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Victor Kline is a writer and barrister who is the leader of a new political party, The New Liberals. The party was born out of a frustration that Victor and some close friends felt by the current state of Australian politics and the lack of any party that truly represented them. Here we discuss what Victor believes it means to be a truly "liberal" party, why they want to reclaim that name, the party's political strategy, and what I would argue is liberalism's limits: its inability to wrestle with questions of class and political economy.  I'm doing Dry July please help me/cancer research I went on "Miners Driving Teslas" with Daniel Bleakley and it was fun If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August There's an encore Sydney show of WE ARE ALL IN THIS on August 20th My two shows and special filming at Chapel Off Chapel have been rescheduled to August 27th & 28th @victorklineTNL newliberals.net.au ARTICLE: New Liberals' registration approved despite Liberal party objection over "voter confusion" ARTICLE: New Liberals leader outlines his party's politics Cause of the Week: The New Liberals (newliberals.net.au)

Luke McGregor is a beloved Australian comedian who co-stars in the ABC series Rosehaven alongside Celia Pacquola and presents "Lukenomics" on The Weekly. He's also my very nice friend and one time we got KFC together.  A month on from his appearance on Q&A alongside (now Nationals leader) Barnaby Fucking Joyce, Luke talks to me about the frustrations of public debate, why studying economics stopped him being a Liberal voter, and the ins and outs of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).  I'm doing Dry July please help me/cancer research  If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Plague, Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else will be published in December WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August There's an encore Sydney show of WE ARE ALL IN THIS on August 20th My two shows and special filming at Chapel Off Chapel have been rescheduled to August 27th & 28th @LukeWMcGregor Luke's Facebook page  Luke's appearance on Q&A Lukenomics explainer on MMT Free online event: MMT and the Media: Taking Charge of the Narrative with Luke & Bill Mitchell  Daily Mail article on Luke's appearance on Q&A Cause of the Week: Brightside Farm Sanctuary (brightside.org.au) 

Josh Callinan is the Secretary of the Retail And Fast Food Workers' Union (RAFFWU); a young fighting union which represents thousands of overwhelmingly younger Australian workers in highly casualised and insecure industries.  RAFFWU was set up in opposition to the right-wing "yellow" union the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (the SDA), aka Christian Porter's favourite union. In this conversation Josh explains just how bad the SDA has been for workers, the scourge of casualisation and how RAFFWU is organising for a better deal and a better future.  If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you This Sunday is World Refugee Day! Please help out the ASRC if you can My book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Plague, Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else will be published in December WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August There's an encore Sydney show of WE ARE ALL IN THIS on August 20th My two shows at Chapel Off Chapel have been rescheduled to August 27th & 28th @JoshCullinan raffwu.org.au RAFFWU's "SDA Facts" ARTICLE: Precarious workers held out to dry by Josh Cullinan ARTICLE: Australia's Youngest Union Is Organising Retail and Fast-Food Workers (in Jacobin) ARTICLE: Shopped Out by Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar Cause of the Week: RAFFWU! Join them yourself or spread the word (raffwu.org.au)  

Tim Hollo is a former staffer for the Australian Greens, is the Greens candidate for the federal seat of Canberra and works as the Executive Director of the official Greens think tank, The Greens Institute. He's currently working on a book laying out his theory of "ecological politics"; a a self-organising democracy grounded in the natural world and connection. Tim wants a politics seeks to go beyond the neoliberal capitalist status quo, rejects the far-right's "solutions" and avoids what he considers to be the limits of socialism. We discuss the details of Tim's theory, as well as his reflections on the Greens' strategy around Kevin Rudd's CPRS, how fossil fuel companies killing off the possibilities of climate action, decentralising power and why consensus decision making isn't centrism. If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August There's an encore Sydney show of WE ARE ALL IN THIS on August 20th My two shows at Chapel Off Chapel have been rescheduled to August 27th & 28th @timhollo greeninstitute.org.au Tim's writing at The Guardian OPINION PIECE: The End Of The World As We Know It by Tim Hollo OPINION PIECE: Tim Hollo on an ecological democracy where "everything is connected" and embedded in nature  Cause of the Week: IndigenousX (indigenousx.com.au)

Emma Dawson is an ALP member and a former adviser to the Rudd and Gillard governments on public broadcasting policy. These days she’s the Executive Director of the think tank Per Capita, “an independent, progressive think tank, dedicated to fighting inequality in Australia”. After very kindly providing me with a nice lunch, Emma explains where her politics come from, the Labor Party's neoliberal legacy, the role of markets in society and her passion for social democracy. She lays out the policy complexities with the #80ADay JobSeeker campaign and the tensions between idealistic, activist politics and brutal electoral math.  (Note: at one point I think Emma accidentally said Linda Reynolds when she was referring to Linda Burney.)  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I’m taping a comedy special across two shows at Chapel Off Chapel next week feat. my best jokes of the past three years You can see my show WE ARE ALL IN THIS at the Newcastle Comedy Festival this weekend WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August @DawsonEJ percapita.org.au ARTICLE: Unemployment doesn't just happen to "other people". It can happen to you by Emma Dawson ARTICLE: Centrist Joe is precisely the president America needs by Emma Dawson ARTICLE: Income support 'not the only lever': Labor's plan to tackle disadvantage The 2021 Per Capita Tax Survey What Happens Next? edited by Emma Dawson & Janet McCalman Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)

Jonathan Biggins is a legendary Australian satirist, actor and writer, who is currently performing his one-man show The Gospel According To Paul - a theatrical biography of the reforming Labor Treasurer and Prime Minister, Paul Keating.  I asked Jonathan about his thoughts on Keating's complicated legacy - the good and the bad - and how his (often arrogant, but politically effective) leadership contrasts with the shit we have today. We discuss "economic rationalism", the waging of culture wars and identity politics and Jonathan's grave concern about the effect that social media technology is having on our society..  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm taping a comedy special across two shows at Chapel Off Chapel in early June, feat. my best jokes of the past three years You can see my show WE ARE ALL IN THIS at the Newcastle Comedy Festival in May  WE ARE ALL IN THIS will be at the Brisbane Comedy Festival in August jonathanbiggins.com.au The Gospel According To Paul by Jonathan Biggins is on at the Arts Centre in Melbourne until May 23rd  It then tours to Bendigo and Brisbane ARTICLE: Scott Morrison wants a big, simply country. With Labor dumbstruck and blindsided, he's getting one by Guy Rundle Cause of the Week: The Actor's Benevolent Fund (actorsbenevolentfund.org.au)  

Richie Merzian is the Director of the Climate & Energy Program at The Australia Institute.  With Australia embarrassing itself on the global stage when it comes to setting actual reduction targets that might actually do something, this was a great chance to check in with where the climate debate is at. Richie lays out just how lacking our commitments are, what they should be and what other countries are doing, as well giving me the rundown on electric vehicles, carbon accounting tricks, just transition models, fossil fuel subsidies and the (relatively straightforward) path to addressing this existential crisis.    If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show WE ARE ALL IN THIS is on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival NOW – just 6 shows left! My new show WE ARE ALL IN THIS is coming to Sydney for two nights only in May Or you can see WE ARE ALL IN THIS at the Newcastle Comedy Festival on May  I was on the latest episode of the Confessions of the Idiots podcast and it was great fun Support Shane Bazzi's legal fund because he's being sued by Peter Dutton  This was a great article on my friend Naser Moradi, a brilliant artist who has been in Australian immigration detention for more than six years @RichieMerzian australiainstitute.org Hot Mess - Richie's summary of Morrison's performance at Biden's climate summit The US is charging ahead on climate action, so where the bloody hell is Australia? by Richie Merzian ARTICLE: Labor backs coal beyond 2050 RESEARCH: Australian fossil fuel subsidies hit $10.3 billion in 2020/21  Cause of the Week: The Juice Media (thejuicemedia.com) 

Hello! Sorry for the radio silence - I have been busy being too hot for TV and annoying Andrew Bolt. Apologies.  This week's ep is a slice of a conversation I had with socialist councillor Stephen Jolly and Leftist intellectuals (and previous LIASYO guests) Alison Pennington, Jeff Sparrow and Guy Rundle for Stephen's new podcast, Melbourne Calling.  We had a wide-ranging chat about the state of the Australian Left in the wake of COVID, the sexual assault crisis in Canberra, workers' power and ideology.  You can watch the full chat here. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show WE ARE ALL IN THIS is on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival NOW - just 6 shows left! WE ARE ALL IN THIS is coming to Sydney for two nights only in May Please watch my lip sync tribute to Greta Thunberg at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. We put a lot of work into it lol  @StephenJolly99 @ak_pennington @Jeff_Sparrow MelbourneCalling.com.au The Melbourne Calling YouTube page Cause of the Week: Pay The Rent (paytherent.net.au)  

Samantha Maiden is an award-winning journalist who's currently the political editor at news.com.au. In February, she broke the story of Brittany Higgins' alleged rape in Parliament House in 2019, which has since sent shockwaves through Canberra and the Australian political class.  I wanted to ask Sam about what's really been going on over the past couple of months: what we're witness, what it means and why it's different to the #MeToo moment from a couple of years ago. She reflects on Higgins' bravery, people wanking on desks and the Morrison government's attempt to respond to the ongoing crisis.     If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show WE ARE ALL IN THIS is on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival NOW! WE ARE ALL IN THIS is coming to Sydney for two nights only in May @SamanthaMaiden Samantha's writing at news.com.au ARTICLE: Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins says she was raped at Parliament House  ARTICLE: A new power has risen in Australian politics - and it's not coming quietly by Annabel Crabb  ARTICLE: PM caught in crusade of women journos by Aaron Patrick Cause of the Week: Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (rape-dvservices.org.au)  

David Milner is an award-winning journalist who now regularly writes for The Shot - a "profound and profane" news site from The Chaser that is consistently pumping out sharp, angry rants about the state of Australian politics and the sinister influence of the Murdoch media.  This was a great conversation about how The Shot was born in the fires of Melbourne's 2020 lockdown, what David learned from his time as a video journalist, just how toxic Newscorp is, how we could reject it, the ALP's lack of a fight and why right now is "a depressing time for people who give a shit about things".  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals @DaveMilbo theshot.net.au Dave's pieces at The Shot The Shot Store ARTICLE: How to eat the rich while social distancing ARTICLE: When Murdoch’s tabloid failed Liverpool the people kicked it out of town for good. What’s stopping Melbourne? 80aday.org Cause of the Week: March 4 Justice (march4justice.com.au)

Ricardo Menéndez March was elected to the Parliament of Aotearoa in 2020. He was born in Mexico, immigrated to New Zealand and eventually became a socialist, queer activist and anti-poverty campaigner.    Ricardo tells me about the motto he lives by ("Be gay. Do crime"), the neoliberal legacy of the NZ Labour Party, the gap between the Ardern government's rhetoric of kindness and the reality on the ground, and the Green movement's challenge to remain authentic and grassroots-driven, while still being productive and professional to make things better for ordinary people.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals @RMarchNZ Ricardo's profile on the Greens Party website greens.org.nz Ricardo's maiden speech Documentary: Someone Else's Country Cause of the Week: Auckland Action Against Poverty (aaap.org.nz) 

Jordon Steele-John is a disability and youth activist and has been a Greens senator for Western Australia since 2017, when he replaced Scott Ludlam in the Senate at just 23 years old. Here I ask Jordon about how parliament actually works and how it feels to be inside it as a Millennial Green. He explains why he's in parliament, his disappointment in the ALP, what being a socialist means to him, empowering young people, the fight for "ecological democracy" and the good and bad of the NDIS and the ongoing Royal Commission into the abuse and neglect of people with disabilities.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe and the Melbourne Comedy Festival I’m joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little’s Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @JordonSteele jordon-steele-john.greensmps.org.au ARTICLE: 'Aussie Squad' may be Labor's worst nightmare by Janet Albrechtsen ARTICLE: Tim Hollo on "ecological democracy" for The Green Institute ARTICLE: "We are sexual beings": why disability advocates want the NDIS to cover sexual services ARTICLE: Stuart Robert condemned for plan to deny people with disability access to sex worker services Cause of the Week: People With Disabilities Australia (pwd.org.au)  

Amy Remeikis is Guardian Australia's political reporter who writes the Australian politics live blog, covering the thrills and spills of Australian politics as they happen.  Amy joined me after another crazy week in Canberra, to reflect on the "Remeikis experience", why the political class sucks so much, what to make of the media bargaining code and Labor's strategy to win back Queensland at the next election.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe I’m joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little’s Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @AmyRemeikis Amy's writing at The Guardian ARTICLE: Facebook vs the media code: whoever wins, we lose by Lizzie O'Shea ARTICLE: Be careful what you wish for: government-mandated theft backfires as tech giant pulls pin by Bernard Keane  ARTICLE: Fine-tuning the message: federal Labor looks to Queensland as the electoral canary in the coalmine by Amy Remeikis  ARTICLE: Labor's wicked problem: how to win back Queensland by Christopher Wallace You can read Amy's powerful pieces sharing her reflections on being a survivor of sexual assault here and here Cause of the Week: Support your local florist! 

Dr. Evan Smith is a historian and academic who's extensively researched the history of the Far Left in Australia and the UK. Last year he released his book No Platforming: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech. I reached out to Evan last month after the whackiness of the storming of the US Capitol and Trump's removal from Twitter. We only managed to find some time recently for a chat, but this is clearly still a relevant conversation (as Trump is formally acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial). Evan lays out the history of "no platform" as a political tactic, the moral and political arguments surrounding it, the grey areas and its potential limits as a strategy for the Left.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe I’m joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little’s Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @evanishistory Evan's blog, New Historical Express You can support Evan's work on Patreon My interview with Douglas Murray on Tonightly ARTICLE: We're obsessed with 'no platforming' but aren't resisting the return of harder censorship by Jeff Sparrow ARTICLE: Evan reviews Jeff Sparrow's Fascists Among Us Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com) 

Luke Savage is a Canadian socialist and staff writer for Jacobin magazine whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic and The New Statesman.  I've always really enjoyed Luke's writing about US politics and political economy and was stoked that he joined me from Toronto to chat about Canada, the neoliberalism of Trudeau and the politics of Jimmy Kimmel's horrific "Goodbye Trump" animation video. I asked Luke about what the Obama years might tell us about the un-radical promise of a Biden presidency, the failure and limits of liberalism, why bipartisanship sucks and what might become of the Big Cheeto President now.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe I’m joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little’s Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @LukeWSavage Luke's podcast Michael and Us on Patreon Democratic Socialists of America Luke's writing at Jacobin magazine ARTICLE: Liberalism in Theory and Practice ARTICLE: In 2009, Pundits Predicted a New Progressive Era. It Never Came.  ARTICLE: Joe Biden Wants to Make Health Care "Secure For All." He Should Just Make it Free. Jimmy Kimmel's Goodbye Trump video Cause of the Week: The Workers' Action Centre Toronto (workersactioncentre.org)

Doug Cameron is a former AMWU trade unionist who served as a Labor senator from 2008 to 2019. He's now retired to Hobart, but still regularly tweets out exactly what he thinks about Australian politics and the state of the ALP.  After a week of leadership speculation, a shadow cabinet reshuffle and a lot of chatter about how progressive people should just shut up and vote Labor no matter what, I found it refreshing to talk to an old-school class warrior like Doug who articulates bold, socialist politics. We talked about his experience as a socialist working in the trade union movement and the ALP, why the party should grow a spine, the Corbyn moment and why he thinks joining the Greens is the "easy way out".  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe I’m joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little’s Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @DougCameron51 Footage of Doug Cameron's valedictory speech  Transcript of the speech ARTICLE: Doug Cameron was right all along by Bernard Keane Floodcast's episode on the state of Albo and the ALP, Damp Warm Lettuce Cause of the Week: Everybody's Home Campaign (everybodyshome.com.au)

Luke Pearson is a Gamilaroi man who in 2012 founded IndigenousX: a 100% Indigenous owned and operated, independent media, consultancy, and training organisation.  As January 26th approaches, I wanted to ask Luke about what he makes of the Australia Day culture warring, his critique of the #changethedate campaign, our national amnesia when it comes to our history and why we need to #changethenation instead. He explains the nature of the ongoing occupation of this country, what political action might bring about material change for First Nations people and why the idea of changing the national holiday is like a gym membership.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS – it’s on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe I’m joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little’s Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @LukeLPearson @IndigenousX ARTICLE: Why we need to change the date of Australia Day ARTICLE: Maybe we shouldn't change the date of Australia Day after all  ARTICLE: Why I no longer support #changethedate ARTICLE: Why we need to #ChangeTheNation (by Shiralee Lawson) ARTICLE: Why I was gutted when Australia applauded the anthem change  ARTICLE: We are One Nation?  ARTICLE: Remembering 1938 'Day of Mourning' declaration ARTICLE: 'We hereby make protest' - a history of 1938 Andrew Jakubowicz's research on "Harmony Day" CAUSE OF THE WEEK: indigenousx.com.au  

Oh hello. Happy New Year.  Amy MacMahon is the new Greens member for the Queensland state seat of South Brisbane after unseating Labor's Jackie Trad at the 2020 election. Amy tells me how her politics were informed by her experiences in Bangladesh and her mum's stroke of a few years ago. We discuss what running on a socialist platform looks like in Australia today, that stupid "Mean Girls" tweet scandal, what the ALP has become and how the Greens can reach out to the labour movement, as well as the Greens' priorities for Queensland in the year ahead.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you My 2021 show is called WE ARE ALL IN THIS - it's on sale now at the Adelaide Fringe I'm joining the (awesome) line up for Tommy Little's Big Comedy Show @ the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March @amymacsouthbris amymacmahon.com greens.org.au/qld ARTICLE: How a 'Mean Girls' Quote Became a Stupid QLD Election Scandal  Amy's response to the "Means Girls" quote nonsense Young Greens' panel: Should the Greens embrace socialism? ARTICLE: Thousands sign petition to investigate historic Aboriginal land sale (Deebing Creek)  Cause of the Week: Mums 4 Refugees (mums4refugees.org)  

It's the final ep for 2020! Thank heavens, etc.  JR Hennessy is a Sydney-based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Monthly and The Outline. He's the current editor for Business Insider Australia and he is smart and funny. I wanted to take to James about his thoughts on the wonders of 2020 and what (if anything) we can take from it. We discuss it all: people who consider politicians and health experts their friends, winning fights on the computer, "experts", OnlyFans, "dropshipping", logging off, whether the Millennial socialism moment is over and finding some hope for the Left in a post-COVID world. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/It's Over, everyone. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm performing at the Corner Hotel tonight (Tuesday) alongside Dilruk Jayasinha and Lehmo I’m coming to Brunswick Heads for a bunch of shows with Sam Taunton & Nikki Britton in January @jrhennessy JR's substack jrhennessy.com businessinsider.com.au JR's writing at The Outline JR's writing at The Monthly  ARTICLE: Who the hell cares what old people think about climate change? ARTICLE: World will be the same but worse after banal virus says Houellebecq Cause of the Week: Foodbank (foodbank.org.au)

Simon Copland is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Australian National University (ANU) who is currently studying the online "manosphere" on Reddit. He's written for the BBC, The Guardian, Fairfax and News Corp. and he co-hosted the Queers podcast with Benjamin Riley. Here Simon lays out what the "manosphere" is and why it exists. We discuss incel violence, male alienation, Jordan Peterson, the material conditions that leads to this stuff and the challenges of trying to understand it. Scrubbing the internet clean of these ideas clearly isn't working and neither is joking about killing all men; so what's the alternative?  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I was on the "What's Left?" podcast with Aimee Terese & Oliver Bateman I’m coming to Brunswick Heads for a bunch of shows with Sam Taunton & Nikki Britton in January @SimonCopland simoncopland.com queerspodcast.com ARTICLE: What are we talking about when we talk about a crisis in masculinity? by Simon Copland Simon's review of the politics of Joker Cause of the Week: MensLine Australia (mensline.org.au)

Ed Miller is the Economic Fairness Campaigns Director at the progressive activist group GetUp!. I wanted to chat to Ed about where GetUp! is at these days; the attacks being made on it by the Murdoch media, its recent wins and failures and its more explicitly anti-capitalist campaigning that I've been noticing recently. We discuss the way GetUp! works, why conservatives hate it, the power of its members and why Australian politics' obsession with "debt and deficits" has limited our political imagination. We also had a (quick) crack at discussing Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and why it matters. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm performing at Melbourne's excellent Comedy Republic this Thursday and Friday I'm coming to Brunswick Heads for a bunch of shows with Sam Taunton & Nikki Britton in January My 100th episode with GetUp! director Paul Oosting from 2017 @EMHMiller getup.org.au The Australian editorial: Every dollar you donate to GetUp! is a waste of money ARTICLE: GetUp!'s MMT push in Australia "fraught with danger" ARTICLE: Captain GetUp: conservative group's satirical superhero debuts to ridicule  A piece from MMT economists on inflation in the FT A video explainer on the basics of MMT Luke McGregor explains MMT Ed's interview with MMT economist Stephanie Kelton for GetUp!'s Future to Fight For podcast  Cause of the Week: Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network (seedmob.org.au)

Jess Scully is the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney as part of "Team Clover". This year she released her debut book Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World, which draws on her own experience and actual examples from all over the world on how people are doing politics, democracy, work and environmental action differently. Jess is a delightful, passionate and optimistic person who inspired me to shake out of my current cynical, black pill-ed view of the world (as Jess says, under neoliberalism, "We have internalised the impossibility of change"). We discussed why it's worth thinking about utopia and how we can get there, citizens' juries, workers' co-ops, the financialised economy and how the alternative ways of organising society are already playing out in the world right now. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I’m hosting Refugee Legal’s “Not The Annual Dinner” online event this Thursday November 26th, 7pm, feat. a keynote address by Behrooz Boochani. Book tickets here.  @Jessaroo jessscully.com teamclover.com.au Glimpses Of Utopia: Real ideas for a Fairer World by Jess Scully is out now through Pantera Press The New Democracy Foundation Cause of the Week: The Asylum Seekers Centre's "Open The Door To Hope" Appeal  

This week's ep is my conversation with a group of young climate leaders as part of a panel organised by the Foundation for Young Australians, Youth Action NSW and the team behind the Youth On Strike! documentary. It was a fierce and inspiring chat about about where young people's call for climate action goes to from here in a post-COVID Australia and touched on activism, First Nations justice and youth representation. It was a pleasure to moderate; I hope you enjoy listening to it.  The panel featured:  William from the Youth on Strike! docco and SEED Mob Leila, an organiser with School Strike 4 Climate Tish from SEED Mob Gauri from Outburst! Ishara from Climate Reality Timothy from Pacific Climate Warriors If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm hosting Refugee Legal's "Not The Annual Dinner" online event on Thursday November 26th, 7pm, feat. a keynote address by Behrooz Boochani. Book tickets here.  Watch the Youth On Strike! documentary  The Foundation for Young Australians  Youth Action NSW Seed Mob Outburst! Climate Reality Pacific Climate Warriors

Richard Cooke is a brilliant writer and commentator who's written for the likes of The Chaser, The Monthly, The New York Times and The New Republic. His 2019 collection of essays Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline painted a picture of "Trump country" and the factors at play in US politics over the past four years.  Richard kindly came back on the pod to reflect on the results of the 2020 presidential election: what a Biden/Harris victory means, just how bad the Trump presidency has/hasn't been, whether Bernie Would Have Won, the spectre of "wokism" (ergh), BIPARTISANSHIP and what this whole whacky episode might tell us about the state of the Australian Left.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you It's NAIDOC Week! I’m hosting a conversation with young climate activists in partnership with the Foundation of Young Australians and you can join for FREE  The Greens had a huge number of wins in the Victorian Local Council elections, including the first ever Greens government in my local City of Yarra. Join The Greens today (if you like)!  @rgcooke richardcooke.com Richard's writing on LongForm Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline by Richard Cooke ARTICLE: The Disappearing Man by Richard Cooke ARTICLE: Anthony Albanese on Rudd, News Corp, Trump and why he won't name a JobSeeker rate by Josh Butler Cause of the Week: Swing Left (swingleft.org)  

Osmond Chiu is a researcher with the progressive think tank Per Capita and editor of the Labor Left magazine Challenge. A couple of weeks ago, as he was giving evidence to a senate inquiry into issues facing diaspora communities, Osmond was asked by Liberal Senator Eric Abetz to "unequivocally condemn" the Chinese Communist Party. It was very weird and bad and Abetz has since refused to apologise and only doubled down. Here I ask Osmond about why that incident was so demeaning, why it matters and how we might consider Australia's relationship with China in a serious, critical but definitely not-racist way. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm hosting a conversation with young climate activists in partnership with the Foundation of Young Australians and you can join for FREE  My conversation with Max Chandler-Mather has been written up for Jacobin magazine I am very sad about what's happened to Jeremy Corbyn and I know it's complicated but please watch this video by the son of a Holocaust survivor that lays out how cynical the anti-Semitism charge is  @redrabbleroz osmondchiu.com.au ARTICLE: Locking Out The Left: The Emergence of National Factions in Australian Labor ARTICLE: I was born in Australia. Why do I need to renounce the Chinese Communist Party?  ARTICLE: Abetz's questioning tests our democracy You can sign Getup!'s petition supporting Oz here ARTICLE: Seeing red: Labor's China problem Cause of the Week: Union Aid Abroad (apheda.org.au)

IT'S A CROSS-POD, PEOPLE. My dear friend Greg Larsen has a new podcast about the dogshit state of things in Australia right now. It is good and funny and I think you'll enjoy it.  Greg interviewed me for his first episode and we covered it all: does the Left need to get better at falling in line? Is hating Murdoch more important than getting infuriated by the ALP? Why are the Greens wankers? To vote or not vote? Are YouTube comedians good?  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you @GregMLarsen Listen & subscribe to Greg's Big Aussie Revolution on iTunes Episode 131 with Greg Adam Bandt's address at the National Press Club and declaration of the Greens' War on Privatisation  Cause of the Week: Anti-Poverty Week (antipovertyweek.org.au)

Dave Eden is a Brisbane-based communist writer and podcaster who authors the blogs With Sober Senses and The Word From Struggle Street. He costs the anti-capitalist podcast Living The Dream with Jon Piccini.  In this conversation Dave explains what he means by the term "communism" and gives a fascinating anti-capitalist take on the Budget. We also discuss his piece for Jacobin on why the current calls for a return to Keynesianism and full employment won't work.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I’m proud to become an ambassador for Alex Makes Meals; check them out and help them if you can @withsobersenses withsobersenses.wordpress.com The Living The Dream podcast ARTICLE: In Australia, Keynesianism Is Back In Fashion - but It Still Won't Work by Dave Eden Cause of the Week: Sisters Inside's Fund For Children  

Joe Hildebrand is a journalist, broadcaster and columnist for news.com.au. He's a former co-host of Studio 10 and currently presents on 2GB and co-hosts the US politics podcast, I'm Usually More Professional.  In this wide-ranging chat, Joe and I discuss the first presidential debate and have it out over Joe's fondness for "radical centrism". Joe explains why he thinks "all governments are basically the same" and why he's worried about Labor being beholden to the "extreme Left". If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm proud to become an ambassador for Alex Makes Meals; check them out and help them if you can @Joe_Hildebrand The I'm Usually More Professional podcast with Joe, Alice Workman & Sam Dastyari ARTICLE: There is only one way Labor can save itself by Joe Hildebrand Cause of the Week: St Vincent de Paul Society (vinnies.org.au)

Wayne Swan is a former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. He's the current President of the Australian Labor Party.  In this conversation I ask Wayne about Labor's performance in the recent Newspoll, what it means for Australia to aspire to "full employment" out of COVID, the ideological war over superannuation, whether the Hawke-Keating legacy can be described as "neoliberal" and how he thinks about the relationship between the ALP and the Greens.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you @SwannyQLD Wayne's media as ALP President My interview with Wayne on Tonightly in 2018 ARTICLE: Sometimes, Too Much Is...Too Much by Wayne Swan ARTICLE: Already in this crisis we are slipping into over-optimism about the economy and over-pessimism about debt by Wayne Swan ARTICLE: Liberals tearing down the pillars of our superannuation scheme by Wayne Swan ARTICLE: Weakening superannuation is a once-in-a-100-year mistake by Wayne Swan ARTICLE: The Hawke-Keating agenda was Laborism, not neoliberalism, and is still a guiding light by Wayne Swan How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project by Elizabeth Humphrys Cause of the Week: St Vincent de Paul Society (vinnies.org.au)  

Kristin O'Connell is the Acting Communications Coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. With more than a million Australians unemployed in this time of recession (and depression maybe?), the AUWU has been coordinating a Mutual Obligations Strike and campaigning against the cruel reduction in the JobSeeker payment. Kristin shares her story with me and explains why unemployed workers are workers (and why the AUWU is definitely a union) and just how fucked up and privatised Australia's unemployment "industry" is. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Strike for Climate this Friday! Yeah!  @kristin8X ARTICLE: Australian Unemployed Workers Union calls for strike against ‘pointless and punitive’ job agencies ARTICLE: Australia's jobless to face mutual obligation rule despite few job vacancies ARTICLE: ‘It's a heartless decision’: Morrison government reintroduces welfare mutual obligations ARTICLE: New Disability Support Pension recipients down by almost 60,000 due to Gillard-led crackdown My episode with the AUWU's Jeremy Poxon Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com) 

Emma Alberici is a three-time Walkley-nominated journalist. She's the former Chief Economics Correspondent at the ABC and she worked as a foreign correspondent and the host of Lateline. She recently finished up at the ABC after 18 years; in September 2021 she'll release her memoir through Hardie Grant, Rewriting The Story.  In this conversation, Emma shares her thoughts on gender pay equality, unionism and the state of the economy. We reflect on her ABC career and the controversy surrounding the articles she wrote in 2018 about the Liberal government's policy to cut the company tax: how and why she wrote it, the (small) errors that were made, why the crux of it still stands up and why it matters. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I’m hosting a trivia night to raise money for the Yarra City Greens Local Election campaign this Saturday night. Come along. @albericie ARTICLE: Emma Alberici and ABC finalise details of their long and messy divorce  ARTICLE: Replacing all of our unpaid work would cost the Victorian economy $205 billion, report finds by Emma Alberici ARTICLE: Why many big companies don't pay corporate tax by Emma Alberici ARTICLE: There's more to jobs and growth than a corporate tax cut by Emma Alberici ARTICLE: Innovation is still the key to jobs and growth by Emma Alberici  The ABC's statement about complaints made regarding Emma's articles The ATO's Corporate Tax Transparency website ARTICLE: 7 charts showing Trump's tax cuts still haven't been the economic rocket fuel 'rocket fuel' he promised, 2 years after the fact (Business Insider) ARTICLE: Qantas boss accuses ABC of anti-business bias over Emma Alberici tax stories (Guardian Australia) Cause of the Week: Camp Quality (campquality.org.au)  

"Aysha" (not her real name) is a Kashmiri activist who advocates for the rights of those suffering under the Indo-Pakistan-Chinese conflict in her home country.  I've previously known very little about the situation in Kashmir and was grateful to Aysha for giving me a crash-course history lesson on the conflict and the 2019 escalation of tensions by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We discussed the nature of India's occupation, the possibilities of democracy in the region, the effects of COVID-19 and what others can do.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm hosting a trivia night to raise money for the Yarra City Greens Local Election campaign. Come along!  Kashmir: Explained by Vox Media (good summary of the history of the conflict)  Human Rights Watch articles on Kashmir Amnesty International Australia articles on Kashmir ARTICLE: Kashmir crisis: India's latest steps expose deep fault lines in Australia's Indian and Pakistani communities  ARTICLE: Leave Kashmir dispute out of UN, Australia urges ARTICLE: Does Australia have the courage to challenge India's defiance over Kashmir? by Lee Rhiannon ARTICLE: Faulty tests, poor contact tracing: COVID-19 fight in Kashmir myriad stumbling blocks  Cause of the Week: Stand With Kashmir Australia (standwithkashmir.org.au)

Guy Rundle is a political essayist, comedy writer, activist and the correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine.  Guy's been writing about the strangeness and politics of COVID-19. Here I ask him about what a collective virus means for certain political ideologies, what it means to be a "post-Marxist" and what he made of the Democratic National Convention and the possibilities of a Biden presidency.   If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Guy's writing at Crikey ARTICLE: How our lockdown reality became stranger than fiction by Guy Rundle  Cause of the Week: Free Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert (change.org)  

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This week's ep is a conversation I had with journalist and author Melissa Davey about her brilliant new book, The Case of George Pell.  The book was launched on Tuesday night and Mel kindly asked me to discuss its details and what the story and trials of Pell mean for us now.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you @MelissaLDavey The Case Of George Pell: Reckoning With Child Sex Abuse By Clergy by Melissa Davey  Cause of the Week: Broken Rites Australia (brokenrites.org.au)

It's episode 200! Hurrah.  Dominic Kelly is a political historian and Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University. His 2019 book Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia examines the activities and influence of four Australian right-wing single-issue advocacy groups: the H.R. Nicholls Society (focussed on industrial relations), the Samuel Griffiths Society (constitutional issues and federalism), the Bennelong Society (Indigenous issues) and the Lavoisier Group (climate change). All four groups were created and steered by three central figures: mining executive Hugh Morgan, his speechwriter Ray Evans and former public servant John Stone. It's a fascinating and (blackly) amusing history.  Here Dominic lays out just how far these four societies have pulled Australia to the right over the past thirty years, what the Left can learn from them and what it shows us about the role that mining interests play in Australian politics.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I was recently on another episode of The Little Dum Dum Club alongside the very funny Nick Capper Join me online in conversation with Melissa Davey discussing her book The Case of George Pell on Tuesday August 18th @dominickelly_ Buy Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics on Black Inc. Books Cause of the Week: Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)

Max Chandler-Mather is a former union activist and active member of the Queensland Greens. He was the party's candidate for the seat of Griffith in last year's election, where he increased the Greens vote by 7.2%, the biggest Greens swing in the country.  I find the more explicitly Leftist approach taken by Max and the Queensland Party really exciting because they're pushing good, anti-neoliberal polices and, more importantly, it's really working for them. Here I ask Max to explain how a democratic socialist like him is making this happen and why it's been successful. We talk about renters' rights, building the foundations of a mass party, door-knocking, selling "common sense and popular" ideas and the perennial Greens/ALP conflict.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I was on Twink Revolution again with the one and only Aimee Terese to chat about what the "Left" is Join me online in conversation with Melissa Davey discussing her book The Case of George Pell on Tuesday August 18th @MChandlerMather maxforgriffith.com Max's Facebook page ARTICLE: The Right to the City by David Harvey  The Queensland Greens policies for the state election announced thus far How Labour Built Neoliberalism by Elizabeth Humphrys  Max's writing at Flood Media Max's writing at Overland Journal  My episode with Emerald Moon  Cause of the Week: The Queensland Greens (greens.org.au/qld)

Alison Pennington is a Senior Economist at The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work. She has a Masters of Political Economy from the University of Sydney and she rules. After a week of changes to the JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments, the government's "mini-budget" announcement, a torrent of shitty "deficit politics" and some ominous talk about industrial relations reform, Alison talks to me about the state of play for Australian workers right now. We discuss the possibilities of reimagining the entire welfare system in this country right now, why debt doesn't matter, why working from home might really suck for workers' rights and what the future of the trade union movement might look like. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Join me online in conversation with Melissa Davey discussing her book The Case of George Pell on Tuesday August 18th @ak_pennington The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work The Follow the Money podcast Alison's report for the CfFW: Collective Bargaining “Reform”: What Does Business Want? And What Would Actually Fix the System? ARTICLE: In the Middle of a Pandemic, the Australian State is Pummelling Workers  by Alison Pennington ARTICLE: Woolworths to cut 1,350 jobs and admits it owes at least $90m more to underpaid workers ARTICLE: JobSeeker cut to push 370,000 into poverty, including 80,000 children by The Australia Institute ARTICLE: Jobless opt for dole as business struggle to find workers despite unemployment surge ($)  Cause of the Week: Living Incomes For Everyone Australia (LIFE) (facebook.com/LifeAustralia, on YouTube)  

Dave Donovan is the founder and editor of Independent Australia, a progressive journal focussed on Australian federal politics, democracy and economics.  In a time of a declining media industry slashing jobs left right and centre, I think supporting independent Australian media is vital, and I for one find it refreshing to read explicitly progressive takes on the news in IA. Here Dave talks about his background in the Republican movement, just how much neoliberalism has reshaped Australia over the past 40 years, class confusion, the overwhelming conservatism of Australian media and the attacks on the ABC.   If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Join me online in conversation with Melissa Davey discussing her book The Case of George Pell on Tuesday August 18th @davrosz IndependentAustralia.net IA's coverage of AshbyGate ARTICLE: Poll finds 62% believe our head of state should be an Aussie ARTICLE: What is really wrong with the country: 10 years of Quiet Australians by Dave Donovan  ARTICLE: Fox News banned in Canada? by Snopes ARTICLE: The palace letters: read the full documents from the National Archive here Cause of the Week: The Federal ICAC Now Party (federalicacnow.org)  

CW: This conversation involves discussion of sexual assault  This is the second part of my conversation with human rights lawyer and self-described "social justice witch" Sunili Govinnage.  Here we continue our conversation on what cancel culture is and what it isn't, privilege, oppression, intersectionality and class; topics that have certainly SPICED UP over the past week.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Join me online in conversation with Melissa Davey discussing her book The Case of George Pell on Tuesday August 18th @sunili sunili.net Sunili’s writing at The Guardian Ezra Klein's podcast with sujatha baliga on restorative justice Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher  Chapo Trap House's latest (patreon) ep on "cancel culture" with Matt Taibi is worth a listen  The Harper's Letter, On Justice and Open Debate ARTICLE: Arguing over the arts is sort of the point by Sami Shah ARTICLE: Overdosing on Symbolism by Ben Burgis ARTICLE: Beshear promises health insurance for all Black Kentuckians Cause of the Week: NATSIL's Stop Black Deaths In Custody GoFundMe Campaign

Sunili Govinnage is an Australian human rights lawyer and self-described "social justice witch" who has recently come to some realisations about themselves and their politics.  In the first part of this frank conversation we discuss her "decolonising journey", her focus on dismantling the "colonialist-capitalist-heteropatriarchy", anti-racism and cancel culture. We identify areas that we agree on and some points where we have different perspectives - differences that will be further fleshed out in part two.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you @sunili sunili.net Sunili's writing at The Guardian ARTICLE: Western Australia's King Leopold Ranges renamed Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges My episode with Dr. Chelsea Bond Cause of the Week: Stop Black Deaths In Custody GoFundMe Campaign

Sophie Payten records and performs as Gordi. She makes powerful, sweeping, personal indie-pop and last week released her sophomore album, Our Two Skins. I am a fan and it is good.  I wanted to talk to Sophie about her other job (she's a qualified doctor and has been on standby during the pandemic) and explore the political ideas surrounding her recent discovery of her queer identity and the loss of her beloved grandma. We reflect on the 2017 marriage equality plebiscite, the political stasis that Millennials are trapped and having difficult conversations with people who have different politics.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'll be on Josh Earl's Don't You Know Who I Am? podcast this Saturday: you can buy tickets and stream it here  Please check out the new comedy venue from my mates Alex Dyson, Kyran Wheatley and Alex Dyson, Comedy Republic @GordiMusic gordimusic.com You can buy Our Two Skins here Watch Unready here Gordi's supporting Bon Iver on their 2021 tour ARTICLE: Singer-songwriter Gordi by Nick Buckley (Saturday Paper) ARTICLE: Australian singer Gordi releases song to raise funds for the RFS  Cause of the Week: North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (naaja.org.au)

Dr. Chelsea Bond is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. She's worked and researched extensively in the area of Aboriginal health and regularly writes and speaks about race and racism in Australia today. In this conversation, Chelsea reflects on how the recent Black Lives Matter uprising has played out in Australia, her personal experiences with the police, the fierceness of Black women in this struggle and the intersection of racial power structures and class. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I’m performing at Easey Comedy this Thursday night, you can stream it via Zoom @drcbond Chelsea's radio show Wild Black Women on Brisbane's 989FM  ARTICLE: In Australia, black lives do matter by Aaron Patrick [$] ARTICLE: Dr. Chelsea Bond delivers a masterclass in Indigenous excellence by Nat Cromb & Luke Pearson ARTICLE: How to learn from Indigenous people about the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia by Tahnee Jash ARTICLE: 'Anger has the hour': How long must Indigenous Australia wait for change by Stan Grant ARTICLE: White skin, black squares by Sam Kriss  ARTICLE: Class is the new black: The dangers of an obsession with the 'Aboriginal middle class' by Dr. Chelsea Bond ARTICLE: If Black men could talk: why we need an accurate portrayal of urban Indigenous masculinity by Dr. Chelsea Bond Cause of the Week: Inala Wangarra (inalawangarra.com.au)

Andy Zaltzman is a British comedian, the co-host of the hugely popular satirical podcast The Bugle and (sadly) a fanatical cricket fan.  I've been lucky enough to become friends and work with Andy over the past five or so years and have been meaning to have him on as a guest for quite a while now, to laugh about everything in the world and ask him some (mildly) serious questions about his political outlook. Here discuss sport, statues, Fawlty Towers, the failures of the Corbyn moments, his "radical centrism" and the future of Brexit Britain.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm performing at Easey Comedy next week, you can stream it via Zoom This Saturday is World Refugee Day: please support the ASRC's Telethon Or you can join me and the likes of Najeeba Wazefadost and Craig Foster for the ARAN Online Forum "Imagining a More Welcoming Australia" @ZaltzCricket thebuglepodcast.com andyzaltzman.co.uk The latest episode of The Bugle with Nish Kumar & Nato Green, Statuesque Cause of the Week: The Sick Children's Trust (sickchildrenstrust.org) 

Gavin Stanbrook is a revolutionary socialist who hails from Gumbanyggir country on the NSW mid-north coast. He's a member of Socialist Alternative who's been campaigning for justice for Aboriginal families for years and who helped organise last week's #BlackLivesMatter protest in Sydney.  In this conversation Gavin tells me how about tearing down statues, the revolutionary potential of this moment, police violence, the tragic cases of Aboriginal deaths in custody, his personal involvement in the #JusticeForBowraville campaign and why he thinks the police should be abolished.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I was on the latest episode of The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman and Hari Kondabolu @StanbrookG  Gavin's speech at the 2018 Invasion Day Rally in Redfern ARTICLE: We can transform society in our interests if we unite to smash the system by Gavin Stanbrook ARTICLE: There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators by Amy McQuire ARTICLE: Aboriginal deaths in custody: Black Lives Matter protests referred to our count of 432 deaths. It's now 437 by Lorena Allam, Calla Wahlquist & Nick Evershed ARTICLE: Justice for Bowraville! by Gavin Stanbrook ARTICLE: Tear down Australia's racist statues by Rebecca Barrigos ARTICLE: Our cops are killers too by Jasmine Duff ARTICLE: Democrats are already trying to coopt the movement. Drive them out by Daniel Taylor Cause of the Week: The Justice for David Dungay Jnr. GoFundMe

Mark Seymour is one of the best singer-songwriters Australia has ever produced. He's the former frontman of Hunters & Collectors and now writes and performs with Mark Seymour & The Undertow. The new Undertow record is called Slow Dawn and comes out today.  Mark has regularly been outspoken about his politics through his music and public appearances, particularly when it comes to Australia's refugee policies. Here he tells me about how he approaches tackling social issues in his music (without being sanctimonious), why he's left-wing, wearing an "Asylum Seeker" t-shirt at the AFL Grand Final, his experiences in South Africa and how the tides of history weigh on us all today.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you You can see me on Stan Australia’s Australia Lockdown Comedy Festival – all episodes are streaming now @_MarkSeymour markseymour.com.au Mark on Facebook Slow Dawn on Apple Music Hunters & Collectors at the 2013 AFL Grand Final Cause of the Week: The Frankston Life Church (frankston.life)  

Tim Wilson is the Liberal MP for the Victorian seat of Goldstein and the Chair of the House Economics Committee. He last joined me on the podcast back in July 2015.  I wanted to talk to Tim about how he's found dealing with the COVID-19 crisis as a local member and his thoughts on the Morrison's government's economic response thus far as a well as a bit old-fashioned ideological argy bargy. We discuss the JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments, neoliberalism, government debt and why being a democratic socialist makes me an evil idiot.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you You can see me on Stan Australia’s Australia Lockdown Comedy Festival – all episodes are streaming now @TimWilsonMP timwilsonmp.com.au ARTICLE: Scott Morrison takes aim at Australia's industrial relations system, reaches out to business and unions ARTICLE: Tim Wilson: Freedom fighter by Tim Elliott Cause of the Week: Bayside Community Information & Support Service Inc (bayciss.org.au) 

Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and writer. He reported on Social Affairs for The Australian for years and is now the Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper. His memoir 100 Years Of Dirt - about surviving his poverty- and trauma-ridden childhood - has been a critical and commercial success. Here I ask Rick about issues he's been writing about of late - the conspiracy theories that have thrived amid COVID-19 and the new aged-care "Uber app" that's been given a multi-million dollar government contract - as well as his broader approach to journalism, the realities of poverty, how class works in Australia and the privatisation of the welfare state. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you You can see me on Stan Australia’s Australia Lockdown Comedy Festival – all episodes are streaming now @SquigglyRick rickmorton.com.au Rick’s writing for The Saturday Paper ARTICLE: How COVID-19 energised conspiracy theorists ARTICLE: A fraction too much friction (on Scott Morrison's approach to the truth)  ARTICLE: Exclusive: Gov’s $5.8m aged-care app offers ‘no duty of care’ Rick's articles for The Australian Rick's speech The Power of Money ARTICLE: Rick Morton found writing his memoir painful enough. Then he had to read it aloud Cause of the Week: Brotherhood of St. Laurence (bsl.org.au)

Rachel Siewert has been a Greens Senator for WA since 2005. She's the whip for the Greens in the Senate and her portfolios include First Nations Affairs, Family, Ageing and Community Services, Gambling and Mental Health. She recently chaired a Senate Committee into the adequacy of the Newstart/JobSeeker payment and has been fighting hard for the government to #RetainTheRate after the COVID crisis has passed.  In this conversation, Rachel explains how her politics are founded on concern for both people and the planet, the realities of our punitive welfare system, just how shitty JobSeeker is and why the Greens' "Invest To Recover" policy proposal - including a jobs, income and education guarantee - is the kind of bold response Australia needs right now.   If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you You can see me on Stan Australia’s Australia Lockdown Comedy Festival – episode one is streaming right now! @SenatorSiewert rachel-siewert.greensmps.org.au RN INTERVIEW: Are welfare payments entrenching Australians in poverty and unemployment?  SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT: Adequacy of Newstart and related payments and alternative mechanisms to determine the level of income support payments in Australia The Greens' "Invest To Recover" Plan ARTICLE: Greens demand job guarantees and free education for young people in coronavirus recovery plan The Australian Unemployed Workers Union ARTICLE: Adam Bandt, the personable hardliner by Margaret Simons Cause of the Week: The Australian Greens (greens.org.au)  

Dave Anthony is a stand up comedian, writer, activist and co-host of the history comedy podcast The Dollop. In May 2016 he correctly predicted that Hillary Clinton was going to lose to Trump in the presidential election. So yeah - he knows stuff.  Dave joined me from LA in the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD to talk about the death of American empire, what he's learned from history, his journey to socialism, the right-wing Democratic Party and why Joe Biden is really really bad. We laugh and also talk about the end of hope. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you You can see me on Stan Australia’s Australia Lockdown Comedy Festival – episode one is streaming right now! I'll be performing comedy to an empty room this Saturday night for Delivered Live and you can stream it if you like @daveanthony daveanthonycomedy.com dolloppodcast.com The Dollop episode on the Clarence Thomas hearings A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn ARTICLE: Biden And Sanders Announce Task Forces To Find Party Unity Over Policy Cause of the Week: Extinction Rebellion (rebellion.earth)

Jon Kudelka is a Walkley Award-winning political cartoonist who's been drawing for over 20 years. He drew thousands of cartoons for The Australian until 2019 and his work now regularly appears in The Hobart Mercury and The Saturday Paper.  Jon kindly joined me from Tasmania via Zoom to reflect on his journey to cartooning, the (minimal) influence that satire has on things, what he learnt from John Clarke, the deterioration and stasis of Australian politics, punching down, how compromised the ALP has become and how COVID-19 might wake people up to shitty free-market ideology.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you You can see me on Stan Australia’s Australia Lockdown Comedy Festival - episode one is streaming right now! THIS THURSDAY NIGHT I'm hosting this bingo night via Zoom to raise money for the Inner City Legal Centre which do great work for LGBTQIA+ folks @jonkudelka kudelka.com.au Jon's instagram Jon's cartoons for The Saturday Paper Jon's cartoons for The Australian ARTICLE: Data company that "helped locate Osama Bin Laden" recruits former Labor MP Mike Kelly  Cause of the Week: StreetSmart Australia (streetsmartaustralia.org) 

Celeste Liddle is an Arrente woman, a trade unionist and Leftist who's written for Eureka Street, The Guardian and SBS.  Celeste Zoom'ed me from her couch to discuss how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting First Nations people, over-policing and deaths in custody, culture warring about Captain Cook and the "Indigenous alt-right".  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Ads-Up are doing great work helping out refugees from Nauru and Manus Island who have been resettled in the US and are struggling during COVID-19 You can see me on Stan Australia's Lockdown Comedy Festival from this Saturday @Utopiana Celeste's blog Black Feminist Ranter ARTICLE: Vulnerable Indigenous man jailed over locked up by police in 'string of errors' during coronavirus pandemic (ABC) ARTICLE: Tanya Day inquest: coroner refers death in custody of Aboriginal woman for possible protection (Guardian Australia)  ARTICLE: Social responsibility means care for all of the vulnerable by Celeste Liddle ARTICLE: Why the term "Australian" can be an imposition on Aboriginal people by Celeste Liddle  ARTICLE: Cook wanted to introduce British justice to Indigenous people. Instead, he became increasingly cruel and violent by Shino Konishi endeavour250.gov.au  Cause of the Week: Djirra (djirra.org.au)

Adam Creighton is the Economics Editor for The Australian and has written for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. For the past couple of months he's been highly critical of the Australian government's economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has called for the immediate easing of restrictions. I asked Adam to sketch out his critique of the response and his concerns about its economic impact, as well as discussing the Swedish, economic "trade-offs", the "statistical value of life" (it's $4.4m, apparently), the joys of tax and what kind of changes he does (and doesn't) want to see once the pandemic passes.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I'm hosting QUEER LOVE IN for Equality Australia this Saturday at 3pm, featuring an amazing line up of LGBTIQA+ artists. It will be great fun, please join us  Please support Alex Makes Meals if you can: he’s providing free meals for healthcare workers! What a cool guy!  @Adam_Creighton Adam's writing for The Australian ARTICLE: Under 60, in good health? Crossing the road is more risky ARTICLE: Let's hope the economic train crash is worth it ARTICLE: We may be over-reacting to an unremarkable coronavirus ARTICLE: Coronavirus: Total shutdown may be too high a price ARTICLE: New Zealand claims it has eliminated coronavirus Cause of the Week: Alcoholics Anonymous (aa.org.au)

Mark Humphries is a comedian who regularly makes satirical sketches for the ABC's 7:30 along with Evan Williams. He always makes me laugh and I've been lucky enough to become friends with him over the past few years.  Mark joined me via Zoom from deep in the heart of the ABC to discuss his politics, his (haphazard) journey into comedy (featuring some stories involving ME!!!), Mark Latham and the state of Australian right-wing media craziness and the limits of satirising it. We had a good ol' giggle and we barely talked about coronavirus at all.   If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you Please support Alex Makes Meals if you can: he's providing free meals for healthcare workers! What a cool guy!  My discussion with Refugee Legal Executive Director David Manne about the challenges people seeking asylum face in COVID-19 - please support them at refugeelegal.org.au @markhumphries Mark's twitter account about musical theatre is @MarksMusicals Mark's satire for 7:30 His sketch on The Greta Thunberg Helpline Mark on The Roast VIDEO: Bogan Train Trip Girl Australia Cause of the Week: Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia (msra.org.au)

Nick McKim is a Tasmanian senator and the co-deputy leader of The Australian Greens.  He joined me via Zoom (sorry) from Tasmania to discuss the Morrison government's (sometimes okay but generally shitty) response to the COVID crisis, the neoliberal Labor Party, how this pandemic affects folks in immigration detention and the current Greens' plebiscite on the election of the federal leader.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’re a Greens member who supports the One Member One Vote model for leadership election, please consider adding your name to this open letter @NickMcKim Nick's page on the Greens' website Join The Greens (if you like) Information about the Greens' leadership plebiscite ARTICLE: The Greens are founded on the principle of grassroots democracy - the leadership vote should be no exception by Michael Berkman, Mehreen Faruqi, Tammy Franks, Tim Hollo & Scott Ludlam ARTICLE: As former Greens leaders, we ask members not to shut the party room out of leadership votes by Bob Brown, Christine Milne & Richard Di Natale ARTICLE: It's out decision: electing the parliamentary leader by Dylan Griffiths ARTICLE: So how much power does the leader of the Australian Greens actually have? by Jonathan Sri  If you’re a Greens member who supports the One Member One Vote model for leadership election, please consider adding your name to this open letter VIDEO: Why the Green New Deal matters Causes of the Week: The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc.org.au), The Unemployed Workers' Union (unemployedworkersunion.com) 

Tash Heenan and Anna Sturman are ecosocialist academics who are writing about and organising around the possibilities of a Green New Deal for Australia.  They both joined me via Zoom (I AM VERY SICK OF ZOOM) to lay out what their vision for a GND entails, its "four Ds" (decarbonisation, decolonisation, decommodification, democratisation), how much currency it had as a political idea prior to the current COVID crisis, the possibilities these new conditions could bring and the dangers of eco-fascism.  If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I went on the Twink Revolution podcast with the darlings Gian & Sam I also went and talked a bit of bullshit on Nazeem Hussain's Survivor's Guide to Coronavirus podcast If you're a Greens member who supports the One Member One Vote model for leadership election, please consider adding your name to this open letter @tashellenheenan @anna_sturman Climate Justice Collective - @greennewdealau climatejusticeaustralia.org ARTICLE: Five Orientations To The Green New Deal by Tash & Anna ARTICLE: Australia Needs A Green New Deal, Not More Centrism by Tash Heenan, Jon Piccini & Jeremy Poxon   ARTICLE: The Greens' New Deal by Paddy Manning ARTICLE: Capitalism is a virus by Jeff Sparrow VIDEO: Why the Green New Deal matters Cause of the Week: Sisters Inside (sistersinside.com.au)

A throne, a sea of glass, elders, lamps, very strange creatures, and more. What can this imagery tell us about God's work in our lives right now? Click below on Show More for full episode description, free book downloads, and contact info. In this episode, host Curtis Childs explores eighteenth-century scientist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s spiritual writings about the inner meaning of the fourth chapter of the Book of Revelation and the powerful relevance it has to our lives right now. Swedenborg and Life is brought to you by the Swedenborg Foundation—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, independent, educational organization for those seeking to explore spirituality and faith. http://www.swedenborg.com Become a Patron: Join us on Patreon and support the show by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/offthelefteye Become a Member: Watch a video from our team about how memberships and donations help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNC6AG1Uv48 Become a member of the Swedenborg Foundation and help us continue to produce original video content each week! In addition to supporting Swedenborg and Life on offTheLeftEye, you’ll also help fund other Foundation projects that aim to spread Swedenborg’s spiritual message of hope. http://www.swedenborg.com/membership Show Your Support: Shop our full line of Swedenborg Foundation merchandise, featuring original artwork made just for us by a talented designer! 15% of proceeds from the sales transacted on the Swedenborg Foundation’s Redbubble merchandise store will help us continue to offer free spiritual resources just like the videos seen here on offTheLeftEye. http://www.redbubble.com/people/swedenborgfound/shop E-Books: Apocalypse Revealed - http://www.swedenborg.com/product/apocalypse-revealed-vol-1-redesigned-standard-edition/ Apocalypse Explained - http://www.swedenborg.com/product/apocalypse-explained-vol-1-redesigned-standard-edition/ Secrets of Heaven - http://www.swedenborg.com/product/secrets-heaven-1-nce/ Related Videos: Bible Meanings Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgtFTXGqZdSkOr8kjXFUZeV_K5hDlIkQd Who was Swedenborg? What should I read? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEa0e8AcS78 Support the Show: Make a donation to our nonprofit channel so we can continue to make more episodes! Donate through a secure Google Wallet account by going to our offTheLeftEye channel homepage and clicking the Support button: https://www.youtube.com/user/offTheLeftEye Donate through our secure PayPal donation processing page: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZADSY8EZ62QLU Follow Us: Hit the Subscribe button under this episode’s title to be notified every time we upload new videos to our YouTube channel! E-MAIL SIGN-UP - http://www.swedenborg.com/email-signup/ HEAVEN AND HELL FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/HeavenAndHellSwedenborg SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/SwedenborgFoundation TWITTER - https://twitter.com/swedenborgfound Who’s the Host? Curtis Childs is the digital media producer at the Swedenborg Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to spread eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg’s timeless message of hope to all. While obtaining his degree in communication studies from Oakland University, Curtis experienced an internal battle with depression that led him to question God, existence, and his lifelong interest in Swedenborgian theology. After a period of intense suffering, he recovered from his depression with the help of modern medicine, therapy, and a return to the spiritually uplifting messages he found in Swedenborg’s writings. Now, Curtis is applying his education and desire to help others find peace through Swedenborg’s insights by producing and hosting a weekly webcast called Swedenborg and Life on the offTheLeftEye YouTube channel. Each week, Curtis and his behind-the-scenes team pour their talents and passions into creating a show that focuses on spiritual and societal topics such as the afterlife, angels and spirits, near-death experiences, faith, and more. Reach Out: Want to be a featured guest on our show or have Curtis Childs appear on your show? If you have any collaboration ideas or other business inquiries, feel free to contact us through the About tab/section of this channel.