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The AUKUS pact and China
Season 6 Episode 157
The announcement of the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the USA is now a few weeks old and it represents an enormous departure in t…
4 years, 11 months ago
Junk Carbon Credits
Season 6 Episode 156
Today's episode examines carbon offsets, in other words, the credits companies can buy to offset their emissions. The Australia Institute, together w…
4 years, 11 months ago
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The importance of the crossbench with Senator Jacqui Lambie [webinar series]
Season 6 Episode 155
The number of independent Members and Senators elected to Parliament has been steadily increasing and the crossbench plays an important role in shapi…
4 years, 11 months ago
AUKUS and the nuclear submarine debacle
Season 5 Episode 154
Australia blind-sided France and the Australian public by dumping a $90 billion French submarine deal in favour of a new trilateral security partners…
5 years ago
An Avoidable Catastrophe: Pandemic Job Losses in Higher Education
Season 5 Episode 153
Australia's higher education sector has been amongst those hit hardest by the pandemic. Just how bad is the damage? In a new report, the Australia In…
5 years ago
Fracked: Gas in the Northern Territory
Season 6 Episode 152
Extracting gas from the Northern Territory through hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is one of the largest potential sources of carbon pollution in t…
5 years ago
Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine
Season 6 Episode 151
Our ability to ‘Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine’ people who have been exposed to Covid19 has been the front line of Australia’s defence against C…
5 years ago
The Wealth Explosion
Season 6 Episode 150
The wealth of Australians (or at least some of them) has grown by an extraordinary $9.5 trillion or 302% in the past 33 years according to a new repo…
5 years, 1 month ago
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Reset with Professor Ross Garnaut [webinar series]
Season 6 Episode 149
Professor Ross Garnaut is an economist and author of new book Reset - which explores the opportunity Australia has to reset its economy in the wake o…
5 years, 1 month ago
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Black Witness with Amy McQuire [webinar series]
Season 6 Episode 148
When the Black Lives Matter protests swept the globe in 2020, it shone a spotlight on Australia's legacy of Aboriginal deaths in custody. It was a su…
5 years, 1 month ago