Dev Singh

Dementia is often misunderstood as a normal part of ageing, but the reality is much deeper. In this powerful conversation with Tanya Buchanan from Dementia Australia, we explore dementia as a chronic condition that can affect people across the life course, including young adults and children. This episode looks at the real challenges faced by people living with dementia, their families, carers, an...

Child & Family Safety 2026 Panel 5: One System for Safety: Collaboration, Data and SharedAccountability In this powerful podcast conversation, we explore the real human cost of fragmented child protection systems, family violence, childhood trauma, and the urgent need for a more connected, compassionate approach to care. Through deeply personal lived experience and expert insights, this episod...

Child & Family Safety 2026 Panel 4: Prevention, Education and Technology: Shaping a Culture of Respect. Is technology helping our children, or quietly exposing them to more harm than we realise? In this powerful panel conversation, we explore prevention, education, online safety, AI, deepfakes, gaming, pornography, digital abuse, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, and the urgent nee...

Child & Family Safety 2026 Panel 3: Early Intervention, Perpetrator Accountability and Safe Homes: Health, Economic Security and Pathways to Recovery Why don’t victim-survivors just leave? This powerful panel goes beyond the surface and looks at the real barriers behind domestic violence, coercive control, housing insecurity, financial abuse, trauma, and recovery. In this conversation, lived e...

Panel-2 Child & Family Safety 2026 In this powerful panel conversation, we explore Aboriginal leadership, family violence prevention, online safety for young people, and the importance of genuine partnership with Aboriginal community-controlled organisations. The discussion brings forward honest voices from the frontline, including the role of men in preventing violence, why violence against w...

Panel-1 Child & Family Safety 2026 In this powerful podcast conversation, we explore one of the most urgent questions in child care and child protection today: who is truly responsible for keeping children safe? This episode brings together voices from child protection, safeguarding, family violence, community care, and policy to discuss the uncomfortable realities behind child care abuse, chi...

Celebrating 2026 QLD International Women's Day #leadthechange The panel also explores why women’s leadership is often quiet but essential, how deep listening can shape better policy, and why purpose, empathy and resilience matter in every sector. This episode is for anyone interested in women in leadership, Australian politics, local government, NDIS advocacy, multicultural communities, not-for-pr...

If you are a small business owner, policymaker, entrepreneur, technology leader or someone trying to understand the real impact of AI on Australian businesses, this episode is for you. In this episode, Dev Singh speaks with Will Harris, COSBOA from the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia, about the future of small business in Australia, the role of AI tools, cyber safety, red tape, d...

In this compelling conversation, we sit down with Professor Peter Stanley, one of Australia’s leading military historians, to uncover the deeply emotional, lost legacy of the British Indian Army, Sikh soldiers, Punjabi Muslims, and Gurkhas who fought side-by-side with the Anzacs in 1915. From the miraculous survival of a British officer saved from a Turkish trench by his sepoy , to the legendary A...

How can mastering your "conversation craft" transform your life, your workplace culture, and your relationships? In this episode, communication expert and keynote speaker Emma Gibbens returns for round two to unpack why conversations are our most critical "cultural infrastructure. After returning from a two-month trip to the US, Emma shares her raw observations on how global uncertainty, inflation...

Celebrating 2026 QLD International Women's Day #leadthechange Four trailblazing women, a pioneering breast cancer surgeon, a veteran board director, a grassroots community advocate, and a young mining leader share honest, powerful stories about leadership, resilience and equity in Queensland and beyond. Recorded for International Women's Day 2026. In this candid panel discussion, our speakers unpa...

She's a social worker. She knows the system inside out. And she's still struggling to get care for her own daughter. In this episode, we sit down with Sharon, an advocate, sector leader, and mother of Amber, who lives with intellectual disability, psychosis, mitochondrial disease, and vision loss. Sharon pulls back the curtain on what Australia's care system really looks like from the inside — and...

"Science should supersede politics — all the time, every time." Jonathan Fisher, Cauldron Energy, has spent his career across the full radioactive spectrum, from nuclear energy in the UK, to approving and building Western Australia's radioactive waste repository (the Tellus Sandy Ridge facility), to now fighting to lift the uranium mining ban in WA. In this episode, Jonathan gives one of the most...

MP Warren Kirby doesn't sound like a politician — because he didn't start as one. He grew up in Blacktown. Four generations of his family attended the same school. He watched a 300-student community explode past 1,000 — with no new parks, no new schools, and no plan to build them. So he stopped shouting from the outside and got himself a seat on the inside. 🎙 Subscribe for more conversations that...

What does it take to give every child an equal shot at life? Doug Taylor started his career working on the inner-city streets of Sydney with homeless people sleeping rough. Today, he leads The Smith Family — one of Australia's oldest and most impactful not-for-profit organisations — and is using AI to close a A generational education gap that has persisted for decades. In this episode, we go deep...

In this deeply thoughtful episode, we sit down with Australian Senator Varun Ghosh to trace his journey from a child of immigrants moving across Australia to a commercial barrister and a powerful voice in federal politics. Stepping away from standard political talking points, Varun delivers a masterclass on how philosophical frameworks like John Rawls' "veil of ignorance" can practically build a f...

This is a must-watch conversation for anyone interested in Australia’s economy, cost of living, public policy, housing, AI, education, politics, and the future of work. In this powerful conversation, Scientia Professor Richard Holden explains why everyday Australians should care about economics and how public policy shapes almost every part of our lives. From the housing affordability crisis to th...

I thought my life was a movie to survive the trauma." Danielle shares the harrowing reality of domestic violence, psychological "flight mode," and the unthinkable choice to lose her son to save his life. In this raw and unfiltered episode, we sit down with Danielle, a survivor of extreme domestic violence who shares a story that challenges everything we know about the human will to survive. From l...

"We are at war with cybercriminals, and the time to breach is moving at the speed of light." In this powerful conversation, Doug Hammond reveals why the future of leadership isn't about code—it's about "holding the hand instead of the pen." Doug Hammond has managed cybersecurity for the biggest banks and most vulnerable charities. Today, he pulls back the curtain on the "Shadow AI" revolution, the...

What does it actually take to build a successful business in regional Australia? In this episode, we sit down with Peter Lowen, CEO of Wheatbelt Business Network, to uncover the raw and often overlooked reality of entrepreneurship outside the city limits. From his early days walking 10km every morning at age 17 just to get to work, to navigating the "burn and churn" of corporate leadership, Peter’...

What does it take to survive 45 years in the cut-throat world of international property development? From the frontlines of apartheid South Africa to the cutting edge of AI-driven construction, Ron shares his blueprint for a life of "intelligent density." We dive deep into why money isn't the ultimate metric for success, how Poly Docs is revolutionizing document automation in property, and the spe...

In this episode, Alissa Brown reveals how we can use AI and "Human Rights" leadership to fix a broken system and restore dignity to our elderly. From being a human rights lawyer to leading a revolution in regional aged care, Alissa Brown’s journey is one of profound purpose. We dive deep into the "red tape" of the NDIS, the ethics of using AI to reconnect dementia patients with lost loved ones, an...

The history of the Sikh Diaspora has a "hole" in it—and Professor Peter Stanley knows exactly where the missing pieces are. In this powerful conversation, world-renowned military historian Professor Peter Stanley (author of Die in Battle, Do not Despair) joins us to discuss the "Legacy Project" of uncovering the forgotten history of Indian and Sikh soldiers at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Why...

Is AI making us socially fragile? 🤖 In this powerful conversation, psychologist Bronwyn Williams reveals the "sickening" reality of AI partners, why we are losing the ability to handle rejection, and the hidden "moral injury" destroying our workforce. The world is lonelier than ever, despite being more connected. We are replacing human eye gaze with digital avatars and trade-long-form thinking fo...

In this gripping episode, renowned economist and author Gigi Foster joins the podcast to pull back the curtain on the "Manipulator’s Playbook." From the childhood car ride that shaped her view of human purpose to the radical economic case for Western Australia’s secession, Gigi explains why modern institutions are failing the people they were built to protect. We dive deep into the "looking glass"...