Recorded live at Hope Street Radio in Melbourne, Danielle Wood—Chair of the Productivity Commission and former CEO of the Grattan Institute—joins Jonathan O’Brien to discuss what stagnant productivity is costing an ordinary household, as well as what the Sydney lockout laws teach us about governing at speed, and why “hamburger-with-the-lot” procurement can end in a $1.7 million public toilet.

They also look ahead: to how government should think about data centre regulations, and to why Australia, as a small open economy, might not need an overarching AI Act.

Read Danielle’s essay in Inflection Points: https://inflectionpoints.work/articles/the-red-tape-impulse

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