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.

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The latest episode of The Bugle with Nish Kumar & Nato Green, Statuesque

Cause of the Week: The Sick Children’s Trust (sickchildrenstrust.org) 

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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.

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I was on the latest episode of The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman and Hari Kondabolu

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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 co-opt the movement. Drive them out by Daniel Taylor

Cause of the Week: The Justice for David Dungay Jnr. GoFundMe

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Oliver Twist is a very funny and intelligent up-and-coming Australian comedian. He was born in Rwanda, grew up in a refugee camp in Malawi and has lived in Australia since 2014.

I was planning on taking a week off the podcast this week, but in the midst of everything that’s happening right now, Oliver reached out and we decided to record this honest conversation about his relationship to the police, race, class, Black Lives Matter and what meaningful action looks like.

There are even a few laffs in there too.

CAUSE OF THE WEEK: blacklivesmatter.caard.co

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ARTICLE: Australia must stop turning a blind eye to our own black deaths

ARTICLE: Victoria Police denounces ‘inappropriate’ memes posted to social account by officer accused of making white power gesture

ARTICLE: How did #BlackOutTuesday Go So Wrong So Fast? 

ARTICLE: Why the media are to blame for racialising Melbourne’s African gang problem

VIDEO: Trevor Noah’s reflections on the riots in the US and the breakdown of the social contract

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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.

I’m going to take a break from the pod next week: chat soon.

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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)

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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.

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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) 

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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)

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