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 account. For NGOs, traditional sources of funding are drying up while demand for their services and stakeholder expectations are growing, driving up costs. Covid-19 has given renewed urgency to the localisation agenda – its no longer a choice, but an operational necessity. New technologies are creating incredible opportunities to increase impact and improve efficiency but also throwing up a raft of new challenges. Our people remain the single most important element of our success but the war for the best talent is heating up. And the workplace of the 21st century is going to look completely different to that o

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 of The Voice Inc., a leading youth development organisation she co-founded whilst attending the University of Papua New Guinea. Currently, Serena is CEO of Digicel Foundation, and prior to this, Head of Gender and Leadership Programs with the Oil Search Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, she worked as a senior Policy Lawyer with the Department of Justice and Attorney General where she was in charge of the implementation of domestic violence legislation and the Governments Action Plan to address Sorcery and Witchcraft related violence. Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team Instagram: @_goodwillmedia Twitter: @G

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 Humanitarian, NGOs and Partnerships Division at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, working to plan, oversee and implement Australia’s $500m commitment to meeting growing global humanitarian needs, as well as manage key partnerships with international and domestic NGOs. With over 30 years’ experience working in international development, James has worked as an economist with Oxford Policy Management, managed DFID’s Natural Resources office in Nigeria and was a researcher with the UK’s Natural Resources Institute. James brings the Department’s expertise at its best. Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team

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 researchers and civil society influence foreign policy – and what barriers they face. Melissa is Research Fellow in the Asia Institute of The University of Melbourne, transferring from her role as Director of Diplomacy at Asialink. She came to the University after serving as National Executive Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) for 13 years. In today’s episode, Melissa makes the case for why think tanks and other civil society organisations are critical in bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs. Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team Instagram: @_goodwillm

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 walks the talk on development, foreign policy, and working with our Pacific family. Josie is a communications consultant and political commentator, taking over the Director role at the Council for International Development in June 2016. She has a high-level understanding and experience in the aid and development sector, with her career including working as the communications manager for NZAID, and also for OECD DAC in Paris. Since returning to Wellington from Paris in 2007 Josie has managed a public affairs consultancy with a number of clients both in New Zealand and abroad. Josie offers an honest insight into

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 shapes our perceptions of aid and development. Lisa is a freelance data journalist based in Canberra, Australia. Lisa formerly worked with News Corp Australia as a data journalist for the national network and was published throughout Australia in major metropolitan and regional newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph in Melbourne, Herald Sun in Melbourne, Courier-Mail in Brisbane and online through news.com.au. Lisa has recently been awarded the 2014 Journalist of the Year by the New South Wales Institute of Surveyors. Lisa offers a transparent and candid insight on all things politics and aid, and calls on the

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 foreign policy is made. Richard is the inaugural Executive Director, Policy, Asia Society Australia, and Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute – the first senior executive role in the Institute outside the United States. Richard Maude most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Indo-Pacific Group, in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Richard’s thoughtful, reflective and honest insights highlight that never has there been a more important time to pause, contest and carefully construct a way forward for Australian development and foreign policy. Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team About

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 foreign policy community too? Our guest host for this six-part series, Bridi Rice, will facilitate conversations with those inside the Canberra foreign policy community - authors, development leaders, the media and even our friends across the ditch to bring you simple insights on development, and the making and shaping of Australian and foreign policy. Join Bridi this Summer for a great discussion that connects the Canberra bubble to the communities where we work and stay tuned to Good Will Hunters social media pages for launch dates.

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 New Narratives, an organisation supporting investigative journalism and independent media houses across Africa by investing in journalists through a multi-year on-the-job mentorship program with senior editors and journalists working for reputable media outlets around the world. In this episode we discuss the intersection of media and development, and how supporting free and open journalism is in the interests of vulnerable communities. Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team

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 diplomacy that their campaign to Free Kylie has grappled with. https://freekylie.net/index.php/blog/ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/before-kylie-moore-gilbert-was-jailed-in-iran-she-was-an-artist-a-scholar-and-a-remarkable-rising-star I hope you find this discussion insightful, Rachel and the GWH Team

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 100th episode gift if you reached out and shared your thoughts on the show. My email is rachel@goodwillmedia.com.au As we reach this milestone, I am of course thinking about what comes next for GWH. Do we keep doing what we’re doing, do we change the format - who knows! It’s all ahead of us. In the meantime, after a big budget week and lot’s of aid commentary, I’m really pleased to share this episode with Allan Behm with you. Allan Behm is head of the international and security affairs program at the Australia Institute. In this episode, we discuss why aid is a human security issue, and the relationship between ai

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 experience in the development sector, with a focus on human development, public sector policy, and governance reform. She has held several positions with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and international NGOs. In this episode we discuss the development challenges facing Pakistan, including on governance, education and gender equality. In particular we discuss the impact of Australia ending it’s bilateral aid program to Pakistan, and in doing so, withdrawing vital funding for the education of girls. We discuss the impact of Covid-19 on Pakistan’s development, inclluding how the Asia Foundation will contin

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 sector in achieving development in the Phillipines, and how dialogues are helping to bridge the gaps between government, private and NGOs. We then discuss the social impacts of Covid-19 in the Phillpines on households that were already experiencing poverty, including the loss of livelihoods and the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to stop any children going back to school until a vaccine is available. On this note, we discuss the challenges of running an aid program under the Duterte Presidency. Lastly we discuss the decision made by the Australian Government to scale back our aid investments in much of Asia,

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 host of a new podcast titled Vosa, produced by Good Will Media and proudly supported by The World Bank. The series looks at the big ideas and challenges that are facing the Pacific and PNG. Arieta has over 10 years experience in social impact and non-profit communications across Australia and the Pacific as a writer, cultural advisor, Pacific storyteller, and the Founder of Talanoa, a digital space for Pacific people to share their stories. She also works at Good Will Media, with Rachel. https://www.goodwillmedia.com.au/ourwork/vosa https://talanoa.com.au https://devpolicy.org Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team

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 currently the Executive Director of Micah Australia, as well as Co-Chair of the Charities Crisis Cabinet. In the episode, Tim reflects on his extensive career, on the role of faith and religion. the future of aid, the impact of Covid, and the recent launch of the End Covid For All Campaign. To find out more about End Covid for All, and to add your support to this critical campaign, see below: https://www.endcovidforall.com Enjoy the episode, The GWH Team

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 Land: Stories, Struggles & Secrets from Timor-Leste was winner of the 2014 ACT Book of the Year & People’s Choice Awards. In the episode, Gordon reflects on his experiences living and working abroad. He discusses the challenges Timor-Leste has had following independence, the role aid, and lessons for Bougainville. To hear more from Gordon, attend his upcoming seminar with the Law and Justice Development Community: https://www.lawjusticedev.net/events And you can read Gordon's recent articles here: https://devpolicy.org/the-diabolically-difficult-mid-term-review-20200903-2/ https://devpolicy.org/adventures-i

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, including as the Director of Communications at the Fijian Ministry of Communications, as well as Chairman of the Telecommunications Authority of Fiji. He has overseen various important initiatives for Government, including the rollout of 4G and now 5G, the installation of submarine cables and more. So, why is digital development so important to Fiji? Is a true digital revolution occurring? And how will technology change the way Fijians live and work? We discuss all this, and the implications for development, in this episode. https://devpolicy.org/working-across-nepals-data-ecosystem-as-the-economic-crisis-start

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 health in Papua New Guinea, particularly in remote areas. Edith works closely with PNG's National Department of Health and other central line agencies to support the implementation of health policies that aim to improve and strengthen health service delivery in PNG. Dr Kariko is heavily involved in delivering support to the Government of PNG as part of the World Bank’s US$20 million emergency package for PNG’s COVID-19 response. In the episode, Edith talks about the state of PNG’s healthcare system, and including how years of neglect have culminated into a broken healthcare system in dire need of repair, and the wo