In Episode 029 of The Good Drop - A Water Industry Flavoured Podcast, we interviewed Rob Welke who is the Managing Director of “Water Pumping Institute” which is an international body committed to education in sustainable pumping for water pipeline systems. Rob is a true inspiration. At 76yrs young, he has racked up over 5 decades of experience, mo…

Episode 028 is with Felicity Furey – who is generating a real impact on the careers of many. She is an award-winning business leader, engineer and entrepreneur, who has made a career out of making the ‘impossible’, possible. Felicity has led multi-million dollar engineering projects across Australia, founded several successful businesses including …

In Episode 027, we spoke with Mark Trembath who is a Corporate Partnerships Manager for Water Aid Australia. For those that don’t know much about WaterAid, Well WaterAid is an international Not for Profit Non Government Organisation who provides water, sanitation and hygiene to the world’s most impoverished and marginalised communities. Mark has ha…

In our first episode for 2024, we kick start the year off by interviewing the 2023 Australian Water Association's (QLD) Young Water Professional (YWP) of the Year - Amber Craig. Amber is a Senior Project Officer & Hydro-climate analyst at the Murray Darling Basin Authority. From her interview you will see that she is an extremely passionate and ent…

To finish off the 2023 year, The Good Drop Podcast goes international. In this episode, AD goes solo (due to his partner-in-crime Simon Hawkes being unable to make it due to a last minute personal commitment) in interviewing Rolf Schweizer, who is the Chief Executive Officer for The Hidrostal Group which is a leading global manufacturer of centrifu…

In Episode 024 - we interview a Man of Steel, no not Superman, but a man who has spent his career moulding steel across a variety of industries. Our guest is Bruce Gawler – Bruce is a mechanical engineer with almost forty years experience. For the last 30yrs, Bruce has worked in steel pipe manufacturing and has had employment with Tubemakers of Aus…

We know it’s very much out of left field, and a real change of pace from our normal engineering or water flavoured focus, but with footy grand finals for AFL and NRL coming up, The Good Drop podcast wanted to delve into the world of sport, specifically, Strategy in sport. But before we go further, firstly our apologies that this episode has been is…

In this episode, we spoke with Process Engineer and the current Australian Water Association’s (AWA) 2022 South Australian Young Water Professional of the Year – Loreline Kerlidou. Loreline was born in France, just outside of Paris, and has been living and working in Adelaide for over 10 years. She is currently working for the environmental, engine…

Richard Savage currently works for Aurecon as a Director in their Environment and Planning Section (Brisbane). Richard is well admired and a true gentlemen in the water industry. AD first came across Richard during his time sitting on the AWA Qld Branch Committee. Richard served on the branch committee for almost a decade – which is a wonderful fea…

In this 20th edition of The Good Drop Podcast, Hawkes & AD had the great pleasure of speaking with the Immediate Past President of the Australian Water Association - Louise Dudley. For 10yrs (between 2012 and 2022), Louise was also the Chief Executive Officer for Urban Utilities, Qld’s largest water utility service provider which services over 1.4 …

In Episode 019 of The Good Drop Podcast, Hawkes & AD sat down with Marlon Pritchard who works for Downer Group in Brisbane. Marlon is also the Commissioning Lead on the Logan Water Partnership. Marlon's skill-set is amazing. He brings so much to the table - he is literally like a Swiss pocket knife, multiple functions in one, i.e. design input skil…

In Episode 018 of “The Good Drop Podcast”, Hawkes and AD discuss the C word - Confidence. How do you build it? Can it be learned? But also importantly how do you avoid that demon of self-doubt that can easily eat away at your confidence level? The guest on the podcast is Tracey Leslie. Now, Tracey is a former Civil Engineer who has recently pursued…

Our guest is Civil Engineer, and now retired former Technical Director at Aurecon - Rob Ayre. Rob has worked in flood hydrology for the entirety of his career (almost 40yrs) and has worked in public and private Sectors. He has been responsible for directing the flood operations (during his tenure with Sunwater) of Ross River Dam, Scrivener Dam, Nor…

Episode 016's guest is former engineer Phil Selmes - who Simon & AD worked alongside for many years on the Logan Water Alliance. Phil has worked in the water industry for 25yrs, and has had roles in local government such as Sydney Water, Albert Shire Council, Gold Coast City and also as an engineering consultant (Parsons Brinckerhoff). But despite …

In their first interview for 2023, Hawkes & AD start their year off by discussing a very important topic - Mental Health. So, what's the reason behind discussing Mental Health. Well, the last couple of years have been challenging, COVID-19, home-schooling, floods, fires, job security, rising interest rates, Ukraine etc, all of which have really imp…

Our final guest on "The Good Drop with Hawkes & AD" for 2022 is Joseph (or Joe) Tam. Joe is currently the Principal Supply Engineer for Seqwater where he leads the development of supply options and securing land to increase water supply certainty for South East Queensland. He also conducts high-level strategic planning for a possible augmentation. …

In this episode, we sat down with Civil Engineer, Master of Wine (MW), and grandfather - Andrew Corrigan MW. Andrew has had an incredible engineering career, but in a way, it has been somewhat overshadowed by his incredible work in the wine industry, in particular his qualification as a Master of Wine. It is important to acknowledge that MW is a ra…

In this episode, Hawkes and AD sit down for a conversation with Luisa Maria Panuccio who is a qualified Civil and Architectural Engineer who graduated from the University of Adelaide. Luisa is now currently working in Melbourne as a Senior Project Manager with Arup. Luisa has an Italian background, and like most Italians, she is passionate. In part…

In this episode Hawkes & AD reflected on their first ten podcast episodes. After setting a goal when we commenced to complete 6 podcasts before the end of the year (2022), we have exceeded this, notching up the first 10 episodes several months ahead. We both wanted to reflect back on the first ten episodes and consider our learnings, what some of t…

Our interview guest for Episode 10 is a little different than our previous guests (as he is not an engineer nor is he involved in the water industry), but he is someone who really packs a punch and is incredibly motivating - that person is Noel Peters. Noel is 61yrs of age, lives in Hobart, is a bricklayer by day, and 6th Dan Karate instructor and …

Natalie (Nat) Muir is Cardno (now Stantec)'s General Manager for Water & Environment. Hawkes & AD sat down with Nat to get her take on things that are important to us all, such as how to eke out a Work / Life balance (is it ever?) and how to handle Leadership. We discussed some of these important aspects with Nat, including her personal journey in …

Dr Tom Connor is a retired Structural Engineer, former Vice President of Technology in KBR's Infrastructure and Minerals Unit, Former National President of the Institution of Engineers Australia (now Engineers Australia), Recipient of Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 1999 Queensland Engineer of the Year, Recipient of the Peter Nicol Russell …

Sally Prosser is a Voice and Public Speaking Coach, a qualified speech and drama teacher, former TV news reporter, former media spokesperson and Host of 'That Voice' podcast (phew!). Hawkes & AD had a conversation with Sally about some of the ideas that have probably haunted us all at some point in time - the ability to communicate clearly and conc…

This episode of The Good Drop is a conversation with Ian Cameron, a retired Civil Engineer with 34 years experience in the Water Industry. Hawkes & AD wanted to have this conversation with Ian largely because of the impact Ian has had on our individual water journeys, and to highlight Ian's amazing contribution back to the industry through his Ment…

Todd Battley is AECOM's Chief Strategy Officer and former Chief Executive Officer of AECOM's Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) region. This was somewhat of a reunion for AD and Todd, having been classmates at James Cook University in Townsville, which they both attended for their University studies - 25 years ago! Hawkes & AD sat down for a conversat…

This interview is with Maddy English, who has a dual management role at KPMG in Sydney. She is a Manager in the Engineering Assets and Project Delivery team, and a Divisional Environment, Social and Governance (ESG for short) Manager for Infrastructure. Maddy is an active member of AWA’s Young Professional committee in NSW who has championed the me…

In today’s episode , Hawkes and AD sit down with Climate Activist and Sustainability Champion – Steve Posselt. Steve’s water journey has been truly amazing. He started his Civil Engineering career at Sydney Water before working in the UK and Libya. After returning to Australia, he made his mark establishing a successful penstock manufacturing compa…

Today we gain an insight into Anthony's background in Water, his passions and inspiration, and motivation for the The Good Drop. Hope you enjoy listening! I'd like to introduce to you my fellow co-host and good friend Anthony Domanti, aka AD. As AD has mentioned earlier, we've known each other going on 13 years, of which we spent about 11 1/2 worki…

In today's episode AD interviews Hawkes one-on-one to get an understanding of what makes him tick. It gives me great pleasure to introduce my co-host and good friend Simon Hawkes. I have known Hawkes for approximately 13yrs, and I can honestly say you won’t find a better man, and I am privileged to work with him on this podcast. Simon comes from re…