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Nicholas Gruen
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A record of media podcast interviews I've done.
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November 26, 2025
90% of Voters Hate This, But Politicians Do It Anyway
<p>Interviewed on <a href="https://www.thesharedcentre.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">my videos</a> by Peter Clarke of <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7JARHiFKJfdtPFy37UoMxv" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Transit Zone</a>, you'll find this interview is in a new register, more appropriate to our dire situation. </p><p>Asked what I thought of democracy I riffed off Lincoln's idea that it was "the last best hope of earth". And off an idea I expressed a few years ago - in a post titled "<a href="https://clubtroppo.com.au/2022/03/06/will-you-join-me-in-the-alt-centre/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Will you join me in the alt-centre</a>". </p><p>I argued that the alt-right's diagnosis of how much is wrong with our institutions is right! It's just their next step, that there's something better than democracy, catastrophically wrong. </p><p>So wrong that the world they build will be worse even for them.</p><p>So have a listen and tell me what you think. </p>
August 13, 2025
Me on Curious World View
<p>Ryan Faulkner-Hogg asked me to join him on his long-form podcast show where, over nearly three hours, we spoke about many things.Here are his show notes:</p><p>I joined the Australian economist Nicholas Gruen recently in his Melbourne home to host his first 'long-form' podcast (although I'm not sure at what hour it goes from short to long)</p><p>At the core of Gruen's worldview is the “un-seriousness” he levels at Australian politics, the media landscape, institutions and in a word... bureaucracies.</p><p>From his creation of the HALE Index to his decades inside Australia’s public institutions, Nicholas continuously challenges orthodox thinking.</p><p>The podcast covers the (in my opinion) radical yet (Nicholas's opinion) ancient idea of citizens’ juries as a second pillar of representation, the reasons bold policy rarely survives bureaucratic reality, and how lessons from the Toyota production system could help governments actually listen to people at the bottom of the hierarchy.</p><p>Along the way, Gruen takes us from Australia’s superannuation system to pokies, from the mental health crisis to the subtle erosion of public-spiritedness inside organisations. </p><p>To be specific, these are all the topics covered in this chat.</p><ul><li>The HALE Index of Well-being – Why GDP misses the mark, how HALE works, and what it reveals about Australia’s progress.</li><li>Measuring What Matters – The limits of subjective well-being metrics, correlations between indicators, and why faux indexes mislead policymakers.</li><li>Indigenous Policy Contradictions – The tension between material “gap closing” and self-determination, and why policy rarely confronts it.</li><li>Citizens’ Juries & Political Reform – Introducing random selection into governance and how it could act as a check on elected officials.</li><li>Goodhart’s Law in Action – How turning measures into targets corrupts them, and the problem of gaming metrics in education and beyond.</li><li>Internal vs External Goods – Alasdair MacIntyre’s framework and its relevance to public service, corporate culture, and motivation.</li><li>Institutional Stagnation – Why promising initiatives stall, and how bottom-up programs could scale without being crushed by bureaucracy.</li><li>Toyota Production System Lessons – Building respect for frontline workers into systems and how it transforms performance.</li><li>Australia’s Superannuation System – Strengths, inefficiencies, unfair taxation, and misaligned regulation of self-managed super funds.</li><li>Compulsory Voting & Preferential Systems – How they shape Australia’s political centre and guard against extreme populism.</li><li>Universities Today – The shift from idea-driven discourse to metric-chasing careerism, especially in economics.</li><li>Trade-offs vs Synergies – Why economics often overemphasises trade-offs, and examples of where quality and cost improve together.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>If you prefer to watch the video, it's <a href="https://youtu.be/Q4Ti0BC2sKA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here</a>. </p><p><br></p>
August 9, 2025
Can random citizens fix what party politics broke?
<p>In this final talk at Web Directions NEXT, I explore how we might breathe new life into democracy—by giving ordinary people a permanent seat at the table.The idea is to establish a House of Citizens—a standing assembly of everyday people, chosen by lottery, deliberating on the same laws and policies as parliament or congress. No formal power at first. Just visibility to the public who get to see another way to do democracy.That other way involves building a new institution in which the considered judgement of citizens can be forged and then express itself. Imagine, how might that shift previously vexed debates on guns in the US, carbon pricing in Australia, or Brexit in the UK?I also reflect on conversations with Google’s Vint Cerf about building better online platforms for cultivating good discussion. This is a fairly visual presentation with a video played, so if you want to see the action you can find the talk o<a href="https://youtu.be/vp72Z2ELHXg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">n YouTube</a>. </p>
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