Per Capita Podcasts

This week on Re:CAP, Emma Dawson was joined by co-founder and co-CEO for Gender Lens, Tanja Kovac, continuing our dissection of Per Capita’s new report The Way In 2024.     The Way In 2024 is the third report in a series which examines the backgrounds of elected members of Federal Parliament. It follows our analysis of the 45th and 46th Federal Parliaments and on this episode, Tanja will help us u...

Re:CAP returns this week with a new episode that looks at Per Capita’s new report, The Way In 2024.   Emma Dawson is joined by Emeritus Redmond Barry Professor Janet McCalman to help us unpack our findings around education pathways into the 47Th parliament. Check out our latest blog post "How the Federal Government Represents You."   Read the full report, The Way In 2024, here.   Visit www.percapi...

This month's John Cain Lunch sees the Hon Kevin Bell reimagining ‘the great Australian dream’ of housing as ‘the great Australian right’ to housing. Almost everyone in Australia is feeling the impact of the national housing crisis, which is traumatising individuals, families and communities. Housing: the Great Australian Right argues that governments have the capacity and the power to resolve this...

Kosmos Samaras, one of Australia’s leading experts in political campaigns and polling, addressed our August John Cain Lunch on the electoral challenges facing the ALP due to the changing nature of Australia’s socio-economic demographics. Kos specialises in compiling and interpreting research, statistical data and polling to provide a unique insight into the cause and effects of social and politica...

A lot has happened in the past few months, since we started writing and recording this podcast. It’s lot to catch up on. So, before we end this series, we thought we’d tell you a thing or two about it.  Join Emma Dawson, Executive Director of Per Capita, home of the CEH, as she breaks down the latest policy announcements pertaining to housing and what they mean for Australians.    Visit www.percap...

The founder of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square initiative, Peter Lewis, launches the “Civility Manifesto’, a framework for addressing the division at the heart of our broken politics, at Per Capita's July John Cain Lunch. The Civility Manifesto outlines how media, politics and the digital platforms have conspired to build a public discourse driven by conflict and anger, where truth and co...

After three weeks of dissecting the Australian housing market, trawling through history, lived experiences, and academic resources, we’re coming to the end of our journey.    In the penultimate episode of Homes Not Houses, Matt Lloyd-Cape and his guests outline potential solutions to the housing crisis.     This series is a production of Per Capita and its Centre for Equitable Housing. Help suppor...

Australia is not alone in facing a housing crisis.   Across the globe, many nations are facing similar circumstances, with house prices having risen dramatically compared to incomes for many years. In Part Four of Homes Not Houses, Matt Lloyd-Cape and his guests take a look at the housing markets around the world – how do we compare? Are they experiencing the same issues? And if so, how are they c...

ReCAP is back this week with a new episode where Executive Director, Emma Dawson, and Per Capita's Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to discuss the 2024-2025 federal budget, with a focus on it’s brand-new Housing Statement.    Be sure to check out our new series, Homes Not Houses , out now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.   Visit www.percapita.org.au for more on o...

Since the early 20th century, Australia’s housing market has grown, faced crisis, and flourished. Governments of the past have played a greater role in making houses accessible to all. Where did things go wrong?   In this episode of Homes not Houses, Matt Lloyd-Cape and his team cover 100 years of history, policy and market evolution to demonstrate how the market has changed and determine whether...

Why is Australia in the worst housing crisis in living memory? Many fingers are pointing in different directions and the debate keeps heating up.   Homes Not Houses aims to cut through the noise and make sense of this situation we’ve found ourselves in and how we can navigate our way out of the housing crisis.    In Part Two of Homes not Houses, Matt Lloyd-Cape and his team of housing experts take...

Housing may be Australia’s most contentious and prevalent issue. Across the political aisle, fingers have been pointed at various causes and numerous solutions have been floated.     The policies and ideologies surrounding housing have created a market that is amongst the most unique yet least accessible in the world, impacting all Australians whether you’re a renter, homeowner, or require social...

The climate assertions that only prevent effective action, and what could replace them? Join Per Capita and Dr Jennifer Rayner for this month's John Cain Lunch, where Dr Rayner will discuss her latest book - "Climate Clangers: The bad ideas blocking real action." Recorded on Wednesday 19 of June. We encourage you to watch full speech, which includes the Q&A session, on Per Capita's YouTube cha...

Chair of the House Economics Committee, Daniel Mulino joined Per Capita for our May John Cain Luncheon to unpack the 2024-25 federal budget.   We encourage you to watch full speech, which include Mulino's slides and Q&A session, on Per Capita's YouTube channel .   Recorded Wednesday 22 May 2024.   Visit www.percapita.org.au for more on our research and events. Per Capita's podcasts are recorde...

For our first episode for 2024, Emma Dawson is joined by student advocates Ana, Mai, and Stevie to discuss Per Capita’s recent report, A Thousand Hours for Free? Ending Unpaid Placements in Social Work Education, a policy proposal Per Capita put together for the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education.    The requirement to undertake 1000 hours of unpaid field education – equivalent t...

Australia's history is sprinkled with attempts at tax reform - some successful, some not. Mixed Fortunes explores these efforts at substantive change in our tax system.  Economic policy advisor, Paul Tilley, joins Per Capita for their April John Cain Lunch to discuss his latest book Mixed Fortunes.  Recorded Wednesday 24 April 2024 at Graduate House, Carlton.  Watch the full speech and Q&A on...

Who is Peter Dutton, and what happened to the Liberal Party? In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.   Join Lech Blaine in conversation with Per Capita’s Emma Dawson to discuss this Quarterly Essay.  ...

Leading economics commentator Cameron Murray reveals how property insiders shape the housing market and its policy setting at Per Capita's March John Cain Lunch.   Discussing his latest book,The Great Housing Hijack, Cameron Murray shows how Australia could create a genuinely affordable housing program without compromising the interests of existing property owners.   Watch the full speech and Q&am...

The Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services recommended large scale reform to fundamentally rebuild the Commonwealth Employment Services System. Julian Hill chaired the Committee, leading the first principles review of Australia’s employment services system, the first of its kind since services were privatised by the Howard Government nearly 25 years ago.      Julian addressed...

The escalation in house prices is a pain that has altered Australian society; it has increased inequality and profoundly changed the relationship between generations – between those who have a house and those who don’t. It has caused a rental crisis, a dearth of public housing and a mortgage crunch.      Things went seriously wrong at the start of the twenty-first century, when there was a huge an...

Per Capita works to build a new vision for Australia based on fairness, shared prosperity, and social justice. From housing to tax, employment services to industrial relations, poverty to evidence-based policy, these issues all have the potential to influence the lives of Australians either by distributing resources more equitably or by allocating them to the already wealthy few.     Per Capita ch...

Welcome back to Re:CAP - Per Capita's premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society.  This week, Matt Lloyd-Cape is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to chat about the impact of short-term rental (STR) platforms such as AirBnB on the Australian rental market, and how they have become increasingly problematic, parti...

A healthy legal system is fundamental to democracy. All Australians should be able to rely on the courts to keep the powers that be accountable, but what pernicious forces seek to undermine this?    In Courting Power, Isabelle Reinecke, founder of Grata Fund, Australia’s first strategic litigation funder and incubator, takes us through the trials and triumphs of some of the public interest cases s...

Welcome back to Re:CAP - Per Capita's premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society.    This week, Matt Lloyd-Cape is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, and Research Economist, Sam Ibrahim, to chat about the CEH’s Regulating Rentals paper.    With almost a third of households now renting, a spotlight has been thrown...

Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning about the implications for Australia.     What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2024?    Leading expert and US and Australian politics in...