This episode is a conversation with Tim Wilson, Liberal MP for Goldstein in the Australian House of Representatives, and author of the book The New Social Contract: Renewing the Liberal Vision for Australia. Tim talks with host Christopher Watkin about trust in politics, house prices and home ownership, the importance of civil society, the generational contract, Michael Sandel’s book The Tyranny of Merit, and Minouche Shafik’s vision of the new social contract.

The conversation was made possible by funding from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism".

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