Podcast

Danielle Wood: The Red Tape Impulse (Live)

Australia has regulated its way into a slower economy—and the costs are often invisible.

20 hrs ago • Jonathan O’Brien

33:24

Stu Donovan: How the Auckland upzoning actually happened

The results of Auckland’s upzoning are well-studied. How it got there is not as well-understood.

Jul 9 • Jonathan O’Brien and Inflection Points

1:02:18

Dominic Behrens: Against ‘Affordable’ Housing

Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t.

May 16 • Jonathan O’Brien, Inflection Points, and Dominic Behrens

50:36

Alain Bertaud: Australia’s world-leading urban design

Listen now (122 mins) | How Australian cities convinced Alain Bertaud that urban design should have featured in his magnum opus.

May 7 • Jonathan O’Brien and Inflection Points

2:01:36

Matthew Maltman: Better stories about supply

Listen now | Policymakers often suffer from a cognitive blind spot: we intuitively think like consumers rather than producers.

Jan 8 • Inflection Points and Jonathan O’Brien

1:26:14

Brendan Coates: Ending the bans on housing

Australia’s housing stock is growing slower than its adult population; that's led to Sydney's median prices becoming 10x its median income.

Dec 18, 2025 • Inflection Points and Jonathan O’Brien

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.

Nov 1, 2025 • Inflection Points and Jonathan O’Brien

41:05

Jessy Wu: what Australian venture capital might be missing

Australian entrepreneurship isn’t hamstrung by the quantity of venture capital but by the kinds of risk capital available.

Oct 25, 2025 • Inflection Points, Jonathan O’Brien, and Jessy Wu

47:44

Andrew Leigh: The personal and political of productivity

Andrew Leigh is known colloquially as the most productive person in Canberra. What can our nation learn from his personal productivity?

Oct 3, 2025 • Jonathan O’Brien and Inflection Points

45:49

Moving the Needle: lessons from successful reforms

Our country gets better when good people do good work. Here are three stories of change, from those who made it happen.

Aug 24, 2025 • Inflection Points

Introducing the Inflection Points Podcast

The home of in-depth policy discussion for a bigger, better Australia

Aug 5, 2025 • Jonathan O’Brien

1:46

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