The Cove Podcast

Brent Tate is a retired NRL player who debuted with the Brisbane Broncos in 2001. He played 229 NRL games including 23 for Queensland and 26 for Australia.

Claudia Brassard is the coach of the Townsville Fire WNBL team. She played basketball for the Canadian women's team and represented her country at the Sydney Olympics.

Mr Pat Farmer AM, delivers a lived experience brief, of a challenging, colourful and eventually successful life to the soldiers of Support Coy, School of Infantry.

In this Podcast, RSM-A gives his 5 best 'I wish I known that' statements from our senior soldiers.

Anders Sorman Nilsson is a global futurist and awarded keynote speaker who discusses digital adaption and human transformation

Kate Devitt is the Chief Scientist at Trusted Autonomous Systems and during this Podcast discusses the ethical challenges for future technologies

Rain Liivoja is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland who is this Podcast discusses the legal challenges for future technologies

LTCOL Alex Palmer discusses Army AI, Robotic and Autonomous technology, Robotics, Power and Energy and Quantum Technologies

Dr Jeremy Anderson is a Senior Scientist who discusses Science, Technology and Research (STaR) Shots and challenging, inspirational and aspirational S&T missions that will align strategic research to force structure priorities.

Dr Michael Creagh the CEO of Skyborne Technologies discusses technologies under development that will be up for acquisition in the next 3-7 years.

Brigadier Langford the Director General Future Land Warfare discusses the future of Land Warfare

MAJGEN Mick Ryan, Commander Australian Defence College discusses generating a military advantage in the 21st century during the Future Technologies of War Conference

LTCOL McDermott conducts a presentation on Military Ethics at the Brisbane Cove Conference

Professor Edwards from QUT conducts a presentation on Ethics at the Brisbane Cove Conference

Colonel Kilpatrick conducts a presentation on adolescent learning strategies at the Brisbane Cove Conference

The first theme of 2021 'Knowing Yourself and Others as a Leader' has now concluded. The Cove team thanks all those who contributed articles and those who either organised or participated in the Brisbane Cove Conference. In this article you will find all the resources used to support this theme. As a reminder, The Cove are engaging in specific themes in a condensed period of time as this will allo...

In this episode of Cove Thoughts, we are joined by Dr Emily Bienvenue from DST, Dr Zac Rogers from Flinders University, Clint Watts from the Foreign Policy Research Institute, MAJGEN Marcus Thompson from Information Warfare Division and Siobhan Heanue from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to talk about cognitive warfare, online manipulation and measures we can take to protect ourselves, our...

As the years pass, and our veterans get older, there are fewer opportunities to hear their stories first hand. In this episode of Cove Thoughts, produced especially to commemorate the 2020 Vietnam Veterans' Day, we talk to David Sabben about his experiences as a platoon commander at the Battle of Long Tan.

MR Jim Storr was interviewed by LTCOL Gregory Colton about his second book, Hall of Mirrors.

In this podcast - we hear from a number of junior officers who contributed to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Lavarack papers.

In this Interview the Cove speaks with Major General Tim Cross on....

In this final podcast we meet Warrant Officer Dean Close who deployed to Iraq from May to December 2016 as the Operations Warrant Officer and then as a member of the Training Team as part of Operation OKRA.

In this last episode we meet Corporal Daniel Starr, who deployed to Afghanistan from June 2016 to February 2017. He was the Platoon Sergeant of the element responsible for conducting vehicle movements as part of Operation HIGHROAD.

In this third podcast we meet Corporal Tyson Napier, who deployed to Afghanistan from June 2016 to February 2017. He was Section Commander of a Force Protection element as part of Operation HIGHROAD.

In this second podcast we meet Captain Luke Murphy who deployed to Afghanistan from June 2016 to February 2017. He was the Operations Officer for the Force Protection element based at the Afghan National Army Academy as part of Operation HIGHROAD.