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Adam Hurrey is joined on the Adjudication Panel by Charlie Eccleshare, David Walker and Nick Miller. On the agenda: more sub-standard depictions of football fans in advertising, football commentators' names in Anglo-Australian crime dramas, the greatest substitution in the history of the Scottish Cup, the perennial joy of a stadium exclaiming something in perfect unison and a pedantic observation on Phil Foden's goal celebration. Meanwhile, the panel ponder the question: is this the most “what a job [Manager X] is doing” Premier League season of all time? Adam's book, Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom: How to Use (and Abuse) The Language of Football, is OUT NOW: https://geni.us/ExtraTimeBeckons Visit nordvpn.com/cliches to get four extra months on a two-year plan with NordVPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Misha Saul, the host of the Kvetch Substack. Saul is a first-generation Jewish Australian, born in Georgia (former Soviet republic), who grew up in Adelaide and now lives in Sydney. He graduated from the University of Adelaide with degrees in commerce and law. His day job is in finance, but the Kvetch highlights his interests in history and Jewish culture. Razib and Saul discuss extensively the differences and similarities between the US and Australia, and how each relates to other Anglophone nations like Canada, New Zealand and of course the UK. Saul asserts though Australia leans into its frontier reputation, in reality it is much more of a bureaucratic-ruled nation than the US, albeit with more of a Scots-Irish flavor than comparatively middle-class New Zealand. He also contrasts the relatively generous welfare-state of Australia and America's inequality, which he describes by analogy to the film 2013 Elysium, with its contrast between an earth dominated by favelas and a well-manicured low-earth orbit utopia for the super rich. They also discuss the geographical and cultural coherency of a vast nation like Australia, which has a desert at its center. Saul mentions it is often actually cheaper to fly to and vacation in Bali or another Asian locale than going to Perth from Sydney. Despite the reality that Australia has exotic fauna, it is notably an overwhelmingly urban society, where few have any interaction with the “bush.” Though Australians appreciate archetypes like “Crocodile Dundee,” Saul paints a picture of a much more urbane reality. Razib asks about the phenomenon of “white-presenting” Aboriginals, and Saul argues all societies look somewhat crazy from the outside because of their shibboleths, and the debates around Aboriginality are Australia's. As an immigrant and first-generation Australian, Saul also discusses Australia's immigration system, which strictly controls and regulates migration. Saul argues that because of the high educational and skill qualifications most Australian immigrants assimilate well, and he contends that there is a broad consensus to maintain strict limits on inflows. He argues that the Anglo-Australian identity is strong enough that the assimilative process continues to work even with the large number of Asians from China and India, who have triggered nativist worries and political activism.

*) Israel attacks Iran Israel has launched air strikes targeting what it described as "military targets" in Iran, with Iranian state-run media acknowledging the blasts and saying some of the sounds came from air defence systems around the capital Tehran. Fearing Iranian retaliation, the Israeli military said it had "fully mobilised" its offensive and defensive capabilities. Iran said it is prepared to respond to any Israeli aggression and that Tel Aviv will face a proportional reaction for any action it takes. *) Israeli army shoots inside Gaza hospital with 600 people inside Meanwhile, the Health Ministry in Gaza has said the invading Israeli military is searching and opening fire inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza with 600 people inside. The ministry said in a statement that the Israeli military is risking lives of 600 people inside, including 70 medical staff, 195 patients and wounded Palestinians, and their escorts. It also said two children in the hospital's intensive care unit died as the Israeli army disrupted the work inside the hospital. The ministry added that the Israeli army destroyed three ambulances, a transport vehicle and a power-generating system in the hospital. *) UNIFIL withdraws from south Lebanon's Dhayra post after Israeli fire The UN Interim Force in Lebanon has said that its peacekeepers withdrew from an observation post near Dhayra town in south Lebanon after Israeli forces fired at it. The UN mission is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation Blue Line with Israel - an area that has seen fierce clashes. The mission said that when Israeli soldiers conducted house-clearing operations nearby and realised they were being observed, they fired at the post, which prompted the duty guards to withdraw to avoid being shot. *) Putin defends 'sovereign right' to deploy North Korean troops Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended his country's sovereign right to utilise foreign troops in its conflict with Ukraine, responding to mounting Western allegations that North Korean soldiers have already been deployed to support Russian forces on the front lines. Putin also asserted that if Ukraine sought to join NATO, Moscow would take whatever measures it deemed necessary to ensure its own security. Putin said that when Russia has to decide something, it will decide, but it would be a sovereign decision whether to apply its decision or not and that this was their business. *) Brazil settles for $23B with mining firms over 2015 environmental disaster Brazil's federal government has reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the country's worst-ever environmental disaster. Under the agreement, Samarco — a joint venture of Brazilian mining giant Vale and Anglo-Australian firm BHP — will pay $23 billion over 20 years. The payments are meant to compensate for human, environmental and infrastructure damage caused by releasing an immense amount of toxic mining waste.

Space Nuts #461Join Andrew Dunkley and Professor Fred Watson in this engaging episode of Space Nuts, where they explore the latest advancements and historical milestones in space exploration. From the 50th anniversary of the Anglo-Australian Telescope to the groundbreaking Starship 5 test flight, this episode is brimming with fascinating insights and cosmic discoveries.Episode Highlights:- Anglo-Australian Telescope at 50: Celebrate the half-century milestone of the largest optical telescope on Australian soil. Fred Watson Watson shares his personal connection and the telescope's impact on astronomy, from its iconic images to its world-first discoveries.- Starship 5's Spectacular Test Flight: Discover the audacious success of SpaceX's Starship 5, where the booster was caught mid-air by giant clamps. A game-changer in Space flight efficiency and technology.- Deep Space Laser Communication: Explore NASA's successful tests of laser data systems, achieving communication over distances equivalent to Earth-Mars separation. Learn how this technology could revolutionise Space communication.- Europa Clipper's Journey Begins: The mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon is underway. With its massive solar panels and advanced instruments, Europa Clipper promises to uncover the mysteries beneath Europa's surface.For more Space Nuts, including our continually updating newsfeed and to listen to all our episodes, visit our website. Follow us on social media at SpaceNutsPod on Facebook, X, YouTube Music, Instagram, and TikTok. We love engaging with our community, so be sure to drop us a message or comment on your favourite platform.For more Space and Astronomy News Podcasts, visit our HQ at www.bitesz.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/space-nuts/support.Stay curious, keep looking up, and join us next time for more stellar insights and cosmic wonders. Until then, clear skies and happy stargazing.

I'm chatting with remarkable human, Integrative Sexologist, and my dear friend, Vanessa Muradian. Vanessa thinks and feels wide and deep and we cover a bit in this episode, from experiencing grief during the ovulation phase to cultivating intimacy with and without sex, to the most common reasons people come to see Vanessa as a Sexologist, to my perception of Vanessa as someone with big feelings and why that seems ironic to them.Grab a cuppa for this one and enjoy. xxVanessa (she/they) is a sexologist, yoga teacher, speaker, community facilitator and pleasure activist of Armenian and Anglo-Australian descent living, loving and working on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. Their work is grounded in the belief that the pursuit of pleasure is an act of resistance and a liberatory practice.At the heart of Vanessa's work is a question. They ask: how can we more fully access the abundance of pleasure that is possible in our bodies, in our lives? As with any good question, it's not about an answer — but, instead, a commitment to a slow, relational and wildly nonlinear process.Connect with Vanessa @vanessa.muradian.sexologist on Instagramand at miamuse.comLet's Connect!I'd love to hear from you. Please get in touch with any questions, suggestions for future episode topics, and to let me know how you're going applying what I share in the podcast in your own life. Follow me on instagram: @_anniecarterAnd head to my website anniecarter.com.au for some free gifts, and to sign up for emails from me. I'd love your supportPlease help me to continue to grow this podcast. Some small and very helpful things you could do: share an episode with a friend subscribe to the podcast on your favourite player leave a (5 star!) rating and review share a screenshot of an episode (and your reflection) on your socials Thanks so much!

Until the 1970s, most of the world's largest telescopes were in the northern hemisphere. In 1974 the Anglo Australian Telescope was commissioned in northern NSW so that astronomers could explore some of the most exciting regions of the sky, including the centre of our own Milky Way Galaxy and its nearest neighbour galaxies.

Robyn Williams visited the telescope site just prior to its completion in 1974. In 2014 he returned as astronomers celebrated 40 years.

Brian Trenchard Smith talks to Andrew Staton about everything from almost filming Bruce Lee, giving Nicole Kidman her big break in movies and much more. His latest book Adventures In The B Movie Trade is available Buy your copy here on Amazon.com or from your local bookstore or wherever you get your books. In depth interview Brian Trenchard-Smith is the famous and prolific Anglo-Australian film/ television director, producer, and writer, renowned for epic movies on a budget. Quentin Tarantino calls him his “favourite obscure director.” Brian Trenchard Smith talks to Andrew Staton about everything from; Bruce Lee Golden Harvest Hong Kong George Lazenby on fire Jimmy Wang Yu in skydive death dive Sammo Hung Grant Page Nicole Kidman Mitzi Kapture Roger Ward Ayers Rock/ Uluru Dead End Drive-In BMX Bandits Silk Stalkings Sky High song Australian cinema Comedy Action cinema Stunts Fire stunt And much, much more Surprise phone guest appearance from outstanding actress Mitzi Kapture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one is a bit Anglo-Australian in its theme and focuses more on the fortunes of the Australian and English teams in the World Cup, and for that very purpose I have roped in James and Damien to share their views on the teams' progress thus far in the tournament.We also talk about the Angelo Matthews' dismissal, Maxwell's golfing accident, Warner's choice of shaving kit, Afghanistan's performances, Pakistan's chances of making it to the semis, and a re-prediction of the semi finalist spots.

Show Notes and Transcript New York Times bestselling author and award winning journalist Richard Poe always gives great context and depth to news stories so he returns to Hearts of Oak for a leftfield conversation concerning Britain and Africa.  Last year, Italy's Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni suddenly started denouncing French neo-colonialism, blaming them for keeping Africa poor and forcing the inhabitants to flee to Europe.  Richard asks if she is focussing in the right direction, is it not the British who are destabilising Africa through economic levers and intelligence operations?  We have seen African governments falling like dominoes with 7 coups in just three years.  What lies behind these and are they connected or just purely random? Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has written widely on business, science, history and politics. His books include The Shadow Party, co-written with David Horowitz; The Einstein Factor, co-written with Win Wenger; Perfect Fear: Four Tales of Terror; Black Spark, White Fire; the WAVE series of network marketing books; and many more. Richard was formerly editor of David Horowitz's FrontPageMag, contributing editor of NewsMax, senior editor of SUCCESS magazine, reporter for the New York Post, and managing editor of the East Village Eye. Connect with Richard... WEBSITE: https://www.richardpoe.com/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RealRichardPoe?s=20 SUBSTACK: https://richardpoe.substack.com/ BOOKS: https://amzn.eu/d/18lNMtp Interview recorded 8.9.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more...https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share!   Subscribe now Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Richard Poe, who re-joined us. He was last with us when we looked at his book, The Shadow Party, looking at George Soros and his control, power, and influence. And today we look at something completely different, and that is a thread that he put up on Twitter titled, Are the British Destabilizing Africa? And this is from a video that Giorgia Meloni, the Italian PM, put up denouncing French neo-colonialism and I often think well the Brits did good in Africa but maybe the French and the Belgians and the Germans and they were a bit naughty. But Richard brings his deep understanding, his delves deep into this subject and, exposes maybe why that thinking is not necessarily correct, how the British have been closely involved, look an economic side of it but also the intelligence services and how they operate and look in some of the recent coups, maybe what lies behind that a little bit. So much to pack into this huge subject. Richard Poe, it is wonderful to have you back with us again. Thank you so much for joining us again today. (Richard Poe) Thanks, Peter, it's great to be here.  Great, and we're going to go through quite a bit. Just before we jump in, I'll just say to the viewers, that Richard is well worth following because his tweets actually bring something quite different. Bring the historical side to a lot of what happens and I think the conservatives movement can often be guilty of kind of in your face what's happened that morning and by the afternoon it's old news and just for our viewers and listeners I think Richard brings context often to stories that are happening but whenever Richard is last on we look through his book The Shadow Party. How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and the 60s radicals seize control of the Democratic Party. That is in the description for you to go back and have a look at and delve deeper into that topic. But he is a bestseller on many other books but that's what we stuck on and of course former editor of Front Page Magazine and we've had David Horowitz on with us before. But Richard there, people can obviously find you @RealRichardPoe, richardpoe.com, the website, and Richard Poe on Substack. Everything is in there for the viewer and listeners to take advantage of. Richard, one tweet that caught my eye, and we will delve a little bit into that, is on Africa and the Brits. And as much as I like blaming the French for everything as a Brit, that is our national pastime, sometimes the British have been at fault over history for a few things. If it hasn't been the French, it's probably been the Brits or the Belgians maybe. But there was a statement I think by Georgia Meloni, the Premier of Italy, and she had started denouncing French neo-colonialism and you had put up about the British destabilizing Africa. Do you want to maybe just begin with that and set out why we can't point the fingers solely at the French? Right. Well, basically, I knew something about, let's call it the neo-colonial infrastructure of Africa, because I was actually hired by a think tank, oh, more than 10 years ago to do a paper on that subject. And for various reasons, it was never published, but it was extremely eye-opening. What I basically discovered, to my astonishment, was that the EU, and in particular Great Britain, France as well, but really Great Britain more than anyone else, had essentially continued their colonial relationship beyond the date when these various African countries supposedly became independent, that what they actually did, they being the various European colonial powers, is they simply set up alternate structures through various kinds of diplomatic channels and the UN system as it was being set up. So that the UN today. Really is a neo-colonial structure. And that's really what I discovered in this research, which again, never saw the light of day. A topic I may write about someday in my memoirs. But so I had studied this in some detail, these NGOs and international treaties and such that had been set up for the very purpose of making sure that those European countries which had formerly owned colonies in Africa continued to maintain that relationship. So specifically the Anglophone colonies that were English speaking, maintained their relationship with Great Britain. The Francophone colonies maintained their relationship with France and so on. And in the 1957 Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Commission, or community. This relationship was actually formalized, whereas the countries which had been former colonies, and I think the way they put it in the treaty, they didn't call them colonies, but they said countries in Africa having a special relationship to members of the EEC, would have a certain kind of membership in the EEC. I think they were called associated members. And they would have a special diplomatic and economic relationship with the EEC, trade privileges and so forth. So maybe because I researched this so deeply, I don't want to bore your viewers with so many details, but the bottom line is, so in the last few weeks on Twitter, we've suddenly seen an uproar from, especially from certain influencers with these coups that have been happening in Africa. In particular, there have been six coups in three years. In a number of countries, most of which are former French colonies. In fact, all of which are former French colonies except Sudan, and the cry has gone out that at last the freedom-loving people of Africa are getting on their feet and overthrowing the yoke of French colonialism. This map has been getting wide circulation and all this enthusiasm from people on Twitter about overthrowing French colonialism. So I thought this was remarkable for a couple of different reasons. First of all, I thought French colonialism was overthrown a long time ago, or at least that's the official story. I remember as a kid, you know, in the 1960s, that was the big thing. The end of colonialism. It's all over. And, you know, these nationalist leaders in Africa who had become, you know, the first presidents of the newly independent countries. These were big pop culture heroes in the 60s. And so now so many decades later to say, finally at last French colonialism is being overthrown. So on the one hand I thought that was interesting because it broke with the pop culture narrative that we were all brought up with that colonialism ended decades ago. All of a sudden it's here, it's now, and it's being overthrown in the year 2023. But the other thing that caught my attention is that they were specifically referring to French colonialism, when in fact there were several colonial powers, in Africa. There was Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, the list goes on. And in the case of Italy and Germany, their colonies were taken away because of world wars. But still, there were several colonial powers that remained, which still considered themselves officially, quote unquote, responsible for their former colonies, which meant, especially in the case of France, that they would intervene militarily in those countries when they felt there was some need to do so. And the French in particular have done this probably more than any other quote unquote former colonial power, but the British do it too. They just have a more subtle way of doing it. And so this is what I discovered that think tank research had done more than 10 years ago. So that was the second reason that I was, or the third reason that I was surprised by this sudden enthusiasm for throwing off the yoke of French colonialism, because I knew that in fact there was such a thing as French colonialism, and there was in fact such a thing as EU colonialism. The EU itself as a bureaucratic entity has directly involved itself in the management and admin of the African continent. And so I knew all these things, but most people don't. And it just was surprising to me to suddenly see this acknowledgment of that colonial relationship which in the past had been very controversial and hushed up and denied. Can I ask, because I've been reading a book on tax havens and delving into that world, understanding about money flows, and the book basically starts with the French, takes Gabon as an example of how the French set up the president there, and the coup has supposedly removed his son Ali Bongo and they use this as an example of how the French control large parts of Africa and I read that as a Brit thinking you see France have been really bad we're actually Africa should be thanking the Brits for what we've done for education roads and is is that a very simplistic view of Africa.  Well, when you say simplistic you mean the view that Africa was actually better off under colonialism?  Yes, because I know I've seen stuff and I've seen even you retweeted the thought that actually what Africa needs is for those colonial powers to go back and to fix it once again. That obviously would not be a popular view in many parts of Africa with the whole conversation about payments, colonial payments, repatriations, all of that. But my simplistic view is, well, Britain could actually fix that, build a few more roads, a few more hospitals, a few more schools, and life would be good again. Is that view extremely simplistic? Well, I would simply have to confess that I don't know, in answer to that question. The fact is, what I'm learning now, excuse me, the research that I'm doing now about the American Revolution and the economic and financial reasons for, the reasons why our founding fathers wanted independence from England in the first place, I'm really learning a lot about the colonial system and how it works. And you know, there are people in America who say essentially the same thing. We're not quite in as bad of a fix as Africa yet, although we seem to be headed that direction pretty quickly. There are people in America who are monarchists and who are questioning whether we were better off under the British, as strange as that might seem to you. And you're seeing that more and more. I think it's being pushed a little bit on social media in some quarters as a kind of PSYOP, and the fact is, you really have to dig to some extent to try to figure out, you know, why did the founding fathers feel so strongly that they needed to get away from England? And there actually were some really compelling reasons, most of which had to do with an extremely oppressive economic system that was enforced by law, in particular by the so-called Navigation Act, whose effect was basically to keep the colonies by force of law in a situation where we had to produce raw materials, food, crops, tobacco, cotton, things like that, and to sell them very cheaply in England and then to get all of our manufacturers from England, where they were beginning to have their industrial revolution and we had to buy them more expensively. And this is the heart and soul of the colonial relationship. The colony produces raw materials and food and sells them to the, very cheaply. The mother country then sells us, the colony, everything that we need in terms of manufactured goods, but they sell them quite expensively. And so there is a permanently enforced balance of trade, which is wildly disadvantageous to the colonized state. And this system is enforced by local corruption, because in order to make such a system work, you have to get local people to support the colonial relationship, and you make them very, very rich, but at the expense of the majority of people. And the best illustration for that in the United States is the pre-Civil War South, the Antebellum South, where you had a cotton-producing economy, which was almost entirely run for Britain. Almost all the cotton was sold, I think more than 80 percent, was sold to Great Britain, which was, of course, at that time the leading producer of cotton textiles in the world. And so some people, like our little Harris family in Gone with the Wind, got very, very rich selling cotton to England. But the way they did it was by enslaving people and making them work for free as slaves. And it was argued at the time of the American Civil War and in the years leading up to it that this colonial system, that essentially the American South had been recolonized by England and that slavery was the result of that. This was argued by certain economists at the time who were sympathetic to the Northern position. They were saying that the institution of slavery in the South was a direct result of the elite southern planters whose livelihood depended on Great Britain, on trading with them. Always having to try to please their British buyers by keeping the price low because the British did have other places where they could go. They were constantly trying to develop other sources of high-quality cotton in Brazil, in India, in Egypt, in other places. And so the southern planters who were what modern scholars would call a colonial elite, they were a small portion of the population who enforced essentially a British colonial system because it made them rich personally, but it was at the cost of everyone else, where the black slaves and the poor whites as well, essentially there wasn't much left for them at the end. And they weren't allowed to develop an industrial economy because that's not what the British wanted. They wanted the South to remain an agrarian society that devoted itself to selling cotton. So this situation actually led directly to the American Civil War, which was the most terrible episode in our history. And I wrote an article about this called How the British caused the American Civil War. What happened is the North started to, trying to impose tariffs on overseas trade for the specific purpose of discouraging the southern planters from selling to England and the British did what they do when their colonial interests are threatened. They sent in their secret agents and their provocateurs and one in particular named Thomas Cooper, who was a British, apparently, intelligence agent. He had first gotten his start going to France and helping to stir up the French Revolution. Then he moved to South Carolina. He became a very prominent, respected person. He was a judge. And in 1828, he delivered a speech calling for secession of the South. And this speech is widely recognized by historians as having been the beginning of the Southern secession movement. So because of that and various other manoeuvres, including material assistance, which Great Britain gave to the South during the Civil War. It is very clear and in fact undeniable, although it's been scrubbed pretty much from our history books. It is undeniable that Great Britain caused and instigated the American Civil War and did everything in their power to help the South win. And you can see British newspapers and political speeches by British statesmen. There was no question that they were on the side of the South and they wanted the South to win and they tried very hard to intervene, including having the French put a very large army into Mexico, putting a lot of British troops into Canada. So, what I'm saying by this, Peter, is that when you look behind the scenes, when you look at the surface, you might think that colonialism, or British colonialism, is seemingly benign, and that it actually helps people who are in a lower phase of development to develop infrastructure and trade and education and health and all these things, that it brings in money, it brings in expertise, and all of that. But when you look a a little deeper, you realize that the intention of the colonializers or the colonizers, whatever. Is not fundamentally a good intention. That what they want is to set up economic relationships that are actually disadvantageous to the colonized country in the long run. And to maintain those relationships, even if it means tearing apart a country in civil war, and in our case a country of people of European and British and Irish stock, especially at that time. It wasn't even a matter of race, you know. It's just when those economic interests are threatened, the colonizing power becomes very ruthless and the colonial elites become loyal to a foreign country instead of to their own country, which is what happened in our South. So, on the one hand, yes, I would agree that this question of were certain parts of the world under colonialism, I don't want to answer with a knee-jerk response to say, oh, out with the colonizers, it's racist, it's sexist, it's homophobic, it's whatever. Yeah, I just threw in homophobic just for the heck of it. Actually, I don't even say that. But I mean, what I'm saying is I hear what you're saying, I hear your question and I absolutely don't go with the knee jerk. Woke or politically correct, autumn idea that colonialism was totally bad. I don't go with it. I think it's a complicated question. But I also think that my research into the colonial past of my own country, the United States shows that our relationship with England was in fact terribly damaging to our country. Even though there were good aspects to it as well, because our own industrialization of the building of the Great American Railroads, all of that was funded by British capital. So it's two sides of the same coin. But if you have a foreign country meddling in your affairs and doing things like causing secessions and civil wars, that's a very serious matter. So what would, what would Africa really be like? The narrative now is, well, look, it's in a hopeless condition. The dictators, genocides, wars, constant military coups, and so forth. And if the colonizing powers came back, maybe everything would be better and nicer. But it's not always in the interests of the colonizing powers to make everything nicer and better. And I guess that's what I'm saying. And I also would raise the question as to what extent, these troubles that we're having today are actually caused by covert interference, by the West and by the former colonial powers. And, I think in this case that we're talking about now with these former French colonies, there's some kind of psy-op going on where, for reasons, let's say reasons unknown. Whoever controls the political discourse on Twitter is pretending to be all excited about these military coups and pretending that it all has to do with some mass movement from the ground level of people who want to throw off the yoke of French colonialism. But the fact is, first of all, these countries, most of them have had many, many coups. It's not at all unusual. They're showing this map, they're saying, oh my gosh, six coups in three years. That's actually not so unusual, for those countries or others in Africa. And the other thing that's kind of weird about it is, are these really French colonies or former French colonies, or are they just nominally French colonies and actually some other countries among whom is Great Britain are actually calling the shots there. And so it gets into this, and so I guess on one level I'm saying yes it is it is simplistic if we assume that whatever the news tells us is correct that once upon a time there was colonial Africa then the colonial powers all left for some unstated reason, which is never really adequately explained. And then supposedly these African countries were on their own and then supposedly all hell broke loose and they all started killing and massacring each other. I think it probably is a little naïve to accept that narrative at face value. I am not at all convinced that that's exactly what happened. And what instead appears to have happened is that the old colonial system was replaced by a new colonial system, basically run by the United Nations system, and that these disorders were allowed to go on. And in fact, in some cases, encouraged to go on for all kinds of reasons. I'll give you one example.  Yeah, give me an example and then I'll bring up another piece you had up, so go with your example. One famous example, of course, was the Rwandan genocide in 1994, where now Rwanda was a French colony and, in fact, while the genocide was happening, there were French troops there who were supposedly trying to stop it, and they were very sharply criticized for being strangely ineffective in not being able to stop it, especially since they were modern troops with modern weaponry and these people who were committing the genocide were supposedly armed with only machetes. So there were questions about the French handling of it. But even beyond that, the result of this genocide was that Rwanda, was subsequently taken into the British Commonwealth. Whereas before it had been in the French sphere of influence. And the normal traditional rule of the Commonwealth is that countries who are admitted to it are supposed to be former British colonies, but Rwanda wasn't. It was taken as a special case because the French had supposedly done such a terrible job of not protecting their people that it passed into the proprietorship of Great Britain. And so, I'm not the only person who has to raise an eyebrow and ask the question, qui bono? I mean, if Rwanda passed from French control to British control, and if the pretext for that passage, was the Rwanda genocide, would it be out of line to ask, what caused the genocide in the first place? And to what extent was it possibly even instigated by some foreign power, as was the American Civil War, as we're now learning more than 150 years after the fact. So that's one example. I could give others, but you said you had a point you wanted to make. Well, because you obviously, in a lot of the information you put out, you're talking about the intelligence services of the West and how they work behind the scenes. But then also there's the economic side. And this was, this is kind of the article I was touching on, let me bring up, this was a Daily Mail article, Recolonize Africa. And you said that it seems to be saying, and this is an old article, 2005, but it gives historical context once again, says it appears to say that Africa's become so violent and lawless that most African countries will welcome, kind of the West, colonial powers coming back in again. But then you mentioned the kind of colonial economic side, I think, when you look at the EU and how the EU keeps a lot of the countries poor through their tax and tariff systems is, yeah. I'm wondering where does, again, the fault lies at the economic side? Is it still the intelligence services working very much within those countries? Is it a mixture of those two? Yeah, what are your thoughts on that?  Well, I would go so far as to say that I don't believe that the colonial powers of Europe specifically, ever let go of their colonies, especially France and Britain. I think they simply found a different way to administer them and actually a cheaper and more efficient way where they didn't have to physically occupy these countries anymore and they didn't have to be held responsible for things like mass murders and genocides and coups and so forth, that they could have a more rough and ready kind of environment and they didn't have to worry about looking good in the face of world opinion. So in some ways it's actually a better situation for them than the situation they had before where they really had to make everything look good because their flag was flying over these various countries and if they committed terrible atrocities or allowed atrocities to be committed there would be consequences. Other European countries would criticize them and would take advantage. And we see that, for example, in the ruckus that the British propagandists made at the turn of the century over the Belgian Congo, where terrible atrocities were committed by King Leopold II in the push to harvest rubber, and he basically enslaved the whole people of the Congo and subjected them to terrible, inhumane practices. And the British, for their own reasons, made a huge, big deal about that. This was back in the turn of the century, of the 20th century, in the 1900s. And they made a huge ruckus about it and said, oh, how terrible, look how badly he's treating these people. The part of that story you never hear about is that the British themselves, British interests were heavily involved in the rubber trade in the Belgian Congo and were taking part in all of it. That part is never mentioned. Likewise, there was a similar ruckus in Peru, again over rubber harvesting. Now Peru was officially never anyone's colony since its independence from Spain, but in fact a lot of people don't know that the British basically exercised an informal control of Peru and some say that they still do to this day. And there was another big public relations ruckus over cruelties related to the rubber trade in Peru, which again British missionaries and human rights activists were leading. And it was somehow effectively concealed that the British themselves were deeply involved in committing these atrocities. So it's really a world of smoke and mirrors, where propaganda and psychological operations have really been part of the whole toolkit of colonialism really since the very beginning, and I believe that the reason the British became the greatest and most successful colonizers in the world is specifically because they are the best propagandists and the best at psychological operations. They basically invented modern psyops, and they're the very best in that field to this day, and that's really what it's all about. It's all about how to do things in foreign countries without seeming to be doing them, or to blame other people for doing them, such as blaming King Leopold II of Belgium for all these atrocities, and he certainly was guilty of them, but leaving out the part that British financial interests were in there very heavily, helping him to commit them. So this continues to go on today, where we have now a very fluid situation, a neo-colonial situation, as the left, as the Marxists named it decades ago, where the colonial colonizing countries are still there, and they're still probably just as much in control as ever were, but no longer held responsible to keep order in the same way they used to be. So it's really kind of a better situation for them. They can get away with a lot more. Now in these, the interesting thing in that article by Andrew Roberts, the British historian, he wrote that article in 2005. A lot of people in our, as you pointed out, in our social media culture think 2005 was, you know, like the last millennium or something. But actually, it's very important to understand what was happening then because, what actually happened is that the EU was in the process then of setting up an elaborate neo-colonial structure which basically controls Africa to this day. And now I mentioned that in the original treaty of Rome setting up the EEC back in 1957, they already had a formal relationship with past and present colonies in Africa which they recognized in that treaty. They call it a special relationship. And in the 1990s, some strange things started to happen. Which is that as the EU became activated and the Maastricht Treaty and the Eurozone, and it started becoming a reality, this thing that people have been talking about since the 1890s and before, It started becoming a reality in the 90s and immediately the cry went up to form an African union. And there was a strategy developed called the Joint EU Africa Strategy. And the motto of this EU Africa group was one Europe, one Africa. And what they wanted was a United Europe dealing one-on-one with the United Africa. So they wouldn't, that is so the European countries would not have to negotiate separately with each little country in Africa. They would have one authority controlling the entire continent with whom they could make their deals and their treaties, whatever those were. So interestingly, Muammar Gaddafi, the late dictator or president of Libya. He came out in, I forget what year it was. It could have been, it was around 19, in the late 1990s, I think. He made a very controversial speech in Libya where he said that the Arab Maghreb Union was a farce. That now the Maghreb is basically all of North Africa except Egypt. And in 1989, I think they had come together to form a regional economic structure called the Arab Maghreb Union. And Gaddafi had been one of the leading people pushing that. It was actually his brainchild, supposedly. But then, I think it was 15 years later, he gave this speech saying, let me tell you the truth. The reason we formed this Maghreb Union was because the EU forced us to do it. They said, we're not going to do business with you anymore because it's too burdensome dealing with each country unless you, unless all the Maghreb countries of North Africa come together in a union, we're not going to even talk to you. So on that basis, Gaddafi got up in circa 1989, and using the language of third world-ism and the non-aligned movement and Arab nationalism. Said that what we need to do is form this union so we can all be strong, all us Arab-speaking countries in Africa together. But then 15 years later, he openly and publicly confessed actually the EU is the one who wanted us to get together, had nothing to do with Arab nationalism, and they basically forced us to do it. And so then he said, let's dissolve this union, let's get out of it. Oh, it was in 2003, I just remembered. It was in 2003, so this was post 9-1-1, it was after Afghanistan and Iraq had been invaded, so things weren't looking too good for Arab nationalism at that moment. And so Gaddafi, getting with the spirit of the time, said the Arabs are finished, they're a laughingstock, and we want nothing to do with Arabs anymore, even though we're Arab speaking. We are now African. And then he came up with a new idea. Let's have an African union, he said. Now, actually, he had already proposed the African Union. It came into being in the year 2000, and supposedly Gaddafi was the one who thought of it and was the founding father of this African Union. But, you know, in 2003, he confessed that the last time he pulled that manoeuvre with the Arab Maghreb Union, it was the EU forcing him to do it. Should we imagine that on the second go-round with the African, that he suddenly became the third world Nationalist that he always claimed to be or was he simply like Scarlett O'Hara and all those southern planters in the United States in the antebellum South, was he simply, lining his own pockets by doing business with the colonizers and going where he thought the power was. Well, it looks like the latter. And that's how colonial elites work. You know, people are not that idealistic, unfortunately. I wish they were, but let's face it, they're not. You know, people will go where the money is, and that's just how it is. And so they formed this African Union to the cries from the EU of one Europe, one Africa, And they started signing all kinds of treaties and putting forth all kinds of policies that were completely mysterious and unknown to the African people who have enough of a struggle trying to get democratic government as it is. But now all of a sudden, whatever democratic structures had been set up at a national level in the individual countries had suddenly become obsolete because now the EU was talking directly to these officials in charge of this thing called the African Union. And the African Union was empowered to make treaties that could be enforced on all African countries. Imagine that. So, now that we've had the African Union since the year 2000. And one of its rules, supposedly, is that you're supposed to have free elections which are monitored by international authorities and absolutely no military coups. Military coups are strictly not allowed. And yet, since then, we've had the Arab Spring. These colour revolutions and civil wars in the Western powers, and now we're having these, continuing to have these coups, which everybody is cheering about on Twitter. All of this is supposedly, supposed to be impossible and illegal under the African Union and should trigger military interventions by the African Union. I think they call it the African Union Peace and Security, something or other, which basically mobilizes peacekeeping troops and also arranges to have European troops to come in, in order to fix problems, whatever they are. And so the mechanism actually exists in Africa probably better than anywhere else in the world where you have a transnational authority, the African Union, which actually has the real power and the real willingness to bring in heavy military force whenever they like, to stop things like military coups from happening, and yet they're still happening. Why is that? Why is that? I'll pick up on one thing as we finish. Realizing the Gaddafi started African Union changes my whole concept of it. That blows me away. But the fact that when you look at the EU, the EU, European Union, has been hugely successful at control within Europe economically. There are lots of questions that the EU has never been able to rise above and be a economic bloc, I guess, to rival the US, which was always the dream, probably, of the EU and the European Economic Community before that. But it's full control of EU members and if the EU can punish and has done with those in Eastern Europe for many violations on tax, on faith, on immigration. But the African Union, you don't hear of it as having that much say or power. It hasn't brought together those countries. Can we just finish just maybe touching on that, that kind of comparison between one bloc in Europe that has worked certainly for control, the African Union, is that by design or are there other reasons behind that? Well, I think it's by design that the African Union is weak. Is that what you're saying? That it really doesn't exercise the authority it's supposed to. I think it's by design. I think it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is to create a central authority for European powers, especially Great Britain, which really masterminded the whole thing, in my opinion. And if you, I would just like to leave your audience with one point, which, is that article you showed by Andrew Roberts, where he said it's time to to recolonize Africa. That was in 2005. That was right after Tony Blair had done his African, Africa commission and they had mapped out this whole plan for basically re-colonizing Africa through the African Union and through other regional structures. Now in that article, Andrews actually says, he actually states that the French and the Germans will not be allowed to re-colonize Africa, that only English speaking countries. He actually says the United States and Great Britain, and with the support of New Zealand, Canada, and Australia, will be the ones to make this happen. The French, because of their cruelty in the past and their mishandling of all kinds of colonial situations, will not be allowed to have anything to do with it, nor will the Germans, because look what they did when they were colonialists back before World War I. You think 2005 was a long, long time ago, but he, Roberts actually evoked what the Germans did before World War I as a reason why they will not be allowed to take part in this great project of colonizing Africa. So now all of a sudden we're getting all this propaganda from Giorgia Meloni of Italy and from big influencers like Ian Miles Cheong. I don't mean to single him out, but he wrote this extraordinary tweet saying, yes, the people of West Africa are rising up against French colonialism. We're going towards a multipolar world. Hooray. Some words to that effect. He linked it to the whole idea of multi-polarism. And what is that all about? That's about overthrowing the global hegemon, the USA, which is supposedly the cause of all evil in the world. Overthrowing the USA, stripping us of our power, so then power can be decentralized among various countries. And so certain influencers such as Ian Miles Cheong is out there celebrating and saying, yes, out with the French, out with the French. Is it just a coincidence that Andrew Roberts, when he first publicized this recolonization plan, he expressly said the French are out. We will not allow the French to take part in this now, all of a sudden, so many years later we're hearing that cry again that the French are out. And some of these French countries, French colonies, so-called, one of them Guinea, maybe on another, we don't have time to talk about it now, but I have massive evidence that the British are really effectively in control in that country, Guinea, and running things in an extraordinary way, quite openly, including Rio Tinto, the mining company, the Anglo-Australian mining company, and Guinea has more than one half of the world's bauxite deposits, aluminium ore. And Rio Tinto has been trying to get in control of that, working with the Chinese. And it's interesting that, you know, the cry goes out, you know, from all the usual sources, the US State Department and what have you, oh the Chinese are taking over in Africa, that's one of the reasons why we have to go back in there and otherwise the Chinese are going to take over everything. But I notice whenever the British get involved with something, they somehow bring the Chinese with them. I'm not sure why they do that, but it's a little strange, what can I say? Well, we'll leave it on a cliff-hanger, that, about the British involvement there, and we'll pick up on that. Richard, I really do appreciate coming on. As I said at the beginning, I love reading your tweets and how you expand on so much. So thank you for joining us today and going through that Africa tweet, which is one of your latest ones. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Peter. Always a pleasure.

Simon Constam is a Toronto poet and aphorist. His first book of poetry, BROUGHT DOWN, was published in January 2022, by Wipf and Stock Publishers.  Its early reviews have been exceptional! Kevin John Hart, Anglo-Australian theologian, philosopher, and poet, “Some of the poems remind me, in the best way, of poems by Yehuda Amichai and Nelly Sachs. . . . From time to time, I also was reminded of some of the later poems of R. S. Thomas.”  He has published poetry in a number of magazines, among them The Jewish Literary Journal, long con magazine, the Dark Poets Club, and Poetica Magazine. Since late 2018, he has been publishing, under the moniker Daily Ferocity, an original aphorism every day on Instagram and for an email subscriber base. In early 2023, Simon's first two books of aphorisms, The Love Aphorisms and The Book of Dark Ideas, will be published.   See Simon at simonconstam.com Brought Down: Constam, Simon: 9781666790115: Amazon.com: Books

It was a great start. Over the summer of 1932 and 1933, the brand new Australian Broadcasting Commission presented its first live, national sports broadcast.It was Test cricket, played by Australia and England—the Ashes. It also just happened to be the infamous 'Bodyline' series, designed to limit runs by the brilliant young Don Bradman.Bodyline caused a great deal of ill-feeling between Australia and England, in a climate of broader tension in Anglo-Australian relations.But to what extent was the drama and controversy of these matches heightened because they were broadcast by the ABC, and for the first time could be followed live by large numbers of people all over the country?

Andy and James are back with some good old fashioned Anglo-Australian-'merican Porsche banter. In this episode we're talking about James' recent tour of the Smoky Mountains with his group of friends who all slayed the world famous Tail of the Dragon on US highway 129. We're talking about how to destroy hours of paint correction work like a pro, how to make a 911 Turbo sound just as good as a naturally aspirated 911, the recent incredible Luft 8 Porsche event and much much more. 

A dam in the Brazilian city of Mariana collapsed in 2015, submerging dozens of homes in toxic waste, killing 19 people and displacing hundreds. Now a court in the U.K. has agreed to hear a $6bn-dollar lawsuit against the Anglo-Australian mining company BHP — which co-managed the dam. We hear from Jonathan Knowles, one of the plaintiffs in the case; Tom Goodhead, a lawyer with P.G.M.B.M., the British law firm behind the lawsuit; and Catherine Coumans, research coordinator and Asia-Pacific program coordinator for MiningWatch Canada.

Aussie historian, author & entertainer Jim Haynes joins Overnight each week for his unique knowledge of the not-so-famous characters from Australia's history. This week Jim shines the spotlight on John Whitton - the Father of New South Wales Railways. John Whitton (1820 – 20 February 1898), was an Anglo–Australian railway engineer and the Engineer-in-Charge for the New South Wales Government Railways.  Serving between 1856 and 1890, he is considered the Father of New South Wales Railways. Under his supervision, it is estimated that 3,494 km of railway around New South Wales and Victoria were completed. Whitton was responsible for the construction of parts of the Main Western railway line, in particular the section over the Blue Mountains and the Lithgow Zig Zag, and much of the Main Southern railway line. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charging up the show this week... Anna welcomes the sensational Khadija Gbla on to the show, to discuss her experience as a victim of and her activism for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Listen in as Khadija explains how this terrible form of child abuse and gender-based violence is actually taking place on Australian shores. Khadija explains her own journey towards pleasure as a woman who had had her clitoris cut from her as an innocent nine year old girl, and comments on society's default position, not only on race, religion and gender, but also on clitoric-centric assumptions. Listen in to her comments after Anna sent her a clitoral air-pulsing vibrator and question your own able-bodied assumptions about sex. Hear what she has to say about Labioplasty in Australia - not just for consenting women, but also for unconsenting children. Be confronted by the truths she conveys over White Saviourism and why she wants to move away from the stereotypical view of FGM victims as being non-white, non-Christian, non-Anglo Australian. Mentioned in the podcast: Desert Flower Australia Comfortable In My Skin IG Gender Sterotyping with Because Why Khadija Gbla now advocates for change in these areas through her work as Director for Ending Female Genital Mutilation Australia with Plan International and teaches workshops and seminars for professionals in order to educate them on prevention, care and treatment of FGM. Be brave and listen to the episode and reach out to Khadija for training requests or advice. You may safe a little girl from a lifetime of shame and health complications... Stay charged. Follow Khadija Gbla: Web khadijagbla.com.au Ted Talk Born a girl in the wrong place IG @khadijaGbla FB @KhadijaGbla Connect with happymash: IG @happymash_ fb @happymashwomen Blog A Woman Charged Web happymash.com.au --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awomancharged/message

We're back with another business-focused episode of Carbon Removal Newsroom, hosted by Radhika Moolgavkar, Nori's Head of Supply and Methodology, along with Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo (P.S.— look out for Holly's new book, Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net-Zero Is Not Enough, coming out on November 16th!). Plus, we're joined by our co-host for business-focused episodes: Susan Su, partner focused on climate investing at Toba Capital and course creator for Climate Change for VCs, a course and community through terra.do. This week, we are taking a look at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), the summit in Glasgow which begins Sunday, October 31st and lasts for two weeks. Specifically, we dive into the UK's announcement calling for a global net-zero commitment by 2050, and what the implications of this goal might be for the carbon removal industry. Next, we discuss some of the VC funding that happened in October, particularly for CarbonCapture, a modular DAC company, that landed a huge round. Plus, Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto recently announced a plan to invest $7.5b by 2030 into decarbonizing their business. Does their foray into Direct Air Capture signal a trend that big emitters are ready to invest into this technology at the scale necessary to really bring down costs per ton? Or are they looking for a way to avoid emissions cuts? Or both? We finish the episode with two good news stories from Susan: the first is that electric car sales more than doubled year-over-year in August to over 516,400! Second is that turtle populations in Cape Verde rose from around ten thousand in 2015, to almost 200,000 this year after successful conservation efforts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carbonremovalnewsroom/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carbonremovalnewsroom/support

" A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." - Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese Philosopher In this episode, it's all about leaders - from humble to arrogant, from dictatorial to democratic and from the eccentric to home grown simple as FACT OF THE MATTER, lays out a feast of anecdotes about a few such incredible luminaries who stood above their fellow brethren and stood well!!. In Main Course, listen to Joy draw out a fine link between a Indian god and a US Confederate general and then swiftly changes gears to talk about iconic cricket captains like Tiger Pataudi !! Rathin talks of the legendary Carthaginian general Hannibal and how Englishman and cricket captain Douglas Jardine almost created a diplomatic rift in Anglo-Australian relations between the two great wars in the 20th century !! In Believe It or Not, the cat is out of the bag as Joy and Rathin reveal some bizarre and eccentric traits of a few political giants!! Plus all the regular sections like Cute Words and Phrases, Bare Naked Lies and audience questions!! It may be difficult to convince everyone about your own leadership ability - but it is far easier to catch a few juicy anecdotes instead!! So fasten your seat belts and get on this crazy ride!! We love to hear from you!! So write to us at factofthematterindia@gmail.com. Rate us and berate us!! Follow us on Twitter - @joybhattacharj and @rathindrabasu. Find us on all leading podcast platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. Visit our website - https://anchor.fm/factofthematter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/factofthematter/message

Anglo Australian Resources: Spectacular gold intersections near Kalgoorlie Listen to ASX-listed Anglo Australian Resources Managing Director Marc Ducler talk to Matt Birney on the Bulls N' Bears Report about the company's recent 60m plus gold intersections that look like they will grow Anglo's half million-ounce resource. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

George Kefford is a young Anglo-Australian explorer and writer specialising in human-powered journeys: often by foot; sometimes by kayak. At the age of 17, he walked the Holy Lands, alone, across Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. On the Podcast, we talk about this expedition and how he has recently returned from Morocco. After studying Arabic in Rabat, he walked the 250km length of the Souss River from its source in the High Atlas Mountains to its mouth near Agadir.Enjoyed the Show? Tag me @johnhorsfall on InstagramJoin the Adventure - https://mailchi.mp/44c55725379d/newsletter-page-ziba-adventuresSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-modern-adventurer/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Meet Solange Semedo, a highly successful solicitor and Founder of the Sagarity Group. We take a trip down memory lane where Solange shares how from age 9, she already knew that she wanted to go to university and achieve corporate success. We unpack the challenges she faced in her career where she was often underestimated as a woman of colour in an industry dominated by white males. A powerful story from an amazing woman and I know you'll be hugely inspired.  Ps. here's a link if you're interested in growing your speaking business in 2021:https://speaking.born2win.meAbout Your Guest Solange Semedo is the Founder of Sagarity Group, who are providers of management consultancy and diversity and inclusion services for UK organisations. Prior to that she worked as a commercial solicitor for over 10+ years' specialising in white collar crime, competition law investigations and compliance. Solange's incredible career trajectory has seen her rise to the top of her profession and her most recent role was CEO of Anglo-Australian company ETZ Global.Connect with Solange Website - Sagarity GroupLinkedIn - Solange SemedoAbout this podcastGrowing up I used to believe that my story would always hold me back.⁣ But over time I've come to realise that even when your story feels like a burden it can turn out to be a blessing for someone else.⁣ ⁣It doesn't matter where you come from or where you find yourself today - we all have a story!⁣ My goal with this Podcast is to help you OWN YOUR STORY and find your voice so you can live a life of impact, influence and inspiration.⁣ I'm Winston Ben Clements and this is Born 2 Win!About your hostWinston Ben Clements is a TED Speaker, Entrepreneur and mentor. He has shared his story on stages, conferences and media platforms all around the world. He is passionate about creating a world that is truly inclusive for all. Winston's ultimate mission is to inspire 1 BILLION people to unleash their full human potential.Connect with WinstonTwitterLinkedInFacebookInstagramYouTubeWebsite

Rio Tinto to pay record $6.5B dividend as profit soars Rio Tinto has rewarded investors with the biggest dividend in its history after higher iron ore prices boosted its full-year earnings. The Anglo-Australian miner will pay a final dividend of 6-and- a-half billion dollars to shareholders, taking its total payout for the year to 9-billion dollars. Net profit jumped 22-percent last year to 9-point-8 billion dollars. EU court rejects Ryanair challenge against airline aid Ryanair has lost its legal fight against bailouts that were granted to rivals Air France and Sweden's SAS through national schemes. The EU's general court said those funds didn’t break state aid rules because they were designed to help the carriers through the pandemic. The Irish budget-carrier says it will appeal the ruling to the bloc's top court. Jeff Bezos reclaims title as world's richest person Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has overtaken Elon Musk to reclaim his title as the world's richest person with a net worth of around 191-billion dollars. That comes after Tesla shares fell 2-and- a-half percent, slashing its chief executive's net worth by 4-point-6 billion dollars. Last month, Musk had surged to the top spot on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking

Bitcoin briefly tops $50,000 for the first time Bitcoin has briefly crossed the 50-thousand dollar mark for the first time, as the world's most popular cryptocurrency extends its rally. The digital token climbed as much as 4 -percent to hit 50,400 dollars on Tuesday, before retreating to 49,500. Bitcoin was up around 25 percent last week, driven by endorsements from Tesla and the investment bank, BNY Mellon Singapore unveils $8.3B pandemic relief package Singapore has announced further support for households and businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat has unveiled a new fiscal package worth 8-point-3 billion dollars in his annual budget speech. Last year, the Asian city-state committed nearly 70-billion- dollars - or around 20 percent of its GDP - to cushion citizens from the pandemic's economic impact. Mining giant BHP sees profit jump, declares record dividend The world's biggest miner BHP has reported its best first-half profit in seven years thanks to higher iron ore prices. Underlying profit for the six months to the end of December jumped 15-percent from the same period last year to over 6-billion- dollars. The Anglo- Australian company has also announced a record 5-point-1 billion dollar interim dividend.

Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets. Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as his “ favorite obscure director.”. His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood, an award-winning documentary released by Magnolia in August 2009.Born in England, where his Australian father was in the RAF, Trenchard-Smith attended UK's prestigious Wellington College, where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films, before migrating to Australia.

Today's guest is Mark Frayman, Head of BHP Ventures at BHP.BHP is an Anglo-Australian mining company that is based in Melbourne. One of the biggest mining companies in the world, they extract oil & gas and process minerals, such as coal, copper, and iron. Mark is part of the new Venture Investments group which is the trading arm of BHP.As the world hurtles towards the Paris Accord goals, mining companies are facing massive challenges, yet at the same time, are an essential part of the clean energy transition. It is fascinating to hear from Mark about how BHP is thinking about the next era of mining, what changes they believe need to be made in the industry as a whole, what steps they are taking as a company, and their progress to date. And, of course, where the new Venture Investments group fits in, and how they are thinking about external innovation! Enjoy the show!You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded December 8th, 2020If you want to learn more about this episode, visit www.myclimatejourney.co/episodes/mark-frayman

Today we celebrate the man known as the “Pansy King.” We'll also learn about the Anglo-Australian botanist who first described much of the Eucalyptus genus. We remember the American botanist who had a favorite plant he liked to use in the study of heredity - and it wasn't peas. We salute one of America’s most popular naturalists. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one of my favorite gardeners, and ironically, she went by the name Bunny. And then we’ll wrap things up with the woman who introduced the Dahlia to England.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. 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But if I don't succeed, never mind — I've still got the dream. — Ruskin Bond, Indian writer, children's author, and novelist, Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events November 16, 1964    Today is the anniversary of the death of the Swiss-born naturalist, florist, and plant breeder Denys Zirngiebel. After marrying his wife Henrietta, the Denys immigrated to America. Once he established a home in Needham, Massachusetts, Denys sent for his wife and little boy. Denys and Henrietta had four children. Their only daughter (also named Henriette) married Andrew Newell Wyeth, and their son was NC Wyeth, the Realistic Painter. During the 1860s, Denys worked for the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. After purchasing a 35-acre tract of land along the Charles River in Needham, Denys started his floral business. An excellent businessman, Denys expertly marketed his inventory. Each week, Denys shipped flowers to both the White House and the State Department. In a nod to his Swiss heritage, Denys was the first person in America to cultivate the Giant Swiss Pansy successfully. Denys’s Needham nursery grew so many Giant Swiss Pansies that the town adopted the flower as their floral emblem, and Denys became known as the “Pansy King.”   November 16, 1925 Today is the anniversary of the death of the botanist Joseph Henry Maiden. Born in London, Joseph immigrated to New South Wales, Australia, hoping that the climate would improve his health. Joseph quickly landed a job as a museum curator in Sydney, and he also married a local woman named Eliza Jane Hammond. During his time in Australia, Joseph made a significant contribution to understanding Australian flora, especially the Eucalyptus genus.  After thoroughly studying Australian woods and essential oils, Joseph wrote his book called The Useful Native Plants of Australia. In 1896, Joseph was appointed the Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens. In total, Joseph served as a botanist in Australia for 43 years. As for his Australian legacy, Joseph is remembered every September 1st, which is the first day of spring, also known as Wattle Day or Acacia Day. In Australia, the Wattle is a common name for Acacia. After appreciating their beauty and value, Joseph established the Wattle Day League, which fought to make the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha "ah-KAY-see-ah pik-NANTH-ah") Australia’s national floral emblem, and he also worked to establish Wattle Day. Since the inception of Wattle Day in 1909, Australians have worn a Wattle blossom, which looks like a little yellow pompom in honor of the day. The Wattle blossom is also a favorite with pollinators. As plants, Wattles are tough evergreen shrubs and trees that can withstand Australia's droughts, winds, and bushfires. There are 760 Wattle species native to Australia’s forest understory, woodlands, and open scrub. The common name Wattle refers to an old germanic term for weaving and the English craft of building with interwoven flexible twigs and branches. As the English settled in Australia, they often harvested Wattle (Acacia) and used it in their building construction. And here’s a fun fact about Wattles (Acacia): Giraffes love to eat them.   November 16, 1954 Today is the anniversary of the death of the prominent American botanist and geneticist Albert Francis Blakeslee. For his doctoral dissertation, Albert revealed incredible new facts about bread molds: bread molds can be male or female, and bread molds have sex. In 1937, Albert proved that colchicine caused chromosomes to double in plant cells, causing an outcome known as polyploidy. For plant breeders, polyploidy results in increased plant vigor and overall superiority. In addition to his work with fungi and colchicine, Albert studied the genetics of weeds. Albert was especially fond of the very poisonous and rank-smelling Jimsonweed plant or Datura stramonium (“duh-too-ruh stra-MO-nee-um"). One of Albert’s friends once remarked that Albert had two great loves — his wife Margaret and Datura, and in that order. Datura is commonly called the thorn apple or the devil’s apples, which gives a clue to Datura as a nightshade plant since nightshades were historically thought to be evil. The American lyrical poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay threw some shade at Datura in her poem “In the Grave No Flowers," writing: Here the rank-smelling Thorn-apple,—and who Would plant this by his dwelling?  Well, Edna’s verse upset Albert, and he sent her a letter: "I thought I would write to you, and … answer... your question by saying that I would plant this by my dwelling and have done so for the last thirty years rather extensively. It turns out that this plant (Datura stramonium) is perhaps the very best plant with which to discover principles of heredity." A highly invasive plant, the Algonquin Indians and other ancient peoples regarded Datura as a shamanistic plant and smoked it to induce intoxication and hallucinations or visions. The name Datura is from an early Sanskrit word meaning “divine inebriation.” Now Datura's common name, Jimsonweed, is derived from Jamestown’s colonial settlement, where British soldiers were given a salad made with boiled “Jamestown weed” or Jimsonweed. For days after eating the greens, instead of quelling the colonial uprising known as the Bacon rebellion, the British soldiers turned fools, blowing feathers in the air, running about naked, and acting entirely out of their minds.   Unearthed Words November 16, 1964 Today is the anniversary of the death of the Harvard botanist, Naturalist, Washington Post nature columnist, and author, Donald Culross Peattie, who died at 66. During his lifetime, Donald Peattie was regarded as the most read nature writer in America. Donald had an older brother named Roderick, who was a geographer and an essayist. Of his younger brother Donald, Roderick once wrote: “My young brother Donald was very skinny and quite philosophical. He took every faith but theosophy. He had a wonderful memory and a love of beauty, which still marks his life. Doubtless, he was a genius, but I thought him a pest.” Here are some quotes by Donald Culross Peattie: Winter is a study in halftones, and one must have an eye for them or go lonely. — Donald Peattie, American botanist, naturalist, and author, An Almanac for Moderns, 1935   Limber Pines have a way of growing in dramatic places, taking picturesque attitudes, and getting themselves photographed, written about, and cared for... — Donald Peattie, American botanist, naturalist, and author   A hummingbird is a feathered prism, a living rainbow; it captures the very sunlight. — Donald Peattie, American botanist, naturalist, and author   If the Oak is King of Trees, then the White Oak is King of Kings. — Donald Peattie, American botanist, naturalist, and author   Grow That Garden Library The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden This book came out in 2018, and it is absolutely gorgeous and should be; every page is Bunny Mellon. When she was alive, Rachel “Bunny” Mellon’s greatest love was garden design. Her husband, Paul Mellon, was one of America’s wealthiest men. Together, Bunny and Paul maintained five homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia. In addition to designing the gardens for all of her homes, Bunny designed gardens for some of her closest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House and the home of Hubert de Givenchy. These gardens are all featured in Linda’s beautiful book. In the book, Linda thoughtfully includes Bunny’s garden plans, sketches, and watercolors (which I found fascinating) along with old photographs of Oak Spring, the Mellon estate in Upperville. And Linda had the gift of conducting extensive interviews with Bunny before she died in 2014, which gives her book an increased feeling of insight and authenticity. This book is 308 pages of Bunny Mellon and her Gardens, and it really belongs in any serious garden library. You can get a copy of The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $35   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart November 16, 1845   Today is the anniversary of the death of the English political hostess and flower lover Elizabeth Fox, also known as Baroness Holland. When she was 15, Elizabeth married Sir Godfrey Webster, who was 20 years her senior. After having five children in six years, Elizabeth began an affair with a Whig politician named Henry Fox, the 3rd Baron Holland, and she even had a child by him. Two days after divorcing Godfrey, Elizabeth quickly married Henry, and together they had six more children. A domineering woman to her husband and her children, and a zealous socialite, Elizabeth is remembered for introducing the Dahlia to England. In 1804, the botanist Antonio José Cavanilles ("Cah-vah-nee-yes") gave seed from the Dahlia pinnata to Elizabeth during her trip to Madrid’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Once she returned to England, Elizabeth’s dahlia was successfully cultivated in her gardens at Holland House. Twenty years after Elizabeth brought the Dahlia to England, her husband Henry included these words in a little love note: “The dahlia you brought to our isle Your praises forever shall speak; Mid gardens as sweet as your smile, And in color as bright as your cheek."   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo-Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets. Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as his "favorite obscure director." His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood, an award-winning documentary released by Magnolia in August 2009. Born in England, where his Australian father was in the RAF, Trenchard-Smith attended UK's prestigious Wellington College, where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films, before migrating to Australia. He started as a news film editor, then graduated to network promos before he became one of a group of young people that, as he recalls, "pushed, shoved, lobbied and bullied the government into introducing investment for Australian made films." He persuaded Australia's largest distribution-exhibition circuit at the time, the Greater Union Theater Organization, to form an in-house production company that he would run. The company made three successful films in a row, and his career was underway. In parallel careers, he was also founding editor of Australia's quarterly Movie magazine for 6 years, and has made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia, Europe, and America. Among early successes were The Man From Hong Kong, a wry James Bond/Chop Sockey cocktail, the Vietnam battle movie Siege Of Firebase Gloria, and the futuristic satire Dead End Drive-In, a particular Tarantino favorite. BMX Bandits, showcasing a 15-year old Nicole Kidman, won the Prix Chouette in Europe, as Best Saturday Matinee Movie. Miramax's The Quest/Frog Dreaming, starring ET's Henry Thomas, now on Blu Ray, won a prize at Montreal's Children's Film Festival. He has directed 43 episodes of television series as diverse as Silk Stalkings, Time Trax, Five Mile Creek, The Others, Flipper, Chemistry, and the Showtime docu-drama DC 9/11: Time Of Crisis, one of five movies he made for the network. Among Trenchard-Smith's recent films are Long Lost Son, starring Gabrielle Anwar and Chace Crawford for Lifetime, and the family drama disaster movie Arctic Blast., starring Michael Shanks and Bruce Davison, which premiered on Spanish television as the number 1 movie with a 15.6 market share, and more than 2.5 million viewers. In Dublin he shot The Cabin, a rom-com starring Lea Thompson for the Hallmark Channel. He produced and directed Absolute Deception, a thriller starring Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Recently released through Image is Drive Hard, an offbeat action comedy with John Cusack as the bank robber and Thomas Jane as his reluctant driver. His body of work has been honored at the Paris Cinema, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Brisbane and Toronto Film Festivals. In 2016 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia recently hosted a three city retrospective of his films. He is a member of the Masters of Horror Circle, and is a contributing guru to Trailers From Hell. He is married to Byzantine historian Dr. Margaret Trenchard-Smith, and lives in Portland, Oregon. His debut novel Alice Through The Multiverse was published in 2018. His new book Adventures in the B Movie Trade is now available on Amazon and Kindle.

Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo-Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets. Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as his "favorite obscure director." His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood, an award-winning documentary released by Magnolia in August 2009. Born in England, where his Australian father was in the RAF, Trenchard-Smith attended UK's prestigious Wellington College, where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films, before migrating to Australia. He started as a news film editor, then graduated to network promos before he became one of a group of young people that, as he recalls, "pushed, shoved, lobbied and bullied the government into introducing investment for Australian made films." He persuaded Australia's largest distribution-exhibition circuit at the time, the Greater Union Theater Organization, to form an in-house production company that he would run. The company made three successful films in a row, and his career was underway. In parallel careers, he was also founding editor of Australia's quarterly Movie magazine for 6 years, and has made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia, Europe, and America. Among early successes were The Man From Hong Kong, a wry James Bond/Chop Sockey cocktail, the Vietnam battle movie Siege Of Firebase Gloria, and the futuristic satire Dead End Drive-In, a particular Tarantino favorite. BMX Bandits, showcasing a 15-year old Nicole Kidman, won the Prix Chouette in Europe, as Best Saturday Matinee Movie. Miramax's The Quest/Frog Dreaming, starring ET's Henry Thomas, now on Blu Ray, won a prize at Montreal's Children's Film Festival. He has directed 43 episodes of television series as diverse as Silk Stalkings, Time Trax, Five Mile Creek, The Others, Flipper, Chemistry, and the Showtime docu-drama DC 9/11: Time Of Crisis, one of five movies he made for the network. Among Trenchard-Smith's recent films are Long Lost Son, starring Gabrielle Anwar and Chace Crawford for Lifetime, and the family drama disaster movie Arctic Blast., starring Michael Shanks and Bruce Davison, which premiered on Spanish television as the number 1 movie with a 15.6 market share, and more than 2.5 million viewers. In Dublin he shot The Cabin, a rom-com starring Lea Thompson for the Hallmark Channel. He produced and directed Absolute Deception, a thriller starring Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Recently released through Image is Drive Hard, an offbeat action comedy with John Cusack as the bank robber and Thomas Jane as his reluctant driver. His body of work has been honored at the Paris Cinema, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Brisbane and Toronto Film Festivals. In 2016 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia recently hosted a three city retrospective of his films. He is a member of the Masters of Horror Circle, and is a contributing guru to Trailers From Hell. He is married to Byzantine historian Dr. Margaret Trenchard-Smith, and lives in Portland, Oregon. His debut novel Alice Through The Multiverse was published in 2018. His new book Adventures in the B Movie Trade is now available on Amazon and Kindle.

Sarah Feagan has been living with HIV for 12 years. Her story begins in Melbourne. As a troubled teen, Sarah left home and her youth became a rollercoaster of homelessness, and drugs, which evolved into a bohemian life of self-discovery. After falling in love with a partner who didn't know their status, later Sarah was diagnosed with HIV at 21, but while effective treatments were available, this was not enough and stigma nearly killed her. Today, Sarah is an HIV peer navigator and one of Australia's most dynamic leaders in HIV advocacy, especially for women. TRANSCRIPTEPISODE 4: SARAH FEAGAN'S STORYUploaded: 13/10/2020 Heather EllisHi, I'm Heather Ellis your host on our stories, ending HIV stigma, a podcast by women living with HIV, where we share our stories of our diverse lives and challenged the myths and stereotypes that feed HIV stigma are stories as part of the women and HIV tell the story project made possible by Gilead Sciences and produced by Positive Women Victoria in Australia. Sarah Feagan has been living with HIV for 12 years. Her story begins in Melbourne. As a troubled tee, Sarah left home at 14 and her youth became a roller coaster of homelessness, and drugs, which evolved into a bohemian life of self-discovery. After falling in love with a partner who didn't know their status. Later, Sarah was diagnosed with HIV. But while effective treatments were available. This was not enough and stigma nearly killed her. Today. Sarah is a Peer Navigator and one of Australia's most dynamic leaders in HIV efficacy, especially for women. Welcome, Sarah. Sarah FeaganThank you so much. Hello. Thanks for having me. And thanks for a beautiful introduction. Heather EllisYou're such an inspiration. I want to start by asking as a teenager you were living on and off the streets of Melbourne. And this is often a lifestyle that is termed the University of Life. What were some of your learning experiences that made you the person you are today? Sarah FeaganYeah, I think being on the streets, you know, and that comes in different forms as well. Sometimes you sleeping rough sometimes, you're couch-surfing. But you really feel like you're at the whim of other people. And I think though that can be a really good thing and really bad thing because it can teach you about how the kindness of strangers or the gentleness of other people but it can also teach you the realities of, I guess, how cruel and how bad people can be as well and I was really lucky that during my time, when I was homeless that I had really good people that did help me and I have to say that there would have been more positive experiences, than negative ones. Heather EllisYou were telling me your parents stood by you during those years? S what would be your advice to other parents who might have teenagers going through a similar situation? Sarah FeaganMy parents, a shout out to those beautiful humans, I put them through and back and, you know, at 14, you don't know, I thought I knew everything. And I thought that I could understand certain things in my life that had happened or certain moments that had made me act out in different ways. And I was so confused and so angry and I was going through puberty and it's just a toxic mix? But I couldn't verbalize. I couldn't say what was happening for me. So it came out in really poor behaviors. And, yeah, my parents went through that and they had to watch sort of me self-destruct, when they were willing and able to support me. So we are, we are really close now. Like we speak every day, and we're really good friends. But I think to other parents, I'm not a parent myself, so I can't, I can't sort of speak to that. But definitely their unconditional love. The door was always open, even when they wanted to lock it and change the keys change and change the locks, they still kept that door open. And I think that I had to go on my journey of self-discovery and my journey of self-awakening and understanding a lot of things about my past and maybe why I was reacting the way I was, and they allowed me to do that. Maybe it was from afar, but the very supportive, frustrated kind of moment, but they were always there and at the end of the day, that's the reason why I'm still alive. Your child is always your baby at the end of the day. That little animal that's driving you nuts is your baby. And that yeah, that love is always felt as a child, I have always felt that love. So I'm really lucky Heather EllisWhen you suddenly found yourself in this sort of Bohemian lifestyle living in a house full of artists and musicians, how was that a turning point for you? Sarah FeaganSo I was actually sleeping rough at a train station and somebody I think he knew my sister and he recognized me and he introduced me to this home and it was such an amazing experience. Like they didn't know me, I rocked up at their door with like, my big bag of stuff, and they let me come in and they taught me music and so many things that really shaped the way that I engaged with the world for the rest of my teenage years. You know, I was always going to festivals or parties and being around really interesting people. So it was a really special time but I guess with that as well and with any creative culture or subculture this subculture. Because of that I definitely fell into a bit more of a drug taking side of things like drugs were there, but drugs definitely consumed me and I consumed them? And yeah, that's sort of where I ended up focusing and needing to get out of Melbourne just because my drug use had gone through the roof. Heather EllisYou're telling me that you moved to northern New South Wales. That would have been like paradise after Melbourne, warm sunshine and the like. And it was here that you fell in love. So where did that take you? Sarah FeaganYeah, so it was like I said, my drug use was out of control. And I was about 19 by this stage, and we ended up north living with a really good friend of mine. And she was really supportive and part of my healing and then I've headed into town and I met this like super hot guy, and yeah, I fell in love. But unfortunately, there was a lot that he didn't know about himself. Yeah, I mean, ultimately that that took me down. The road that I'm on now so Heather EllisWhen people are infected with HIV, they go through what they call seroconversion. So this is when the virus is basically, creating antibodies and attaching itself to cells. You still had no idea but you fell ill and then you went to the doctor and it was similar from what you're telling me, a similar story where first off the doctors really don't suspect HIV. Was that the way it was for you? Sarah FeaganYeah, so I guess yeah, that's what I was alluding to is definitely like this guy was unaware of his HIV status. His sera conversion illness was minimal, just flu-likes symptom that he could identify after and diagnosis, probably five, six years ago and he was fine. He was pretty healthy, and just showed no signs or symptoms to me though. After meeting him, we were having unprotected that I got sick, I was covered in a rash. I was losing weight, I couldn't eat. I just was very, very sick. And then I went to the hospital like I am typical Anglo Australian, you know, blonde curly hair, blue eyes, and they were testing me for tropical diseases that weren't even in the country because HIV was not on their radar. And that unconscious bias that women and men and trans people are subjected to by clinicians and doctors, they look at you and they think, Well, no, that's not their behavior, they might not be at risk. And it's about instead of it being about what you perceive as a clinician or doctor. It's about, well hang on, these are the symptoms that this person is presenting. Because I mean, HIV, it's not a kind of behavior. You can have one time. You can have experiment with drugs one time, and that's all it takes. And so yeah, finally, I can't remember because I was so unwell. And I'm pretty sure there was a nurse who came in and just sort of went: She needs a HIV test. And sure enough, he was right. Sarah FeaganThis was around the year 2000, so there wasn't really that much talk about HIV. So it probably wasn't really on the radar. I was very lucky that the nurse came in and thought, Well, how about we have HIV tests? Because you would know of this yourself that there's people who have a late stage diagnosis purely for the fact that they're not tested for HIV until like the last minute.So that unconscious bias, and I think, we're not looking for it. I think though they come in 2008. HIV has been around already for 40 years. But this speaks to rural and regional areas where there isn't that education, understanding or even just being exposed to it. But you know, through my work as well, and through my own lived experience, we hear and say about people being mis-diagnosed late with really, really detrimental effects on the people. And, you know, it's not good enough that especially even today in 2020, we're still saying it, it's about educating ourselves and being really health literate. Health aware about our bodies and maybe the risks or not risks that we're taking. But just knowing that HIV does exist, and it is out there, and it doesn't really care what you look like, or how often you have , or how bad you are in the eyes of society, it's a virus and it will do what it wants. Heather EllisSo when you fell ill did you even think about HIV at that time. Did it cross your mind? Sarah FeaganNo, not at all. Not at all. And this is a weird, I guess, part of my story is that my mom nursed HIV AIDS patients before they had a name for it in the late 70s, early 80s. And so it was just it's not that it was spoken about, but it was definitely like it wasn't on my radar. It wasn't on my radar. Even with my mom's experience, it wasn't there. Just I was young. I didn't care I've been having this pretty brilliant, easy lifestyle and I trusted this man, I was in love with him. Heather EllisThat relationship fell apart at that point and then you move back to Melbourne. Was this to get support from your family as you when you received your diagnosis of HIV and not knowing anything about it, and in fact, probably thinking this is a death sentence not being aware of the treatments that were available. So what happened then when you return to Melbourne? Sarah FeaganYeah, it was certainly wasn't for family support. I was coming back with my tail between my legs. It was Yeah, I need my mom. I need my dad right now. But it was that I've lived this independent life and I thought that I was just kicking goals and then to come back with HIV and go, I really hit rock bottom. And so it was a tail between the legs. I was depressed. I was fearful. All of those feelings even though I was told Oh, it's a great year to get HIV. We have so many medications. It's okay. And it's so not okay. You've just been told you got HIV. I don't care if it's today. 10 years ago, 20. It's still a scary life altering moment that you are so alone, and it doesn't matter if you're in a room full of people. You are so alone and you're the relationship Breaking down. I've just turned 21 there's so many things happening that I thought I knew where my life was headed and all of that got taken away. And so I got back to Melbourne. I told my sister, and then there was a night when my parents were out and I took a drug overdose and my sister actually found me in the bathroom at our home and rang hospital and was taken there pretty quickly. Don't remember that much as I was unconscious. And yeah, I got woken up to this kind of why didn't you tell us: You're my baby, we love you. Because while I was in an induced coma, or they were doing whatever they were doing, the nurses said: Oh, do you think that this drug overdose was related to her recent HIV diagnosis? And my parents were like, what?I knew nothing up until that point. And so that drug overdose was related to really it was related to self stigma. I was fearful. I was lonely depression, and it's that moment of 21 and thinking, you know what, I've done pretty good. I'm pretty feeling really good and I just felt like I'm on this right track and then it was that fear of wow I'm going to be unloved untouchable unwanted this is just going to affect me so much. My life is over and so I just thought why hang around when I can end it now which is a horrible place for anyone to be in. So obviously my family support and friends you know, Mom and Dad but just amazing my family, my sister, my brother, friends that were around me really special as well and I kind of started to get the idea that I would be okay. I engaged with some HIV community organisations started meeting other women especially it was just the best thing to do. Now I thought, you know what, I've been through some stuff in my life. I can get over this. I'm a strong woman, a young person. I got the rest of my life. My family loves me. I got good friends, I can do this. So I kind of re-entered into society. I can't tell you specifically how when and where because it is such a fuzzy time. It was me trying to engage in relationships and as a bisexual woman or woman, and date men and women, and, you know, I experienced violence, I experienced stigma I experienced, you know, so much rejection and hurt. I had people saying that I was trying to infect the whole of the community in Melbourne with AIDS, stuff like that. Heather EllisSo this all came from really an enormous amount of ignorance from people. So this is externalized stigma, they put their fears about HIV onto you. But by educating them and explaining to them about the treatments, did that change their attitude? Sarah FeaganI was on intermittent treatment. So back then they would wait for you to start treatment to your CD for was down to 250. I can't remember I think I'd started and stopped a few times, because it was just that process of being a very sexual person and a person that loves to be around people. Have fun and all that stuff. So those conversations weren't even there about treatment as prevention or U=U undetectable equals untransmittable. So we didn't have those tools it was basically use a condom. And that was it. That was the safety. You know, it was a different dialogue to be had but also being so newly diagnosed, I wasn't educated myself, I was still dealing with my internalized HIV stigma. And then when somebody would front me and say, you're trying to do this to us, you're trying to infect us with HIV, you're this , you're this awful person. It gets to a point where you just like, you know what, I'm angry. So I took their hands off, sort of I described it as taking my hands off the steering wheel and just waiting for the car to crash. I stopped all my HIV medication. I wasn't in a position to be educating people because I was just petrified myself and so I just let HIV do what it did, and just went back to taking lots of drugs again. Heather EllisSo you got into a very low point where you were in hospital and about to die. You had full blown AIDS. You weren't taking treatments. This was sort of the end the things. So what happened for it to then turn around for you. Sarah FeaganI think I was really lucky. You know, being young probably is the one thing that saved me. But yeah, basically I just stopped my medication. I was taking a lot of drugs and yeah, my parents, you know, some really important community members as well going, Sarah, what are you doing? Wake up, wake up and I actually woke up to my HIV specialist sitting at the end of my bed telling me if you're going to do this, let's come to hospital and we're going to put you into palliative care. I don't remember much else apart from getting a psychiatric clearance and my mum collapsing and me saying yeah, I'm good to die. You know, like I'm a 25 or 26 year old young woman with a completely manageable chronic illness. This just speaks to the volume of what HIV stigma can do and how things are cruel to somebody. You don't even realize the impact that it's having. I was no longer Sarah, I was that girl with HIV and she deserved, you know, it was just no one saw me and I was you know, I took a I was given morphine as an emergency and I'd watched some family members go through palliative care. And I kind of knew in that moment that was it. And you know, I couldn't even speak after the morphine hit me and I don't know what happened in that time. But you know, I woke up. Heather EllisSo this is around 2010, but we are eight years away from U=U . And that has been such a game changer in helping to end HIV stigma because it's backed by more than 20 years of scientific evidence. I mean, the treatments that we take today are really I like to describe them as being as good as the cure. Because we can live a long healthy life. Sarah FeaganWe've known about it for so long you think women have been giving birth, positive women HIV positive women giving birth to children, breastfeeding, all this stuff taking treatment. So U=U has been used, I guess it started, like, you know, not by accident, but just because well, women around the world are still going to have children and that was I guess, the beginning of U=U because there was the understanding back then, you know, the different studies with numerous different sexual acts and zero transmissions. It's such a game changer. It's such a liberating moment to think, because I know so many people with HIV, that's one of our greatest fears is to give it to somebody when nobody wants to give this to anybody else. So it really does. Heather EllisWe've talked about internalized stigma, which is self-stigma and externalized stigma, but there's also stigma by association. So what has your experience been of stigma by association? Sarah FeaganDo you mean like for people around us like for partners? me see I was married for five years, but you know, like recently separated really good mate with the guy but you know, he came from a multicultural background and as much as his family loved me, I'm sure if they knew my HIV status they would want me around their son just because they love their their son so much more. And so you know, I did have to go back and I was quite open about my status for many years and then all of a sudden being in this like, you know, serious relationship monogamous marriage, it was no longer my virus, it was about going okay, well, HIV stigma impacts everybody differently and now he will be impacted directly. So you know, I would have to adapt and change and kind of go back into the closet a bit. Even same with my family and some friends you need to be mindful of disclosing too much information in certain forums or be mindful of protecting other people because your HIV status does impact the people around us as well. Heather EllisYeah, it shows how far we still have to go with ending HIV stigma, it really does. So you're now a HIV Peer navigator with Living Positive Victoria and peer navigators are a fairly new role in the HIV sector. So what is this role? And why is it so important? Sarah FeaganPeer navigation, I guess it's a very similar to peer support, basically, but it just means that we have a lot more clinical relationships. So we work in higher clinical caseload clinics in and around Melbourne. And so we have these really great relationships and I kind of feel like my role is appears to be a woman living with HIV. That's cool. My lived experience can also be a way that we can act as peers but I'm also given a lot of training and support through Living Positive Victoria and then also have the opportunity for really great partnerships. So I have this amazing network that I can get people through to different service for clinicians, psychologists, everything that somebody might need in their HIV journey and I absolutely love the job. I'm on the phone all day talking to these beautiful community members that are in different stages their HIV diagnosis some people's thriving some people you know, needing that little bit of extra care at the moment and it's great that I'm in a position to offer that. Heather EllisPrior to peer navigators when people were newly diagnosed, they would speak to a HIV nurse, be given a few pamphlets and basically just sent on their way and they were really left to fend for themselves. But now there is such a strong understanding of how important that peer support is particularly for the newly diagnosed would you agree with that? Sarah FeaganTt is so important. We know the power and importance of peer connection, because no one else can understand that moment of HIV diagnosis, what it feels like. And even peer support is important. Okay, navigation is, as you touched on about people affected by HIV. So partners, kids, friends and family members have to also do support. But you know, we have people that have been positive for 10 years, and then they'll connect into the program and just go: Why did I wait so long? Heather EllisWhy have these people waited for so long people who have been diagnosed with HIV for 10 years and just haven't reached out for that support? Sarah FeaganIt is so complicated. People's lives are complicated. Some people don't need it, they get diagnosed, they take their HIV medication, they're okay. But I mean, it's also internalized stigma, external stigma, domestic violence, or it could be culture, religion. There's so many different factors of why people don't connect to the HIV space. But I know once you see people break through that fear or that feeling like they don't belong, or that they're not part of a group of men or and they see the diversity that we are as a beautiful community within Australia, within our region as well within the world. It is really great to see people lift that black cloud. They just feel like oh, like I'm understood. I say you're part of your community. These are your people. And that's the moment that I wish everybody living with HIV would come and connect into. Yeah, oh, we're a big community as well. We're 38 million people living with HIV and half of us are women. So we're a big community, Heather EllisSo you're also a HIV leader and HIV advocate. You're vice president of the NAPWA (National Association of People with HIV Australia and also have a role with NAPWA's Femme Fatales group, which is the women's advocacy group of NAPWA. And you've become an international HIV advocate as well. What do all these roles mean for you? You've come from this place where you'd given up like you said, taking your hands off the steering wheel and now you are one of the most dynamic HIV advocates for women in Australia, if not the world? Sarah FeaganOh, stop. Heather. But it's exactly that because I was there I was at that moment where I wanted to stop. And I had, like, there's been a few really pivotal people that I've met through the HIV community that kind of gave me the kick up the that I needed like friends and family can do so much when there's another person that has gone through exactly what you've gone through, going on. You're right you know, I live in a lucky country I have access to HIV medication. I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself, and then I realised come on, use this privilege. Use this moment to engage and contribute and give back or whatever little bit I could do. And you know, like, I'm really lucky that I had been previous Chair of Positive Women Victoria, and Living Positive Victoria have taken me on doing health promotion and peer navigation and the board stuff that I do. So that's also with the ICW (International Community of Women living with HIV, Asia Pacific) and also the national, regional, and state based work that I'm doing at the moment, and I love it, you know, half voluntary, half paid, and I'm so lucky that I can have that balance because as positive peers and advocates, we volunteer our life away. And so that's important to make sure that we can support ourselves and thrive but I think it is just knowing how I felt and how low I was. And then I think meeting other amazing people around the world and people in Australia. Everything. It's just the resilience and the strength and the grace that people have in our HIV community. It just inspires me every day to wake up. And I might not be doing the most amazing things in the world. But I'm definitely trying to give back and contribute to these amazing communities. Heather EllisWould you say like you saw the need there, because with 38 million people living with HIV in the world, and nearly half of them women, but there's very, very few women openly living with HIV. And not only are they openly living with HIV, but actually being leaders being advocates to raise awareness of the issues that women face. So I mentioned you would have seen an enormous need there. And then you were put into the positions on the board of Positive Women Victoria, the Chair of Positive Women Victoria, so it's fantastic that now you've stepped up and provided your skills and your experience to do so much good. Sarah FeaganThank you. I think that's very true. Just saying in Australia when I kind of dealt with my stuff and was kind of ready to start engaging, I really didn't see many positive women in Australia, openly living with HIV. Globally, though, I've been so fortunate to meet just dynamite women that are facing persecution and fear and just living in the most extreme situations, but they're still defiantly standing there and saying, I'm open to be a woman with HIV and I ain't gonna take this no more. And they're doing amazing work. And I think that inspires me as well that I saw little people around the world can do so much. And I think that we can learn a lot from our brothers and sisters in less fortunate countries than Australia about how to really do some meaningful work. But, it's great to see now since that time, when I was engaging, I can name over two handfuls of women now that are openly living with HIV or that are engaging and that it really stepped up so it's really nice to see new faces like, young girls do this? Heather EllisYep. very encouraging, especially the younger women, the younger women stepping out, which is fantastic. I mean, another thing that people I don't think realize in the general public is this still around 700,000 people die every year from AIDS, and this is completely preventable if they could get HIV treatments. So in this time of COVID-19, you know, they will eventually find a vaccine and that vaccine will be rolled out to everyone. So if the world wanted to, we could make sure that more people got access to those treatments in these developing countries. How do you think we can do this? Sarah FeaganIt's a big question and a big problem because we are dealing with a lot of corruption, religion, endemic human rights violation, violence against women as well it is, it is not a one size fits all. Some countries are just so corrupt that it doesn't matter how much money medication is thrown at them, it will never go into the hands of the people. You know, I think the biggest thing that we can do is continue to lobby pharma, continue to lobby governments. And also just you know, we've got to also support the people on the ground, you know, currently in Indonesia, which is a country that is very close to Australia. And they've having massive medication stock outs. Heather EllisAnd PNG in Papua New Guinea as well. Sarah FeaganThey're having a new system of how the government's just rolling out one type of HIV medication for the whole country. So if it doesn't work for you, too bad. But in Indonesia, and in PNG, as well, there are incredible activists, advocates, powerful, powerful people living with HIV on the ground that are fighting. And I guess the best thing to do, especially if this is something that you want to contribute to or be a part of, is reach out on Google, and search HIV organizations and contact them and say, Hi, look, I'm from Australia. I want to contribute, what can I do? How can I help you need me to write a letter or whatever it is, There's ways to connect. And it's about, exposing the incredible work that people are doing in their own countries and trying to bolster that as much as we can with the privilege that we have in Australia. I mean, we have internet and electricity and little things like that, that really help. Heather EllisThat's right. Just don't take our foot off the accelerator. Just keep the pressure on. I mean, the advocates that have come before you for in the 1980s and 1990s, it's just continuing it hasn't it stopped, that fight hasn't stopped. And it's not just about ending stigma. It's about getting access to those treatments to those 700,000 people who die every year. Sarah FeaganExactly. It's just you think we are 40 years from the beginning of the HIV pandemic and it is not over yet. Yeah, it is a shame that it's still used as a bargaining tool that HIV medications that are life-saving are still used like this on different communities. Heather EllisI've heard you speak a number of times and there's a some words that you use and every time I hear you say them, I just feel a shiver run through me. You say: “It's no longer about living and surviving with HIV. It's about thriving.” Can you tell me more about what that means for you in your day to day life? Sarah FeaganI'm glad I give you shivers back to you. I love that thank you. It is I think, I have lived with HIV functionally lived with it because I felt like I needed to because I love and support around me. I'm thriving with HIV now. I'm as happy and as unhappy as any other person in the world. I've you know, I live my life highs and lows and HIV doesn't impact at all what I do. HIV stigma is does exist. I can deal with that a lot better now. I'm stronger. I'm confident. I will sit you down and educate you until you get it, like I just live in on what I'm thriving with HIV. My medications work for me. I have a great job. There is no physical reason why I can't live a normal life, and that's because of great HIV treatments, great support, great community, great opportunities. But in developing countries, people with HIV are living day by day, they don't know when they can get their next dose of medication. If it even really works for you or HIV is constantly being used against you. You just live with it, you have to live with it. So this kind of sits in my back pocket there reminds me to take my medication and just live. HIV is really not a barrier to my existence. In some days. It makes me work harder and want to do more and live better. Heather EllisWell, thank you, Sarah, so much for sharing your story today on Our Stories: Ending HIV Stigma. Is there anything else you'd like to leave us with? Sarah FeaganOh, thank you so much for having me on it. And if anybody wants more information about the peer navigation program, or any stuff we were just talking about, happy for you to share my email. Stay well. And thank you so much for the opportunity Heather. Heather EllisIf you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe so you can listen in future episodes are posted. Please rate and review this podcast and share it. Our Stories Ending HIV Stigma is part of the Women and HIV Tell The Story project made possible by Gilead Sciences through the Gilead Together Grant program and produced by Positive Women Victoria, a community based support and advocacy organization for women living with HIV in Australia. I'm Heather Ellis. Thanks so much for listening. Isn't it time we ended HIV stigma once and for all. You can contact Sarah Feagan at: sfeagan@livingpositivevictoria.org.au For more details on topics discussed in this episode, please visit: Positive Women Victoria: https://positivewomen.org.au

This month the KYD team are discussing Eula Biss's latest genre defying work ‘Having and Being Had', a series of linked essays in which Biss explores her lived experience of capitalism, along with SBS's new supernatural drama 'Hungry Ghosts', in which vengeful spirits haunt the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne during the month of the Hungry Ghost Festival. Our theme song is Broke for Free's ‘Something Elated'. This episode was produced by Hayley May Bracken. Further Reading and Culture Picks: ‘Avoiding the trap of the Self-Aware Writer', The Cut ContraPoints, ‘Opulence' (YouTube) Rabbit Hole podcast The Cut podcast, ‘Are We the Virus?' Stream or subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Soundcloud / Google Podcasts / Spotify / Other (RSS) Let us know what you think by rating and reviewing in your app of choice! TRANSCRIPT (MUSIC) Hayley May Bracken: Welcome back to the Kill Your Darlings podcast. I'm Hayley May Bracken, joined by Kill Your Darlings' own Alan and Alice… Alice Cottrell: Hello! Alan Vaarwerk: Hey! HMB: We're all recording from the safety of our own homes. Today will be discussing Eula Biss' latest genre-defying work, Having and Being Had, and also the four-part SBS miniseries Hungry Ghosts. Eula Biss is a New York Times bestseller, her most recent book is On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was named one of the Top 10 best books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review, and she's also written Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, which won the National Book Circle Award for criticism, and her work has appeared in Harpers, the New York Times, Believer, and elsewhere. Having and Being Had, Biss herself has said, was a record of the moves that she made within a fixed set of rules. It's also a record of her discomfort with those rules and with the game itself, the game being capitalism. AC: So I think the book came out of a diary that she kept when she bought her first house, about the experience of buying into the American dream and the feelings of discomfort that she had in moving to a particular position in the social hierarchy. HMB: And she had some rules for herself, when she constructed this work as well, to be explicit and write down figures of how much her house cost, how much her income was, rather than deal in vagaries. AV: Yeah, I think it's interesting that she sort of set up these rules for herself, but also that she told us as the reader what the rules were that she was establishing for the writing of the book. Short essays, a couple of pages at most, they all start in the first person, they all are based around a conversation that she had with a friend or a family member. Sometimes she says she bent the rules a little bit in order to talk about a book that she's reading, rather than a conversation. The fact that talking about money and actually putting dollar figures to her discussions of class and capitalism and things like that, the fact that that can be a taboo. HMB: Mmm. I also loved how she was transparent about the way that, in her private life, she was deliberately ambiguous about the cost of her house. When she spoke to her sister, and she was saying that her life is divided into time before owning a washing machine and after, and that she could say that purchase of a home was a $400,000 container for her washing machine, and then she wrote ‘it's actually closer to $500,000, but I wasn't comfortable saying that.' The little disavowals. AC: That bit struck me too, Hayley, I thought yeah, it was sort of a really interesting interrogation of the lies that we tell ourselves to make ourselves comfortable as well, and I read an interview with Eula where she was saying basically that people use other people being more rich than them as a comparison to make themselves feel better, but the reality is in a country like America there's always going to be someone who's more rich than you, and there's a section in the book where she says to her husband, ‘we're rich,' and I think he expresses that he doesn't feel rich, and she texts him saying ‘I'm compiling evidence that we're rich.' So I think it's interesting that she doesn't just interrogate her own wealth, or her relationship to money, but she also interrogates lies or obscuring details we use to talk about or acknowledge money or our own financial situations. AV: I mean the whole book is kind of as much an artistic experiment in terms of the rules that she sets for herself, It's also kind of a thought—we're sort of working out with her, she and by extension we as the reader sort of fit within these systems, and what compromises that we sort of have to make every day in order to live a quote unquote ‘comfortable' life, whether that means buying shares in order to pay for your retirement, and the fact that a lot of investments are conducted at such a remove, I think there's a section where she discusses either being able to invest in a company that treats its workers well, or looks after the planet, and sometimes it's not possible to be able to invest in either one, and so it's a decision that has to be made in order for her to do the work that she wants to do. I guess we can get into in a little bit about what work even means, but yeah, the idea of what is a luxury to have, what is an investment, what is an investment in your own craft, which is something that she sort of interrogates a lot, and what that means from a sort of ethical standpoint under capitalism, I suppose. HMB: The way that she was, as is the 2020 way, checking her own privilege, it wasn't exhausting or pedantic, it felt very in its right place in this work, it felt as though it didn't rest at stating some privileges and moving on, it was that really thorough interrogation of, as you were saying, what even is work, and what is the morality of that. How she managed to live in New York as a younger writer on $10,000 a year and made as much money as she needed to survive and then live as a writer. I was quite amazed to learn how modest her income and her livelihood really was, considering her literary-critical success. I don't know if that's comforting or discouraging to learn how little money she had while she was writing these wonderful things. AV: It really does systemically dismantle this myth of, ‘you have to starve for your art'. I think the reality of so many working writers and people involved in and around writing is that it is work and it's, and it's labour, and as Eula Biss articulates in the book, it's in some ways, you know, a lot easier labour than than other kinds of labour, but it is labour nonetheless, and so the way that she's, I guess, lays out the admin involved in building a writing life, the economics of building a writing life, the trade-offs in terms of, you have to, have to pay for time, basically, you're sort of always thinking in terms of buying yourself time in order to write, in order to do the work… HMB: Particuarly as a parent. That seems quite clear, that delineation for people to have to pay someone to have any time for their writing and whether or not they'll make that back. AV: Yeah, and the example that she uses, that she comes back to quite a lot is Virginia Woolf, who wrote A Room of One's Own, lays out that idea very much in economic terms, I think it's, what, 500 pounds… HMB: 500 guineas! AV: 500 guineas, yeah, is what it takes for a woman to be able to have the time and space to write, but then goes into detail about how Virginia Woolf also, you know, inherited a large amount of money and had a live-in servant who she treated not super well, really going into the idea of being complicit in all these economic systems, being able to square that with doing the work that you want to and are compelled to do, and not having it, not thinking in absolutes of being one or the other I guess. HMB: Did you have a favourite revelation or elucidation from the book? Mine was Monopoly, how Monopoly as a game was originally created… AV:.. As an anticapitalist, or as a critique of capitalism? Yeah! HMB: Yes! (LAUGHS) AC: Oh it was actually amazing that there used to be two different ways to play Monopoly, one where you dominated, which is the game that we know now, and another where you would play and everyone would end up equal, and that has just completely disappeared into history. Yeah, wild. HMB: For some reason that struck me as somehow poetic. AV: Yeah, there's a lot of really beautiful poetic ironies all throughout the book, the one that's stuck with me the most is the one about Virginia Woolf and how on the one hand she was very much committed to this idea of women having time and space to write, but on the other hand the trade-offs that that came with, and the fact that she didn't always practice what she preached, and yet that coming across as not being discussed in order to quote unquote ‘cancel' Virginia Woolf or to discount her thinking, but to I guess complicate the thinking around that. AC: Yeah, I think the thing I loved about the book is that though it explores morality, there is kind of no moralising, and I think that that's what makes Eula Biss interesting and clear writer, and as you say Hayley, there's the kind of acknowledgement and interrogation of her own privilege, but it doesn't feel like self-flagellation or making excuses, it feel like it's interrogated with a kind of intellectual rigour that can be missing sometimes I think, in those acknowledgements. HMB: Because she gets into the real minutiae of it, as when she was talking about how a friend of hers doesn't want to pay a woman to clean the house because that's too intimate, but she'd pay someone to wax her bikini line, wax her legs, that's not too intimate. Everything's up for analysis, everything's up for dissemination. AC: Yeah, it just feels like she's sort of, takes a magnifying glass to things that are interesting to her and then distills down what they mean, or what they might mean. Or tell us into these incredibly kind of crisp, complete yet simple sentences, I mean it's just a joy to read along with. It's the kind of writing that makes you feel like you're thinking along with the writer, I think. HMB: Yes, it reminds me of Maggie Nelson like that. You feel much smarter. AC: Yep, Maggie Nelson, Ellena Savage, it's that kind of vibe like having a drink with your much smarter friend, but you sort of come away feeling intellectually energised by it. AV: Yeah, I think there's a lot of really strong parallels with, I would say, Ellena Savage's Blueberries in terms of that idea of having, yeah, like you say Alice, having a conversation with your very smart friend. Yeah, I found this super readable—for essays on capitalism and economics and class and things like that, it's probably one of the most readable experiences on that sort of topic I've had in a good while. The pieces are so short and so diary like in a very compulsive kind of way. You can just, ‘just one more, just one more,' sort of thing. HMB: As you were saying Alan, the real triumph of this work is that it's quite intimate and shows how threaded into our whole lives all of these concepts are, and she can talk about Nobel prize winners in economics, and how two people can win in the same year with completely contradictory theories about the market, and how we've created this beast qe don't even understand or can barely control. And I think it made me realise that something like economics, which, if you've never had any appetite for the subject, seems way more vague and subjective that I formerly imagined. AC: I think my favourite part was definitely the Work section, I found the kind of questions about what is work and what is labour, and how have our conceptions of what work means changed over time, and the delineations between paid work and unpaid work. They were just yeah, those kind of really interesting questions about labour and work and what they mean in the context of creative work and physical labour, drew me in. I mean I loved all of it, I felt like it had a real kind of, yeah, cumulative feeling with those short essays, and often the end of one essay would then spark the start of the next one. So you kind of had this feeling of being drawn on and led somewhere, which I really loved. AV: And the fact that these concepts that we know so inherently, like, things like we know what work is, we know what play is, but to actually sit down and think what is the difference between work and play, and the difference between work and labour, they're actually concepts that are so nebulous and so kind of buffeted by other forces, and so wound up in money and religion and things like that, like the ‘Protestant work ethic'. The book itself is a sort of interrogation of its own creation, which I think is really interesting because it's not apologising for its own creation, it's, if there's one thing Eula Biss definitely believes it is that the work is valuable, and her writing work is valuable. HMB: Hearing some intelligent person articulate that very notion, in a culture where arts degrees are about to double in price, and the idea of producing works of art is definitely seen as less than morally good in a culture that definitely doesn't celebrate art for art's sake. AV: Yeah, definitely. I think that working writers know that writing is work, but I think it's something that, it's too easy to be discounted as leisure or as play, and this is a valuable way of showing that it's not. There's a really great essay in The Cut which talks about the sort of self-awareness, writers interrogating self-awareness and sort of apologising for their own creation, and it's talking about Having and Being Had. There's a line from that essay that really stuck out of me, the essay's by Molly Fischer and it's at the very end of the piece, and it's: ‘Why read an essay or novel whose own author seems unconvinced it exists? Biss may be exhaustively self-aware, but she writes like her writing is work worth doing.' And I think that is a powerful thing in and of itself. HMB: That is very powerful. And I think I've long known that writing is work, but to have it reaffirmed that it's work worth doing was definitely not lost on me. AV: If you want to read more about the book and about Eula Biss, we actually on Kill Your Darlings are going to be having a interview between Khalid Warsame and Eula Biss on our website, so keep an eye out for that now. HMB: Now, let's talk about four-part SBS miniseries Hungry Ghosts. The Hungry Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the 7th month in the lunar calendar. It's the time Buddhists and Taoists believe the gates to hell open and spirits wander the earth. And this is the central story of the SBS new supernatural drama Hungry Ghosts, directed by Shawn Seet. And it's the haunting of an evil spirit named Quang, played by Vico Thai, released along with other hungry ghosts during the festival, and how their presence forces four families in contemporary Melbourne to confront their buried past. AC: So what did you guys think? Were you spooked? HMB: No. AV: Yes. (ALL LAUGH) My spooky tolerance is extremely low, so I thought the series was very well made, very compelling, very visually appealing. It's nice to see Footscray, community out there, it's nice to, gosh it's nice to see parts of Melbourne more than 5 km away. (AC & HMB LAUGH) Yeah, I think it was a really visually good-looking series, I think. HMB: That was the most redeeming feature for me, the cinematography, the use of refraction and shadow and light, cerulean blue and that sort of true red, and the gold accents, that was really lovely. AV: So you say that as in, I take that to mean you didn't find the series very compelling, Hayley? HMB: My partner's a composer for film, and he was watching it with me, and he was very disappointed in the score, which I think maybe his criticism in my ear didn't help, but because score has such an important part in creating tension and scare, I think that's part of why it was diffused for me, watching it with a hater. AC: I enjoyed it! I mean I found it scary and ominous and spooky, I guess, in the ways that you want from a horror or supernatural drama or whatever you want to classify it as, but for me the series just had a lot more depth than a traditional ghost story, because it features a cast of characters who are being haunted by their pasts the ghosts of those who have been killed in war, or those who've drowned fleeing by boat, so it was a lot more meaningful, I thought, than your traditional spooky monster who's just there to freak you out. It was about people grappling with guilt and remorse. I thought Ferdinand Hoang was amazing as Anh, and the actress who plays his wife, Gabrielle Chan, was brilliant as well. That was kind of my favourite subplot. HMB: Definitely agree that the more nuanced realistic intergenerational trauma parts were so much more compelling to me than the scares. AV: Yeah, I think my favourite of the storylines as well was the Nguyen family who run the grocer, and how the ghost is used in a literal and figurative sense, in terms of coming between them in their marriage. It's interesting because it's almost like there's two different types of ghost story happening at once in this piece, on the one hand you have the supernatural thriller with May and her family tracking down Quang and trying to put a stop to him, collecting these three souls in order to keep the gates of hell open. The others are trying to figure out why these ghosts have appeared to them rather than necessarily trying to stop them, I suppose. And so there's sort of two ghost stories happening at the same time. And so sometimes I feel like the overlap, I was trying to find the connection between those two types of stories, and how the ghosts related to one another, and how the families sort of related to one another, I almost feel like sometimes that got a little bit muddled, but for the most part I actually kind of respected how the show respected the intelligence of the viewer. HMB: Which is not easy to do with only four episodes, I mean it takes me a couple of episodes to warm up to the world building of any new series. AC: I love a shorter series, I kind of think it's kind of, you know, know wat you're gonna do and do it. My big critique of all Netflix things is that everything is about 40 per cent longer than it needs to be. HMB: True. And the mark of more artistic credibility to leave people wanting rather than to milk it until there's nothing left, but I did think of you, Alan, and your criticism of Stateless in terms of how the Anglo-Australian cast members were headlined to promote this series, the Stockton family cast appear first in the end credit, and if their presence was necessarily, necessary? AV: I kind of thought that yeah, the Bryan Brown character Neil Stockton, the war photographer, I thought he was not a necessarily super fleshed-out character. With the Nguyen family with Anh and Lien they kind of dealt with flashbacks really quite well, and then to have the Neil Stockton character really only use monologues to talk about his experience in Vietnam, I think left me a little bit cold. HMB: I know what you mean, I felt like I could see the script. You know, when you're seeing someone act and you think ‘oh, here's some acting,' you're not immersed in it. AC: I do think it's worthwhile though, in a show that is about the Vietnamese community in Australia, interrogating Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. I agree he wasn't the most compelling character, but there was a reason for that storyline to be there, I thought. HMB: True, and criticisms aside, Hungry Ghosts was an achievement on many levels, a contribution to Australian storytelling in a way that I don't think any of us can fully register if you aren't a Vietnamese Australian or an Asian Australian, what that representation would mean. AC: Yeah, and wonderful I thought to see Footscray on screen, and parts of Melbourne that yeah, you've never seen on TV before, I haven't at least. AV: What you were saying about sort of Netflix shows sometimes being too long and this one being shorter and I definitely agree with the principle in terms of, if you drag things out too much then you can get a bit sort of baggy, but again without giving anything away, I felt like that the ending of this series felt a little bit rushed and I would have liked to spend a little bit more time getting to know some of the characters in their relationships to one another, rather than just in terms of how it facilitated the plot. HMB: I felt that most profoundly in the romance development. I feel like they would have had some erst and let that build a bit more… AV: Oh yeah, yeah. HMB:.. Had they had more time. AV: Yeah. I think for me I mostly found that in the the second generation Nguyen family, Gareth Yuen playing Paul, the son of Anh and Lien. HMB: When he spoke about his father dealing with post-traumatic stress from being in the Vietnam war, we got a little teaser of a much more complex and interesting aspect of that character, and how he had to be the one who held the family together and bought his mother over here, and the depth that was hinted at in a few conversations he had with his wife intimated that there was a lot more to him. AV: Yeah, definitely. Some of those characters I would have liked to spend more time with, but I mean I guess that's, as much as I frame that as a criticism, it also means that they were interesting characters that I wanted to know more about, and wanted to get more into their lives, because they were, for the limited time they they are on screen, well drawn characters and they're well acted for the most part, I think maybe Bryan Brown, yeah, he is a good actor, but I feel like maybe this wasn't the best performances of his that I've seen. Catherine Van-Davies, as May Le, who's called the protagonist of the of the series, I suppose, I think she was great, I had a really enjoyable time watching the series. AC: Yeah, it's interesting what you say about the ending feeling a bit rushed, Alan, because I just feel like that's something that's very hard to do with horror or thrillers, and I think it's, like, a really difficult thing to do because if it's too long then it sort of loses the charge that it needs, but if it's too quick, it feels rushed, I don't know, I feel like with horror or thrillers I always have a slight feeling of dissatisfaction at the end, it's a bit like, you know, when everything gets wrapped up. HMB: That is a good point Alice, it isn't easy to wrap up anything in the horror genre in a perfectly neat or satisfying way. Don't take our word for it, if you would like to check it out, it is available free to stream via SBS On Demand. Check it out. AC: If you want to get scared! (LAUGHS) HMB: Or… AC: Or not, if you're Hayley. (ALL LAUGH) HMB: I I think that might be actually good, because some people might be turned off something that's scary. If I'm not scared you'll be fine. AC: And what else have you guys been watching, or reading or listening to, and top culture picks? HMB: A good culture pick in tandem with Eula Biss' Having and Being Had is ContraPoints, her video on opulence, talking about not just wealth but the aesthetics of wealth, and visually very stunning, but also have some really interesting insight. One of her insights that I thought of while reading Having and Being Had was ‘Donald Trump is a poor person's idea of a rich person', I think that's Annie Leibovitz's quote, people who are born into wealth usually exhibit taste that's more restrained, and how his Nouveau Riche aesthetic is part of what makes him seem accessible and aspirational. I recommend ContraPoints, as always. AV: And this is a YouTube channel, isn't it? HMB: YouTube channel. AC: I've actually, that's a good segue, I've been listening to a podcast called Rabbit Hole, which is about YouTube, or about the YouTube rabbit hole, and follows a young man who basically was radicalised online by right wing YouTube videos. The whole series is just like a kind of deeper dive exploration into what algorithms mean for basically like, destroying a sense of shared civic reality, because people are just drawn into these different rabbit holes. And yeah, also about like ethics in tech, what are the responsibilities that tech companies have, what's overreach? Yeah, it's a really compelling story that has a personal angle, but looks at some really big issues about what the internet is doing to us and to democracy really, so I'd recommend that. HMB: That's a good segue because that's how I learnt about Contrapoints in the first place, when listening to that. AC: Oh, cool! AV: I've started listening to The Cut's new podcast, hosted by Avery Trufelman, formerly of 99% Invisible, and a really, another really great podcast called Nice Try!, and a particular, an episode that I really enjoyed recently, it's about the meme that was going around in the early days of coronavirus talking about ‘nature is healing, we are the virus,' and the problematic, sort of eco-fascist sentiments behind that, about the idea of humans being separate from nature, and how that really, you know, erases a lot of Indigenous relationship with the land, and so, and it's, yeah, just a really well produced, snappy really informative really engaging podcast. I really recommend it. The other thing that I was going to mention is that I've been reading Kylie Maslen's new book, Show Me Where It Hurts, which is a collection of essays talking about living with an invisible illness. There's a couple of essays in there that actually began life on Kill Your Darlings back in the day, when Kylie was KYD New Critic back in 2018 and then another piece as well from 2017 called ‘Ask Me How I Am', which has been sort of expanded out in that collection, and yeah, they're really engaging, really thought provoking, really enjoyable to read collection. And that book's just out this month from Text Publishing. HMB: Also, don't forget… AC: New Australian Fiction 2020 from Kill Your Darlings, a wonderful collection of short stories. AV: Highly recommended. HMB: But where can I purchase this? AC: At killyourdarlings.com.au. AV: Or from your local independent bookstore, or you can ask for it at your local library as well. HMB: You've both given me some great things to read and listen to and think about, thank you. AV: Thanks Hayley. AC: No worries, catch you soon. HMB: Catch you soon, bye! (MUSIC)

CNBC learns that U.S. software giant Oracle is challenging Microsoft for Chinese app TikTok’s North American assets. BHP has missed its full-year forecasts but keeps its dividend. The Anglo-Australian miner warns that most economies will continue to contract throughout the rest of the year but iron ore prices are set to rebound. In the U.S., a virtual Democratic National Convention has opened with former First Lady Michelle Obama focusing her ire on President Trump’s leadership. And in Belarus, a first sign of concession as President Alexander Lukashenko has reportedly said he would hold a new leadership referendum if the current anti-government protests cease.

Episode 6 - part 1 - The first of our bumper double episode, all things Nirvana. Expect discussions on Anglo-Australian fashion and culture, hero worship and more, all with the golden thread of Nirvana. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Find out that 10s of $Billions of holdings are hidden with direct NZ Government knowledge - so as to not be scrutinised by 'we the people.’ We first cover some recent history, and the stopping of economic imperialism here in NZ on the far reaches of what was once the British Empire. However it's about Offshore Corporations being able to profit from NZ resources and labour and taking all their profits away overseas and not really investing in the NZ community at large. For example, back in 1975 at the bottom of the South Island the Bluff aluminium smelter was built by the Rio Tinto Group an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second largest metals and mining corporation. This smelter was classified by CAFCA as the largest corporate bludger in NZ. They obtained cheap electricity from Governmentally owned power stations  - huge amounts -  at a tiny fraction of what a NZ householder would pay for. Murray also stated that CAFCA has a clear message – that it does not take immigration as a reason for the  inequities of large amounts of money being taken out of NZ, as this can be easily hijacked and if you are not careful, slip into racism – especially if you are not vigilant. The concern is foreign big business and their domination of virtually all aspects of the NZ economy. Like land sales, banks, news media etc – but virtually any sector of the NZ economy you care to  think about is dominated by TransNational Corporations. They used to be called MultiNational Corporations – because they increasingly operate in a huge number of countries, a number of them so global that they are far larger than the NZ economy. Oil corporations and Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft – the digital corporations – they are enormous and continue via software developments to expand their influence whilst encroaching on ours. NZ Needs to Become Self Sufficient. AIMs of CAFCA – that NZ should be a self sufficient economy and that if you are going to have foreign investment it has to be for the benefit of NZers not to simply for overseas investors to ‘fill their own pockets.' For example; 2,000 workers at the Bluff smelter will be now out of work. Because it suits the Corporate interest to do that. That a corporation basically does not have a social contract or obligation and they are doing nothing to improve NZ's debt situation. Thus CAFCA considers them to be a net liability – not an asset. He mentions also the film playing now in NZ called 'Island of the Empire' and it's about NZ’s military relationship with the United States that's been updated with Murray starring (my words) way back in the mid 1980's featuring journalist Nicky Hager, ex Green MP Keith Locke and his sister Maire Leadbeater. Plus ex Activist now Mayor of Invercargill - Tim Shadbolt. Also mentioned, is the 30 year old campaign against the Five Eyes Waihopai - Echelon Listening outpost for the US - UK alliance – that vacuums up all our, (meaning your) - telephone calls, fax’s, texts etc etc. And then saves them for later. Green Rush - Murray mentions the excellent Radio NZ research on who owns our land. The four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies. This superb research by Radio NZ is an eye opener. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/400417/green-rush-foreign-forestry-companies-nz-s-biggest-landowners The information comes from an excellent RNZ investigation into land ownership in New Zealand. Using Land Information New Zealand data, Companies Office searches and other research, RNZ compiled a list of what is believed are the 100 biggest private landowners in New Zealand by area, not including the Crown and public entities (which control at least 28 percent of the land) or iwi (Maori). Forestry – not the above radio NZ article which only focussed on land ownership and did not focus on leased land and that is more dominant. This is important to realise - that it is not what is recorded - but what is obscured or hidden. Foreign direct investment (ownership of companies) in New Zealand increased from $15.7 billion in March 1989 to $121.7 billion as of March 2019 - almost eight times. As a proportion of the total output of the economy, Gross Domestic Product, it has risen from 22% to 40%. Statistics NZ data shows the countries where $100m or more in foreign direct investment was based as of March 2019 as being, in decreasing order: Australia, Hong Kong, US, Japan, UK, Singapore, Canada, Netherlands, British Virgin Islands, China, Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany and France (though the investments from some countries have been suppressed). These accounted for 93% of foreign direct investment in New Zealand.. Australia alone accounts for 50% with $57 billion of the $113 billion total. Murray continues, About You - the average NZ home owner. The average house owner who owns less than 5 hectares of land and collectively owns about 1.5 % of NZ. But, it gets worse - those who have around an acre of land with their house on it, such as Mum and Dad owned homes -  the total comes to 0.5% of NZ. Large units of Privately owned land in NZ  We have 4,600 people in NZ  0.1% of the total population that own half of the land owned by the 10 largest landowners. Listen to this, because Murray says the present government is doing something about curtailing the sale of our land … Eugenie Sage, the Green, Minister for Lands ‘outside’ of Government (not invited to Cabinet meetings) has actually said No to an overseas buyer. The Transnational mining company Oceania Gold, who are mining in Waihi in the Coromandel (where there is a huge hole in the ground) was not allowed to expand its operations to buy more farmland so as to use it to dump more toxic waste – however she was overruled by Labour Govt Cabinet Ministers. In this case the Finance Minister David Parker who is basically at the top of the pecking order along with David Clark (also the Minister of Health ) who is associate Minister of Finance. Both overruled her. However Murray states that since 2017 that this Labour lead Govt, of NZ First and the Greens has been doing something substantive to slow down the sales of land to overseas buyers. The Government now has a watchdog type unit that is monitoring sales. Called the ‘Overseas Investment Office’  - you must first check in with the OSIO to see if you can buy … listen or better still track the links below this article. Banking $10,000,000,000 of banking profits from NZers annually - from 5 million people. NZ's Four largest banks in NZ are Australian - These four Aussie banks constitute an enormous chunk of the NZ economy (and who is it who owns these Australian Banks?  Do they have links back to the UK or the US? Follow the money …. They are taking out of the NZ economy $10.3 billion dollars profit which is a substantial amount from less than 5 Million people. In the decade from 2010 up until 2119 they made $84.4 billion in profits out of satisfied NZers. Of which ¾ of this money left NZ. We discuss how the ASB the Auckland Savings Bank, once a very successful ‘Trust’ bank was sold off to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia - which was then privatised by the Conservative Howard, Australian Government. In NZ the many ‘Trust’ Banks that were here - were absorbed into Westpac of Australia. Only Taranaki and Southland remained sovereign.  We learn that Jim Anderton of the Alliance Party managed to start Kiwi Bank totally against the wishes of Prime Minister Helen Clark and Finance Minister Michael Cullen of the Labour Party. In 2019 we learned of ‘other’ tax havens such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Channel Islands which include Jersey and Guernsey, Dubai and United Arab Emirates and Island of Man – but the value of all their holdings have been suppressed as quote unquote – Confidential. That the NZ government refuses to let this information out. Listen ... we can go on becoming serfs in our own country or we can ask every political candidate why is this so?  Even Ex National PM John Key mentioned that NZers may become tenants in their own country. Not that he really made an effort to alleviate that. We also learn in this interview, how Labour’s Minister of Finance, David Parker is now making it more streamlined for overseas investors to buy into NZ. This is a shocker. Note that any purchase in NZ that is under $100 million does NOT have to go through any Government oversight – and they do not show up in the statistics! Murray gives an example – if the Auckland Sky tower went up for sale at $99.999 million dollars and someone from Russia, China or America wanted to buy it – that sale would not figure in any of the NZ Government books – it would just go through as an ordinary real estate transaction. (hidden from Public scrutiny) So you can see that the present Government has actually taken the goal posts away from the field altogether. This being done in plain sight by our generously paid elected Representatives who have run away with their own agenda by refusing to represent the interest of ‘we the NZ public.’ Just like selling our house or a flat or whatever … but in Australia it’s considerably higher - they have a $520 million threshold – so the Australian public are being shafted too. That all sales under that $100 million threshold, 'fly under the radar' and the NZ Government (your Government) for decades has been complicit in this. You would have to question that they are wanting to do away with our Sovereignty as a self-reliant nation! Have a good focused listen.  This is an Election Issue. In 2017 the Government put in certain breaks to stop certain countries coming in and bulk buying houses – Have a listen ... Australian and Singaporeans can buy a house in NZ today or many, because of the NZ/Singapore Free Trade Agreement and the Closer Economic Relations (CERA) with Australia, respectively. Note that recently the Australian Government convened a Royal Commission of Enquiry into their Banks (and the Insurance Industry) and have found very damning evidence of wrongdoing – but the NZ Government has declined to do the same – though the 4 largest banks in NZ are Australian owned. Which gives us cause to wonder … We hear from Murray that over seas insurance corporations take in profits of $38 billion annually. As there is an election here in September I asked Murray what questions we should ask Politicians in any public forum? Every candidate be asked about* – why the Government rushed through the Temporary  Overseas Investment (urgent measures ) Amendment Act – so that any foreigner has to have it run by a Governmental National Interest Test. This is to stave off in the situation that critical businesses and infrastructure cannot be bought out in a fire sale - if due to another Covid or other national disaster that collapse the economy  and then have a foreign entity or predator come in and scoop our assets up at a bargain basement price – an then exit the country … Now most countries globally have done the same and in Australia too. So* ask our political candidates to make this 'National Interest Test' - permanent – be it a farm or the Auckland harbour bridge – it has to go through that National Interest Test. Do you agree to that? That it be made permanent. Plus, to now make this to apply to transnational investors already operating in this country. Murray said that the Bluff Aluminium smelter would not have passed this test – saying they are a bunch of bludgers – he said if the National Interest Test had been applied to all the overseas banks in NZ – they would have failed it too. Also ask this question. Do you renounce the whole Neo Liberal Economic Model?This will let you see who is independent or who follows the party line.  Also mentioned that farms are being bought up and converted to pine forests – do we not need to keep the rural sector populated and have schools – villages and towns and the local infrastructure working sustainably - being robust? Other subjects covered. NZ sources so many of its medicines, pills etc from overseas - that a huge percentage come from India and this was compromised during the Covid lockdown - because we had all our eggs in one basket. The US too had 95% of its antibiotics sourced from China. Trump has certainly put a halt to that. Rio Tinto of Australia and what they did on the island of Bougainville was totally lacking in a social conscience. US Bases at Christchurch? It is exempted from NZ Nuclear Free Law, and NZ politicians will tip toe around it, trusting NZers will remain silent. That NZ Legalised spying on NZ – by the J Key Government The Global media program lies that NZ is an honest country, when it is definitely not. Murray states that CAFCA is also for Progressive Nationalism Versus Globalism. Wanting NZ to become as self sufficient and sustainable as possible. To remind you all. Find out that 10's of $Billions of holdings are hidden with direct NZ Government knowledge - so as to not be scrutinised by 'we the people.’ This is a giant scam and needs to become an election issue - and it will - with your help and assistance. What I didn't get around to asking about: Fishing companies in NZ. TPPA.  Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.  Anything we need to know? Water resources being sold off at a pittance to overseas entities. I have this link. To Aotearoa Water Action https://www.aotearoawateraction.org.nz/     IMPORTANT. Selling into NZ – Products from China that overtime deteriorate in quality. I apologise to readers, in my listening and poor note taking and writing them up coherently. It's just too time consuming and then to reread and rewrite so that they make sense takes hours and hours. Trusting you forgive me as it’s all voluntary. By clicking on the three below links you will be able to see the bigger picture. http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/key-facts.html http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/key-facts/cafca-key-facts-2020-with-notes.pdf https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/400417/green-rush-foreign-forestry-companies-nz-s-biggest-landowners   Next Week’s Interview Ray Broomhall On the deployment of 40,000 satellites in near earth orbit that will facilitate global saturation of 5G wireless frequencies - everywhere. The ramifications to human health, but more so to all biota in the biosphere. What health professionals are doing to educate the public and Councils so as to slow down and stop invasive technologies that have not been ‘independently proven to be safe. What we as families and community can do to protect our health and well being.

Jason Elsegood was born and raised in Darwin, he has an Indigenous mother and an Anglo-Australian father. Cross Cultural Consultants is a business started by his father and one that Jason now runs. It’s a unique business that builds bridges between local businesses and Indigenous Australians providing better outcomes through deeper cultural understanding. Jason talks about his life growing up in Humpty Doo, going to school in Darwin and Sydney, working his way up from delivery driver to running a successful business that is making a difference to the lives of many Territorians. This is his Territory Story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/territorystory/message

This is Calling the Shots, a six-part documentary podcast telling the story of a century of cricket commentary. Welcome to episode two, where Daniel Norcross and Adam Collins go right back to the origins of cricket broadcasting, to the very first commentaries between the wars when radio was the only way to keep up and television is a pipe dream.  To help us tell that story, we have David Frith, the masterful Anglo-Australian historian and archivist, Jim Maxwell, the voice of cricket on the radio in Australia, and Peter Baxter, who spent four decades working as a producer and broadcaster on BBC’s Test Match Special Calling the Shots is produced in partnership with The Pinch Hitter, a fabulous new initiative from the same people who bring you The Nightwatchman. The digital mag comes out once a fortnight, chock-full of contributions from some of the best freelance writers in the world. It is being made on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis, with all financial contributions going back into commissioning more brilliant cricket writing. Subscribe at thenightwatchman.net. Thanks to Jay Mueller at Bad Producer Productions for making this show possible. Calling the Shots is another proud member of the Bad Producer family. For more of their shows, jump on badproducerproductions.com. And thank you to our partners. To subscribe to the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, visit www.wisdenalmanack.com/subscribe. The excellent 2020 edition is on sale now (including in audiobook!) at www.wisdenalmanack.com/2020. And to learn more about the Lord’s Taverners vital work in the community, take a look at www.lordstaverners.org.   Support the show: https://patreon.com/thefinalword See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dig and dig and dig and diggety, Dig and dig and dig and diggety. An Anglo-Australian multinational mining corporation has been accused of human rights violations by the Human Rights Law Centre - an independent organisation promoting and protecting human rights in Australia. This mining multinational was exploring a mine in the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea when it was abandoned in 2016 - without closing it. For further informations, other cases and legal news, listen to our podcast this week! Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. - Coty Germany v. Amazon; - UK Supreme Court on European Union Jurisdiction; - COVID-19: A Medical Supplies and Equipment War.

Does any gay icon better illustrate the Anglo-Australian tapestry of Aural Fixation than Kylie Minogue? Just why it took so long for us to sit down with the Princess of Antipodean Pop is unexplainable and inexcusable, but we’re here now, spinning around, so ploise move out of our way. After blazing through the late 80s as Stock Aitken Waterman’s poster girl and notching up four UK number ones, Kylie found herself at a reinvention crossroads in the early 90s, trialling different sounds and images over various albums and record labels. Struggling to find her place in the music industry took its toll and was followed by personal losses and a bout of depression, so at the new millennium’s dawn, Ms. Minogue saw fit to strap on the gold hot pants for a triumphant comeback – in the shape of a love letter to the disco ball. We know Kylie’s a gay icon, you know Kylie’s a gay icon, we all know she’s got a stonking arse and a back catalogue to rival any pop queen of reinvention, but what’s so special about Light Years? Where does it sit in her journey, why did it have the impact it did, and why is she so universally adored? Is she even universally adored? One thing we learn and agree on pretty early is that Kylie Minogue is not all she might initially seem, and is certainly not to be underestimated. Our Spotify companion playlist features pretty much every song and artist mentioned in the episode, as well as some Kylie nuggets we know you’ll enjoy. Follow the pod on Instagram at @auralfixationpodcast, or the boys on @drew_down_under and @andrewdoyouthinkyouare. Or go retro and email us! auralfixationpodcast@gmail.com for ya nerve. PS a huge shout out to Richard Croft, the creator of many an online pop treasure trove, but specifically the Impossible Princess episode of his Into the Groove podcast, and endorse it as a wonderful follow-up episode to... this one!

We’re continuing our look at the convict era, in particular, the experiences of women convicts who passed through the Cascades Female Factory, in Hobart, Tasmania. After serving their sentences, many became successful members of their communities, and they are representative of the convict women who can be regarded as the literal mothers of the early Anglo-Australian society here. (58 mins)  www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au Brilliant stories from Australia’s past! Help support the show

In this special episode of Coffee House Shots, James Forsyth talks to Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia. They discuss Britain's Brexit showdown, what an Anglo-Australian trade deal could look like, and the geopolitical threat of China in a post-Brexit world. Coffee House Shots is a series of podcasts on British politics from the Spectator's political team and special guests. Brought to you daily, click here (https://audioboom.com/dashboard/4905581) to find more episodes that are not released on Spectator Radio.

In this special episode of Coffee House Shots, James Forsyth talks to Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia. They discuss Britain's Brexit showdown, what an Anglo-Australian trade deal could look like, and the geopolitical threat of China in a post-Brexit world.

Multi-award winning Anglo-Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for making large scale movies on small scale budgets, Brian Trenchard-Smith, has a fan in Quentin Tarantino, who referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as one of his favorite directors. The post Brian Trenchard-Smith appeared first on Storybeat with Steve Cuden.

It's State of Origin #2 on Sunday, but 50 years ago the same intense focus would have been on a Great Britain v Australia Ashes series. This week's episode looks at why Origin overcame the Ashes and explores the history of Anglo-Australian rugby league. Discover how rugby league explains Australia's changing relationship with its former 'Mother Country'! For more on the history of rugby and the other football codes, follow me on Twitter @collinstony and at www.rugbyreloaded.com

The England Rugby Podcast: O2 Inside Line gets up close and personal with prop Alec Hepburn as Vernon Kay talks to him about his life and career from having Harry Williams as a landlord, his love of muscle cars and how he had to adapt to life in England from a young age. The podcast also hears from Red Roses duo Rachael Burford and Vicky Fleetwood as they take the Three Tracks challenge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, The Spirit is back in Darwin for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Anglican diocese in the Northern Territory. We hear how the Church is dealing with same-sex marriage, the ordination of women and domestic violence. And, continuing our series on Muslim women who’ve ‘married out’ of the faith, we hear from Nasya, who fell for her Anglo-Australian boss.

This week, The Spirit is back in Darwin for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Anglican diocese in the Northern Territory. We hear how the Church is dealing with same-sex marriage, the ordination of women and domestic violence. And, continuing our series on Muslim women who’ve ‘married out’ of the faith, we hear from Nasya, who fell for her Anglo-Australian boss.

William Buckley, who would at various times also be known as "The Wild White Man" and "The Anglo-Australian giant", was a man who bore little respect for convention, authority, nor the confines of society. Over the course of his life his experiences would range from fighting in the Napoleonic wars, sailing across the globe, and spending a significant part of his life living in the Australian bush, prior to the settlement of the continent's south-east. After him, the expression "you've got Buckley's chance" has come to describe having no chance for success, or endurance. So was his life a success or failure?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's podcast features the return of 'Drawn Out', our monthly comics segment withBernard Caleo. Bernard introduces us to new Australian indie comicEyes Too Dry by Jessica Tavassoli and Alice Chiplin, described as "a graphic memoir about heavy feelings". Richard and Bernard discuss old Doctor Who, new Flintstones andDark Hope Essence, the latest in the Dark Hope series with a story by Sabine Schmidt and illustrated by Philip Spinks.Curator of the Monash Gallery of ArtStephen Zagalajoins Richard to talkUnder the sun:Reimagining Max Dupain's 'Sunbaker'. This 1930s imageiswidely recognised as iconic to Anglo-Australian culture and in this exhibition 15 contemporary Australian artists from diverse ages, gender and ethnic backgrounds are invited to respond to the photograph. The results are a mixture of sculpture, photography, abstract and faithful, examining the current culture of Australia in relation to this classic image.It's almost time for the Melbourne Cabaret Festival again, and this year stalwart of Australian cabaretDolly Diamond is taking the reins as Artistic Director. Dolly joins Richard to give a preview of the wide girth of the festival this year, as well as her particular interests in cabaret as an art form. Fabulous!

Money, migration, marriage: After talking to many Anglo-Australian couples while researching her book ‘Marriage Money’, this week’s guest Supriya Singh shows that couples share financial matters not only because it’s practical, but as a way to express commitment in their relationships. Parents may financially support children long into adulthood as a sign of care and support. Yet for many migrant families in Australia, money moves both ways, with adult children also sending money back to their families in the Global South as remittances. Money is many things - sometimes it’s about need, but often it’s about giving gifts, meeting obligations, and showing love. And the different ways that men and women express love, power and control with money are central talking point in this week’s wide ranging show all about money and relationships.

Jules: A high-noon nightmare collision between the vestiges of high-minded European culture and the alien landscape of inland Australia. Rationality is discarded as our Anglo-Australian everyman descends into an inferno of instinctual drives, unquestioned customs, and murderous violence. But, amongst the beer-swilling and paddock-bashing, is anything as it seems?  David: A changing of the guard in Australian thespianism, featuring Jack Thompson in his first cinema role and Chips Rafferty in his last. It’s a great swan song by Rafferty, upsidedowning everything he’d done before. But Wake In Fright goes much further, upending the entire Australian dream into one of the more harrowing journeys into biblical Hell ever put to film. Of those even aware of it, many regard Wake In Fright as the greatest Australian film ever made, but its particular brutality and antithetical perversity put it in a class that begs no comparison.