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261 – Alison Pennington Returns
She’s back! Economist, comrade and now author Alison Pennington returns to the show to discuss her debut book Gen F’ed? How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures.
We discuss how all the good jobs disappeared, our massively cooked housing market, replacing intergenerational warfare with class warfare and how young people can build political power under this “progressive (?)” Labor government.
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My show IT IS I is on at the Adelaide Fringe right now!
Then IT IS I heads to: | GOLD COAST | CANBERRA | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE
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Alison’s last appearance on the show in 2020
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STAND UP FOR REFUGEES: A BENEFIT FOR THE ASRC
For more than 20 years, the good eggs at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Footscray have been providing material and legal support for people seeking asylum and refugees, as well as exposing and fighting back against Australia’s cruel immigration policies. They’re real good.
Now, thanks to crappy inflation and a surge in demand for their services over the pandemic, these folks are in a spot of bother – and we figure the least we can do is raise them an absolute sh*tload of cash with the power of jokes.
Don’t miss this special night of A-grade comedy excellence, featuring a super-awesome-super-secret line-up of the very best comedians performing at this year’s Festival – all of them donating their time and talents to support the ASRC during this financially critical time.
Co-hosted by Wil Anderson & Tom Ballard.
Get in quick – this will sell out.
You can donate directly to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre via this link.
Kindly supported by Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Book tickets here!
260 – “I, Millennial” Event LIVE in Warrnambool
This week’s episode brings you the conversation I had with some other generational voices at a live event at the public library in my home town, Warrnambool.
Alongside Zoomer and journalist Sharna Rogers, Xer and psychologist Dr. Jodie Fleming and Baby Boomer and celebrated aid worker Bob Handby AO, I discussed three big topics I explore in my book I, Millennial: housing, work and the climate crisis, and how these issues play out for Australians of different ages. The conversation was moderated by the brilliant Ailiche Goddard-Clegg, and it was a bloody great chat, with plenty of insights and laughs.
Thanks to Collins Booksellers and the Warrnambool Library for making it happen, and to everyone who came along, including my mum and dad.
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I’m currently touring my new stand up show IT IS I all over the country: ADELAIDE | GOLD COAST | CANBERRA | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE
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ARTICLE: Read my interview with Jacobin about Millennial socialiast RAGE
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Jacobin Article on “I, Millennial”
I had a chat to my mate Daniel Lopez at Jacobin Australia about my book and being a Millennial socialist.
259 – Polly Hemming
Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute’s Climate & Energy Program.
Just this week she was giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the Labor Party’s signature climate policy, the “Safeguard Mechanism” – which, I’m sorry to say, stinks. It stinks real bad.
Here Polly lays out exactly just how much of a mess this policy is: how it’s not designed to reduce emissions that are cooking the planet, but rather protect the profits and interests of the fossil fuel lobby. We also discuss the DEEPLY dodgy world of carbon offsets and the marketisation of the natural world, and wonder how this whole thing is going to play out politically.
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I’m currently touring my new stand up show IT IS I all over the country: ADELAIDE | GOLD COAST | CANBERRA | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE
To get discounted tickets to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney, use the promo code PODCAST
For discounted tickets to my shows in Brisbane, click here
I’m doing just 2 shows of my comedy lecture YES/NO at the Melbourne Comedy Festival – BOOK HERE
Polly’s speech, “What is Climate Integrity?”
The Great Stock’n’Coal Swindle by Nick Feik
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My Comedy Is Too Damn Loud
258 – “I, Millennial” Extract: Privatisation
Oh hello. I am back again. Look at us.
This week I’m bringing you another taste of my debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else, which is now out and about in the world. This is an extract from the chapter on privatisation – “From Our Warm, Public Hands” – which lays out just how much of our public shit has been flogged off, goddammit.
You can find out more about the book – and order it as an audiobook, ebook or hardcopy – here.
I’m doing some book-based events across the country; all the details are here.
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To get discounted tickets to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney, use the promo code PODCAST
For discounted tickets to my shows in Brisbane, click here
I’m doing just 2 shows of my comedy lecture YES/NO at the Melbourne Comedy Festival – BOOK HERE
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Horny Assumptions About Dating An Acrobat
Lefties Up Late: A Fundraiser for the Albury Greens
This’ll be great fun!
Tom Ballard is an award-winning stand up comedian/actor/writer/broadcaster/person/Greens member. He hosted his own late-night comedy show for the ABC, Tonightly with Tom Ballard (which was cancelled for being too funny) and has been seen on everything from Spicks & Specks to The Project to the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Oxfam Gala.
Since 2021, along with his mate Emerald Moon, Tom’s co-hosted Serious Danger: a podcast about the Greens and green politics in Australia, which is 100% the main reason why the party did so well in the 2022 election.
Don’t miss this chance to join Tom, your local Greens team, more special guests to be announced and contribute to the green-slide in NSW.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.