The Wire w/ Manny: 24th June, 2026

This week on the Wednesday Wire...

For our weekly catchup w/ the Green Party, News Director Castor spoke about the party’s newly announced tax policy.

Then Host Manny spoke to Visiting Fellow at the Australia University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, Dr Jacob Priergaard about the Australian Robodebt controversy and how we can watch out for the tragic mistakes they made as we automate decision making in our welfare system.

After this Producer Theo, spoke to Professor Jemma Geoghegan on the arrival of the H5N1 bird flu in Australia.

And we round off with Dr Timothy Fadgen on a proposal for an emergency protection framework for refugees that he coauthored.