AI Factories in the Outback — Tim Nelson [Compute Series]
This episode is best watched on video, as we often refer to some calculations I wrote on a whiteboard. [Recorded 30 September 2026.] Over th...
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The Geostrategic Case for Compute in Australia — Janet Egan [Compute Series]
This is the second episode in a multi-part series called 'Compute in Australia'. Series announcement here . More episodes to follow over the...
Australia's Plan to Turn Compute Into Sovereign AI — Dr Andrew Charlton MP [Compute Series]
This is the first episode in a multi-part series called 'Compute in Australia'. Series announcement here . More episodes to follow over the...
Compute in Australia: Announcing my new podcast series
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"Just because I consulted doesn't mean I didn't dominate": How prime ministers really govern — Patrick Weller
Patrick Weller is emeritus professor of politics and public policy at Griffith University and the author or editor of some forty books. Pat...
How Can Australia Get a Piece of the AI Action? — Danielle Wood
Danielle Wood is an Australian economist and the current chair of the Australian Productivity Commission. Had a lot of fun chatting with Dan...
How Australia Actually Selects and Integrates Migrants — Mike Pezzullo [Immigration Series]
Part 3 of a three-part immigration series this week . Martin Parkinson (economics) available here ; Mark Cully (history) available here . Mi...
"Bigger and Different": The Six Decades That Remade Australia — Mark Cully [Immigration Series]
Part 2 of a three-part immigration series this week . Martin Parkinson (economics) available here ; Mike Pezzullo (acculturation, social coh...
"We've built an economy that requires 2 million temporary migrants" — Martin Parkinson [Immigration Series]
Part 1 of a three-part immigration series this week. Mark Cully (history) drops Thursday; Mike Pezzullo (acculturation, social cohesion, sec...
2025 Retrospective — A Listener (Zac Gross) Interviews Me
In this special end-of-year episode, the tables are turned: I'm the guest, and I'm interviewed by Zac Gross — an Australian macroecono...
Cabinet is Australia's Operating System — Here's How It Works (Glyn Davis & Terry Moran)
Glyn Davis and Terry Moran are two of the very small number of Australians who have literally sat in the Cabinet Room, week after week, watc...
Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White
2,500 years of strategic history, 11 books, one afternoon. Hugh White is Australia's foremost strategic thinker: former senior adviser to De...
Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello
Peter Costello is the longest-serving Treasurer of Australia (1996–2007). He led the most complex overhaul of Australia's tax system i...
The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall
One bacterium causes roughly 1 in 20 cancer cases worldwide. It's the most cancer-causing pathogen we've found—and the main cause of p...
Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivity Crisis — Greg Kaplan & Michael Brennan
Stagnation! The 2010s witnessed Australia's weakest productivity growth in six decades. How much of the slowdown is homegrown? How much refl...
Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History
Francis Fukuyama is a Stanford political scientist and the author of (among many other works) The End of History and the Last Man —arg...
Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self
Laura Deming is a technologist and venture capitalist focused on anti-ageing and life extension. At 17, she founded The Longevity Fund (foll...
Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series
I share the 8 biggest things I learned from my Australian policy series. The conversations totaled more than 12 hours of discussion. Gratefu...
Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
This episode is the seventh instalment of my Australian policy series, recorded live in Sydney on April 29, 2025. I speak with Ken Henry&mda...
Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means for Australia) [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]
This episode is the sixth instalment of my Australian policy series, recorded live in Sydney on February 26, 2025. I speak with Sam Roggevee...