Australia faces a myriad of challenges, with climate change, housing affordability, fraying democratic institutions, risk-averse policies and a divisive public discourse just a few of the problems we must confront. The question is, are we? Join Richard Denniss and Senator Barbara Pocock as they apply some big ideas to the future.

SPEAKERS:

Richard Denniss is the Executive Director at The Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator. Formerly a regular columnist for Australian Financial Review and The Guardian, he has published six books, including Econobabble, Curing Affluenza, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next? and Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy.

Barbara Pocock has been a South Australian senator since 2022. She is an economist and emeritus professor who has spent her life fighting for the rights of working people, women and low-income workers. She has written many books and articles, and worked in shearing sheds, on farms, in universities, in government and as a mother.

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