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 Government to step up on data transparency and in its communication of the aid program.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 [email protected]

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 aid and foreign affairs. Allan is a brilliant thinker, writer and speaker and I thoroughly enjoyed learning from him in this interview.

I hope you enjoy the episode and I’d like to personally thank you all for your continued support of Good Will Hunters.

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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 continue to partner with the private sector to achieve development outcomes.

Good Wil Hunters is brought to you by Good Will Media, a leading communications agency for the international development sector. Good Will Media exists to advance the fight to end all forms of poverty, globally. We create content that inspires, empowers and drives action, for organisations that share our passion for a more just world.

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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, and Sam’s view on whether this is in the best interests of the Phillipines or not.

Now before I go, there are two upcoming events I want to tell you about.

The first is the Pawa Liklik NGO Forum which is in two days, on Wednesday 30 September! It is a free event for anyone working in or interested in the development sector, run by my wonderful friends at the Kokoda Track Foundation. It’s not too late to sign up, just visit the link in our show notes.

https://www.pawaliklik.community

The second is the Oceania Connect Conference, hosted by ACFID, in partnership with the New Zealand Council for International Development and the Pacific Islands Associated of Non Gov Organisations, or PIANGO. The conference will be held virtually this year from 27 - 30 October. It is one of my favourites events for our sector each year, and I’m honoured to be hosting a very exciting panel this year which I’ll tell you more about in the coming weeks. Again, you can buy your ticket via the link in our show notes - this one is not to be missed!

https://acfid.asn.au/content/oceania-connect-2020

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The GWH Team