Good Will Hunters

Welcome to Good Will Hunters' Autumn Series. The time has come for NGOs to radically transform. Major global shifts are underway. Civic space is shrinking and the fundamental tenets of democracy – open, transparent and accountable governance – are under threat. There is growing political antagonism towards advocacy and activism, and increasing restraints face NGOs that seek to hold governments to...

In the GWH Summer Series, ACFID’s Bridi Rice takes you inside the Canberra foreign policy community to ask one key question: what does increased poverty mean for Australian international affairs? In the last of this six-part series, Bridi Rice will be speaking with Serena Sasingian on local leadership and Australian/Papua New Guinean roots. Serena Sasingian is a lawyer by profession and co-founder...

In the GWH Summer Series, ACFID’s Bridi Rice takes you inside the Canberra foreign policy community to ask one key question: what does increased poverty mean for Australian international affairs? In the fifth of this six-part series, Bridi will be chatting with James Gilling about all things localisation, empowering local voices, and the future of Australian development. James is Head of the Human...

In the GWH Summer Series, ACFID’s Bridi Rice takes you inside the Canberra foreign policy community to ask one key question: what does increased poverty mean for Australian international affairs? Welcome to Episode 04 of Good Will Hunters’ Summer Series, brought to you by Good Will Media. Today, in the fourth of this six-part series, our host Bridi Rice chats to Melissa Conley Tyler about how rese...

In the GWH Summer Series, ACFID’s Bridi Rice takes you inside the Canberra foreign policy community to ask one key question: what does increased poverty mean for Australian international affairs? Welcome to Episode 03 of Good Will Hunters’ Summer Series, brought to you by Good Will Media. Today, in the third of this six-part series, our host Bridi Rice chats to Josie Pagani about how New Zealand w...

In the GWH Summer Series, ACFID’s Bridi Rice takes you inside the Canberra foreign policy community to ask one key question: what does increased poverty mean for Australian international affairs? Welcome to Episode 02 of Good Will Hunters’ Summer Series, brought to you by Good Will Media. Today, in the second of this six-part series, our host Bridi Rice chats to Lisa Cornish about how the media sh...

In the Good Will Hunters Summer Series, ACFID’s Bridi Rice takes you inside the Canberra foreign policy community to ask one key question: what does increased poverty mean for Australian international affairs? Welcome to Episode 1 of Good Will Hunters’ Summer Series, brought to you by Good Will Media. Today, in the first of this six-part series, our host Bridi Rice chats to Richard Maude about how...

Welcome to Good Will Hunters’ Summer Series. This series is produced by Good Will Media. This series was born out of the realisation of one simple fact: for the first time in a generation - that’s over 20 years - the World Bank predicts a rise in extreme poverty. This is a confronting reality which is hard to imagine. What does it mean for those of us in the development sector, and the broader for...

Welcome to Episode 103 of Good Will Hunters, brought to you by Good Will Media. Today I speak to Paul Ronalds, Group CEO of Save the Children Australia, about how NGOs can transform and innovate to meet the growing challenges they face. Enjoy, The GWH Team

Welcome to Episode 102 of Good Will Hunters brought to you by Good Will Media. Today on the show I’m speaking with Prue Clarke. Prue Clarke is an award winning journalist, professor and media development specialist. Since 2004 Prue’s reporting has focused on sub-Saharan Africa where she has uncovered corruption in the mining industry, and child trafficking war in Ghana. Prue is the co-founder of N...

Welcome to Episode 101 of Good Will Hunters. Today we’re talking about Kylie Moore-Gilbert. Kylie is an Australian academic currently imprisoned in Iran. In this episode I speak to two of Kylie’s friends and colleagues, Dara and Marika, about Kylie. We discuss her arrest, her transfer to Quarchuck prison after two years of solitary confinement, and the quiet diplomacy versus the more public diplom...

Welcome to Episode 100 of Good Will Hunters brought to you by Good Will Media. This episode really crept up on us - it’s so exciting to reach 100 EPISODE, and if you’re listening to this, and you’re a regular listen, I’d really love you to reach out and introduce yourself if we haven’t already met! I feel as though I know so many of you personally already, but it really would be the most special 1...

Budget night episode of Good Will Hunters, with ACFID CEO Marc Purcell. More budget coverage to come.

Welcome to Episode 98 of Good Will Hunters brought to you by Good Will Media. Our guest today is Sofia Shakil. This is the second in our two part series on the Asia Foundation, so if you haven’t listened to last weeks episode with Sam Chittick, I suggest you do so now. Sofia is The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Pakistan. She is an experienced policy economist, with nearly 25 years of...

Welcome to Episode 97 of Good Will Hunters, brought to you by Good Will Media. I’m your host Rachel Mason Nunn. Today is the first in a two part series with country representatives from the Asia Foundation. In this interview, I speak to Sam Chittick, Country Representative for the Phillipines. I really enjoyed this discussion for a few reasons. Firstly, Sam and I discuss the role of the private se...

Welcome to Episode 96 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Before we begin, an announcement. Devpol’s 10th anniversary partnership with Good Will Hunters comes to an end this week. We’re grateful for the crucial support provided by The Development Policy Centre this year, which has enabled us to bring you weekly episodes. Today on the show I’m speaking to Arieta Rika who is the...

Welcome to Episode 95 of Good Will Hunters from The Development Policy Centre. In this time of great challenges globally, we need more than ever to listen to the voices of wisdom and compassion. Today on the show I’m speaking to Rev Tim Costello AO, one of Australia’s best-known voices on social justice, and global poverty. Tim was Chief Executive of World Vision Australia for 13 years and is curr...

Welcome to Episode 94 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I’m speaking to academic and author Dr Gordon Peake. Gordon works at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at ANU, on governance and conflict in the Asia-Pacific region. He is an expert on and has lived in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. Gordon is also a popular author, and his book Beloved...

Welcome to Episode 93 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today’s episode is the second in a two-part series on the World Bank Group, where we speak to the experts leading the Bank’s work in the region. In this episode I speak to Shivnesh Prasad, Digital Development Specialist with the World Bank in Fiji. Shivnesh has over 15 years of experience in the public sector in Fiji, i...

Welcome to Episode 92 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today’s episode is the first in a two-part series on the World Bank Group, where we speak to the experts leading the Bank’s work in the region. In this episode I speak to Dr. Edith Kariko, the Senior Health Specialist with the World Bank in Port Moresby. Edith is a medical doctor with extensive experience working in hea...

Welcome to Episode 91 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I speak to the Honourable Dame Carol Kidu. Dame Carol Kidu was a Member of Parliament in PNG from 1997 to 2012, including a stint as Minister for Community Development. Carol has lived a remarkable life. At age 19, Carol moved to Papua New Guinea and married Sir Buri Kidu, the man who would become the...

Welcome to Episode 90 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I speak to Fiona Hukula, Miranda Forsyth, and Philip Gibbs. Our speakers today are on the front line of the battle against sorcery accusation related violence or SARV in Papua New Guinea. Dr Fiona Hukula is a Senior Research Fellow at the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute (PNG NRI). Fiona re...

Welcome to Episode 89 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I speak to Leonard Blazeby. Leonard is the outgoing Head of Mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC, in Australia. At the end of our interview, you’ll hear about the very big and exciting role that Leonard is taking on next. Since joining the ICRC in 2000, Leonard has held a...

Welcome to Episode 88 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I speak to Jemma Mackinnon and Kerry McCarthy, about their experience of the Seasonal Worker Programme, as farm owners and managers. The Seasonal Worker Programme is a scheme that allows Pacific Islanders and Timor-Leste citizens to come to Australia to pick fruit. It’s incredibly popular in the Pacifi...

Welcome to Episode 87 of Good Will Hunters from the Development Policy Centre. Today on the show I speak to Joanna Lindner Pradela. Joanna is the Director of Knowledge Translation at the International Women’s Development Agency, the IWDA, overseeing research, policy, advocacy and movement strengthening work as well as IWDA’s flagship program to redefine how poverty is measured, Equality Insights....