Cabinet is Australia's Operating System — Here's How It Works (Glyn Davis & Terry Moran)
Glyn Davis and Terry Moran are two of the very small number of Australians who have literally sat in the Cabinet Room, week after week, watching the machinery of government operate from the inside. Bo...
22 Dec 20252h 31min
Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White
2,500 years of strategic history, 11 books, one afternoon. Hugh White is Australia's foremost strategic thinker: former senior adviser to Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, De...
25 Nov 20254h 31min
Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello
Peter Costello is the longest-serving Treasurer of Australia (1996–2007). He led the most complex overhaul of Australia's tax system in the postwar era: introducing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) — ...
2 Nov 20251h 38min
The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall
One bacterium causes roughly 1 in 20 cancer cases worldwide. It’s the most cancer-causing pathogen we’ve found—and the main cause of peptic ulcers. Its discovery overturned an ironclad medical dogma t...
26 Aug 20252h 21min
Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan
Stagnation! The 2010s witnessed Australia’s weakest productivity growth in six decades. How much of the slowdown is homegrown? How much reflects the broader “great stagnation” plaguing the West? How m...
14 Aug 20252h 57min
Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History
Francis Fukuyama is a Stanford political scientist and the author of (among many other works) The End of History and the Last Man—arguably the most influential work in political science of the past ha...
31 Juli 20251h 18min
Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self
Laura Deming is a technologist and venture capitalist focused on anti-ageing and life extension. At 17, she founded The Longevity Fund (followed by age1), the first VC firm dedicated to longevity biot...
20 Maj 20251h 17min
Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series
I share the 8 biggest things I learned from my Australian policy series. The conversations totaled more than 12 hours of discussion. Grateful to my guests and to everyone who attended the live events....
11 Maj 202548min
