Felicity Ruby is a former Greens staffer, current PhD candidate at the University of Sydney and longtime friend and supporter of Julian Assange.

In the wake of revelations from Yahoo! News that Trump’s CIA floated plans to kidnap and kill Assange after Wikileaks’ “Vault 7” revelations in 2017, I wanted to talk to Flick about Assange’s plight and its political ramifications. We discuss what kind of a person Julian Assange is, his mission, his trial, the misconceptions that continue to swirl around him and the insane paranoia of Western intelligence agencies (aka our lovely allies).

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ARTICLE: Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot out: Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against Wikileaks

ARTICLE: End Game by Scott Ludlam 

Flick’s writing on Assange at Arena Magazine

ARTICLE: What it’s like to be targeted by the CIA and its mates

EVENT: Raucos Anti-AUKUS Caucus discussion this Thursday October 7th at 7pm

Juice Media’s Honest Government Ad about AUKUS

Cause of the Week: The Courage Foundation (couragefound.org)

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This week’s episode is from an event I took part in with the Centre for Independent Studies, hosted by Tom Switzer and featuring academic Satya Jeetmarar.

Together we discussed/debated intergenerational inequality in the face of the COVID pandemic. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I think capitalism is the problem, while Satya and the CIS holds a different view.

See wot u reckon lol

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Cause of the Week: Youth Projects (youthprojects.org.au)

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Nick Boshier (Trent from Punchy, Bondi Hipsters) and Jazz Twemlow (Tonightly with Tom Ballard lol) are two very nice men and good comedians who have created a new satirical sketch show for Amazon Prime, The Moth Effect.

The dudes let me know the guiding philosophy behind the show’s satire, their favourite sketches, the irony of taking the piss out of corporatism while working for Amazon, giving less of a shit about the insane news cycle and how to do comedy about the shortcomings of “wokeness” without being a douchebag.

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Watch The Moth Effect on Amazon Prime

Jazz’s Leftie Bootcamp sketch from Tonightly

ARTICLE: Big-name cast members Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson elevate Moth Effect 

ARTICLE: New woke lineup for The Wiggles slammed by outspoken Nationals Senator Matt Canavan 

ARTICLE: The ghosts are not silent by ABC Background Briefing 

Cause of the Week: The Great Koala National Park (koalapark.org.au)

Cause of the Week: International Rescue Committee (rescue.org)

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Mehreen Faruqi has been a Greens senator for NSW since 2017. Her memoir Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud was released in July, describing her life, politics and reflections on being a progressive and outspoken migrant in Australia.

Here Mehreen and I discuss how her perceptions of what Australia is have changed over the past thirty years, her thoughts on compromise and incrementalism and the Greens’ role in pushing big bold ideas, as well as her desire to see a “feminist, anti-racist Australia”.

(Sincere apologies for the long time between podcast episodes, everyone: I have been going LOOPY in lockdown and have been having a bit of a rough trot that stopped me doing very much at all. I am much better now though thank you. I hope you are ok too. The end. As you were.)

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My two shows and special filming at Chapel Off Chapel have been rescheduled to October 8th & 9th

WE ARE ALL IN THIS is scheduled for the Brisbane Comedy Festival in November

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Mehreen’s book Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud is out now through Allen & Unwin

ARTICLE: Coalition supports Pauline Hanson motion to ban critical race theory teachings 

My episode with outgoing Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Cause of the Week: Greyhound Rescue (greyhoundrescue.com.au)

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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

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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

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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)

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