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Episode 99: How Do We Build a Future Where Everyone Feels Safe?

In the podcast’s season finale, learn how we're making progress, challenging harmful systems, and creating real solutions in the push to eliminate gender-based violence.

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The Handmaid’s Tale. Brave New World. Mad Max. Fictional dystopias have never seemed so close to becoming reality. Is it too late to change our course?

Academic and commentator Dr Susan Carland steps through the sliding doors with global experts and thought leaders to find out what could happen if we don’t change, and what the world could look like if we do. Every episode of the international award-winning podcast “What Happens Next?” is available below.

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Episode 98: What’s Behind the Gender-Based Violence Crisis?

One woman dies every nine days in Australia from domestic violence. In this “What Happens Next?” episode, leading experts examine the drivers behind this national emergency.

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Eight GIG students listen to a local expert while snorkelling in the ocean off the coast of a Pacific Island.

Episode 97: Can Good Stories Help Save the Planet?

See how storytelling, not statistics, can inspire climate action by highlighting resilience and innovation across the Indo-Pacific on a new episode of “What Happens Next?”

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A house in the Indo-Pacific region engulfed by floodwaters.

Episode 96: Will Climate Change Wipe Out the Indo-Pacific?

Discover the urgent climate challenges facing the Indo-Pacific and the power of storytelling to drive meaningful climate action in this new “What Happens Next?” episode.

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Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.

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Episode 94: Will AI Cut Us Off from Reality?

In the season nine premiere of Monash’s podcast, learn how AI, deepfakes and humanoid robots are transforming human interaction and our perception of reality.

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The ‘What Happens Next?’ Podcast Is Back

Monash's award-winning podcast, “What Happens Next?”, returns for a ninth season that explores pressing global issues including reality in the digital age, climate change in the Indo-Pacific region and the ongoing struggle to eliminate gender-based violence.

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Episode 93: Can We Learn to Be More Civil?

In the final episode of season eight, “What Happens Next?” explores the importance of civility in a digital age, reminding us to recognise the humanity behind screens.

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