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Northern Territory Country Hour

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'Bitterly disappointed': Cattle industry considering appeal after live export compensation ruling

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 9:02

Northern Australia's cattle industry says it's "bitterly disappointed" by a Federal Court ruling on its compensation claim for the live export ban to Indonesia in 2011.

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New service for drought stricken farmers as fodder demand soars

The Rural News

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 4:53

Fodder suppliers in Queensland have launched a new service, to properly gauge demand. Farmers in South Australia, Victoria and Southern New South Wales are running low on fodder stocks as they grapple with drought. Suppliers across Northern Australia are recording demand not seen since the Millennium drought. Rural Editor Emily Minney spoke with FeedCentral Managing Director Tim Ford about the new Hay Wanted Register See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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National Rural News Wednesday June 4

The Rural News

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 15:43

National Rural News Wednesday June 4 In today's National Rural News: Dairy farmers unhappy with opening farmgate milk prices, artificial intelligence being used to track feral pest across Northern Australia, graziers warn of decades long recovery after paddocks washed away in outback Queensland -- plus the latest from the market and more. Subscribe to the National Rural News podcast: http://bit.ly/RuralNewsPodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Director of Northern Australia Parks Dean McAdam says Berry Springs is open for swimming after five nights of crocodile survey and the installation of a deterrent fence with Wangai and Edith Falls and Nitmiluk Gorge re-opening soon

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Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 6:56 Transcription Available

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Drought stricken farmers call for freight subsidies in southern regions

The Rural News

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 5:29

Industry groups are backing calls for a freight subsidy for drought stricken farmers transporting fodder to southern regions. Demand for hay from Northern Australia is on the rise, with concerns parts of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales in drought. Rural Editor Emily Minney spoke to the Australian Fodder Industry Association's Vanessa Curtis about the trends.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What are the opportunities for growing agave in northern Australia?

Northern Territory Country Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 14:12

Agave is now being trialled across several sites in the Northern Territory.

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From the Archives: Dave Snowden on Cynefin and Building Capability for Managing Complexity

Agile Innovation Leaders

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 41:45

Guest Bio: Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. Known for creating the sense-making framework, Cynefin, Dave's work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science-based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style. He holds positions as extra-ordinary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch and visiting Professor at Bangor University in Wales respectively. He has held similar positions at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Canberra University, the University of Warwick and The University of Surrey. He held the position of senior fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore during a sabbatical period in Nanyang. His paper with Boone on Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007 and also won the Academy of Management aware for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He has previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge management. He is a editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in the field of knowledge management and is an Editor in Chief of E:CO. In 2006 he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and in 2007 was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research. He previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity; during that period he was selected by IBM as one of six on-demand thinkers for a world-wide advertising campaign. Prior to that he worked in a range of strategic and management roles in the service sector. His company Cognitive Edge exists to integrate academic thinking with practice in organisations throughout the world and operates on a network model working with Academics, Government, Commercial Organisations, NGOs and Independent Consultants. He is also the main designer of the SenseMaker® software suite, originally developed in the field of counter terrorism and now being actively deployed in both Government and Industry to handle issues of impact measurement, customer/employee insight, narrative based knowledge management, strategic foresight and risk management. The Centre for Applied Complexity was established to look at whole of citizen engagement in government and is running active programmes in Wales and elsewhere in areas such as social inclusion, self-organising communities and nudge economics together with a broad range of programmes in health. The Centre will establish Wales as a centre of excellence for the integration of academic and practitioner work in creating a science-based approach to understanding society. Social Media and Website LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dave-snowden-2a93b Twitter: @snowded Website: Cognitive Edge https://www.cognitive-edge.com/ Books/ Resources: Book: Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World by Dave Snowden and Friends https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cynefin-Weaving-Sense-Making-Fabric-World/dp/1735379905 Book: Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hope-Without-Optimism-Terry-Eagleton/dp/0300248679/ Book: Theology of Hope by Jurgen Moltmann https://www.amazon.co.uk/Theology-Hope-Classics-Jurgen-Moltmann/dp/0334028787 Poem: ‘Mending Wall' by Robert Frost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall Video: Dave Snowden on ‘Rewilding Agile' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrgaPDqet4c Article reference to ‘Rewilding Agile' by Dave Snowden https://cynefin.io/index.php/User:Snowded Field Guide to Managing Complexity (and Chaos) In Times of Crisis https://cynefin.io/index.php/Field_guide_to_managing_complexity_(and_chaos)_in_times_of_crisis Field Guide to Managing Complexity (and Chaos) In Times of Crisis (2) https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/managing-complexity-and-chaos-times-crisis-field-guide-decision-makers-inspired-cynefin-framework Cynefin Wiki https://cynefin.io/wiki/Main_Page Interview Transcript Ula Ojiaku: Dave, thank you for making the time for this conversation. I read in your, your latest book - the book, Cynefin: Weaving Sense Making into the Fabric of Our World, which was released, I believe, in celebration of the twenty first year of the framework. And you mentioned that in your childhood, you had multidisciplinary upbringing which involved lots of reading. Could you tell us a bit more about that? Dave Snowden: I think it wasn't uncommon in those days. I mean, if you did… I mean, I did science A levels and mathematical A levels. But the assumption was you would read every novel that the academic English class were reading. In fact, it was just unimaginable (that) you wouldn't know the basics of history. So, if you couldn't survive that in the sixth form common room, and the basics of science were known by most of the arts people as well. So that that was common, right. And we had to debate every week anyway. So, every week, you went up to the front of the class and you were given a card, and you'd have the subject and which side you are on, and you had to speak for seven minutes without preparation. And we did that every week from the age of 11 to 18. And that was a wonderful discipline because it meant you read everything. But also, my mother was… both my parents were the first from working class communities to go to university. And they got there by scholarship or sheer hard work against the opposition of their families. My mother went to university in Germany just after the war, which was extremely brave of her - you know, as a South Wales working class girl. So, you weren't allowed not to be educated, it was considered the unforgivable sin. Ula Ojiaku: Wow. Did it mean that she had to learn German, because (she was) studying in Germany…? Dave Snowden: She well, she got A levels in languages. So, she went to university to study German and she actually ended up as a German teacher, German and French. So, she had that sort of background. Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: And was that what influenced you? Because you also mentioned in the book that you won a £60 prize? Dave Snowden: Oh, no, that was just fun. So, my mum was very politically active. We're a South Wales labor. Well, I know if I can read but we were labor. And so, she was a local Councilor. She was always politically active. There's a picture of me on Bertrand Russell's knee and her as a baby on a CND march. So it was that sort of background. And she was campaigning for comprehensive education, and had a ferocious fight with Aiden Williams, I think, who was the Director of Education, it was really nasty. I mean, I got threatened on my 11 Plus, he got really nasty. And then so when (I was) in the sixth form, I won the prize in his memory, which caused endless amusement in the whole county. All right. I think I probably won it for that. But that was for contributions beyond academic. So, I was leading lots of stuff in the community and stuff like that. But I had £60. And the assumption was, you go and buy one massive book. And I didn't, I got Dad to drive me to Liverpool - went into the big bookshop there and just came out with I mean, books for two and six pence. So, you can imagine how many books I could get for £60. And I just took everything I could find on philosophy and history and introductory science and stuff like that and just consumed it. Ula Ojiaku: Wow, it seemed like you already knew what you wanted even before winning the prize money, you seem to have had a wish list... Dave Snowden: I mean, actually interesting, and the big things in the EU field guide on (managing) complexity which was just issued. You need to build…, You need to stop saying, ‘this is the problem, we will find the solution' to saying, ‘how do I build capability, that can solve problems we haven't yet anticipated?' And I think that's part of the problem in education. Because my children didn't have that benefit. They had a modular education. Yeah, we did a set of exams at 16 and a set of exams that 18 and between those periods, we could explore it (i.e. options) and we had to hold everything in our minds for those two periods, right? For my children, it was do a module, pass a test, get a mark, move on, forget it move on. So, it's very compartmentalized, yeah? And it's also quite instrumentalist. We, I think we were given an education as much in how to learn and have had to find things out. And the debating tradition was that; you didn't know what you're going to get hit with. So, you read everything, and you thought about it, and you learn to think on your feet. And I think that that sort of a broad switch, it started to happen in the 80s, along with a lot of other bad things in management. And this is when systems thinking started to dominate. And we moved to an engineering metaphor. And you can see it in cybernetics and everything else, it's an attempt to define everything as a machine. And of course, machines are designed for a purpose, whereas ecosystems evolve for resilience. And I think that's kind of like where I, my generation were and it's certainly what we're trying to bring back in now in sort of in terms of practice. Ula Ojiaku: I have an engineering background and a computer science background. These days, I'm developing a newfound love for philosophy, psychology, law and, you know, intersect, how do all these concepts intersect? Because as human beings we're complex, we're not machines where you put the program in and you expect it to come out the same, you know, it's not going to be the same for every human being. What do you think about that? Dave Snowden: Yeah. And I think, you know, we know more on this as well. So, we know the role of art in human evolution is being closely linked to innovation. So, art comes before language. So, abstraction allows you to make novel connections. So, if you focus entirely on STEM education, you're damaging the human capacity to innovate. And we're, you know, as creatures, we're curious. You know. And I mean, we got this whole concept of our aporia, which is key to connecting that, which is creating a state of deliberate confusion, or a state of paradox. And the essence of a paradox is you can't resolve it. So, you're forced to think differently. So, the famous case on this is the liar's paradox, alright? I mean, “I always lie”. That just means I lied. So, if that means I was telling the truth. So, you've got to think differently about the problem. I mean, you've seen those paradoxes do the same thing. So that, that deliberate act of creating confusion so people can see novelty is key. Yeah. Umm and if you don't find… finding ways to do that, so when we looked at it, we looked at linguistic aporia, aesthetic aporia and physical aporia. So, I got some of the… one of the defining moments of insight on Cynefin was looking at Caravaggio`s paintings in Naples. When I realized I've been looking for the idea of the liminality. And that was, and then it all came together, right? So those are the trigger points requiring a more composite way of learning. I think it's also multiculturalism, to be honest. I mean, I, when I left university, I worked on the World Council of Churches come, you know program to combat racism. Ula Ojiaku: Yes, I'd like to know more about that. That's one of my questions… Dave Snowden: My mother was a good atheist, but she made me read the Bible on the basis, I wouldn't understand European literature otherwise, and the penetration guys, I became a Catholic so… Now, I mean, that that was fascinating, because I mean, I worked on Aboriginal land rights in Northern Australia, for example. And that was when I saw an activist who was literally murdered in front of me by a security guard. And we went to the police. And they said, it's only an Abo. And I still remember having fights in Geneva, because South Africa was a tribal conflict with a racial overlay. I mean, Africa, and its Matabele Zulu, arrived in South Africa together and wiped out the native population. And if you don't understand that, you don't understand the Matabele betrayal. You don't understand what happened. It doesn't justify apartheid. And one of the reasons there was a partial reconciliation, is it actually was a tribal conflict. And the ritual actually managed that. Whereas in Australia, in comparison was actually genocide. Yeah, it wasn't prejudice, it was genocide. I mean, until 1970s, there, were still taking half -breed children forcibly away from their parents, inter-marrying them in homes, to breed them back to white. And those are, I think, yeah, a big market. I argued this in the UK, I said, one of the things we should actually have is bring back national service. I couldn't get the Labor Party to adopt it. I said, ‘A: Because it would undermine the Conservatives, because they're the ones who talk about that sort of stuff. But we should allow it to be overseas.' So, if you put two years into working in communities, which are poorer than yours, round about that 18 to 21-year-old bracket, then we'll pay for your education. If you don't, you'll pay fees. Because you proved you want to give to society. And that would have been… I think, it would have meant we'd have had a generation of graduates who understood the world because that was part of the objective. I mean, I did that I worked on worked in South Africa, on the banks of Zimbabwe on the audits of the refugee camps around that fight. And in Sao Paulo, in the slums, some of the work of priests. You can't come back from that and not be changed. And I think it's that key formative period, we need to give people. Ula Ojiaku: True and like you said, at that age, you know, when you're young and impressionable, it helps with what broadening your worldview to know that the world is bigger than your father's … compound (backyard)… Dave Snowden: That's the worst problem in Agile, because what, you've got a whole class of, mainly white males and misogynism in Agile is really bad. It's one of the worst areas for misogyny still left, right, in terms of where it works. Ula Ojiaku: I'm happy you are the one saying it not me… Dave Snowden: Well, no, I mean, it is it's quite appalling. And so, what you've actually got is, is largely a bunch of white male game players who spent their entire time on computers. Yeah, when you take and run seriously after puberty, and that's kind of like a dominant culture. And that's actually quite dangerous, because it lacks, it lacks cultural diversity, it lacks ethnic diversity, it lacks educational diversity. And I wrote an article for ITIL, recently, which has been published, which said, no engineers should be allowed out, without training in ethics. Because the implications of what software engineers do now are huge. And the problem we've got, and this is a really significant, it's a big data problem as well. And you see it with a behavioral economic economist and the nudge theory guys - all of whom grab these large-scale data manipulations is that they're amoral, they're not immoral, they're amoral. And that's actually always more scary. It's this sort of deep level instrumentalism about the numbers; the numbers tell me what I need to say. Ula Ojiaku: And also, I mean, just building on what you've said, there are instances, for example, in artificial intelligence is really based on a sample set from a select group, and it doesn't necessarily recognize things that are called ‘outliers'. You know, other races… Dave Snowden: I mean, I've worked in that in all my life now back 20, 25 years ago. John Poindexter and I were on a stage in a conference in Washington. This was sort of early days of our work on counter terrorism. And somebody asked about black box AI and I said, nobody's talking about the training data sets. And I've worked in AI from the early days, all right, and the training data sets matter and nobody bothered. They just assumed… and you get people publishing books which say correlation is causation, which is deeply worrying, right? And I think Google is starting to acknowledge that, but it's actually very late. And the biases which… we were looking at a software tool the other day, it said it can, it can predict 85% of future events around culture. Well, it can only do that by constraining how executive see culture, so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And then the recruitment algorithms will only recruit people who match that cultural expectation and outliers will be eliminated. There's an HBO film coming up shortly on Myers Briggs. Now, Myers Briggs is known to be a pseudo-science. It has no basis whatsoever in any clinical work, and even Jung denied it, even though it's meant to be based on his work. But it's beautiful for HR departments because it allows them to put people into little categories. And critically it abrogates, judgment, and that's what happened with systems thinking in the 80s 90s is everything became spreadsheets and algorithms. So, HR departments would produce… instead of managers making decisions based on judgment, HR departments would force them into profile curves, to allocate resources. Actually, if you had a high performing team who were punished, because the assumption was teams would not have more than… Ula Ojiaku: Bell curve... Dave Snowden: …10 percent high performance in it. All right. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah. Dave Snowden: And this sort of nonsense has been running in the 80s, 90s and it coincided with… three things came together. One was the popularization of systems thinking. And unfortunately, it got popularized around things like process reengineering and learning organization. So that was a hard end. And Sanghi's pious can the sort of the, the soft end of it, right? But both of them were highly directional. It was kind of like leaders decide everything follows. Yeah. And that coincided with the huge growth of computing - the ability to handle large volumes of information. And all of those sorts of things came together in this sort of perfect storm, and we lost a lot of humanity in the process. Ula Ojiaku: Do you think there's hope for us to regain the humanity in the process? Because it seems like the tide is turning from, I mean, there is still an emphasis, in my view, on systems thinking, however, there is the growing realization that we have, you know, knowledge workers and people… Dave Snowden: Coming to the end of its park cycle, I see that all right. I can see it with the amount of cybernetics fanboys, and they are all boys who jump on me every time I say something about complexity, right? So, I think they're feeling threatened. And the field guide is significant, because it's a government, you know, government can like publication around effectively taken an ecosystems approach, not a cybernetic approach. And there's a book published by a good friend of mine called Terry Eagleton, who's… I don't think he's written a bad book. And he's written about 30, or 40. I mean, the guy just produces his stuff. It's called “Hope without Optimism”. And I think, hope is… I mean, Moltman just also published an update of his Theology of Hope, which is worth reading, even if you're not religious. But hope is one of those key concepts, right, you should… to lose hope is a sin. But hope is not the same thing as optimism. In fact, pessimistic people who hope actually are probably the ones who make a difference, because they're not naive, right? And this is my objection to the likes of Sharma Ga Sengi, and the like, is they just gather people together to talk about how things should be. And of course, everything should be what, you know, white MIT, educated males think the world should be like. I mean, it's very culturally imperialist in that sort of sense. And then nobody changes because anybody can come together in the workshop and agree how things should be. It's when you make a difference in the field that it counts, you've got to create a micro difference. This is hyper localization, you got to create lots and lots of micro differences, which will stimulate the systems, the system will change. I think, three things that come together, one is COVID. The other is global warming. And the other is, and I prefer to call it the epistemic justice movement, though, that kind of like fits in with Black Lives Matter. But epistemic justice doesn't just affect people who are female or black. I mean, if you come to the UK and see the language about the Welsh and the Irish, or the jokes made about the Welsh in BBC, right? The way we use language can designate people in different ways and I think that's a big movement, though. And it's certainly something we develop software for. So, I think those three come together, and I think the old models aren't going to be sustainable. I mean, the cost is going to be terrible. I mean, the cost to COVID is already bad. And we're not getting this thing as long COVID, it's permanent COVID. And people need to start getting used to that. And I think that's, that's going to change things. So, for example, in the village I live in Wiltshire. Somebody's now opened an artisan bakery in their garage and it's brilliant. And everybody's popping around there twice a week and just buying the bread and having a chat on the way; socially-distanced with masks, of course. And talking of people, that sort of thing is happening a lot. COVID has forced people into local areas and forced people to realise the vulnerability of supply chains. So, you can see changes happening there. The whole Trump phenomenon, right, and the Boris murmuring in the UK is ongoing. It's just as bad as the Trump phenomenon. It's the institutionalization of corruption as a high level. Right? Those sorts of things trigger change, right? Not without cost, change never comes without cost, but it just needs enough… It needs local action, not international action. I think that's the key principle. To get a lot of people to accept things like the Paris Accord on climate change, and you've got to be prepared to make sacrifices. And it's too distant a time at the moment, it has to become a local issue for the international initiatives to actually work and we're seeing that now. I mean… Ula Ojiaku: It sounds like, sorry to interrupt - it sounds like what you're saying is, for the local action, for change to happen, it has to start with us as individuals… Dave Snowden: The disposition… No, not with individuals. That's actually very North American, the North European way of thinking right. The fundamental kind of basic identity structure of humans is actually clans, not individuals. Ula Ojiaku: Clans... Dave Snowden: Yeah. Extended families, clans; it's an ambiguous word. We actually evolved for those. And you need it at that level, because that's a high level of social interaction and social dependency. And it's like, for example, right? I'm dyslexic. Right? Yeah. If I don't see if, if the spelling checker doesn't pick up a spelling mistake, I won't see it. And I read a whole page at a time. I do not read it sentence by sentence. All right. And I can't understand why people haven't seen the connections I make, because they're obvious, right? Equally, there's a high degree of partial autism in the Agile community, because that goes with mathematical ability and thing, and that this so-called education deficiencies, and the attempt to define an ideal individual is a mistake, because we evolved to have these differences. Ula Ojiaku: Yes. Dave Snowden: Yeah. And the differences understood that the right level of interaction can change things. So, I think the unit is clan, right for extended family, or extended, extended interdependence. Ula Ojiaku: Extended interdependence… Dave Snowden: We're seeing that in the village. I mean, yeah, this is classic British atomistic knit, and none of our relatives live anywhere near us. But the independence in the village is increasing with COVID. And therefore, people are finding relationships and things they can do together. Now, once that builds to a critical mass, and it does actually happen exponentially, then bigger initiatives are possible. And this is some of the stuff we were hoping to do in the US shortly on post-election reconciliation. And the work we've been doing in Malmo, in refugees and elsewhere in the world, right, is you change the nature of localized interaction with national visibility, so that you can measure the dispositional state of the system. And then you can nudge the system when it's ready to change, because then the energy cost of change is low. But that requires real time feedback loops in distributed human sensor networks, which is a key issue in the field guide. And the key thing that comes back to your original question on AI, is, the internet at the moment is an unbuffered feedback loop. Yeah, where you don't know the source of the data, and you can't control the source of the data. And any network like that, and this is just apriori science factor, right will always become perverted. Ula Ojiaku: And what do you mean by term apriori? Dave Snowden: Oh, before the facts, you don't need to, we don't need to wait for evidence. It's like in an agile, you can look at something like SAFe® which case claims to scale agile and just look at it you say it's apriori wrong (to) a scale a complex system. So, it's wrong. All right. End of argument right. Now let's talk about the details, right. So yeah, so that's, you know, that's coming back. The hyper localization thing is absolutely key on that, right? And the same is true to be honest in software development. A lot of our work now is to understand the unarticulated needs of users. And then shift technology in to actually meet those unarticulated needs. And that requires a complex approach to architecture, in which people and technology are objects with defined interactions around scaffolding structures, so that applications can emerge in resilience, right? And that's actually how local communities evolve as well. So, we've now got the theoretical constructs and a lot of the practical methods to actually… And I've got a series of blog posts - which I've got to get back to writing - called Rewilding Agile. And rewilding isn't returning to the original state, it's restoring balance. So, if you increase the number of human actors as your primary sources, and I mean human actors, not as people sitting on (in front of) computer screens who can be faked or mimicked, yeah? … and entirely working on text, which is about 10%, of what we know, dangerous, it might become 80% of what we know and then you need to panic. Right? So, you know, by changing those interactions, increasing the human agency in the system, that's how you come to, that's how you deal with fake news. It's not by writing better algorithms, because then it becomes a war with the guys faking the news, and you're always gonna lose. Ula Ojiaku: So, what do you consider yourself, a person of faith? Dave Snowden: Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: Why? Dave Snowden: Oh, faith is like hope and charity. I mean, they're the great virtues… I didn't tell you I got into a lot in trouble in the 70s. Dave Snowden: I wrote an essay that said Catholicism, Marxism and Hinduism were ontologically identical and should be combined and we're different from Protestantism and capitalism, which are also ontologically identical (and) it can be combined. Ula Ojiaku: Is this available in the public domain? Dave Snowden: I doubt it. I think it actually got me onto a heresy trial at one point, but that but I would still say that. Ula Ojiaku: That's amazing. Can we then move to the framework that Cynefin framework, how did it evolve into what we know it as today? Dave Snowden: I'll do a high-level summary, but I wrote it up at length in the book and I didn't know I was writing for the book. The book was a surprise that they put together for me. I thought that was just writing an extended blog post. It started when I was working in IBM is it originates from the work of Max Borrasso was my mentor for years who tragically died early. But he was looking at abstraction, codification and diffusion. We did a fair amount of work together, I took two of those aspects and started to look at informal and formal communities in IBM, and its innovation. And some of the early articles on Cynefin, certainly the early ones with the five domains come from that period. And at that time, we had access labels. Yeah. And then then complexity theory came into it. So, it shifted into being a complexity framework. And it stayed … The five domains were fairly constant for a fairly long period of time, they changed their names a bit. The central domain I knew was important, but didn't have as much prominence as it does now. And then I introduced liminality, partly driven by agile people, actually, because they could they couldn't get the concept there were dynamics and domains. So, they used to say things like, ‘look, Scrum is a dynamic. It's a way of shifting complex to complicated' and people say ‘no, the scrum guide said it's about complex.' And you think, ‘oh, God, Stacey has a lot to answer for' but… Ula Ojiaku: Who`s Stacey? Dave Snowden: Ralph Stacey. So, he was the guy originally picked up by Ken when he wrote the Scrum Guide… Ula Ojiaku: Right. Okay. Dave Snowden: Stacey believes everything's complex, which is just wrong, right? So, either way, Cynefin evolved with the liminal aspects. And then the last resolution last year, which is… kind of completes Cynefin to be honest, there's some refinements… was when we realized that the central domain was confused, or operatic. And that was the point where you started. So, you didn't start by putting things into the domain, you started in the operatic. And then you moved aspects of things into the different domains. So that was really important. And it got picked up in Agile, ironically, by the XP community. So, I mean, I was in IT most of my life, I was one of the founders of the DSDM Consortium, and then moved sideways from that, and was working in counterterrorism and other areas, always you're working with technology, but not in the Agile movement. Cynefin is actually about the same age as Agile, it started at the same time. And the XP community in London invited me in, and I still think Agile would have been better if it had been built on XP, not Scrum. But it wouldn't have scaled with XP, I mean, without Scrum it would never have scaled it. And then it got picked up. And I think one of the reasons it got picked up over Stacey is, it said order is possible. It didn't say everything is complex. And virtually every Agile method I know of value actually focuses on making complex, complicated. Ula Ojiaku: Yes. Dave Snowden: And that's its power. What they're… what is insufficient of, and this is where we've been working is what I call pre-Scrum techniques. Techniques, which define what should go into that process. Right, because all of the Agile methods still tend to be a very strong manufacturing metaphor - manufacturing ideas. So, they assume somebody will tell them what they have to produce. And that actually is a bad way of thinking about IT. Technology needs to co-evolve. And users can't articulate what they want, because they don't know what technology can do. Ula Ojiaku: True. But are you saying… because in Agile fundamentally, it's really about making sure there's alignment as well that people are working on the right thing per time, but you're not telling them how to do it? Dave Snowden: Well, yes and no - all right. I mean, it depends what you're doing. I mean, some Agile processes, yes. But if you go through the sort of safe brain remain processes, very little variety within it, right? And self-organization happens within the context of a user executive and retrospectives. Right, so that's its power. And, but if you look at it, it took a really good technique called time-boxing, and it reduced it to a two-week sprint. Now, that's one aspect of time boxing. I mean, I've got a whole series of blog posts next week on this, because time boxing is a hugely valuable technique. It says there's minimal deliverable project, and maximum deliverable product and a minimal level of resource and a maximum level of resource. And the team commits to deliver on the date. Ula Ojiaku: To accurate quality… to a quality standard. Dave Snowden: Yeah, so basically, you know that the worst case, you'll get the minimum product at the maximum cost, but you know, you'll get it on that date. So, you can deal with it, alright. And that's another technique we've neglected. We're doing things which force high levels of mutation and requirements over 24 hours, before they get put into a Scrum process. Because if you just take what users want, you know, there's been insufficient co-evolution with the technology capability. And so, by the time you deliver it, the users will probably realize they should have asked for something different anyway. Ula Ojiaku: So, does this tie in with the pre-Scrum techniques you mentioned earlier? If so, can you articulate that? Dave Snowden: So, is to say different methods in different places. And that's again, my opposition to things like SAFe, to a lesser extent LeSS, and so on, right, is they try and put everything into one bloody big flow diagram. Yeah. And that's messy. All right? Well, it's a recipe, not a chef. What the chef does is they put different ingredients together in different combinations. So, there's modularity of knowledge, but it's not forced into a linear process. So, our work… and we just got an open space and open source and our methods deliberately, right, in terms of the way it works, is I can take Scrum, and I can reduce it to its lowest coherent components, like a sprint or retrospective. I can combine those components with components for another method. So, I can create Scrum as an assembly of components, I can take those components compared with other components. And that way, you get novelty. So, we're then developing components which sit before traditional stuff. Like for example, triple eight, right? This was an old DSDM method. So, you ran a JAD sessions and Scrum has forgotten about JAD. JAD is a really… joint application design… is a really good set of techniques - they're all outstanding. You throw users together with coders for two days, and you force out some prototypes. Yeah, that latching on its own would, would transform agile, bringing that back in spades, right? We did is we do an eight-hour JAD session say, in London, and we pass it on to a team in Mumbai. But we don't tell them what the users ask for. They just get the prototype. And they can do whatever they want with it for eight hours. And then they hand it over to a team in San Francisco, who can do whatever they want with it in eight hours. And it comes back. And every time I've run this, the user said, ‘God, I wouldn't have thought of that, can I please, have it?' So, what you're doing is a limited life cycle - you get the thing roughly defined, then you allow it to mutate without control, and then you look at the results and decide what you want to do. And that's an example of pre-scrum technique, that is a lot more economical than systems and analysts and user executives and storyboards. And all those sorts of things. Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: Well, I see what you mean, because it seems like the, you know, the JAD - the joint application design technique allows for emergent design, and you shift the decision making closer to the people who are at the forefront. And to an extent my understanding of, you know, Scrum … I mean, some agile frameworks - that's also what they promote… Dave Snowden: Oh, they don't really don't. alright. They picked up Design Thinking which is quite interesting at the moment. If you if you look at Agile and Design Thinking. They're both at the end of their life cycles. Ula Ojiaku: Why do you say that? Dave Snowden: Because they're being commodified. The way you know, something is coming to the end of its life cycle is when it becomes highly commodified. So, if you look at it, look at what they are doing the moment, the Double Diamond is now a series of courses with certificates. And I mean, Agile started with bloody certificates, which is why it's always been slightly diverse in the way it works. I mean, this idea that you go on a three-day course and get a certificate, you read some slides every year and pay some money and get another certificate is fundamentally corrupt. But most of the Agile business is built on it, right? I mean, I've got three sets of methods after my name. But they all came from yearlong or longer courses certified by university not from tearing apart a course. Yeah, or satisfying a peer group within a very narrow cultural or technical definition of competence. So, I think yeah, and you can see that with Design Thinking. So, it's expert ideation, expert ethnography. And it still falls into that way of doing things. Yeah. And you can see it, people that are obsessed with running workshops that they facilitate. And that's the problem. I mean, the work we're doing on citizen engagement is actually… has no bloody facilitators in it. As all the evidence is that the people who turn up are culturally biased about their representative based opinions. And the same is true if you want to look at unarticulated needs, you can't afford to have the systems analysts finding them because they see them from their perspective. And this is one of one science, right? You did not see what you do not expect to see. We know that, alright? So, you're not going to see outliers. And so, the minute you have an expert doing something, it's really good - where you know, the bounds of the expertise, cover all the possibilities, and it's really dangerous. Well, that's not the case. Ula Ojiaku: So, could you tell me a bit more about the unfacilitated sessions you mentioned earlier? Dave Snowden: They're definitely not sessions, so we didn't like what were triggers at moments. Ula Ojiaku: Okay. Dave Snowden: So, defining roles. So, for example, one of the things I would do and have done in IT, is put together, young, naive, recently graduated programmer with older experienced tester or software architect. So, somebody without any… Ula Ojiaku: Prejudice or pre-conceived idea... Dave Snowden: … preferably with a sort of grandparent age group between them as well. I call it, the grandparents syndrome - grandparents say things to their grandchildren they won't tell their children and vice versa. If you maximize the age gap, there's actually freer information flow because there's no threat in the process. And then we put together with users trained to talk to IT people. So, in a month's time, I'll publish that as a training course. So, training users to talk to IT people is more economical than trying to train IT people to understand users. Ula Ojiaku: To wrap up then, based on what you said, you know, about Cynefin, and you know, the wonderful ideas behind Cynefin. How can leaders in organizations in any organization apply these and in how they make sense of the world and, you know, take decisions? Dave Snowden: Well, if there's actually a sensible way forward now, so we've just published the field guide on managing complexity. Ula Ojiaku: Okay. Dave Snowden: And that is actually, it's a sort of ‘Chef's guide'. It has four stages: assess, adapt, exert, transcend, and within that it has things you could do. So, it's not a list of qualities, it's a list of practical things you should go and do tomorrow, and those things we're building at the moment with a lot of partners, because we won't try and control this; this needs to be open. Here's an assessment process that people will go through to decide where they are. So that's going to be available next week on our website. Ula Ojiaku: Oh, fantastic! Dave Snowden: For the initial registration. Other than that, and there's a whole body of stuff on how to use Cynefin. And as I said, we just open source on the methods. So, the Wiki is open source. These… from my point of view, we're now at the stage where the market is going to expand very quickly. And to be honest, I, you know, I've always said traditionally use cash waiver as an example of this. The reason that Agile scaled around Scrum is he didn't make it an elite activity, which XP was. I love the XP guys, but they can't communicate with ordinary mortals. Yeah. It takes you about 10 minutes to tune into the main point, and even you know the field, right. And he (Jeff Sutherland) made the Scrum Guide open source. And that way it's great, right. And I think that that's something which people just don't get strategic with. They, in early stages, you should keep things behind firewalls. When the market is ready to expand, you take the firewalls away fast. Because I mean, getting behind firewalls initially to maintain coherence so they don't get diluted too quickly, or what I call “hawks being made into pigeons”. Yeah. But the minute the market is starting to expand, that probably means you've defined it so you release the firewall so the ideas spread very quickly, and you accept the degree of diversity on it. So that's the reason we put the Wiki. Ula Ojiaku: Right. So, are there any books that you would recommend, for anyone who wants to learn more about what you've talked about so far. Dave Snowden: You would normally produce the theory book, then the field book, but we did it the other way around. So, Mary and I are working on three to five books, which will back up the Field Guide. Ula Ojiaku: Is it Mary Boone? Dave Snowden: Mary Boone. She knows how to write to the American managers, which I don't, right… without losing integrity. So that's coming, right. If you go onto the website, I've listed all the books I read. I don't think… there are some very, very good books around complexity, but they're deeply specialized, they're academic. Gerard's book is just absolutely brilliant but it's difficult to understand if you don't have a philosophy degree. And there are some awfully tripe books around complexity - nearly all of the popular books I've seen, I wouldn't recommend. Yeah. Small Groups of Complex Adaptive Systems is probably quite a good one that was published about 20 years ago. Yeah, but that we got a book list on the website. So, I would look at that. Ula Ojiaku: Okay. Thank you so much for that. Do you have any ask of the audience and how can they get to you? Dave Snowden: We've open-sourced the Wiki, you know, to create a critical mass, I was really pleased we have 200 people volunteered to help populate it. So, we get the all the methods in the field guide them. And they're actively working at that at the moment, right, and on a call with them later. And to be honest, I've done 18-hour days, the last two weeks, but 8 hours of each of those days has been talking to the methods with a group of people Academy 5, that's actually given me a lot of energy, because it's huge. So, get involved, I think it's the best way… you best understand complexity by getting the principles and then practicing it. And the key thing I'll leave us with is the metaphor. I mentioned it a few times - a recipe book user has a recipe, and they follow it. And if they don't have the right ingredients, and if they don't have the right equipment, they can't operate. Or they say it's not ‘true Agile'. A chef understands the theory of cooking and has got served in apprenticeship. So, their fingers know how to do things. And that's… we need… a downside.. more chefs, which is the combination of theory and practice. And the word empirical is hugely corrupted in the Agile movement. You know, basically saying, ‘this worked for me' or ‘it worked for me the last three times' is the most dangerous way of moving forward. Ula Ojiaku: Because things change and what worked yesterday might not work Dave Snowden: And you won't be aware of what worked or didn't work and so on. Ula Ojiaku: And there's some bias in that. Wouldn't you say? Dave Snowden: We've got an attentional blindness if you've got Ula Ojiaku: Great. And Dave, where can people find you? Are you on social media? Dave Snowden: Cognitive. Yeah, social media is @snowded. Yeah. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Two websites – the Cognitive Edge website, which is where I blog, and there's a new Cynefin Center website now, which is a not-for-profit arm. Ula Ojiaku: Okay. All these would be in the show notes. Thank you so much for your time, Dave. It's been a pleasure speaking with you. Dave Snowden: Okay. Thanks a lot.

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Australian Strategic Policy Institute Senior Analyst Dr Malcolm Davis says he was quite concerned to learn about Russia's request to base its airforce in Papua, 1300km north of Darwin, which would give them the opportunity to attack Northern Australia an

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NT Parks and Wildlife, Acting Director Northern Australia Parks Andrew Turner says Walker Creek and Bitter Springs will be open for camping and swimming this Easter break

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Climate News: Australia Football League ignores the impact of climate change as it plans new northern Australia stadium

Robert McLean's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 35:28

Climate change and it impact on life in Australia's northern parts has been ignored by the Australia Football League (AFL) as it has progressed plans to build a multi-million dollar stadium in Darwin, the capital of Northern Territory.The climate community is well aware that wet-bulb temperatures expected in Darwin within decades could make life in that northern capital not only difficult, but for many people, fatal.Senior players from the Brisbane Football Club (that's on the other side of the country, but still in a northern state) had urged the AFL not to schedule matches to start before midday as it is simply too hot.Here is what Fox Sports had to say about the Darwin plans: "‘A truly national AFL': $735m Darwin stadium plan unveiled as NT bids to land 20th club";"Peter Dutton's new energy plan sounds like a gas. In reality it means more emissions – and more profits for industry";"‘Hard to see how lower pricing will emerge': Experts doubtful of Dutton's gas plan";"The oil industry takes its critics to court";"Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests";"U.S. Honeybee Deaths Reach Record High: Survey";"Earth's soil is drying up. It could be irreversible.";"Seymour Alternative Farming Expo".

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Minister for Northern Australia Madeline King says the Federal Government is providing more than $7 billion to the NT including $200 million on upgrades to the Stuart Highway and highlights Labor's tax cuts

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Kimberley Incursion: Japanese Landing 1944

Backyard Battlefields

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 14:07

In 1944 a special Japanese unit, the 'Matsu Kikan' ('Matsu' meaning Pine Tree) was tasked with gathering intelligence on bases and allied air activity in Northern Australia. Sailing from Timor in a disguised fishing vessel the 'Hiyoshi Maru', the team, all experienced in unconventional warfare, successfully made landfall in Western Australia and conducted a reconnaissance in the remote Kimberley region before returning to Koepang.

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Home insurance in northern Australia is continuing to rise, despite government attempts to reduce costs

Australia Wide

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 30:12

Home and contents insurance premiums are continuing to rise in northern Australia, regardless of whether nor not home owners are making claims. And that is despite the Government's cyclone reinsurance pool, designed to reduce costs.

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I've Got Crabs NQ Fishing Show

NQ Fishing Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 187:58

Latest episode is up a running ,with abit of rain around the crabs will start moving and Ryan Moody joins us to chat about his latest on-line course Crab Mastery. Ryan gives us a little taste of what to expect if you sign up on-line , its just not baiting a pot and throwing it in and Ryans course is a recipe for success. We also chat to Ryan about his latest trip North in his boat Mood Swings they found one of the rarest whales around so we chat about that experience and what they caught whilst cruising the waters of Northern Australia. Ryan is always good for a chat and this one doesn't disappoint. Show favorite Chris Wilcox is on the phone to chat about whats biting on the beaches , some good grunter are on the chew so we find out more , Chris chases Fingermark this time of year so we pick his brain for a few tips and tricks. So sit back grab a coldie and enjoy 3 hours of tips , tricks and a few laughs thrown in with the NQ Fishing Show

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Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Dr John Coyne says having Japanese forces train alongside US Marines and the ADF in Northern Australia is great news for the NT, which also recently hosted Defence Ministers from those countries for trilateral talk

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Australia, Japan and United States announce military exercises in Darwin - 日本自卫队明年起在达尔文与澳美军队联合训练

SBS Mandarin - SBS 普通话电台

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 4:15

Japan will begin regular training with US Marines in Northern Australia, in a show of force against Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific. The announcement was made after Defence Minister Richard Marles met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani in Darwin on Sunday. Mr Marles says the inclusion of Japanese forces presents a fantastic opportunity for Australia. - 日本将开始与美国海军陆战队在澳大利亚北部进行定期训练，以展示对抗中国在印太地区影响力的力量。

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Australia, Japan and United States announce military exercises in Darwin

SBS World News Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 4:43

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Foreign fishing vessel numbers "out of hand" in northern Australia. What is AFMA doing?

Northern Territory Country Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 13:52

AFMA has confirmed it intercepted two foreign fishing vessels, found hiding in mangroves on the Arnhem Land Coast. What happened next?

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Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Dr John Coyne says the country has entered a period of great strategic uncertainty, making bolstering Defence capability in Northern Australia a high priority following reports the region is “increasingly becomin

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Burrunjor

Within The Mist

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 38:23

In this episode, we venture into the Outback to uncover the legends surrounding the Burrunjor, one of Australia's most elusive cryptids. Said to resemble a living dinosaur, this reptilian predator has been described by Indigenous communities and locals alike as a massive, bipedal creature with scaly skin and razor-sharp teeth. Often compared to a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Burrunjor allegedly stalks the wild, isolated regions of Northern Australia, leaving behind mysterious three-toed footprints and sparking whispers of a living relic from the Jurassic era.Gary and GoldieAnn explore the eerie accounts from eyewitnesses, dive into the stories passed down by Aboriginal people, and discuss modern expeditions into the Outback in search of clues. Could the Burrunjor be a remnant from prehistory, or is it a compelling product of the Australian landscape's dark allure? Join us as we head Within the Mist of the red desert plains and unravel the mystery of the creature that keeps locals looking over their shoulders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Burrunjor

Within The Mist

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 38:23

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OTL#976 - Dave Ebert

Off The Lip Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2024

World renowned Shark expert returns to the show after his shark expedition to Indonesia, Northern Australia and Timor

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From Australia to Timor-Leste: A Journey to Rediscover Lost Shark Species

Beyond Jaws

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 47:35 Transcription Available

In this special episode of the Beyond Jaws podcast, co-host Dr. David Ebert takes center stage as he shares the exciting details of his latest expedition to Australia and Southeast Asia in search of lost sharks. Join Andrew as he interviews David about the challenges and adventures he faced during the trip, as well as the thrilling potential discoveries that may have emerged. Tune in to find out whether David's quest was successful and to hear about the fascinating aspects of shark conservation that emerged from this unique journey. Don't miss this chance to dive deep into the world of sharks with our expert co-host! Connect with us: Website: https://bit.ly/37TMqeKInstagram: https://bit.ly/3eorwXZ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@beyondjawspodcast7591 Dave: Website: https://www.lostsharkguy.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/3q1J9Q5 Andrew: Website: https://www.speakupforblue.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/37g5WkG The Importance of Collaboration and Networking in Scientific Research In the realm of scientific research, particularly in fields like marine biology and conservation, collaboration and networking are essential, especially when exploring new regions and engaging with local communities. The podcast episode featuring Dr. David Ebert highlights several key aspects of this importance. Building Relationships Dr. Ebert emphasizes that much of his research success stems from the relationships he has cultivated over the years. Networking with colleagues, local researchers, and community members is vital for gaining insights and support. For instance, during his trip to Timor-Leste, he connected with Dr. Lowe Clausen, who facilitated introductions to local government officials and the fishing community. This type of networking is invaluable, as it allows researchers to tap into local knowledge and resources that can significantly enhance their work. Local Expertise When venturing into new and less-explored regions, having local collaborators is crucial. They possess knowledge about the terrain, species, and cultural practices that outsiders may overlook. Dr. Ebert worked closely with local Timorese individuals from the World Fish organization. Their familiarity with the area and its ecosystems helped him navigate the challenges of conducting research in a country with limited infrastructure and resources. Cultural Sensitivity and Respect Collaboration also fosters cultural sensitivity. Dr. Ebert approaches his work with respect and humility, recognizing that he is a guest in these communities. He does not impose his ideas but rather offers information and support, allowing local stakeholders to decide how to use it. This approach not only builds trust but also ensures that the research is relevant and beneficial to the local population. Shared Goals and Capacity Building Collaboration often leads to shared goals, enhancing the impact of research. By working with local communities, researchers can align their objectives with the needs and priorities of those communities. Dr. Ebert's efforts to train local individuals in species identification and conservation practices exemplify this. By empowering local researchers and stakeholders, he helps build capacity for ongoing conservation efforts, ensuring that the work continues even after he leaves. Access to Resources and Funding Networking can also open doors to funding opportunities. Dr. Ebert's project was funded by the Save Our Seas Foundation, which supports initiatives aimed at conserving marine biodiversity. Collaborating with established organizations can provide researchers with the financial backing needed to conduct extensive fieldwork, as well as the credibility that comes from being associated with reputable institutions. Conclusion In summary, collaboration and networking are fundamental to successful scientific research, particularly in unfamiliar regions. By building relationships with local communities and experts, researchers can enhance their understanding of the ecosystems they study, ensure cultural sensitivity, and create a lasting impact through capacity building. Dr. Ebert's experiences underscore the importance of these elements in advancing marine conservation efforts and discovering new species, ultimately contributing to the broader goal of preserving our planet's biodiversity. The thrill and emotional rush of discovering new species is a profound experience for scientists like Dr. David Ebert, who likens it to the excitement of Christmas morning for a child. This analogy captures the essence of the adrenaline and joy that accompany such discoveries, which often happen unexpectedly during fieldwork. Throughout the podcast episode, Dr. Ebert shares his experiences from his recent trip to Australia, Southeast Asia, and Timor-Leste, where he and his team were on a mission to find "lost sharks." The anticipation of encountering these elusive species creates a palpable excitement that fuels their daily endeavors. Each day is filled with the promise of discovery, akin to the thrill of unwrapping presents on Christmas morning. When a new species is found, the emotional response is a mix of exhilaration and disbelief. Dr. Ebert describes the moment when he and his team stumbled upon critically endangered sharks that had not been seen for years. The rush of adrenaline in these moments is overwhelming, as they realize they are on the verge of documenting something significant. This feeling is not just about the scientific achievement; it is also about the joy of exploration and the connection to nature. The podcast highlights how this excitement is infectious, inspiring the graduate students accompanying Dr. Ebert. They witness his unwavering enthusiasm and dedication, which serves as a motivating force throughout their long and challenging days in the field. The students find it inspiring to see someone with decades of experience still so passionate and energized by the prospect of discovery. In essence, the thrill of discovering new species is not merely a professional milestone; it is a deeply emotional experience that resonates with the innate curiosity and wonder that drives scientists. The combination of adrenaline, joy, and the sense of adventure creates a unique and fulfilling journey, making every moment spent in pursuit of knowledge worthwhile. The Necessity of Thorough Preparation and Awareness of Safety Concerns in Fieldwork Conducting fieldwork in remote and potentially hazardous environments, such as those described in Dr. David Ebert's recent trip to Australia, Southeast Asia, and Timor-Leste, requires meticulous preparation and a keen awareness of safety concerns. The challenges faced during such expeditions highlight the importance of being well-prepared and vigilant. 1. Logistical Planning Dr. Ebert emphasized the extensive logistics involved in planning his trip, which spanned five countries and included multiple flights and time zones. This level of complexity necessitates a thorough understanding of travel arrangements, including booking flights for a team of graduate students and coordinating with local collaborators. A well-structured itinerary is crucial to ensure that all team members are accounted for and that the research objectives can be met efficiently. 2. Research and Local Knowledge Preparation also involves researching the specific environments and species that will be encountered. Dr. Ebert mentioned the importance of understanding the local ecosystems and the species of sharks he was targeting. This knowledge not only aids in species identification but also helps in anticipating potential hazards associated with the local wildlife and environment. For instance, in Timor-Leste, Dr. Ebert learned about the presence of saltwater crocodiles, which posed a significant safety risk. Understanding the behavior and habitat of these animals was essential for ensuring the safety of the team while conducting research. Engaging with local experts and communities can provide invaluable insights into the risks present in the area. 3. Safety Protocols When working in environments like Northern Australia, where crocodiles are prevalent, adhering to established safety protocols is vital. Dr. Ebert noted that the university had specific guidelines to follow, which included staying within the confines of the boat while tagging river sharks to avoid crocodile attacks. This highlights the necessity of having clear safety measures in place to protect researchers from wildlife hazards. In contrast, when working in Timor-Leste, Dr. Ebert faced a different set of challenges, including poor infrastructure and the absence of emergency services. In such situations, being aware of the limitations and potential dangers of the environment is crucial. Dr. Ebert's approach involved relying on local knowledge and maintaining a high level of alertness to navigate safely through the terrain. 4. Health Precautions Fieldwork in tropical regions often comes with health risks, such as malaria and dengue fever. Dr. Ebert mentioned the importance of taking precautions against mosquito-borne diseases, which is another critical aspect of preparation. Ensuring that all team members are informed about health risks and have access to necessary vaccinations and medications is essential for a successful and safe expedition. 5. Building Relationships and Community Engagement Finally, Dr. Ebert's emphasis on building relationships with local communities underscores the importance of cultural awareness and respect. Engaging with local people not only facilitates smoother operations but also enhances safety. Locals can provide guidance on safe practices and areas to avoid, as well as share their knowledge about the environment. In conclusion, thorough preparation and awareness of safety concerns are paramount when conducting fieldwork in remote and potentially hazardous environments. From logistical planning and research to adhering to safety protocols and engaging with local communities, each aspect plays a crucial role in ensuring the success and safety of the expedition. Dr. Ebert's experiences serve as a valuable reminder of the complexities and responsibilities involved in field research.

September SkyGuide

Astrophiz Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 24:40

Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his September SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month. As usual Ian also gives us his ‘Tangent' ... this time al about Full Moons, Apogee moons and Perigee moons, and how an astrologer made a typo leading to how our understanding of 'Blue Moons' has been somewhat flawed Also Ian is continuing his ‘Astrophotography Challenge' where he presents us with not one, but a trio of achievable and challenging tasks to undertake with our cameras in September. This month our challenge is to capture a Comet, a Nova and capturing a perigee and apogee moon with the same zoom settings, and an occultation. Moon Phases for September New Moon - 3 September - best for seeing the faint fuzzies and clusters Apogee Moon furthest from Earth - 6 September 1st Quarter Moon - 11 September Full Moon - 18 September Perigee Full Moon is also closest to Earth -18 September Last Quarter Moon - 25 September Evening Sky Venus in the evening twilight, close to thin crescent moon on the 5th, and close to Spica on the 18th. Saturn - almost edge on in the late evening, and for those in Northern Australia north of Alice Springs, an occultation on 17 September at about 6:20 in the evening .... and the centre of our galaxy is directly overhead this month, so when the sky is very dark this week (New Moon) and around to 25th (last quarter moon), please do get out and have a look at our magnificent Milky Way! Morning Sky Mercury has returned, low in the morning sky. Saturn rising ... always beautiful! Mars is moving into Gemini, and Jupiter getting higher also prominent in the morning sky, and may be joined by Comet C/2023A3 later on in the month, Comet C/2023A3 is closest to the sun on September 27, in the early morning if it doesn't disintegrate, but comets are like cats ... "they have tails and do as the please" Corona Borealis still hasn't banged, but is still expected to pop off before the end of September. Occultation of Antares best from Perth 10-11 September Ian's September Astrophotography Challenges: 1. Capture the apogee and perigee with same zoom. 2. Capture the comet oround the 13th or 14th, 3. Occultation 4. Corona Borealis Nova explosion Next Episode: In 2 weeks, to celebrate our 200th episode, we are bringing you a sensational interview with Larissa Palethorpe, a young PhD from Edinburgh University who has discovered the most earth-like planet yet … and it's only 40 Light years away You'll love Larissa and her earth-shattering research. Keep looking up!

Garth Hamilton and Barnaby Joyce MP on the Vikki Campion Show - 9 August 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 54:32

GUEST OVERVIEW: Garth Hamilton is the Federal member for the Electorate of Groom. Garth earned a scholarship to Ipswich Grammar School before following his passion for building things, studying engineering at the University of Queensland. Starting out in the Australian mining industry with BHP, Alcan and Parsons Brinckerhoff, he has since worked on significant projects across the world. Garth was responsible for delivering major water infrastructure, rail and sporting facilities in Saudi Arabia, Tube stations, an airport terminal in London, and mining projects in Western Australia. His wife Louise brought Garth back to her hometown of Toowoomba. Garth is a committed volunteer, an active Rural Fire Brigade member, and a South Toowoomba Junior Rugby Club coach. He is as passionate about teaching kids sportsmanship as he is about teaching them skills. GUEST OVERVIEW: The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP is the Member for New England in the Parliament of Australia. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, and former Cabinet Minister in the portfolios of Agriculture and Water Resources, Resources and Northern Australia, and Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. He was Leader of the National Party and is currently Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs.

Wildlife Corridors: How one Forest Maker is creating habitat for endangered species in Queensland, Australia.

SUGi Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 33:13

Roaming the lush rainforests of Northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea, the Cassowary bird is a striking sight to behold. Resembling something like an exquisite dinosaur at 6 feet tall, this at-risk flightless bird is now in a fight for survival. As a keystone species, the Cassowary is facing endangerment due to the fragmentation of its habitat by development and industrial agriculture. On this episode of SUGi Talks, we speak with SUGi Forest Maker Brett Krause. Since 2014, with our support, Brett has been planting Miyawaki forests in Tropical North Queensland as a way to create habitats for endangered species like the Cassowary and the Mahogany Glider. Together we'll speak about how he went from growing up on a sawmill witnessing deforestation, to now leading the way on Miyawaki forest building in Northern Australia. Make sure you like and subscribe wherever you get podcasts for more SUGi Talks.

Hon Barnaby Joyce Mp, Sall Grover & Alex Zaharov-Reutt on The Chris Smith Show - 26 June 2024

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2024 55:14

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP is the Member for New England in the Parliament of Australia. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, and former Cabinet Minister in the portfolios of Agriculture and Water Resources, Resources and Northern Australia, and Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. He was Leader of the National Party. https://barnabyjoyce.com.au/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Sall Grover is the Australian founder of an independent female-only social media networking platform and app called ‘Giggle'. She created Giggle as a platform centred around women connecting with, and supporting, other women. The purpose was to provide an app that allowed women to safely connect; an important consideration when dealing with strangers. Sall has been taken to court because she wanted her Giggle app to remain female-only. X: @salltweets https://gigglecrowdfund.com/ GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Alex Zaharov-Reutt is TechAdvice.Life Editor. He's one of Australia's best-known technology journalists and consumer tech experts. Alex has appeared in his capacity as a technology expert on all of Australia's free-to-air and pay-TV networks on all the major news and current affairs programs, on commercial and public radio, and technology, lifestyle, and Reality TV shows. X: @alexonline888 https://techadvice.life/

Tony Wakeham, Rebekah Barnett, Hon Barnaby Joyce MP & Shane Healey on The Chris Smith Show - 25 June 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 55:09

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Tony Wakeham became an 'active' Julian Assange Supporter after Julian's incarceration in Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh in 2019. He and a small group of other supporters decided to 'gather' on Sydney's Town Hall steps after work every Friday evening until Julian is free. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Rebekah Barnett is an independent journalist from Western Australia. She writes for her Substack, Dystopian Down Under, and advocates for Australians injured by the COVID vaccines. Instagram: @dystopiandownunder X: @dystopian_DU GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP is the Member for New England in the Parliament of Australia. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, and former Cabinet Minister in the portfolios of Agriculture and Water Resources, Resources and Northern Australia, and Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. He was Leader of the National Party. GUEST 4 OVERVIEW: Shane Healey is a terrorism and youth justice expert. He's a former Australian Defence Force Special Operations Command intelligence operator, and private military contractor. Shane has been deployed twice to Afghanistan (2010/2011 and 2012) as part of Task Force 66 where he provided insurgent threat assessments. When in Australia he was part of the Tactical Assault Group – East and West where he was involved in several real time terrorist incidents.

It's All Combat Episode 112

So There I Was

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 86:56

Spook joins us to talk about becoming a Marine pilot, Reuniting with Fig after 37 years, Flying the Hornet in the Marines and the Royal Australian Air Force. Find out why he chose the Marines over the Air Force and the Navy. Find out how he got his callsign. Learn that he has video proof that HE was the one to shoot down a drone tractor. Hear how he placed in a race he wasn't even in. Find out why he was grounded on his 1000th hour in the Hornet - and why he became the Supreme Commander of Marine Forces, Northern Australia. All this and more in a great week with another great aviator!

Hon Barnaby Joyce Mp & Alex Zaharov-Reutt on The Chris Smith Show - 29 May 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 55:20

On today's show, Barnaby Joyce discusses breaking political news. Later, Alex Zaharov-Reutt discusses the latest technology news. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP is the Member for New England in the Parliament of Australia. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, and former Cabinet Minister in the portfolios of Agriculture and Water Resources, Resources and Northern Australia, and Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. He was Leader of the National Party. https://barnabyjoyce.com.au/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Alex Zaharov-Reutt is TechAdvice.Life Editor. He's one of Australia's best-known technology journalists and consumer tech experts. Alex has appeared in his capacity as a technology expert on all of Australia's free-to-air and pay-TV networks on all the major news and current affairs programs, on commercial and public radio, and technology, lifestyle, and Reality TV shows. X: @alexonline888 https://techadvice.life/

Mosquito population structure and gene-drives

Heredity Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 23:37

Gene-drives hold great potential for the control of biological pests, but first they need to be thoroughly tested under appropriate conditions. In this episode we discuss some new work assessing whether mosquito populations in Northern Australia could be used to test a gene-drive targeting malaria mosquitoes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Defending Australia against China without AUKUS: The Echidna Strategy. Talking with author Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute.

The San Francisco Experience

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 43:51

The AUKUS security agreement would furnish Australia with 8 nuclear powered submarines and other advanced weapons technologies. But it is costly and does Australia have the engineering expertise to build such a fleet ? And would the country become a target for China's wrath with US and UK nuclear subs stationed in Western Australia and US aircraft located in Northern Australia ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

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How to Explore the World: Travel, Retreats, and Traveling with Kids (EP124)

FitMama

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 38:15

FitMama, Hola! I have spent more than half of last month traveling and in this episode, I share my experiences and my story of traveling around the world with my kids when they were 2&4 years old. We shared all our pics and still continue to on our instagram @theoliverstravel where you can find our pics from Taj Mahal, Melbourne, Sydney for New Year's Fireworks, the Northern Australia beaches of Noosa, the wine region of Marlborough, New Zealand and Dubai before hitting Portugal and Spain and after hitting Hong Kong and Vietnam. This was while my husband was on sabbatical from his position as the Men's Basketball Coach at a Canadian University and we did 3 months of working online and living in California and then 3 months working online while traveling west with stops in Hawaii and Fiji and landing back in Toronto on my younger daughter's 3rd birthday. We traveled to 3 countries on her 3rd birthday, getting home to be with family. While it was a whirlwind, it was one of our best memories and the pictures still jog their memories. The stories forever stay and they see themselves as citizens of the world. Their knowledge of geography and history are so beyond my comprehension, I am continually impressed. In this episode I share what we learned about in Peru and how I learn so much from my kids. Hiking with them into Machu Picchu was incredible on so many levels. I then share how I spent 7 days in Mexico prior to our family trip. I went solo for work and personal time. A hat free trip for the most part and it felt great. Also how I felt stepping away from technology when I traveled. Which doesn't always happen except on the plane. I also drop the exciting news that I am hosting my first FitMama FitGoddess Retreat in Palm Desert, CA. More info to come but it's September 19-23 and you get to stay in a luxury hotel and participate in hiking, amazing meals, rest, swim, breathwork, jacuzzi, massage, reiki, card reading, fireside night time sound bath, yoga, walks, gelato, and lots of down time and rest as well. This will be active and relaxing at the same time and will leave you feeling refreshed from the inside out! I can't wait to meet you in person and spend time together! Please fill out your info on this Google Form so my team and I can send you info when it's ready. But SAVE the DATE, September 19-23. Come in early and leave late. Fly to PSP, and I got you from there! VIP stuff for those that are early or stay late. I promote the OURA ring in this episode and I want to thank them and here is $40 USD off if you choose to buy one. I love mine. I also encourage you to get my book or buy it for someone in your life who is pregnant and would benefit from reading it (everyone!) it's not just for moms. The Love FitMama Way: Transforming the Core of Motherhood. I also talk about booking a call with me, and I want you to. My link is HERE. Book in NOW. Tag me online @lovejenoliver and @fitmamapodcast and show me where you're listening from. Also please subscribe on Spotify or Apple, rate and share this podcast with someone who you know will benefit. And who do you want to go traveling with and where!? I have you pondering this question in this podcast! See you online FitMama.

Stratospheric dehydration - Schwarz

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024 82:45

Joshua Schwarz explains how dispersing ice nucleating particles in one tiny region of the tropical tropopause layer off Northern Australia can address around 1pc of global warming. He also discusses his involvement in the SABRE stratospheric flights. Paper: Considering intentional stratospheric dehydration for climate benefits DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk0593 Other papers discussed Pyrocumulonimbus affect average stratospheric aerosol composition J. M. KATICH DOI: 10.1126/science.add3101 Marine-cloud brightening: an airborne concept Christian Claudel, Andrew John Lockley, Fabian Hoffmann and Younan Xia DOI 10.1088/2515-7620/ad2f71

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2024

Skype of Cthulhu presents a Convicts and Cthulhu scenario from Australian Aeons. Straits of Doom by Geoff Gillian. 1700s Northern Australia The Waradi tribe fights for their lives against terrible foes and not all will survive. Dramatis Persone: Gary as the Keeper Randall as Nilgora, Hunter // Ardiyanti, Pirate Steve as Kyeema, Pearl Fisher // Horoun el-Hashim, Merchant Pirate Max as Dural, Elder // Sunisa, Thia Pirate Jim as Girinjarri, Clever Man of High Degree // Jiang Li, Chinese Sailor and Pirate Download Subcription Options Podcast statistics

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PLANTS FOR THE PEOPLE with Herbalist Erin Lovell Verinder

SOUNDFOOD

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2024 83:49

Today we tap into a quieter approach to rebellion, steeped in the love language of plants, guided by the magical Erin Lovell Verinder. Herbalist, Author, Educator, Ally and Energetic Healer, Erin joins us from wild and beautiful Tasmania, where she works diligently to share herbal wisdom, protocols and practical plant medicine with communities near and far. As a TedX speaker and author of three publications, including Plants for the People and The Plant Clinic, Verinder's voice reverberates with passion and experience. Our guest's devotion to community care and accessibility is carried throughout her work. From disrupting the naturopathic, herbal medicine model within the industry by creating a free clinic in response to the floods of Northern Australia in 2022, to her latest offering, Blossom, a 5-month immersion mentorship crafted for herbalists and naturopaths, Erin is deeply rooted in the plant path. Thank you Erin! Join us for a Jam Session Monday, January 22nd at 4PM PST / 7PM EST / 11AM ECT (1/23) on our host Nitsa's IG – tune in for a live demo of how to make an herbal infusion followed by a Q&A with Erin and Nitsa. CONNECT Erin Lovell Verinder: IG | Website | Work with Erin Host @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace twitter Subscribe to Mercurial Mail (our monthly newsletter) MENTIONED Blossom Plants for the People The Plant Clinic The Plant Portal TEDx: Herbalism - The Quiet Rebellion Consultations with Erin EPISODE 34 - Go Lightly: Regenerative Travel, Authentic Living and Growing through Stillness with Nina Karniwoski IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE, YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE EP. 34 Go Lightly: Regenerative Travel, Authentic Living and Growing through Stillness with Nina Karniwoski EP. 35 The Sacred Language of Plants: Floral Meditation, Herbal Alchemy and Botanical Resonance with Kate Clearlight EP. 51 Pleasure as the Prescription with Master Herbalist Kelsey Barrett NOURISH This podcast is made possible by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners: Make a donation here LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied) LIVING TEA: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment at livingtea.net RESONANCE: find Nitsa's curation of living teas here MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off our favorite regenerative plant protein from the Andes Mikunafoods.com SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs, mushrooms + superfoods superfeast.com OSEA: CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic CHRISTY DAWN: 5NITSA for 15% off farm-to-closet christydawn.com LAMBS: CITRINE for 10% off your EMF protective gear getlambs.com P.S. We would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE OR SPOTIFY! We love to hear from our listeners. Thank you : )

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891 - Straits of Doom 3

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024

Skype of Cthulhu presents a Convicts and Cthulhu scenario from Australian Aeons. Straits of Doom by Geoff Gillian. 1700s Northern Australia The Waradi tribe finds the crew and realizes their arrival signals the coming of a great evil. Dramatis Persone: Gary as the Keeper Randall as Nilgora, Hunter // Ardiyanti, Pirate Steve as Kyeema, Pearl Fisher // Horoun el-Hashim, Merchant Pirate Max as Dural, Elder // Sunisa, Thia Pirate Jim as Girinjarri, Clever Man of High Degree // Jiang Li, Chinese Sailor and Pirate Download Subcription Options Podcast statistics

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SBS Hindi Newsflash 29 December 2023: Warning for extreme heatwave conditions in northern Australia

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2023 3:51

Listen to the top news from Australia and India in Hindi.

Connie Wood - When it's not "just a bump on the head"

Central Station - Stories from Outback Australian Cattle Stations

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2023 34:19

When Connie Wood came off her horse and knocked her head, she initially thought not much of it. She hadn't been doing anything particularly wild or dangerous in the moments leading up to the fall, it was just like any other day on her quiet, dependable horse. What Connie would go on to experience was no bump on the head – it was, in fact, a significant brain injury. In this episode, Connie recounts what she can remember of her accident, the unexpected aspects of her recovery, and we discuss the age old sticking point – can you wear a helmet in Northern Australia for extended periods of time without risking heat stroke? If her voice sounds familiar, it's because Connie is no stranger to this podcast – this is actually her 5th time on the show, so make sure you go and check out her other episodes. Earlier in this episode I mentioned a condition that can occur from multiple head knocks and concussions. For anyone who would like to go and read more on it, it's called Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and it is a brain disorder likely caused by repeated head injuries. It causes the death of nerve cells in the brain, known as degeneration. It gets worse over time. The only way to definitively diagnosis CTE is after death during an autopsy of the brain. This episode isn't intended to advocate for whether or not to wear a helmet – but as always, it's up to each of us to weigh up the risks, and I hope no one feels socially pressured to avoid using one.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Garry Riggs (Part 1) - The adventures (and misadventures) of a bush kid

Central Station - Stories from Outback Australian Cattle Stations

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 56:14

Station kids aren't regular kids. What I mean, is that they are, more often than not, fiercely independent and impressively resourceful. And that is a recipe for adventure. Garry Riggs is no exception here. He spent his childhood on remote properties across Northern Australia, with the sort of freedom most of us would lament only occurred “back in the good old days”. He's had his fair share of adventures, including a number of close calls with snakes, motorbikes, horses, motorcars, and even deadly fevers. Today, Garry owns Lakefield Station in the Northern Territory, where we recorded this episode. His journey from station kid to station owner is absolutely jam-packed with ripper yarns, and this episode is just Part 1 of several we're going to be recording with Garry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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889 - Straits of Doom 2

WILDsound: The Film Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2023

Skype of Cthulhu presents a Convicts and Cthulhu scenario from Australian Aeons. Straits of Doom by Geoff Gillian. 1700s Northern Australia The crew finds their quarry but all is not as it seems as they board this hideous vessel. Dramatis Persone: Gary as the Keeper Randall as Ardiyanti, Pirate Steve as Horoun el-Hashim, Merchant Pirate Max as Sunisa, Thia Pirate Jim as Jiang Li, Chinese Sailor and Pirate Download Subcription Options Podcast statistics

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Astrophiz182: November-December SkyGuide

Astrophiz Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 22:49

Moon Phases: November 5 - the Last Quarter Moon is Sunday, good time for evening skygazing. November 7 - The Moon is at apogee, when it is furthest from the Earth November 13 - New Moon, good time for skygazing the entire night. November 14 - The very thin ‘day old' moon is near Mercury in the west just after sunset. A genuine challenge to catch this. November 20 - First Quarter Moon, great binocular moon gazing time, with Saturn nearby. November 22 - The Moon is at perigee, when it is closest from the Earth. November 25 - Jupiter is only 2 degrees away from the waxing moon. November 27 - Full Moon. Evening Sky: Saturn is nice and high in evening skies and always a joy to observe in the north. On 23 November, Saturn casts its deepest shadow over its rings …. well worth a look, or a photo. Jupiter is bright all night long all the month, and on November 2 - Opposition of Jupiter, Mercury returns to evening skies from mid-month onwards, and easily visible in the west towards the end of the month. Morning Sky: Venus is high and highly visible, and on the 10th, just 4 degrees from the crescent moon. As the month progresses Venus approached the bright star Spica. Stars to watch out for: Scorpius begins to sink below the western horizon. Orion, Canis Major, Carina, Puppis and Vela are beginning to rise in the east, but quite visible by the end of the month, and even easier to see in December. It's a great time to also observe the Magellanic Clouds and the double stars in Tucanae, and the beautiful Tarantula Nebula. December:: Dec 22 - Earth is at Solstice Geminids Meteor Shower - combining with the New Moon, the Geminids will be very nice this year, peaking on Dec 14, but in Australia, best on the morning of Dec 15th, with a show of about 60 meteors/hour expected in Northern Australia, and about 30/hr in the south, depending on the darkness of your sky, from about 1am onwards. Expect to see some very bright ones. Ian's Tangent: Hand-held ‘pocket portable' sundials

Oct. 22, 2023 - Filmmaker Samuel Steiner Riley (WILD TERRITORY)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023

WILD TERRITORY, 27min., USA Directed by Samuel Steiner Riley Wild Territory explores the relationship between a daring wildlife photographer, Etienne Littlefair, and the vast freshwater ecosystems that define Australia's far north. From free-diving in murky water to find crocodiles and rare turtles, to spending days on end staking out drying riverbeds for parrots and finches, Etienne and his wife Cara go to extreme lengths to photograph rare and under-appreciated species – all with the hope to spread awareness and appreciation for the wildlife and waterways they have come to care so much about. This film is a combination of beautiful imagery, exceptional wildlife, and true human connection with nature. It is a testament to the importance of protecting what we have before it's gone. Get to know the filmmaker: My initial motivation for creating the film was Etienne's extraordinary underwater photography of aquatic freshwater reptiles. The reason that his photography stood out to me was three-fold. Firstly, it is no secret that swimming in the Northern Territory is notoriously dangerous due to the prevalence of Saltwater Crocodiles, and he is undoubtably the only person doing this type of photography in the region. Secondly, he is representing a largely unseen, little known, and widely misunderstood selection of wildlife that is generally swept under the rug and poorly prioritized when it comes to conservation policy and public opinion. And thirdly, I felt that the range of photography that his work encompasses tied together various realms of a larger ecosystem that is critical to the preservation of Northern Australia's beauty and biodiversity. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it's only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

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