Countries, cities, councils, and organisations around the world are declaring a climate emergency and changing practices and policies in an attempt to address the challenge. Should Australia follow suit? That’s the topic for our first-ever live Policy Forum Pod.

The ability to manage a period hygienically and safely is crucial, and our policies are beginning to reflect this. However, an approach to end the shame associated with menstruation has to be the next step, Dani Barrington writes.

Scott Morrison and Donald Trump like to say that they have a lot in common, but the real challenge is Australia’s capacity to safeguard its national interests amidst the growing geo-strategic tensions between the United States and China, Daniel Fazio writes.

Poverty is a chronic lack of access to resources, but one of the most valuable and irreplaceable of those resources is a person’s time, Lyndall Strazdins and Amelia Yazidjoglou write.

New research reveals that many young Australians are living without basic items that they value. A child-focused framework that acknowledges young people’s agency is a way forward on poverty, Anne Hampshire writes.   

Despite massive climate action demonstrations and a viral speech by Greta Thunberg to the UN, Australia has continued along a path of policy stagnation. Pressure is rising to declare a climate emergency, and Australia must step up, Marvin Vestil writes.