My really interesting (and inspiring) interview with Queensland Greens campaigner Max Chandler-Mather has been written up in Jacobin Magazine.
I really loved this conversation and would highly recommend reading over it if you want a little bit of Leftish hope in you.
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?
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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)
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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.
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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
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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”.
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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)
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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.
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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: 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
Cause of the Week: St Vincent de Paul Society (vinnies.org.au)
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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.
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Strike for Climate this Friday! Yeah!
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
The Australia Institute’s 2000 report on Mutual Obligations
My episode with the AUWU’s Jeremy Poxon
Cause of the Week: The Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
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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.
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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
Cause of the Week: Camp Quality (campquality.org.au)
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“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.
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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 (Facebook page)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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