The IPA's Looking Forward Podcast - A weekly podcast of debate and discussion about politics and ideas hosted by Scott Hargreaves, Editor of the IPA Review and Chris Berg of RMIT University and Fellow of the IPA
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
As COVID 19 tests key institutions like the WHO, the panel asks whether rate cuts and stimulus packages just further reveal that our central bankers and policy makers have no ideas what our economy really needs? (0:57-19:52) It’s the issue that made the IPA’s Evan Mulholland Twitter famous, so is the push for four-bins recycling and plastics obsessions scheme pushing Australia forward or back? (19:52- 33:17) Taxpayers are funding the ABC while its so-called Media Watch acts as the enforcement arm fighting critics like the IPA to protect its rivers of gold. (33:17-44:50)
Your hosts Scott Hargreaves and Dr Chris Berg are joined by the IPA’s Dara Macdonald and Evan Mulholland to answer these questions and share their culture picks including Helena Rosenblatt’s The Lost History of Liberalism, Yasmine Mohammed’s Unveiled, the Academy Award winner Parasite and the ABC’s podcast The Eleventh presented by Alex Mann. (44:50-1:02:10)
Show Notes
Speech, National Plastics Summit- Australian Parliament House, ACT; Prime Minister
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/speech-national-plastics-summit-australian-parliament-house-act
Environmentalists Make Good Movie Villains Because They Want to Make your Real Life Worse; Sonny Bunch
The Perverse Panic over Plastic; John Tierney
https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-disposable-plastic
Scott Morrison’s Recycling Strategy to Grow Green Jobs; Geoff Chambers
IPA v ABC; Media Watch
https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/ipa/12016756
Culture Picks
The Lost History of Liberalism; Helena Rosenblatt
https://www.amazon.com.au/Lost-History-Liberalism-Ancient-Twenty-First/dp/0691170703
Unveiled; Yasmine Mohammed
Parasite; Bong Joon Ho
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/
The Eleventh; Alex Mann