The Readout

Is Australia walking the talk on its longstanding commitment to disability? With CEO of CBM Australia Jane Edge, we discuss how Australia can retain its leadership and hard-won gains made in disabili…

Has Australian aid become too embroiled in geostrategic competition? We take you behind the scenes of a Lab hosted debate, with Dr Mike Green, CEO of the US Studies Centre, and Senior Advisor and Kis…

Solstice Middleby, PhD Scholar at Adelaide University, says that Australia is on overdrive with the “family” or “Vuvale” and “good neighbour” or “Falepili” narrative, but it’s actions do not follow. …

“The great promise of integration was that we would be bringing different policy instruments to bear.” Strategic Advisor at the Development Intelligence Lab Richard Moore says little has changed in A…

Does Australia have the development skills, stamina and leadership to keep up with the region? Diastika Rahwidiati, Senior Strategic Innovation Designer at Chora Design thinks so, provided that Austr…

Aid is not development. Dame Meg Taylor, former Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, argues that most aid to the Pacific “comes in, it’s filtered through the system, and then i…

Welcome to the latest series of the Readout.

The Readout is the Development Intelligence Lab's podcast hosted by CEO Bridi Rice. Each episode, you'll meet one development leader, hear their big idea a…

Welcome to episode five of the latest Readout series.

In this episode, the Lab’s CEO, Bridi Rice, sits down again with Jo Choe and James Gilling.

The group discuss recent development headlines: staffin…

Welcome to episode four of the latest Readout series.

In this episode, The Development Intelligence Lab’s CEO, Bridi Rice, chats virtually with Jo Choe and James Gilling about recent development news…

Welcome to episode three of the latest Readout series.

In this episode, Bridi again sits down with Jo Choe and James Gilling to chat about the development debates that have surfaced in the past few w…

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Welcome to our one-off special episode of The Readout.

Recent events have put aid, China and the Indo-Pacific squarely on the map for many Australians. So there was no better a time for The Lab to ho…

Welcome to Part Five of our Democracy Series, with Blake Chrystal (USAID).

We’ve heard a lot about the different approaches of the US compared with Australia. So how does the US go about democracy pr…

Welcome to Part Four of our Democracy Series, with Dr Nicola Nixon and Peter Yates (The Asia Foundation).

What exactly does ‘democracy promotion’ mean in real terms? How do practitioners approach the…

Welcome to Part Three of our Democracy Series, with Professor John Blaxland (Australian National University).

So we’ve heard why governance support is critical for prosperity in the region. But just …

Welcome to Part Two of our Democracy Series, with Serena Sasingian (The Voice).

To learn more about the state of democracy, and what the Summit will mean for the region, let’s start where we should –…

Welcome to Part One of our Democracy Series, with Richard Maude (Asia Society) and Bryce Wakefield (Australian Institute for International Affairs).

President Biden has just held the first Summit for…

We’re stoked to introduce the first series of the Readout: Democracy. Hosted by Lab CEO Bridi Rice, this short series takes you behind the scenes of our latest project, investigating what US Presiden…

The Readout is a podcast hosted by the Development Intelligence Lab.

At the Lab, we’re tackling the big issues of development cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. We take one gnarly issue at a time, gathe…