Wayne Swan is a former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. He's the current President of the Australian Labor Party.
In this conversation I ask Wayne about Labor's performance in the recent Newspoll, what it means for Australia to aspire to "full employment" out of COVID, the ideological war over superannuation, whether the Hawke-Keating legacy can be described as "neoliberal" and how he thinks about the relationship between the ALP and the Greens.
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Wayne's media as ALP President
My interview with Wayne on Tonightly in 2018
ARTICLE: Sometimes, Too Much Is...Too Much by Wayne Swan
ARTICLE: Liberals tearing down the pillars of our superannuation scheme by Wayne Swan
ARTICLE: Weakening superannuation is a once-in-a-100-year mistake by Wayne Swan
Cause of the Week: St Vincent de Paul Society (vinnies.org.au)
Kristin O'Connell is the Acting Communications Coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union.
With more than a million Australians unemployed in this time of recession (and depression maybe?), the AUWU has been coordinating a Mutual Obligations Strike and campaigning against the cruel reduction in the JobSeeker payment. Kristin shares her story with me and explains why unemployed workers are workers (and why the AUWU is definitely a union) and just how fucked up and privatised Australia's unemployment "industry" is.
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Strike for Climate this Friday! Yeah!
ARTICLE: Australia's jobless to face mutual obligation rule despite few job vacancies
ARTICLE: ‘It's a heartless decision’: Morrison government reintroduces welfare mutual obligations
My episode with the AUWU's Jeremy Poxon
Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
Emma Alberici is a three-time Walkley-nominated journalist. She's the former Chief Economics Correspondent at the ABC and she worked as a foreign correspondent and the host of Lateline. She recently finished up at the ABC after 18 years; in September 2021 she'll release her memoir through Hardie Grant, Rewriting The Story.
In this conversation, Emma shares her thoughts on gender pay equality, unionism and the state of the economy. We reflect on her ABC career and the controversy surrounding the articles she wrote in 2018 about the Liberal government's policy to cut the company tax: how and why she wrote it, the (small) errors that were made, why the crux of it still stands up and why it matters.
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ARTICLE: Emma Alberici and ABC finalise details of their long and messy divorce
ARTICLE: Replacing all of our unpaid work would cost the Victorian economy $205 billion, report finds by Emma Alberici
ARTICLE: Why many big companies don't pay corporate tax by Emma Alberici
ARTICLE: There's more to jobs and growth than a corporate tax cut by Emma Alberici
ARTICLE: Innovation is still the key to jobs and growth by Emma Alberici
The ABC's statement about complaints made regarding Emma's articles
The ATO's Corporate Tax Transparency website
Cause of the Week: Camp Quality (campquality.org.au)
"Aysha" (not her real name) is a Kashmiri activist who advocates for the rights of those suffering under the Indo-Pakistan-Chinese conflict in her home country.
I've previously known very little about the situation in Kashmir and was grateful to Aysha for giving me a crash-course history lesson on the conflict and the 2019 escalation of tensions by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We discussed the nature of India's occupation, the possibilities of democracy in the region, the effects of COVID-19 and what others can do.
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Kashmir: Explained by Vox Media (good summary of the history of the conflict)
Human Rights Watch articles on Kashmir
Amnesty International Australia articles on Kashmir
ARTICLE: Kashmir crisis: India's latest steps expose deep fault lines in Australia's Indian and Pakistani communities
ARTICLE: Leave Kashmir dispute out of UN, Australia urges
ARTICLE: Does Australia have the courage to challenge India's defiance over Kashmir? by Lee Rhiannon
ARTICLE: Faulty tests, poor contact tracing: COVID-19 fight in Kashmir myriad stumbling blocks
Cause of the Week: Stand With Kashmir Australia (standwithkashmir.org.au)