UNSW Canberra Podcasts

For today's mission, we are joined by Alison Creagh and Michaela Gilewicz for an in-conversation piece about the importance of finding your people and your ‘new’ community after you transition out of the military. Army Reserves - https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/army-reserve Mates for Mates - https://mates4mates.org/ Invictus Australia - https://invictusaustralia.org/ Defence Industry https://www.d...

For today's mission, we are joined by Alison Creagh and Michaela Gilewicz for an in-conversation piece about the importance of finding your people and your ‘new’ community after you transition out of the military. Army Reserves - https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/army-reserve Mates for Mates - https://mates4mates.org/ Invictus Australia - https://invictusaustralia.org/ Defence Industry https://www.d...

Psychological Programming with Jon Lane For today’s mission, we are joined by Jon Lane, a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Tasmania as we delve into how service experience impacts your ability to function and manage emotions and interpersonal relationships. https://www.communities.tas.gov.au/csr/policy/advisory_groups/veterans_reference_group/dr-jon-lane https://www.linkedin.com/...

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For today's mission, we are joined by former SAS commander and Army veteran, James McMahon, who shares his journey transitioning from the military to the Army reserves - https://army.defencejobs.gov.au/army-reserve Cadets - https://www.armycadets.gov.au/ SAS - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Special-Air-Service AZURE capital - http://www.azurecapital.com.au/ UNSW Canberra - https://www.unsw.adfa....

For today's mission, we are joined by Mat Jones and Gus Campbell from BAE Systems, Mark Korsten from AUKUS Jobs and Michael Hartung and Debbie Dimmock from Invictus Australia. https://www.baesystems.com/en/careers https://www.aukusjobs.com/ https://invictusaustralia.org/

For today’s Mission, we are joined by Michaela Gilewicz as she shares her story of being medically discharged from the Australian Defence Force and the pain and trauma that led her to become the person she feels she was meant to be. Please note this episode discusses mental health and suicide ideations. https://www.lifeline.org.au/ or 13 11 14 https://www.beyondblue.org.au or 1300 22 4636 Home | U...

For today’s Mission, Georgia Hamon, the External Engagement Coordinator at UNSW Canberra is joined by Matthew McCormack, senior lecturer at UNSW Canberra and 30 + year Navy veteran, as well as business owner and 18 + year Air Force veteran, Natalie Colbert. They speak about the “suitcase full of things you need to pack to be ready to transition” and share their own personal stories and expertise a...

For today’s Mission, Georgia Hamon, the External Engagement Coordinator at UNSW Canberra is joined by Matthew McCormack, senior lecturer at UNSW Canberra and 30 + year Navy veteran, as well as business owner and 18 + year Air Force veteran, Natalie Colbert. They speak about the “suitcase full of things you need to pack to be ready to transition” and share their own personal stories and expertise a...

Leadership in ACTion presented by UNSW Canberra aims to provide a platform for discussion around the topic of leadership. This year Lieutenant General Natasha Fox AO CSC joined moderator Jenna Price to explore her journey in leading people while balancing the need to honour tradition and embrace change. This audio was captured on the 11th of June 2024 at the National Press Club. DISCLAIMER: This r...

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

In this special edition of 'Policy Perspectives', Andrew Blyth, Group Manager, John Howard Prime Ministerial Library, UNSW Canberra, sits down with Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, educator and prolific political biographer. Andrew and Sir Anthony explore several current political issues facing Westminster and their relevance to Australia: the decline in trust of public institutions, why the job of...

The John Howard Prime Ministerial Library and Museum of Australian Democracy held ‘In Conversation with Troy Bramston and Michelle Grattan’ on Tuesday, 1 June 2022 at Old Parliament House. Bramston discussed his new book, Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny, the definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership...

Rivers nurture some of the world’s most environmentally, socially and economically vital ecosystems. The mighty Mekong River is a prominent example, often referred to as Southeast Asia’s ‘lifeblood’. In this podcast, Dr Pichamon Yeophantong and Professor Anthony Burke discuss the impacts that social and environmental change has on women and communities reliant on the Mekong, the ways that local wo...

Warfare will increasingly be urban and occur amongst populations, Dr Christina Spittel and Dr Charles Knight discuss in this episode. The trends towards both greater humanitarian suffering and military difficulty are undeniable. These factors will make urban conflict a theatre of competing narratives as much as competing armies. The evidence is that armies that are unprepared risk their reputation...

Two centuries ago, the military forces of the East India Company were the British empire’s largest armies. Rightly regarded as ‘an extraordinary phenomenon’, they comprised a huge multi-ethnic force, the largest disciplined army in Asia and arguably the key element in Britain’s conquest of the Indian sub-continent. In 1857 the mutiny-rebellion utterly transformed this unique force. In this podcast...

In this episode, Dr Pichamon Yeophantong and Dr Ashok Sharma will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on geopolitics, as evidenced by the escalation of the simmering strategic rivalry between the United States and China, as well as major flashpoints such as the violent clash between China and India and the re-emergence of the Quad partnership between the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, and...

As Australia continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s heavy reliance on imports for essentials such as medicines, manufactured items and petroleum has been brought to greater public attention. In this episode, hosted by Dr Pichamon Yeophantong, Vice Admiral Peter Jones (ret'd) argues the need for Australia to have greater strategic resilience. Vice Admiral Jones is an Adjunct Pro...

The wonders of the natural world are threatened like never before. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the overarching global legal instrument for biodiversity. We sit on the brink of the possible realisation of a significant shift in the operation of the Convention. From 11-15 October 2021, during Part One of the CBD's 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15), countries from around the...

On 15 September 2021 the leaders of Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly announced a new trilateral security pact, ‘AUKUS'. Under the agreement, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to help Australia to develop and deploy nuclear-powered submarines that add to the Western military presence in the Pacific region. The agreement also covers key areas such as artifici...

President Biden's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September marks the end of a 20-year conflict for the US and many of its NATO allies. Reflecting on the challenges faced during this conflict, Gareth Rice explains his research on the lesser-known drug war that intersected with the counterinsurgency campaign. With Afghanistan providing the source of 90% of the world's supply of illi...

70 years ago, on 1 September 1951, Australia, the United States and New Zealand signed the Australia, NZ, US Security (ANZUS) Treaty. Although New Zealand was suspended from the treaty in 1986, the ANZUS Treaty has been the bedrock of Australian security for seven decades. In this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Associate Professor David Lee talks to Professor David Lowe, a biographer of Percy...

Policy Perspectives is a series of occasional papers published by the Howard Library, which aims to critically reflect on policy decisions of the Howard Government. In this accompanying interview series, the papers' authors discuss some of their key findings. Visiting Fellow Shane Carney discusses industry policy under the Howard Government in the first instalment of the series.

It should come as no surprise that for the second consecutive decade, the world has failed to meet any targets agreed to by the United Nations to conserve biodiversity. While big business has historically been at odds with the environment, is there room to hope now that they are waking up to serious financial risks that come with biodiversity loss? Join this discussion with UNSW researchers Megan...

Australia’s earliest Great War novels were more than just first drafts of the Anzac legend, argues UNSW Canberra’s Dr Christina Spittel. Reading and writing were part of the war effort, and these very early books, brittle and virtually forgotten now, offered themselves as companions through what they openly acknowledged to be difficult, trying, uncertain times: they offered moral support and guida...