Caleb Bond is a 21-year-old political commentator who describes himself as "conservative with a splash of libertarianism". He writes a regular opinion column for the Adelaide Advertiser and regularly appears on Sky News.
Caleb kindly gave me his time a few weeks ago when I was in town for the Adelaide Fringe (before the PLAGUE HIT US ALL AND LOCKED US IN OUR HOUSES). We had a wide-ranging discussion about his experience of being a young conservative giving his opinions in public, the politicisation of youth, the Opinion Industrial Complex, Newscorp, the idea that people naturally become more conservative as they get older, socialism, free markets, FREEDOM and his stance on drugs.
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ARTICLE: The Strange World of an Australian Conservative Political Commentator by Toby McCasker
Cause of the Week: Youth Insearch (youthinsearch.org.au)
Gian and Sam host a great podcast called Twink Revolution, which they describe as "cultural and political commentary on current events from a homo-leftist viewpoint".
They joined me from their isolated apartment in San Francisco to explain how they came to Marxism and queerness (via anarchism and libertarianism), the failures of identity politics, what happened to the Sanders campaign (and how sad we should feel about it) and what the COVID-19 pandemic could mean for the Left. It was all very interesting, very funny and very gay.
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Twink Revolution's YouTube page
Sam's queer history of socialist nations (starting with the USSR), Gaylag Archipelago
The What's Left? episode on Coronavirus and the Sanders campaign
The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
Cause of the Week: The SF Queer Nightlife Fund (sfqueernightlifefund.org)
Hello! This week's ep is a bit early: my plan is to (try) to start posting multiple episodes a week if possible. Let's see how we go.
Sean Kelly is a writer who writes for a range of Australian publications. He's a former adviser to Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
I've always been a fan of Sean's analysis and writing and was keen to get his thoughts on how COVID-19 is unfolding in Australia, particularly in terms of the Morrison government's response. We take a look back at how the Coalition has tackled the crisis since January (sometimes okay but generally pretty bad!), why Sean thinks it's vital we see the modelling the government is relying on, the possibilities of nationalisation, the threat of "disaster capitalism" and how the ALP has responded to this situation.
Please note that just after minutes we finished recording, the government announced the $130 billion JobKeeper economic package.
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Sean's writing for the Nine Fairfax papers
Sean's writing for The Monthly
Sean's writing for The Saturday Paper
ARTICLE: Morrison must give us more detail if we are to trust his judgment by Sean Kelly
ARTICLE: Scott Morrison's efforts at hazard reduction by Sean Kelly
ARTICLE: Scott Morrison's COVID-19 two-person rule explained from ABC News
Cause of the Week: The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au)
Emerald Moon is a Brisbane-based Leftist activist and former candidate for the Australian Greens who's passionate about climate action and renters' rights. Emerald ran for the Greens in the safe Liberal seat of Bowman in 2019 and is currently working on the up-coming Brisbane local and Queensland state election.
Amid the insanity of COVID-19 (I hope you're all okay!), I ask Emerald about how she arrived at her socialist politics, how the Queensland Greens are making real progress with socialist ideas and policies, the truly cooked housing situation in Australia and how we can have a revolution while also practising social distancing.
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ARTICLE: The Politics of the Virus by Mick Armstrong
ARTICLE: Here's a mad thought: let's save the real things like, er, the people by Guy Rundle
ARTICLE: What I like about the Coronavirus by Slavoj Zizek
Cause of the Week: Australian Unemployed Workers Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
Welp. Gosh. Here we are, then. I hope you're doing okay.
Amidst the chaos of the global Coronavirus pandemic, previous LIASYO guest Osman Faruqi joins me (via Skype) to reflect on what the hell is happening. Osman is a journalist is the editor of The 7am Podcast for Schwartz Media and has been tweeting and writing a lot about the unfolding situation.
Here we discuss the most egregious examples of capital exploiting this crisis and the insane contradictions about this economic system it exposes, the Australian government's shitty response and how much needs to change in our society to make sure this kind of thing can never happen again.
It was a slightly depressing but very cathartic conversation and I hope it gives you some comfort and ferments your (justifiable) rage towards those in power in these wild times.
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ARTICLE: Should I keep my children home from school due to Coronavirus? (ABC)
ARTICLE: Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid Coronavirus outbreak by Rupert Neate
Cause of the Week: Support Act (supportact.org.au)
Michael West is a Walkley Award-winning independent journalist covering the rising power of corporations over Australian democracy. After years working for both NewsCorp and Fairfax, Michael eventually went out on his own to cover the crimes of the corporate world and how big business get away with dodgy shit and poison our politics.
Here Michael lays out his experiences in and philosophy on journalism (plus some insights into Murdoch empire), the conflicts of interest in the big business of media corporations, the state of tax avoidance and political donations in Australia and how it's very clear that the economic creed of neoliberalism and privatisation has failed.
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Michael's writing at The Independent
ARTICLE: Ranking Australia's billionaires as taxpayers by Michael West
ARTICLE: Australia's Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2019
Cause of the Week: Support Michael's site and his journalism (michaelwest.com.au)
Alex Bhatal is a social worker and activist. From 2001 to 2018 she was a six-time Greens candidate for the inner-city seat of Cooper (formerly Batman) but in 2019, Alex quit the party having been subjected to a campaign of abuse and “relentless organisational bullying” for years.
Here Alex lays out for her me her journey into politics, her passion for refugee rights and social work, why the Tampa incident inspired her to join the Greens and her experience of running in the same seat for 17 years.
I also ask Alex to explain exactly what happened between her and the Darebin branch of the Greens, how bad it got for her and what it tells us about the state of the party today. Alex is extremely frank and honest talking to me about what was clearly a painful time in her life and for that I’m very grateful.
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ARTICLE: Alex Bhathal and discord in the Greens by Martin McKenzie-Murray
ARTICLE: Batman: How it went wrong for the Greens by Martin McKenzie-Murray
Alex's statement on why she resigned from the Greens
From solidarity.net.au: Alex Bhathal resigns - the latest victim of Greens' drift right
Cause of the Week: Refugee Legal (refugeelegal.org.au)
Oliver Yates is the former CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Last year he quit the Liberal Party and ran as an independent candidate for the seat of Kooyong in the 2019 federal election.
Oliver invited me into his house to chat about how his Tory/Liberal MP dad influenced his politics, his experience working at the CEFC, why he left the Liberals, his thoughts on capitalism's role in the climate crisis and why his passion for integrity in politics has fuelled his court challenge over Liberal Party elections signs used at polling booths last year. He also kindly answered my basic questions about the state of renewable technology in Australia today and just how quickly we could move our country to a renewable economy.
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Oliver's podcast Tip of the Iceberg
ARTICLE: Coal Coal Coal and soaring emissions - as a Liberal, I have had enough by Oliver Yates
ARTICLE: Josh Frydenberg, Gladys Liu keep seats after court challenge over election signs
ARTICLE: The problem with taking politics out of climate change by Jeff Sparrow
Cause of the Week: Fauna & Flora International (fauna-flora.org)
Greg Jericho is a Walkley Award-winning economics writer for Guardian Australia. He lectures in journalism at the University of Canberra and tweets at @GrogsGamut.
Here I ask Greg about his political worldview, his thoughts on economics and GM closing Holden in Australia his time in the public service (and the state of the service now), and how the media's obsession with "balance" is completely failing us when it comes to covering climate change.
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Greg's writing at Guardian Australia
ARTICLE: The Trouble with Journalism by Greg Jericho
Cause of the Week: The Outer Sanctum Podcast (outersanctum.com.au)
This is a CROSS POD, BABY: an extract of my appearance on the podcast Red Flag Radio in which I discuss revolutionary socialism with Roz Ward, Liam Ward and Sarah Garnham. We chat about what Bernie Sanders' campaign represents, the failings of electoralism, a vision for a socialist society and vacuum cleaners.
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Socialist Alternative website - sa.org.au
Cause of the Week: The Refugee Council of Australia's Operation Not Forgotten
Jon Piccini is an historian at Australian Catholic University and co-host of the anti-capitalist podcast Living the Dream. He's written books about human rights and the Australian far left in the 60s and 70s and is partial to putting out some spicy tweets on @JonPiccini.
Here Jon and I discuss his critique of human rights discourse and how it's seen Australia forget about economic rights, just how "radical" we can say Australia is politically and how our history might suggest that the Green New Deal isn't impossible at all.
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Jessie Whyte's The Morals of the Market on Verso Books
The Far Left in Australia since 1945, edited by Jon Piccini, Evan Smith & Matthew Worley
ARTICLE: Old left, new left and Australia in the 'long 1968' by Jon Piccini & Evan Smith
ARTICLE: A White Working Man's Country by Jon Piccini
ARTICLE: We need a political vision by Alison Pennington
ARTICLE: Australia Needs a Green New Deal by Adam Bandt
Cause of the Week: Save Deebing Creek Association (on Facebook here)
Lidia Thorpe is a Gunai-Gunditjmara woman, First Nations activist, a former Greens MP in the Victorian parliament and the current National Aboriginal lead for Amnesty International.
In the wake of the Invasion Day rallies that Lidia helped organise over the long weekend, we discuss the emotional toll of January 26th, First Nations sovereignty, the failings of the Uluru Statement and the Victorian Treaty process and what it really means for non-Indigenous Australians to pay the rent.
This Saturday I'm performing at the Midsumma Extravaganza at the Hamer Hall
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ARTICLE: Without A Treaty, Australia Day Will Always Be Invasion Day by Lidia Thorpe
ARTICLE: Victoria has chosen spin over substance in its Indigenous treaty whitewash by Lidia Thorpe
ARTICLE: Black power in White Australia: An Interview with Gary Foley by Sian Vate
An ABC explainer on the Victorian treaty process
An explainer on the Uluru Statement from the Heart
The Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation's statement on the treaty process, "Trick or Treaty?"
Pay the Rent: a Buzzfeed video
Cause of the Week: Pay The Rent (paytherent.net.au)
Dr. Craig Emerson is a former Labor MP. In the Rudd and Gillard governments he served as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tertiary Education and Science and Minister for Small Business. Since leaving parliament, Emerson has run his own economic consultancy firm and in 2019, he co-authored the review into Labor's election loss along with Jay Weatherill.
In this conversation I ask Craig about the reasons why he studied economics and joined the Labor party, his thoughts on "economic rationalism" (or what we now call neoliberalism), compromise and centrism versus radical policies in the age of the climate crisis, fear campaigns, "international green socialism" and the future prospects of the ALP.
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ARTICLE: Tribalism is blighting Australia by Craig Emerson
Craig singing "Whyalla Wipeout". Just for old times' sake.
Cause of the Week: WIRES (wires.org.au)
Daniel Lopez is the commissioning editor for Jacobin magazine, socialist activist, author and tweeter.
A month on from Corbyn and British Labour's brutal loss and as Australia burns, Daniel and I discuss the state of the Left right now, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party and the possibilities of a new socialist political party.
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Daniel's writing for Jacobin magazine
Daniel's book Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute
ARTICLE: AOC's Green New Deal is the socialist solution the world needs by Daniel Lopez
Cause of the Week: The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (mscp.org.au)
Happy 2020, everyone. Here we bloody go.
Here's me answering some of your questions about political movies, Morrison, bushfires, fatigue, Cats and Murdoch. Thanks to the folks who submitted questions and thanks (as ever) to you for listening to the show.
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ARTICLE: Australia's Fires Give Us a Glimpse of What's Coming by Jeff Sparrow
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)