Amy Remeikis is Guardian Australia's political reporter who writes the Australian politics live blog, covering the thrills and spills of Australian politics as they happen.
Amy joined me after another crazy week in Canberra, to reflect on the "Remeikis experience", why the political class sucks so much, what to make of the media bargaining code and Labor's strategy to win back Queensland at the next election.
If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron
Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you
My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe
ARTICLE: Facebook vs the media code: whoever wins, we lose by Lizzie O'Shea
ARTICLE: Labor's wicked problem: how to win back Queensland by Christopher Wallace
Cause of the Week: Support your local florist!
Dr. Evan Smith is a historian and academic who's extensively researched the history of the Far Left in Australia and the UK. Last year he released his book No Platforming: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech.
I reached out to Evan last month after the whackiness of the storming of the US Capitol and Trump's removal from Twitter. We only managed to find some time recently for a chat, but this is clearly still a relevant conversation (as Trump is formally acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial). Evan lays out the history of "no platform" as a political tactic, the moral and political arguments surrounding it, the grey areas and its potential limits as a strategy for the Left.
If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron
Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you
My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe
Evan's blog, New Historical Express
You can support Evan's work on Patreon
My interview with Douglas Murray on Tonightly
ARTICLE: Evan reviews Jeff Sparrow's Fascists Among Us
Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
Luke Savage is a Canadian socialist and staff writer for Jacobin magazine whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic and The New Statesman.
I've always really enjoyed Luke's writing about US politics and political economy and was stoked that he joined me from Toronto to chat about Canada, the neoliberalism of Trudeau and the politics of Jimmy Kimmel's horrific "Goodbye Trump" animation video. I asked Luke about what the Obama years might tell us about the un-radical promise of a Biden presidency, the failure and limits of liberalism, why bipartisanship sucks and what might become of the Big Cheeto President now.
If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron
Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you
My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe
Luke's podcast Michael and Us on Patreon
Democratic Socialists of America
Luke's writing at Jacobin magazine
ARTICLE: Liberalism in Theory and Practice
ARTICLE: In 2009, Pundits Predicted a New Progressive Era. It Never Came.
ARTICLE: Joe Biden Wants to Make Health Care "Secure For All." He Should Just Make it Free.
Jimmy Kimmel's Goodbye Trump video
Cause of the Week: The Workers' Action Centre Toronto (workersactioncentre.org)