Charlie Pickering is a comedian and host of the satirical comedy show The Weekly on the ABC. I used to have one of those, but let's not go into it and start comparing who was "more successful" or "not cancelled".
Here we chat about the ethics of including political figures in whacky comedy sketches, Charlie's centrist approach to politics, voting for John Howard, his interest in American political history and why he's more excited about Elizabeth Warren's candidacy than Bernie Sanders'.
I'll be off for the Christmas break but shall return in 2020. Thanks for everything! I love you! Onward, comrades!
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The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
The Yearly is on TONIGHT 8:30pm on ABC
The Dollop's podcast on Ronald Reagan (Pt 1)
What's Left? episode on The Case Against Warren
Cause of the Week: Reading Out Of Poverty (roop.org.au)
After joining me at the end of the shitshow that was 2016 for the first live edition of the podcast, Greens MP Adam Bandt returned to reflect on how far we have (or haven't) come and what to make of the political year that was 2019.
Recorded in Collingwood at the Easey Street Concert Hall in front of a bloody lovely crowd, this is a funny and important conversation about Scott Morrison, socialism, the climate crisis, the 2019 election, the ALP's pathetic position on coal and the possibilities of a Green New Deal for Australia.
All funds raised went to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (you can support them here toooooo). I'm very thankful to Adam for agreeing to do this again and to everyone who came out to the show. MERRY CHRISTMAS xoxoxo
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ARTICLE: Setting Kevin Rudd's Environment Record Straight by Adam Bandt
Patricia Cornelius is a celebrated Australian playwright who writes about class, love, capitalism and the cruel things we do to each other. Her plays include LOVE, Savages, SHIT, Do Not Go Gentle and Who's Afraid of the Working Class?
In this conversation, Patricia tells me about her working class upbringing, her journey through feminism to Marxism, her time in the radical Melbourne Workers Theatre and reflects on whether today's middle-class and staid theatre can still be a voice for class-conscious politics.
Also we revel in the joy of some filthy swearing.
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ARTICLE: Patricia Cornelius: Not going gently by Harry Windsor
Patricia's piece on swearing for The Wheeler Centre
Anthem is playing at the 2020 Sydney Festival
Do Not Go Gentle is on at Malthouse Theatre in 2020
Cause of the Week: Ilbijjeri Theatre Company (ilbijerri.com.au)
Lizzie O'Shea is a lawyer at Maurice Blackburn, writer, broadcaster and socialist activist. She's the author of Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology - an examination of radical social movements and theories from history and how they can be applied to technology capitalism.
Lizzie and I discussed the class action she's working on against Uber's business model, the "datafication of ourselves", how much Facebook and Amazon suck, Australia's awful data encryption laws, what it might mean to break up or nationalise the tech companies and the possibilities of a better world with a better internet.
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Lizzie's writing for The Guardian
A review of Future Histories on Engineering & Technology
ARTICLE: The Future Has Arrived by Robert Maharajh
Cause of the Week: The National Justice Project (justice.org.au)
Jon Faine is a veteran broadcaster who was just stepped down as the host of the Mornings show on ABC Local Radio after 23 years in the chair (and a total of 30 years at the national broadcaster).
Jon kindly let me (back) into his house to have a wide-ranging chat about the state of the media, bias at the ABC, Elizabeth Warren, capitalism, the tech giants, civility, Kevin Bailey and his bladder.
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ARTICLE: Malcolm Turnbull suggests 'shell out' to help their children buy property
The "infamous" Kevin Bailey sketch from Tonightly
ARTICLE: Don't Trust Elizabeth Warren's Big-Donor Ban by Megan Day
Cause of the Week: The Koorie Heritage Trust (koorieheritagetrust.com.au)
Roz Ward is a queer Marxist academic and activist who was a co-founder of the Safe Schools Coalition. She was publicly attacked for her politics and her role in fighting for Safe Schools by the conservative media, religious lobbyists and members of the Coalition government.
Here Roz reflects on her experience with the culture war bullshit around that programme and tells me what it taught her, why she's a revolutionary socialist, what she thinks can be achieved through electoral politics, her involvement in the IMARC protests, why All Cops Are Bastards and lawnmowers.
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ARTICLE: Roz Ward on clergy hypocrisy and the valorisation of child molesters
Benjamin Law's Quarterly Essay on the Safe Schools controversy, Moral Panic 101
Cause of the Week: Support activists arrested at mining conference on GoFundMe
This is part two of my conversation with former AFL player and controversial media figure Sam Newman. Part one of the chat is here.
Here we discuss Sam's thoughts on Muslim Australians' failure to "assimilate" into society, what does and doesn't constitute racism, Pauline Hanson and how he hoped to tackle homelessness if he were to become Melbourne Lord Mayor.
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I'm on the latest edition of The Little Dum Dum Club alongside Wil Anderson
Sam’s podcast Sam, Mike & Thommo
Cause of the Week: The Les Twentyman Foundation (ltfoundation.com.au)
Sam Newman is a former AFL player for the Geelong Football Club and has been a controversial figure in the Australian media for decades. He's best known for his work on The Footy Show, which he appeared on from 1994 until 2018.
I find Sam's political positions to be ill-informed and incorrect (I'm pretty sure he feels the same about mine), but I know there are plenty of people out there who agree with him and think he talks a lot of sense when it to comes to political correctness, immigration, Donald Trump and climate change. He also considered running for Lord Mayor of Melbourne last year and received some support in some corners.
In this very wide-ranging, frustrating but civil conversation, I try to get a sense of his thinking and push back where I could. I hope you get something out of it.
Part two will be out next week.
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Sam's podcast Sam, Mike & Thommo
ARTICLE: Footy Show host Sam Newman criticised for reckless transphobia
NASA's article on the Icelandic glacier Myrdalsjokull
ARTICLE: Trump cats did little to boost economic growth in 2018, study says
ARTICLE: Enough with the fairy tales about the Paris agreement. It's time for facts by Erwin Jackson
ARTICLE: Why is China placing a global bet on coal?
Cause of the Week: The Les Twentyman Foundation (ltfoundation.com.au)
Luke Buckmaster is a renowned film critic who has recently found himself hitting the streets as a climate protestor.
Here Luke tells me about his emotional reaction to the climate crisis, what inspired him to get involved with the recent week of Extinction Rebellion protests, what he saw that inspired and moved him at those protests and the philosophy and ethics of civil disobedience.
Oh also we touched on Marvel movies and Joker.
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Luke's essay on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the "apocalypse of cinema"
Luke's review of the new Lion King
OPINION: When our planet is under attack we have to stand up and fight back by Luke
OPINION: Extinction Rebellion protests by Luke
ARTICLE: Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members
Extinction Rebellion Australia >> ausrebellion.earth
Cause of the Week: Climate Change Protests (climatechangeprotests.net.au)
Maddison Connaughton is the editor of The Saturday Paper. She's written for Vice News, SBS, The Australian, The Age and others and has been twice-nominated for the Walkley Award for Young Australian of the Year.
Here Maddison discusses why she became a journalist, her thoughts on her role as an editor and the ideological position of her paper, Ita Buttrose's comments on the loss of "larrikins" and political correctness and the dearth of new ideas in Australian political discourse.
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I'm doing two fun gigs in Melbourne this week
I'll be performing at Just For Laughs Sydney at the Opera House on Saturday November 2nd
Felicity Ward's piece on abortion rights for The Mash Report that I helped out (a little) with
Donate to the Heart Foundation in memory of Carla Bellomarino
The 7am podcast (7ampodcast.com.au)
Margaret Simons' profile on Jacquie Lambie
ARTICLE: Political correctness has gone too far in Australia, says ABC Chair Ita Buttrose
The Saturday Paper editorial, The untold joke
The Australian editorial, Endangered larrikins ($)
Cause of the Week: Give Well (givewell.org)
Latika Bourke is an award-winning journalist and since 2016 has been the London correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canberra Times.
Here Latika reflects on covering British politics as the country has tried to deal with the fallout of the Brexit referendum and its ensuing chaos. She tells me about covering the Labour Conference in Brighton over the weekend and the state of the party, Brexit fatigue, the rise of the Liberal Democrats, what might happen next and what covering UK politics has taught her about the Australian political class.
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Latika's book From India With Love
Cause of the Week: Pet Rescue (www.petrescue.com.au)
CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of sexual assault
Aditi Mittal is a stand up comedian with a massive following in her native India. She's outspoken and hilarious about her politics and the plight of women under patriarchy.
In this conversation Aditi tells me why for her "breathing is a political act", the repression in Indian society, how the caste system works, the country's recent rightward shift under the leadership of Narendra Modi and what it's like to live in a country of MORE THAN ONE BILLION PEOPLE.
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ARTICLE: Hindutva on the March
Cause of the Week: Good Samaritans Mumbai (samaritansmumbai.com)
Michael Walker is the host of TyskySour on Novara Media, an independent media organisation dedicated to covering British politics from the Left.
After a big fat crazy week in British politics - Boris Johnson proroguing parliament, MPs defecting to other parties all over the place, general elections being proposed and voted down - Michael joined me in my London flat's kitchen to chat about what this moment means. He explains why he moved away from anarchism and why he now identifies as a "class war social democrat", how the Brexit and the Corbyn moments have affected each other and how he thinks Labour can win the next general election (if it's actually called this year). We also cover the Podemos example, the anti-Semitism row that Labour has faced and the challenges a Corbyn government might face from those within its own ranks.
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ARTICLE: Hazara asylum seeker in detention uses art to 'build bridges' and 'unite humanity'
I'm on the latest episode of The Bugle
Michael's show TyskySour on YouTube
Cause of the Week: Novara Media (novaramedia.com)
Dr. Matt Winning (yes! Actual name!) is a climate policy researcher, environmental economist and stand up comedian.
I got to see Matt's show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, It's The End of the World As We Know It, and it make me laugh and also made me sad. Here we discuss the depressing reality we're faced with when it comes to the climate crisis, what is to be done about it (as individuals and collectively), approaching tipping points, apocalyptic predictions, what that IPCC report really means and where to find some hope.
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Watch Matt's 2018 show Climate Strange - Part One & Part Two
Matt's podcast Operation Earth
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall
My episode with climate strikers Emma & Anthony
ARTICLE: Yes, Socialism is Infinity Pools for Everyone by Aaron Bastani
Cause of the Week: 10:10 Climate Action (1010uk.org)
Andrew Doyle is a stand up comedian and satirist who's written for Jonathan Pie, created the parody twitter character Titania McGrath, writes for Spiked Online and runs a "free-thinking" comedy night in London called Comedy Unleashed. But, unlike others who criticise social justice and the "woke movement", Andrew comes at these issues from a Leftist perspective.
Here we chat about why Andrew is so concerned about "wokeness" and how he sees it affecting society, comedy and free speech. We cover the state of Brexit (and why he thinks voting to Remain isn't a left-wing position), fascism and his attitude towards how his work is interpreted.
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Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd
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Andrew's writing at Spiked Online
Andrew's show Exodus at the Edinburgh Fringe
Titania McGrath's Mxnifesto at the Edinburgh Fringe
Woke: A Guide To Social Justice by Titania Mcgrath
Alistair Williams' twitter account @awilliamscomedy
Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla on Amazon
Inside London's "free speech" comedy night by Yohann Koshy for Vice
Cause of the Week: Action With Effect (actionwitheffect.org)
Grace Petrie is a socialist, feminist, lesbian singer-songwriter whose political songs place a fire in my heart and whose love songs break my heart. She's brilliant and I feel very lucky to have her on this show.
In this chat I ask Grace about being labelled a "protest singer", her agenda when it comes to her music, the importance of representation, Hannah Gadsby, trans rights, battling with TERFs and Jeremy Corbyn.
Plus at the end she bloody sings a song for us! It is great!
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ARTICLE: Protest music: steel in the hour of chaos
Grace's Facebook post after TERFs disrupted her show
Cause of the Week: UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group (uklgig.org.uk)
CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of sexual assault
Daniel Sloss is a Scottish comedian who has sold out shows around the world, appeared on Conan shitloads of times and has two specials on Netflix. I'm also lucky enough to consider him a friend.
Daniel's latest show X deals with toxic masculinity and his personal response to an incident involving the sexual assault of a friend. It's a funny and thoughtful response to gender politics, call-out culture, sexual violence and #MeToo. In this conversation (recorded back in March), Daniel and I have a frank and at times tricky conversation about how to navigate this kind of terrain, the ethics of writing offensive and dark comedy and how we can all try to make the most of this cultural reckoning with the widespread scourge of sexual misconduct.
We also have a few laughs.
I'm keen to hear any and all feedback on this episode: my email is tom@tomballard.com.au
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Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd
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Daniel's show X is at the Fringe for three nights only
Cause of the Week: Rape & Domestic Violence Australia (rape-dvservices.org.au), Rape Crisis Scotland (rapecrisisscotland.org.uk)
James Ball is a journalist and the current Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He worked with WikiLeaks on the Iraq War documents leak in 2010 and was part of The Guardian team that helped published the Edward Snowden sneaks about the NSA.
Last week I sat down with James in a London heatwave to reflect on Boris Johnson becoming PM, stockpiling for a no-deal Brexit, the way bullshit works in today's politics, the anti-Semitism scandal in the British Labour Party and the plight of Julian Assange.
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Then ENOUGH is at the Soho Theatre from Monday September 2nd
I'm on the latest episode of The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman & Nato Green
James' writing at The New Statesman
James' writing at The Guardian
James' speech Bathing in Bullshit, 2017
ARTICLE: Inside the Strange, Paranoid World of Julian Assange by James Ball
ARTICLE: Chelsea Manning is in jail. Our silence is shameful by James Ball
ARTICLE: Labour says it will would end the welfare freeze (BBC NEWS)
ARTICLE: The Strange Case of Julian Assange by Bernard Keane
Cause of the Week: Overgate Hospice (overgatehospice.co.uk)
Corey White is a comedian and writer with a pretty remarkable personal story. His memoir The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a funny, dark and brutally honest account of being raised in a violent working class home, being put through the harsh foster care system, struggling with issues of sexual identity and drug addiction and eventually becoming the comedian and man he is today.
Here, Corey and I compare notes on our very different childhoods and discuss issues of class, being a member of the lumpenproletariat, the welfare state, outrage, the case for a UBI and "fusionism". We laugh a lot throughout.
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The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory through Penguin
Corey's event at the Moonee Ponds Library on Monday July 29th
ARTICLE: Corey White on childhood trauma, foster care and comedy: 'It's a factory for the insane'
Corey on Q&A discussing incentivised contraception
Cause of the Week: The Pyjama Foundation (thepyjamafoundation.com)
Former Greens senator and lifelong campaigner Lee Rhiannon has been fighting on the Left since she was fifteen years old.
Almost a year on from stepping down as a Senator for NSW after losing preselection to Mehreen Faruqi, Lee talks to me about being spied on by ASIO from the age of seven, being raised by socialist parents, the state of the union movement, just how badly neoliberalism has knocked around the Left, the tensions that continue to frustrate the Australian Greens and how the party can find a better way to reach out to working people.
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I’m doing a preview of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on Tuesday July 23rd
Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
ARTICLE: Outgoing Lee Rhiannon urges Greens to resist 'careerism and bullying'
ARTICLE: Enemies within as Greens are caught in civil war
Cause of the Week: Frontline Action on Coal (frontlineaction.org)
Playwright, commentator and activist Van Badham is back on the podcast after she joined me in July of 2015.
Since then Van has been a passionate advocate for the re-election of a Labor government and a scathing critic of The Australian Greens. I was keen to dig further into her thinking on that and ask her what she thought went wrong in the 2019 federal election (the answer might surprise you). Van mounts a vigorous defence of Labor's policies here and explains why she sees it as the major hope for the socialist Left in Australia.
Plus also you will hear her dog barking in the background.
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I'm doing two previews of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on July 16th & 23rd
Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
Van's play Banging Denmark at the Sydney Opera House
Van's opinion pieces:
Labor's support for tax cuts is an unfathomable betrayal of principle
Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism. Can they lead it out?
Labour has a chance if it replaces Corbyn. Look at Australia in 1983
Time to hail Hilary Clinton - and face down the testosterone left
How I fell out of love with the Greens: a personal story about the Labor Party
The ALP National Platform 2018
ARTICLE: Van Badham's defence of Hillary Clinton is insufferable right wing crap by Sarah Garnham
ARTICLE: Van Badham's defence of Clinton is preposterous by Michael Brull
ARTICLE: It wasn't Bob Brown who lost the election, it was the Labor Party by James Norman
ARTICLE: How Australia's Labor Party Lost an Un-Loseable Election by Daniel Lopez
Cause of the Week: The Australian Labor Party (alp.org.au)
Josh Bornstein is an employment and IR lawyer at Maurice & Blackburn and the director at the Australia Institute.
He's been increasingly concerned about the level of control that Australian employers have gained over their employees' freedom of speech and expression. So when it comes to the case of Israel Falou, he's been (controversially) outspoken about the legal ramifications for workers if we accept that your boss can fire you for saying the wrong thing.
Here Josh and I take the time to flesh out his argument on this, how one can unequivocally condemn what Falou said but still object to him losing his job and what the implications for this saga might be for anti-discrimination protections moving forward.
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ARTICLE: Sacked for speaking your mind? Don't expect the free speech brigade to help by Jason Wilson
ARTICLE: Integrity - it's all Greek to the hypocrites of the Right by Josh Bornstein
ARTICLE: Everyone Is Wrong About Israel Falou by Lane Sainty
Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
Cause of the Week: The Centre for Future Work (futurework.org.au)
Jeremy Poxon is a social security activist and the media officer for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. His spicy twitter account regularly draws attention to the plight of unemployed and underemployed people in Australia, from those living on Newstart to people on Work for the Dole to folks just trying to survive in the gig economy.
Here Jeremy explains exactly how organising unemployed workers in a union works, why capitalism is antithetical to the idea of (actual) full employment, why Labor's centrism SUCKS BUTT, what's involved in a jobs guarantee and what an Australian Green New Deal might look like.
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ENOUGH is on in Collingwood in Melbourne this Friday & Saturday night
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
ARTICLE: What Good Are Billions of Surplus Dollars When People Are Starving? by Jeremy Poxon
ARTICLE: Living on Newstart: 'I don't eat every day. That saves some money I guess' by Gay Alcorn
Cause of the Week: The Unemployed Workers Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
Something a little bit different for you this week: highlights from a live performance of A Rational Fear at Queensland's inaugural Climate Week.
There were jokes and songs and facts about the impending climate crisis, featuring myself, Dan Ilic, Melinda Buttle, Steph Tisdell, Lewis Hobba, Prof. Hilary Bambrick and Bridie Connell & Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd. Enjoy.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle this Friday night
Then Geelong and Melbourne later in the month
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
Jonathan Green is a veteran journalist and broadcaster who presents at the ABC and edits the literary magazine Meanjin.
He's been working as a journo since the late 70s so I thought he'd be a good person to reflect on how the political media is serving us in 2019 (hint: it's not). We talk about exactly why Jonathan thinks politics is "bollocks", the corrosive influence of the Murdoch media empire and whether there's anything to do about it, the smallness of the "Lucky Country" and the challenges ahead for progressive politics.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle, Geelong, Sydney & Melbourne
A Rational Fear is coming to Brisbane for Climate Week this Thursday June 6th
I’ll be back in Brisbane on Sunday June 30th for the MELT Gala
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
ARTICLE: 'Prefer to battle News Corp than Scott Morrison': Michael Miller slams Labor by Jennifer Duke
ARTICLE: What counts as rich now? by Mike Seccombe
Cause of the Week: The Smith Family's Sponsor-A-Child Program (thesmithfamily.com.au)