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This is Part 2 of How To Build A Premier. In Part 1, Emeka showed you the runway. This episode goes inside the factory: the factions, the unions, the alliances, the 2020 branch stacking scandal and the federal takeover, the ABC's reporting on how ministerial positions get carved up by factional proportional representation, the 2023 succession Carroll didn't win but somehow walked out of stronger, and the political irony of the Big Build royal commission.
Part 1 of a multi-part investigation. Emeka traces Ben Carroll's political trajectory and his path to becoming the 50th Premier of Victoria.
Australia's Commonwealth Home Support Program supports around 840,000 older Australians. That is more than half of the entire aged care sector. And it runs on roughly 8% of aged care spending.
By any measure of value for money, that's the most efficient program in the portfolio. So naturally, it's being phased out.
Australia builds half as many homes per hour worked as it did in 1995. The rest of the economy went up 49%. If the whole economy had performed like housing, the average Australian income would be about 41% lower.
"It could never happen here." Those are the six words that quietly convince a country it is safe when it is not. Every country that has ever been hollowed out by its own leadership, sold its resources cheap, watched its people slide backwards while its politicians got richer, said those exact same words first. My country said it. And I lived through what happened next.
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This is Part 2 of How To Build A Premier. In Part 1, Emeka showed you the runway. This episode goes inside the factory: the factions, the unions, the alliances, the 2020 branch stacking scandal and the federal takeover, the ABC's reporting on how ministerial positions get carved up by factional proportional representation, the 2023 succession Carroll didn't win but somehow walked out of stronger, and the political irony of the Big Build royal commission.
Part 1 of a multi-part investigation. Emeka traces Ben Carroll's political trajectory and his path to becoming the 50th Premier of Victoria.
Australia's Commonwealth Home Support Program supports around 840,000 older Australians. That is more than half of the entire aged care sector. And it runs on roughly 8% of aged care spending.
By any measure of value for money, that's the most efficient program in the portfolio. So naturally, it's being phased out.
Australia builds half as many homes per hour worked as it did in 1995. The rest of the economy went up 49%. If the whole economy had performed like housing, the average Australian income would be about 41% lower.
"It could never happen here." Those are the six words that quietly convince a country it is safe when it is not. Every country that has ever been hollowed out by its own leadership, sold its resources cheap, watched its people slide backwards while its politicians got richer, said those exact same words first. My country said it. And I lived through what happened next.
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Australia is in a housing crisis. Tim Volkman wants to build us out of it with robots.
Tim Volkman is the co-founder of 3D Construction QLD, the Brisbane-based licensed builder behind Australia's first multi-storey 3D printed home. In this Emeka Conversations episode, Tim sits down with Emeka Edwin to unpack why a cheap iPhone has more technology in it than the rockets that put a man on the moon, while bricklayers in 2026 are still doing the same job the exact same way they did in 1996.
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Three veteran suicides every fortnight. Up to 3,000 dead in a decade, according to the Royal Commission. And the system meant to protect them is, in Andrew Hovenden's words, putting them on ice.
Andrew sits down with Emeka to talk about what really broke him in the Australian Army. It wasn't combat. It wasn't a war zone. It was a senior NCO pulling a push knife on him in the Malaysian jungle, then his own chain of command turning the investigation on him for the next 18 months.
Emeka sits down with a pastor to discuss a topic many people avoid: What happened to the church’s influence in society?
Emeka sits down with Professor Halim Rane, Griffith University academic, researcher in international relations, and scholar of Islamic studies, for a direct and wide-ranging discussion about Islam, media narratives, extremism, and the misconceptions shaping public debate.
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