UNSW Canberra Podcasts

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://invictusaustralia.org/ Defence Industry https://www.defence.gov.au/business-industry

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://invictusaustralia.org/ Defence Industry https://www.defence.gov.au/business-industry

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_reference_group/dr-jon-lane https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-lane-33848ab0/?originalSubdomain=au https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/medicine/jon-lane

Next Mission: The Importance of Family by UNSW Canberra

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.azurecapital.com.au/ UNSW Canberra - https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/

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/

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 https://www.beyondblue.org.au or 1300 22 4636 Home | UNSW Canberra (adfa.edu.au) RSL Queensland | Home (rslqld.org) Mates4Mates | Australian Defence Force Veterans Charity Invictus Australia - Unconquered Together Open Arms - Veterans & Families Counselling or 1800 011 046

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” and share their own personal stories and expertise about transitioning from the military into the civilian workforce. https://rslqld.org/, https://vcbc.org.au/, https://research.usc.edu.au/esploro/outputs/99599808902621 https://doi.org/10.25907/00046 https://www.princes-trust.org.au/defence-members-and-their-families https://www.facebook.com/womenveteransnetworkaustralia/ https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/transition https://soldieron.org.au/ Career Transition Mentoring Program | UNSW Canberra (adfa.edu.au) https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/

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” and share their own personal stories and expertise about transitioning from the military into the civilian workforce. https://rslqld.org/, https://vcbc.org.au/, https://research.usc.edu.au/esploro/outputs/99599808902621 https://doi.org/10.25907/00046 https://www.princes-trust.org.au/defence-members-and-their-families https://www.facebook.com/womenveteransnetworkaustralia/ https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/transition https://soldieron.org.au/ Career Transition Mentoring Program | UNSW Canberra (adfa.edu.au) https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/

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 2024 at the National Press Club. DISCLAIMER: This recording has been edited for clarity and brevity. Certain segments have been shortened or excluded.

Third-year student James Sampson interviews senior lecturer Dr Richard Dunley about Peter Weir's film, Gallipoli (1981).

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 decline in trust of public institutions, why the job of prime minister has become almost impossible (with many failures), who will replace Boris Johnson, and whether the funding of prime ministerial libraries is in the public interest. Sir Anthony concludes our podcast sharing his passion for his charity walk, 'The Western Front Way', the biggest international commemorative project in the world.

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 cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. The biography is based on an exclusive series of interviews with him – the last that he gave – as well as unfiltered access to his extensive trove of personal papers.

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 communities reliant on the Mekong, the ways that local women contribute to river governance and leadership, and their deep understanding of the relationship between humans and nature.

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 that armies that are unprepared risk their reputations and strategic failure. This research identifies particular challenges, evidence of vexed ADF-media relationships, and makes practical recommendations.

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 utterly transformed this unique force. In this podcast two of the foremost military historians of British India look at the heyday of the Company's Armies. Professor Peter Stanley of UNSW Canberra, author of the forthcoming book John Company's Armies, discusses these unique but obscure forces with one of India's foremost military historians, Squadron-Leader Rana Chhina.

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 the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, and the unravelling great power game for the mastery in the Indo-Pacific.

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 strategic resilience. Vice Admiral Jones is an Adjunct Professor at the UNSW's Naval Studies Group and the producer of the University's high rating Australian Naval History podcast series.

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 of the Parties (COP15), countries from around the world will come together virtually to negotiate the proposed Global Biodiversity Framework. In this episode Professor Anthony Burke and Macquarie University Senior Lecturer Michelle Lim explore the past, present and future of the Convention and the projected conclusion of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Can COP15 move the CBD from an instrument of aspiration to one of action? Can the Convention draw from the lessons of its past to shape a global governance landscape that enables the future we want for humans and nature?

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. The agreement also covers key areas such as artificial intelligence, cyber warfare, underwater capabilities and long-range strike capabilities. The announcement spelled the end of a $90 billion contract struck in 2016 with the French company Naval Group for conventionally-powered submarines. In furious reaction, France withdrew its ambassadors from Canberra and Washington. While being lauded by many in Australia, the announcement of AUKUS has had a mixed reception in the region. In this special episode, UNSW Canberra Associate Professor David Lee invites Professor Hugh White to assess the implications of AUKUS for Australian Grand Strategy. The podcast will traverse the implications of AUKUS for Australian defence policy and strategy and the long-term ramifications of the announcement for Australia's foreign and regional relations. Professor Hugh White AO FASSA, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University, is one of Australia's most distinguished scholars in the field of Australian defence studies and strategy and is a former Deputy Secretary in the Department of Defence. His many publications include, 'The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power', Black Inc, Melbourne, 2012 and 'How to Defend Australia', La Trobe University Press, 2019.

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 providing the source of 90% of the world's supply of illicit-opium, the war on drugs has become interviewed with Afghan society and the insurgency that depends on it for its survival. Gareth's research goes to the heart of understanding modern insurgency and the role of the militaries in countering threats that are a nexus of criminal and politically-motivated groups.

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 talks to Professor David Lowe, a biographer of Percy Spender, the Australian architect of the treaty. They discuss how and why the treaty came to be signed, its impact on US-Australian relations, and the contemporary challenges facing the treaty partners.

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 first instalment of the series.

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? Join this discussion with UNSW researchers Megan Evans and Katie Moon as they draw on their research to highlight the opportunities and risks that occur at the environment-business-society interface.

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, uncertain times: they offered moral support and guidance, they made room for anxieties and insecurities and they unfolded a vision of total war.

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 requirements and that Muslim women should be allowed to wear veils as part of standard uniforms in the police and other public institutions. But as Dr Peter Balint argues, we should simply remove this majority privilege altogether, rather than adding minority rights.

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. But these two points in time – Armageddon and OKRA – are inextricably linked in terms of the Australian experience of war. Lewis Frederickson, Chief of Air Force Fellow at UNSW Canberra, and Professor Clinton Fernandes discuss the synergies between these two conflicts.

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.

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.

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, resistance narratives and influence campaigns across various terrorism and insurgency case studies.

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 the Future Operations Research Group (FORGe) based at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra.

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?

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 effective, but that is not all. A post-military defence establishment would also allow us to avoid the considerable moral, social, and cultural costs associated with maintaining national institutions that are devoted to war-making. In this podcast, the third in the Navigating Uncertainty series, Dr Ned Dobos elaborates on these costs, and discusses the advantages that would accrue to any society that decided to transition to a post-military defence alternative.

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 East India Company after the great mutiny-rebellion of 1857. Professor Stanley discusses his research on the rebellion, looking at the complexities of understanding the 'Hul' (as the Santals called it) and especially arguing that it represents a hitherto neglected episode in the history of insurgency and counter-insurgency.

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 Security Law at UNSW Canberra, is interviewed by Professor Robert McLaughlin.

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 taking a role at ZDnet and then moving into freelance work. It was this experience in media that led Gray to launch Risky Business in 2007. Published weekly, the Risky Business podcast features news and in-depth commentary from security industry luminaries. You can listen to Risky Business online here: https://risky.biz/ and follow Patrick (@ riskybusiness) or fellow Risky Business contributor Adam (@ metlstorm) on Twitter.

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 Birmingham worked as a researcher for the Australian Department of Defence but left to write features for magazines in a decade before publishing 'He Died With A Falafel In His Hand'. He was a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, Playboy and won the National Award For Non-Fiction with 'Leviathan: an unauthorised biography of Sydney'. You can find more information about John at https://cheeseburgergothic.com and the audio only book Zero Day Code is available here: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Zero-Day-Code-Audiobook/B07T23C177

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 Security Program. Her research interests include Chinese military modernisation, information warfare, and defence science and technology. Elsa is an independent analyst, consultant, and co-founder of the China Cyber and Intelligence Studies Institute (CCISI). She was also a 2018 Fulbright Specialist with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre and has been named an official “Mad Scientist” by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command.

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 practice, Mercury ISS, he is an avid participant in the Australian information security community and is a course leader at UNSW Canberra Cyber. 'Password123' is a UNSW Canberra Cyber podcast. Presenter, Tom Sear, discusses infosec, cyberwarfare, and faceless hoodie hacker culture with a range of selected guests.

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 hear how he came to lead the Defence Research Institute and the vital role research plays in delivering defence capabilities. The UNSW Defence Research Institute is about delivering world-class research to enhance Australia's security. Vice Admiral Maddison is responsible for enabling, facilitating and integrating UNSW Australia’s ground-breaking defence research capacity across the whole of the university in both Sydney and Canberra. Find out more about the UNSW Defence Research Institute here: https://dri.unsw.edu.au/ 'Password123' is a UNSW Canberra Cyber podcast. Presenter, Tom Sear, discusses infosec, cyberwarfare, and faceless hoodie hacker culture with a range of selected guests.

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, where he teaches marketing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Hughes is considered to be one of the leading researchers in political marketing in Australia and has given numerous interviews on politics and political marketing to international and national television, print and internet outlets. 'Password123' is a UNSW Canberra Cyber podcast. Presenter, Tom Sear discusses infosec, cyberwarfare, and faceless hoodie hacker culture with a range of selected guests.

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 the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, and as an official “Mad Scientist” for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. 'Password123' is a UNSW Canberra Cyber podcast. Presenter, Tom Sear discusses infosec, cyberwarfare, and faceless hoodie hacker culture with a range of selected guests.

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 running hacker cons. Only Europe’s Chaos Communication Congress beats DEFCON’s record for longevity. Today, hacker cons, including Canberra’s very own annual ‘Cybernats, ’ - Bsides - are an integral part of infosec culture. Farrell is Director of Mercury ISS and has regularly made the annual hacker pilgrimage to Vegas. Professionally, Farrell also teaches courses at UNSW Canberra Cyber. 'Password123' is a UNSW Canberra Cyber podcast. Presenter, Tom Sear discusses infosec, cyberwarfare, and faceless hoodie hacker culture with a range of selected guests.

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.