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Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Think Again connects political ideas to the institutions, policies and lived consequences through which Australians encounter them.
Think Again keeps asking what public systems look like from the perspective of people expected to live under them. Jennifer Burrell, Jacques Boulet and Mari Brennan move between guest interviews and co-hosted discussion, addressing Australian democracy, climate policy, education…
This is where Australian policy gets the follow-up you wish the evening news had asked.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A thoughtful look at whether Labour can hold power without losing the reason it wanted power in the first place.
Democracy in Australia gives the episode its way in, but the deeper pressure point is what Labour can still stand for when a party built to resist conservative power becomes wary of serious system change.
A clear community-radio discussion connecting Afghan women's lives with Hazara settlement in Australia.
Think Again frames its International Women's Day program around Afghan women and Afghan refugee experience in Australia. Jennifer Burrell's conversation with Lida Hazara from Women for Change keeps the focus on visibility, solidarity, and the pressure ordinary people can bring…
A teachers' strike leads into a clear account of standardisation, testing, and pressure on educational leadership.
Think Again carries the questions raised after a teachers' strike into the harder machinery of school policy. Mari Brennan and Emeritus Professor Rob Hattam work through devolution, standardisation, professional standards, high-stakes testing, and performative accountability,…
Annika Reynolds connects Australia's climate risks with the nature-law choices now before government.
Australia's climate policy sits at the center of this single-episode review, with Annika Reynolds of the Australian Conservation Foundation arguing that national nature laws still do not treat climate change as one of the biggest threats to nature.
Climate policy with civic memory.
State policy problems, worked through from the statehouse
Moral questions with consequences for minds, machines, and power.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Host Jacques Boulay interviews Kate Rigby about their shared history in academia and activism, introducing the show's focus on critical social and ecological issues.
Host Jacques Poulet interviews Josh Bornstein about his book on how corporations destroy free speech, discussing political economy and capitalism.
Host Jennifer Burrell interviews Philip Ripper, CEO of No To Violence, about the progress and challenges of Australia's National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children.
Host Jennifer Burrell interviews author Marilyn Garson about her books on Gaza and Jewish identity, exploring personal and political dimensions.
Mari Brennan and Emeritus Professor Rob Hattam trace how the OECD-linked “global education reform movement” has shaped Australian schooling policy.