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The Jolly Swagman Podcast

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The JSP is a weekly exploration of questions that are both important and overlooked. Joe Walker, a former political speechwriter helping to build a Y Combinator-backed startup, hosts refresh...

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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...

104:14Aug 26, 2026

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...

120:26Aug 16, 2026

Compute in Australia: Announcing my new podcast series

https://josephnoelwalker.com/

6:45Aug 16, 2026

"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...

96:42Jun 23, 2026

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...

98:48Jun 3, 2026

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...

202:39May 21, 2026

"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...

147:53May 21, 2026

"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...

138:34May 19, 2026

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...

78:49Dec 31, 2025

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...

151:34Dec 22, 2025

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...

271:32Nov 25, 2025

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...

98:34Nov 2, 2025

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...

141:24Aug 26, 2025

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...

177:47Aug 14, 2025