The Inflection Points Podcast
The Inflection Points Podcast is Australia's home of long-form policy discussion.
The podcast is hosted by Jonathan O’Brien, editor-in-chief of Inflection Points. We'll also have regular contributions from our editorial team and broader community of writers and reformers.
Podcasting since 2025 • 9 episodes
The Inflection Points Podcast
Latest Episodes
Fixing Australian Philanthropy: Why DGR Reform Matters
Recorded live in Melbourne in March 2025, this event — co-hosted with Effective Altruism Australia — brings together three speakers making the case for reforming our charitable giving laws.Ryan Ginard (Fundraise for Australia) arg...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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Keith Wolahan: renewing the Liberal Party’s foundations
Keith Wolahan is a barrister, a former Australian Army commando with four deployments including three tours in Afghanistan, and the former Liberal Member for Menzies—the seat named after the party's own founder. He won the seat in 2...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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Matthew Maltman: Better stories about supply
Policymakers often suffer from a cognitive blind spot: we intuitively think like consumers rather than producers. When it comes to housing, this leads governments to reach for demand-side levers—like First Home Owner Grants—that often inflate p...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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Brendan Coates: Ending the bans on housing
Australia’s housing stock is growing more slowly than its population, and for the first time in decades, we are failing to build enough homes in the places people want to live. The result is a median home price in Sydney that is more than 10 ti...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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Brandon Sheppard: Building here, selling overseas
Every successful Australian tech company follows roughly the same playbook: build the product here, test it in our market, then export it overseas. Atlassian, Canva, Safety Culture—they kept a lot of their engineering and R&D in Australia, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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