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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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Kids’ Gloves with Carly Kind
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May 06, 2026 |
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Hyperscaling with Ed Husic
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Popular Front with Cam Wilson
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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War Crimes with Prof Toby Walsh
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Industrial Revolution with Joseph Mitchell
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Muting The Manosphere with Chanel Contos
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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One Battle After Another with Alix Dunn
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Just Asking with Prof Daniel Angus
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Trust Mark with Alan Finkel
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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World on Fire
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Orgy of Opportunity with Prof Nicholas Davis
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Plumbing with Sir Geoff Mulgan
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Long Game with Greg Sadler
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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End of Days - 2025 in Review
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Ground Game with Cory Alpert
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Carbon Footprints with Ketan Joshi
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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RadicalXChange with Jess Scully
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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How Can Democracy Survive AI? LIVE IN PERTH
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Bursting Bubbles with Dan McQuillan
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Cooking with Cam Wilson
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Tech Check with Damian Kassabgi
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Stolen Property with Peter Garrett
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Industrial Base with Minister Tim Ayres
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Digital New Deal with Johanna Weaver
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Poisoning AI with Prof Toby Walsh
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Scammed! With Alex Brooks
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Dr Alondra Nelson’s Intelligence
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Grok-ing Out with Julie Inman-Grant
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May 28, 2025 |
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The Holy Trinity Edition
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May 14, 2025 |
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2025 Federal Election Special (or Much Ado About Nothing)
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Distilling the Slop
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Taxing Times
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The National Trust
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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World Gone Wild
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Setting the Guardrails
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Strange Bedfellows
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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The Tech-Bro Election
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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The Digital Dark Age
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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The Age of Intelligence?
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Privacy Now!
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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The NSFW Edition
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Emotional Rescue
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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How AI Will Really Destroy The World
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Rebuilding the Public Square - Live
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Man-Made
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Plurality
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Invisible Bystanders
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Will Google Eat Itself?
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May 27, 2024 |
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Who Stole Our Books?
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May 13, 2024 |
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Judgment Day
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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In Moderation
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Mind-Reading for Dummies
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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The Code 2.0 with Belinda Barnett
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Judging Meta with Dr Nick Suzor
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Faking It
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Tech Horror Stories
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Life of Pi
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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ALP Live Hack
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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’Cookers’ in their underpants - The Voice and social media
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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True Lies - Can we regulate disinformation?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Living With AI
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Privacy Misconception
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Digital Playground
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Public Interest Data
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Identity Crisis
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Chokepoint Capitalism
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Burning Platforms Live in Melbourne
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The End of the (Big Tech) World as we know it
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Navigating the Metaverse
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Resilience or Redesign - Approaching our Tech Future
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlock
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Breached As - the Optus data leak
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Dark Arts of Online Advertising
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Algorithmic Asylum
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Civilising the ’Tech-Bro’
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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The Balance of (Tech) Power
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Cybernetics
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Home Truths
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Private Eyes
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Introducing ’Civility’
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The People’s Choice
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May 16, 2022 |
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Deus Ex Machina
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May 03, 2022 |
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Are we addicted to tech?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Pandemic Tech
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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The Rise of the Splinternet
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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True Lies: Disinformation in an election year
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Facebook news takedown anniversary
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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The Public Square Project book launch
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Whatever happened to the free web?
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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What’s the go with DuckDuckGo?
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Can technology really save the planet?
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Sovereign platforms vs. Sovereign nations
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Privacy isn’t boring: Online Privacy in Australia
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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The algorithms that rule Australia
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Oct 05, 2021 |