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.
Episodes
7 episodes
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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1:26:14
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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1:48:28
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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41:05
Jessy Wu: what Australian venture capital might be missing
In this podcast episode, we're joined by Jessy Wu, who spent four years on the inside of Australian venture capital, first at NAB Ventures, and then as a partner at AfterWork Ventures. She was part of a team that deployed $20 million into 30 co...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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47:44
Andrew Leigh: the personal and political of productivity
After a decade of sluggish growth—the slowest productivity gains in 60 years—Australia faces a fundamental question: how does our nation capture the dynamic potential of the 21st century? How do we build an economy that rewards innovation, enab...
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Episode 2
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45:49