Big: The Role of Government

Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is currently the presenter and producer of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National. 

Richard Denniss is the Executive Director of the Australia Institute, He is the author of several books including: Econobabble, Curing Affluenza, Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next? and Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy.

Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist and editor for 46 years. He previously served as editor of The Age and has worked for the ABC for the past 21 years, first as business editor of The 7.30 Report and then as host of Inside Business and as finance presenter on ABC News. He was the founder of Eureka Report and Business Spectator, now owned by News Corporation, and recently started a new publication, The Constant Investor. 

Wayne Swan served as Treasurer of Australia for nearly six years, including three years as Deputy Prime Minister. He is the author of The Good Fight: Six years, two prime ministers and staring down the Great Recession (2014). He is currently National President of the Australian Labor Party.