Ideas for your Ears: Per Capita's Podcast

Per Capita's Emily Millane talks to Fiona Wyllie on ABC Mid North Coast about the Intergenerational Report on the day of its release, 5 March 2015. In particular, Emily highlights the issues related to Australia's ageing population.

See also http://percapita.org.au/media/intergenerational-report-give-us-ideas-not-politics/

Emily Millane talks about her new report The Head, The Heart & The House with Rev Bill Crews on 2GB, 1 February 2015. The psychology of housing has not been well understood so the public policy settings have been misplaced. People have an emotional connection to their home and community, but policy settings and plans are based only on financial and "rational" criteria.

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Wayne Swan MP, Tony Sheldon and David Hetherington - a conversation about the pursuit of the Good Society. Economists now know that inequality is not only unfair - it's inefficient. Swan argues that Australia, probably more than any other country, was able to match strong economic growth with fairness of outcomes throughout the twentieth century, through industrial relations, universal healthcare and education, and a highly progressive tax and transfer system. These gains are now being challenged.

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Wayne Swan and George Megalogenis,, launching Swan's new book, The Good Fight: Six Years, Two Prime Ministers and Staring down the Great Recession at the Melbourne launch at the State Library of Victoria on 21 August 2014. Australia's fiscal response to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/9 ticked all the boxes: it was well thought through, it had a solid theoretical underpinning attuned to the times, and most importantly, it achieved its ends.

At this Reform Agenda Series public forum, Per Capita hosted the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Bill Shorten MP and the Hon. Steve Bracks AC, former Premier of Victoria and co-author of the Bracks/Carr/Faulkner Review.

This audio includes speeches by Bracks and Shorten, followed by Q & A session with the audience.

Reform Agenda Series public forum to launch Per Capita's latest report "Who's Afraid of a Public School?", an investigation into public attitudes to education in Australia. Attitudes towards public schools have become very negative; we need to inspire citizens to have faith in government delivered community services, and the policy solutions proposed in this paper focus on how to give citizens a voice in public education.

Reform Agenda Series to launch Per Capita's latest report Still Kicking - Longevity and Ageing: the demographic climate change of our time, with Australian of the Year, Ita Buttrose AM OBE. This important research brings together established and emerging trends among older Australians, and argues that we are facing the demographic climate change of our time. The report looks at the policy levers available to turn this looming challenge into an opportunity for Australian society to reap the benefits of ageing and longevity.

Through its Reform Agenda Series, Per Capita is hosting public fora for the two contenders for leadership of the Australian Labor Party to present their vision for the future of the Left in Australia. This first forum features Bill Shorten MP.

Through its Reform Agenda Series, Per Capita is hosting public fora for the two contenders for leadership of the Australian Labor Party to present their vision for the future of the Left in Australia. This first forum features Anthony Albanese MP.

Per Capita's David Hetherington talks to Jon Faine about Per Capita's new report, Training Days. The introduction of contestability has led to higher costs and the impact of this has mostly fallen on lower-income and disadvantaged students.