Twice a year most Australians are made to deliberately mess with our body clocks. When we go into daylight saving and when we come out.
Many of us love the longer summer evenings. What we don’t love is the sleep adjustment that makes us feel tired, fuzzy and out of sorts.
There are plenty of arguments about whether daylight saving is a good or bad thing.
So in this episode we look at the costs and benefits and whether it’s time to rethink the concept.
Guests:
Dr Thomas Sigler, Associate Professor, University of Queensland
Allison Schrager, Economist & Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Dr Yevgeny Mugerman, Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
Dr Jayanta Sarkar, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
The economic and social turning points of the 2020s
The high cost of free parking
Fractions of a cent: music streaming
The subscription economy
The way of the noodle: Aussie wheat in demand for global snack
Buy now pay later: the fintech boom
Fees, fundraisers and Gonski: Inequality in Australia’s schools
The unfinished business of the Henry Tax Review
Follow the money: What led to the Westpac scandal?
Study to work: 2.6 years to get a job after uni
The Sex Factor: equality makes economies richer
Inequality and poverty in Australia
How diverse is our export economy?
The financial risks of unregulated property investment advice
Debt making us work longer and spend less
House prices — why we pay what we do
Population patterns
Fat profits
Waste not: the value of recycling
Finals season: fortunes and fervour
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