Richard Denniss (The Australia Institute) chats to guest host Nick Feik about Australia's high school problems.

Richard Denniss is co-CEO of the Australia Institute. He is a prominent economist, author and public policy commentator, and is the author of several books including Econobabble, Curing Affluenza and Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next?

Most recently he wrote the long essay, Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us.

He talks about his new research paper, "Australia's private high school problem", which describes how Australia has one of the world’s most privatised high school systems. These schools charge families high and rising fees and receive significant government funding, all without delivering substantially better results. Meanwhile the state system suffers from serious under-funding.