Podcast appearances and mentions of asher wolf

Hooning with the Katter Party. Emerald and Tom start with a recap of some of the week's news. The LNP had their annual conference and the Brisbane Lord Mayor has lost his mind in existential fear of Jonno and the Greens. Then Mehreen Faruqi's hypocrisy and koalas story - was it a stitch up? And Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O'Connor had an unusual retirement announcement. Then, they are joined by Asher Wolf, grassroots campaigner and one of the people most responsible for ending robodebt! What has the toll been and what comes next? And why is Bill “What we've increased the rate would already be far greater than what I think the Commissioner would imagine” Shorten gaslighting us about following the RC's recommendations? Finally, a call to action. Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU  Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and check out all our bonus Patreon eps with guests like Geraldine Hickey, Max Chandler-Mather, Michael Berkman, Wil Anderson, Cam Wilson, Tom Tanuki and Jon Kudelka, and deep dives into topics like THE GIANTS movie and the life of Bob Brown, when Friendlyjordies owned us, war crimes, vaping, psychedelic-assisted therapy, killer robots (with Emerald's sister!), a debrief of the 2022 federal results, whether the Greens are too woke, the 18-year plan for Greens government, whether lawns should be banned, Greens memes, bad takes, Joe Hildebrand's small brain, CPAC, Aussie political sketch comedy, internal Greens party shenanigans, and whether a Greens government would lead to the apocalypse. https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU  Links - Follow https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf  Australian Unemployed Workers Union - https://unemployedworkersunion.com/  Save Barak Beacon campaign - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T8A2HxDzYkXH4q5MIAOeb6SlC1diMr7L/view  https://chuffed.org/project/savebarakbeacon  Summary of the Robodebt RC findings - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/07/robodebt-royal-commission-final-report-what-did-it-find-and-what-will-happen-next  7am Podcast series on Robodebt - https://7ampodcast.com.au/  Ask us a question for an upcoming Q&A ep! Send 30 second-ish voice memos and Tom impressions to - hello@seriousdangerpod.com  Produced by Michael Griffin Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Patreon @SeriousDangerAUSupport the show: http://patreon.com/seriousdangerauSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines Julia Bak is a queer, takatapui writer based in Narrm. Julia joins us to speak about the Disability Justice Network - a newly formed grassroots collective which has created a national mutual aid fund to provide support to marginalised disabled people.   El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins us to discuss the delayed introduction of independent assessments to the NDIS, what  disability communities are actually calling for in the scheme and the Covid-19 vaccine roll out for disabled folks.   Sam Guerra is a queer, non-binary Primary School teacher. They join us to discuss the fight against NSW One Nation MP Mark Latham's anti-trans Education Legislation Amendment 2020 (Parental Freedoms) Bill, which is currently before NSW parliament. Sign the petition pushing back against the Bill here, and find out more about future actions here. Asher Wolf is a founder of CryptoParty and an Amnesty Australia 'Humanitarian Media Award' recipient. Asher spearheaded the campaign against Robodebt which began in 2016 due to the Federal Government's plan to prevent fraud and recover debt from welfare recipients. They join us to speak about vanishing Centrelink debts and Roboplanning logics of NDIS reforms.  SongsStranger - Dallas Woods ft. Kee’ahnRole Models - Kobie Dee  

This podcast is recorded on the lands of the Dharug, the Boon wurrung and Wurundjeri of Kulin nation, the Gadigal of Eora nation, and the Dharawal. We pay our respects to elders past and present and acknowledge the elders of tomorrow. This land was stolen and sovereignty was never ceded, Australia owes a debt that can never be repaid and must come to terms with the historic and ongoing genocide of the First Nations. There is no revolution without Treaties. G'day voters and welcome to the show notes for the eighth episode of 2020; we are 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation. It's been a while between drinks, but we are back with an interview recorded in May, which has remained unusually prescient for our particular brand of shitposting. Our plus guest this week is Asher Wolf: journalist, unionist, feminist, disability and digital rights advocate, and one of the most connected and online people you are ever likely to meet. Find us on Twitter: @3whiteguyspod Full shownotes available at shutupandreadthis.com

We dissect the media's preferential coverage of the covid crisis, the Labor party response to climate change and how big business is more interested in making money than keeping their workers alive. Media watchAfter getting horny for Premier Dan Andrews, the columnist class are getting wet for Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.Economics writer the Age wants to force people to lose weight to earn welfare payments.The media identified, doxxed and vilified two black women.This stands in contrast to the media’s treatment of white people who have broken Covid restrictions.Climate infiltrationJoel Fitzgibbon, the Labor party’s Shadow Resources minister, thinks that that Labor party has been infiltrated by the greens.The Victorian government has pushed back an update to emission targets, again.Money problemsIf you withdraw money from your Superannuation, you may not be able to claim Jobkeeper payments.JBS Meat Processing, the site of a Covid outbreak, has been caught forcing workers to take annual leave instead of sick leave.The Spotless laundry in Dandenong also tried to force workers to work in unsafe conditions. The workers went on strike, and forced Spotless to withdraw it’s complaint with the Fair Work commission.Kathryn Campbell, the secretary of the Department of Social Services, says she doesn’t know what Robodebt is. Asher Wolf has the receipts, showing her answering questions about robodebt multiple times in the past.Kathryn Campbell was appointed to Julia Gillard, and oversaw the cuts to single mother’s parenting allowances.Aged care?Scott Morrison told aged care providers to open up for visitors “or the commonwealth would get involved”.…while withdrawing his own mother from aged care.The Federal Government’s own commission into aged care found that funding to aged care is $13-26 billion short of what it should be.Federal Health Minsiter Greg Hunt took personal offence at Dan Andrew’s calling out of the running of aged care.ActionsHelp support the Woolworths Wyong Strike Fund.

We talk about Victoria's lockdowns of public housing tower blocks, cops making drugs and the Morrison government's ongoing quest to shut down Jobkeeper as soon as they can. Lock down the block3000 people in low-income government housing tower blocks are completely locked down, immediately, with no notice.500 police are going to be deployed to guard the tower blocks. One cop for every 6 people.A day after announcing the lockdown, residents were told they would be provided with income support, food and medical support.Unsafe practices, poor communication and language barriers play a large part in refusal of tests.For-profit operation of quarantine hotels has caused the spread of Covid in Victoria.Jounalist Megan Clement has a good thread running down the unsafe practices in quarantine hotels.Buying votes with missilesThere was an election in Eden-Monaro, which Labor won by a hair.McKinley with the Good Take.Before the election, the government announced $270B in new funding in for defense, including massive upgrades for military facilites in Eden-Monaro.Drug copsSenior NSW police officers are under investigation for manufacturing and selling their own drugs.Adelaide cops have been given assault rifles to deal with “terrorism”.Less-lethal weapons are still lethal.Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has avoided being found in contempt of court by denying a visa to an illegally detained refugee.The Australian Immigration Minister has basically carte-blanche power to accept or deny requests.Killing JobkeeperScott Morrison is determined to kill the Coronvirus Jobkeeper payments.The government’s claims that people are turning down work due to the Jobkeeper payments are simply untrue.With Australia’s record unemployment rates, there are simply many, many people looking for work.As reported by Asher Wolf, repayments for money stolen by the illegal Robodebt going to be made in instalments.Gas is the new coalFossil fuel companies are using instagram influencers to push gas cooking and hot water.Yoga mums are doing gas fire yoga.ActionsFollow and donate to RISE Refugee

In 2016 the Federal Government quietly rolled out the Online Compliance Intervention. It would later become known as Robodebt because of its automatic debt recovery process.Income data matching isn't new. The Department of Human Services has been comparing data submitted to the Australian Taxation Office, with earnings reported to Centrelink, as far back as 2004. But this time around it was different. The onus was no longer on a department official to cross-check for inaccuracies. Now it was on the individual to prove they didn't owe money.This week on Women on the Line we hear about the dirty business of robodebt - a scheme that left thousands of Australians drowning in debt, with many more sadly pushed over the edge.To help us make sense of this scheme we reached out to Asher Wolf, one of the more recognizable faces behind the campaign to end robodebt. 

MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE NOW: https://bitly.com/ARF_MICFPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear Well, Dan lost the show. Always eject the disk properly people!We lost the show! But we still have a podcast! Chock a block of content. (03:30) Sponsorship announcement: Local Newspapers. (05:25) We speak with journalist Asher Wolf about how people with vulnerable immune systems are taking coronavirus seriously. (10:30) And we speak with progressive comedian Francesca Fiorentini about the wash up of Super Tuesday and the way forward for Bernie Sanders' supporters. (17:50) Credits (19:00) Newsfighters on Coronavirus ____________________________TRANSCRIPTION by Otter.ai: Unknown Speaker 0:00G'day Dan Ilic, here from A Rational Fear. Well, we just had a great show. We had Christiaan Van Vuuren. We had Madeline Stewart. We had Louis Hobba. All in this space here at FB high radio, and we had a fantastic show. But I lost it. Yes, I pulled the hard drive out before I was meant to. And the whole show is totally gone. But the good news is we've got a stack of content to get through stuff that we have made earlier for the show. And I'm just going to put it together and run it for you right now. It's that easy. So before we play, the hits, are gonna let you know we do have a Melbourne Comedy Festival show. The Tickets are on sale. Now. We're about 30% 40% sold out. So probably in about five weeks time when the show is on will be completely sold out. So make sure you get your tickets for that. We're playing the Melbourne Town Hall on April six. One show only. It's a big show. We've got the ARIA award winning comedy Joe bridey and white from tonight late we've got the Walkley award winning Patricia vellus the Walkley award losing James Colley he writes for the weekly Unknown Speaker 1:00Multiple award winning Alex Fraser, DJ Dylan Bain with their Louis harbour and I will also be there we have been nominated for several esteem prizes. Also, we have a Patreon go to patreon.com forward slash irrational fear and give us some money. The show takes a little bit to kind of put on the road. So we've got a few expenses if you can help us do that, that'd be great. I would love 100 of you who listen to jump on Patreon and subscribe to the three bucks a month. I promise you we'll be delivering new podcasts that exist now and won't get deleted. Oh my god, I can't believe it deleted the first show back. This show is recorded on gadigal Land of the euro nation and I pay our respects to elder's past present and emerging sovereignty was never stated. And as I would normally say let's stop the show. A rational fear contains naughty words like bricks cambro fan and section 40 of a rational fear recommended listening by emerge your audience Unknown Speaker 2:00Tonight on a rational fear as the Australian Government prepares to ban cash transactions over $10,000 It leaves drug dealers with only one choice to buy and sell drugs with rolls of toilet paper instead. And the federal government has rolled out funding Australia's only dedicated bushfire Research Centre, claiming that there's no way to guarantee the prevention of bushfires in only marginal electrics. And after last year cutting $100 million from the CSI row, the federal government generously boosted their funding by 2 million to fast track a Corona virus faxing $2 million. So to put it in a way that a government minister might understand it's about the same price as a rugby clubs women's change room, wash your hands twice and don't touch your face. This is irrational fear. Unknown Speaker 2:58Like I said at the very top of the show where you Unknown Speaker 3:00We have a very short show for you tonight. First up, we spoke with journalist Asher wolf about what kinds of things people should really be stocking up on during this coronavirus pandemic. And from AJ plus MSNBC and the Young Turks, comedian Francesca Fiorentina, he gives us a taste of what young progressives are feeling like after the Joe Biden search on Super Tuesday. Also, we've got a great sample of news fighters as they wade into the petri dish. That is the corona virus. The first step it's 2020. And as well as the Patreon we also have sponsors. He's our first sponsor for irrational fear this year. Unknown Speaker 3:37Hello, I'm rupert murdoch, defender of freedom and owner of some of the world's greatest democracies. Therefore, I was a successful mogul of many media. I started out in just one local newspapers. Well actually I inherited from my dad, but that's beside the point that always used to say TV, gonna rock your mind. So I thought, that's how Unknown Speaker 4:00And I started Sky News. He also used to say radio doesn't have pictures and I thought that's perfect for ugly men with beautiful things to say. He also used to tell me you can't tear the internet into strips and wipe your ass with all he would have if he was alive fucking internet. So why not get hold of a news corp local newspaper today? We're specialists and providing two or three pages of inaccurate and poorly written local articles copied and pasted from press releases by 19 year old kids whose dreams of being real journalists will slowly fade. Mix in 50 pages of real estate porn for houses your neighbours don't want to live in ads for sex workers traders, secondhand car sales and third hand power sales and you've got yourself a local newspaper. Pick up a free local newspaper down Put on the nature strip or underneath a hedge new you today. Unknown Speaker 5:00On have a rain. Actually, we don't care if you do, we've already been paid by the advertisers. So they're Unknown Speaker 5:10fair. During the last taping of irrational fear. We did speak a lot about the crazy pandemic and panic buying that people are going through when it comes to stockpiling toilet paper. But you know, some people have no choice to take this stuff seriously. Here is a chat I had with someone who has to do just that. Unknown Speaker 5:31Joining us now is one person who has a real reason to be cautiously pragmatic. It's journalist Tasha wolf. She suffers from Ehlers danlos Syndrome and autoimmune progesterone anaphylaxis. She's basically allergic to her own hormones. And while she's actually a young person, even the slightest threat to her immune system is very, very real. Ashley, thanks for joining us. Unknown Speaker 5:55If someone who, whose body is actually probably more prone to this virus than Unknown Speaker 6:00But being still a young person how do you deal with all the jokes about missing toilet paper and things like that? Look on one hand there is some crazy cracking going on where people are right out there grabbing Kansas, you know my wife cheese Unknown Speaker 6:16but on the other hand it's a privilege to make fun of people who Unknown Speaker 6:21probably are at a higher risk of being seriously ill if they catch cruda virus but you have people who are like, you know, it doesn't matter to me like the 1% of people who are seriously ill who are going to die and I'm like, yet I'm one of those 1% who have low immune to skin issues. If I catch a general flu, I walk away feeling terrible. For months. I really like not to catch coronavirus. Unknown Speaker 6:45It's a risk. It's a real risk to me, but I also didn't want to go wild, I guess you could say with prepping, but I wanted to be cautious. The other night you put out a list on Twitter about things that folks with disabilities have to think about. Unknown Speaker 7:00During this oncoming crisis, what are some of those things that people with disabilities kind of need to consider when you're a person with disability quite often you have a very different experience of life and survival than the average Christian you know, you might not have the income to order Unknown Speaker 7:18on a regular basis, you may be allergic to certain foods, and it becomes quite hard to eat out, or you know, order a great because now even if you did have the cash to do it, then you're allergic to half of the things that get put in, you know, take away food, you really do need to cook for yourself, if you have some allergies and sensitivities say, for me, it would be completely it'll be both impractical and potentially cause me a good deal of pain if I was just you know, 100 or a noodle dish for demonstrate if I had to stay home. So there's a few people who I've talked to on Twitter, who said certain things going off their shelves like crazy like people are obviously Unknown Speaker 8:00bulk ordering. So they call doc storage. And then distortions that are used for online orders, things that they really seeing flying off the show. Nothing formula. If you're a parent with a small toddler quite often, you find that some toddlers have certain issues with like regurgitation, and they can only use certain sorts of formula. If you had a child like that. And it's already difficult to find the right formula. I would be stocking up as a parent with a child like that. I mean, to me, it's just if things go badly wrong, I don't want to injure myself tryna handle a trial and illness and your mid I had to to access any my schedule, right? You might want to have a chat to your doctor about the supply chain of short, sir, get you like drugs because it's absolutely awful to detox off those kinds of meds at home without support just because you want out and you can't get anymore. The other thing people might want to have a chat to their doctor about is is they have meds that are already hard to access. Unknown Speaker 9:00Kind of like acid to start building sometimes. And sometimes it takes interrupted for migraines you want to get for the packet when it comes to sumatriptan with trying to mimic acid dozle already some problems with supply chain, you might want to put aside a little bit extract or getting early research your scripts now because proximately 90% of our meds come from China and things not shipping as per normal contract. What kind of late time Can Can people still those kinds of meds on their own in their own fridge? right they weren't that's the problem. There's a thing called psycho script, which means that you get deemed a pharmacy if you try and take out certain men early. For one way around. It may be that doctors decide to order the script, put it in their own fridge and hold it for a month for patients. And then they can release it to patients when needed. But I think it would be a really terrible situation. If you ended up with people who are or IPS. You know, there's a range of skinny Unknown Speaker 10:00Drugs fortunate Unknown Speaker 10:03including palliative care patients. Unknown Speaker 10:17turning out to Super Tuesday, Joe Biden's search past all predictions and knocked the wind out of Bernie Sanders the sales. The most surprising thing of was, of course, was that Mike Bloomberg didn't win anything after spending $700 billion of his own money, except for American Samoa. Earlier today I spoke with Bernie Sanders Die Hard and comedian Francesca if you're intending on just how she's feeling a day after the bomb and wipe out Unknown Speaker 10:48in a bunker somewhere in California is a comedian and broadcaster too scared to face the reality of what could be the return to normcore 90s politics in the USA from AJ plus and MSNBC and TYT Unknown Speaker 11:00Francesca Fiorentina. Hello, Francesca. Hello? No, just Yeah, all the acronyms. I love it. Unknown Speaker 11:08I assume people know what all those things. Unknown Speaker 11:12It's the day after Super Tuesday in the USA right now or I, as I believe you call it woeful Wednesday. How is progressive America dealing with the news that Joe Biden could be the new daddy? Unknown Speaker 11:24Yes, it's it's Boxing Day for our hopes and dreams. And what the Biden pill has been, the vitamin pill has been one that's a little bit tough to swallow, because, you know, he is a very rapid, rapidly ageing, cognitively eating old man. And I know that's strange to say when someone like Bernie Sanders is in the race, but, you know, Biden has like regular mental gaffes. And you're kind of just like, I don't know if I want to watch this debate between Biden and Trump, which effectively is like you're in Unknown Speaker 12:00Laws arguing over who's going to carve the turkey with it? Oh, you gotta use an electric knife. No, you know. And that, I think is the fear that a lot of people are looking at like, Are we really going to put our senile old man up against their senile old man? Unknown Speaker 12:20And I don't know if our see no man's gonna win? Well, at least you know being from the left. It's a fair fight. No. And obviously it's not over yet. I mean, that's the big thing is that there's still more than half the delegates to get remember, in this country for some reason we have and just in this party, we don't elect the nominee based on popular vote. It's just this ridiculous, kind of wonky delegate math that nobody gets. And so there's still more than half the delegates. It's not over yet. Of course, a lot of folks are saying that young people didn't turn out to vote over Super Tuesday. Why is it that young people in America don't like divide? It's not cool, and it's long Tick Tock? No, it's got it. Unknown Speaker 13:00Once and this is a thing, Bernie or Biden will have to be big on Tick Tock and once they are, if they have a coordinated dance where every elbow jab also points to like, where the voting station is like that's, you know that that's when voting becomes cool, but no, I think Bernie, Bernie is the renegade Ben Bernie could do the renegade. He is the original Renegade. Oh, absolutely. Unknown Speaker 13:25I mean, I think young folks, I'm not sure about all the data. That's like one article that I saw that was like young folks aren't turning out. Unknown Speaker 13:32I do think that of all the young people, it's the Sanders campaign that has overwhelmingly the majority of support among young folks of all races, religions, ethnicities, etc. But it is a hard moment in your life to go out and vote in a primary, right? You're like, just starting to have sex and smoke weed. You are you're you're maybe in college, you're like, how am I gonna afford to pay for this? Also, I'm learning about Unknown Speaker 14:00colonialism. Oh my god. So you're like voting that feels stupid. So I think there's a lot of reasons why young people, especially in a primary are like I got, you know better things to do. Why would I vote without? There's only six on me? Yeah, I just exactly get it off. Now even though Mike Bloomberg did get in the race quite late, he spent half a billion dollars he did win American Samoa, what do American Samoans see him Bloomberg and no one else can listen. I'm pretty sure he bought the entire island. Oh, my mistake. This is the thing with every time there's a you know, there's an election and we're like, wait a minute, we still have American Samoa what like what are these like vestiges of colonial past that for some reason the US wields way too much power over and as like devastated and impoverished. And I think it is kind of sad to be totally honest with you that people aren't reaching out to American Samoa and then it was advertised Unknown Speaker 15:00Mint dollars, mostly that reach them. But it's hard to send canvassers out there or it's hard to get, you know, canvassers there. Listen, I'm happy to be sent to Americans and volunteer work on the very end. I thought that'd be fun. I would learn how to serve and cook barbecue or something. I think a hunger a hunger, I think I think they call it a honey. It's a barbecue in a pit. Yeah, a honey. Exactly. And we will barbecue the billionaire's roast them on an open flame. When Bernie Sanders gets into office. Obviously, that's what democratic socialism is about. At the time of recording right now. Warren still hasn't conceded she's still hanging in there. Why do you think that is? Unknown Speaker 15:40Yes, it's this is a very interesting for progressives in the US. Unknown Speaker 15:46And people out there just progressives, again, people want actually something a little bit different than then, as you said, a return to 90s politics, which is the Warren question and whether she should have dropped out sooner or not. I just want to say from the outset, like Unknown Speaker 16:00I distinguish between her supporters who I feel like, I'm not all but a lot of them, their hearts are in the right place. They do want, as she says big structural change. They believe that she was the best messenger and the best vehicle and the best leader for that structural change, I think after three or four races, and US states where she came in, third, fourth, and fifth, you can't really say that anymore. You can't really claim that she's got a plan for everything because clearly that plan should have included at winning at least one of the early states, whoever is running her campaign, and her herself. They've really been watching this. It's been hard to watch the heel turn away from Medicare for all the heel turn when she was swearing that she wouldn't raise the taxes of the middle class. And it's like, you know, that's a trick question. Elizabeth, like, you know, you were just being asked whether you were going to raise taxes on the middle class, just to Unknown Speaker 17:00appeal to a conservative voter who would never even vote for you anyway. And you kind of fell for it in the same way that you fell for a DNA test to prove that you were point 03 percent Native American. She absolutely needs to drop out now. And but we'll see. You know, I liken it a little bit to Game of Thrones, no spoilers, but you know, the generic question is like, which way is she going to go? How is it going to end is Khaleesi going to be on the side of good or on the side of burn it all down? And that would be I think, going with Biden, throwing the progressive movement under the bus, a rational fear. Knowing your viewers know how crazy Trump is, and they know that same people have to work together. Unknown Speaker 17:48You can listen to the full interview of Francesca on our Patreon. Also, you can check out Francesca's work on a j pluses news broke and MSNBC. Red, white and hurt now next week on irrational fear. Unknown Speaker 18:00promise we will have a show that I won't lose. Chris Taylor will be on the show from the chase bridey corner from tonight will also be here, and we're back weekly until our Comedy Festival show so please head to our Patreon and give us a few bucks to help us make the show cost us a little bit of money each way to make it a big thank you to Robert De gas Peter G. Jacob brown FBI radio and our fear mongers tonight Lewis harbour Christian Van Buren, Madeline Stewart, who have all got great things on that they need to plug including Madeline Stewart has got a comedy festival Sharon called the underdogs. She's taken to the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival. She runs a great night called crypts and crepes. It's for comedians who have got disabilities. And she runs it monthly at one of seven projects in Redmond. So do go check that out. We'll leave you right now with the latest news fighters episode on coronavirus from DJ diabolical Until next week, there's always something to be scared of, namely, pulling the USB disk out before it's free. Unknown Speaker 19:00fully exploited a rational fear and I haven't touched my face in weeks and weeks. This is News fighters. Unknown Speaker 19:10We fight the news so you don't have to. Okay, so first up, it's time for an update on the coronavirus and a New South Wales. Things are getting real health minister Brad has suggested that people stop shaking hands. I think it's time for us to stand shaking. It will be sensible not to be hand shaking, no hand shaking, no hand shaking. I mean, I think for sydneysiders this will be normal for us. I mean, our traditional grading when we encounter someone for the first time is just to get out of my way. So what is the New South Wales health minister suggesting we do instead of shaking hands then why would be suggesting to the community in New South Wales and a more morally afoot, the time that Ozzy's actually gave each other a pat on the back, you know, like your parents never gave you But it doesn't stop there. You could be exercising a degree of care and caution with Unknown Speaker 20:00Whom you choose to kiss? What no more indiscriminately French kissing my mailman and my barrister on a daily basis. Sorry Corey normal kissy kissy for you the new self was fun police have ruled it out. But New South Wales health minister bread has odd says there's no need to be totally alarmed. Common Sense should prevail. Unknown Speaker 20:19It's not as if faces are constantly touching public spaces. Yeah, except for this passionate fellow in Iran. This man is one of several who've posted videos of themselves licking a famous shrine to prove it safe. Yeah, he was just looking at trying to see if it was safe from the coronavirus. He wasn't still high from Mardi Gras on the weekend or anything. Meanwhile, around the world the authorities are saying there's one simple way to protect yourself from coronavirus. Wash your hands so you got to do we all have to be washing our hands. The single most useful thing that we can all do is to wash our hands washing my hands. This is Sydney we haven't had a public toilet with soap in it since 1998. All right. How long should I Unknown Speaker 21:00wash my hands for two times Happy birthday. Keep scrubbing until you've sung the Happy Birthday song twice. You know that song your parents never sung you to get the hand marching message out the World Health Organisation has joined us social media platform, tik tok normally harm to lip synching videos and dance offs. Here's a clip from their first video frequently clean your hands using an alcohol based hand rub product like in jail or wash your hands with soap and water. Boring who you should add some rap music or some dancing at least. Unknown Speaker 21:32New coronavirus Unknown Speaker 21:35Yeah, I did a bit of a troll through the old tik tok means and it turns out there's already the perfect tik tok Corona virus meme template. It's this one for when the government tells you you have to self isolate for 14 days, but you can't because you've never had paid sick leave in your entire life. You know, I'd really like to do that. But I don't have any fucking money. I don't have any fucking money. And if this is making you feel doomed, maybe that's why Unknown Speaker 22:00Doing this as the virus spreads, so too does the panic buying bulk buying at supermarkets as shoppers stockpile food essentials and toiletries. Yes, everyone is panic buying because of the corona virus. Or at least that's what I said when I ran into a workmate who caught me buying 10 frozen pizzas and four blocks of chocolate last night. Yeah panic buying coronavirus got a stuck up, but there's no need to worry everyone while the Australian media keeps us up to date and well informed with this smartest and brightest coronavirus experts. Well for more on the coronavirus emergency we're joined by nationals and pay Barnaby Joyce. Unknown Speaker 22:36This is Unknown Speaker 22:38where we fight the news. So you don't have to A Rational Fear on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tuesday Breakfast 25 June 2019 7.00 am Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am Chris Woods with news headlines7.30 am We speak to Hayley Cull, Advocacy Director of Plan International, about their recently released report regarding girls living in refugee communities in Beirut, Lebanon who are facing pervasive gender-based violence. 7.45 am We speak to Jessica Morrison from APAN to discuss Trump's economic plan for Palestine 8.00 am We speak to Emily Sexton, Arts House Artistic Director, about Future Assembly and how to envision decolonising the future through the arts.   8.15 am We speak to Asher Wolf about Progress 2019, disability rights, and accessibility issues in NGO-led conferences and spaces.     Songssong: The Divine artist: Mwanjesong: Energyartist: Sampa the Great   song: Garden Wall artist: Tasha Zappla song: Dombolo artist: Les Amazones D'Afriques 

Asher Wolf is a freelance journalist, social media analyst and internaut. She was a recipient of an Amnesty International Australian Media Award in 2014. Her history of campaign work and activism includes Occupy, the push to end Robodebt, CenusFail, MyHealthRecord opt-out, and the international privacy and security movement known as Cryptoparty.Asher is currently advocating for genetic diagnostic access and multidisciplinary, centralised treatment clinics for Australians with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.She is a sole parent and likes to bake in her spare time.You can follow Asher on Twitter at @Asher_Wolf.

Activism isn't always a choice, for many people in this world their very existence is a form of activism, for others activism is a duty they can't turn away from. The Resist panel at the 2018 Feminist Writers Festival was filled with a mix of both. In a rich discussion about what it means to work in the activist space, Santilla Chingaipe, Tarneen Onus-Wililams and Asher Wolf, dissect the words that come from their activism; how they use those words to drive awareness and change; and how they look after themselves while doing the important work.  Writes4Women are proud to be the podcast partner for the 2018 Feminist Writers Festival  SHOWNOTES: Writes4Women Web - www.writes4women.com Facebook - @writes4women Twitter / Instagram - @w4wpodcast Feminist Writers Festival  Web - www.feministwritersfestival.com Facebook / Twitter - @feministwritersfest Pamela Cook Web - www.pamelacook.com.au Facebook - @pamelacookauthor Twitter - @PamelaCookAU Kel Butler Facebook / Twitter- @kelbutler Santilla Chingaipe Web -www.santillachingaipe.com Tarneen Onus-Williams  Twitter - @Tarneen Asher Wolf Twitter - @Asher_Wolf

This weeks program is a May Day Special with a repeat of the Asher Wolf interview about her article Meet The Food Delivery Workers In The Decentralised Dickensian Online Gig Economy and what needs to happen to protect vulnerable workers in this deregulated service industry.  Also included is Australias riding to work history with observations about shearers bikes from The Argus Weekend Magazine (Sep 1945) & remembering MacRobertsons cycling history in Fitzroy.

This week Chris talks to Asher Wolf about her article Meet The Food Delivery Workers In The Decentralised Dickensian Online Gig Economy and what needs to happen to protect vulnerable workers in this deregulated service industry. Other news includes staying up far too late to watch Greg Van Avermaet win a particularly fast & very dusty Paris Roubaix, your input is needed to Help shape Yarra's future, especially in regards to cycling infrastructure funding and Wallan to Heathcote Rail Trail Feasibility Study.

Over the past five years, activism, like everything else in our lives has been changed by the rise of the Hacker/Maker culture. I have a look at two examples of those who build and use new tools to achieve what they couldn't do only a few years before. Asher Wolf is a curator and digital journalist who is using tools such as social media, video sharing sites and the like to enable her to build a narrative out of the rush of raw information. Boycott SOPA is an Android App put together in under a weekend, demonstrating the rapid development that activists can now take advantage of.