Professor Eleanor Bourke AM (Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission) and Aunty Geraldine Atkinson(Co-chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria) in conversation with Angela Singh (IPAA Victoria Board member and  Regional Director at the Victorian Department of Education) answer audience questions from IPAA Victoria's International Women's Day Celebration.

How do you find the personal strength to stay involved in discussions and hear
stories that are incredibly important but that must often also be deeply traumatic?
https://on.soundcloud.com/C1xbh

What does treaty mean to you and how will it change the work you do? How does Treaty and truth-telling impact you every day?
https://on.soundcloud.com/pHC8C

How do you advocate for inclusive cultural change?
https://on.soundcloud.com/NXFex

What advice can you give to non-First Nations colleagues on how to best support First Nations colleagues?
https://on.soundcloud.com/DUA1M

What are some barriers you all face, as a woman, and as a First Nations person? How did you overcome them?
https://on.soundcloud.com/CCLyJ

I am interested in the panels’ views on the Voice To Parliament and the challenge to make sure the conversation about the Voice is not divisive across the country. 
https://on.soundcloud.com/mt6xb

As First Nations female leaders, what is one piece of leadership advice that you received that made a difference for you that you would like to share? 
https://on.soundcloud.com/BjPrV

Who has inspired you in your leadership journey? And why?
https://on.soundcloud.com/ygS2f

What is the panels advice for young women, looking to make their substantive mark in public or public service life or in the community?
https://on.soundcloud.com/6oZXp

Episode 28: International Women's Day Gala Dinner 2023 unanswered audience questions

In this follow up podcast to the IPAA Victoria’s AI And The Future Of Governance event, host Josef Oduwo, Executive Program Director, Change & Transformation, Department of Health, and guest presenter Professor Eduard Hovy, Executive Director, Melbourne Connect, University of Melbourne, responds to some of the unanswered audience questions that were submitted during the event.

Royalty Free

Episode 33: AI and the Future of Governance: Unanswered audience questions (part 1)

In this follow-up podcast to IPAA Victoria's AI and the Future of Governance event, host Kristy Hornby, Chair, Risk Community of Practice (CoP), IPAA Victoria, and Associate Director, Grosvenor, and guest speaker Peter Williams, Chief Edge Officer, Centre for the Edge, Deloitte Australia respond to some of the unanswered audience questions that were submitted during the event.

Episode 34: AI and the Future of Governance: Unanswered audience questions (part 2)

As part of IPAA Victoria's Fellows Voice series, Amanda Stevens, CEO, IPAA Victoria interviews Simon Corden, Essential Services Commissioner, and 2023 Fellow inductee about his significant commitment to public service and experience in leading organisations and teams.

RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS PODCAST

UK Post Office Scandal explainer
 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036
 
Mr Bates and the Post Office 
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/the-true-crime-drama-about-the-uk-post-office-which-caused-a-national-scandal-20240201-p5f1pf.html
 
Westminster Tradition podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-westminster-tradition/id1695815010

Episode 35: Fellows Voice: Interview with Simon Corden, Essential Services Commissioner

As part of IPAA Victoria's Fellows Voice series, Dr Marija Maher, Chief Operating Officer, Victorian Ombudsman, interviews Pam Anders, Senior Executive Director, Mental Health & Wellbeing Transformation, Department of Health, about her significant commitment to public service and experience in implementing reform from the Royal Commission in Victoria's Mental Health System.

Episode 36: Fellows Voice: Interview with Pam Anders, Department of Health

As part of IPAA Victoria's Fellows Voice series, Amanda Stevens, Chief Executive Officer, IPAA Victoria, interviews Ella McPherson, Deputy Commissioner, Victorian Public Sector Commission, about her career journey.

Episode 37: Fellows Voice: Interview with Ella McPherson, Victorian Public Sector Commission

IPAA Victoria CEO Amanda Stevens speaks with Robert Hortle – one of IPAA Victoria’s newest Fellows and Commissioner of Wage Inspectorate Victoria. Robert talks about his career in the public sector and the secret to being a good industry regulator. He also reflects on the work of the Inspectorate and why the impact of the public sector needs to be measured in both the really big - and the really tiny - moments.

Wage Inspectorate Victoria promotes (https://www.vic.gov.au/wage-inspectorate-victoria) and enforces Victoria’s long service leave, child employment, owner driver and forestry contractor laws.
You can find out more details about IPAA Victoria’s other new Fellows here: https://www.vic.ipaa.org.au/insights/ipaa-victoria-announces-2024-victorian-fellows/

Episode 38: Fellows Feature with Robert Hortle

IPAA CEO Amanda Stevens speaks with Brigid Monagle – one of IPAA Victoria’s newest Fellows and Commissioner of the Victorian Public Sector Commission. Brigid talks about her career in the public sector and how watching federal budgets being delivered on television was the beginning of her interest in public policy. She also discusses the importance of understanding the values that underpin the Victorian Public Sector Code of Conduct and the core capabilities that all good public servants need.

RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS PODCAST
• The Victorian Public Sector Code of Conduct is here: https://vpsc.vic.gov.au/ethics-behaviours-culture/codes-of-conduct/code-of-conduct-for-victorian-public-sector-employees/
• Adam Grant’s idea of 'character skills' – as opposed to ‘soft skills’ – comes from his book Hidden Potential: https://adamgrant.net/book/hidden-potential/
• you can find out more details about IPAA Victoria’s other new Fellows here: https://www.vic.ipaa.org.au/insights/ipaa-victoria-announces-2024-victorian-fellows/ 
• and our upcoming events here: https://www.vic.ipaa.org.au/events/


Episode 39: Fellows Feature with Brigid Monagle

This episode of Public Sector Perspectives profiles an unsung public policy success story: Australia is on track to be the first country in the world to effectively eliminate cervical cancer.  We talk to Professor Marion Saville AM, Executive Director at the Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer, about what has put us in this unique position and what she thinks are the lessons this success should teach us about effective public policy. 

This is the first of two episodes profiling two women who are changing the way health services are delivered in Australia. The second episode profiles the work of Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM who is Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred Hospital and Monash University and the founder of two research centres focusing on women’s mental health.

Podcast Host
Nick Bastow
IPAA Victoria
 
Podcast Guest
Professor Marion Saville AM
Executive Director at the Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer


RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS PODCAST
• You can find out more about the work of the Australian Centre for the Prevention Cervical Cancer here: https://acpcc.org.au/ 
• Details about the Centre’s work to reduce cervical cancer in the Pacific region can be found here: https://acpcc.org.au/epicc-program-update-may-2025-on-our-journey-to-fairer-cervical-cancer-outcomes-in-the-indo-pacific-region/ 
• This Our World In Data summary shows the extraordinary potential of combined vaccination and screening programs to effectively eliminate cervical cancer worldwide: https://ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccination-world-can-eliminate-cervical-cancer

You can find out more details about IPAA Victoria’s upcoming events here: https://www.vic.ipaa.org.au/events/

Episode 40: International Women's Day revisit - Professor Marion Saville AM

In Australia, serious mental illness is much more common in women than it is in men. In 2021, 23% of all women reported experiencing some form of serious depression or anxiety. That compares to 14% of men.

This gender disparity is example of what drives the work of our guest on this episode of Public Sector Perspectives: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM, Professor of Psychiatry at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University and the Founder and Director of two research centres: the HER Centre Australia and the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre. Together we examine why using a gender lens is so important when we think about mental health services for women, whether the current funding priorities in mental health services are appropriate and what gives Professor Kulkarni hope that things will get better.

This is the second of two episodes profiling two women who are changing the way health services are delivered in Australia. The first episode profiles the work of Professor Marion Saville AM, Executive Director of Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.

RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS PODCAST
• Find out more about the work of the HER Centre Australia (https://www.monash.edu/medicine/her-centre) and the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (https://www.alfredhealth.org.au/research/research-areas/maprc). 
• You can find out more details about IPAA Victoria’s upcoming events here https://www.vic.ipaa.org.au/events/.


Episode 41: International Women's Day revisit - Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM

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