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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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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Simon Holmes à Court is an energy transition expert. He’s a Senior Advisor to at the Climate Energy College at Melbourne University, sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council and spends a lot of his time on twitter correcting the likes of Josh Frydenberg and Chris Uhlmann when they say silly wrong things about climate and energy issues issues.

In this conversation (recorded on an unseasonably warm April day), Simon talks me through the influence of fossil fuel money, the dumb culture war between coal and renewables, why he’s a climate optimist and what the parties are offering in this climate election.

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Simon’s writing at The Guardian

Simon’s writing on medium

Article: No, Minister Canavan, coal will not be king for 20 more years

Article: Australia’s energy policy is a tangled mess built on a foundation of lies

Cause of the Week: Margo Kingston’s #IndependentsDay for Climate Change Action on chuffed.org

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Greg Larsen is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met in my whole bloody life. He and I worked together on Tonightly where we made some very silly and naughty comedy together before we were cruelly cancelled by the FASCIST LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.

In this chat I ask Greg to reflect on the Tonightly months, his political punk band The Feminazis, wokeness, debate and the pointlessness of protests.

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My show ENOUGH is on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival right now! Hot dang!

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My spot at the 2019 Comedy Festival Opening Night Gala

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Greg’s show USEFUL IDIOT is at Melbourne Comedy Festival NOW

Greg’s podcast The Grub

The infamous Tonightly sketch that sparked “Cuntgate”

And this sketch about Germans wanking is one of the funniest things I’ve ever been involved in

Cause of the Week: Donate to The Australian Greens (greens.org.au/donate) 

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Sorry about the delayed episode, all! My bad. Comedy Festival is on and all that. Anyway.

Sally McManus has been the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions since 2017. She’s the public face of the trade union movement in Australia and she takes little to no shit whatsoever.

We recorded this chat on the day the ACTU launched their call for the minimum wage to be raised to a living wage. I asked Sally to explain what that means, as well as her stances on democratic socialism, neoliberalism, privatisation, insecure work, just how hard it is to go on strike in Australia and how the ALP could become a helluva lot better.

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actu.org.au

On Fairness by Sally McManus, Melbourne University Publishing

ARTICLE: Is Sally McManus the woman the Coalition fears most? 

RALLY TO CHANGE THE RULES happening around the country on Wednesday April 10th

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Cause of the Week: JOIN YOUR FUCKING UNION PLEASE (australianunions.org.au)

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