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Finding NatureWhen the Music Stops - Alexander Pui and Preparing For The WorstAlexander Pui returns to the show today to chat all things climate science, climate risks and climate impacts. Alex is an old colleague who’s made an indelible mark on my career and it’s a pleasure to have him back while he’s in town escaping Tokyo’s suffering heat. Alex has worked across academia, reinsurance, insurance, banking, consulting and technology, is an adjunct fellow at the university of New South Wales’ climate change research centre, a visiting scholar at Kyushu university and completed his phd in applied statistics and flood risk assessment. There are few I’ve met who are...2025-07-221h 17
Finding NatureMaking Good Men - Daniel Principe Champions Boys and Challenges CultureDaniel Principe is today’s guest, and this is a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for the entire year, so I’m very pleased to be bringing him onto the show and into your earbuds. I can’t overstate just how important and serious the work that Dan does visiting schools day in day out to engage mostly boys on topics of masculinity, responsibility, pornography, identity and countering the onslaught of toxic and unhealthy messages an unfilled and unregulated information system that kids today are exposed to. Dan has spoken in front of 76,000 school kids - 53,000 of which ar...2025-07-151h 22
KELY 1230AM/98.5 FM News and CommentaryMayor Nathan Robertson gets a grant for security, talks about 7th Street Drainage Grant and new parksMayor Nathan Robertson talked with us about a new Federal Grant to improve security at local facilities, the 7th Street Drainage Improvement Project Grant, and two new parks in the County.2025-07-1508 min
Finding NatureOn The Hook - Emily M Bender Isn’t Falling for the AI Hype MachineToday’s guest is Emily M Bender. She was recently in Sydney from Seattle to talk about her new book that she wrote with her co-author Alex Hanna called The AI Con; How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want. She’s a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington and received her PhD from Stanford, Time Magazine included her as one of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence globally, has her own fantastic podcast called Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 and has been featured in The Guardian, New York Times, Fast Company, The At...2025-07-081h 17
Finding NatureConflict & Consequence, Compromise & Sacrifice - Hugh White Has a Clear Picture of The Hard New WorldToday’s show is with Hugh White, one of Australia’s most prominent figures on strategic and defence policy, whose career has spanned government and academia. Hugh was a senior advisor to Kim Beazley and Bob Hawke through the 80s and 90s in what was a period of substantial changes for this nation and the way we saw ourselves in the world, before becoming Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence in the Department of Defence. Hugh has now also spent the best part of two decades in academia, where he is an Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at The Aust...2025-07-011h 51
Finding NatureInsider to Outsider & Gas's Place in The Energy Transition - Alex Hillman Has Been On Both Sides of The DebateAlex Hillman joins the show today. With the approval of the Woodside North West Shelf approval in recent weeks and the metaphorical fires that’s flamed, Alex’s visit to Sydney was serendipitous to say the least. He’s got 15 years working in the oil and gas sector, including nine in Woodside as their climate change advisor. Now though he the lead oil and gas analyst for the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility having made the jump from insider to outsider. His work now is focussed on helping institutional investors demand better climate performance from their portfolio companies, all from u...2025-06-241h 40
Finding NatureA Fragile World & Inevitable Conflict - Sam Jones Has Seen The Unimaginable & Wants Us To Act Before We Do TooSam Jones is today’s guest, he’s the President and Co-founder of the Heartland Initiative and was recently in town from Atlanta in the US. His work at Heartland Initiative focuses on helping investors understand and address human rights issues and related risks within their investment portfolios. He develops methods, tools, and guidance to assist investors in preventing and reducing harm to human rights through their investments.Sam has over 25 years of experience in areas like Conflict-sensitive research, analysis, and program management, International humanitarian and human rights law and Working with multiple groups on these issues. In a...2025-06-171h 39
Finding NatureFrom Bystanders of Financial Abuse to Action - Catherine Fitzpatrick Has The Answer to Disrupt Another Form of PerpetrationCatherine Fitzpatrick is on the show today, and what an impressive career she’s already had, all while her scope of influence continues to grow and the evidence of what she’s affecting is increasingly visible and demonstrable. Catherine has 30 years of experience as a journalist, corporate executive and now an entrepreneur, she’s an author and researcher and advisor to the NSW and Australian governments plus the World Bank. In 2018 she was awarded an AFR 100 Women of Influence in recognition for how she’d catalysed and then led the establishment of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s domestic and family...2025-06-101h 04
Finding NatureA Time of Monsters - Marco Lambertini Has The Recipe for Nature PositiveMarco Lambertini is on the show today, and where to start with describing one of the most iconic and visionary leaders of the environmental movement of the last 50 years. From eight years spent as the Global General Director of WWF, to being a current sitting member on the China Council, he was the CEO of Birdlife International too amid many other appointments. Marco forged a career in local and regional wildlife and landscape conservation campaigns, and with training as an ecologist and an inherent love of the natural world from before the beginning of his memories, having Marco and...2025-06-031h 39
Finding NatureStart Again - Ben Rennie Wants You to Know It's Your Time to Build Creative Confidence and Be The Person You Dream of BeingBen Rennie is on the show today. A jack of many trades, from life as a prodigious rising star of Australian cricket during one of it most remarkable periods of success, to Dolce and Gabana red carpet events in Milan with Brazilian Ronaldo to starting and re-starting business endeavours to becoming the Chair of Design Declares Australia, attempting to quick describe Ben and his life is no easy feat. From walking away from the national game with everything in front of him to leaving a gig with bank executives and then pulling a professional geographic, Ben has done what...2025-05-271h 36
Finding NatureResponsibilities, Duties & Obligations - Bec Blurton is Another Agent of ChangeBec Blurton is on the show today. A Noonga woman who has built a substantive career at the intersection of First Nations rights, climate action, justice, gender, policy and finance. Speaking with Bec was a pleasure and offered me many lessons. Understanding the experiences and perspectives of those who come from different backgrounds and circumstances, but where I find commonality in experience and belief is always powerful for me. I was humbled several times in this chat with Bec being reminded of my own inherent privilege, and despite the efforts I go to and versions of challenges I face...2025-05-201h 36
Finding NatureBorn to Rule: Carl Rhodes on the Myths of the Good Billionaire and How We’re All PayingToday’s guest is Professor Carl Rhodes. It’s new book season at the moment and Carl’s latest offering is titled Stinking Rich - The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire. This is his latest work, coming after previous titles such as Woke Capitalism; How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy and CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life. Carl is also the Dean of the Business School at the University of Technology Sydney, but he’s also held professorships at Swansea University, The University of Leicester and Macquarie University. His career in the private sector involved senior position...2025-05-131h 30
Finding NatureThe Clean Energy Race - Dean Spaccavento Is On The BlocksDean Spaccavento is on the show today. And if there is someone who embodies the mind, body and spirit of the enormity we as attempted change makers more than Dean does, then I haven’t met them. In a week where we’ve seen nuclear energy and the Liberal party totally poleaxed by the electorate - and what a surprise that is - the race to decarbonise the Australian and global energy systems is absolutely on at the moment. For more than 15 years Dean has been on the vanguard of what a new energy system in this country could and...2025-05-061h 41
Finding NatureImagining Human/Nature and Magical Thinking - Jane Rawson Is Examining Ideals of PurityToday’s episode is with Jane Rawson - an author, novelist and essayist whose new book Human/Nature On Life in A Wild World is just out and she’s on the show to chat about it. Jane has a diverse and brilliant background where she’s worked extensively as an independent writer, within governments supporting citizen communication initiatives and was also the Environment and Energy Editor for The Conversation in its early origins. Her work has focussed on bringing stories of climate change and environmental degradation to life, and how to think about both proactive chosen change and reacti...2025-04-291h 14KELY 1230AM/98.5 FM News and CommentaryEly Mayor Nathan Robertson on Summer Jobs and Water RestrictionsEly Mayor Nathan Robertson talks about Summer Jobs with the City for youth, Positions open on the Utility Board and the City Tree board, and the need for watering restrictions, and it's not for the reason you might think.2025-04-2912 min
Finding NatureDecolonising Finance, Agriculture and Culture - Jocelyn King Is Interrupting Business As UsualJocelyn King is on the show today. Joc is a Bundjalung woman who over the course of her life and career has worked to develop her own understanding of and connection to traditional knowledge systems. She’s worked in and around finance for more than a decade, where today she is the Chair of First Australians Capital. At the same time, she’s building a farm in NSW’s Hunter Valley that reprises First Nations knowledge of caring for and re-awakening Country while adapting regenerative agricultural practices too. Jocelyn walks the talk as she seeks to advocate for First Nation...2025-04-221h 33