A special Bushfire-Kangaroo Island Special.

In this special episode, Christopher tours the fire affected areas of Kangaroo Island in South Australia. An Area recently deviated by massive catastrophic bush fires.

He records in the field and also interviews the Islander Newspaper journalist Stan Gorton.

This week Christopher speaks again with Associate Professor Felix Patrikeeff. This time about the concept of "Cold War 2".

This week Christopher talks with Labor Politician Chris Picton. They discuss a number of topics from Chris's life before politics to his key achievements as a minister.

This week Christopher discusses Spacer Law with Associate Professor Matthew Stubbs from the University of Adelaide Law School.

This week Christopher talks again with Barrister Tom Cadd.

They discuss the Banking Royal Commission, Venezuela and other political topics from the day.

This week Christopher talks with Libby Ellis OAM. Libby is President of the South Australian Branch of The Royal Commonwealth Society, She has a degree in Geography and International Studies. Libby is a qualified Archivist and worked at the State Library of South Australia in a number of capacities including Map Librarian, Newspaper Librarian and Acting Reference Librarian for a number of years before being seconded to the State Department of Local Government where she co-ordinated Local Government involvement in the State’s Sesquicentenary celebrations.

For the episode this week, Christopher has a special with a “Best Of” from the last episodes.

It includes parts from Dale Stephens CSM, Amer El Hamra, Mobo Gao, Wayne Errington, Felix Patrikeeff, Tom Cadd.

Next week the Political Thinker Podcast will be back to normal.

This week Christopher is once again joined by Professor Dale Stephens CSM. This time Professor Stephens talks about his experience as a Royal Australian Navy Captain, as a Criminal Lawyer, as an Academic and as one of the drafters of the Woomera Manual.

We hope you enjoy the first episode of 2019.

This week, due to popular demand, Christopher reads another of his papers from 2017. A paper entitled: Was the Cultural Revolution Mao's personal power struggle?

All about Moa's power struggle to retain his reign over the People's Republic of China.

Please note that this was written as an academic exercise, and is entirely based on fact, there is no opinion included in this podcast or paper.

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This week, Christopher speaks with Professor Dale Stephens CSM on international humanitarian law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict.

Professor Dale Stephens CSM is a Captain in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve who spent over 20 years as a permanent officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) before taking up his appointment at Adelaide Law School. He has occupied numerous staff officer appointments throughout his career in the Australian Defence Force (ADF), including Fleet Legal Officer, Command Legal Officer (Naval Training Command), Chief Legal Officer Strategic Operations Command, Director of Operational and International Law, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law, Director Navy Legal and Director of the Military Law Centre. He has deployed twice to East Timor (INTERFET & UNTAET) and twice to Iraq (Baghdad) in senior legal officer positions and has provided extensive advice to Government at the strategic level.

During his time in the ADF, Dr Stephens was involved in providing legal advice regarding numerous operational, disciplinary and administrative law issues, including fisheries, customs and immigration matters within Australia's maritime zones, combined operations with other military forces, UN Peace Operations, drafting Rules of Engagement, implementation of international treaties including the International Criminal Court Convention as well as numerous weapons reviews.

In the early 2000's Professor Stephens was part of the Australian delegation to UNESCO negotiating the Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention. In the mid 2000's he taught at the U.S. Naval War College located in Newport, Rhode Island as a faculty member of the International Law Department. In 2010 was seconded to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet as a senior advisor on Afghanistan. In more recent years he has taught National Security Law as well as a number of military law subjects at the ANU College of Law.

Dr Stephens is Director of The University of Adelaide Research Unit on Military Law and Ethics (RUMLAE) and co-editor of the RUMLAE eJournal.

He is currently Head of the combined SA/NT Navy Legal Reserve Panel.

He is Director of the Adelaide Military Law Program and a member of the Ploughshares/McGill University/George Washington University 'Space Security Index' Consortium.

He was awarded his Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 2014.