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The Push to Stop Pork Barrelling Feb 28, 2024

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Independent MP Helen Haines has introduced a bill to Parliament designed to prevent pork-barreling, where taxpayer money is allocated according to where it is needed to win votes, not where the public needs it most.

This was recorded on Tuesday 27th February 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest: Bill Browne, Director, Democracy & Accountability program, the Australia Institute // @Browne90

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Tasmanian Election Announced Feb 20, 2024

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Tasmania is heading to an election – 14 months early.

Tasmania is retuning the size of its lower house from 25 seats to 35 seats at this election and multiple polls have predicted the result will be a minority government, so this is shaping up be a particularly interesting contest.

This was recorded on Tuesday 20th February 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest: Eloise Carr, Director, the Australia Institute Tasmania // @GeneveraE

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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The Right to Disconnect Feb 14, 2024

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Federal Parliament is set to pass new industrial relations laws, including the 'right to disconnect.' This means that workers will legally be able to ignore calls outside of work hours.

This was recorded on Tuesday 13th February 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest: Dr Jim Stanford, Director, the Centre for Future Work, the Australia Institute // @MarkOgge

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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The Great Gas Rort: Fixing the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax Feb 07, 2024

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Every year, the Commonwealth collects more revenue from HECS than it gets from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. The PRRT is so insufficient that gas companies love it!

Mark Ogge explains the Government's proposed changes, and how we can fix it to tax our gas companies fairly.

This was recorded on Tuesday 6th February 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest: Mark Ogge, Principal Advisor, the Australia Institute // @MarkOgge

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Stage 3 Tax Cuts reform: "The biggest and most honest piece of tax reform in decades" Feb 01, 2024

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It’s been a week for the books in Australian Politics history, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing changes to the highly-criticised Stage 3 tax cuts. Which got the media, and the opposition, into a bit of a frenzy. So what's changed, and how will it affect you?

This was recorded on Tuesday 30th January 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest:

Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist, the Australia Institute // @MattGrudnoff

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Brace yourselves... US Election 2024 Jan 24, 2024

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With the Iowa Republican caucus over, the starting gun on the 2024 US Election has fired, with the promise of a dramatic election year, and democracy itself on the ballot.

This was recorded on Tuesday 23rd January 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest:

Dr Emma Shortis, Senior Researcher, International & Security Affairs program, the Australia Institute // @EmmaShortis

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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The War On Waste with Craig Reucassel | Summer Series Jan 17, 2024

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Our summer podcast series brings you some of the best conversations from our webinars and live events in 2023.

7 years ago, The ABC’s groundbreaking environmental series War On Waste firmly placed the nation’s attention on Australia’s waste issues and solutions. The new season investigated recycling in Australia, brought to light new waste topics, challenged the lack of corporate accountability towards their own waste and explored what government can do to curb the waste tide. And most importantly the season provides straightforward solutions to help us all shift the status quo with Australia’s waste crisis.

Join Craig Reucassel, host and producer of ABC TV’s War On Waste and Nina Gbor, Director Circular Economy & Waste Program at the Australia Institute, for a discussion on how we can all turn the tide to resolve Australia’s waste crisis as individuals, within communities and with our local and national government.

This was recorded on Thursday 14th September 2023 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guests:

Craig Reucassel, writer, comedian and documentary maker // @craigreucassel

Nina Gbor, Director, Circular Economy & Waste Program, the Australia Institute // @NinaGbor

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet with Jeff Goodell | Summer Series Jan 16, 2024

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Our summer podcast series brings you some of the best conversations from our webinars and live events in 2023.

Extreme heat is the most direct and deadly consequence of our hellbent consumption of fossil fuels. It is a first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it will reveal fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values.

Join Jeff Goodell, award-winning environmental journalist and author of Heat, for a discussion about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing, and what we can do to stop it.

This was recorded on Wednesday 23rd August 2023 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guest:

Jeff Goodell, award-winning environmental journalist and author of Heat // @jeffgoodell

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Global Financial Crisis 15 Years On: What Have We Learned? with Wayne Swan| Summer Series Jan 10, 2024

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Our summer podcast series brings you some of the best conversations from our webinars and live events in 2023.

On 15 September 2008 came the collapse of Lehmann Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in US history. This set off a chain reaction and had a massive impact on the Australia financial system and economy. Across the northern hemisphere the GFC became known as the Great Recession. But in Australia the economy was spared the large rises in unemployment that occurred in the USA and Europe as well as the collapse of major financial institutions.

This was recorded on Friday 15th September 2023 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guests:

Wayne Swan, National President of the ALP, former Labor Member for Lilley and former Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of Australia // @SwannyQLD

Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, the Australia Institute and the Centre for Future Work // @GrogsGamut

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Ending Native Forest Logging with Bob Brown | Summer Series Jan 10, 2024

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Our summer podcast series brings you some of the best conversations from our webinars and live events in 2023.

Australia’s native forests are not only home to some of our most vulnerable and threatened species, they hold critical cultural and ecological value. While native forest logging is being phased out in Western Australia and Victoria, other states are failing to take action to protect these iconic and precious ecosystems from logging.

This was recorded on Wednesday 4th October 2023 and things may have changed since recording.

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Guests:

Bob Brown, Environmentalist, Bob Brown Foundation // @BobBrownFndn

Polly Hemming, Director, Climate & Energy Program, the Australia Institute // @pollyjhemming

Prof Brendan Mackey, Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Edited by: Emily Perkins

Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

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