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Alf Wheeler on the Zeoform story
Jan 22, 2026
41m 12s
Parnell Palme McGuinness on unpacking thoughts from a ‘diversity hire’
Jan 13, 2026
1h 17m 58s
Kaushik Chakraborty on trends on infrastructure
Dec 11, 2025
1h 05m 25s
John King on steel, windows and technology for 8 star homes
Dec 4, 2025
50m 00s
Martin Loosemore on making a difference through construction
Dec 3, 2025
45m 12s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 1/22/26 |  Alf Wheeler on the Zeoform story✨ | plant-based materialsinnovation+3 | Alf Wheeler | ZeoformTaronga Ventures+2 | — | ZeoformAlf Wheeler+5 | — | 41m 12s | |
| 1/13/26 |  Parnell Palme McGuinness on unpacking thoughts from a ‘diversity hire’ | Parnell Palme McGuinness, as a former consultant for the Liberal Party and conservative-leaning columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, McGuinness jokes she’s the “diversity hire” for those left-ish leaning papers. These days, she’s also a senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, a place where we would expect to find very few commonalities. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsl... | 1h 17m 58s | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | Kaushik Chakraborty on trends on infrastructure | Infrastructure work is going regional – in water, sanitation, roads and bridges – says Kaushik Chakraborty senior vice president, Asia Pacific & Japan with Bentley Systems in this podcast. It’s part of the big global drift out of cities and into towns and smaller cities that was bolstered by Covid. The trend is reversing the previous super trend that had captured demographers for decades. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.a... | 1h 05m 25s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 | John King on steel, windows and technology for 8 star homes | John King from JGKing Homes Steel, timber, windows and technology to build home. John runs a successful home building business in Ballarat that’s been going for 40 years and employs 350 people. What’s different about it is that it uses steel construction that it fabricates to specifications, and it also manages to produce 8 star NatHERS homes without many issues and virtually no extra costs. The secret is high quality windows and window frames materials that break the thermal bridge, that all... | 50m 00s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | Martin Loosemore on making a difference through construction | Martin Loosemore, professor of construction management is known for his Community of Practice for social procurement, which he started with his colleague Dr Suhair Alkilani at the University of Technology Sydney. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-fift... | 45m 12s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | Dave Higgon: The power of social procurement to change lives | After 30 years Dave Higgon reckons he’s the longest serving employee relations manager in Australia. He started his career as a bricklayer for his father, before taking up small subcontracting work on the New South Wales north coast and into Queensland. In the early 80s, Higgon became an organiser for the Building Workers Industrial Union, where he developed a strong interest in social justice issues, then joined Multiplex, where he “inherited” responsibility for dealing with social pro... | 49m 44s | ||||||
| 7/10/25 | Nathan Hage on transforming Zinc Apartment | Nathan Hage is neither a developer nor an energy expert, nor anything else you might think would be crucial to retrofitting a group of 45 flats in Sydney’s inner south with solar and EV charging. He works in logistics, but the one qualifier that he firmly holds is that he’s a resident of the Zinc Apartments, and perhaps through his enthusiasm, the job fell to him to manage this ambitious project. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthe... | 46m 28s | ||||||
| 4/10/25 | Amanda Steele on pathways to success in sustainability | Amanda Steele is group executive, head of property for ISPT, a business with a strong sustainability profile in the built environment. In her current role, Amanda is in the leadership team; but in the past she’s had direct sustainability roles at Stockland and CBRE and before that under the mentorship of our current Governor General Sam Mostyn when they were both at insurer IAG. In this podcast, Amanda talks about the drivers of ESG, the success of ISPT’s retrofit of 500 Bourke Street... | 36m 48s | ||||||
| 4/3/25 |  TFE Learn: Gabrielle McMillan on activating the vertical villages of office towers | Gabrielle McMillan kicked off Equiem in 2011 for Lorenz Grollo, developer and part owner of the Rialto tower in Melbourne who could see the enormous potential of adding value for occupants in the building through technology and social programs to create a kind of village in the sky, that made tenants sticky. Other people agreed. Today the business has blossomed and employs nearly 200 people over 18 Countries. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: w... | 57m 32s | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | Sara Stace and Marc Lane on Active transport and Placemaking | Sara Stace is an influential voice in the active transport and placemaking space. Recently she joined forces with Marc Lane at Vivendi Consulting to becomes its new joint directors of cities. Stace and Lane met at WSP, where the two shared an immense passion for designing for cities and streets. Stace and Lane are now working on housing strategies, active transport, net zero and urban design and policies that helps shape cities and precincts. Tune in to hear their insights on the good... | 47m 18s | ||||||
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| 2/20/25 | Jane Cassidy on the massive transformation on the way | As national president of the Australian Institute of Architects Jane Cassidy juggles a lot of competing priorities – and they’re not all in the order you’d expect. There are the usual topics of aesthetics and the role of architects and how it’s been eroded over the past decades. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Esta... | 59m 27s | ||||||
| 2/13/25 | Andrew Eagles on NZ’s green challenge in the new political regime | Andrew Eagles, CEO of the New Zealand Green Building Council reports on an industry that wants to do better, wants green buildings and better regulation. This conversation is a breath of fresh air. Listen now! Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company... | 50m 45s | ||||||
| 12/18/24 | Philip Graus on how cities are shaped and how to shape them | Philip Graus has an omnibus cache of insights and history into how cities are formed, what keeps them growing or failing and how to make them sustainable. This podcast is a bit of rambling chat, weaving in and out the incredible number of influences that make a city tick – or not. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthesta... | 1h 33m 50s | ||||||
| 11/12/24 | Jeremy Mcleod and Nightingale Housing – from inspiration to disruption | Founder of Nightingale Housing Jeremy McLeod will no doubt go down in history as the man who managed to shift a truckload of preconceptions about what housing needs to look like – what it should cost and who it is for. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/comp... | 1h 05m 00s | ||||||
| 10/22/24 |  Transitions podcast: Liam Wallis on how to generate radical sustainable development | Melbourne based Liam Wallis founded boutique sustainable developer Hip V Hype with the idea of spreading the sustainability message by demonstrating viable exemplar projects. Today that notion has evolved into advisory work with other developers and a raft of government authorities, as well as the direct educational events he likes to host from his offices in Melbourne’s inner north Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up ... | 1h 00m 03s | ||||||
| 10/15/24 |  TFE Live: The race for green tech in Australia and China | At TFE Live, Tim Buckley director of Climate Energy Finance, and Heidi Lee, chief executive officer of Beyond Zero Emissions, delved deep into Australia’s potential as a global renewable energy superpower, how to transform our coal mining regions to clean energy and new jobs and how China is doing so much to decarbonise the planet. TFE Live Host: Maria Atkinson Talents this episode: Tim Buckley and Heidi Lee Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.the... | 1h 10m 28s | ||||||
| 10/10/24 |  Transitions podcast: Rory Hunter and Reade Dixon on innovative BTR | On this episode of Transitions, Tina Perinotto talks to Rory Hunter about the announcement of his first project, which will tick all boxes, including using CLT (cross-laminated timber), being Passivhaus certified and building to rent. He is joined by architect Reade Dixon from Frasers & Partners, who is tasked with turning the vision into reality. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https:/... | 48m 22s | ||||||
| 10/1/24 |  Tim Buckley on a clean tech in Australia and China and the need for partnership | Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-fifth-estate Twitter: @FifthEstateAU Facebook: www.facebook.com/thefifthestateAu | 1h 22m 59s | ||||||
| 9/12/24 |  TFE Live: Global Trends and Tipping Points podcast | Good vibes were off the charts at our TFE Live event, brought on by Elena Bondareva, who’s on a changemaking arc following the release of her book Changemakers’ Handbook, her fellow guest Pablo Berrutti of Stuart Investors, whose passion project sustainable finance library Altiorem, and upbeat moderator Maria Atkinson. From the impacts of United States on Australia and the rest of the world, to role of AI in communicating sustainability to changemaking, the road to sustainability is, in fac... | 52m 41s | ||||||
| 6/26/24 |  Transitions podcast, Ep.2: Michael Mobbs on Sustainable House and coolseats | Tina Perinotto interviews Michael Mobbs, a sustainability guru who founded the sustainable house in Sydney's Chippendale. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newsletter: https://thefifthestate.com.au/subscribe Support The Fifth Estate: thefifthestate.com.au/support-us LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-fifth-estate Twitter: @FifthEstateAU Facebook: www.facebook.com/thefifthest... | 42m 11s | ||||||
| 6/11/24 | Alison Scotland on herding cats | Alison Scotland cut her professional teeth in the challenging world of Standards Australia. Today she runs the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council. So, you could say she’s had perfect training for the diplomatic minefield she now has to tread in her current job of getting agreement on built environment policy from a wide range of stakeholders. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifthestate.com.au Sign up to the newslett... | 56m 08s | ||||||
| 6/5/24 |  Transitions podcast, Ep.1: Skipp Williamson from Partners in Performance | This is the first episode of the Transitions podcast for The Green List on The Fifth Estate’s How to Build a Better World podcast feed. We interview Skipp Williamson, managing director of Partners in Performance, who shares insights into what happens in advisory and energy transitions at the big end of town. Skipp has led the ambitious company she co-founded for more than 28 years and speaks to us just as it’s about to be acquired by giant Accenture. We’re joined on the podcast by partners f... | 46m 06s | ||||||
| 5/1/24 |  Jess Miller on doing things differently | Jess Miller is well known to readers of The Fifth Estate - she’s been a brilliant and highly entertaining MC for several of our events now. Starting with our Urban Greening summits at the University of Technology Sydney in the past few years. But of course Jess has a much wider audience than ours. At a very young age, she became a councillor and then deputy mayor of The City of Sydney and then became a prime initiator in a green or living infrastructure movement called Greener Spaces Better P... | 1h 02m 18s | ||||||
| 3/19/24 | Dawn O'Neil: How to develop the solar panels of the cleaning industry | Dawn O’Neill is one of those quiet achievers who’s helping to change the world. As the chief executive of eWater, she’s getting rid of toxic chemicals in our kitchens and buildings. If you care about the chemicals that end up in our waterways and oceans, you’ll be fully behind her dream that her product could be to the cleaning industry and what solar panels have been to the fossil fuel industry. Host: Tina Perinotto Produced by: The Fifth Estate The Fifth Estate website: www.thefifth... | 39m 56s | ||||||
| 11/2/23 | Ray Brown: value of charettes, architecture at the big end of town, and Adelaide hitting its stride | Ray Brown heads a practice of 700 people with Architectus, which, after the merger with Conrad Gargett in April this year, is now the biggest architectural practice in Australia. He’s led some of Australia’s biggest projects – from buildings to urban planning, in most sectors, from offices to rail, social housing and heritage – sometimes, for the biggest projects, in collaboration with big global architectural names. These include the stunning 1 Bligh Street in Sydney, which scooped sustainab... | 54m 01s | ||||||
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