Recorded live in Melbourne in March 2025, this event — co-hosted with Effective Altruism Australia — brings together three speakers making the case for reforming our charitable giving laws.

Ryan Ginard (Fundraise for Australia) argues that without fixing the infrastructure, the $5.4 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer will pass the charitable sector by.

Clare Ozich (Justice Connect) explains exactly what the system is, why it fails, and what the Productivity Commission's solution would do.

Grace Adams (Effective Altruism Australia) shows how DGR rules actively distort giving away from some of the most important causes of our time.

Myriam Robin of the Australian Financial Review moderates the panel.

Read Ryan Ginard's essay “The Generous Country” in Inflection Points: https://inflectionpoints.work/articles/the-generous-country

Support Justice Connect’s Unlock DGR campaign: https://justiceconnect.org.au/campaigns/unlock-dgr/

Keith Wolahan is a barrister, a former Australian Army commando with four deployments including three tours in Afghanistan, and the former Liberal Member for Menzies—the seat named after the party's own founder.

He won the seat in 2022 by unseating a thirty-year conservative incumbent at preselection. Three years later, he lost that same seat as the Liberal party's metropolitan vote collapsed beneath his feet.

In his essay for Inflection Points, Keith argues that the Liberal Party's failure is structural, not cyclical, and driven by three forces: migration, education, and home ownership.

The party has lost the multicultural suburbs. It has lost university-educated professionals, particularly women. And it has lost a generation locked out of the housing market—people who, as Keith writes, are “not hostile to Liberal values; they simply do not believe the party is serious about the one thing that would make those values real.”

This is a podcast about the seriousness required to bring a political party back from the brink.

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Read Keith Wolahan’s essay, Liberal Foundations, in Inflection Points: https://inflectionpoints.work/articles/liberal-foundations

Policymakers often suffer from a cognitive blind spot: we intuitively think like consumers rather than producers. When it comes to housing, this leads governments to reach for demand-side levers—like First Home Owner Grants—that often inflate prices, rather than addressing the fundamental constraints on production.

In this episode of the Inflection Points Podcast, Matthew Maltman, Senior Research Economist at the e61 Institute, joins Jonathan O’Brien to discuss his landmark essay, “Best Practice for Supply Side Reform”. Drawing on the empirical evidence from Auckland’s 2016 Unitary Plan, Maltman explains how broad-based upzoning successfully lowered rents and boosted construction productivity where other measures failed.

Matthew and Jonathan unpack Maltman’s three principles for effective reform: focusing on removing "bans" (prohibitions on density) rather than just reducing "burdens" (red tape), prioritising market health over the specific concerns of incumbent firms, and controlling policy inputs while monitoring outputs. Matt argues that while cutting paperwork is popular, it is ultimately ineffective if policies that ban the things we need remain in effect.

Read Matthew Maltman’s essay “Best Practice for Supply-Side Reform”:

https://inflectionpoints.work/articles/best-practice-for-supply-side-reform