Gemma Tognini on Australia’s Political Revolt
Gemma Tognini and Claire Lehmann discuss One Nation’s rise, Albanese’s leadership, government waste and the antisemitism that Bondi exposed in Australia.
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Australia’s Coming Censorship Machine
The Albanese government's proposed Digital Duty of Care laws would give regulators sweeping powers over online content, threatening free speech in Australia and setting a dangerous precedent for internet regulation worldwide.
Josh Frydenberg on Bondi, Antisemitism and A Grateful Son
Former Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg tells Claire Lehmann why he believes Bondi was preventable, and what Australia needs on antisemitism, tax and economic reform
Australia Is Sick: Misha Saul on What Went Wrong
Investor Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss Australia’s declining productivity, immigration policy, and the political choices shaping the country’s future.
The Retro Fashion of the Wealth Tax
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
An Abject Policy Failure
An unorthodox survey suggests it’s time for the Australian government to concede defeat in the tobacco wars. Will it have the guts to do so?
‘Economic Vandalism’: Geoff Wilson on Labor’s War on Australian Aspiration
Fund manager Geoff Wilson tells Claire Lehmann that Labor’s new capital gains tax will drive Australian capital out of growth companies and into franked dividends—and push a generation of founders offshore.
Why Australia Gave Up on Getting Richer
McKinsey's Chris Bradley on why Australia stopped investing—and why he believes the poorest country in the world could live as well as Switzerland does today by 2100.
The Tobacco Wars
How Australia's war on tobacco backfired.
Generation Trapped: Why Young Australians Have Given Up Hope
Parnell Palme McGuinness on the six distinct "tribes" of young Australians she uncovered—and why personal agency, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness.
Why Australia's New Capital Gains Tax Is the Best Tax Policy for Crushing the Economy
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
The Party of the Worker Is Now the Party of the Bureaucrat
The old fight was labour versus capital. The real fight now is between those who create value and those who administer it, and Australia's new budget has picked the wrong side.
Open Hiding
Jewish testimonies before Australia's Royal Commission paint a portrait of a culture already transformed—one in which Jewishness has become a professional and social liability
Australia's Broken Justice System: Andrew Bushnell | Quillette Cetera Ep. 64
From the murder of a five-year-old Aboriginal girl to Melbourne's tobacco wars, Andrew Bushnell joins Zoe Sankey to examine the human cost of Australia's broken justice system.
From Babylon to Eurovision
My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.