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Do you ever feel too small to make a difference? Alison Frame has dedicated her career to the public service, leading social policy initiatives and reform across the Commonwealth and the NSW governments as a senior executive for over 16 years. In this discussion, Helen McCabe and Alison discuss the importance of transparency, bringing your team on the journey with you, and knowing when to admit you're not an expert. 

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A Hunter families heartbreak as they waited for an ambulance. Will wait times be fixed by more NSW health staff announced by the NSW government this week? Remember the pet boom of 2020? It’s come back to the local pounds, with a band of rescuers working to find new homes and a farmer in Gloucester is taking to the skies to get his pasture planted.

"We have undertaken to rebrand power, and lets face it, it needed a rebrand" 

In this episode of Change Happens, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by Licia Heath CEO of Women for Election, a non-partisan, not for profit organisation that is all about equipping women to campaign for election and increasing the number of women in public office. She took on this role after a highly successful 19-year long career in the finance and asset management sector in London and Australia. 

After launching a campaign called "Power like you've never seen before", Licia is on a mission to make change happen.

Host: Jenelle McMaster is Deputy CEO Oceania and Markets Leader at EY.

Guest:   Licia Heath CEO of Women for Election.

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“Well, it’s the hardest thing to go through…..Until you’ve been tested how do you know how resilient you are?”

In this episode of Change Happens, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by Michael Rodrigues, the former CEO and MD of Time Out Australia and now the 24-hour Economy Commissioner (NSW) at Department of Premier and Cabinet (NSW). Known as Sydney’s Night Mayor, this role sees Michael tasked with rejuvenating the night-time economy and culture of Sydney  - a city coming out of 2 years of continued lockdowns and before that, lockouts, with an enforced bedtime curfew!

That’s a lot of change to make happen.

As Michael says –“if lockout was a cold, then lockdown is pneumonia!”

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Deputy CEO Oceania and Markets Leader at EY.

Guest:  Michael Rodrigues is 24-hour Economy Commissioner (NSW) at Department of Premier and Cabinet (NSW)

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Suzie Hatherly interviews Emma Nicholson, Director Funding and Sustainability LAHC, who shares practical knowledge and policy insights on the NSW housing sector with a deep dive that explains how LAHC attracted close to ~$1 billion in additional funding to deliver more keys in doors for people in need.

Listen as Emma shares:

• Why housing is vital to individual and community well-being - “…it’s solvable with money and it’s solvable with effort.”
• Why and how LAHC is innovating its funding model to partner more, and more often – “…my job, my team's job is to find money, save money and optimise what we do in the business."
• Hear how Emma helped a young person in need, in real time – “…just knowing how the housing system works, and it's genuinely there to help."

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The new Premier of NSW Dominic Perrottet recently announced that he and his wife Helen are expecting their seventh child, a baby girl next year, leaving many of us wondering how they will manage so many kids and such a big job leading the State?

It also has us questioning how common big families are in 2021, and whether it is a life choice that only really rich people can now afford?

To find out what it's really like The Quicky speaks to the Blue Wiggle who was one of seven kids, a celebrity mum-of-six, and a sociologist as we take a deep dive into big families.

CREDITS 

Host/Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

Guests:

Anthony Field - Blue Wiggle, Musician, actor, and founding member and leader of The Wiggles

Madeleine West - Actress, author, single mum of six children and soon-to-be host of Mamamia's new podcast Restart With Madeleine West

Dr Brendan Churchill - Research Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Program Manager of Life Patterns, a longitudinal study of Australian youth

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The Anthropocene, rapid population growth, improved standard of living in developing countries, ever expanding agriculture and inefficient use of water is causing rapid change to water management across the world due to the increased demand for fresh water.

1 in 3 people that live on planet earth live without a household water connection and 800 million people lack access to safe water.

Climate change is increasing the odds there will be an increase in severe drought in many parts of World and this year scientists referred to the drought in the US as the worst drought in 1,200 years’. 

In Australia we are already experiencing the impacts of a changing climate, particularly changes associated with increases in temperature, frequency and intensity of heatwaves, severe weather events, intense fires and drought conditions.

Something is not right. 

Can technology save us? 

The desalination of saltwater is an example of a technocentric solution and there are now an estimated 20,000 desalination plants world-wide. In Australia there are 26 desalination plants with another several in the pipeline.

The rapid growth of desalination plants comes with much uncertainty and the water industry looks to become a major contributor to climate change via the significant energy usage required to operate desalination plants and the associated pollution.

The growing concern and uncertainty about the environmental impacts of desalination plants means it is critical that we continue to question if ‘desalination is the genuine and unique technological solution’ to the water crisis in the Anthropocene.

As the famous German sociologist Ulrich Beck once asked, what could be the ‘unintended consequences of these technological fixes’?

Join us for this insightful discussion with the preeminent and globally renowned water expert Professor Stuart Khan from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and learn about desalination, storm water harvesting, dams (including his thoughts on raising the Warragamba Dam wall), technocracy and the policy process in times of water crisis. 

Proposed stamp duty changes (Property Tax Reform) could allow buyers to opt in to pay an annual Property Tax as opposed to lump sum Stamp Duty at purchase 

When is this due to happen and who benefits? 

Leanne Pilkington President of Real Estate Institute of New South Wales [REINSW] and CEO/Director of Laing+Simmons joins us to discuss

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Farid L Zaki from ATP Accounting Taxes and Public Documents discusses what support government is providing for NSW businesses, landlords, tenants and households affected by COVID 19

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Would you believe that some inmates actually ask to be sent to Australia’s toughest and most regimented prison, Supermax? 

In the second episode of Behind the Walls: Security, crime author and former journalist Michael Duffy learns about prison-yard hierarchies and how to stop inmates from attacking each other.

“There’s no doubt that security is the core function of a prison, but security means much more than just locking people up and watching them from towers so they don’t escape,” Michael says. 

“It means keeping inmates from attacking each other, or rioting, or attacking our officers or prison property. 

“That means our officers need to know what’s going on among the inmate population. To do that, they have to walk among the inmates, talk to them, gather and respond to intelligence.”

Behind the Walls is produced by Corrective Services NSW, part of the Department of Communities and Justice. If you like our show, please give us a rating or a review.

Host: Michael Duffy

Technical Production and Design: Ben Cork

With thanks to the following guests: Dale Ashcroft, Craig Smith, Angela Feeney, Lee Caines, Sarah, Shae Field, Andrew Guffogg, Todd Williams, Paul Coyne.

We are grateful for the assistance of staff at Cooma, Dawn De Loas, Lithgow, Bathurst, Kirkconnell and Cessnock correctional centres.

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Meet the prison officers who manage Australia’s worst criminals and you’ll soon learn why they hate being called ‘guards’.

In this first episode of Behind the Walls: The Job, crime author and former journalist Michael Duffy takes listeners inside Bathurst, Wellington and Lithgow correctional centres to hear from officers about what it’s really like inside NSW prisons.

Michael spent six months recording the series at 11 correctional centres and four Community Corrections offices.

“I was a court reporter for years but I had no idea what happened to convicted offenders when they were taken off to prison – like many people, I was just glad it was someone else’s job to look after them,” he says.

“Also, like many people, I thought prison was just about locks and security. For this podcast, I’ve gone to talk with real prison officers and discovered that their jobs – and they themselves – are about much more than that.”

Behind the Walls is produced by Corrective Services NSW, part of the Department of Communities and Justice. If you like our show, please give us a rating or a review. 

Host: Michael Duffy

Technical Production and Design: Ben Cork

With thanks to the following guests: Sarah, Mark Kennedy, Faith Slatcher, Lee Caines, Craig Smith, Andrew Guffogg and Nick da Costa.

We are grateful for the assistance of staff at Bathurst, Wellington and Lithgow correctional centres.

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