Pacific Change Makers

Mar 03 2025 21 ep. 30 mins 4
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Listen to episodes of the Aus-PNG Network Leadership Series, where we interview emerging and established community leaders about Papua New Guinea’s pressing issues.

We’ll be speaking with aspiring women politicians, young professionals, athletes, artists, musicians, journalists, and many other inspiring individuals about how they are striving to affect positive change in Papua New Guinea.

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Pacific Change Makers: Cathy Neap on the Australia–PNG relationship

Mar 03 2025 14 mins  
Cathy Neap, Country Manager for the National Rugby League in Papua New Guinea, speaks with Dr Jessica Collins, Project Director of the Australia–Papua New Guinea Network. Cathy shares her experience as a change maker — what drives her, the challenges she faced, and how she views the Australia–PNG relationship. Reflecting on PNG’s half-century of independence

Lowy Institute Re-Cast: Pacific Change Makers: NZ High Commissioner Dame Annette King on the Pacific, geo

Jan 20 2025 22 mins  
As part of the Lowy Institute Re-Cast series, we are republishing the best podcasts of 2024. In case you missed them the first time around or if you want revisit these engaging conversations, the Re-Cast series has you covered. In this episode of Pacific Change Makers, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program Dr Jess Collins speaks with Dame Annett

Pacific Change Makers: Addressing climate change in Papua New Guinea

Jul 15 2024 20 mins  
In this episode, Debra Sungi of PNG’s Climate Change and Development Authority speaks with the Lowy Institute’s Oliver Nobetau. Discussions around development in the Pacific consistently reference climate change as a major challenge. Countries such as PNG have to manage the support offered by international development partners without being overwhelmed by foreign agendas and al

Pacific Change Makers: Digital frontiers - Safeguarding PNG’s youth in the cyber age

Jun 25 2024 13 mins  
Papua New Guinea is a nation undergoing rapid digital transformation. With increased connectivity, PNG faces the dual challenge of leveraging digital growth for development while protecting its young netizens. Initiatives such as ChildFund’s 1-Tok Helpline, which has received more than 70,000 calls since its establishment in 2015, provide a window into the online threats facing

Pacific Change Makers: Solomon Islands - Democracy in the balance?

Apr 03 2024 24 mins  
In this episode of the Pacific Change Makers, the Director of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program, Dr Meg Keen, speaks with Dr Anouk Ride from the Australian National University about the upcoming Solomon Islands’ election and its implications for stability and democracy in the region. Anouk draws on over 15 years living in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara and her e

Pacific Change Makers: Introducing Oliver Nobetau the Lowy Institute’s new FDC Pacific Research Fellow

Feb 14 2024 25 mins  
The Lowy Institute’s latest episode of Pacific Change Makers introduces a fresh and dynamic voice in Pacific affairs – Oliver Nobetau, the new FDC Pacific Fellow from Papua New Guinea. Oliver’s journey is as unique as it is inspiring. Born in Germany to a diplomatic family, with roots in both Bougainville and West New Britain, he brings a rich blend of international exposure

Pacific Change Makers: NZ High Commissioner Dame Annette King on the Pacific, geopolitical competition, and her time serving in Australia

Jan 15 2024 22 mins  
In this episode of Pacific Change Makers, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program Dr Jess Collins speaks with Dame Annette King about her role as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Australia. At the end of last year and with just a few weeks left in the role, Dame Annette sat down with Dr Collins in Canberra to reflect on her five-year term as High Commi

Pacific Change Makers: Bougainville MP Geraldine Paul on empowering women, building the economy and asserting independence

Nov 06 2023 21 mins  
In this episode of Pacific Change Makers, Director of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program Dr Meg Keen speaks with Bougainville MP Geraldine Paul – businesswoman, advocate for women’s empowerment and a female minister in the Bougainville government. Ms Paul believes an independent Bougainville is a “win-win situation” benefiting the region and PNG if “we all com

Vanuatu MP Gloria Julia King on women, sport, and politics

Aug 23 2023 32 mins  
In this episode of Pacific Change Makers, Dr Jessica Collins speaks with Vanuatu MPGloria Julia King – a mother of four, and a former national football player who is the first woman to be elected to Vanuatu’s parliament in 14 years. Ms King pays respect to women who trailblazed before her but says, more than four decades on from independence, little has changed for women tryin

Peter Kenilorea on Solomon Islands security and political challenges

Jun 29 2023 39 mins  
In this podcast Dr Meg Keen speaks with Solomon Islands’ opposition MP Peter Kenilorea about the challenges ahead as the country gears up to host the Pacific Games and face an election early next year. Peter shares his thoughts on domestic security, slow economic growth, geopolitics and Solomon Islands-China relations: “My biggest fear is to be so dependent on one partner … y