Today's episode features the amazing Eva Galperin, and we're talking about stalkerware, surveillance and Tik Tok. Back in 2018, Eva tweeted "“If you are a woman who has been sexually abused by a hacker who threatened to compromise your devices, contact me and I will make sure they are properly examined”. Her tweet was retweeted more than 10,000 times, and she was inundated with responses from people who had experienced abuse. We talk about her work to eradicate stalkerware, and what sh...
Aug 27, 2020•55 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Joining me for a bonus episode today is Dr. Jessica Kaufman from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. We're chatting about Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison's recent announcement about a potential COVID-19 vaccination, and his statement that the vaccine would be "as mandatory as you could possibly make it". Jess and I discuss the ethical implications of rushing a vaccine with unknown effects, and what would be required to make a vaccine ethically defensible. Will a vaccine be the g...
Aug 23, 2020•43 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the Good Problem Podcast we have the amazing Nic Holas talking about the evolution of HIV activism. Nic is a queer activist, writer and the co-founder of The Institute of Many, an advocacy platform and grassroots movement for people living with HIV. In addition to his work with The Institute of Many, Nic is the Campaigns Director at Change.org and his writing on HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQA issues, law reform, and human rights has appeared in the ABC, Archer Magazine , The Guardian , Sydney Morn...
Aug 20, 2020•56 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features...me! In a departure from regular programming, i've put together a short episode on child sex trafficking to help provide some objective facts around the issue. There's been a huge surge in interest in this issue recently, accompanied by a significant increase in information being shared across social media platforms. While this issue is of vital importance, it's important to recognise that child sex trafficking has been prevalent for much of our history, and there are m...
Aug 14, 2020•8 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features Jon Cornejo from the advocacy organisation, Charity So White which exists to tackle institutional racism in the charity sector. Jon and I talk about the importance of shifting the conversation to power and privilege instead of diversity and inclusion and how these structures and cultures actually reinforce inequality in the sector. Jon is a campaigner and activist who also works with Save the Children UK, leading campaigning and organising work on the Protecting Children...
Jul 30, 2020•49 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features Tyson Yunkaporta: academic, author, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan with community and cultural ties all over the country. Tyson is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - an incredible book that shares indigenous ways of thinking that respect the complexity of the world we live in and finds ways to communicate this knowledge through pictures, carvings and stories. Tyson uses Sand Talk - which honours the Aboriginal c...
Jul 23, 2020•51 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode of The Good Problem Podcast features the amazing Clementine Ford . We chat about power, privilege and feminism in the context of doing good. We also discuss her recent tweet about coronavirus and what it means to make mistakes. Clementine is a freelance writer, speaker and feminist thinker. Her books, Fight Like A Girl, and Boys Will Be Boys radically challenge issues of men's violence against women, rape culture and gender warfare in Australia. If you haven't read her book...
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Today Nathan Parker and I talk about the COVID-19 crisis in the United States. We chat about why we haven't learned from past disasters, and how the development of a distributed digital infrastructure can help better coordinate the response and create a greater resilience for future disasters. Nathan is a problem solver and man of many talents - you can find him working on many projects, as well as for Uncompromise. Nathan is reading The Peripheral by William Gibson Nathan is listening to The Do...
Jul 02, 2020•43 sec•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the Good Problem Podcast we have the amazing Emily Braucher of ReFresh Communication talking cross cultural communication and how important it is to listen to those we are working with. I loved this chat with Emily, and I love this topic - I could talk about it for days on end! So much goes wrong because we consistently look at, and hear things through our own cultural lenses. It's not deliberate, but it can be very harmful and downright dangerous in some cases (there's been a few case...
Jun 25, 2020•45 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have Part 2 of my episode with Professor Andrew MacLeod : corporate director, futurist, writer, speaker, humanitarian and traveller. Andrew and I unpack child sexual exploitation and abuse of children within the aid and international development sector, particularly within the United Nations. This episode offers a fascinating perspective on the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector. Find out more at www.heartheircries.org Andrew is listening to podcasts...
Jun 19, 2020•53 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Today's guest is Professor Andrew MacLeod : corporate director, futurist, writer, speaker, humanitarian and traveller. Andrew and I explore his fascinating career working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United Nations in conflict and natural disaster settings including the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Pakistan, and the Philippines. This episode offers a fascinating perspective of life as an aid worker, and the personal and professional lessons learned throughout Andrew's...
Jun 12, 2020•51 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode, Lonny Grafman of Humboldt University and I talk community centred design, service learning, and how important failure is. Lonny's work is prolific - check it out here . Lonny is reading: UNFU CKTHE WORLD by Cabot O'Callaghan, and Sinai: a novella by David Gallagher Lonny is listening to: 99% invisible by Roman Mars...
Jun 05, 2020•52 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features Erika Cramer, Queen of Confidence . In a bit of divergence from our regular programming, Erika brings a different perspective to doing good. We follow Erika's life journey through all its traumas and challenges to where she is today as a mother, entrepreneur and confidence coach, and what she's learned along the way: authenticity, congruency and being a good human. Find out more about Erika here: www.thequeenofconfidence.com Erika is listening to the Goop Podcast with Gw...
May 28, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Today Natalie Jesionka , a professor, media professional and human rights advocate joins me to discuss what the development sector might look like in a post-covid-19 world. What will international development work look like? Will the ways we work and program change for good? Natalie is reading The Overstory by Richard Powers Natalie is listening to the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast, and The Longest Shortest Time Podcast...
May 14, 2020•40 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features Dr. Delia Pop, Director of Programmes at Hope and Homes for Children , and soon to be Director of Tanya's Dream Initiative Fund . We explore how Covid-19 is affecting children living outside of family care around the world, in orphanages, institutions, and foster care arrangements. With tourism halted, funding for orphanages is drying up and children are being sent 'home'. Will we see an increase in the number of children requiring care? Will we see an explosion of peopl...
May 09, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features Leigh Barnes, Chief Customer Officer at the Intrepid Group . We explore how Covid-19 has affected the tourism sector: How will tourism survive this? What responsibility does the tourism sector hold toward communities they have profited off, or those reliant on tourism for survival? What will tourism look like once this is over? We also unpack how the tourism sector might take this opportunity to rethink how they engage with destination communities to create mutually bene...
Apr 30, 2020•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Mat Tinkler from Save the Children Australia and I unpack what Covid-19 means for the most vulnerable members of our society - children. We chat about the challenges in keeping 'eyes on the child' in the middle of a global pandemic, the extra risks posed by Covid-19 in places like Cox's Bazar, or Al-Hawl refugee camps, and how NGOs are trying develop new ways of working to support children in this unprecedented time. Mat is reading: Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe...
Apr 23, 2020•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Shawn Humphrey is a man of many ideas, many projects and many thoughts! Shawn and I chat about the 'Do Gooder Industrial Complex' and Shawn's projects including the Sidekick Manifesto , Two Dollar Challenge , and Imagine Social Good . Shawn is reading: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words , by David Whyte Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Shaping Worlds , by Adrienne Maree Brown Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way , Ursu...
Apr 16, 2020•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the first episode of Season 2! Today's guest is Peter Mares - lead moderator at the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership , and journalist of over 25 years. Peter and I talk ethics in the time of Covid-19 and what an ethical framework looks like in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic. What Peter is reading: Solved , by Andrew Wear Links to interesting articles mentioned in this episode: https://insidestory.org.au/doing-what-we-do-every-day-as-well-as-we-can/ https://insides...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast The final episode of Season 1 features ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Often called the "world's most influential living philosopher", Peter is credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, and the concept of effective altruism. He is also known for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics. Peter talks to us about the importance of applying logi...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode is the final in our 3-part series on InterCountry Adoption (ICA) and features Laura Martinez-Mora, lawyer and Secretary of the Permanent Bureau at the Hague, responsible for the InterCountry Adoption portfolio. If you haven't listened to the previous two episodes with Lynelle Long and Jessica Davis, please do so before listening to this one. Laura provides us with a legal perspective on ICA, and discusses the challenges in implementation of the Convention on Protection of Childre...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have episode two in our three-part series on intercountry adoption. If you haven't listened to the previous episode with Lynelle Long, please do so before listening to this one. I'm honoured to have Jessica Davis with us, talking about her incredible, heartwrenching and heartwarming journey of adopting a child from Uganda - Namata. Jessica's adoption story is an emotional rollercoaster: beginning with excitement about bringing a child into their family, to the realisation that all was n...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast First up in a series of three episodes on InterCountry Adoption is Lynelle Long, founder of InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) . Lynelle takes us through her own journey of adoption and how that has led her to support other adoptees on their journey of self discovery and healing. What Lynelle is reading: The transnational illegal adoption market: a criminological study into the German and Dutch intercountry adoption systems by Elvira Loibl...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have Professor Joseph Cheer from the Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan unpacking the ethics of tourism. We explore the economic impact of tourism, 'experience collecting', colonialism, and how to optimise the capacity of travel to do good. What Joseph is reading: Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson What Joseph is listening to: The Philosopher's Zone , by ABC Radio National More about Joseph here....
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Today we are talking with academic Kent Goldsworthy talking about wicked problems, philosophy, and the commodification of good intentions. This was one of my favourite episodes to record - I hope you like listening to it as much as I liked making it! What Kent is reading: The Last Man in Europe , Denis Glover, and Axiomatic , Maria Tumarkin What Kent is listening to: Recode Decode podcast, Very Bad Wizards podcast and the Partially Examined Life podcast. You can find Kent on Twitter here ....
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode features Neal Harvey of the Myer Foundation, one of Australia's biggest philanthropic entities - currently in the fourth generation of family philanthropy. Neal chats to us about the importance being a first follower, making space for others, leaning out, and listening before acting. Neal is reading Anna Krien's latest book, Act of Grace . Neal is the Program Manager at the Myer Foundation - check out their amazing work!...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Today we're talking to Emily Worrall, one of the satirical geniuses behind the Barbie Savior Instagram account. Emily talks us through what led a little plastic doll to become a catalyst for opening up important discussions about white saviorism. What Emily is reading: Rising Strong , by Brene Brown What Emily is listening to: George the Poet's podcast Check out Barbie Savior on Instagram !...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Today's episode brings you the fabulous Claire Bennett, one of the authors of Learning Service: The essential guide to volunteering abroad . Claire talks about the importance of learning from those we want to 'help' before we attempt to help, and turning your good intentions into effective results. What Claire is reading: The Holographic Universe , by Michael Talbot For more information on Claire, please see www.learningservice.info...
Apr 10, 2020•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast I'm super excited to have today's guest, Pippa Biddle talking about all things voluntourism. Pippa unpacks the history of voluntourism, and how privilege and power play into how we practice doing good. What Pippa is reading: Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead What Pippa is listening to: Revisionist History, by Malcolm Gladwell For more information on Pippa, please see www.pippabiddle.com...
Apr 09, 2020•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast I'm so pleased to bring you today's guest, Geoff Manchester. Along with his mate Darrell Wade, Geoff started the Intrepid Group - the world's largest adventure travel company. I'm chatting with Geoff about all things responsible business, and how Intrepid operates from an ethos of sustainability. What Geoff is reading: Dark Emu , by Bruce Pascoe What Geoff is listening to: A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast, by Charles Eisenstein For more info, take a look at www.intrepidgroup.travel and www.t...
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