When Rent Becomes a Health Shock: How Australia's Housing Crisis Is Affecting Our Mental Health
What happens when your landlord sends you a rent increase that you simply cannot absorb?New Australian research reveals that large rent increases aren't just a financial problem — they can become a me...
22 Elo 30min
What Does Your Shopping Say About You? The Data Behind Your Choices
Your shopping habits can reveal far more than what you bought that day. In a world of smartphones, online reviews, loyalty programs and personalised advertising, everyday behaviour can become valuable...
22 Elo 26min
Are You Really Choosing What You Buy? The Hidden Psychology of Shopping
We like to think we're rational when we shop — but how much of our behaviour is actually being influenced without us realising it? From music and lighting to shelf placement, packaging, emotion and so...
22 Elo 59min
Why Australia Stopped Building Social Housing
This explains the structural and financial mechanisms behind Australia’s declining social housing supply, including residualization, the transfer of public housing to community providers, the CRA loop...
20 Elo 34min
Australia’s Social Housing Crisis: From Public Infrastructure to an “Ambulance Service"
This explores how Australian social housing shifted from a broad public housing system into a highly targeted safety net. It examines shrinking housing supply, increasing waitlists, bureaucratic ratio...
20 Elo 22min
Democracy: A Sacred Right or Just a Tool?
This deep dive challenges the idea that democracy is automatically the best form of government. It examines Churchill’s famous quote, democratic triumphalism, the psychological effects of political pa...
19 Elo 47min
Is Democracy Really the Best Form of Government?
This deep dive challenges our unquestioned faith in democracy by examining how political participation affects citizens, from Brennan’s “hobbits,” “hooligans,” and “Vulcans” to the idea of rational ig...
19 Elo 19min
The Democracy Paradox: Is Democracy Really the Best System?
This examines the popular belief that democracy is the best form of government and challenges it using historical and philosophical arguments. It compares Mill’s belief that political participation im...
19 Elo 7min
