Sam Newman is a former AFL player for the Geelong Football Club and has been a controversial figure in the Australian media for decades. He’s best known for his work on The Footy Show, which he appeared on from 1994 until 2018.

I find Sam’s political positions to be ill-informed and incorrect (I’m pretty sure he feels the same about mine), but I know there are plenty of people out there who agree with him and think he talks a lot of sense when it to comes to political correctness, immigration, Donald Trump and climate change. He also considered running for Lord Mayor of Melbourne last year and received some support in some corners.

In this very wide-ranging, frustrating but civil conversation, I try to get a sense of his thinking and push back where I could. I hope you get something out of it.

Part two will be out next week.

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ARTICLE: Footy Show host Sam Newman criticised for reckless transphobia 

NASA’s article on the Icelandic glacier Myrdalsjokull 

ARTICLE: Trump cuts did little to boost economic growth in 2018, study says

ARTICLE: Enough with the fairy tales about the Paris agreement. It’s time for facts by Erwin Jackson 

ARTICLE: Why is China placing a global bet on coal?  

Cause of the Week: The Les Twentyman Foundation (ltfoundation.com.au)

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Luke Buckmaster is a renowned film critic who has recently found himself hitting the streets as a climate protestor.

Here Luke tells me about his emotional reaction to the climate crisis, what inspired him to get involved with the recent week of Extinction Rebellion protests, what he saw that inspired and moved him at those protests and the philosophy and ethics of civil disobedience.

Oh also we touched on Marvel movies and Joker. 

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Luke’s essay on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the “apocalypse of cinema”

Luke’s review of the new Lion King

Luke’s review of Joker

OPINION: When our planet is under attack we have to stand up and fight back by Luke

OPINION: Extinction Rebellion protests by Luke

ARTICLE: Tube protest was a mistake, admit leading Extinction Rebellion members 

OPINION: Extinction Rebellion has built up so much goodwill. It mustn’t throw that away by Gaby Hinsliff

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Cause of the Week: Climate Change Protests (climatechangeprotests.net.au) 

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Maddison Connaughton is the editor of The Saturday Paper. She’s written for Vice News, SBS, The Australian, The Age and others and has been twice-nominated for the Walkley Award for Young Australian of the Year.

Here Maddison discusses why she became a journalist, her thoughts on her role as an editor and the ideological position of her paper, Ita Buttrose’s comments on the loss of “larrikins” and political correctness and the dearth of new ideas in Australian political discourse.

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Felicity Ward’s piece on abortion rights for The Mash Report that I helped out (a little) with

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Maddison’s writing for Vice

The 7am podcast (7ampodcast.com.au)

Margaret Simons’ profile on Jacquie Lambie

Saturday Paper’s Editorials

Episode 33 with Erik Jensen

ARTICLE: Political correctness has gone too far in Australia, says ABC Chair Ita Buttrose

The Saturday Paper editorial, The untold joke 

The Australian editorial, Endangered larrikins ($) 

Cause of the Week: Give Well (givewell.org) 

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Latika Bourke is an award-winning journalist and since 2016 has been the London correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canberra Times.

Here Latika reflects on covering British politics as the country has tried to deal with the fallout of the Brexit referendum and its ensuing chaos. She tells me about covering the Labour Conference in Brighton over the weekend and the state of the party, Brexit fatigue, the rise of the Liberal Democrats, what might happen next and what covering UK politics has taught her about the Australian political class.

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Latika’s book From India With Love

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Cause of the Week: Pet Rescue (www.petrescue.com.au)

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