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On The Call is a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief newsroom on the stories driving the agenda in Australia’s centres of power. Host Harshdeep Kaur sits down each week with our journalists to dissect what we’re watching and why it matters, and answer questions from our subscribers, live.
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Signup to Generate a PitchOn The Call is a weekly live conversation with the Capital Brief newsroom on the stories driving the agenda in Australia’s centres of power. Host Harshdeep Kaur sits down each week with our journalists to dissect what we’re watching and why it matters, and answer questions from our subscribers, live.
On The Call is hosted by Capital Brief. The show has published 34 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Anthropic's IPO" (29 October 2026, 25 minutes), "Firmus’ flop; Labor’s AI letter to itself." (15 October 2026, 24 minutes), and "Firmus' IPO in jeopardy; Tech giants at the AI inquiry." (8 October 2026, 25 minutes).
On The Call publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 34 episodes.
Booking probability for On The Call is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. On The Call requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. On The Call's contact route on record: verified email.
Capital Brief hosts On The Call, a news podcast with 34 episodes published.
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Anthropic has filed its prospectus, and the market is anticipating what could be the biggest IPO in history. We discuss: The headline numbers: revenue up 1,300% in six months, and an $80 billion accounting loss tied to...
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Firmus’ collapsed IPO has spread from financial markets to becoming a national story in Australia. Now it’s found itself at the centre of global investor fears on the strength of the AI industry. Meanwhile, the Joint...
Firmus's ASX IPO hangs in the balance as institutional investors grow increasingly sceptic before the book build was due to close. Meanwhile, the Joint Select Committee on AI wraps a big week of hearings, with tech...
Goodman Group has abandoned its $1.2 billion Lane Cove data centre after a fierce community and political backlash, raising questions on if Australia's AI infrastructure boom is hitting its first real bump. Meanwhile...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in the United States earlier this week pushing for global guardrails on AI — signing a 22-nation statement on frontier AI regulation, launching Australia's bid for a UN Security...
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Australia's AI copyright fight reignites as leaked documents reveal the Albanese government's reform plans. Meanwhile, just hours later, Anthropic signs its first Australian data centre lease: a $32 billion project in...
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Xero's aggressive AI pivot has sent morale inside the accounting software company into freefall, with engineers fearing they're building their own replacements. Meanwhile, the Albanese government's battle against big...
Agentic AI in banking has moved from drafting documents to moving money — and there’s an unanswered question on who's liable when bots are actioning transactions. Recorded live at Fintech Australia's Intersekt...
Support for Pauline Hanson slides in the latest Capital Brief–Demos AU poll, with the sharpest drop among women — positive views falling 13 points since June while negative views jumped 15 points. Meanwhile, less than a...
Canva is facing AI token fraudsters who are exploiting loopholes to access AI credits beyond normal limits, with some later sold on grey markets. This comes as two of Canva’s earliest backers, Blackbird and Airtree...
In an exclusive interview with Capital Brief’s Matthew Franklin and Katina Curtis, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he wants Australia to lead the world on AI regulation. He says his move to legislate AI regulatory...
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Community anger over AI data centres has found its epicentre in Sydney's Lane Cove of all places, a well-heeled North Shore suburb now facing five proposed data centres in its industrial park. Meanwhile, AI...
Eucalyptus co-founder Tim Doyle joins the Capital Brief newsroom for On The Call’s first ever guest episode. Doyle has been one of the most prominent voices in the startup sector’s response to Labor’s capital gains tax...
A new report suggests that Australia has seen the strongest first half in venture funding since 2022 — but the number of deals is actually a quite a bit lower. Meanwhile, the conversation around Chinese AI is heating up...
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AI giant Anthropic is circling Australia, with reports suggesting it is looking to secure a massive amount of data centre capacity Down Under. That has kicked off a cycle of debate about what companies will build those...
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KPMG's whistleblower scandal has snowballed into a reckoning for the Big Four. A number of senior executives have resigned. Lendlease has ended its 68 year old relationship with the firm. Government departments...
The latest Capital Brief/DemosAU poll shows the Coalition's primary vote has collapsed 5% in a single month, putting the Liberal party closer to the Greens than to One Nation. Meanwhile, Labor's CGT and negative gearing...
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Labor revealed its long-awaited CGT carve-outs for startups and small businesses minutes before Capital Brief went live with this conversation. Meanwhile, complexities arise around Canva's path to IPO as its first...
This week, Newspoll had One Nation jumping ahead of Labor on the primary vote, confirming what the exclusive DemosAU and Capital Brief poll first revealed last month. Meanwhile, frustration over the government's capital...
<p>The collapse of Dashdot — one of Australia's most prominent buyer's agencies — raises a bigger question about whether the property market is hitting an inflection point. Meanwhile, Anthropic files for a blockbuster...
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