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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Eccleston on the electoral mood in Tasmania
May 06, 2019 09:20 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBEccleston says fisherman Craig Garland could have a shot at winning a Senate seat. Facebook University of Tasmania political science professor, Richard Eccleston, says a lack of a coherent energy policy could count against the Coalition in the island state. “The party which seems to offer the more compelling commitment to climate change and renewable production will probably be well placed to capitalize on that [Tasmania’s environmental interests].” Eccleston told The Conversation the vo...
India election 2019: millions of Indian youth are underemployed and going to the polls
May 06, 2019 05:59 - 28 minutes - 64.4 MBIndian general elections begin April 11. vepar5/shutterstock Here’s an astonishingly large number. Around 900 million Indians are heading to the polls to decide if they want to reelect the current government of Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). India Tomorrow is a seven-part podcast series by The Anthill (produced by The Conversation UK), exploring some of the major issues facing India – identity politics, the rise of Hindu nationalism, Kashmir, the ro...
Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever
May 03, 2019 06:40 - 30 minutes - 69.6 MBA scene at the Aquarius Festival, Nimbin, 1973. Flickr/Harry Watson Smith, CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA Today, Trust Me, I’m An Expert brings you a special episode carried across from another Conversation podcast, Essays On Air. In the north-east corner of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales is a small former dairying and banana farming community. Today, however, that village is unrecognisable. Nimbin is now widely acknowledged as Australia’s counter-cultural capital, a sister city...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Colebatch on the battle in Victoria - and the Senate
May 01, 2019 07:57 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBoriginal Inside Story’s Tim Colebatch says three Victorian seats are seen as “pretty certain” wins for Labor - Dunkley, Corangamite and Chisholm. A number of others “are really open” - Casey, La Trobe, Deakin, Flinders and possibly even Higgins. “It does strike me that [the Liberals] they’ve done a lot to show the flag in Victoria. Morrison has been down there frequently”. Colebatch tells The Conversation climate change is a big factor in many of the blue ribbon Victorian electorates. ...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: William Bowe on the state of election play in WA
April 30, 2019 08:41 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBMorrison has been campaigning in Western Australia this week. Mick Tsikas/AAP Western Australia-based William Bowe, who runs The Poll Bludger website, says “there is a feeling that there is a Labor resurgence in the state”. Bowe told The Conversation a “floundering” state economy after the mining boom downturn, with falling house prices and rising unemployment, has created a sense that “prosperity has been lost. And that sense of downward mobility is very dangerous for the government”. “...
'Labor will win this election. I think that's virtually unquestionable': political scientist Andy Marks on #AusVotes2019 and the key issues in NSW
April 30, 2019 07:16 - 14 minutes - 34 MBPolitical scientist Andy Marks says: ‘I’d suggest the momentum is with Labor and it hasn’t substantially shifted’. AAP Image/NIC ELLIS We are but a few weeks from a federal election, and the way the wind is blowing may depend on what state you’re in. Trust Me, I’m An Expert – along with Politics with Michelle Grattan – is bringing you state-focused podcast episodes as polling day approaches. To catch up on all the political drama unfolding in NSW, I spoke to political scientist (and se...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Hughes on political advertising - and Clive Palmer
April 29, 2019 08:26 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBOn Monday, the first day of pre-polling, there was a surge in social media ads. Bianca De Marchi/AAP ANU marketing lecturer Andrew Hughes says this is the first election where the advertising spend and activity has been more focussed on digital. He told The Conversation that on Monday, the first day of pre-polling, there was a surge in social media ads - the Coalition had over 230 different ads on Facebook while Labor had over 200. “The sheer volume of ads is probably the highest we’ve ...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Caroline Fisher on the spin machines of #AusVotes19
April 24, 2019 06:25 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBNot a spin machine but in fact a ballot draw for the declaration of nominations. Kelly Barnes/AAP While the major party leaders seem to have curated their images, University of Canberra assistant professor in communications and media Caroline Fisher says they can’t always control how these could be manipulated. Fisher says there has been “a real attempt to soften” Scott Morrison as the “daggy dad” through candid personal selfies. In contrast, Bill Shorten has opted for more professional s...
The myth of 'the Queensland voter', Australia's trust deficit, and the path to Indigenous recognition
April 18, 2019 01:06 - 53 minutes - 122 MBToday we're asking: what Queensland seats are the ones to watch on election night? How to give Indigenous Australians a true voice in politics? And how can we improve trust in the political system? Shutterstock Today we’re bringing you a special discussion about the federal election that took place at the launch of a book of Conversation essays, Advancing Australia: Ideas for a Better Country. Recorded at Avid Reader bookshop in Brisbane on April 17, the discussion featured Indigenous ac...
Mukurtu: an online dilly bag for keeping Indigenous digital archives safe
April 16, 2019 01:56 - 31 minutes - 71.5 MBMukurtu is a Warumungu word meaning “dilly bag” or a safe keeping place for sacred materials. Nina Maile Gordon/The Conversation CC-NY-BD Reader advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article may contain images of people who have died. A few years ago, the State Library of NSW was working with Moree’s Dhiiyaan Centre to pull together archival photographs of the 1965 Freedom Rides, an Aboriginal-led protest against racist segregationist policies in NSW...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on Labor's budget reaction
April 03, 2019 09:54 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBDean Lewins/AAP Shadow Finance minister Jim Chalmers said Labor was looking for ways to make things fairer for low-income earners who were “largely left behind” in the government’s budget. He told The Conversation the measures “would be through the tax system and would most likely be around the low and middle income tax offset which the government introduced”. New to podcasts? Podcasts are often best enjoyed using a podcast app. All iPhones come with the Apple Podcasts ap...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on budget strategy and numbers
April 02, 2019 10:15 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBMick Tsikas(AAP)/The Conversation/Shutterstock From inside the budget lockup, The Conversation’s Business and Economics editor Peter Martin and political and economic journalist Tim Colebatch from Inside Story shared their reactions to the pre-election budget. Martin said the budget featured a substantial tax cut “that goes back in time” and that while the government was forecasting “good times around the corner,” there has been barely any sign of them. He also said he thou...
PODCAST: Michelle Grattan, Peter Martin and Tim Colebatch on the election-eve budget chock full of sweeteners
April 02, 2019 09:48 - 11 minutes - 27.4 MBToday on Trust Me I'm An Expert, we're bringing you a special episode carried across from The Conversation podcast Politics with Michelle Grattan. Mick Tsikas(AAP)/The Conversation/Shutterstock Today’s federal budget, as predicted, was chock full of sweeteners designed to woo voters on the eve of what promises to be a bitterly fought election. We’ve got loads of analysis and at-a-glance graphics over here but if you’re just looking for the short, sharp version – what was announced, who’s...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jenny Macklin on inequality and Labor values
March 27, 2019 03:53 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBLukas Coch/AAP After more than two decades, Jenny Macklin is in her final days as an MP. Her legacies from her time as a Labor minister include parental leave and the landmark National Disability Insurance Scheme. In this podcast she tells The Conversation a Labor government would fix “one of the worst” problems of the NDIS by abolishing the cap on the number of staff that could be employed in the agency. “There are other issues as well […] there’s problems with the pricing o...
It's your money they're spending in this election-eve budget. Here's how we're covering the story
March 26, 2019 04:28 - 2 minutes - 5.73 MBIn Tuesday night's budget we can expect a last ditch attempt to woo voters ahead of the election in May. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas Next Tuesday night is budget night, and it’s happening on the eve of a federal election where the Coalition is in for the fight of its life to hold onto government. The Conversation’s team of editors and experts will be in the budget lockup at parliament house next Tuesday, where they’ll have early access to what the government plans to do with our money this year...
Mark Latham in the upper house? A Coalition minority government? The NSW election is nearly upon us and it's going to be a wild ride
March 08, 2019 00:46 - 24 minutes - 55.2 MBIt's a fight for a rapidly vanishing centre, which will make passing bills difficult for whoever wins. Chris Pavlich/Dean Lewins(AAP) We are but weeks away from an election in New South Wales – polling day is on March 23 – and it will be eagerly watched. Not just for the outcome but for the implications for the looming federal election. That’s according to Dr Andy Marks, a political scientist from Western Sydney University, who tells us on the podcast today that this state election outcom...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Ian McAllister on voters and issues in the coming election
March 04, 2019 07:22 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MBLukas Coch/AAP The ANU’s Australian Election Study has been running since 1987. Its director Ian McAllister says one thing voters will want at this poll is stability. McAllister says that for the first time in a long while, one of the major parties - Labor - has put forward some “very constructive policies”. But, he told The Conversation, Bill Shorten is very unpopular: he “ranks below any leader we’ve ever recorded across virtually every personal quality including things l...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Abbott and Zali Steggall on Warringah votes
February 28, 2019 10:07 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBThe Sydney electorate of Warringah will be one of the most fascinating battlegrounds in the May election, with a high profile independent Zali Stegall challenging former prime minister Tony Abbott. Despite the seat being on about 11 per cent, Abbott describes this as a “full on marginal seat campaign”. Abbott is running hard on local issues. He says over-development and traffic congestion are the biggest issues and if reelected he is keen to use his position to be a “champion” for the N...
'I think we should be very concerned': A cyber crime expert on this week's hack and what needs to happen next
February 21, 2019 19:06 - 16 minutes - 38.8 MBShutterstock/AAP/The Conversartion When Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced this week that a “sophisticated state actor” had targeted the big Australian political parties in a major cyber attack, the revelation threw up more questions than answers. Who did it and how? What data did they get their hands on? How vulnerable is our data – and our democracy? Read more: We've been hacked – so will the data be weaponised to influence election 2019? Here’s what to ...
A refugee law expert on a week of 'reckless' rhetoric and a new way to process asylum seeker claims
February 14, 2019 05:41 - 19 minutes - 44 MBPrime Minister Scott Morrison and other Coalition MPs described Labor as weak on borders after the opposition and the crossbench voted to pass a bill allowing medical transfers from Manus and Nauru. AAP/Mick Tsikas Today, we’re bringing you a special episode of our podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert for anyone wondering: what the hell happened this week? A sitting government lost a vote on the floor of parliament (which hasn’t happened in decades) over a bill that aims to facilitate medical...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kerryn Phelps on medical transfer numbers
February 13, 2019 05:40 - 10 minutes - 15 MBPhelps has only been in parliament since she won the Wentworth by-election but she has got one big win under her belt. Lukas Coch/AAP Independent MP Kerryn Phelps, who set the ball rolling for the medical transfers legislation, says its passage is “a remarkable exercise in cooperation”. Phelps says that of the about 1000 people on Manus and Nauru “around 70 people require urgent medical evacuation” and “another couple of hundred will require transfer but not as urgently”. She describes S...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Michael McCormack on banks and the bush, and the election battle
February 05, 2019 08:05 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBMcCormack acknowledges the big election challenges the Nationals face. Joel Carrett/AAP Deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Michael McCormack says the banking royal commission report contained a good outcome for farmers. McCormack praised Nationals backbenchers Llew O’Brien, George Christensen and senator John “Wacka” Williams for their role in pushing for the commission, saying he was “really pleased” about major changes recommended in relation to agricultural loans. Acknowled...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: how to spot the work of a political spin doctor this election season
January 31, 2019 19:13 - 33 minutes - 77.6 MBToday, experts reveal the tips and tricks spin doctors use to shape the political messages you’re hearing every day - especially during election campaigns. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas It’s February, the holidays seem like a distant memory and here we are barrelling toward a federal election, which the government has indicated will be in May. Remember in the olden days – as in, a few elections ago – we used to have a fairly set election campaign period of usually about six weeks? Now, of cours...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: What research says about how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions
December 30, 2018 20:29 - 36 minutes - 82.9 MBReady for all the research-backed tips and tricks for setting a goal and meeting it? www.shutterstock.com, CC BY It’s that time of year when we all start to make promises to ourselves about how this year it’ll be different. This is the year I’ll get my health in order, exercise more, save money, cut that bad habit, do more of this, less of that, and just be better. But the fact is, change is hard. Most of us need help. So, we found some. Today, experts who have researched this terrain w...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tanya Plibersek on a united Labor
December 18, 2018 04:55 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBLukas Coch/AAP The Labor party has emerged from its three day national conference in Adelaide looking united and projecting itself as “ready to govern”. Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek told The Conversation the ALP wants voters to see the party as “responsible and progressive”. She says a Labor government would “work cooperatively with the trade union movement cause we share the same objective”. “The union movement hasn’t got everything they wanted from the Labor party...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Anthony Albanese on Labor's road ahead
December 12, 2018 08:18 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBAlbanese predicts next week's ALP national conference will be "very constructive", dismissing concerns about divisions over boat turnbacks. Mick Tsikas/AAP Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese, a senior minister in the last Labor government and briefly deputy prime minister, is preparing to “hit the ground running” if the ALP wins next year’s election. But meanwhile the opposition is concentrating on staying focused and on message, fully aware that things can always go wrong. Speaking to ...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: the science of sleep and the economics of sleeplessness
November 30, 2018 03:16 - 23 minutes - 52.8 MBYou know you're not supposed to do this -- but you do. Shutterstock How did you sleep last night? If you had anything other than eight interrupted hours of peaceful, restful sleep then guess what? It’s not that bad – it’s actually pretty normal. We recently asked five sleep researchers if everyone needs eight hours of sleep a night and they all said no, you don’t. Read more: Does everyone need eight hours of sleep? We asked five experts In fact, only about one quarter of us...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Frydenberg on Liberal troubles
November 29, 2018 01:42 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBMick Tsikas/AAP Josh Frydenberg, who became treasurer and deputy Liberal leader in the tumultuous events of August, said the party has “big challenges”. While the party is “disappointed” by this week’s defection of Julia Banks to the crossbench they “remain as a group focused on the challenges ahead. And we have big challenges, there’s no doubt about that.” He said he “absolutely” will be keeping in touch with Banks. Frydenberg reiterates that the Liberal party is still a “...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Lowy Institute's Jonathan Pryke on APEC 2018
November 19, 2018 05:23 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBMast Irham/EPA The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) ended with no agreed communique and unresolved tensions between the United States and China on open display. Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands program director, Jonathan Pryke, who observed the forum in Port Moresby, said: “it is distressing for all parties that they weren’t able to find common ground. There is a fear that we’re losing the middle here.” Pryke told The Conversation “the desire for a convergenc...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Derryn Hinch on a national ICAC and the Victorian election
November 15, 2018 07:01 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBSean Davey/AAP The Senate this week passed a motion calling for the government to establish a federal anti-corruption commission. The government is more likely to beef up existing institutions but Justice Party senator Derryn Hinch, who has been a strong advocate for a national ICAC, says “that would be wrong.” “We have to have an independent national body to look into us [politicians] and to public servants and to various agencies,” he told The Conversation. Hinch - who is...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Giles on the growing issue of loneliness
November 07, 2018 08:10 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBMick Tskias/AAP Ahead of the release of the most comprehensive data on loneliness in Australia - by the Australian Psychologists Society - Labor frontbencher Andrew Giles speaks to The Conversation about this “contagious phenomenon”. Loneliness is a growing issue, Giles says. It’s not just among older Australians, as often conventionally thought, but also a problem for young people - with social media, paradoxically, a contributing factor. Giles who is working on a lonelin...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Anne Summers on #MeToo and women in politics
November 01, 2018 04:53 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBAnne Summers, who has worn many hats during her career - journalist, editor, activist, senior public servant, and prime ministerial advisor - is concerned about the slow progress in Australia in addressing sexual harassment and assault. “I don’t know what it is that is holding [MeToo] back here,” Summers tells The Conversation. She believes there should be more naming of perpetrators, with the proviso that “obviously it’s got to be justified, obviously you don’t do it rashly and without an...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: Food fraud, the centuries-old problem that won't go away
October 31, 2018 04:46 - 24 minutes - 55.8 MBWhat is in these products? And if additives don't affect your health, would you care? Shutterstock What have you eaten today? And how much do you know about how it was produced, what was added to it along the way, and how it made its way to your plate? Even as most of us grow increasingly removed from actual food production, many consumers still take food fraud and perceptions of food purity incredibly seriously. Scandals around “meat glue” or milk and honey contamination, and the skyr...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Satirist Jonathan Biggins on sending up the pollies
October 30, 2018 06:25 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MBCC BY Jonathan Biggins, who has been sending up politicians as part of The Wharf Revue for almost two decades, has some sharp words about social media - “the enemy of democracy, not its ally” - and a warning on political correctness. “We are entering an age of a new puritanism that is actually not only driven by the censorious right but by the equally censorious left who are saying this is no longer acceptable,” he tells The Conversation. “We’ve always had a free rein at the wharf but I...
Politics Podcast: Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women
October 23, 2018 09:32 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBMick Tskias/AAP Some in the Nationals would like Barnaby Joyce back in the leadership before the election. Joyce speaking to The Conversation repeats that if the leadership were offered, he would be up for it - though he insists he is not canvassing. But his critics think he would have a “woman problem” - and Joyce acknowledges that to win support back from rural women he “would certainly have a lot of work to do”. The former deputy prime minister is the government’s special...
Politics Podcast: Peter Jennings on Morrison's Jerusalem move
October 17, 2018 08:50 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBMick Tskias/AAP Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Peter Jennings, says it would be “silly” to claim - as Scott Morrison does - that there is no connection between this week’s announcement about the possible relocation of Australia’s embassy to Jerusalem and Saturday’s Wentworth byelection. This kind of decision would not have been considered by Malcolm Turnbull, Jennings says and if Julie Bishop were still foreign minister she “would have put up qu...
Politics podcast: The battle for Wentworth
October 10, 2018 09:05 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBMick Tskias/AAP The government’s majority is at stake in the October 20 Wentworth byelection, when the Liberals face voters still reeling from the loss of their member Malcolm Turnbull. ABC election analyst Antony Green says there’s likely to be a 10 per cent swing “as a start” - the result of losing Turnbull’s personal vote and a generally more intense battle. He says “the only danger” to the Liberals not winning the seat is high profile independent Kerryn Phelps but she ma...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: Cyclone season approacheth, but this year there's a twist
October 07, 2018 18:53 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBThe Bureau of Meteorology's tropical cyclone outlook is out today. AAP Image/Bureau of Meteorology, Japan Meteorological Agency Australia has just had its driest September on record, and the second driest month ever: the only drier month was April 1902. The Bureau of Meteorology’s tropical cyclone outlook is out today. It’s predicting a weaker-than-normal tropical cyclone season this year but if one hits – and it’s likely one will – it’ll bring water to rain-starved soil that will soak i...
Politics Podcast: Clare O'Neil on Labor's listening tour for banking victims
October 03, 2018 10:27 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBJoel Carrett/AAP Shadow minister for financial services Clare O'Neil, who is leading Labor’s “roundtables” for victims of the banks and other financial institutions, says the ALP exercise will give a voice to people in areas the Royal Commission hasn’t had time to visit. “There’s vast swathes of the country where the commission hasn’t been at all.” she tells The Conversation. “I just utterly reject that this is a political exercise”, she says in answer to government criticism...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: Australia's extreme weather
September 30, 2018 20:03 - 1 minute - 1.5 MBAustralia's cyclone season lies ahead. NASA / ESRSU / Seán Doran, CC BY-NC-SA It’s easy to write off Australia’s extreme weather as business as usual. We deal with floods, droughts, cyclones and other wild events every year. But as climate change raises global temperatures, are the droughts happening more often? Are the floods getting worse? The October episode of Trust Me, I’m An Expert looks back through colonial evidence and prehistoric records, and forward to the Bureau of Meteorolog...
Politics podcast: Brendan O'Connor on Labor's industrial relations agenda
September 26, 2018 07:05 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBDaniel Pockett/AAP With Scott Morrison flagging his government will take a hard line on industrial relations, especially the CFMEU, Labor’s shadow minister for employment and workplace relations, Brendan O'Connor will have a tough job ahead of the election. O'Connor says Labor remains totally opposed to the government’s Ensuring Integrity legislation, which the Coalition wants to resurrect. “I can’t see this bill in any way being salvageable, and that’s why of course it sat ...
Politics Podcast: Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie on the role of community candidates
September 13, 2018 08:47 - 34 minutes - 48 MBIndependent Cathy McGowan and the Centre Alliance’s Rebekha Sharkie share more in common than just sitting on the crossbench. The members for Indi and Mayo respectively have dug in to retain their seats, and they believe there is “a mood” in the community for alternative candidates. McGowan and Sharkie have given the government their confidence until the Wentworth byelection - after which they will consult with their electorates. They think Kerryn Phelps would have “an excellent chance” o...
Politics podcast: Judith Troeth on the Liberal party's woman problem and asylum seekers
September 04, 2018 10:45 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBAndrew Taylor/AAP Former Victorian Liberal senator Judith Troeth is no stranger to speaking out forthrightly on issues, even when that goes against her party’s position. In this podcast, Troeth says the party should adopt quotas to rectify the “abysmally low numbers” of Liberal women in parliament. “We should have quotas, but not forever … to get the numbers up”. One of the group of moderates when she was in parliament (1993- 2011), Troeth is concerned about the party’s dri...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: How augmented reality may one day make music a visual, interactive experience
August 30, 2018 04:51 - 29 minutes - 67.8 MBCould music one day be something we experience through augmented reality, responding to the way we move through the world? Sound supplemented with colours and shapes? Mavis Wong/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA You probably heard your first strains of music when you were in utero. From then on it’s helped you learn, helped you relax, hyped you up, helped you work, helped you exercise, helped you celebrate and helped you grieve. Music is ingrained in so many aspect of our lives, but i...
Politics podcast: Barnaby Joyce at his provocative best
August 08, 2018 05:46 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBJoyce is out on the author's circuit for his just-released book Weatherboard and Iron. Andy Tyndall/AAP Barnaby Joyce has confirmed he could cross the floor on the federal legislation associated with the National Energy Guarantee. “Of course I could,” he says in an interview with The Conversation. Joyce is out on the author’s circuit for his just-released book Weatherboard and Iron, which reprises the personal saga that took him from deputy prime minister to backbencher, as well as canva...
Politics podcast: Wayne Swan on Labor's byelection victories and beyond
August 01, 2018 08:46 - 18 minutes - 24.7 MBMick Tsikas/AAP Incoming Labor national president Wayne Swan has made it clear he will have an assertive voice in the role, as the party moves towards next year’s election. While many in the ALP would like action on party reform, Swan says bluntly it’s not top of mind for him. “I made it very clear [in campaigning for the presidency] that party reform in the first instance was not my priority,” he says. “My priority is winning the battle of ideas.” Looking to the rescheduled...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: what the huge HILDA survey reveals about your economic well-being, health and family life
July 30, 2018 19:52 - 23 minutes - 53.6 MBThe enormous Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey tells the stories of the same group of Australians over the course of their lives. Mavis Wong/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA On today’s episode of the podcast, we’re talking about what one of Australia’s biggest longitudinal surveys and richest data sets, released today, says about how the nation is changing. And some of the trends may surprise you. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (...
Politics Podcast: Dennis Atkins on the Longman byelection
July 26, 2018 03:42 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBLNP candidate Trevor Ruthenberg, One Nation candidate Matthew Stephen and Labor candidate Susan Lamb. Mick Tsikas/AAP After an eight-week campaign, Super Saturday is finally here. There are five byelections being held, but the race in Longman is one of two nail-biter contests that could go either way. Dennis Atkins, the Courier Mail’s national affairs editor, says the mood in Longman is one of political exhaustion and that the result is anybody’s guess because of preference changes. But...
Politics Podcast: Katharine Murphy 'On Disruption'
July 06, 2018 02:31 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBA recording of a conversation with Katharine Murphy, the Political Editor of The Guardian Australlia about her new book ‘On Disruption’. Murphy’s book is about the dramatic changes that have taken place in the media and their implications, and is published by Melbourne University Press. This conversation was hosted by Australian National University Crawford School of Public Policy and introduced by their Director, Professor Helen Sullivan. Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own...
Trust Me, I'm An Expert: What is sport worth?
July 02, 2018 20:10 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBAlvaro Mendoza/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Even if you’re no great sports fan, you may have noticed a lot of it around lately. There were the Winter Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, and now we’re halfway through the 2018 FIFA World Cup. What isn’t always so obvious is the money and the diplomatic power plays lingering just below the surface of every big sporting meet. But a growing body of academic research is examining those elements and their complex interplay. So today we’re t...