How Good Are Humans
The How Good Are Humans podcast is here to show you the good people in the world, those who go above and beyond the call of duty to better the community around them.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 70 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Outback Mike comes to Cairns!
Remember Mike Atkinson from Alone Australia? Are you among the millions who have you seen his super fun and fascinating videos on how to adventure better?
Well, now Far North Queenslanders have the ch…
Gettin' some 'Straya in ya belly, yum yum | Samantha "The Bush Tukka Woman" Martin
To walk into Coles or Woolworths is a step into a foreign land. Row upon row, aisle upon aisle, an abundance of food, will sit before our eyes. Some, maybe most of it, has been grown or produced in A…
Finding the next Cathy Freeman | Libby Cook-Black and the Female Co
If professional sporting success was a 100m racetrack, the starting blocks being discovery of the sport and the finish line being a major sports contract, the track ahead would appear totally differe…
Brewing great coffee in an uncertain world | Olly James (part 2)
Dining out can be the most delightful, satiating experience of our week, or our most disappointing. We all know the feeling of being promised the world on a menu but discovering we’ve been catfished …
Turning Men's Lives Around | Bernard "BJ" Sabadi and Kunjur Men's Collective
Finding mental health support can be an expensive, inaccessible and intimidating experience. This experience is additionally difficult for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. And men are d…
Giving the economy a solid (and thoughtful) kick up the butt | Professor Hurriyet Babacan
When an economy has a lot of potential to grow, but is also stalked by a fair risk of stall and decline, it takes experienced thought leaders, regional development experts and policy wonks to gently,…
From Bob Marley to near murder, and other cycling stories | Tilmann Waldthaler
Tilmann Waldthaler has cycled more than 600,000km through 143 countries. He has spent hours in conversation with Bob Marley, been almost murdered and bombed in Iran, and met the love of his life in t…
Getting the shot, in brothels, refugee camps and disaster zones | photojournalism | Brian Cassey
For more than 40 years Brian Cassey has watched suffering, tragedy, hope, elation and thrill through a few curved glass elements, waiting for moments of greatest importance and nearest perfect illumi…
From stab wounds to skin cancers, and everything in between | Dr Ebbie Swemmer
In a slow week, Dr Ebbie Swemmer examines the skins of dozens of patients, performs many surgeries and saves people from the horrible fate of melanomas and other aggressive skin cancers. In a busy we…
Queensland's thin blue line | AC Brett Schafferius and Sgt Lyall McKelvie
On episode 52 of the podcast, I speak with Assistant Commissioner Brett Schafferius and Sergeant Lyall McKelvie from the Far North Queensland police district about several police and crime topics. Br…
"My grandad used to bet on me": How to become an Olympian, with Jill Boltz
Jill Boltz is a two-time Olympian, Commonwealth Games medalist and former world record holder in two athletics distances. She is now devoting her time to training future generations of athletes in th…
Top 15 moments from episodes 1 to 50 of the How Good are Humans podcast
The How Good are Humans podcast recently published its 50th episode.
To celebrate, we have chosen the top 15 moments from the first 50 episodes and ranked them here in this special episode of the podc…
Covered in s**t and scratches to save species | Shai Ager
Shai Ager leads the largest wildlife rescue organisation in Queensland. She and her team have rescued and relocated almost 1000 macropods (kangaroos and wallabies) in conditions that even environment…
Three decades of murder, love and creative brilliance | Suellen Maunder
Three decades ago, Suellen Maunder was using her own furniture as stage props for the productions of what was then thought of as a radical, audacious and in-your-face theatre company. As an actor and…
3100 kilometres into the wild, beating pain every day | Lucy Graham
Lucy Graham is going deep into the subarctic wilderness, alone. Bears, storms and isolation will be her frenemies for three months. So why is she doing this? For fun? Sure. To challenge her adventuro…
From snapped leg to world champ | Tracey Hannah
Tracey Hannah is one of the best downhill mountain bikers of all time. As one of the most extreme sports in the world, downhill MTB is replete with stories of catastrophic injuries. Tracey has suffer…
Fixing child mortality, crime, emissions and missed economic potential. How hard could that be? | Narayan Gopalkrishnan
Dr Narayan Gopalkrishnan has made an impact on some of the toughest problems challenging some of the most impoverished communities across the world. Now, the James Cook University professor and leade…
Keeping kids out of jail, and giving them a shot at life | Rob Hodge and Fresh Start Academy
Rob Hodge possibly has the largest heart in Far North Queensland, and he is applying it and his street smarts to keeping troubled kids out of prison and giving them a shot a life, which many of them …
Getting to the South Pole with "your toes still on" | Barney Swan and Climate Force
Barney Swan is an adventurer and entrepreneur who has trekked to the South Pole three times before the age of 30 and is now regenerating a 527-acre patch of the Daintree Rainforest while building a r…