Big Little Political Lies
Each election, tens of millions of dollars is spent on political advertising and currently it is perfectly lawful for political parties to lie to citizens in political ads. In today's episode we unpac...
8 Jul 202014min
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 Jul 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 20201h 1min
