Key Topics
The critical issues shaping Australia's future in technology, policy, and global competition
We Need to Talk About...
Our Broken Information Ecosystem
Examining how misinformation, echo chambers, and platform monopolies are reshaping public discourse and democratic processes in Australia.
FMiA – Can we build it?
Future Made in Australia - exploring whether Australia can successfully build sovereign manufacturing capabilities in critical industries.
AI - Productivity explosion or job implosion?
The dual nature of AI's impact on the Australian workforce and economy - unprecedented productivity gains versus widespread job displacement.
Australia's Global Growth Makers
Spotlighting the entrepreneurs, innovators, and companies putting Australia on the global tech map.
Over-invested in Net-Zero, under invested in Digital and Defence?
Questioning Australia's resource allocation priorities in the face of global technological and security challenges.
The World we're in; Nothing but hard choices
Navigating the complex geopolitical landscape where every decision has significant trade-offs and consequences.
Australia's Challenge Framework
Australia is navigating unprecedented complexity across multiple dimensions. Our conversations explore how these interconnected challenges create both risks and opportunities for our nation's future.
Economic Challenges
- •Economic Uncertainty
- •Growth & Productivity
- •Closing Skills & Capability Gaps
- •Australia's Great Property Ponzi
Geopolitical Issues
- •Geopolitical Instability
- •Great Power Competition
- •National Security
- •Sovereign Capability & Scale
Technology & Innovation
- •AI & Machine Learning
- •Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics
- •Green Energy
- •Defence Tech
- •Biotech/SynBio
Social & Demographic
- •Demographic Shifts/Collapse
- •Intergenerational Shift & 21st Century Skills Gap
- •Restoring Trust & Navigating Complexity
Information & Competition
- •Energy & Information Ecosystem Anxiety
- •Big Tech Tools & Competition
- •The Politicisation of Everything
Policy & Governance
- •FMiA & Net Zero
- •Reindustrialisation & Industrial Relations
- •Macro Global MegaTech Shifts
The Context We're Operating In
Global Megatrends
- • Macro Global MegaTech Shifts
- • Great Power Competition intensifying
- • Supply chain fragmentation and reshoring
- • Climate change driving energy transition
- • Demographic shifts across developed nations
Australian Specifics
- • Resource-rich economy in transition
- • Strategic location in Indo-Pacific
- • Skills shortage in critical technologies
- • Need for sovereign capability building
- • Balancing economic and security interests
Upcoming Topic Discussions
Defence Tech Innovation in the Indo-Pacific
Scaling Clean Energy in Australia
AI Regulation and Responsible Innovation
Building Australia's Startup Ecosystem
Sovereign Manufacturing Capabilities
The Future of Australian Universities
Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure
Trade Policy in a Multipolar World
Digital Transformation in Government
The Future of Work in Australia
Climate Tech Investment Strategies
Australia's Role in Global Supply Chains