Rebecca Levingston caught up with Tino Ceberano Hanshi on 7th June 2019 at the ABC Radio Brisbane studios, a few days before the Queens Birthday Honours were announced.

As it happened, Kate Ceberano had been on the programme one week before and mentioned she had a famous Dad who was a well known martial artist. ABC Brisbane decided to chase up the story and interviewed Tino Ceberano Hanshi about his life and karate.

It was a still a few days before the Queen’s Birthday and the honours list was unreleased so Tino Hanshi was unable to say a word about the imminent news. Here is the interview from Friday 7th June 2019.

The I.G.K. was proud to announce on Mon 10th June 2019 that Tino Ceberano Hanshi was awarded the Order of the Medal of Australia for services to karate, reflecting the 53 years of teaching and sharing the art since his arrival here in 1966 from Hawaii.

ABC Radio Brisbane got wind that their recent guest was the recipient of the award three days after he’d been in their studios so they called him on Tues 11th June 2019 and interviewed him for a second time.

All rights for these recorded interviews are attributed to ABC Radio Brisbane. Our thanks for sharing with I.G.K.