Per Capita has several podcasts, available below.
In Re:CAP hear from our researchers about their latest work on issues like workers rights, unemployment, gender equality, economics, housing, education, ageing and the post-carbon economy.
Burning Platforms examines the power and politics of ‘Big Tech.’
Our John Cain Luncheon Series and Webinar Series contain recordings of our past events.
Re:CAP
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
Podcast
May 13, 2024
Re:CAP – A Thousand Hours for Free? Ending Unpaid Placements in Social Work Education
For our first episode for 2024, Emma Dawson is joined by student advocates Ana, Mai, and Stevie to discuss Per Capita’s recent report, A Thousand Hours for Free? Ending Unpaid Placements in Social Work Education, a policy proposal Per Capita put together for the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education. The requirement ... Read more
Podcast
November 21, 2023
Re:CAP – Lighter than Air: Regulating Short Term Rentals
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Matt Lloyd-Cape is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to chat about the impact of short-term rental (STR) platforms such as AirBnB on the Australian rental market, and ... Read more
Podcast
November 7, 2023
Re:CAP – Regulating Rentals
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Matt Lloyd-Cape is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, and Research Economist, Sam Ibrahim, to chat about the CEH’s Regulating Rentals paper. With almost a third of households ... Read more
Podcast
September 5, 2023
Re:CAP – Glass Ceilings: Gendered Inequality in the Housing System
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Emma Dawson is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to chat about the Centre for Equitable Housing’s second paper from their Australian Housing Monitor – Glass Ceilings: Gendered ... Read more
Podcast
August 16, 2023
Re:CAP – Reforming Casual Employment in Australia
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Emma Dawson is joined by Research Associate for the Centre for New Industry, Sarah Mackenzie to discuss their latest report: Towards Fairness and Security – Reforming Casual Employment in Australia Read ... Read more
Podcast
July 18, 2023
Re:CAP – Four Day Working Week
Welcome to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Emma Dawson is joined by Research Economist, Sam Ibrahim, to discuss their report on the Four Day Work trial: Sharing the Spoils: A Gender Lens Analysis of the Four Day Week ... Read more
Podcast
July 5, 2023
Re:CAP – Australian Inequality Index
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Matthew Lloyd-Cape is joined by Emma Dawson and Sam Ibrahim, to discuss the launch of Per Capita’s latest initiative: The Australian Inequality Index. Together they will detail what the index is, ... Read more
Podcast
June 20, 2023
Re:CAP – Centre For New Industry US Study Tour
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. On this week’s episode, CNI Director, Shirley Jackson, calls in from Washington D.C. to report on his USA Study Tour. Shirley is joined by economist, Steven Hamilton, to discuss the AUKUS deal, the ... Read more
Podcast
June 6, 2023
Re:CAP – Workforce Australia Submission
Welcome to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Emma Dawson is joined by Senior Research Fellow, May Lam, to discuss their latest submission for Per Capita: Submission to the Workforce Australia Inquiry Read the full report here: https://percapita.org.au/our_work/submission-to-the-workforce-australia-inquiry/ https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t27u72/ReCAP_Ep5_Workforce_Sub6hs5r.mp3 ... Read more
Podcast
May 11, 2023
Re:CAP Ep.04: 2023 Federal Budget Post Mortem
Welcome to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Emma Dawson is joined by Shirley Jackson, Matthew Lloyd-Cape, and Senior Research Fellow, Margaret MacKenzie, to give our 2023 Federal Budget Postmortem.
Podcast
May 3, 2023
Re:CAP – 2023 Federal Budget Expectations
Welcome to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Executive Director, Emma Dawson, is joined by CNI Director, Shirley Jackson, and Senior Research Fellow, May Lam, to share their expectations for the 2023 Federal Budget. Published May 2023.
Podcast
April 27, 2023
Re:CAP – HECS and Abolishing Indexation
Welcome to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. In episode two, Director for the Centre for Equitable Housing, Matthew Lloyd-Cape, is joined by Director for the Centre for New Industry, Shirley Jackson, to discuss their latest submission: Abolishing Indexation and Raising the ... Read more
Podcast
April 10, 2023
Re:CAP – Centre For Equitable Housing
Welcome to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. In this episode, Per Capita Director Emma Dawson joins Director for the Centre for Equitable Housing, Matthew Lloyd-Cape, to discuss their latest report which outlines Australian experience within the housing market. Read full report ... Read more
Burning Platforms
Burning Platforms
September 2, 2024
The NSFW Edition
What can Only Fans teach us about the internet? Social media academic Emily van der Nagel takes us through her research with content creators and consumers to reveal the logic behind a very different platform. She joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the ... Read more
Burning Platforms
August 20, 2024
Emotional Rescue
In this week’s episode if Burning Platforms, the panel dives into the product liability of companion apps with consumer law academia, Jeannie Peterson. Also this week, they touch on: * the UK riots and platform responsibility * Musk’s X-rated presidential dalliance * and the People’s bid for TiKTok Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per ... Read more
Burning Platforms
August 5, 2024
How AI Will Really Destroy the World
Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI. Gordon Noble from UTS’s Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading. He joins our regular panel of Digital ... 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
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
Burning Platforms
June 25, 2024
Plurality
This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential’s Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea share a special extended interview with Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang and Radical xChange founder Glen Weyl about their new collaborative book, ‘Plurality.’ https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8ktx53h2aiqb8r5x/BP50.mp3 And don’t forget to subscribe to The ... Read more
Burning Platforms
June 12, 2024
Invisible Bystanders
This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, and HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton, are joined by Professor Nicholas Davis from UTS’s Human Technology Institute as they dive deep into new research on how worker power could be the key to harnessing AI to deliver real ... Read more
Burning Platforms
May 27, 2024
Will Google Eat Itself?
On this week’s Burning Platforms, host Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton are joined by media and tech commentator Ricky Sutton to dive deep into his analysis of Google’s growing dominance and how it might be its own Achilles Heel. Plus they also ponder whether: Can ... Read more
Burning Platforms
May 14, 2024
Who Stole Our Books?
Is AI robbing writers of their ideas and what can we do about it? Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen joins the regular panelists Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton for our fortnightly dive into political tech. They also discuss: Whether Google really cares about our ... Read more
Burning Platforms
April 30, 2024
Judgment Day
This week’s Burning Platforms looks at Australia’s face-off with Elon Musk and the role live-streaming has in building media accountability. Also covered: Google’s sacking of workers who protested the companies deployment of its tech stack in Israel and a new wearable that promises to remember everything you say. With special guest, author Tim ... Read more
Burning Platforms
April 16, 2024
In Moderation
Burning Platforms dives deep into the role humans play in managing large platforms and small communities with academic and convenor of the upcoming All Things in Moderation conference Venessa Paech. Our panel also discusses: Who is really incognito on Google? Who should deal with the downstream risks of Open AI’s new Voice Engine? And ... Read more
Burning Platforms
March 27, 2024
Mind-Reading for Dummies
Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology – from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. Burning Platforms takes a deep dive into AI-generated mind reading with Michael Blumenstein, Deputy Dean at UTS’s Faculty of Engineering and IT. Plus: Is Trump’s Truth Social the “Ultimate ... Read more
Burning Platforms
March 19, 2024
The Code 2.0 with Belinda Barnett
Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology – from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. This week, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan dive deep into Meta’s threat to pull news from Australia and what it will mean to journalism and whether the compromise required to ... Read more
Burning Platforms
March 1, 2024
Judging Meta with Dr Nick Suzor
Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology – from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. For our first episode for 2024, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan will discuss the federal governments new doxxing laws, Open AI’s latest product, Sora, and question whether LinkedIn is the ... Read more
Burning Platforms
November 6, 2023
Burning Platforms – Faking it
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. As the world races to regulate artificial intelligence and machine learning, we’re joined by Professor Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the University of New South Wales and author of new book ‘Faking It’, to expose all of A.I.’s tricks and lies. Burning ... Read more
Burning Platforms
October 17, 2023
Burning Platforms – Tech Horror Stories
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This episode of Burning Platforms looks at the march of AI through the prism of dystopias with critic and writer Richard King, author of ‘Here Be Monsters’. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square ... Read more
Burning Platforms
September 4, 2023
Burning Platforms – Life of Pi
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. On this episode the panel is joined for an intimate discussion with the self described ‘emotional intelligent’ AI chatbot, Pi. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square – an initiative of Per Capita.
Burning Platforms
August 8, 2023
Burning Platforms – ALP Live Hack
This episode of Burning Platforms comes live from the Australian Labor Party National Conference Fringe Festival where we talk AI regulation, privacy reform and hack the data of an MP! Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square – an initiative of Per Capita.
Burning Platforms
July 30, 2023
Burning Platforms – ’Cookers’ in their underpants – The Voice and social media
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. With The Voice to Parliament referendum campaign in full swing, we examine the role that digital platforms play in influencing the discussion. Our panel is joined special guest Queensland University of Technology Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Axel Bruns. Burning ... Read more
Burning Platforms
July 20, 2023
Burning Platforms – True Lies – Can we regulate disinformation?
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This episode, we are joined by Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication from LaTrobe University to dissect ACMA’s proposed new disinformation powers, and ask the question, ‘Can we actually regulate disinformation?’ Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre ... Read more
Burning Platforms
July 2, 2023
Burning Platforms – Living With AI
Technology described as artificial intelligence is becoming more pervasive, with AI algorithms transforming science and industry, along with our everyday lives. But what is AI really? Is it truly intelligent? Is it always a benignly useful modern-world companion? Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, the Burning ... Read more
Burning Platforms
April 27, 2023
Burning Platforms – Privacy Misconception
Apps now harvest so much of our data, from our locations and movements, our shopping habits, even for some women – their fertility. What are the privacy implications of capturing this much bodily information? Burning Platforms speaks with academic Katharine Kemp about her work tracking the data-harvesting of fertility apps. Burning Platforms is ... Read more
Burning Platforms
April 4, 2023
Burning Platforms – Digital Playground
With a new focus on protecting children online as part of an evolution of the Privacy Act, rights activist Chloe Shorten (Director Alfred Health and Industry Funds Services, Ambassador Foyer Foundation) joins the Burning Platforms panel to look at the case for using new and existing laws to define and enforce the rights of minors. ... Read more
Burning Platforms
March 21, 2023
Burning Platforms – Public Interest Data
With the first major review of the Australian Privacy Act in 40 years reaching end-game, the Burning Platforms panel unpack the state of events, and discuss a new report looking at how tick-a-box consent is undermining our freedom and privacy. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square ... Read more
Burning Platforms
March 7, 2023
Burning Platforms – Identity Crisis
After the string of hacks in late 2022 the government has developed a new online identity wallet. What is the logic behind it? Will it provide better privacy for citizens? And should we trust government with our data anyway? Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week ... Read more
Burning Platforms
February 12, 2023
Burning Platforms – Chokepoint Capitalism
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, we speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ and explore how creatives can break free of Big Tech and Big Content. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square ... Read more
Burning Platforms
December 19, 2022
Burning Platforms – Live in Melbourne
The final Burning Platforms of 2022 reflects on the year that was, including Elon Musk, tech regulation, privacy and more. Plus we held quizzes, played ‘Dan or bot’, and launched new book ‘Disconnect’! Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square – an initiative of Per Capita.
Burning Platforms
November 27, 2022
Burning Platforms – The End of the (Big Tech) World as we know it
Twitter is imploding before our eyes under Elon Musk, Meta is shedding staff and stock prices, and the crypto winter freezes out more people as FTX collapses. Is this the end of the (Big Tech) world as we know it? And are we all feeling fine? What will happen next? Welcome to Burning Platforms: ... Read more
Burning Platforms
November 15, 2022
Burning Platforms – Navigating the Metaverse
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. As we move deeper into the new phases of the internet should we be building in guardrails and redlines around this new technology? And even if we should, can we? This week, the Burning Platform panel deep dives into the Metaverse ... Read more
Burning Platforms
November 4, 2022
Burning Platforms – Resilience or Redesign – Approaching our Tech Future
As part of the 2022 NetThing Internet Governance Conference, Burning Platforms will ask – “Do we need to build our resilience against a worsening tech world, or should we design a better one?” As the tech harms pile up and change us and our society, we deep dive into a new book ‘Disconnect – why we ... Read more
Burning Platforms
October 16, 2022
Burning Platforms – Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlock
The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows. Burning Platforms asks – will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With special guest Paris Marx, Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, and host of ‘Tech Won’t Save ... Read more
Burning Platforms
October 10, 2022
Burning Platforms – Breached As – the Optus data leak
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. On this week’s episode, we look at the huge data breach at Optus, and ask whether this breach is a feature or a bug of a world where mass data collection has now been normalised. Burning Platforms is brought to ... Read more
Burning Platforms
September 18, 2022
Burning Platforms – The Dark Arts of Online Advertising
Burning Platforms goes under Big Tech’s hood with new research into the increased opacity of online advertising – and the impact of that secrecy on public discourse. With special guests: Nicholas Carah, Associate Professor at University of Queensland Aimee Brownbill, Senior Research and Policy Advisor at Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education Burning ... Read more
Burning Platforms
September 9, 2022
Burning Platforms – Algorithmic Asylum
With a proliferation of wellness technologies, the human mind is emerging as the latest frontier in the spread of tech solutionism. This week’s Burning Platforms digs deep into a new report ‘Digital Futures in the Mind’ which looks at how algorithmic solutions can have both a positive and negative impact on mental health. Our special ... Read more
Burning Platforms
August 21, 2022
Burning Platforms – Civilising the ’Tech-Bro’
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. On this episode, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan speak with technology writer and commentator, Maria Farrell, about the power dynamics of tech advocacy and her concept of a ‘duty of hope’. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of ... Read more
Burning Platforms
August 8, 2022
Burning Platforms – The Balance of (Tech) Power
In this new progressive Australian government, where do the fault lines lie when it comes to digital rights? Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea, and Dan Stinton, as they speak with NSW Greens Senator and spokesperson for Digital Rights and IT, David ... Read more
Burning Platforms
July 24, 2022
Burning Platforms – Cybernetics
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, the Burning Platforms panel deep dive into the complex and exciting world of cybernetics with Associate Professor Ellen Broad from the Australian National University School of Cybernetics and member of the Australian Government’s Data Advisory Council. Burning Platforms is brought to ... Read more
Burning Platforms
July 11, 2022
Burning Platforms – Home Truths
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week the Burning Platform’s panel dive deep into the impact of home-sharing platform AirBnB on the property market with Trish Burt, convenor of Neighbours Not Strangers, who has been fighting a one-woman war against AirBnB for years, calling out policies that privilege ... Read more
Burning Platforms
June 27, 2022
Burning Platforms – Private Eyes
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This episode will dive deep into the risk of unfettered AI following the release of a major report regarding the use of Facial Recognition Technology in Australia. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square – an initiative ... Read more
Burning Platforms
June 13, 2022
Burning Platforms – Introducing ’Civility’
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. On this week’s episode, Peter Lewis is joined by David Swan, (Technology Editor, The Australian), Samantha Floreani (Program Lead, Digital Rights Watch), to introduce ‘Civility’ – a new collaborative platform designed to create better public engagement – with its co-founder, Nicholas Davis. Burning ... Read more
Burning Platforms
May 16, 2022
Burning Platforms – The People’s Choice
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. In the last Burning Platforms before the Australian Federal Election, Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea, and Dan Stinton run the rule over the policies being offered up by the major parties. Is it just Coke vs. Pepsi? Or are there bigger ideas at play? ... Read more
Burning Platforms
May 2, 2022
Burning Platforms – Deus Ex Machina
Humans embrace technology with a child-like optimism, but what are the threats Artificial Intelligence poses our society if its impacts are not thought through? Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, the Burning Platforms panel dives deep into the amorality of AI with a special discussion with Professor ... Read more
Burning Platforms
April 15, 2022
Burning Platforms – Are we addicted to tech?
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. On this week’s episode, Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea, and Dan Stinton dive deep into digital addiction: are we being played? Are we addicted to tech? And what can we do to get ourselves off the bad stuff? https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2hes9m/d_clips_782a25bc-37bd-4974-8d34-aef5002539a0_7a167a97-6417-4b69-a5bc-aef50028b80a_341879ca-13ab-40d2-9189-aef5002af8b1_audio.mp3 Burning Platforms is brought ... Read more
Burning Platforms
April 3, 2022