Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea (Digital Rights Watch), Dan Stinton (HealthEngine CEO), and guests, fortnightly for analysis of the politics of technology from some of Australia’s leading digital campaigners and industry experts. Brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.
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Governments may campaign in poetry and govern in prose, but what about the engineering that keeps our democracy flowing? The pioneer of public innovation and Professor of Collective Intelligence at Un...
Long Game with Greg Sadler (01:05:03)
Burning Platforms is BACK for 2026. The panels returns this week to unpack the existential risks AI presents with the Good Ancestors CEO, Greg Sadler. Spoiler: it's not just AGI.
With our regular pa...
End of Days - 2025 in Review (01:04:17)
As 2025 crashes out we survey the highs and lows of the year in tech with long-time platform burner Human Technology Institute co-director Ed Santow.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizz...
Ground Game with Cory Alpert (01:03:49)
While the vested interests wrestle with the intricacies of AI regulation, are community library conversations the best bet for shaping our tech future? On this week's episode of Burning Platforms, we ...
Carbon Footprints with Ketan Joshi (01:08:45)
How much energy will AI really burn? Climate writer and activist Ketan Joshi joins Burning Platforms to chat AI and Climate: what we know, what we don’t know and what data centres have to do with yogu...
RadicalXChange with Jess Scully (01:04:48)
Is Big Tech’s domination of AI inevitable or are there different ways of organising our data to shift the power the dynamic? We discuss the RadicalXChange project with its new director, Jess Scully.
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How Can Democracy Survive AI? LIVE IN PERTH (01:09:15)
AI is transforming our world at rapid speed, raising urgent questions about who benefits, who loses, and how we keep control of the future.
Panellists from the Burning Platforms podcast and guests, e...
Bursting Bubbles with Dan McQuillan (01:05:48)
Is the rise of AI inevitable or just the latest cycle of hype for a sector that thrives on the vibes? The author of “Resisting AI’, Professor Dan McQuillan, joins the show to argue for a more fundamen...
Cooking with Cam Wilson (01:08:53)
The co-author of ‘Conspiracy Nation’ takes us on his journey into the world of anti-vaxxers, wellness influencers and sovereign citizens.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea...
Tech Check with Damian Kassabgi (01:05:58)
The tech industry is pitching data mining and new infrastructure as the key to national prosperity. But will it deliver? And if so, for whom?
Tech Council of Australia CEO, Damian Kassabgi joins re...
Stolen Property with Peter Garrett (00:58:56)
“I’m concerned that AI and big tech – well, big tech with AI – has gone into a full-court press… particularly on the federal system...I’m concerned that without thinking it through clearly enough, pol...
Industrial Base with Minister Tim Ayres (00:52:05)
New Federal industry and science minister Tim Ayres shares his take on industry policy, AI's opportunities and risks, and how we could steer through the latest wave of tech change.
With regular panell...
Digital New Deal with Johanna Weaver (01:02:33)
Can Australia play a leading role in imagining a tech future that isn’t controlled by either the US or China?
Johanna Weaver from the Tech Policy Design Institute expands on her recent essay ‘System ...
Poisoning AI with Prof Toby Walsh (01:04:22)
The Large Language Models are powered by stolen data but there are new and innovative ways to make the thieves pay. Professor Toby Walsh explains the tech-driven resistance to Big AI from data poisoni...
Scammed! With Alex Brooks (01:05:42)
"I thought old people got scammed. And actually young people are at greater risk because they have more confidence in dealing [with things] online."
This week on Burning Platforms, the team learns how...
Dr Alondra Nelson’s Intelligence (01:05:09)
"What could things have become? You could imagine if the baton had been passed from the Obama administration to a Clinton administration... an American public much more ready... for the turns in AI th...
Grok-ing Out with Julie Inman-Grant (01:04:19)
Burning Platforms struggles to make sense of white genocide, design unicorns and the all-seeing Apple Eye.
E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant joins regular panellists Digital Rights Watch founde...
The Holy Trinity Edition (01:05:54)
Good things come in threes and this week’s Burning Platforms looks at the inspiration behind the new Pope’s decision to name himself Leo, the critical changes to the Labor Government’s front bench and...
2025 Federal Election Special (or Much Ado About Nothing) (01:01:32)
With a federal election within days, Burning Platforms looks at the lack of discussion about tech and whether that is a good or bad thing.
With Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Per Capita’s...
Distilling the Slop (01:00:33)
As the world teeters on the brink of whatever comes after globalisation we dive deep into the way AI is transforming film-making with the director of the iconic Australian film Kenny, Clay Jacobson.
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Taxing Times (00:56:50)
On this week's episode of Burning Platforms, the gang looks at global efforts to force Big Tech to pay their share of tax with special guest Dr Mark Zirnsak from the Tax Justice Network.
With our re...
The National Trust (01:01:58)
This week on Burning Platforms, we dive deep into a new initiative to understand the role of Trust in the relationship between society and technology with special guest, Professor Terry Flew.
With ...
World Gone Wild (00:51:18)
Burning Platforms is back for 2025.
With the tech overlords in the ascendant, particularly following the US election, we take stock of the impending inferno with our regular panel Per Capita’s Peter L...
Setting the Guardrails (01:03:21)
In our final episode of 2024 we unpack the recent Senate Report into the Adoption of AI in Australia with Committee Chair Senator Tony Sheldon.
We also look at:
Woolworth's industrial dispute over...
Strange Bedfellows (01:05:45)
Burning Platforms dives deep into the common ground between national security and individual privacy with cybersecurity expert Miah Hammond-Errey, host of the Technology and Security podcast.
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