Per Capita Podcasts

JCL Series: A Better Australia: Politics, Public Policy and How to Achieve Lasting Reform

An inside look at effective policy making, realised through hard-won public policy battles. What does successful public policy look like, and how has it been achieved in Australia?
John Brumby and Stuart Kells, co-authors of "In A Better Australia" joined Per Capita for their March John Cain Lunch.
 

Re:CAP - Post Community Tax Summit Chats with Miranda Stewart

In the latest episode of Re:CAP, Emma Dawson is joined by professor Miranda Stewart to unpack her keynote address from the Community Tax Summit, as well as discuss some of the other takeaways from the summit. 
 
Join our new early career policy network for policy professionals, students and anyone interested in learning more about how they can influence policy and politics to build an Australia based on fairness, shared prosperity and social justice - Per Capita's Policy Hive. 
 
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JCL Series: The Elephant in the Room with Thomas Walker and Emma Dawson

All our lives, we’ve been told that hard work leads to economic security and a good life. For many younger Australians, particularly those without family wealth, this now feels like a lie.
 
Instead of being able to set up their lives, young people are loaded up with increased education and housing debt, or stuck paying unaffordable rents to grow the wealth of others, all while real wages decline.
 
Hear from Think Forward’s Thomas Walker about the “Tax Wealth Not Work” campaign, and from Per Capita’s Emma Dawson about the upcoming Community Tax Summit.
 
 

Re:CAP - 2024 Tax Survey and the Community Tax Summit 2025

Re:CAP is back for 2025 with a new episode covering Per Capita's annual Tax Survey and the upcoming Community Tax Summit.
 
Essential's Peter Lewis joined Emma Dawson for a chat about how the Tax Survey unveils Australian's growing belief that the current tax and transfer system makes income and wealth inequality worse and how this sentiment inspired the formation of the Community Tax Summit, which will take place on the 20th and 21st of Feb.
 
Read the latest Tax Survey here: https://percapita.org.au/our_work/per-capita-tax-survey-2024/
 
For more info about the Community Tax Summit, visit: https://percapita.org.au/community-tax-summit-2025/

JCL Series: Iola Mathews, on her book "Race Mathews - A Life in Politics"

An idealist as well as a pragmatist, and someone who believes passionately in equality, democracy and empowerment, Race Mathews has inspired and mentored many.
 
Drawing on a memoir Race began, but did not finish, and interviews, articles, speeches, books and her own diaries, Iola Mathews, journalist, author and Race’s partner for over fifty years, provides personal insight into the life and work of one of our most highly respected politicians. 
 
Recorded 20 November 2024 at Graduate House, Melbourne University.
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John Cain Oration 2024 - Minister Clare O'Neil

Housing affordability is one of the defining issues of the Australian political landscape today. Our housing market and housing policy are failing a significant proportion of the Australian people. This crisis has been long in the making; the result of decades of deliberate choices.
 
Clare O’Neil MP, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, delivers the John Cain Oration for 2024 at the State Library of Victoria.
 
Recorded Wednesday 13 November 2024.
 
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Read the script transcript here.

Re:CAP - The Way In 2024, Gender

This week on Re:CAP, Emma Dawson was joined by co-founder and co-CEO for Gender Lens, Tanja Kovac, continuing our dissection of Per Capita’s new report The Way In 2024.  
 
The Way In 2024 is the third report in a series which examines the backgrounds of elected members of Federal Parliament. It follows our analysis of the 45th and 46th Federal Parliaments and on this episode, Tanja will help us unpack our findings around gender representation in the 47th parliament. 
 
Check out our latest blog post "How the Federal Government Represents You."
 
Read the full report, The Way In 2024.

Re:CAP - The Way In 2024, Education

Re:CAP returns this week with a new episode that looks at Per Capita’s new report, The Way In 2024.
 
Emma Dawson is joined by Emeritus Redmond Barry Professor Janet McCalman to help us unpack our findings around education pathways into the 47Th parliament.
Check out our latest blog post "How the Federal Government Represents You."
 
Read the full report, The Way In 2024, here.
 
For more from Per Capita, visit percapita.org.au 
 
 
 
 
 
 

JCL Series: Housing, The Great Australian Right With Kevin Bell

This month's John Cain Lunch sees the Hon Kevin Bell reimagining ‘the great Australian dream’ of housing as ‘the great Australian right’ to housing.
Almost everyone in Australia is feeling the impact of the national housing crisis, which is traumatising individuals, families and communities.
Housing: the Great Australian Right argues that governments have the capacity and the power to resolve this national plight. The first step is for Australia to rethink its approach to housing policy and recognise access to housing – having a home – as a fundamental human right.
Recorded 18 of September at Graduate House, Melbourne University, Melbourne/Naarm. 
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JCL Series: The Disruptors – Labor’s Challenge

Kosmos Samaras, one of Australia’s leading experts in political campaigns and polling, addressed our August John Cain Lunch on the electoral challenges facing the ALP due to the changing nature of Australia’s socio-economic demographics.
Kos specialises in compiling and interpreting research, statistical data and polling to provide a unique insight into the cause and effects of social and political issues impacting communities across Australia.
Recorded Wednesday  21 August at Graduate House, Melbourne/Naarm. 
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