This week on Policy Forum Pod, we celebrate a very special milestone – our 100th episode – by handing over the scriptwriting to you, our listeners, for our first Ask Us Anything episode. The panel tackle your questions that cover topics ranging from electric vehicle policy, to Australia’s water market, and a mysterious case of a missing wallet.

Though the recent National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework may allow Australia to improve its response to climate change-related natural disasters, without introducing more pre-emptive measures, increased funding means very little, Paul Barnes, Anthony Bergin, and Robert Glasser write.

In this Policy Forum Rapid Round-up, experts give their thoughts on the policy of Australia's 2019 Federal Budget.

In an age where new technologies constantly emerge – and the amount of e-waste in the world only increases – we must ask ourselves whether the market's most current products are truly capable of improving our lives, Grazia Scotellaro writes in this piece from Perfection, a new publication from the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific. 

Australia needs a debate on the economics of climate policy where policies are subject to a wide range of economic modelling and the assumptions and sensitivities in each model are understood, Warwick McKibbin writes.

Despite the intense media focus on impending doom in the Himalayas, the need for global, regional, and local climate change efforts is more pressing than ever, Aditi Mukherji writes.