December 2014: Bluewire Media’s Toby Jenkins talks to Mark Carnegie about his marketing philosophy (inspired by Australia’s best known advertising man), the three things he looks for in an investment, and how to get a PhD in investment banking.

November 2014: Mark Carnegie talks to Janine Perrett, on Sky News’ The Perrett Report, about the Australian media landscape, including cuts to the ABC, government media law changes and the digital revolution, and his broad optimism for the Australian economy.

October 2014: Michael Traill and Mark Carnegie talk at the Social Ventures Australia debate about the need for a more equal society. 

“We’ve built a prodigiously successful economy for 85-90%, but we’ve left 10-15% behind,” said Mark Carnegie. “We need a national debate about the excluded class in Australia.

October 2014: Mark Carnegie talks to Peter Wilmoth of The Weekly Review about being a ‘capitalist with a conscience’, the impact of divorce on families, and the need for an engaged community.

June 2014: Mark Carnegie delivered the inaugural Di Gribble Argument, hosted by the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.

Being an Australia citizen should require more than a choice at the political smorgasbord once every three years: it should require active participation. Australia needs a form of compulsory national service, but without the military uniform.  I hope this proposal will spark a debate, because debate is sorely needed in Australia