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Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

Comedian Tom Ballard sits down with politicians, activists, thinkers and comedians to try to talk, laugh, cry and argue about politics. You will learn things and get fired up and hear some swearing. Enjoy.
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Now displaying: December, 2016
Dec 6, 2016

The Greens MP for Melbourne Adam Bandt joined me for the first ever live instalment of LIASYO.

Recorded in Collingwood on Sunday afternoon at the Easy Street Concert Hall in Collingwood, Melbourne, this discussion examines how Adam, the only Greens MP ever elected to the House of Representatives, is feeling at the end of what has been, largely, a shitty year for progressive causes. 

An eternal optimist, Adam picks apart Turnbull's legacy, parliament's effectiveness, Trumpism, neoliberalism, the future of the Greens and how progressives can get better at winning. He even manages to find some good news in all of this. 

AND he tells a great story about getting a voicemail from Tony Abbott. AND he tells us what he admires about Christopher Pyne.

This will be the final ep for the year, I'm going to have a break and cry more and drink beer and get sunburnt and think more about the revolution. Never fear: the show shall return in 2017. Thanks for everything, y'all.  

My 2017 stand up show Problematic is coming to Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane, Melbourne & Sydney

Boundless Plains To Share is coming to Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane & Melbourne

Article: Why First Contact was a ratings opportunity for SBS and a bonanza for bigots by Celeste Liddle

Article: When Indigenous Australia becomes entertainment, everybody loses by Jack Latimore

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Article: People Ask Us Why We Protested In Parliament For Refugees. We Ask, Why Didn't You? by Mara Bonacci, Sam Castro, Kat Moore & Kerry Woodward

Article: Greens in radical new drug legalisation push by Adam Gartrell

Article: Without some serious soul-searching, the Greens will never move beyond the 10% plateau by Osman Faruqi

Cause of the Week: Sea Shepherd Australia (seashepherd.org.au)

 

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