Welcome to UNSW Canberra Podcasts; a platform lead by UNSW Canberra experts dedicated to unpacking the world around us and exploring a range of themes under a specialist lens. UNSW Canberra podcasts are produced onsite in UNSW Canberra’s Creative Media Unit Studio. UNSW Canberra is also a proud presenting partner of the Australian Naval History Podcast, which is recorded onsite at UNSW Canberra : https://soundcloud.com/australian-naval-history UNSW Canberra Podcasts are available on all majo ...
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For today's mission, we are joined by Alison Creagh and Michaela Gilewicz for an in-conversation piece about the importance of finding your people and your ‘new’ community after you transition out of the military. Army Reserves - https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/army-reserve Mates for Mates - https://mates4mates.org/ Invictus Australia - https://inv…
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For today's mission, we are joined by Alison Creagh and Michaela Gilewicz for an in-conversation piece about the importance of finding your people and your ‘new’ community after you transition out of the military.Army Reserves - https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/army-reserve Mates for Mates - https://mates4mates.org/ Invictus Australia - https://invi…
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Psychological Programming with Jon Lane For today’s mission, we are joined by Jon Lane, a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Tasmania as we delve into how service experience impacts your ability to function and manage emotions and interpersonal relationships. https://www.communities.tas.gov.au/csr/policy/advisory_groups/veterans_ref…
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Next Mission: The Importance of Family by UNSW Canberra由UNSW Canberra
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For today's mission, we are joined by former SAS commander and Army veteran, James McMahon, who shares his journey transitioning from the military to the Army reserves - https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/army-reserve Cadets - https://www.armycadets.gov.au/ SAS - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Special-Air-Service AZURE capital - http://www.azurecapi…
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For today's mission, we are joined by Mat Jones and Gus Campbell from BAE Systems, Mark Korsten from AUKUS Jobs and Michael Hartung and Debbie Dimmock from Invictus Australia. https://www.baesystems.com/en/careers https://www.aukusjobs.com/ https://invictusaustralia.org/由UNSW Canberra
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For today’s Mission, we are joined by Michaela Gilewicz as she shares her story of being medically discharged from the Australian Defence Force and the pain and trauma that led her to become the person she feels she was meant to be. Please note this episode discusses mental health and suicide ideations. https://www.lifeline.org.au/ or 13 11 14 http…
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For today’s Mission, Georgia Hamon, the External Engagement Coordinator at UNSW Canberra is joined by Matthew McCormack, senior lecturer at UNSW Canberra and 30 + year Navy veteran, as well as business owner and 18 + year Air Force veteran, Natalie Colbert. They speak about the “suitcase full of things you need to pack to be ready to transition” an…
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For today’s Mission, Georgia Hamon, the External Engagement Coordinator at UNSW Canberra is joined by Matthew McCormack, senior lecturer at UNSW Canberra and 30 + year Navy veteran, as well as business owner and 18 + year Air Force veteran, Natalie Colbert. They speak about the “suitcase full of things you need to pack to be ready to transition” an…
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Leadership in ACTion presented by UNSW Canberra aims to provide a platform for discussion around the topic of leadership. This year Lieutenant General Natasha Fox AO CSC joined moderator Jenna Price to explore her journey in leading people while balancing the need to honour tradition and embrace change. This audio was captured on the 11th of June 2…
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Third-year student James Sampson interviews senior lecturer Dr Richard Dunley about Peter Weir’s film, Gallipoli (1981).由UNSW Canberra
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In this special edition of 'Policy Perspectives', Andrew Blyth, Group Manager, John Howard Prime Ministerial Library, UNSW Canberra, sits down with Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, educator and prolific political biographer. Andrew and Sir Anthony explore several current political issues facing Westminster and their relevance to Australia: the declin…
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The John Howard Prime Ministerial Library and Museum of Australian Democracy held ‘In Conversation with Troy Bramston and Michelle Grattan’ on Tuesday, 1 June 2022 at Old Parliament House. Bramston discussed his new book, Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny, the definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke co…
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Rivers nurture some of the world’s most environmentally, socially and economically vital ecosystems. The mighty Mekong River is a prominent example, often referred to as Southeast Asia’s ‘lifeblood’. In this podcast, Dr Pichamon Yeophantong and Professor Anthony Burke discuss the impacts that social and environmental change has on women and communi…
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Warfare will increasingly be urban and occur amongst populations, Dr Christina Spittel and Dr Charles Knight discuss in this episode. The trends towards both greater humanitarian suffering and military difficulty are undeniable. These factors will make urban conflict a theatre of competing narratives as much as competing armies. The evidence is tha…
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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E07 - John Company's Armies: The Military Forces of British India
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Two centuries ago, the military forces of the East India Company were the British empire’s largest armies. Rightly regarded as ‘an extraordinary phenomenon’, they comprised a huge multi-ethnic force, the largest disciplined army in Asia and arguably the key element in Britain’s conquest of the Indian sub-continent. In 1857 the mutiny-rebellion utte…
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In this episode, Dr Pichamon Yeophantong and Dr Ashok Sharma will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on geopolitics, as evidenced by the escalation of the simmering strategic rivalry between the United States and China, as well as major flashpoints such as the violent clash between China and India and the re-emergence of the Quad partnership between th…
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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E05 - In Search Of Strategic Resilience with Vice Admiral Peter Jones
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As Australia continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s heavy reliance on imports for essentials such as medicines, manufactured items and petroleum has been brought to greater public attention. In this episode, hosted by Dr Pichamon Yeophantong, Vice Admiral Peter Jones (ret'd) argues the need for Australia to have greater strategi…
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The wonders of the natural world are threatened like never before. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the overarching global legal instrument for biodiversity. We sit on the brink of the possible realisation of a significant shift in the operation of the Convention. From 11-15 October 2021, during Part One of the CBD's 15th Conference …
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On 15 September 2021 the leaders of Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly announced a new trilateral security pact, ‘AUKUS'. Under the agreement, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to help Australia to develop and deploy nuclear-powered submarines that add to the Western military presence in the Pacific region. Th…
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President Biden's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September marks the end of a 20-year conflict for the US and many of its NATO allies. Reflecting on the challenges faced during this conflict, Gareth Rice explains his research on the lesser-known drug war that intersected with the counterinsurgency campaign.With Afghanistan providin…
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70 years ago, on 1 September 1951, Australia, the United States and New Zealand signed the Australia, NZ, US Security (ANZUS) Treaty. Although New Zealand was suspended from the treaty in 1986, the ANZUS Treaty has been the bedrock of Australian security for seven decades. In this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Associate Professor David Lee tal…
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Policy Perspectives is a series of occasional papers published by the Howard Library, which aims to critically reflect on policy decisions of the Howard Government. In this accompanying interview series, the papers' authors discuss some of their key findings. Visiting Fellow Shane Carney discusses industry policy under the Howard Government in the …
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It should come as no surprise that for the second consecutive decade, the world has failed to meet any targets agreed to by the United Nations to conserve biodiversity. While big business has historically been at odds with the environment, is there room to hope now that they are waking up to serious financial risks that come with biodiversity loss?…
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Australia’s earliest Great War novels were more than just first drafts of the Anzac legend, argues UNSW Canberra’s Dr Christina Spittel. Reading and writing were part of the war effort, and these very early books, brittle and virtually forgotten now, offered themselves as companions through what they openly acknowledged to be difficult, trying, unc…
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Religious and cultural minorities struggle to be accommodated in diverse societies because our institutions commonly favour the majority way of life. So for minorities to practice their ways of life, they may seem to need minority rights. Multiculturalists, for example, argue that male Sikhs should have exemptions from compulsory headwear requireme…
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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E09 - Armageddon & OKRA: Australian air power in the Middle East
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Armageddon and OKRA: Australian air power in the Middle East a century apart In 1918, Australian led air power helped defeat an Ottoman army during the Battle of Armageddon in Palestine. One hundred years later, Australian air power was again operating in the Middle East during Operation OKRA. A century seems a long time in the contemporary world…
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In this episode on Navigating Uncertainty, members of the Future of Operations Research Group; Katja Theodorakis, Karine Pontbriand and Rhiannon Neilsen, discuss the impact of cyberspace on the future of warfare, introducing their most recent research project on the role of the military in protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.…
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Is the Paris agreement on climate change likely to fail? And can new treaty concepts help support it to prevent catastrophic climate change? Professor Anthony Burke talks with Professor Shirley Scott about a new proposal for a Coal Elimination Treaty.由UNSW Canberra
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In this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Professor Dave Kilcullen and PhD candidate Katja Theodorakis continue their discussion and predictions for the future of conflict. Discussing the 'Fog of Truth' - Unpacking Information Warfare, the panel explores the mental models that underpin our thinking about future conflict and examines propaganda, re…
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How will COVID-19 change the way we respond to future threats?Join Professor David Kilcullen and Katja Theodorakis, a Higher Degree by Research scholar, for this first part of a two-part conversation about how we navigate the future of conflict, technology and the ‘human element’ through the COVID-19 paradigm. These two episodes are sponsored by t…
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Australian’s trust in our democracy has halved over the last decade, in part due to growing concerns about corporate influence. In a new study, Dr Lindy Edwards of UNSW Canberra sets out to examine whether Australia’s ten most powerful companies get what they want when they engage with government, and if so, why?…
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A post-military defence institution is one that performs the core functions currently entrusted to armed forces—including national defence against external aggression—but that relies on an assortment of non-violent means and methods. Recent research suggests that this can be a viable alternative to the military, in the sense of being comparably eff…
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In this, the second podcast in the Navigating Uncertainty series, Professor Peter Stanley of UNSW Canberra explores the challenges of understanding the Santal Rebellion of 1855, a small war distant in time, space and culture.Few outside India have heard of the Santal rebellion of 1855, but it was the second-largest uprising against the rule of the …
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Seventeen years ago, the International Criminal Court swore in its first Prosecutor, but since then it has spent more than 1.5 billion euros and convicted only four people of international crimes.Is the ICC broken - and can it be fixed?In the first episode of 'Navigating Uncertainty', Douglas Guilfoyle, Associate Professor of International and Secu…
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In this episode of Password123 we go meta. We sit down with Patrick Gray, the host of leading information security podcast Risky Business to delve deep into the world of Infosec and talk about why surfing the web and sharks have something in common. Patrick Gray worked in the information security industry before becoming a journalist, initially tak…
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What would happen if the world began to run out of food? How does cyber security play a role in global food supply?We sit down with renowned author John Birmingham to discuss his new book 'Zero Day Code', set in a world where dwindling global food supplies are under increasing pressure from worsening droughts, floods and extreme weather events.John…
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In this episode we sit down with Elsa Kania to discuss her work on Chinese defence innovation, including the modernisation of cyber forces in the military. We also found time to delve into 5G and get Elsa’s take on the situation in Australia. Elsa Kania is an Adjunct Fellow with the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Secur…
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Following on from his report at DEFCON, we touch base again with Edward Farrell to dive deeper into his holistic approach to life, the universe and hacking (well, almost)everything.Farrell is an independent information security consultant who specialises in penetration testing and incident response. In addition to starting up his own security pract…
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As 5-Eyes partners, Australia and Canada have a lot in common. With the appointment of former Canadian High Commissioner Vice Admiral Paul Maddison (Ret’d) as the inaugural director of the UNSW Defence Research Institute, there is one more thing our two nations share.Not long after he started in the role, we sat down with Vice Admiral Maddison to h…
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Social media manipulation is a real threat. In the context of the Australian election in May, we sat down with Andrew Hughes to discuss how social media can be influential and how it will continue to play a major part in elections. Andrew Hughes is a lecturer in marketing in the Research School of Management at the Australian National University, w…
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In this episode we sit down with PW Singer, considered one of the world’s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare, for a discussion touching on everything from social media to blurring the line of fiction vs non-fiction. PW Singer has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of t…
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In this episode Edward Farrell provides a realtime review of DEFCON27. Edward, tired but - cyber inspired – called in from Los Angeles International Airport(LAX) before flying home to Australia. DEFCON is the world’s largest hacker conference, or ‘con’. Jeff Moss(Dark Tangent) started DEFCON in 1993. DEFCON is also one of the world’s longest runnin…
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The season boots up with James Griffiths discussing cyber-sovereignty and his new book 'The Great Firewall of China'.https://www.jamestgriffiths.com/book'Password123' is a UNSW Canberra Cyber podcast. Presenter, Tom Sear discusses infosec, cyberwarfare, and faceless hoodie hacker culture with a range of selected guests.…
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