Dyason House Podcast

Lessons in humility and the importance of understanding your enemy. In Northern Ireland, Iraq, the Balkans and Sierra Leone, among others, retired British military commander Richard Iron has spent a lifetime in counterinsurgency. In this episode Richard takes us through his role as Chief Mentor to Basra Operations commander in the 2008 battle for Basra, Iraq, and how his military career prepared him to take on a faceless enemy.

Music: Jade by Scott Buckley

ABC Middle East correspondent Matt Brown is a four time Walkley Award winner and courageous front-line journalist. We discuss Matt's journey from a student journalist covering Papua New Guinea, to hiking illegally over the Syrian border during civil war. It's a rare insight into what it's like to report from some of the toughest locations on the planet and how to land a job doing it.

Music: Jade by Scott Buckley

Engineer, scholar, consultant, author, humanitarian aid worker Dr Denis Dragovic has done it all. In this episode we talk about what it's like to be an aid worker in general and in tough situations like war zones. Denis also shares some tips on how to pursue your own career in the aid industry and some of the problems that the industry currently faces.

Music: Jade by Scott Buckley

Former Ambassador to Myanmar Christopher Lamb, Christopher retired from a career in diplomacy spaning over 30 years. He now heads a number of advisory board, working with organisations like the Red Cross and The Australian Mynamaar Instute, and enjoys a post as an Honorary Assosiate Professor at the University of Melbourne.

We discussed the history of the people known as Rohingya and the realities of the current crisis from the perspective of someone who knows the region intimately. It’s an incredibly informative journey with some insights that only a man like Christopher could know. We get into details that don’t often make the mainstream news and covering one of world’s least know crisis.

Music: Jade by Scott Buckley