IDPwD he produced content on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) burnout and coming to terms with an invisible disability. He is interested in how culture, identity, race, gender and sexuality affect someone’s experience of ADHD.
“As a person of colour who is queer, I often don’t feel represented in news and media,” he said. “I help marginalised people be seen and heard by sharing my story and theirs, previously through my art practice and now via journalism.”
Taylor grew up in Tintinara, two hours south-east of Adelaide. He has represented Australia with the Pararoos and currently plays for his local club, Adelaide Atletico VSC, with hopes to play again at a national level.
For IDPwD he produced content on how sport and living with a disability in a regional town shaped his life and the positive impact of sport in a regional community for people with disability.
“Regional voices and perspectives are underrepresented, and I look forward to sharing these stories,” he said. “I want young people to know that if you have physical or other disabilities it is possible to overcome obstacles and achieve your dreams.
“I’m really looking forward to returning to journalism and being given the opportunity to work on my writing skills and branch out into content creation for other platforms like radio, screen and social media.”
