Ideas for your Ears: Per Capita's Podcast

Post-Budget Forum with former federal treasurer Wayne Swan MP, in conversation with Per Capita’s Stephen Koukoulas, Emma Dawson and Warwick Smith.

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Andrew Leigh, Explaining the Rise of Australian Inequality, 5 December 2016, Sydney. Dr Leigh outlined the big drivers of inequality in Australia: low union membership, technology, globalisation, taxes and transfers, and market concentration. The strongest friends of egalitarianism include a fair transfer system and good unions, while some of the biggest challenges are robots and monopolies.

Per Capita event with Melody Barnes hosted by Griffith University. Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Melody Barnes, is in Australia for a series of events with Per Capita. Â At this event, at Griffith University, Ms Barnes spoke about her work at the White House and her role shaping the domestic policy agenda of the Obama Administration.

Forum - On Leadership: Cities, Community and Innovation, with Melody Barnes, Lucy Turnbull and Annabel Crabb. Melody Barnes spoke about what makes a liveable city: “You have to make sure that the prosperity that comes from innovation is widely distributed. Â That includes issues of social mobility and income stagnation, education and job training – focus on those kind of programs to ensure people can participate in an innovation economy."

In February 2016, Per Capita is bringing Melody Barnes to Australia for a series of events. Ms Barnes served as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Assistant to US President Obama from 2009 to 2012. Melody Barnes will participate in the following public events while she’s in Australia.

Public forum with Paul Keating for the launch of the Centre for Applied Policy in Positive Ageing (CAPPA). CAPPA is our "do tank" within a think tank, a place for us to roll up our sleeves to turn some of our great policy ideas from the Blueprint for an Ageing Australia and our Longevity and Positive Ageing project into real life initiatives to make the great gift of increased longevity into a social and economic opportunity for Australia. Per Capita’s David Hetherington said at the launch, “we need to move beyond talking to action; to start trialing what works and what doesn’t”. Longer lives can present Australia with an enormous opportunity rather than a threat, if we get it right.

Launch of the Centre for Applied Policy in Positive Ageing, full audio of event.

Emily Millane and Allison Orr discuss Per Capita's new report, Spaces for All Ages. Population, participation and productivity. These are the “three Ps” which feature in Australia’s intergenerational reports as the means to ameliorate the negative economic implications of an ageing society.

John Scott from 4BC interviews Per Capita's David Hetherington on Per Capita's latest report, Paradise Lost. David talks about what's driving declining was growth and what we can do about it.

Per Capita Research Fellow Emily Millane joins Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne as his guest on the Revolutions segment. She talks about Per Capita's new report, Spaces for All Ages, and new ways of thinking about ageing, population, and social participation.

Per Capita's Emily Millane talks to Fiona Wyllie on ABC Mid North Coast about the Intergenerational Report on the day of its release, 5 March 2015. In particular, Emily highlights the issues related to Australia's ageing population. See also http://percapita.org.au/media/intergenerational-report-give-us-ideas-not-politics/

Emily Millane talks about her new report The Head, The Heart & The House with Rev Bill Crews on 2GB, 1 February 2015. The psychology of housing has not been well understood so the public policy settings have been misplaced. People have an emotional connection to their home and community, but policy settings and plans are based only on financial and "rational" criteria.

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Wayne Swan MP, Tony Sheldon and David Hetherington - a conversation about the pursuit of the Good Society. Economists now know that inequality is not only unfair - it's inefficient. Swan argues that Australia, probably more than any other country, was able to match strong economic growth with fairness of outcomes throughout the twentieth century, through industrial relations, universal healthcare and education, and a highly progressive tax and transfer system. These gains are now being challenged.

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Wayne Swan and George Megalogenis,, launching Swan's new book, The Good Fight: Six Years, Two Prime Ministers and Staring down the Great Recession at the Melbourne launch at the State Library of Victoria on 21 August 2014. Australia's fiscal response to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/9 ticked all the boxes: it was well thought through, it had a solid theoretical underpinning attuned to the times, and most importantly, it achieved its ends.

At this Reform Agenda Series public forum, Per Capita hosted the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Bill Shorten MP and the Hon. Steve Bracks AC, former Premier of Victoria and co-author of the Bracks/Carr/Faulkner Review. This audio includes speeches by Bracks and Shorten, followed by Q & A session with the audience.

Reform Agenda Series public forum to launch Per Capita's latest report "Who's Afraid of a Public School?", an investigation into public attitudes to education in Australia. Attitudes towards public schools have become very negative; we need to inspire citizens to have faith in government delivered community services, and the policy solutions proposed in this paper focus on how to give citizens a voice in public education.

Reform Agenda Series to launch Per Capita's latest report Still Kicking - Longevity and Ageing: the demographic climate change of our time, with Australian of the Year, Ita Buttrose AM OBE. This important research brings together established and emerging trends among older Australians, and argues that we are facing the demographic climate change of our time. The report looks at the policy levers available to turn this looming challenge into an opportunity for Australian society to reap the benefits of ageing and longevity.

Through its Reform Agenda Series, Per Capita is hosting public fora for the two contenders for leadership of the Australian Labor Party to present their vision for the future of the Left in Australia. This first forum features Bill Shorten MP.

Through its Reform Agenda Series, Per Capita is hosting public fora for the two contenders for leadership of the Australian Labor Party to present their vision for the future of the Left in Australia. This first forum features Anthony Albanese MP.

Per Capita's David Hetherington talks to Jon Faine about Per Capita's new report, Training Days. The introduction of contestability has led to higher costs and the impact of this has mostly fallen on lower-income and disadvantaged students.

Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan MP, gives his Post Budget Address at Per Capita's Reform Agenda Series. Reform in Australia and the struggle for a better society is something that's been a defining characteristic of our modern political history. Frequently understood very narrowly, Swan sees it reform as "making things better", improving living standards, spreading opportunity, summed up in the idea of "a fair go".

Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers an address to give the picture, purpose and context of the 2013 Federal Budget at Per Capita's Reform Agenda Series. This year's budget will be about a national challenge - huge reductions in revenue growth - and a national plan - to make necessary investments in the nation's future to ensure no one is left behind.

Joint event with Per Capita's Reform Agenda Series and Jobs Australia, to present Professor Dan Finn. on the shape and future of Australia's employment services, and what we can learn from the UK experience.

Public forum with Andrew Leigh MP and Dennis Glover for Per Capita's Reform Agenda Series. Does the future of the left lie with embracing liberalism, including egalitarianism, minority rights and open markets? This forum goes beyond specific policy areas and the day-to-day of politics, and delves into political philosophy, values, and the importance of ideas.