On this episode, we discuss how to care for mental health during an unprecedented period of community isolation due to the coronavirus.
On this week’s Policy Forum Pod, we look at tackling poverty in Australia: how we should measure it, what’s causing it, why there seems precious little political will to address it, and what policies we could put in place that would make an immediate difference. (more…)
On this Policy Forum Pod extra, we talk to Tayanah O’Donnell about Future Earth Australia’s new Urban Systems Transformation Plan, and its role in shaping our cities.
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. (more…)
On this Policy Forum Pod, we talk to Julian Burnside about Australia’s role in the establishment of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and why there’s so much hostility in the rhetoric surrounding refugees and asylum seekers. (more…)
On this week’s Policy Forum Pod, we look at what’s driving migration to cities and tackle the challenges that the world’s ever-growing urban areas pose to policymakers and urban planners. (more…)
On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, we take a look at the state of Australia’s mental health policies and discuss why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer disproportionately from a system that is disconnected from the communities that it’s supposed to serve. (more…)
