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S2E4: The good fight: Allan Fels on fairness, mental health and why CEOs get paid so much (and shouldn't)
Why do CEOs get paid so much? Why are we so discriminatory about mental illness? And where would the Federal Government’s dollars be best spent in our efforts to reset the economy? Economist, lawyer and former chair of the Australian Competition and … -
S2E3: Artificial Intelligence: Building a new way of thinking
As Australia reels from the catastrophic bushfires and deals with COVID-19, these moments have revealed the fragility of our infrastructure including supply chains and telecommunications. This episode of the Seriously Social podcast explores Artifici… -
TRAILER S2 - Our world in transition
Seriously Social helps you understand your world. Each week listen to indepth, intelligent insights from Australia’s best social scientists. We talk human society, our social relationships and the world in transition. Hosted by journalist Ginger Gorm… -
S2: E2 - Part 2 - Mental wealth: How we fix the national crisis
Pre-pandemic Australia was seen as an epicentre of hope – that despite high rates of loneliness and suicidality, we were getting buy-in on the important work to be done in mental health. Mental illness is costing Australia thousands of lives each ye… -
S2:E1 - Part 1 - Mental wealth: How we fix the national crisis
How do you build the mental wealth of a nation? Mental ill health is costing us about 4% of GDP, a figure that one of Australia’s best-known researchers in the field, Professor Ian Hickie says holds its own meaning:“It clearly points a chaotic system… -
S1E10: The domestic battleground created by a pandemic
How is the domestic load shared in your household? Would you say it’s more or less equal, or, as in so many Aussie households, is the division of domestic labour and childcare a battleground? The pandemic created what experts describe as an unprecede… -
S1E9: Hugh Mackay - How COVID rebooted compassion and community
Have you been using your phone and your computer more in pandemic? The paradox is that tech can make us more connected, but also more isolated. But are there circumstances in which tech actually brings us closer together?What lessons can we learn fro… -
S1E8: How the virus made politics mutate
The Covid-19 pandemic transformed Australian society and the world seemingly overnight. But suddenly politics looks very different too.The virus effectively wiped the political slate and took all kinds of pressing issues off the agenda. At the same, … -
S1E7: Indigenous Might VS COVID
When the Government’s public health warnings came out at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown they were both factual and political, according to Indigenous academic and filmmaker Professor Larissa Behrendt. Why? Find out on this episode of the Seriousl… -
S1E6: Menace or Saviour? Artificial Intelligence and coronavirus
In science fiction films and books, Artificial Intelligence (or A-I) is usually either depicted as a menace to society or the saviour of the human race. Which is it?In this episode of the Seriously Social podcast, journalist Ginger Gorman speaks to P…
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