Gigi Foster is a Professor with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales, having joined UNSW in 2009 after six years at the University of South Australia. Formally educated at Yale University (BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics) and the University of Maryland (PhD in Economics), she works in diverse fields including education, social influence, corruption, lab experiments, time use, behavioural economics, and Australian policy.
Named 2019 Young Economist of the Year by the Economic Society of Australia, Professor Foster has filled numerous roles of service to the profession and engages heavily on economic matters with the Australian community as well as regular on ABC’s The Economist.
She is a senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, and joint author of the book “The Great Covid Panic“.
Interviews in reverse chronological order
2024
October 4, 2024 – Club Grubbery: Panel discussion w/ Prof Gigi Foster and Dr Philip Altman who discuss the (Misinformation and Disinformatin (MAD) bill and the state of our Australia – WATCH
- Gigi’s revelation about vaccines. “People have really been suckered in by the messaging of big health ove the last 20 to 30 years” including herself, she assumed it was the right thing for her kids to get the HPV vaccine, she didn’t even look into the players involved…”you grow up with this trust, and if you really start to question that, for some people that’s just too much, they can’t handle it.” – EXCERPT
- October 3, 2024 – 2GB Sydney with Ben Fordham: Exclusive – Health Minister confirms LINK between Covid jab and chest pain 💉 – speaking with NSW Health Minister Ryan Park on recently realeased data (Drs Hazzard and Chant mentioned, distinguishing who’s not an anti-vaxxer, mandates shouldn’t happen again!)- LISTEN, BACKUP [Unable to locate the data the Emergency Department data they are refering to]
July 1, 2024 – Club Grubbery: Gigi Foster speaks after the Channel 7 Spotlight – WATCH,
- Australia’s 7News Spotlight Special Event: AFTER COVID – READ, READ
- 7NEWS Spotlight: After COVID: What did we do wrong? uploaded July 5, 2024 – WATCH, ARCHIVE
- Leaked (inconvenient) audio not included in the episode – TWEET, More from Prof Karen Phelps – TWEET
- Letters from Australia: Spotlight on Seven: What didn’t make the cut might save your life – READ
June 17, 2024 – Club Grubbery w/ Gigi Foster – WATCH
March 12, 2024 – Russel Broadbent MP: Why did Australia go so hard with lockdowns and mandates? – WATCH, TWEET
March 4, 2024 – Brownstone Institute: We Build Anew in Australia – READ
- Spearheaded by Gigi Foster, in mid-November 2023, Australians for Science and Freedom held its inaugural conference under the banner ‘Progress through Science and Freedom’ at Uni NSW.
2023
September 25, 2023 – Club Grubbery: Graham and John speak again with Professor Gigi for her perspective on current issues… – WATCH The Voice referendum and state of homelesness in Australia
March 14, 2023 – Club Grubbery: Graham and John interview with Prof Gigi Foster – WATCH
- “The incomparable Prof Gigi Foster with more common sense than you have heard in the last three years.This is a fantastic interview that must be shared. We cover a myriad of great topics in this no holes barred interview with one of Australia’s great free thinkers.”
2022
October 14, 2022 – John Anderson: Rethinking Covid | Jay Bhattacharya & Gigi Foster – WATCH, EXCERPT, EXCERT2, The failure of COVID lockdowns – EXCERPT3
June 15, 2022 – First Freedoms: The Great Covid Panic – Freedom Feature with Book Authors – WATCH, READ
- Barry W. Bussey spoke with Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker the authors of “The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next” (2021) – BOOKS
June 9, 2022 – American Thought Leaders – Gigi Foster: Did Our Pandemic Policies Kill More People Than They Saved? – WATCH
2021
December 27, 2021 – The Fat Emperor – Ivor Cummins – Australia New Zealand Update – Professor Gigi Foster Explains Lockdown Reality! – WATCH, BACKUP
December 16, 2021 – Sky New Australia will have a problem with ‘attracting people back in’s Australia – WATCH, READ
Oct 28, 2021- Simon Haines with Gigi Foster on The Great Covid Panic – In this seventh Ramsay Lecture for 2021, Professor Gigi Foster joins Ramsay Centre CEO, Professor Simon Haines, in discussion on The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next. – WATCH
October 11, 2021 – The Sydney Institute – Interview with Gigi Foster on her new book The Great Covid Panic – WATCH
August 6, 2021 – German Corona Investigative Committee Session 64 – Interviews with Interview Australian Activists – WATCH @30min, SOURCE
2020
August 14, 2020 – Gigi Foster on lockdowns at PAEC – Inquiry into the Victorian Government Response to the COVID-19 pandemic – WATCH, ORIGINAL
July 28, 2020 – ABC Australia: Heated Q+A discussion sees economist Gigi Foster deny she is ‘advocating for people to die’ – READ
