The Australia Together Podcast

Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with Allan Behm from the Australia Institute about strategies we need if we are to safely navigate a changing world order.

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Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

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In this episode David Kelly and ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly talk in depth about how Australians could collaborate to design a universal basic income (UBI) for everyone and how at the same time they can use the process to secure fair tax reforms and reliable funding for all their essential services.

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Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

In this episode David Kelly and ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly talk in depth about the proposal in Australia Together for a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with Ian McAuley about the prospects for restoration of universality in Australia’s health care system.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s new interview with Julian Cribb from the Council for the Human Future about the rights we need if we are to provide a safe future on this planet for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with one of Australia’s most prominent political scientists, Professor Mark Beeson, about our prospects for getting world leaders and our own leaders to cooperate seriously to achieve international peace and environmental sustainability in the age of climate change.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

Listen to ACFP’s Executive Director David Kelly talk with Founder Bronwyn Kelly about the Vision for Australia Together in this Episode of the Australia Together Podcast.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the latest Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

Episode 50: On progress with Australia Together and strategies for electoral reform in Australia.

This is the final episode in ACFP's series of conversations with a range of inspiring Australians about Targets and Strategies in Australia Together.

Australia Together is the nation’s first long term, integrated plan for a better future for everyone. It is being progressively developed by Australians for Australians so that we can tell our governments what we want them to do for us as a cohesive, democratic community.

Last week Bronwyn posted an article on the Strategies currently in Australia Together for electoral reform. The article shows how strategies to stop corruption of elections are necessary to achieve political equality for Australians. Find the article at this link: https://bronwynkelly.substack.com/p/looking-into-australia-together-part-f84?r=2e33fk

In this episode ACFP’s Executive Director David Kelly and Founder Bronwyn Kelly discuss progress with the Australia Together project and barriers to its implementation, chief among them being Australia’s laws on electoral funding which are undermining the ability of Australians to participate as political equals in their own democracy.

Ideas raised during the series will be translated into Issue No. 8 of Australia Together, due for release by August 2024.

Listen to the full series of Conversations about Australia Together at this link: https://bronwynkelly.substack.com/podcast

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Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly, Founder of Australian Community Futures Planning:

In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should be included in it.

Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies currently in Australia Together for achieving fairness in Australia including a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing and a Universal Basic Income. Find the article at https://bronwynkelly.substack.com/p/looking-into-australia-together-part-c76?r=2e33fk

In today’s episode I interview Dr John Tons from Flinders University’s Philosophy Department. Dr Tons is an expert on social justice and a passionate supporter of policies aimed at achieving fairness in society such as a Universal Basic Income. We talk here about one of the world’s most important philosophers on the topic of social justice - John Rawls - and about how strategies in Australia Together can be designed to help Australians implement a socially just future where there is fairness for all.

For more information on the proposal in Australia Together for a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing view the ACFP Fact Sheet at https://www.austcfp.com.au/facts-about-australia-together

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the latest issue of Australia Together at https://www.austcfp.com.au/australia-together

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly:

In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should be included in it.

Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies currently in Australia Together for achieving peace, security and independent defence of Australia. Find the article at https://bronwynkelly.substack.com/p/looking-into-australia-together-part-d8a?r=2e33fk

In today’s episode I interview former diplomat and academic Dr Alison Broinowski on some key strategies we will need in Australia Together if we are to secure ongoing peace.

Alison outlines how Australian governments are steering defence policy in ways that are exposing Australia to the risk of involvement in ongoing and unwinnable wars. We discuss how the government’s new statutory joint parliamentary committee on defence will reduce (not increase) transparency and parliamentary scrutiny of the executive government’s decisions on defence and war, and how Australia’s alliance with America and the UK is dangerous for Australians. We then focus on strategies for keeping Australians safe in a time of increasing superpower confrontations.

Disclosure: Bronwyn Kelly and Alison Broinowski are committee members of Australians for War Powers Reform.

Want to know more about Australia Together?

Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner.

Browse the latest Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 7 - at https://www.austcfp.com.au/australia-together .

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bronwynkelly.substack.com