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Instigating an International Convergence in WA: With RegenWA Chair, Stuart McAlpine

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It’s fitting that my first Aussie guest back home would be this bloke. Stuart McAlpine is a multiple award winning wheatbelt farmer over here in WA, who’s just been named as a finalist in the prestigious national Bob Hawke LandCare Award. I’ve long looked forward to having him on the podcast, having met him as part of the group that organised the first major RegenWA conference staged at Perth Stadium back in 2019 (it was my honour to be MC for that group of people). Six years on, we’re on the cusp of RegenWA’s second major conference (Regenerating Food Systems), back at Perth Stadium, and I couldn’t have said ‘yes, I’ll be home for this’ quick enough, when invited to be MC again.

This time around, the conference will feature two days not one, and a full week of satellite events have spontaneously gravitated to its orbit. And this time, RegenWA is running its conference having become an independent not for profit organisation, with Stuart as its inaugural Chair. He’s also been a paid subscriber of this podcast for nearly four years, so you can imagine how humbling that is.

Ideally, of course, we’d be at the farm. But given we’ve just got home from a big journey with the pod, and given the conference, satellite events and award announcement are just a couple of weeks away now, we thought we’d jump online for a quick yarn to help gear up for this potentially pivotal moment in time.

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Recorded 2 September 2025.

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Against All Odds, by Tiko Tiko (sourced from Artlist).

Country Cousins, by Stuart McAlpine.

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Chapters

1. Music, Preview, Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Stuart's Story and Award Recognition (00:03:22)

3. Transformation Journey in Agriculture (00:10:42)

4. The RegenWA Conference Vision (00:17:42)

5. Building Trust in Food Systems (00:23:15)

6. Holistic Approaches and Future Potential (00:30:19)

7. Closing Thoughts and Stuart's Music (00:35:26)

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