Author: Emma Dawson

Emma Dawson is the Executive Director of Per Capita. Formerly, she was a senior advisor on Digital Inclusion at Telstra, Executive Director of the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society at the University of Melbourne, and a senior policy advisor to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy in the Rudd and Gillard Governments. Emma has a research background and policy expertise in the areas of social inclusion and economic inequality, immigration and multiculturalism, ageing and disability, media and communications and gender equality and women’s rights.

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It’s our ABC

The following is an excerpt of Per Capita’s research report “It’s Our ABC”, which was published on 4 May 2020 with funding from political activist group GetUp! The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), has, since its establishment in 1932, provided radio, later television, and, more recently, Read More …

Some Facts About Debt

As the federal government pumps unprecedented amounts of spending into the Australian economy to offset the damage from the worst economic shock in living memory, talk is starting to turn to the fear of the long-term debt this will create. This fear is largely misplaced, Read More …