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Policy Forum Pod — 330 episodes
Care, connection and who decides
Our vulnerable environment with Sophie Lewis
The Forest Wars: securing the future
A conversation with ANU Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell
Building for social inclusion with Sara Bice
21st Century Capitalism - A tribute to Susan Sell
Politics, policy and a healthy human future with Helen Clark
The public sector and public value
Reflecting on 2023 with John Falzon and Thomas Mayo
Strengthening political representation
Caring through disaster
Housing fit for our climate
Reimagining urban planning
Fixing our social housing crisis
Australia’s dependence on housing
The importance of music and creativity
Reflecting on the Voice with Janine O’Flynn
Referendums and Constitutional change with Frank Bongiorno
The narrative of the Voice with Rebecca Huntley
History is calling with Peter Yu
Thomas Mayo on the Voice to Parliament
Health impacts of fossil fuels
Insights into the Intergenerational Report
Power and policy: from despair to action
Creating communities for children
Reclaiming imagination with Rob Hopkins
Towards Net Zero: climate, policy and politics
Politics of despair: 21st century capitalism
What we value: reimagining social policy
Hierarchies of evidence: reimagining social policy
After Robodebt: reimagining social policy
Valuing care: reimagining social policy
Constitutional reform: recalibrating Australia’s voice
The challenges and heartbreak of climate negotiations
Catch up on the Voice to Parliament
Integrating risk, reward and resilience in policy
Policy without voice: a history of failure and harm
Budget beyond the numbers with Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers
Behind the scenes of change
The economy and our future
Budget 2023: Defining Our Values
Uncovering a cycle of child abuse in Australia
Beacon of Democracy: The strength of listening
Lessons from South Australia’s Voice to Parliament
Global health: holding industries accountable
Courting change: Indigenous reconciliation
Markets of misery and the value of hope
Kicking policy goals
The loss and damage consensus at COP27
Justice for First Nations Australians
Addressing the housing affordability crisis
Not every house is a home
Housing in a changing climate
Building a new architecture of fairness
Reimagining the future of higher education
Playtime: transforming teaching and learning
Providing an inclusive 21st century education
Changing childcare
The art of living together
Waste and reward: low-value health care and its impact on patients
Navigating the mental health system
Taking the temperature of Australian health care
Australia’s drinking water divide
Australia’s road to a sustainable and equitable energy future
A penguin gets lost in the Australian desert
The state of the environment
Making empathy unconditional: changing the story on poverty and inequality
The price of a healthy life
Economic sovereignty for First Nations Australians
Back to basics - the economy and us
Healing from the heart
Food, water and energy for all
Can Australia’s new parliament ‘set the standard’?
Australia’s Pacific diplomacy
Australia’s post-election policy priorities
A care collective
The future of healthcare
LIVE SHOW | Election policy peril
Hope for aged care
The right to a healthy environment
A bittersweet budget?
Preserving public goods
Australian species on the brink
Planning for the worst on climate change
Women and the social security system
Globalisation and the search for common ground
Preventing violence against women and girls with disabilities
All ears? Communication and the key to a correct diagnosis
Who decides? The push to lower Australia’s voting age
Big vision, small politics, and why we must #ValueCaring
Trouble at the register
Inside COP26
Building a creative country
Focusing on our footprint
The future of the public servant
COP26 and climate justice for the Pacific
Will COP26 be a turning point?
Feeling the heat
Breaking with convention - human rights in the Asia Pacific
What’s at stake at the Glasgow climate conference?
Ending violence against women and their children
Growing up in the shadow of the pandemic
Time for work to change
Protecting Australians at work with Michele O’Neil
The value of the commons with Guy Standing
Ensuring decent work and social protection for all
What we value with Marilyn Waring
Work with James Suzman
Running on empty
The future of political leadership
Women in leadership with Natasha Stott Despoja
Local leadership and the democratic process
Political leadership in Australia
Learning from the Black Summer
Why policymakers need to value caring
Caring for older Australians
A statement of values? Australia’s falling foreign aid budget
India’s COVID-19 nightmare
Successes and setbacks in the Pacific
Social policy and the federal budget
A vision for a healthy Australia
Australia’s climate narrative after the Biden summit
Doing democracy differently – young Australians and politics
Assuming new roles - gender, the pay gap, and violence against women
Bushfires, inequality, and planning for the future
On life’s lottery with Glyn Davis
Marching for justice
Insecure work, unemployment, and Australia after the COVID-19 crisis
Ending gender-based violence and harassment at work
Reimagining social security
Education, Indigenous wellbeing, and the future of Australia
Speaking from the heart
The meaning of Country
The wellbeing economy - lessons for the future
The wellbeing economy - democratic repair in disconnected times
The wellbeing economy - a healthier human future
The wellbeing economy - a glimpse of the good life
The wellbeing economy: universal basic income with Guy Standing
A post-carbon world
Wellbeing and reimagining the Australian economy
School’s out - the COVID-19 crisis and school education
Fact or fiction? The US election and the psychology of misinformation
The future of work in the wake of COVID-19
Clear and present failure - climate policy in Australia
Making the invisible, visible - COVID-19 and poverty
Vision deficit? The federal budget and Australia’s future
Making the invisible, visible - poverty and disability
TikTok - the platform, the people, and the politics
Making the invisible, visible - understanding poverty in Indonesia
A trip down memory lane
Making the invisible, visible - poverty in South Africa
Unmuting the muses
Making the invisible, visible - gender and poverty
Activism, social justice, fighting for a fairer Australia
Making the invisible, visible – episode 1
Water, decolonisation, and connections to Country
Can policymakers detoxify social media?
More than just a flesh wound
Talking with the tax team about policy
A precarious position - Indonesia’s workers in the pandemic
The future of healthcare and the fight against COVID-19
Food for thought
Pacific policy responses to COVID-19
Tackling the loss of local news
Ask Policy Forum Episode III (part two)
Ask Policy Forum Episode III (part one)
Economic uncertainty, COVID-19, and the mental health of younger Australians
Pandemic policy perspectives (part two)
Pandemic policy perspectives
Indigenous health and the ongoing march for a more equal Australia
JobSeeker payments and the approaching unemployment cliff
Taken for granted? Volunteering in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond
Can infrastructure get Australia’s economy back on track?
Securing our human future
WHO’s to blame? International organisations in the COVID-19 crisis
Hope and life after COVID-19 - health, politics, and people power
Hope and life after COVID-19 - the economy with John Hewson
Public health, family violence, and COVID-19
The psychology of uncertainty and talking to kids about COVID-19
Coping in isolation - mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Australia's gambling problem and its impact on women
Transforming policy for the greater good
Where are the women?
Climate change and the high price of doing nothing
Public service productivity and popping the Canberra bubble
Ask Policy Forum: The podcast where you ask the questions
Coronavirus and a state of unease
From the ashes: social security and Australia’s bushfire recovery
Caring for burning Country
Climate change - policy perfect vs policy possible
Managing bushfires (part two)
Managing bushfires (part one)
The gift of policy
Revitalising urban areas with Helen Sullivan
Andrew Leigh - Innovation + Equality
Beyond declaring a climate emergency
People power beyond the ballot box
Illicit drug policy - more harm than good?
A sense of social insecurity
Extra: Tayanah O’Donnell - Transforming our cities
The Great Green Debate – live!
Julian Burnside: Changing attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers
Living with the city
Pilots, but no plane – landing better mental health policies
Katherine Trebeck - What makes a good life?
Richard Baldwin - The Globotics Upheaval
Language barriers
Can Australia make its waste work?
Food, farming, and climate change
Stepping up in the Pacific
Addressing human rights in Southeast Asia
Promoting private investment in the Pacific
Philip Alston - poverty as a political choice
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
Fixing the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Hold the front page – media policy and problems
In the public service we trust?
Getting science into policy, politics, and public discussion
A policy wish list
Driving electric vehicle policy
Reconciliation Week 2019 – Honesty is the best policy
The Auspolicy issue – what the country voted for
Can Australia spark an energy change?
Extra: First 100 days of the next government (live event)
Extra: Australia’s place in the world (live event)
When good policy communication goes bad
Extra: Wicked problems - domestic policy (live event)
Timor-Leste – politics, policy, and problems
Podcast: Climate finance in Asia and the Pacific
Extra: The state of Australian politics - live event
Podcast: Naila Kabeer – the gender agenda
Ask Us Anything 100th episode special
Getting the public service fit for the future
Countering violent extremism
Shock tactics – Brexit and thinking the unthinkable
Podcast: Women in politics and policy
Podcast: A social insecurity system
Is every billionaire a policy failure?
The policy and politics of refugees and asylum seekers
A war on drugs, or a war on drug users?
A Pacific-specific approach to regionalism
Australia's environmental performance review
Ghosts of policy past, present and future
The Brief: Women in politics
Preventing and punishing genocide
Pod extra - Making the public service fit for the future: David Williamson
Water justice
Counter-terrorism and civil liberties
Rusted off: how rural voters in Australia are taking policy change into their own hands
The Brief: Freedom of religion, or freedom to discriminate?
The Brief: Sanctioning Myanmar
A vision for the North
The Brief: Seeking asylum
Is Australia’s policy machinery fit for purpose?
The Brief: Australia's Banking Royal Commission
Getting the measure of global poverty
The Brief: Vice policy
Building bridges between research and industry
The Brief: Quality control for tourism?
Australia’s light bulb moment
The Brief: Taking bigotry off the books in India
Power to the people?
The Brief: Designing for disaster
What do policymakers think of scientists?
The Brief: China’s Xinjiang police state
Podcast: Putting community engagement in the neighbourhood of good policy
The Brief: too close to home
Impact made easy
The Brief: Courting Duterte
Water waste: the dangerous paradox of irrigation efficiency
The Brief: mixing pop and policy
Putting science and policy on the same wavelength
The Brief: Australia’s National Energy Guarantee
Is Asia sleepwalking to war?
Policy Forum Pod Extra: protecting the media
A picture of health: Sir Harry Burns
Policy Forum Pod Extra: Pakistan election
Global policy at the coalface
No child’s play
Diving into diversity
Looking back, looking forward
Are policymakers unethical?
Cause for hope as Ruak takes the reins in Timor-Leste?
Scoring goals in Putin’s Russia
Who run the world?
Back to basics – Finland’s Universal Basic Income
Diving into the Indo-Pacific debate
Australia's place in the new space race
Seeing the policy big picture: the science of systems
Australia’s new intelligence jigsaw
Feeding the world
A high price tag for the Australian dream
The future of work in the Asia-Pacific
Pirates, politics & policy: Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir
Time to tax robots?
Tackling violence against women
Forgiveness and freedom: Terry Waite
Why security can't neglect gender: Jeni Klugman
A court for the kleptocrats: Mark L Wolf
Peter Singer: doing good in the world of politics
Under the hood of the Asia-Pacific economy
All things being equal: Dr Babatunde Osotimehin
Mental health, migration, and megacities
Snowy 2.0: the lowdown on hydro
Inside the black box of Chinese policy
A marriage of inconvenience: the sharp end where science meets policy
Bridging the gap between science and policy
Laos: A great place to have a war
Are universities failing society? Asit Biswas and James Giggacher
GDP RIP?
Australia's future foreign policy
#Censusfail - what went wrong, why, and what to do about it
Cambodia: apocalypse then, apocalypse now - Gareth Evans and Simon Springer
A basic income, or the end of the welfare state?
Judgement day in the South China Sea: Policy Forum Pod extra
Australia votes, then waits: Policy Forum Pod
Are regional policies failing women?
Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Asia-Pacific Views On Brexit
Post-Paris: Turning the climate agreement into action | Ottmar Edenhofer and Frank Jotzo
The Vote: Australian election series - health policy event
The Vote: Australian election series - social policy event
The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Tax and the Economy
The Vote: 2016 Federal Election Series - Security and Foreign Affairs
The Vote: Australian Election event series - policy, politics and predictions
Australian election special: Bob Cotton, Sue Regan and Quentin Grafton
Does HECS need HELP? | Bruce Chapman and Tim Higgins
Developing Asia | The Asian Development Outlook 2016 report
Developing Agriculture in Pakistan
Hugh White & Stephan Fruehling: Australian Defence White Paper - good, bad, or just wrong?
Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, and the mysteries of authenticity