Auspol Snackpod: Australian Politics and Memes

Whatup snackerfans! We're back with a one-off episode we owe to our Shadowy Financiers! Noon read Weatherboard and Iron by Barnaby Joyce, the pettiest book ever written. We miss you and hope you love the episode

Well, that's it! We're out of here. And we're leaving you with one last episode that unfortunately has the worst sound quality since like episode 5. Hopefully it's still listenable and you enjoy hearing me and Zac say goodbye. Huge immense thankyous to all our listeners, friends, supporters, patreons, snackerpals, well-wishers and onlookers, and especially to the people who sent in potlucks for our final episode.  This week we're serving up... NOTHING.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our last ever Pupdate. Please don't sign up to our patreon! Please don't follow us on social media! Please don't tell your friends about us! You can read transcripts at www.auspolsnackpod.com but you probably shouldn't do that either.  We have plans for the future so keep Auspol Snackpod on your feed and come visit us on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/auspolshitposting  Much love from Zac and Noon and Dante and Bagel.

We're very sad to announce that Auspol Snackpod is coming to an end. We've got a regular news episode for you this week, then next week will be some kind of special finale episode. It's your LAST CHANCE to send us potlucks about news, politics, or memes, or really anything and we'd really love to hear from you so PLEASE record yourself speaking for a minute and send it to us at contact@auspolsnackpod.com. We also have another bonus episode to do and our plan is to answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION OR REQUEST all in one bonus episode so please suggest topics! Even if you're a $1 patron, this is a liquidation sale, EVERY TOPIC MUST GO! We have a couple more episodes in the works, and some schemes for the future, but this is the end of Snackpod as a weekly news / current affairs-ish sort of show. It's been our absolute pleasure and honour to make the show for you all and we can't thank you enough for tuning in every week and supporting us with your time and haha reaccs.  Well, we still have this episode for news, politics, and memes, so this week we're serving up... Positivity Corner: SEQUR, a staunch QLD renters union, block the eviction of a disability pensioner.  Election Section: Unfortunately Clive's huge spend technically got a result as Rrrrrrrralph Babet has been elected UAP senator for Victoria (sorry). Lambie also got a new senator, Tammy Tyrrell (not to be confused with Tammi Terrell).  Fashy Australia: Labor is going ahead with Liberal debt recovery plans to punish people on welfare. Also a change in how mutual obligations work.  First Nations: Seven artefacts have been returned from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection to the Walpiri people. Now do it for the 2200 other items.  Climate Cookies: Sam sent us another awesome potluck about offset mechanisms and useless "limits" on emissions.  ACAB: NSW govt and police are targeting Blockade Australia activists in pretty horrible ways. You can support them here: https://chuffed.org/project/blockade-australia-support-fundraiser  Potluck: Josh tells us about libraries (and a way to contain the evil power emanating from this piece of Gina Rinehart's soul)  SPOTW: The future is now  Business: Don't follow us, that's silly. Just send us your bonus episode suggestions and your final potlucks!  And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Penultimate Pupdate! 

We're very excited to have friend, confident, and member of our inner sanctum, Travis on the show! He's a founder of Awesome Black, a First Nations multi-media organisation that "develops original First Nations talent and unique storytelling content across a variety of mediums". Go check out their shows and support the AB Club: https://awesomeblack.org/  This week we're serving up... SPOTW: Bevaning is at dangerously high levels after the SMH outed Rebel Wilson. The good news is this new data allows us to develop a clearer understand of Bevandynamics.  Kook Watch/First Nations: Travis brings us a new concept for the segment - how can we PROVE BEYOND DOUBT that the Uluru Statement from the Heart is part of Craig Kelly's nefarious plans?  Blurst Take: *looks at watch* Oh is it transphobia in the Victorian Greens time already? Zac takes us through what's been going on with the elections for Convenor.  Positivity Corner: Minimum wage rise babbyyyyyyyy. It's still bad! Haha, economics.  Election Section: Hanson got back in. Abetz got the boot. We all voted for Kodos. Plus a rant from Travis about democracy.  UFU: *looks at watch* oh is it capitalism destroying essential services time already? The Energy Market is a complex and evil (and expensive) machine. But don't worry, no billionaires will be harmed as a result.  Mains: Travis needs help with casting a film. Noon scrolls through IMDB pretending to be able to recognise faces.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! and a cuckdate from Travis.  Please support Awesome Black! Check them out and give $$ here: https://awesomeblack.org/awesome-black-media/donate/  Support Auspol Snackpod! We're on Patreon at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  You can read transcripts of the show usually within a few days at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Watch noon play games at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames  And keep watching the skies....

Welcome back to... season 2? We've taken a hard right turn so we can continue to be critical of SOCIALIST TYRANTS the Australian Labor Party. This week we're serving up... Aperitifs: Price of money going up. Coolibah herb unionist get an incredible win. Clowns CAN legally rub their butt on windows.  Positivity Corner: the Murugappan family are back in Biloela!!!!  (Post-) Election Section: There, uh, there was an election? We have a new PM, a new opposition leader, and... well, that's about it thus far.  First Nations: Tasmania is raising the minimum age of children in detention from 10 to 14. And in the NT Karrinjarla Mwajarri is a campaign to disarm the police and get guns out of Indigenous communities. Have a look at their website here: https://karrinjarlamuwajarri.org/ Also their fb page: https://www.facebook.com/karrinjarlamuwajarri  Support their fundraiser at https://chuffed.org/project/ceasefire  Potluck: You wanted it, we got it: a series of potlucks from climate genius Sam. This week they're telling us about carbon offsets and the fast and slow carbon cycles.  SPOTW / Broken Clock: Did you know politicians can post memes? Wtf??? Well, Dominic Perrottet made fun of Gladys Berryjuicelemon and we commend him for it.  Mains: the CEO of the NDIS has resigned. What else is going to change at the NDIA under the Labor government? Hopefully at least something.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! Support the show financially and help us reach our goal of 175 patrons when we will release Noon and the Dunce Season 2! Head over to www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  You can read transcripts of the show at www.auspolsnackpod.com    

Zac's been taken to a black ops site on a small island, so we're releasing last month's bonus episode this week! It's a fun, loose and long one today because we dived as deep as we could into some whacky (or are they??) Australian conspiracy theories.   As the basis of our research we used @John_Macgowan's "definitive Australian conspiracy theory iceberg" which you can see in high(er) res here: https://mobile.twitter.com/john_macgowan/status/1333922659185303553  The ones we ended up going into were: RAAF Min Min Lights Investigation, Tamam Shud, Bjelke-Petersen Death Camps, pre-colonisation viking settlements, and Lightning Ridge vril mining. If you want to send us bonus potlucks about any of the ones we didn't cover we would absolutely love that. Try to make it as a) brief and b) ranty as possible. Preferably you should be pointing emphatically at diagrams that can't be seen by the listener. 

We had an election! Not sure if you heard. This episode is in two parts, the first part on Election Day and the second part after the results have come in. It's a loose & fun one where we just shoot the shit. And we also have an extra special Political Pupdate! Support Snackpod financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you can't or don't want to listen you can READ our episode transcripts over at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Watch Noon play games at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

It's a super special excellent amazing NOT AN ELECTION special episode! We are heartily sick of the boring, reactionary, useless and misguided policies that are being floated, proposed and discussed during this election campaign. So we thought we would reach out to some of our extended Snackpod family who work or volunteer or study or live or care about various issues and topics to ask, what would an actual GOOD policy be? The potlucks we're serving this week are... Feminism: Leah from Loud Angry & Not Sorry gives some wide-ranging and incredible policy suggestions around gendered inequality. If you want more from Leah you can check out their podcast here: https://loudandangry.podbean.com/  Housing: David Kelly told us about housing policy, and blows our minds with some actually meaningful analysis instead of the nonsense housing policies that our politicians are proposing. Listen to a longer interview Zac did with David here: https://auspolsnackpod.podbean.com/e/075-pub-lunch-housing-with-david-kelly/ And follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davelkelly  Climate: Policy mastermind Sam talks to us about coal seam gas, fugitive emissions, and dodgy carbon accounting.  Fashy Fash: It couldn't be anyone other than Tom Tanuki, talking about how "leaders" can and should oppose fascism through their words and actions. Obviously you should be watching his videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYgRzstFX-CwCGq781If_dw  Queer Emancipation: Guest from our most successful of all time episode, Tilde Joy, talks to us about their experience of medical transition and some of the policies could support that process. Obviously watch them stream at https://www.twitch.tv/ultros_professional and follow them on twitter https://twitter.com/ULTROS_PRO  Poverty and Welfare: Jez Haywood from the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (AUWU) runs us through their key demands and why they're necessary. Follow Jez on twitter: https://twitter.com/jezheywood And support the AUWU: https://www.auwu.org.au/   Cops: JB - our guest who spoke to us about sex work decrim a few months ago - is back on a related but totally different issue, which is: why are cops considered emergency services?  Media: Our erstwhile colleague and future guest host, Tom McLean from the recently-finished Not Good Enough podcast talks to us about the media landscape, the ABC, and employment in journalism. Follow them on twitter: https://twitter.com/mcccclean  Human rights: Steph was unable to record but sent us a script of their strong opinion that we should have a Bill of Rights to protect people of all sorts. Follow her on twitter: https://twitter.com/GivenToRant  Elections: How bad are elections? King of nuance, Jess, talks about sortition and why it's maybe an appealing option but also unlikely to fundamentally change anything.  Huge enormous thanks to everyone who sent us content and also to everyone we asked and couldn't do it this time. We're legitimately so pleased to have such a wonderful community and we can't overstate how much we appreciate you putting in the time and effort to get this done at very short notice (oops sorry).  If you love the show and want to support us financially you can do it over at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you can't or don't want to listen to the show you can read transcripts over at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Watch Noon play games on twitch at www.twitch.tv/noonplaysgames 

This week we're serving up… Aperitifs: The government gave a sort of dodgy contract to a fairly dodgy company and also wrote them a nice letter Election Section: Pauline Hanson has ‘ghost candidates' and a hilarious website, and the News Corp media is bashing the teal independents Positivity Corner: Strikes, strikes, more strikes! Vic & NSW Bus Drivers and also NSW Public School teachers have all taken industrial action this week. Fashy Australia: refugees are being treated awfully and moved in handcuffs to Christmas Island  First Nations: the NT Government is pouring in a huge investment into police, directly against the wishes of the First Nations communities in the Territory Blurst Take: (34:13 - 51:10) A woman was killed by her husband this week and the media has reported on it irresponsibly and unethically SPOTW: We're doing a Worst Person in Auspol Tournament in our meme group UFU: REIV CIA Agent (nickname pending) resigns after stealing ads…. But was it a false flag???? And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Pupdate!   Read Amber Schultz's article on the major parties' policies on women's safety   Support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you can't or don't want to listen to the show you can read transcripts at www.auspolsnackpod.com

Earlier this week Zac sat down with Anastasia Kanjere from A New NTEU. She's running for the NTEU General Secretary position and came on the show to chat about her campaign, the National Tertiary Education Union, and the tertiary ed sector in general. You can follow Anastasia (https://twitter.com/a_kanjere) and A New NTEU (https://twitter.com/ANewNTEU) on twitter to keep up to date with their work.  We also have a regular show for you! This week we're serving up...  SPOTW: Goes to first time poster Maeve, with honorable mentions to Hill, Amy and others.  Election Section: The Sausage Queen endorsed Anthony Albanese and all hell broke loose.  Also a One Nation candidate has been referred to the Federal Police for electoral fraud.  First Nations: CW for discussing deaths in custody. Story runs from 22:15 - 30:00. An inquest has begun into the death of Veronica, a Yorta Yorta woman who died while in prison on remand.  UFU: Ben Roberts-Smith continues to win unrelentingly in court: one of his star witnesses wore a KKK outfit; one liked a violent post about killing lawyers while giving evidence; and one has been charged with assault police while trying to prevent them looking at his phone; and they've admitted they're all under separate investigation for war crimes.  Positivity Corner: unions are putting a green ban on the redevelopment of the Curtin Hotel.  Mains: it's the interview with Anastasia!  And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Pupdate!  Please support us financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  The money goes to paying transcribers; you can read the show over at www.auspolsnackpod.com   

There's pretty much nothing happening except the election, i.e., there's pretty much nothing happening. But we have a show about it!  Election Section: There was a leader's "debate", the Labor Party have announced they hate the planet and everyone in the country, Albo got "da bib", and Liberal Transphobe Katherine Deves continues to make everyone mad (see episode 108 for more: https://auspolsnackpod.podbean.com/e/108-cheese-n-crikeys/)  Fashy Australia: Todd Sampson is a doofus and is taking happy snaps with active, out-and-proud white supremacists  First Nations/Positivity Corner: CW for discussion of massacres + genocide from 27:50 - 32:35. A massacre site at Gai-i has been handed back to the control of the traditional owners, the Darumbal people.   UFU: Frydenberg is having a bad week, almost entirely of his own making  Potluck: If you want to send in a recording of you talking about Australian politics, news, or memes (or, uh, singing a TV show theme song?) please send it in to contact@auspolsnackpod.com  SPOTW: Adam Bandt ruined my shitposting group and I will be voting UAP from now on  and you'll just have to wait to the end for our Pupdate!  Support us financially (especially if YOU ruined my shitposting group) at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  We use the money to pay transcribers and you can READ the episodes over at www.auspolsnackpod.com 

"Mini" he said. "Just a few minutes" he said. Well, here's a not-super-long episode from ya boy Noon about Pesach (Passover) the Jewish festival that Easter happens at the same time as. There's even a teeny tiny little bit of Auspol in there if you pay attention. I hope you all have a revolutionary pesach full of freedom

Get your mowers going because it's a long episode this week. We're serving up: Aperitifs: Shoutouts to Loud, Angry and Not Sorry for their recent episode with Celeste Liddle, listen here: https://loudandangry.podbean.com/e/feminist-baddies-with-celeste-liddle/  Also, the Government's reduction in the fuel excise has left truck drivers with almost nothing.  Mains: What is an inflation? What is an interest rate? What the hell is everyone talking about?  Positivity Corner: All the men held in Park Hotel Prison have been released!  First Nations: Two Indigenous senators from the Greens went to Hakea prison for a meeting; they were escorted out by police.  Fashy Australia: Clive Palmer lies blatantly about all the anti-semites he associates with. Also Craig Kelly got egged lmao. Read Tom Tanuki's piece here: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/clive-palmer-must-answer-for-uap-antisemitism,16232  SPOTW: Everyone keeps piling it on Morrison, hilariously. Also there's more news about his alleged corruption and racism, woo Blurst Take: The Greens are struggling yet again with transphobes in Victoria. Read more here: https://twitter.com/epistemophagy/status/1510084272585347076  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

It was the budget! And you know what that means: almost nothing. This week we're serving up... Fashy Aus: A couple of terrible laws have been passed: the Mutual Obligations Bill and new anti-protest laws in NSW. Yikes!  Positivity Corner: Australia is at record high levels of industrial action. And it was Trans Day of Visibility this week!

This week we're serving up... Aperitifs: Aged care workers getting screwed over by the government (surprise!) and John Barilaro is suing Google.  Election Section: Labor won the SA election last weekend!  First Nations: Yoorrook Justice Commission has officially launched! Go check out their website:  https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/  ACAB: Why are cops involved in the flood recovery? Seriously, wtaf? Watch Tom Tanuki's video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srbwelwyzlo  SPOTW: Shoutouts to Liam and/or the Herald Sun for their Albo policies infographic  Positivity Corner: Blockade Australia have been rocking out with direct action all week And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Pupdate!  Please support us financially at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Your money helps us pay people to transcribe our episodes! If you can't or don't want to listen with your ears, you can read our episodes over at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Watch Noon stream games at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames   

Hello dear listener! We're back on our regular nonsense with a normal show for you all. This week we're serving up...   Aperitifs: Kimberley Kitching has died, and the government has announced a one-off vote buying payment   First Nations: (CW 7:30 - 23:35) the result of the Rolfe trial in NT   Election Section: South Australia went to the polls!   Positivity Corner: Star Casinos is getting absolutely hammered for their alleged massive crimes   C is for Climate: Good news everyone! The Environment Minister doesn't need to consider Australian children when expanding coal mines.   Potluck: Thanks to C for sending this in! My bad, and thanks C for the correction! If you have something you'd like to talk about on the show, please record yourself talking for about a minute and send it to us at contact@auspolsnackpod.com   SPOTW: Real Smooth Albo   UFU: The Women's network giant purple peen logo   And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!   Support the show financially at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Watch Noon stream Hades n stuff at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames     

Zac's away having fun or something so earlier in the week I sat down with Jo, host of the Chronically Fully Sick podcast to snack down on the news and memes. There's been a LOT of news since we recorded, especially the murder trial for a police officer in the NT, which we will definitely talk about next time. So just a warning that there might be some things you expect us to discuss that we do not.  This week Jo and Noon are serving up...  Aperitifs: International Women's Day and Labour Day!  First Nations / Blurst Take: For the first time ever, Victorian First Nations groups are getting a water allocation from the Murray Darling. It's historical but also pretty miniscule.  SPOTW: Sonic erotica. Need we say more? Shoutouts Liam for the layup/assist.  Fashy Australia: Ever heard of BusyBeans? No? Well, ever heard of soul destroying fake "employment training providers"? No? Well, ever heard of brutal corruption and exploiting disabled people for financial gain?  Ever heard of the NDIS and the Minister blatantly lying?  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Listen to Chronically Fully Sick: https://www.chronicallyfullysick.com/  Follow them on Insta: @ChronicallyFullySick  Support Auspol Snackpod financially to help us pay our transcribers: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod If you can't or don't want to listen, you can read our episodes over at www.auspolsnackpod.com 

We're back! Sorry about last week. Also maybe about next week. But this week we have a regular old show for you all! We're serving up... Aperitifs: Morrison has COVID; Clive Palmer has Hitler's car; World War III? SPOTW: You never want to go full Bill Shorten.  Climate Cookies: Floods all over the North East of Australia  First Nations: a teenaged boy was killed by cops and then the cops lied to his father about it. Also, Victoria has approved reparation payments for victims of the Stolen Generations.  Positivity Corner: Mark Latham's transphobic bill #1 has been defeated in the NSW Parliament.  Potluck: Bike helmets. Bike lights. Pedestrian helmets. Pedestrian lights?  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Please support the show at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod. Your donations help us pay for transcripts so if you prefer or need to read things instead of listening you can get those over at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Listen to Zac's choons at https://soundcloud.com/zaclesnak  Watch Noon play games on twitch www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

We had such a good time with our guest last week, we decided to get another one! We got JB to come on the show to talk about sex work decriminalisation and other legal frameworks, as well as the ethics of the sex industry, moralising, and about a million other things. And they didn't even get to their second point!  This week we're serving up...  Election Section: NSW had four by elections, most of which were at least fairly interesting!  SPOTW: Antony Green got Ligma'd.  Positivity Corner: JB talks to us about sex work decrim passing the Victorian parliament.  First Nations: on the anniversary of the Apology for the Stolen Generations, we had some very powerful speeches from First Nations leaders and a rage-inducingly bad one from the Prime Minister.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Check out JB on twitter: https://twitter.com/fairy_godslut  Check out Vixen Collective: https://www.vixencollective.org/  Decolonise Sex Work: https://www.instagram.com/decolonisesexworkau  Assembly Four: https://twitter.com/AssemblyFour  Digital Rights Watch: https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/  Support Snackpod financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod You can read transcripts of our episodes at www.auspolsnackpod.com 

We're very excited to announce our guest host Tilde! She's a unionist and organiser and twitch streamer and a confirmed poster and came on to talk to us about the Religious Freedom / Anti-Trans Kids Bill and to explain the sad machinations of our political parties.  There's a content warning for our First Nations story which involves an Indigenous man who was killed by police, and the use of his name. The story runs from 44:40 to 55:50. Oh and by the way, sorry about the little peeps from Bagel. He was in dog jail while we recorded and was protesting his unfair treatment.  This week we're serving up...  Aperitifs: South Australian politicians did a sit-in in the Lower House to demand something that literally can't happen. And a Victorian Labor MP will likely be expelled from the party because she crossed the floor to support a petty revenge bill.  Fashy Australia: Tilde talks to us about the Religious Discrimination Bill, the Labor Party's conservative arm (ie most of it), the Liberal Party's failed attempt to whip up concern, and to remind you to buy your trans friends a PS5.  First Nations: CW from 44:40 to 55:50. We talk about the murder trial of the Indigenous man killed by Officer Zachary Rolfe in Yuendumu in 2019.  Kook Watch: This show could pretty much just be renamed Kook Watch at this point because there's so much cooker nonsense going on in the nation's capital that we have to keep talking about it. Luckily this week we also have... SPOTW: which goes to @ThoughtlessDeed on twitter for his personalised playing cards of all the key cooker leaders. And also a... Potluck: a short song written by Jase! About the Cooker Convoy.  And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Pupdate!  Go check out Tilde on twitter (https://twitter.com/Ultros_pro) and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/ultros_professional)  Support Snackpod with your dollarydoos: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Also watch Noon on twitch: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

There was legitimately way too much news this week. We had to cut loads of stories and all the stories we kept ended up being TOO INTERESTING. So, hopefully you have plenty of lawns to mow today. This week we're serving up... Aperitifs: Queensland is having ANOTHER Fitzgerald Inquiry - an anti-corruption investigation of their anti-corruption body, because they might have done a tiny little coup of one council one time. Separately, Ben Roberts-Smith is Barbara Streisanding and Mr Beaning his way to having his alleged war medals revoked.  Kook Watch: Canberra is hosting some more grifter-cookers who are having a lot of fun appropriating Indigenous rhetoric and crashing their cars into each other. Zac uses the word synecdoche.  SPOTW: This week it's going to not only a first-time winner but a first-time poster! Richard Colbeck is leading the charge on portfolio-portfolio balance as he goes to see the cricket instead of dealing with the coronavirus.  UFU: Return UFU winner Barnaby Joyce has a text message leaked, and Scott Morrison is generally wildly unpopular.  Election Section: Shoutouts to Aiden for the new sting. Please send in more. This Election Section is about political parties' electoral funding and why it's so deeply vague/corrupt.  Read more about the issues here: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2022/02/05/how-political-parties-hide-the-source-their-donations/164397960013270#mtr  Positivity Corner: Menulog drivers are to be considered employees instead of subcontractors! Woo!  Broken Clock: Prue MacSween (better known as Prunes MacStewed) has been advertising for the Greens for some reason. We also have a bit of a roundup of her greatest hits. Read/watch more about her racist nonsense here: https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/a-sunrise-to-forget/9972306  First Nations: the coronavirus is sweeping through remote communities; the Governments seem to have totally abdicated their responsibility.  Fashy Australia: Citipointe Christian College (no, the other CCC) has had a terrible week; first they told parents they have to sign a horrible bigoted contract, and yada yada yada the principal has now resigned. Read more about the CCC and their links with the LNP and ACL: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/05/citipointe-christian-college-pastor-brian-mulheran-brisbane-school-lnp-liberal-national-party-queensland  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! Please support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

It's a post-heavy episode this week, with plenty of news and even a new sting/segment! We're serving up... Aperitifs: Solar grants for struggling yacht clubs; Anne Ruston manages to be deeply insulting to disabled people while trying to praise them; Centrelink doesn't have a database so much as a pile of inaccessible documents.  Positivity Corner: Zac gives us some patented Le Snak brand art analysis, about the red paint poured over colonial statues of Captain Cook.  First Nations: The copyright to the Aboriginal flag has been purchased by the Federal Government, in direct contradiction of their committee report about it.  Read more about it from Bronwyn Carlson: https://theconversation.com/amp/dont-say-the-aboriginal-flag-was-freed-it-belongs-to-us-not-the-commonwealth-175623  Blurst Take: We can't not talk about Grace Tame and the side-eye. The blurst take comes in from Peter van Onselen and the various other gross people who have published gross and demeaning takes about Tame. We also have a blesst take from Amy Remeikis and Carrie Bickmore.  Read more and watch the footage here: https://womensagenda.com.au/politics/carrie-bickmore-amy-remeikis-tear-pvo-a-new-one-over-irresponsible-and-devastating-grace-tame-comments/  Read Amy Remeikis' article about PvO here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/26/on-the-project-my-rage-bubbled-to-the-surface-thats-what-happens-when-women-are-no-longer-willing-to-make-nice  Read Kara Shlegl's article about Grace Tame, autism and masking: https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/smiling-grace-tame-autism  SPOTW: We're awarding this to Grace Tame for her tireless and cromulent posting over the last year.  Election Section: The NSW Liberal Party is a complete shambles thanks to the machinations of Alex Hawke, who wants to avoid a pre-selection battle. Meanwhile various Liberal party apparatchiks are considering legal action. South Australia continues to be extremely hilarious.  Fashy Australia: the Select Committee on Social Media and Online Safety is a total clownshow. Craig Kelly is using it as a personal vehicle to litigate his hurt feelings from twitter, and they are mainly taking evidence from active, organised homophobes and transphobes. Cool cool cool.  And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Pupdate! Support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you can't or don't want to listen to the show, you can find transcripts at www.auspolsnackpod.com   

"It took twenty seven takes, and that was the best one." That's our motto for the first 5 mins of the show. But after that we're serving up all the news, politics, and memes that you could possibly eat in one sitting. This week we have... Aperitifs: Ben Roberts-Smith, alleged war hero, lost a side-case in court and has been forced to pay close to half a million to Jo Dyer. A cop has been suspended and charged with assault after throwing someone face first into the ground. Morrison lies blatantly (but is that news at this point?) about the people being kept in the Park Hotel/Prison being refugees. We also talk briefly about the Tonga volcano disaster and the Australian aid response.   Positivity Corner: At the end of last year, SA was 100% renewable powered for almost an entire week! This is because of some cool and interesting changes in regulations.  UFU: Forkliftgate. Need we say more?  First Nations: A round-up of Invasion Day events and a terrible article from some racist jerkbag. Find events near you from these articles:  https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2022/01/21/national-invasion-day-rallies-adapt-face-covid-19  https://junkee.com/invasion-day-2022-rallies-where-to-donate/319730  https://www.foe.org.au/invasion_day_events_2022  SPOTW: We're giving this to Kira (yet again) for their extremely high quality maymays.  Coronas: A little bit about the WA hard border, and about the Code Brown called for Victorian hospitals, and some of the particularly cooked aspects of it.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially and help us pay our transcribers: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Get transcripts of the episodes at www.auspolsnackpod.com   

It's our first episode of 2022 and we're bringing our new year slimy matrix goo pod energy! This week we're serving up... Coronas: There are no RATs! Partly because half the truck drivers in the country are sick with the covid! Partly because there are no RATs! Also there's a labour crisis! Is there a great resignation going on in Australia? Whomst could say.  Kook Watch: Sovereign Citizens set fire to Old Parliament House, then tried to use the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as cover. The situation is complex and shitty in multiple ways.  Positivity Corner: The Palestine solidarity boycott of the Sydney Festival is very impressive activism! We talk about some of the common objections that have been going around twitter dot com and the newspapers' opinion pages, as well as BDS more generally and hasbarah (pro-Israel PR). Follow these people for more updates: https://twitter.com/PalestineRising  https://twitter.com/jennineak https://twitter.com/fahad_s_ali http://www.instagram.com/stories/boycottsydfest  First Nations: Gomeroi sacred sites that were going to be destroyed for a coal mine is instead being handed back to... farmers? The sites are still legally unprotected and not accessible to traditional owners.  SPOTW: We're starting off the year with a high-quality "and that child grew up to be Albert Einstein" post.  And you'll have to wait til the end for our Pupdate!  Please follow us on socials @auspolsnackpod on all the things!  Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and rate us on Spotify with their new star rating thingy!  If you really like the show consider donating $1 a month at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

We're back! With another episode of memes, memes, and more memes, with a robust side of extremely cool and popular guest host Holly! We go from July to the end of the year with our posts of the week, meandering a little as we all fall asleep (we ended up recording this roughly 3 hours later than intended). From NAIDOC to loving submarines (it risky) to the Croods, it's been a year of absolute c o n t e n t and we salute you for it. We'll be back in January sometime! Love youse all, have a safe and happy new year. Buy us a christmas present: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Read transcripts of our episodes: www.auspolsnackpod.com  

Boy howdy it's been a long year. A long, painful, long, difficult, isolated, long year. But we've been posting through it. The entire nation has really lifted our meme game during the pandemic and in this week and next week's episodes we're going through the posts, content, tweets, and memes that defined our year. We're also joined by robust and popular podcaster extraordinaire, Holly!  Part 1 is January to June, and there are some quality posts we've got for you, from the foreboding omen of our first ever SPOTW all the way to FOUR TYPES OF DAMAGE and the Chad/Virgin Leunig.  Support the show financially and get monthly bonus eps and join our discord and other cool things: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Check out Holly's show Every Second Weekend: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/4fu5m-13881b/Every-Second-Weekend-Podcast 

Zac's away again this weekend so we recorded this earlier this week. Hopefully there haven't been any massive developments in these stories since then... Aperitifs: Gladys may or may not run for Parliament; we're boycotting the Olympics but kinda not really; and Barclay McGain dressed up as Kyle Rittenhouse for Halloween (slightly late but extremely gross!)  Coronas: NSW has seen several court cases about vaccine mandates. Thus far they have all failed.  Positivity Corner: NSW teachers and public transport workers have both gone on strike!  Fashy Aus: The NTEU carefully removed stuff anti-transphobia in a resolution put forward by the Queer wing of the union.  Read the article from Eric Stacey: https://blog.joyrex.net/nteu-and-transphobia  First Nations: Adani has destroyed a sacred stone-knapping site at its Carmichael Coal Mine. Also the Woppaburra people have had their Native Title claims for the Keppel islands approved.  SPOTW: I have to prove my booomerposting credentials, so we're giving this to political cartoonist Kudelka for his rusted-on bingo teatowel.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially and help us pay for transcripts: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Read the transcripts: www.auspolsnackpod.com  

It's another longthful episode this week because there's just too much dang news! There are a couple of CWs, time-codes are below.  This week we're serving up... Aperitifs: Craig Kelly on new Social Media Inquiry, Greg Hunt is retiring to spend more time watching porn on twitter, VicForests will save Christmas by destroying Melbourne's water supply, and Coles is thefting even more wages than they were wage-thefting before!  SPOTW: Adam Bandt's corporate blue tick facebook profile joined our meme group, and so far, has disappointed us  Kook Watch: Victorian pandemic powers bill will pass, anti-vaxers are violently assaulting people and continuing to spread the coronavirus at their rallies  Positivity Corner: Zac went to the CARF rally and an anti-wage-theft rally this week, shoutouts to everyone who's turning up to these events!  First Nations: CW for talking about Indigenous people who have died from 31:00 - 35:30. There has been another Indigenous woman who has died in custody in Melbourne, and although not much information is available it's another travesty of justice. Also this week, Yolngu man and world-famous actor David Dalaithngu has died.  Follow the ISJA on FB: https://www.facebook.com/ISJA.Melbourne  Follow Stop Black Deaths in Custody: https://www.facebook.com/2Black2StrongTshirts/  No-One Cares About Climate Change: the Labor party farted and called it a 2030 policy, but more interestingly, Australia seems to be wildly under-reporting our fossil fuel emissions. Like maybe by 5-10x.  Read more about how terrible the situation is here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-03/satellites-are-challenging-australias-coal-mining-industry/100663676  Mains: another CW from 43:15-1:25:00 for non-graphic discussions of misogyny and sexual harassment and assault. We have a big chat about the misogyny of the government, the way Bridget Archer was horribly manipulated by the Prime Minister and Treasurer, the report into Parliamentary culture, and more. And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! Support the show financially and get a monthly bonus episode and other cool stuff: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you want to read our show instead of listening to it you can get transcripts over at www.auspolsnackpod.com 

We're finally back with a normal episode and it's an extra long one because there's just too much dang news! This week on the menu is: Aperitifs: Trans Day of Remembrance, NSW State Elections, VicForests doing mad crimes, and Dutton wins a defo suit (boooo). Read more about forestry crimes here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-24/hi-res-elevation-data-pinpoints-outlaw-logging-in-forests/100626640  Potluck: Big thanks to Jess for this potluck about Powershop. Please send us a potluck! Just record yourself speaking for one minute and send it to contact@auspolsnackpod.com  Fashy Australia: The religious discrimination laws have gone through the Lower House. It's unclear what they will mean but it's definitely nothing good. This is also the first of a number of Parliamentary shenanigans this week, because Scott Morrison is kinda losing control of his party. Also discussed in this segment: the ICAC bill, Hanson/Lambie, Bridget Archer, Christensen, the ABC/SBS inquiry, etc. A bunch of new info about Bridget Archer's meeting with the PM has come out since we recorded but don't worry we'll talk about it next week!  Kook Watch: The anti-vaxers are out again, they're all catching coronavirus, and some of them are being arrested. We also talk a bit about Da Bill.  SPOTW: a literal SP this week.  First Nations: Forced vaccination conspiracy is doing the rounds. Thankfully it's total nonsense but what the hell is wrong with these conspiracy kooks???  Positivity Corner: Fella's bill passes in South Australia, banning the use of spit hoods.  C is for Climate Change: Blockade Australia protester Sergeio has been sentenced to 12 months jail, 6 months no parole. Labor manages once again to prove that we can't trust them for anything by giving big-ups to the judge for this conviction.  And you'll just have to wait til the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially and get a monthly bonus ep: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

It's another pre-recorded episode this week - lucky there's no news, right?? Snackpod are the proud owners of one of maybe only eight or ten copies of Gina Rinehart's alleged jokebook, Jokes and Joys (Dedicated to Aussie Mother). So for this week's episode, we read some of the least vile jokes and memes straight from Australia's richest person. This episode somewhat apropos of Alex McKinnon's article about Australia's billionaires (read it here: https://www.gawker.com/politics/meet-australias-batshit-insane-mining-billionaires). Shoutouts to Elyce Philips, owner of another one of these deeply cursed books. (Check her out on twitter: https://twitter.com/elycephillips) Support Snackpod financially for more of Jokes and Joys and other less weirdly horrible bonus content: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Watch Noon play games on twitch: www.twitch.tv/Noonplaysgames  Follow us on Facebook, twitter, instagram @auspolsnackpod on all the things. Go to our website for transcripts of all our episodes usually up within a couple days / maybe a week: www.auspolsnackpod.com 

Noon is away this week dealing with a smol MH crisis, but never fear because robust fan favourite and peoples' champion Holly is back to celebrate No Knowledge November. Excitingly, we also have a new segment and sting for you! Also just a heads up that next week will be another unusual episode but it will have both Zac and Noon on it (unless something goes horribly wrong). This week we are serving up... Aperitifs: Morrison gets a haircut (it's election season), and Tim Smith crashed his Picklemobile!  SPOTW: Goes to Noon's mum for a layup/assist.  C is for Climate/Potluck: Noon calls in to talk about the Glasgow climate talks, Net Zero modelling, EVs, and the CEFC. And Zac tells us about Blockade Australia and their great work this week. Support the cause: https://chuffed.org/project/blockade-australia-fundraiser  First Nations (CW 36:10-42:00 for names and descriptions of Indigenous people who have died in custody): There have been two more First Nations people killed in custody in just the last week.  Positivity Corner (CW 42:00 - 58:56 for non-graphic discussion of sexual assault): Affirmative consent laws are being introduced in Victoria and NSW.  Fashy Australia: Get out and support CARF (Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) in their counter-protests against the rolling far right and anti-vax rallies. Come along next weekend! Events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/261299109308167  Support Snackpod financially and get a monthly bonus episode and other stuff: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Watch Noon play games on twitch: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames   

Zac's off this week, so Noon caught up with Mev, one of the organisers at Slutwalk Naarm/Melbourne. She chats with us about the history of the movement, consent, victim blaming, the word slut and the pros and cons of using it as part of a radical organisation, and more! We hope you love the show this week.  Slutwalk Naarm/Melbourne is happening next week 13th November at 1pm on 3CR. It will be hosted hosted by Chilli & Aretha Brown! Tune in & turn it up! 2021 rally fb event: https://fb.me/e/2Bpg8tHY2  Tune in to 3CR here: https://www.3cr.org.au/streaming  Follow Slutwalk Naarm/Melbourne on FB: https://www.facebook.com/slutwalkmelbourne and on twitter: https://twitter.com/SlutWalkMelb  And you can email them at slutwalkmelbourne@gmail.com  Some of the organisations Mev mentions include: Dhadjowa Foundation: https://dhadjowa.com.au/  Djirra: https://djirra.org.au/ #LetUsSpeak campaign: https://www.letusspeak.com.au/ and their parent org RASARA: https://rasara.org/let-us-speak  Respect is the Rule: https://www.hospovoice.org.au/campaigns/respect-is-the-rule/  If you want to support Snackpod you can do so financially over at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

It's a newsy week and we've got a long newsy show for you all. This week we're serving up... Aperitifs: Crown Casino lose their license but also don't, featuring Noon singing. The Federal Government is trying to bring in voter ID laws. And Michael Leunig has been fired from the age. We also have a SPOTW for Meag's Leunig knock-off.  Positivity Corner: ICAC continues to ICAC, with both Gladys Berejiklian and Daryl Maguire taking the witness stand this week. We re-enact some of the tapped phone calls and get you up to date with all the major drama.  First Nations: New funding for Indigenous artists is cool but doesn't address with the huge problems and rampant exploitation in the Aboriginal art industry, which artists and art collectives have been calling for help with.  ACAB: Former head of ethics at Victorian Police, Brett Guerin, will receive no punishment for making several hundred of some of the most vile and racist internet comments either of us have ever seen. Fashy Australia: Zac takes us through the Online Safety Act, the changes to privacy laws, and the Online Defamation Bill, three attempts by the Federal Government to regulate social media platforms.  Mains - Nat Zero Carbonara: Scott Morrison is going to COP26 (the annual international climate policy conference) with a completely useless and meaningless "the plan" for net zero emissions by 2050. It's actually impressively bad.  Shoutouts to the Police Accountability Project: https://twitter.com/Police_Acc_Proj  Watch Noon on Cam Wilson's twitch talking about ICAC and IBAC and more: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1187349478  Support the show financially and get a monthly bonus episode! This month we watched and discussed an Australian horror film, Long Weekend: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

Hello and welcome to Freedompol Snackfreedom, the freedom-based podcast that is no longer in lockdown. It's a jam-packed episode this week! We do have a content warning from 46:40 - 53:00 for a story about the death of an Indigenous woman at the hands of police, so if you don't want to hear that you can skip past it. We also have MULTIPLE SPOTW award winners, thank you all for your hard work. This week we're serving up...  Aperitifs: Lockdown is over in Melbourne; Candace Owens is invading Australia; ICAC continues to investigate the situation with Daryl and Gladys (you know... Gladys Berryjuicelemon?); Fran Kelly is gone; and Dorinda Cox was sworn into the Federal Senate.  Fashy Australia: the Park Hotel Prison is an extremely dangerous place where a huge number of the people being illegally jailed there are now infected with COVID.  Positivity Corner: Eddie Obeid, and his son and partner in crime Ian McDonald, are all going to jail (again). We have a quick rundown of who is this Obeid guy, why is he going to jail, and... why in the heck did he try to sue ICAC?  UFU: Oh Barilaro, can't you go five seconds without humiliating yourself? Friendlyjordies and his producer Kristo Langker have had a win in court in their ongoing stoush with Barilaro and NSW police, and the cops have had to pay $22 000 in legal costs to Langker.  Follow @CelerySorbet https://twitter.com/CelerySorbet  First Nations: CW 46:40-53:00. There's been a terrible conclusion in the trial of the police officer who shot and killed an Indigenous woman known as JC in Geraldton in 2019, as he was found not guilty and had his identity supressed.  Potluck: Listener Rana sent in a very interesting and detailed potluck about the Greens' new mental health plan and some of the issues they see with it.  Broken Clock: It's always nice to see conservatives fight amongst themselves, and this week we got a leaked zoom meeting of the Victorian Liberals yelling swears at each other. Hooray!  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support us financially at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Follow us on all the socials, twitter, fb, insta @AuspolSnackpod  Watch noon play games on twitch www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

We're much refreshed and back at it again after a week off. Luckily there was juuuust enough news for us to put together a show. There is a CW for one of our First Nations stories, which involves the name of an Indigenous man who has died at the hands of police. That segment runs from 45:50 - 50:05. This week we're serving up...   Aperitifs: Morrisons climate targets, COP21, and News Corps' new slightly pro-climate headlines  UFU: Victorian Labor are in trouble over branch stacking after Federal MP Anthony Byrne was questioned by IBAC this week. They also corruptly embezzled $14 000 worth of stamps. It's truly riveting stuff.  Positivity Corner: Queensland renters now are legally allowed to have a pet except in extreme circumstances. ALso, Wilcannia, the Western NSW town that was the epicentre of a corona outbreak, now has zero active cases!! All thanks to the incredible collective response of the community and Aboriginal health organisations.  First Nations: CW from 45:50 - 50:05 for the name of an Indigenous man who died during a police interaction and the sad and horrible story behind it. We have another First Nations story which is more uplifting about the Wangan and Jagalingou people conducting a ceremony on their land which just so happens to be where Adani wants to build a coal mine.  Check out their websites: https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/ and https://standing-our-ground.org/ and follow them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WanganJagalingouStandingOurGround/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wjstandingourground/)   Blurst Take: Columnist Janet “witch hunts are cool when I do it” Albrechtsen wrote a terrible, terrible hit piece on Grace Tame. Stay classy, Alberchtsen.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Give us $1 a month and get a monthly bonus episode, and help us pay for transcriptions! www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you want to read the episode instead of listening, transcripts are uploaded usually within a few days at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Watch Noon play games on twitch at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

We're taking a week off! Woo! So we're releasing this bonus episode from a couple months ago. Zac did some actual research about Bob Hawke acting as an informant for the US Government, and Noon did some rants about the Rendlesham Forest incident and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.  Support us financially over on Patreon for a bonus episode every month: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  For more please check out Cameron Coventry's work about Bob Hawke: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341655929_The_'Eloquence'_of_Robert_J_Hawke_United_States_informer_1973-79  For more about Bobby Kennedy, check out the RFK Tapes: http://rfktapes.com/  For more about Rendlesham Forest, keep watching the skies.   

You know, Gladys? Gladys Berryjuicelemon? Well, anyway, this week we're serving up: Aperitifs: It is #BirdoftheYear time! Drop your vote for the regent honeyeater here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/27/australian-bird-of-the-year-2021-vote-now-for-your-favourite  Also, the fallout for our cancelled submarine deal with France continues with the EU delaying negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement.  Coronas: The Victorian outbreak is getting real big and scary, though we're getting closer to our vaccination targets. We also look at how the Disability Royal Commission has put the government on blast for their sneaky and underhanded decision to remove people with disabilities from the vaccine rollout.  Read the draft report here: https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/covid-19-vaccine-strategy-and-roll-out-people-disability-seriously-deficient-draft-report  ACAB: Queensland cops are suing their employer over the vaccine mandate. Do YOU have thoughts about the vaccine mandate? Because we don't know what we should think.  Potluck: Our listener Peter had some thoughts about recruitment tactics. First Nations / Positivity Corner: The Daintree Rainforest and three other National Parks have been officially handed over to the management of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama (people).  SPOTW: It's a Gladys roundup!  UFU/Mains: We remind you what happened with Gladys and Daryl and ICAC, and catch you up with the events of this week, and the likely replacements for Gladys both in the seat of Willoughby and as Premier of NSW.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially and get a monthly bonus episode: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

It's another super long episode because our story on the Melbourne protests accidentally went nearly an hour long. Whoopsie doodle! Hopefully you find our discussion at least somewhat interesting or insightful. We also have a couple of trigger warnings at the end of the show. Time codes are below and we give warnings when you're listening before the stories start.  This week we're serving you... Aperitifs: Christian Porter is out of the ministry. Also, there was an earthquake! Fashy Australia/ACAB/SPOTW: Protests in Melbourne around the construction industry. We chew over the events of the week and try to come to some actual positions. Plus we have a Potluck from Mitch, one of the hosts of Not Good Enough Pod! You can listen to them at https://notgoodpod.com/  Positivity Corner: Jordon Steele-John has been given the Greens' Federal Health Spokes role, and announced a new mental health care policy that would see unlimited mental health care funded by Medicare. We also have some amazing art from Imo Timo and you can see more of their work at https://www.instagram.com/imotimos_art/ or buy prints at https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ImoTimosArt  First Nations: CW for names of people who have died from 60:00 - 1:05:00 and discussion of police violence against First Nations people from 1:05:00 - 1:10:00. We have three stories here. 1: a cool art exhibit called Viewpoints (also check out this article: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/07/first-nations-photography-reframed-this-is-who-we-really-are). 2: Fella's Bill passes the SA upper house unanimously, meaning that the state will ban and criminalise the use of Spit Hoods. 3: update on the inquest of an Aboriginal man who was killed while being chased by police.  Mains: CW for intense misogyny and sexual harassment and assault from 1:10:00 to 1:21:00.  A listener wrote in to us with their story about sexist discrimination in the Labor Party.  Business Time/the P-Zone: Please support us over on Patreon! For just $1 you get a monthly bonus episode PLUS a bunch of other stuff. www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Follow us on the Soc Meedz! @auspolsnackpod on all the things. You can also watch Noon play games at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames. You can ALSO also listen to Noon talk about Judaism on Perth Radio here: https://rtrfm.com.au/show-episode/midnightspecial-2021-09-23/ 

We have a big show this week, with some actual uncomplicated positivity, some big brain economic analysis, and of course, le memes. We have a CW for our First Nations story for the name of someone who has died and descriptions of police violence. IF you'd like to skip that story it runs from 24:00 - 30:50. Our second FN story is also about racist policing but isn't graphic, and goes from 30:50 - 33:50. This week we're serving up...  Aperitifs: Christian Porter kind of discloses donations, and Joel Fitzgibbon is stepping down.  Positivity Corner: Eastern barred bandicoots are no longer extinct in the wild! And a wombat did a HUP  SPOTW: Picnic is Coming to Victoria.  Coronas: Victorian Indigenous vaccination rates have been massively inflated, and we also check in on the outbreak in Wilcannia, NSW. Read more about the Wilcannia situation here: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/2705/Transcript%20-%20Pandemic%20inquiry%20-%2013%20September%202021%20-%20UNCORRECTED.pdf  First Nations: CW for the name of an Indigenous woman who died and police violence. If you want to skip it it runs from 24:00-30:50, it's about an inquest into the death of Ms Wynne at the hands of police.  UFU: The Australian economy miiiiiiight do a small collapse as the worlds most indebted company, Chinese developer Evergrande, circles the drain. How will this affect the trout population?  Fashy Australia: What's that? We're overly reliant on China? Why don't be build nuclear subs to point at them? This will affect the trout population I think.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! Please consider giving us a dollar at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

Welcome back to another serving of Snackpod! We're trying things a little differently so we're starting off this week with... Aperitifs: Matthew Guy is back; Lyle Shelton is disendorsed by God; Women's Safety Summit was pretty depressing (more of this in the next story); Kristina K Keneally is parachuted into the Lower House.  Fashy Australia: (CW from 13:30-24:30 to for discussion of sexual assault and systemic misogyny) The Human Rights Commission job has been handed to Lorraine Finlay, a terrible conservative Liberal from WA. We also talk about Scott Morrison not just abdicating responsibility to deal with violence against women, but he's actively making things worse.   First Nations/Positivity Corner: Two First Nations women are standing as Greens candidates. Dorina Cox will replace Rachel Siewert in the Federal Senate, while Dianne Stokes has just been elected to the Barkly Regional Council in the NT.  SPOTW: We have a load of posts! Shoutouts to Steph, Effy, and Frank, with whatever the opposite of a shoutout is to Julian Burnside.  Potluck: this is the segment where we hear from our audience! This week we have a great potluck from Jack (listen to him on the Spooky Speaks podcast!) about Universities and their crappy employment practices.  Mains: The High Court - Australia's highest court, dontchaknow - has ruled that media companies are at least potentially liable for defamatory statements made on their Facebook posts. We discuss it from a few different angles.  And you'll have to wait until the end for our Pupdate!  Please support us over on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

We have another bumper episode for you all to chow down on! I think the first half of the show is pretty fun, but with our usual emotional whiplash, the back half of the show has a few content warnings. There are discussions of police violence against Indigenous people, discussing people who have died, and discussion of DV and sexual assault. We've mentioned it in the show before each story and there are timecodes below for you to skip. This week we're serving up... Entree/Blurst Take: Barnaby won't be bullied about climate policy / it was our fourth hottest winter ever  SPOTW: Cringe of the Week goes to Dr Queen Victoria with a lay-up assist to Nys! But the worst post of the week goes to Family Voice for their Fathers' Day photo competition.  Positivity Corner: We have actual positivity corners! Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action sue the NSW EPA; Queensland moves to decriminalise sex work; Srsly Wrong who are our idols are definitely aware of who we are; and Noon's orange tree has finally fruited after several years.  First Nations (CW 35:30): Zac watched Incarceration Nation and reports back about the film and some of the debate that it has raised.  Coronas: There's a UK deal for vaccines and people aren't going to their appointments. But the real news is that the Government totally abandoned their responsibility and has allowed coronavirus to get into prisons. The way they're dealing with it is also bad. Also an Indigenous man has died of Coronavirus for the first time since the pandemic began.   Fashy Australia / Mains (CW 1:03:30): It's a misogyny round-up. John Setka gets worse by the day, as does the Federal Government, who are refusing to implement recommendations for women's safety.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  If you like the show please consider supporting us financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

I know we say "there's bad news" every week but this really is a pretty heavy episode, at least the back end of the show. We have a few content warnings that start at about 59 minutes - more specifics below. To balance it out we've tried to put in a few mini positivity corners throughout.  Transcripts of our episodes are uploaded within a few days at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Entree/Blurst Take: Craig Kelly has joined the United Australia Party which surely can't be good news for anyone.  Mini-Posi-Corner 1: Tasmanians will have much easier abortion access!  Coronas: Gladys is un-lock-down-ing, just as the cases continue to skyrocket. Plus, the government COVID Safe app is not only useless, it's actually making contact tracing much harder.  Potluck: We're not good at quick maths, but Nathan is! If you want to send us a potluck please record yourself talking for about a minute and email it to us at contact@auspolsnackpod.com  Mini-Posi-Corner 2: Truck drivers who work for Toll Group are striking!  SPOTW: How can we go past Croodsposting? But we also had a great SPOTWOOH as well as some honourable mentions. Waaaa!  Mini-Posi-Corner 3: 33 refugees have been released into community detention this week! So good. But they still need help setting up their new lives so please consider supporting this fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/freedom-for-refugeees  ACAB: The police have been going HAM beating up children and pepper spraying people. Meanwhile, the anti-lockdown protesters are also useless jerks!  First Nations: Wilcannia is an Indigenous community that has been systematically discriminated against for years and is now a covid hotspot. Info for how to donate to help them eat and get medical care: https://twitter.com/Meriiki/status/1431014887392563201  Fashy Australia: CW at 59:00 for suicide and descriptions of violence. Koneshwaran Krishnapillai, a Tamil refugee, died this week by setting himself on fire in Melbourne. Help his family pay for the funeral: https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-for-koneshwaran  Mini-Posi-Corner 4: It Could Happen Here is happening again! It's a podcast by Robert Evans, one of our favourite podcasters, about the collapse of modern society.  Season 2 has just started, go check it out!  And you'll just have to wait to the end for our quite extensive Pupdate!  Support us on Patreon and get a monthly bonus episode and some other cool stuff! www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Watch Noon play games and read theory: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames   

After fully two years of mildly hassling him, our Fifth Beatle Lewis has finally come on the show! He's here to drop some knowledge about Afghanistan and critique some common left wing positions about the war (as well as the war itself, of course). Also featuring a fascinating and alarming digression about the NSW-Sudan war. We have a regular show for you too - we're serving up...  Positivity Corner: Australian neo-Nazis have been impressively infiltrated by journalists and their numbers are dropping as a result. This is the Yeah Nah video about Jarrad Searby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvu6HYhlJ8  SPOTW: There was a great thread riffing on Zac's meme with Rex Patrick's submarine costume, plus a lay-up assist to Holly for flying a kite at night  Coronas: It's bad! Numbers are rising rapidly in NSW and playgrounds are being closed in Victoria.  First Nations: Surprising absolutely no one, it turns out that when Aboriginal people are put in charge of their own healthcare management they do really, really well. Also unsurprisingly, the colonial government is exposing First Nations communities to unnecessary risk.  Fashy Australia: Really this could have been every segment... but two refugees are suing the Australian Government for illegally imprisoning them on Nauru as children.   Mains: What's up with Afghanistan, and the withdrawal, and the Taliban, and Australia's war crimes, and so on?  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! ft. Lewis's doge Koca.  Support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Watch Noon Play Games: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

Hello Snackpack and welcome back to another episode! We took a week off but we're back at it again with a chonky yet easy-to-swallow episode full of Australian news, politics and memes.  This week we're serving up...  Entree: IPCC report on Climate Change and Scott Morrison's useless response  SPOTW: Goes to Matt Canavan for being a useless sod  Broken Clock: We're awarding this to Scott Morrison and the Parliamentary Liberal Party for very very briefly doing something decent  Positivity Corner: We have two fully positive corners, the first is WA legislating safe zones around abortion clinics, and the second is that Victoria has finally decriminalised sex work! Let the Victorian Government know you support the changes here: https://engage.vic.gov.au/sex-work-decriminalisation  First Nations: There's a CW from 46:00 for the use of the name of someone who has died. Specifically, a woman from Yolngu who was involved in the creation of three absolutely spectacular volumes about Yolngu language, land, and culture. Check out their website for more info and links to purchase: https://www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au/  Coronas: the Government's double standard around Jobkeeper and "privacy" for big businesses who have made record profits during the pandemic.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Please consider supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod which helps us pay for transcripts! Transcripts of episodes are released (usually within a couple of days) at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Go watch Noon playing games on twitch: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

We're very excited to announce our special guest host this week, Australia's Boyfriend, Tom Tanuki! You know who he is - he's one of the country's pre-eminent antifascists, as well as a kook-watcher, and he's on this week to talk about the anti-lockdown protests. He drops a bunch of knowledge and even gives us an update on his beautiful cat Chimpy. And thank you all so much for getting us up to 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts! Even though we have more than 100 we would LOVE more so please go leave us a review uwu Watch him on the youtubes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYgRzstFX-CwCGq781If_dw  Support our show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Read this article Tom mentions from Cam Wilson: https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/07/28/seven-people-groups-anti-vaxxers-vote-next-election/   

Please stick with us past the first minute of this episode because we start messy but I think the episode is a good one! We spend quite a while on everyone's favourite segment of Auspol Snackpod: the sports news. Also, we're nearly at our goal of 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts, please go and leave us a review. There's a CW from 35 mins til the end of the show because we discuss transphobic views in a bit of detail. This week on the show we're serving up... Entree: Friendlyjordies is asking John Barilaro to weaken his own position in their court case  Coronas: Gladys wants all the Pfizer for NSW and we talk about the ATAGI (Atagi?) issue and how Scott Morrison has yet again made life difficult for himself by being a useless muppet  First Nations: the Eastern Guruma people are refusing to do Welcome to Country ceremonies for Rio  SPOTW: Golden Dawn! They're... swimmers?  Blurst Take / Fashy Aus / Mains: Crikey published a rabidly transphobic article, and Zac does a bit of a deep dive into the author and the way that transphobia and fascism are related / the same thing, and the way violent anti-semitism pops up if you scratch the surface of a transphobe. And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Read about fascism and transphobia: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/03/20/alert-transphobic-feminism-and-far-right-activism-rapidly-converging/  Tweet thread from @christapeterso: https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1416599964214448130   

It's a long one, Usul! We're serving up two hefty stories - Fashy Australia about the BLM protest at the Parklea Prison, and a roundup of the last few weeks news about Da Corona! Plus we have a couple of Positivity Corners, some quality memeage, and of course a Pupdate about our good and worthy little shriekhounds.  Please RATE AND REVIEW us on Apple Podcasts, we need somewhere between 3 and 5 more reviews to get to 100!! If you like what we do and want to chuck us some cash, please do so at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

It's NAIDOC Week so we have a fully First Nations focussed episode. Our last few stories have heavy content warnings for the names of dead Indigenous people and discussion of police violence, which starts at about 41:20.  Entree: What does NAIDOC stand for, and why does it stand for that? Check out this thread by Khadija Gbla: https://twitter.com/KhadijaGbla/status/1412950412643028996  Also, listen to Broriginals: https://awesomeblack.org/podcast/ep-107-always-was-always-bilby/  SPOTW: Multiple winners this week with a variety of NAIDOC content! Coronas: Once again it's extremely obvious that First Nations communities have just vastly better outcomes when they are in control. Zac takes us through a vaccine rollout in the NT and Noon has a brief aside about St Joseph's.  Positivity Corner: Seed Mob are an awesome group that has managed to get a senate inquiry up into fracking in the Beetaloo Basin ACAB: Content warning starts here at about 41:20 for the rest of the show. Zac talks about the police shameful behaviour at the coronial inquest of a man killed during a police chase.  Fashy Australia: An Australian forensic pathologist gave evidence that "excited delirium" was a factor in an Aboriginal man's death in custody. Noon gives a bit of a history lesson of this incredibly racist, made up disease. For more check out Behind the Bastards: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-excited-delirium-how-cops-81965684/  We're trying to get to 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts! We have 94 so we need.... roughly six more! You can also support us financially at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! 

We're taking a week off so we're playing our very popular bonus episode in which Zac finally talks about veganism at length! The challenge was to talk about it "from a non-entitled wanker point of view" which I think Zac managed to do admirably. This isn't an hour long rant about how meat eating is evil, it's more like an hour long rant about how much Zac loves animals, so regardless of your relationship with veganism there's almost certainly something you can get out of this interesting discussion. And please leave us reviews over on Apple Podcasts! We're nearly at 100 reviews and we only need a couple more! To those who left reviews this week, we'll read 'em out next time but THANK YOU they were unbearably sweet. Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

Hello friends and listeners and welcome back to Auspol Snackpod! There's been a-legislations a-transpirin' in Parliament this week,  plenty of highly visible shenanigans, and as always, crispy memes. We're trying to get to 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts so if you haven't left us one yet please do that! There's a content warning for discussion of sexual harassment in our first story from 14:50 - 19:10. This week on the show we're serving up...  Entree/SPOTW: Guess who's back? Back again? Barnaby Joyce. The answer is Barnaby.  Coronas: Sydney / parts of NSW are in a two week lockdown, and the Nationals have all been infecting one another.  First Nations: Zac runs us through a panel at the Emerging Writers' Festival about prison abolition. You can watch the panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAJsY1vnk8M  Positivity Corner: a shitty fossil fuel Bill got (eventually) voted down because Pauline Hanson vagued out of Parliament  Fashy Australia: The Online Safety Bill has been passed, unfortunately. It's a super dangerous and wide-ranging Bill with no oversight or accountability. You can listen to our episode "086 - Bagelian vs Breadator" for more.  Blurst Take: our incompetent Parliament voted up a motion from Pauline Hanson that "rejects Critical Race Theory" from the national curriculum. What is Critical Race Theory? Why has Pauline chosen this week to bring up this ridiculous motion? Has it ever been taught in Australian schools? These questions and more will be answered.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support Homes not Prisons: https://homesnotprisons.com.au/  Support the show: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod/ 

It's another long episode this week and we're very happy to announce return guest host Holly! I think our first ever return guest? She came to drop some knowledge about pharmacist counselling for people seeking the morning after pill! This week we're serving up: Blurst Take: Michael McCormack wants the mouse plague relocated to inner cities  SPOTW: Julie Bishop Asbestos Lawyer Barbie  First Nations: Murri Courts are extremely effective at ensuring people don't go to jail. Thanks to Peter for sending in this story!  ACAB: We're not talking about Friendlyjordies. We're not talking about Friendlyjordies. We're not talking about Friendlyjordies.  Mains: Holly's story on pharmacists and "counselling".  And you'll just have to wait to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Listen to Every Second Weekend: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/4fu5m-13881b/Every-Second-Weekend-Podcast