Power Shift is a politics and public policy podcast for a new generation. We unpack elections, policy debates, and leadership trends shaping Australia and the world — without spin or party lines. From housing, climate, and the economy to institutions, voting behaviour, and generational change, Power Shift focuses on how Gen Z and Millennials are entering leadership and influencing decisions at every level. Smart, accessible, and non-partisan, it’s a clear-eyed look at where power is moving next — and why it matters.
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Power Shift is a politics and public policy podcast for a new generation. We unpack elections, policy debates, and leadership trends shaping Australia and the world — without spin or party lines. From housing, climate, and the economy to institutions, voting behaviour, and generational change, Power Shift focuses on how Gen Z and Millennials are entering leadership and influencing decisions at every level. Smart, accessible, and non-partisan, it’s a clear-eyed look at where power is moving next — and why it matters.
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Recent Episodes
July 3, 2026
The Blue Horizon Family Episode 2: The Long Pivot
<p><strong>1975–1996</strong></p><p>History does not change overnight. It changes one generation at a time.</p><p>For the first generation, the war never truly ends.</p><p><strong>Captain Felix Nicholson</strong>, a veteran of the Second World War, has spent three decades living in the long shadow of the Ridge. Once an infantry captain, he now finds himself in a slow, final retreat, as the post-war horizon that defined his life begins to fade. Beside him stands <strong>Peggy Nicholson</strong>, the family's unwavering anchor, guiding the difficult transition from strength to care while holding together the home they built in Mosman.</p><p>For the second generation, the world is pivoting.</p><p><strong>David Nicholson</strong>, a Vietnam veteran turned Australian Consul-General to Hong Kong, and his wife <strong>Jennifer "Jen" Nicholson</strong> find themselves at the centre of one of history's great turning points. From Government House to Victoria Harbour, they witness the final years of British rule as the Empire enters its twilight and a new power—China—begins its ascent. Back in Australia, <strong>Susan Nicholson</strong> and <strong>Michael Harris</strong> represent a confident new nation, embracing law, reform and a future no longer defined solely by the past.</p><p>For the third generation, history is only beginning.</p><p>Born beneath the Hong Kong skyline, <strong>Ben</strong> and <strong>Jamie Nicholson</strong> inherit a world unlike the one their parents and grandparents knew. As Ben watches an empire quietly disappear, another horizon begins to emerge. Inspired by the service of his grandfather and father, his future starts to point towards the Army—and eventually, the front line. Jamie remains the family's youngest hope, a reminder that every generation begins with promise before history asks its price.</p><p>Around the Nicholsons, the world is changing. <strong>Bob Hawke</strong>, <strong>Bill Hayden</strong> and <strong>Paul Keating</strong> reshape Australia's place in the region. In Hong Kong, <strong>Sir Edward Youde</strong>, <strong>Sir David Wilson</strong>, <strong>Chris Patten</strong>, <strong>Lavender Patten</strong> and <strong>Anson Chan</strong> guide the colony through its final British chapter. Across the episode, the legacy of the <strong>Gordon Highlanders</strong>, the <strong>Royal Welch Fusiliers</strong> and the <strong>Gurkhas</strong> serves as a constant reminder that the sacrifices of one generation become the inheritance of the next.</p><p>The Long Pivot is the story of three generations, three horizons and a world in transition.</p><p>The first horizon is ending.</p><p>The second stands at the crossroads of empire and the rise of China.</p><p>The third is only just beginning to dawn.</p><p>As one family navigates the defining years from <strong>1975 to 1996</strong>, they discover that history is never simply witnessed—it is lived.</p><p><strong>BLUE HORIZON – Episode 2: </strong><strong>The Long Pivot</strong><strong>.</strong></p><p>BLUE HORIZON – Episode 2: The Long Pivot</p>
February 8, 2026
The Blue Horizon Family Episode 1 (1945-1975)
<p></p><p>In the aftermath of war, the Nicholsons believed the promise.</p><p>They reached for what Robert Menzies once described as a horizon worth building toward: security earned, families protected, and a nation shaped by duty, restraint, and steady progress. For Felix and Peggy Nicholson, this was not ideology but architecture—marriage, children, mortgages, church halls, branch meetings, and a quiet faith that history could be made stable.</p><p>By 1955, the dream appeared complete.<br>Prosperity was real. The ledger balanced. Australia felt orderly, anti-communist, and confident enough to plan for the long term.</p><p>Then their children grew up.</p><p>David and Susan Nicholson—the first true boomers—were raised inside that promise, educated by it, protected by it, and restless within it. Susan challenged it openly, questioning authority, gender, war, and obedience itself. She believed the horizon was not merely unfinished, but morally flawed.</p><p>David went to Vietnam.</p><p>What the war did to him did not turn him against his parents’ world—it drew him closer to it. Through combat and trauma, David came to understand his father’s generation and why the horizon had been built at all: to impose order after chaos, to give sacrifice meaning, to keep faith with the country that had sent them to war. Seeking stability, he embraced the values his parents defended. It was this understanding that led him to Jennifer Caldwell—a conservative North Shore Liberal, and a partner who shared his belief in continuity, duty, and civic loyalty.</p><p>Episode One traces how the Blue Horizon reaches its zenith—and begins to fracture not in Parliament, but around the family table. As the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s deepen, Susan continues to challenge her parents and her brother, while David stands with Felix and Peggy, convinced the promise must be preserved.</p><p>All of it leads to <strong>November 11, 1975</strong>.</p><p>The Dismissal arrives not as a constitutional abstraction, but as a reckoning—confirmation for some that order must be restored, and proof for others that the promise was broken beyond repair. It is the day the ledger finally tears in two.</p><p>The Blue Horizon Family begins with a promise articulated in the shadow of war—and ends its first chapter on the day Australia, and one family, must decide whether that promise still holds.</p><p></p>
January 24, 2026
The Aspirational Class (1975-1996)
<p>Chart the history of the liberals and their relationship with the youth of Gen X and the rise of Howard. </p>
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