🌿 'An Inconvenient Truth' - 2026 Australia edition - we've been doing nature wrong and it's time to change

Visakhan Vythilingam partnered with Leon Wiesner to discuss and break down the updated Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act – Australia’s biggest environmental and nature law reform in decades and importantly its implications on productivity.

For too long Australia it’s been in productivity crisis. We look at labour, interest rates, business efficiency – recently AI, all while exploiting loopholes and complacency with our broken environmental laws. Our research for the podcast was also inspired by former Secretary to the Australian Treasury Ken Henry, an ardent advocate for improved national environmental laws. Beyond renewable energy rollouts, governance mechanisms at state and federal government level and addressing land clearing - these laws have the potential to enable systemic change and improve the lives of all Australians.

(Disclaimer: Views expressed in the podcast and snippets are that of the individuals and are not spoken on behalf of any Australian government entities)