Navigating the Australia-China relationship with Jane Golley
Australia's relationship with China is rocky at the moment, how can we navigate it better? Part of our 'Economics of a Pandemic' webinar series.Host: Ebony Bennett, deputy director of the Australia In...
6 Heinä 20201h
A bargain at twice the price
If Australia had the same labour participation rate of Nordic countries, our economy would be $60 billion larger. In today's episode, we unpack why free childcare would not only be good for Australian...
30 Kesä 202024min
The success of the Aboriginal-led health response to the pandemic
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are amongst the most vulnerable to the threat of Covid-19, but the Aboriginal-led community controlled health response has been a huge public health succes...
25 Kesä 202057min
The Reconstruction - building back better with Richard Denniss
The Australia Institute's chief economist Richard Denniss launched The Reconstruction Memorandum, to step back and look at the big picture on how Australia can put people first and create an economic ...
24 Kesä 202056min
HomeBuilder and jobs for the boys
The government's Homebuilder program is designed to help the construction sector, but construction is not labour intensive and it's dominated by blokes, when we know women are bearing the brunt of thi...
23 Kesä 202021min
War is not a metaphor with Allan Gyngell
Using war as a metaphor has crept into how we talk about public policy. Misrepresenting policy issues as security problems does not solve them, yet many public policy issues are framed using this lens...
18 Kesä 202052min
The Deficit Myth with Stephanie Kelton
Anyone familiar with Australian political debate will know that while we can always afford tax cuts and defence spending, somehow we can never afford to raise Newstart, or to build social housing beca...
18 Kesä 20201h 1min
The case for red tape
The PM has announced big plans for deregulation, but is 'red tape' or 'green tape' really impeding economic growth or is it necessary to protect us and our environment? In this episode we talk to Exec...
16 Kesä 202019min
