Podcasts 2016
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Jennifer Doggett – How long will we live, and how will we die?
Health care is changing in a bewildering array of ways. Professional costs increase seemingly without end at the same time as individual and community health care and prevention programs flourish. How will future Australians manage to stay healthy?
John Quiggin – How will the economy function?
While the market economy has created the wealth and abundance which surrounds us, it is under threat. How will future generations create and distribute wealth?
Mark Considine – How will we be governed?
How will our three levels of government contribute to future Australian security and wellbeing? How will we decide who gets to act on our behalf in each of these three levels?
Prof Patrick Griffin – How will we learn?
The industrial revolution invented schooling systems that created industrial workers. Now all the information people could want is available to all, and employers want life-long learners. What will schools be accountable for in the future?
Mary Casey – Where will we live?
Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world, and urban populations continue to increase. At the same time, regional cities and small towns are actively reinventing themselves as places to live and visit and mobile young people may make surprising choices about home ownership. How will the housing market respond?
Dr Jaci Brown – What will our environment be like?
Most people now accept that human beings are permanently changing the world’s environment through their actions and inactions. How will future Australians adapt to a changing world?
Dr Chris Riedy – What Will We Own
In the middle of the last century, owning stuff was the great ambition, but the sharing economy is increasing the range of things which people only use and might never own. In some countries manufacturers of products such as whitegoods and cars are responsible for the product once the consumer no longer wants it. How will the industry respond to these new economic drivers?
Dr David Tuffley – Where Will We Work
250 years ago the industrial revolution put men, women and children into farms, mines and factories. The robotics revolution has only just begun, and we don’t yet know if this technology will liberate humans from the drudgery of work, or threaten the way we live.
Dr Nick Rose – What Will We Eat?
The world’s population is expanding faster than our capacity to provide good food. Will future Australians get their food from their own backyards, from the farm, from the factory, or from overseas?