Intelligence; Optimised Podcast
Todd Crowley
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Our focus is on delivering expert analyses and insights under the national security umbrella, to help you: "Be Ready for Today. Prepared for Tomorrow." This series is crafted for a discerning audience, including defence professionals, policymakers, academics, technology experts , logistics and supply chain managers, public health officials, and food and agribusiness purveyors.
It's designed for those who seek to stay ahead of the curve in understanding and implementing the cutting-edge strategies and technologies that define global security today and shape its evolution tomorrow.
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S2E41 #71 700 Million Hungry Neighbours. Apparently That's Not a Market. | Part 2
Australia produces some of the cleanest, highest-quality food on the planet. But less than two percent of global venture capital flows into agriculture and food technology, a sector that represents…
S2E40 #70 Australian Food Is 13% of GDP. The Capital Found Other Hobbies. | Part 1
Australian food is 13 per cent of GDP. It gets less than 2 per cent of venture capital. That gap is not an accident. It is where the entire conversation starts.Todd Crowley sits down with Mark…
S2E39 #69 ADF trained her to run a field hospital. She built the second one herself| Wing Commander Dr. Ajitha
What happens when the officer commanding Australia's forward-deployed surgical unit runs the same mission on her own time - faster, leaner, and without a joint logistics unit behind her?Wing…
S2E39 #69 ADF trained her to run a field hospital. She built the second one herself| Wing Commander Dr. Ajitha
What happens when the officer commanding Australia's forward-deployed surgical unit runs the same mission on her own time - faster, leaner, and without a joint logistics unit behind her?Wing…
S2E38 #68 Australia Was Warned About Its Fertiliser Vulnerability. Nobody Acted. | John Cotter
Australia feeds the region, but the mineral that makes that possible is almost entirely imported, processed offshore, and held in supply chains that break on a predictable cycle.In this episode of…
S2E37 #67 The 'Australian Made' Battery Illusion | Dominic Spooner - Part 2
Australia commissioned more grid-scale battery storage in 2025 than the previous eight years combined. Most of those systems have no cell-level visibility, no long-term support plan, and no answer to…
#66 The 'Australian Made' Battery Illusion | Dominic Spooner - Part 1
Australia commissioned more grid-scale battery storage in 2025 than in the previous eight years combined. Most of those systems provide two to three hours of support. In January this year, the worst…
S2E35 #65 We Feed the World. We Can't Feed Ourselves | The Labour Crisis | Kate Banville Pt. 2
Australia's agricultural sector faces simultaneous failures in fuel, fertiliser, and labour inputs. This is Part 2 of Todd Crowley's conversation with Kate Banville — journalist, former soldier, and…
S2E34 #64 We Feed the World. We Can't Feed Ourselves. | Fuel & Fertiliser | Kate Banville Pt. 1
The season is already at risk — Australia's fuel is nearly gone and the fertiliser that should have arrived from the Gulf hasn't. ---Australia exports food to three times its population. Right now it…
S2E34 #64 We Feed the World. We Can't Feed Ourselves. | Fuel & Fertiliser | Kate Banville Pt. 1
The season is already at risk — Australia's fuel is nearly gone and the fertiliser that should have arrived from the Gulf hasn't.---Australia exports food to three times its population. Right now it…
S2E33 #63 Iran "Defeated" — So Why Is The Strait Still Closed? | Col. Paddy Hallinan
The headlines say Iran lost. The insurance market disagrees.Lloyd's of London has withdrawn cover from the waterway. Maersk has suspended bookings. 170 container ships are sitting idle inside the…
S2E32 #62 What the QUAD Can Actually Do to Secure the Seas | Colin Gunn - Part 2
In Part 2 of the episode, Todd Crowley and Colin Gunn unpack how a 28-hour Group 3 platform, the Raider 330, plugs into a wider Indo-Pacific security fabric. They walk through how persistent ISR,…
S2E31 #61 What the QUAD Can Actually Do to Secure the Seas | Colin Gunn - Part 1
Colin Gunn argues the centre of gravity for maritime security has shifted. Coast Guards, border agencies, fisheries, aviation and SAR authorities already maintain daily sovereign presence across the…
S2E30 #60 Weapon-Grade Carbon: Breaking the World's Quietest Dependency | Mark Livings - Part 2
Part 2 of this Intelligence Optimised episode goes from “carbon is everywhere” to “carbon decides who holds power” - in energy, defence, health and the wider Indo-Pacific.Todd Crowley continues the…
S2E29 #59 Weapon-Grade Carbon: Breaking the World's Quietest Dependency | Mark Livings - Part 1
Advanced carbon is one of the quiet foundations of modern capability - running through batteries, sensors, drones, soldier systems, grid storage and data centres. More than 90 per cent of it comes…
S2E28 #58 Welfare Trends & Future of Young Australian Men | Lachie Stuart
Young Australian men are carrying more isolation, welfare reliance and aimless grind than many leaders realise - and that has direct consequences for workforce readiness and national resilience. In…
S2E27 #57 $73B Australia Al Backbone: Data Centres, Renewables | Pete McCrystal
Australia is moving fast to secure its digital sovereignty through new AI “factories” and national-scale data centres. In this episode of Intelligence Optimised Podcast, Todd Crowley speaks with…
S2E26 #56 Sovereign Digital Chains | Swaroop Tulsidas - Part 2
In part 1 of this two-part conversation, Intelligence Optimised explored practical sovereignty — how Australia can’t be fully sovereign in technology, but can be far more prepared. Todd Crowley and…
S2E25 #55 Sovereign Digital Chains | Swaroop Tulsidas - Part 1
Australia can’t be fully sovereign in tech - but it can be more prepared. In this episode of Intelligence Optimised, Todd Crowley speaks with Swaroop Tulsidas - formerly of CSIRO and a key figure in…
S2E24 #54 Redesigning Childcare for Productivity & National Growth | Madeline Simmonds & Jen Fleming - Part 2
In Part 1, the conversation exposed the lived impacts of Australia’s current childcare model - from parents driving hundreds of kilometres to reach centres, to professionals unable to return to work…
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