# Claire Lehmann

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Is Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey conservative, woke, or something else entirely?

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey has become far more than a film. It's sparked fierce arguments about race, masculinity, Western civilisation, Christianity, leadership, and the culture wars. Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald are joined by Quillette founder Claire Lehm...

Australia Stopped Investing—and Productivity Flatlined | Chris Bradley

Chris Bradley, director of the McKinsey Global Institute, tells Claire Lehmann that Australia has had almost zero productivity growth for a decade—and that the cause isn't mysterious. We stopped investing, and nobody legislates for growth anymore. He also argues the next 75 years could still deli...

Generation Trapped: Why Young Australians Have Given Up Hope | Parnell Palme McGuinness

Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness — columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies — to unpack her landmark report, Generation Trapped, on the collapsing life satisfaction of Australians aged 18–34. Parne...

Why Australia's New Capital Gains Tax Is the Best Tax Policy for Crushing the Economy: Derek Francis

Treasurer Jim Chalmers calls it tax reform. Derek Francis calls it "a complete dog's breakfast." Derek Francis — former chief economist at the NSW Parliamentary Budget Office and a fund manager — joins Claire Lehmann to break down a basic error in Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital g...

“They’re Putting Australia Back 300 Years” | Geoff Wilson on Labor’s CGT

Geoff Wilson founded Wilson Asset Management in 1997 and now manages around $6 billion for 130,000 investors. He has fought three tax campaigns against Labor governments over the past decade, and he is in the middle of a fourth. In June, Parliament legislated the biggest change to Australia's ...

Why So Many Young Men Are Giving Up on Work | Tanveer Ahmed

Why are increasing numbers of young men withdrawing from work—and what happens when people lose a sense of purpose, competence and belonging? Claire Lehmann speaks with psychiatrist and author Tanveer Ahmed about the growing number of men who have stopped working or looking for work, despite per...

Why Australia Is Sick: Immigration, Productivity and Political Dysfunction | Misha Saul

Misha Saul joins Claire Lehmann to discuss his viral essay Australia Is Sick and why he believes Australia has squandered many of the advantages that made it one of the world’s most prosperous countries. They discuss immigration, productivity, net zero, the NDIS, employment law, regulatory overr...

AI Doomers Are Wrong, Says AI Veteran Jerry Kaplan

Is AI about to come alive and rise up against us? Jerry Kaplan has worked in artificial intelligence since earning one of the field’s first PhDs in 1979, and he thinks the public debate has become “a real clown show.” In conversation with Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann, Kaplan explains...

Why the Catholic Church Is AI Doom’s Most Formidable Foe

Claire Lehmann argues that Anthropic’s approach to AI reflects an ideological movement shaped by effective altruism, whose adherents see themselves as saving humanity from existential catastrophe. Drawing parallels with historical apocalyptic religious movements, she warns that the conviction of ...

Josh Frydenberg: ‘The Tragedy of Bondi Was So Preventable’ | Antisemitism in Australia

“The tragedy of Bondi was so preventable, because the writing was on the wall.” Josh Frydenberg was Treasurer of Australia from 2018 to 2022, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, and for 12 years the member for Kooyong. His mother was born in Budapest in 1943 and reached Australia as a stateless ...