February 13, 2024
In the first of Pearls and Irritations’ new podcast series, Peter Martin interviews Ross Gittins on 50 years at the Sydney Morning Herald and the radical tax reform necessary to address climate change and Australia’s housing affordability crisis.
Intro and outro music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz.
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Peter Martin is Business and Economy Editor of The Conversation and a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU. A former Commonwealth Treasury official, he has worked as Economics Correspondent for the ABC, Economics Editor of The Age, and host of The Economists on ABC RN. In 2016 Peter was made a Distinguished Alumni of Flinders University and was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2019.
Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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