Jonathan Green is a veteran journalist and broadcaster who presents at the ABC and edits the literary magazine Meanjin.

He’s been working as a journo since the late 70s so I thought he’d be a good person to reflect on how the political media is serving us in 2019 (hint: it’s not). We talk about exactly why Jonathan thinks politics is “bollocks”, the corrosive influence of the Murdoch media empire and whether there’s anything to do about it, the smallness of the “Lucky Country” and the challenges ahead for progressive politics.

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meanjin.com.au

Jonathan Green on ABC RN

ARTICLE: ‘Prefer to battle News Corp than Scott Morrison’: Michael Miller slams Labor by Jennifer Duke

ARTICLE: What counts as rich now? by Mike Seccombe

Cause of the Week: The Smith Family’s Sponsor-A-Child Program (thesmithfamily.com.au)

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He’s back! The socialist journalist, author, broadcaster and activist Jeff Sparrow is back to help make sense of the election result.

Hear what Jeff makes of the idea that the ALP should return to the “sensible centre”, how unconvincing Bill Shorten was as a progressive leader, the radical response that the climate crisis requires, where to next for the #StopAdani campaign, the fate of The Greens and whether class warfare is really over (hint: it’s not).

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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle, Geelong, Sydney & Melbourne

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ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August

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Jeff’s articles: Where to now for the Left? 

What went wrong for Labor on climate 

The environment vs jobs? We have been in this fight before

Jeff’s book Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness & The Rise of the Right

ARTICLE: Unions’ pro-Labor electoral strategy a failure by Tom Bramble 

ARTICLE: Tony Burke floats Green New Deal-style approach to Labor’s climate policy

ARTICLE: Anthony Albanese to travel to Queensland on first day as Labor leader

ARTICLE: Trumpism is taking over the world and the Left is to blame by Bret Stephens

Cause of the Week: BDS Australia (bdsaustralia.net.au)

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Gideon Rozner is a Liberal Party member and the director of policy at free market think tank The Institute of Public Affairs. He loves markets and freedom and shit like that.

I’d booked this discussion in prior to the weekend’s election results which for SOME FUCKING BONKERS reason saw the Morrison government re-elected. Gideon was very pleased with the result and in this conversation we discuss what he think happened, what Morrison will actually do, his climate scepticism, “class warfare”, abolishing the Fair Work Act and how much money he won by betting on the election.

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Gideon’s profile on The IPA website

20 Policies to Fix Australia by The IPA

Gideon talks Peter Ridd on Sky News Outsiders

ARTICLE: Climate sceptics see a conspiracy in Australia’s record-breaking heat by Graham Readfearn

ARTICLE: Australian Labor’s Miliband Moment by Osmond Chiu

ARTICLE: We live in anti-political times by Elizabeth Humphrys

Cause of the Week: Give money to homeless people (or alternatively support Justice Connect’s Homeless Law programs, justiceconnect.org.au)

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Singapore-based fund manager Alex Turnbull is the son of the ousted PM Malcolm and self-described “activist in most senses of the word”.

Since the leadership coup in August of last year, Alex has been publicly scathing of the state of the Liberal Party and has actively campaigned to get centrist independents elected in traditionally safe Liberal seats. Alex joined me via Skype to talk with me about about his new approach to politics and public debate, what the heck the “sensible centre” really means and whether or not his dad ever watched my TV show.

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I’m hosting the Smokestack Comedy Gala is on at Monash University this Friday night

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ARTICLE: Alex Turnbull, former PM’s son, names ‘top 5 craziest Liberals’

ARTICLE: Alex Turnbull takes aim at News Corp

ARTICLE: Alex Turnbull puts his money where his non-Liberal mouth is

Dirty Power: Big Coal’s network of influence over the Coalition government by Greenpeace

Cause of the Week: Carbon Tracker (carbontracker.org) 

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Richard Di Natale is a Senator for Victoria and leader of the Australian Greens. His seat isn’t up this election but he is out there campaigning hard for the Greens to retain their positions in the Senate and potentially pick up some lower house seats too.

In this conversation we covered a lot, from Richard’s thoughts on the egging of the PM to the ghosts of social media past sinking young people’s political careers to his party’s political fortunes to capitalism to MDMA. But it’s clear that the Greens’ and Richard’s passion is focussed on the existential threat of climate change (as you’d expect). Here Richard outlines the importance of the battle against Adani, the bizarre coal culture war and what a just transition for coal miners might actually look like.

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Richard’s speech at the National Press Club

The Greens’ election platform (read it please)

350.org’s documentary Accelerate Climate Action 

ARTICLE: Whither the Greens? How a reckoning looms for a party fighting to hang on by Paddy Manning

ARTICLE: What is next for the Australian Greens? by Martin McKenzie-Murray

ARTICLE: I’m willing to go to jail to stop Adani and save our beloved country. Will you stand with me? by Richard Flanagan

Cause of the Week: The Australian Greens (greens.org.au)

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My childhood friend Alex Dyson is a very nice and very funny man who I got to host the triple j breakfast show with for four years.

Now, somewhat insanely, he is running as an independent candidate in our home seat of Wannon in south-west Victoria. It’s a seat that’s been held by the Liberals for 64 years and is currently held by Minister for Education Dan Tehan by a margin of 10%.

We drank a lot of wine, watched the godawful Leaders’ Debate and had a long and fun and slightly-tipsy chat about his politics, why he thinks it’s worth running in a safe seat, political ideology and Lupe Fiasco. We laughed, we reminisced, we respectfully disagreed, we danced. Enjoy!

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Alex’s very good instagram

ARTICLE: Legit Political Candidate Alex “Sesh Gremlin” Dyson Revealed Why He’s Running

PM Julia Gillard Addresses the End of the World

Cause of the Week: Dangerous Females (dangerousfemales.com.au) 

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Kath Larkin is a unionist and socialist activist. She’s the Victorian Socialists candidate for the seat of Cooper (formerly Batman) in the 2019 federal election, running against Labor’s Ged Kearney.

In this conversation Kath told me about asking Jordan Peterson a question on Q&A (that he didn’t like), her history of union organising, why she’s running in Cooper (and whether she’s going to win), her vision of a socialist future in Australia and she maintains hope in the idea of achieving radical change.

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Kath Larkin’s Victorian Socialists candidate page

Kath Larkin’s campaign on Facebook 

Kath’s writing for Red Flag

Kath’s episode of Q&A

Cause of the Week: Victorian Socialists (victoriansocialists.org.au) 

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