Future Perfect

About Future Perfect

Talks and interviews spanning current affairs, politics, society, culture, and music. From the offbeat to the upbeat. The local to the global. Taking stock of where we are, where we've been, and where we're going.

Publisher

RRR - Triple R

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Feb 2024

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026

   George Megalogenis on who Australia is becoming and why it matters for our politics

   Journalist, author and long-time Triple R subscriber George Megalogenis joins host Dylan Bird to discuss his new book Three Shocks: Who We Are Becoming In The 21st Century. It looks at the transformative shifts that are changing Australia's self-identity and the huge implications for the country's politics. "The middle class is clearly not White anymore, and it's clearly not male. And its not an aspirational battler, as John Howard used to define his sort of ex-Labor voter that he picked up in outer metropolitan [areas] and in the regions. So that part of Australia, 'real Australia', middle Australia, is not White. For our politics, that is the most profound thing."

2. 

   31 May 2026

   Kae Tempest on words, music, and feeling in touch with the world

   Kae Tempest is a person of deep feeling, with a rare ability to channel life's beauty, pain, and mysteries into moving works of art. From his roots as an MC and spoken word artist on the London scene, he rose to critical acclaim in 2013 by winning the coveted Ted Hughes Prize for Poetry for the work Brand New Ancients. The following year, he was named the Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a once in a decade honor. To go with his eight poetry collections, he's published four plays, one nonfiction essay, and released five albums, two of which have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. In 2026, his track I Stand on the Line from a 2025 album, Self-Titled, won the Best Contemporary Song at the Ivor Novello Awards. In the same year he published his second novel, Having Spent Life Seeking. The story follows Rothco Taylor, who returns to their hometown after 15 years away, determined to find atonement and connection with the turbulent past they left behind. It's a story that explores gender identity, desire, and addiction, themes that overlap in some ways with Tempest's own life journey. This conversation, recorded on the eve of Kae's Australian tour, explores what went into his recent novel and album, where inspiration comes from, and what it's like to be in touch with the world. "My relationship with my work is so beautiful. To be creative is so necessary for all of us. We all have it. We all have this capacity to express ourselves and meet ourselves there in that place of creativity.  It's so abundantly powerful. If I didn't have my writing, I couldn't imagine having got through life. Creativity has given me my life, and now I give my life to creativity. Music saved my life, now I give my life to music.”

3. 

   18 May 2026

   Antoinette Lattouf on her legal battle with the ABC and Women Who Win

   In late 2023, Antoinette Lattouf had a five day contract to host the mornings program on ABC radio Sydney. It’d normally be a light and breezy week of broadcasting in the pre-Christmas wind down. Instead, it became the central flashpoint in a legal saga – when she was taken off air by management two days early, after reposting a Human Rights Watch report about Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. In response, Lattouf sued the ABC for unlawful termination – and won. It was a huge result for the journalist personally, but also one of broader significance, throwing up questions around the power of the pro-Israel lobby, the integrity of ABC management’s decision making processes, and freedom of speech. Antoinette’s new book is called Women Who Win, and it places her struggle in a larger context - of women throughout history who have taken on authority. It’s part memoir, part roadmap for change, asking what it takes to succeed when the odds and systems are stacked against you. “[Establishment media are] so concerned about advertisers or lobby groups – like the ABC running scared of the next attack by the Murdoch Press or the chain of complaints from pro-Israel lobbyists or gas lobbyists … Are they really giving a voice to the voiceless, or are they just making power comfortable? And when journalism in this country walks alongside or in step with powerful institutions and people, then our democracy is in a bit of trouble."

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 11 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

11

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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