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Podcasts
Burning Platforms
May 28, 2025
Grok-ing Out with Julie Inman-Grant
Burning Platforms struggles to make sense of white genocide, design unicorns and the all-seeing Apple Eye. E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant joins regular panellists Digital Rights Watch founder Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis for our regular dive into the world of tech and politics. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vp9kuath8sqcxd3a/Ep_688pw75.mp3
Burning Platforms
March 25, 2025
Taxing Times
On this week’s episode of Burning Platforms, the gang looks at global efforts to force Big Tech to pay their share of tax with special guest Dr Mark Zirsnak from the Tax Justice Network. With our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/38h56qhctqd5e7f8/Ep_648w1da.mp3
JCL series
March 24, 2025
JCL Series: A Better Australia: Politics, Public Policy and How to Achieve Lasting Reform
An inside look at effective policy making, realised through hard-won public policy battles. What does successful public policy look like, and how has it been achieved in Australia? John Brumby and Stuart Kells, co-authors of “In A Better Australia” joined Per Capita for their March John Cain Lunch. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7cuyjci9cpu4yss5/JCL_-_MAR_2598ogx.mp3
Burning Platforms
March 18, 2025
The National Trust
This week on Burning Platforms, we dive deep into a new initiative to understand the role of Trust in the relationship between society and technology with special guest, Professor Terry Flew. With regular panelists Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine Dan Stinton, we’ll also look at: Data Centre ... Read more
Podcast
March 11, 2025
Re:CAP – Post Community Tax Summit Chats with Miranda Stewart
In the latest episode of Re:CAP, Emma Dawson is joined by professor Miranda Stewart to unpack her keynote address from the Community Tax Summit, as well as discuss some of the other takeaways from the summit. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7r3agx7535d9tu3t/ReCAP_Post_CTS_Chats_Miranda_Stewartamq3l.mp3
Burning Platforms
March 3, 2025
Burning Platforms – World Gone Wild
Burning Platforms is back for 2025. With the tech overlords in the ascendant, particularly following the US election, we take stock of the impending inferno with our regular panel Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton, and special guest, fresh from the Paris AI Summit, Professor Nick Davis ... Read more
JCL series
February 24, 2025
JCL Series: The Elephant in the Room with Thomas Walker and Emma Dawson
All our lives, we’ve been told that hard work leads to economic security and a good life. For many younger Australians, particularly those without family wealth, this now feels like a lie. Instead of being able to set up their lives, young people are loaded up with increased education and housing debt, or stuck paying ... Read more
Podcast
February 17, 2025
Re:CAP – 2024 Tax Survey and the Community Tax Summit 2025
Re:CAP is back for 2025 with a new episode covering Per Capita’s annual Tax Survey and the upcoming Community Tax Summit. Essential’s Peter Lewis joined Emma Dawson for a chat about how the Tax Survey unveils Australian’s growing belief that the current tax and transfer system makes income and wealth inequality worse and how this ... Read more
JCL series
November 20, 2024
John Cain Oration 2024 – Minister Clare O’Neil
Housing affordability is one of the defining issues of the Australian political landscape today. Our housing market and housing policy are failing a significant proportion of the Australian people. This crisis has been long in the making; the result of decades of deliberate choices. Clare O’Neil MP, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, delivers ... Read more
Podcast
November 4, 2024
Re:CAP – The Way In 2024, Gender
This week on Re:CAP, Emma Dawson was joined by co-founder and co-CEO for Gender Lens, Tanja Kovac, continuing our dissection of Per Capita’s new report The Way In 2024. The Way In 2024 is the third report in a series which examines the backgrounds of elected members of Federal Parliament. It follows our analysis of ... Read more
Burning Platforms
November 4, 2024
The Tech-Bro Election
The upcoming US Presidential elections will shape – and be shaped by – the Web3 community. We talk with Mark Montfort from the Aus De-Fi Association on what the moment means. He joins our panel of Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, digital rights advocate Kate Bower and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the ... Read more
Podcast
October 23, 2024
Re:CAP – The Way In 2024, Education
Re:CAP returns this week with a new episode that looks at Per Capita’s new report, The Way In 2024. Emma Dawson is joined by Emeritus Redmond Barry Professor Janet McCalman to help us unpack our findings around education pathways into the 47Th parliament. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ktxdh3mchwff92mr/ReCAP_Way_In_Education_Draft_18y74s.mp3 Check out our latest blog post “How the Federal Government ... Read more
JCL series
September 23, 2024
JCL Series: Housing, The Great Australian Right With Kevin Bell
This month’s John Cain Lunch sees the Hon Kevin Bell reimagining ‘the great Australian dream’ of housing as ‘the great Australian right’ to housing. Almost everyone in Australia is feeling the impact of the national housing crisis, which is traumatising individuals, families and communities. Housing: the Great Australian Right argues that governments have the capacity ... Read more
JCL series
August 26, 2024
JCL Series: The Disruptors – Labor’s Challenge
Kosmos Samaras, one of Australia’s leading experts in political campaigns and polling, addressed our August John Cain Lunch on the electoral challenges facing the ALP due to the changing nature of Australia’s socio-economic demographics. Kos specialises in compiling and interpreting research, statistical data and polling to provide a unique insight into the cause and effects ... Read more
Homes not Houses
July 31, 2024
Homes Not Houses – Part Six: What’s Happened Since?
A lot has happened in the past few months, since we started writing and recording this podcast. It’s lot to catch up on. So, before we end this series, we thought we’d tell you a thing or two about it. Join Emma Dawson, Executive Director of Per Capita, home of the CEH, as she breaks ... Read more
Burning Platforms
July 23, 2024
Rebuilding the Public Square – Live
On this week’s Burning Platforms, Peter Lewis launches the “Civility Manifesto” live at the July John Cain Lunch. The Civility Manifesto outlines how media, politics and the digital platforms have conspired to build a public discourse driven by conflict and anger, where truth and context are sidelined. Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per ... Read more
JCL series
July 23, 2024
JCL Series: Rebuilding the Public Square
The founder of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square initiative, Peter Lewis, will launch the “Civility Manifesto’, a framework for addressing the division at the heart of our broken politics. The Civility Manifesto outlines how media, politics and the digital platforms have conspired to build a public discourse driven by conflict and anger, where ... Read more
Homes not Houses
July 15, 2024
Homes Not Houses – Part Four: Australia vs the World
Australia is not alone in facing a housing crisis. Across the globe, many nations are facing similar circumstances, with house prices having risen dramatically compared to incomes for many years. In Part Four of Homes Not Houses, Matt Lloyd-Cape and his guests take a look at the housing markets around the world – how do ... Read more
Burning Platforms
July 10, 2024
Man-Made
On this week’s Burning Platforms, we talk with author Tracey Spicer about the biases and contradictions at the heart of Artificial Intelligence. Our panel of Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton also ask: * who really runs Australian tech policy? * what does the collapse of ... Read more
Podcast
July 9, 2024
Re:CAP – Housing and the 2024 Budget
Re:CAP is back this week with a new episode where Executive Director, Emma Dawson, and Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to discuss the 2024-2025 federal budget, with a focus on it’s brand-new Housing Statement. https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zj7kcbyqb9d8jf8v/RECAP_189uslk.mp3
Rebecca ’s
Blog Posts
Blog
April 28, 2025

Future Proofing the Australian Care Economy
With the 2025 federal election fast approaching, there have been many discussions around campaign promises and how either party plans to invest in Australia’s future. Much of the focus has been on housing and the cost of living. And while these are undoubtably important talking points, this election presents an opportunity to highlight a sector ... Read more
Blog
December 16, 2024

2024 Progressive Summer Reading List
As the days get longer and the nights warmer, find yourself a cool place to lounge back and immerse yourself in some of the books we have picked out for our annual progressive summer reading list. Here are our favourite books from 2024 to keep you entertained over the summer. Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year ... Read more