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Emma Dawson - Executive Director of The Chifley Research Centre

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My guest today is Emma Dawson, Executive Director of the Australian Labor Party's think tank, the Chifley Research Centre. Today we discuss:What the increasingly inexact and unhelpful terms, "left" and "right", mean these days as well as what she understands by the term "populist"How the Australian Labor Party has moved on from the Hawke-Keating-Howard era and where it has notHer thoughts on "liberalism" and "free trade"Whether it is possible to have an adult conversation about immigration in AustraliaWhy young women are turning to the radical leftAnd much morehttps://www.chifley.org.au/https://x.com/ChifleyResearch

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