Dead Right - How Neoliberalism Ate Itself And What Comes Next
Why, after 27 years of economic growth and a mining boom, how can Australia be too broke to afford high quality rape crisis services, or to increase Newstart above the poverty line? Today you'll hear ...
19 Juni 201820min
2018 Budget Wrap
"the vast majority of the money being handed out is going to go to high income earners..." The Australia Institute was in the 2018 Budget Lockup, and subsequently have gone through the budget papers. ...
18 Maj 201827min
Pocket Money: 14 Reasons Why The Case For A Company Tax Cut Has Collapsed
In a special "Pocket Money" episode of Follow the Money, released on the eve of the Budget, we discuss the 14 reasons why the case for the company tax cuts collapsed. See below for all the ways you ca...
7 Maj 201823min
Gas And Coal Watch
"Burning something to boil water to create steam is a really old-fashioned technology..." The Australia Institute has spent the hot summer days monitoring when gas and coal power plants trip, taking s...
31 Jan 201826min
Curing Affluenza - How To Buy Less Stuff And Save The World
"Affluenza is that strange desire we feel to spend money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't know . . ." A truly modern affliction, affluenza is endemic in Western soc...
19 Dec 201722min
I'm Here For An Argument - Why Bipartisanship On Security Makes Australia Less Safe
North Korean missile tests, resolving the South China Sea issues, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar - there is a lot happening in the defence and security policy space right, but are we engaged enough to ta...
21 Sep 201726min
The Global Financial Crisis Ten Years On
Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis. In 2008 the banks in Australia wobbled, the economy stalled, unemployment rose and the Government acted. The GFC demonstrated a fai...
8 Sep 201727min
Grandfathering The Australian Dream
Australia's young people have been unfairly targeted by policies that have loaded them up with uni debts, locked them out of housing market and crippled them on the 'flexible' job front, and any chang...
9 Aug 201720min
