The CEO of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation gives her verdict on  the government’s new Digital Duty of care laws.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

For show notes go to https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The independent MP on her community-driven plan for AI, working with government from the cross-bench and pushing the pace of reform.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

As privacy reforms gather momentum, the co-director of the Human Technology Institute walks us through the proposed changes and their implications for the digital world.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The co-founder of the Tech Policy Design Centre on the development of new laws to hold tech companies to account for the harms of their products.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also dig into:

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The co-founder of the Human Technology lays down his megapixel provocation and challenges us to stop thinking about AI as being so different that we can’t control it.

Panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, ABC National AI Reporter Cam Wilson and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The national security expert on the strategic risks of cognitive readiness and information is the new theatre of conflict.

Panellists  Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

Burning Platforms is back for another live show, this time recorded  at the 2026 ALP Conference in Adelaide where we launched the "FairAI Initiative" with Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Human technology Institute co-director Ed Santow and Senator Tony Sheldon.

Join the Burning Platforms for show notes, resources, and regular updates from the Big Tech Policy space: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

For more on the Centre of the Public Square and it's research into AI policy, check out: https://percapita.org.au/the-centre-of-the-public-square/

Last but no least, learn more about the Fair AI Initiative here: https://www.fairai.au/ 

In a world of relative facts and filter bubbles how do we build a common base of reality to anchor democracy?

Featuring:

Hamish Macdonald, award-winning journalist

Lizzie O’Shea, Co-founder and Chair of Digital Rights Watch

Jess Scully, Executive Director of RadicalXChange

Emma McDonald, Media Lawyer, policy, regulatory and communications executive

Professor Leo Robba and social design students from Western Sydney University 

Hosted by Essential’s Peter Lewis, and supported by Democracy Counts, we’ll explore what it means for democracy when so much of the content we’re consuming blurs the lines between fact and fiction, when our shared sense of reality becomes fractured.

Burning Platform is back from its brief hiatus for a special live Virtual Town Hall, convened on July 6th, looking at the growing fight to resist the US tech behemoth, in partnership with Digital Rights Watch and GetUp!