Podcasts by Like Im A Six-Year-Old
Comedian Tom Ballard sits down with interesting and passionate people to find out what they do and what they believe in.
It's kind of like Kitchen Cabinet except Tom can't cook.
Further podcasts by Tom Ballard
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265 - Goodbye from 2023-05-11T19:00
Oh hello.
As the title suggests, this is my little way of letting you know that I'm wrapping up Like I'm A Six...
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264 - Ben Abbatangelo from 2023-05-08T19:00
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263 - Larissa Baldwin-Roberts from 2023-05-01T00:54
Larissa Baldwin-Roberts is a proud Widjabul Wia-bal woman from the Bundjalung Nations and has been a progressive activist since forever. She's a c...
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262 - Professor John Quiggin from 2023-04-19T19:00
John Quiggin is a widely-respected economist and professor at the University of Queensland. He's a former member of the Australian Government's Cl...
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261 - Alison Pennington Returns from 2023-03-15T18:00
She's back! Economist, comrade and now author Alison Pennington returns to the show to discuss her debut book Listen
260 - "I, Millennial" Event LIVE in Warrnambool from 2023-03-08T18:00
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. Listen
259 - Polly Hemming from 2023-03-01T18:00
Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute's Climate & Energy Program.
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258 - "I, Millennial" Extract: Privatisation from 2023-02-07T16:00
Oh hello. I am back again. Look at us.
This week I’m bringing you another taste of my debut book Listen
257 - Craig Foster from 2022-12-11T18:00
Craig "Fozzy" Foster is a former Socceroo who has become not only one of Australia’s most respected sports commentators and broadcasters, but also...
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255 - "I, Millennial" Prologue from 2022-11-22T18:00
This week I'm bringing you a taste of my debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, ...
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254 - Ben Schneiders from 2022-11-16T18:00
Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.
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253 - Leo Puglisi from 2022-11-08T18:00
I'm back! Again! Sorry about the big gap between episodes. I am bad.
Leo Puglisi is a digital journalist who just so happens to be 14 years old. He founded what would ev...
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252 - Jim Casey from 2022-03-29T18:00:14
Jim Casey is a firefighting unionist, socialist and co-founder of the Australian Firefighters Climate Alliance. He is an anti-capitalist GREENS EXTRE...
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251 - Georgia Steele from 2022-02-22T18:00:22
Georgia Steele is a former corporate litigator and now independent candidate running in the NSW seat of Hughes at the upcoming federal election. (The...
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250 - David Shoebridge MLC from 2022-02-08T18:00:16
David Shoebridge MLC has served in the NSW upper house since 2010, and has been the Greens spokesperson for workers' rights, energy and Aboriginal ju...
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249 - Palestine Justice Movement Sydney Forum: "Why We Are Boycotting The Sydney Festival" from 2022-01-30T18:00:53
This week I'm bringing you the audio of a panel I appeared on, discussing the reason behind and ideas around the recent boycott of the 2022 Sydney Festival. Listen
248 - Johann Hari Returns (On "Stolen Focus") from 2022-01-20T18:00
Writer and journalist Johann Hari has returned to the show to discuss why our brains have melted.
His...
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247 - Van Badham Returns (on #QAnon) from 2021-12-23T18:00
Van Badham is a playwright, author and activist, and she's returned to the show to discuss her latest book, QAnon: A Short and Shockin...
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246 - James Button (on Cancel Culture) from 2021-12-14T18:00
James Button is a freelance journalist, ALP member and former speechwriter for the former prime minister Kevin Rudd. He recently wrote a three-par...
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245 - Nyadol Nyuon (Refugee Legal Dinner 2021) from 2021-12-06T18:00
Nyadol Nyuon is a former refugee, lawyer and passionate advocate for human rights and anti-racism.
Th...
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INTRODUCING: Serious Danger from 2021-11-21T22:00
NEWS: I have a brand new podcast to share with youse.
It’s called Serious Danger, it’s about the Australian Greens and green politics in Australia generally and I’m doin...
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244 - Luke Hilakari from 2021-11-18T18:00
Luke Hilakari has been the Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council since 2014. He's been a Labor member since he turned 18 and has played a...
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243 - Professor Megan Davis from 2021-11-07T18:00
Professor Megan Davis is a Cobble Cobble woman from Queensland and is the current pro Vice-Chancellor and Balnaves Chair in constitutional law at ...
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242 - Sean Kelly (Returns) from 2021-10-31T18:00
Sean Kelly is a writer and journalist, who's a former adviser to Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
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241 - Sylvie Ellsmore from 2021-10-24T18:00
Sylvie Ellsmore is the Greens mayoral candidate for the City of Sydney in the upcoming NSW local elections. She's running a campaign to make Sydne...
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240 - Christiaan Van Vuuren (Big Deal) from 2021-10-21T01:19:39
Christiaan Van Vuuren is a comedian and YouTube star who you know from Bondi Hipsters, Bloom and At Home Alone Together. He's th...
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239 - Dr. Helen Haines from 2021-10-10T18:00
Dr. Helen Haines is a former nurse and midwife who now serves as the independent member for the Victorian seat of Indi.
238 - Felicity Ruby from 2021-10-04T18:00
Felicity Ruby is a former Greens staffer, current PhD candidate at the University of Sydney and longtime friend and supporter of Julian Assange. Listen
237 - Generations Apart (CIS event with Tom Switzer and Satya Jeetmarar) from 2021-09-27T19:00
This week's episode is from an event I took part in with the Centre for Independent Studies, hosted by Tom Switzer and featuring ...
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236 - Nick Boshier&Jazz Twemlow (The Moth Effect) from 2021-09-20T19:00
Nick Boshier (Trent from Punchy, Bondi Hipsters) and Jazz Twemlow (Tonightly with Tom Ballard lol) are...
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235 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi from 2021-09-03T03:24:24
Mehreen Faruqi has been a Greens senator for NSW since 2017. Her memoir Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud was released in July, describin...
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234 - Victor Kline (The New Liberals) from 2021-07-08T01:48:40
Victor Kline is a writer and barrister who is the leader of a new political party, The New Liberals. The party w...
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233 - Luke McGregor from 2021-06-24T19:00
Luke McGregor is a beloved Australian comedian who co-stars in the ABC series Rosehaven alongside Celia Pacquola and presents "Lukenomics...
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232 - Josh Cullinan from 2021-06-17T19:00
Josh Callinan is the Secretary of the Retail And Fast Food Workers' Union (RAFFWU); a young fighting union which represents thous...
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231 - Tim Hollo from 2021-06-06T19:00
Tim Hollo is a former staffer for the Australian Greens, is the Greens candidate for the federal seat of Canberra and works as the Executive Direc...
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230 - Emma Dawson from 2021-05-24T19:00
Emma Dawson is an ALP member and a former adviser to the Rudd and Gillard governments on public broadcasting policy. These days she’s t...
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229 - Jonathan Biggins from 2021-05-17T00:15:50
Jonathan Biggins is a legendary Australian satirist, actor and writer, who is currently performing his one-man show The Gospel According To Pa...
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228 - Richie Merzian from 2021-05-01T00:21:43
Richie Merzian is the Director of the Climate & Energy Program at The Australia Institute. Listen
227 - Melbourne Calling w/ Stephen Jolly, Alison Pennington, Guy Rundle&Jeff Sparrow from 2021-04-13T02:01:12
Hello! Sorry for the radio silence - I have been busy being too hot for TV and annoying Andrew Bolt. Apologies.
This ...
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226 - Samantha Maiden from 2021-03-31T02:30:12
Samantha Maiden is an award-winning journalist who's currently the political editor at news.com.au. In February, she broke the st...
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225 - David Milner from 2021-03-14T18:00
David Milner is an award-winning journalist who now regularly writes for The Shot - a "profound and profane" news site from The Chaser th...
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224 - Ricardo Menéndez March from 2021-03-09T18:00
Ricardo Menéndez March was elected to the Parliament of Aotearoa in 2020. He was born in Mexico, immigrated to New Zealand and eventually became a...
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223 - Senator Jordon Steele-John from 2021-03-01T18:00
Jordon Steele-John is a disability and youth activist and has been a Greens senator for Western Australia since 2017, when he replaced Scott Ludla...
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222 - Amy Remeikis from 2021-02-21T18:00
Amy Remeikis is Guardian Australia's political reporter who writes the Listen
221 - Dr. Evan Smith from 2021-02-14T18:00
Dr. Evan Smith is a historian and academic who's extensively researched the history of the Far Left in Australia and the UK. Last year he released...
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220 - Luke Savage from 2021-02-07T18:00
Luke Savage is a Canadian socialist and staff writer for Jacobin magazine whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic ...
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219 - Doug Cameron from 2021-01-31T18:00
Doug Cameron is a former AMWU trade unionist who served as a Labor senator from 2008 to 2019. He's now retired to Hobart, but still regularly twee...
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218 - Luke Pearson from 2021-01-24T18:00
Luke Pearson is a Gamilaroi man who in 2012 founded IndigenousX: a 100% Indigenous owned and operated, independent media, consult...
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217 - Amy MacMahon from 2021-01-18T18:00
Oh hello. Happy New Year.
Amy MacMahon is the new Greens member for the Queensland state seat of Sou...
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216 - JR Hennessy from 2020-12-21T18:00
It's the final ep for 2020! Thank heavens, etc.
JR Hennessy is a Sydney-based writer whose work has ...
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215 - Simon Copland from 2020-12-14T18:00
Simon Copland is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Australian National University (ANU) who is currently studying the online "manosphere" on Red...
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214 - Ed Miller from 2020-12-07T18:00
Ed Miller is the Economic Fairness Campaigns Director at the progressive activist group GetUp!.
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213 - Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor Jess Scully from 2020-11-22T18:00
Jess Scully is the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney as part of "Team Clover". This year she released her debut book Glimpses of Utopia: Rea...
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212 - In Conversation With Young Climate Leaders from 2020-11-16T18:00
This week's ep is my conversation with a group of young climate leaders as part of a panel organised by the Foundation for Young Australians,
211 - Richard Cooke (Returns) from 2020-11-08T18:00
Richard Cooke is a brilliant writer and commentator who's written for the likes of The Chaser, The Monthly, The New York Tim...
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210 - Osmond Chiu from 2020-10-29T23:36:19
Osmond Chiu is a researcher with the progressive think tank Per Capita and editor of the Labor Left magazine Challenge. ...
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209 - Greg Larsen's Big Aussie Revolution from 2020-10-22T23:02:42
IT'S A CROSS-POD, PEOPLE.
My dear friend Greg Larsen has a new podcast about the dogshit state of thi...
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208 - Dave Eden from 2020-10-12T18:00
Dave Eden is a Brisbane-based communist writer and podcaster who authors the blogs With Sober Senses and The Word From Struggle Stree...
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207 - Joe Hildebrand from 2020-10-05T18:00
Joe Hildebrand is a journalist, broadcaster and columnist for news.com.au. He's a former co-host of Studio 10 and currently presents on 2...
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206 - Wayne Swan from 2020-09-27T19:00
Wayne Swan is a former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. He's the current President of the Australian Labor Party.
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205 - Kristin O'Connell from 2020-09-21T19:00
Kristin O'Connell is the Acting Communications Coordinator for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union.
204 - Emma Alberici from 2020-09-13T19:00
Emma Alberici is a three-time Walkley-nominated journalist. She's the former Chief Economics Correspondent at the ABC and she worked as a foreign ...
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203 - "Ayla" On The Kashmiri Conflict from 2020-09-09T19:00
"Aysha" (not her real name) is a Kashmiri activist who advocates for the rights of those suffering under the Indo-Pakistan-Chinese conflict in her...
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202 - Guy Rundle from 2020-08-25T19:00
Guy Rundle is a political essayist, comedy writer, activist and the correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of
201 - Melissa Davey (Returns) from 2020-08-19T19:00
This week's ep is a conversation I had with journalist and author Melissa Davey about her brilliant new book, The Case of George Pell<...
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200 - Dominic Kelly from 2020-08-10T19:00
It's episode 200! Hurrah.
Dominic Kelly is a political historian and Honorary Research Fellow at La ...
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199 - Max Chandler-Mather from 2020-08-03T00:04:52
Max Chandler-Mather is a former union activist and active member of the Queensland Greens. He was the party's candidate for the s...
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198 - Alison Pennington from 2020-07-26T01:37:28
Alison Pennington is a Senior Economist at The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work. She has a Masters of Political Econo...
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197 - Dave Donovan from 2020-07-17T02:43:59
Dave Donovan is the founder and editor of Independent Australia, a progressive journal focussed on Australian federal politics, d...
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196 - Sunili Govinnage (Part Two) from 2020-07-12T19:00
CW: This conversation involves discussion of sexual assault
This is the second part of my conversati...
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195 - Sunili Govinnage (Part One) from 2020-07-07T19:00
Sunili Govinnage is an Australian human rights lawyer and self-described "social justice witch" who has recently come to some realisations about t...
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194 - Sophie Payten (Gordi) from 2020-06-30T19:00
Sophie Payten records and performs as Gordi. She makes powerful, sweeping, personal indie-pop and last week released her sophomor...
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193 - Dr. Chelsea Bond from 2020-06-23T19:00
Dr. Chelsea Bond is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. She's worked and researched e...
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192 - Andy Zaltzman from 2020-06-17T04:39:15
Andy Zaltzman is a British comedian, the co-host of the hugely popular satirical podcast The Bugle and (sadly) a fanatical cricke...
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191 - Gavin Stanbrook from 2020-06-09T19:00
Gavin Stanbrook is a revolutionary socialist who hails from Gumbanyggir country on the NSW mid-north coast. He's a member of Socialist Alternative...
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190 - Oliver Twist from 2020-06-04T03:53:21
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...
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189 - Mark Seymour from 2020-05-28T19:00
Mark Seymour is one of the best singer-songwriters Australia has ever produced. He's the former frontman of Hunters & Collectors ...
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188 - Tim Wilson Returns from 2020-05-26T19:00
Tim Wilson is the Liberal MP for the Victorian seat of Goldstein and the Chair of the House Economics Committee. Listen
187 - Rick Morton from 2020-05-25T19:00
Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and writer. He reported on Social Affairs for The Australian for years and is now the Senior R...
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186 - Senator Rachel Siewert from 2020-05-19T03:28:21
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 A...
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185 - Dave Anthony from 2020-05-15T03:38:56
Dave Anthony is a stand up comedian, writer, activist and co-host of the history comedy podcast The Dollop. In May 2016 he correctly pred...
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184 - Jon Kudelka from 2020-05-12T00:13:53
Jon Kudelka is a Walkley Award-winning political cartoonist who's been drawing for over 20 years. He drew thousands of cartoons for The Austra...
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183 - Celeste Liddle from 2020-05-05T23:05:55
Celeste Liddle is an Arrente woman, a trade unionist and Leftist who's written for Eureka Street, The Guardian a...
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182 - Adam Creighton from 2020-04-29T03:55:24
Adam Creighton is the Economics Editor for The Australian and has written for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal...
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181 - Mark Humphries from 2020-04-21T19:00
Mark Humphries is a comedian who regularly makes satirical sketches for the ABC's 7:30 along with Evan Williams<...
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180 - Senator Nick McKim from 2020-04-16T19:00
Nick McKim is a Tasmanian senator and the co-deputy leader of The Australian Greens.
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179 - Tash Heenan&Anna Sturman from 2020-04-14T19:00
Tash Heenan and Anna Sturman are ecosocialist academics who are writing about and organising around the possibilities of a Green ...
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178 - Caleb Bond from 2020-04-07T19:00
Caleb Bond is a 21-year-old political commentator who describes himself as "conservative with a splash of libertarianism". He writes a regular opi...
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177 - Twink Revolution (Gian&Sam) from 2020-04-02T18:00
Gian and Sam host a great podcast called Twink Revolution, which they describe as "cultural and political comme...
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176 - Sean Kelly from 2020-03-30T18:00
Hello! This week's ep is a bit early: my plan is to (try) to start posting multiple episodes a week if possible. Let's see how we go.
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175 - Emerald Moon from 2020-03-24T18:00
Emerald Moon is a Brisbane-based Leftist activist and former candidate for the Australian Greens who's passionate about climate a...
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174 - Osman Faruqi (Returns) from 2020-03-17T17:00
Welp. Gosh. Here we are, then. I hope you're doing okay.
Amidst the chaos of the global Coronavirus pandemic,
173 - Michael West from 2020-03-10T17:30
Michael West is a Walkley Award-winning independent journalist covering the rising power of corporations over Australian democracy. After years wo...
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172 - Alex Bhathal from 2020-03-04T03:46:25
Alex Bhatal is a social worker and activist. From 2001 to 2018 she was a six-time Greens candidate for the inner-city seat of Cooper (formerly Bat...
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171 - Oliver Yates from 2020-02-25T18:00
Oliver Yates is the former CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Last year he quit the Liberal Party and ran as an independent candidate fo...
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170 - Greg Jericho from 2020-02-18T18:00
Greg Jericho is a Walkley Award-winning economics writer for Guardian Australia. He lectures in journalism at the University of C...
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169 - Me On Red Flag Radio from 2020-02-11T18:00
This is a CROSS POD, BABY: an extract of my appearance on the podcast Red Flag Radio in which I discuss revolutionary socialism with Roz W...
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168 - Jon Piccini from 2020-02-04T18:00
Jon Piccini is an historian at Australian Catholic University and co-host of the anti-capitalist podcast Listen
167 - Lidia Thorpe from 2020-01-28T18:00
Lidia Thorpe is a Gunai-Gunditjmara woman, First Nations activist, a former Greens MP in the Victorian parliament and the current National Aborigi...
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166 - Dr. Craig Emerson from 2020-01-21T18:00
Dr. Craig Emerson is a former Labor MP. In the Rudd and Gillard governments he served as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tert...
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165 - Daniel Lopez from 2020-01-14T18:00
Daniel Lopez is the commissioning editor for Jacobin magazine, socialist activist, author and tweeter.
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164 - Ask Me Anything from 2020-01-07T18:00
Happy 2020, everyone. Here we bloody go.
Here's me answering some of your questions about political movies, Morrison,...
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163 - Charlie Pickering from 2019-12-17T18:00
Charlie Pickering is a comedian and host of the satirical comedy show The Weekly on the ABC. I used to have one of those, but let's not g...
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162 - Adam Bandt Returns (LIVE) from 2019-12-10T18:00
After joining me at the end of the shitshow that was 2016 for the first live edition of the podcast...
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161 - Patricia Cornelius from 2019-12-03T18:00
Patricia Cornelius is a celebrated Australian playwright who writes about class, love, capitalism and the cruel things we do to each other. Her pl...
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160 - Lizzie O'Shea from 2019-11-26T18:00
Lizzie O'Shea is a lawyer at Maurice Blackburn, writer, broadcaster and socialist activist. She's the author of Listen
159 - Jon Faine from 2019-11-19T18:00
Jon Faine is a veteran broadcaster who was just stepped down as the host of the Mornings show on ABC Local Radio after 23 years in the chair (and ...
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158 - Roz Ward from 2019-11-12T18:00
Roz Ward is a queer Marxist academic and activist who was a co-founder of the Safe Schools Coalition. She was publicly attacked for her politics a...
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157 - Sam Newman (Part Two) from 2019-11-05T18:00
This is part two of my conversation with former AFL player and controversial media figure Sam Newman. Listen
156 - Sam Newman (Part One) from 2019-10-29T18:00
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...
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155 - Luke Buckmaster from 2019-10-22T18:00
Luke Buckmaster is a renowned film critic who has recently found himself hitting the streets as a climate protestor.
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154 - Maddison Connaughton from 2019-10-15T18:30
Maddison Connaughton is the editor of The Saturday Paper. She's written for Vice News, SBS, The Australian, The Age...
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153 - Latika Bourke from 2019-09-25T19:24:42
Latika Bourke is an award-winning journalist and since 2016 has been the London correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canbe...
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152 - Aditi Mittal from 2019-09-17T11:00
CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of sexual assault
Aditi Mittal is ...
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151 - Michael Walker from 2019-09-10T23:11:09
Michael Walker is the host of TyskySour on Novara Media, an independent media organisation dedicated to...
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150 - Dr. Matt Winning from 2019-09-04T01:13:22
Dr. Matt Winning (yes! Actual name!) is a climate policy researcher, environmental economist and stand up comedian.
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149 - Andrew Doyle from 2019-08-22T16:24:49
Andrew Doyle is a stand up comedian and satirist who's written for Jonathan Pie, created the parody twitter character Tit...
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148 - Grace Petrie from 2019-08-14T12:51:54
Grace Petrie is a socialist, feminist, lesbian singer-songwriter whose political songs place a fire in my heart and whose love songs break my hear...
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147 - Daniel Sloss from 2019-08-06T16:08:05
CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of sexual assault
Daniel Sloss is ...
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146 - James Ball from 2019-07-30T22:41:06
James Ball is a journalist and the current Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He worked with WikiLeaks on the Iraq War docum...
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145 - Corey White from 2019-07-24T17:14:46
Corey White is a comedian and writer with a pretty remarkable personal story. His memoir The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory Listen
144 - Lee Rhiannon from 2019-07-16T19:00
Former Greens senator and lifelong campaigner Lee Rhiannon has been fighting on the Left since she was fifteen years old.
143 - Van Badham (Returns) from 2019-07-09T19:00
Playwright, commentator and activist Van Badham is back on the podcast after she joined me in J...
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142 - Josh Bornstein from 2019-07-02T19:00
Josh Bornstein is an employment and IR lawyer at Maurice & Blackburn and the director at the Australia Institute. Listen
141 - Jeremy Poxon from 2019-06-25T19:00
Jeremy Poxon is a social security activist and the media officer for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. His spicy twitter a...
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140 - A Rational Fear Live At Climate Week from 2019-06-11T19:00
Something a little bit different for you this week: highlights from a live performance of A Rational Fear at Queensland's inaugural Climat...
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139 - Jonathan Green from 2019-06-04T19:00
Jonathan Green is a veteran journalist and broadcaster who presents at the ABC and edits the literary magazine Meanjin. Listen
138 - Jeff Sparrow (Returns) from 2019-05-28T19:00
He's back! The socialist journalist, author, broadcaster and activist Jeff Sparrow is back to help make sense of the election result.
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137 - Gideon Rozner from 2019-05-21T19:00
Gideon Rozner is a Liberal Party member and the director of policy at free market think tank The Institute of Public Affairs. He ...
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136 - Alex Turnbull from 2019-05-14T19:00
Singapore-based fund manager Alex Turnbull is the son of the ousted PM Malcolm and self-described "activist in most senses of the word". Listen
135 - Richard Di Natale from 2019-05-08T19:00
Richard Di Natale is a Senator for Victoria and the leader of the Australian Greens. His seat isn't up this election but he is ou...
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134 - Alex Dyson from 2019-04-30T21:00
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.
133 - Kath Larkin from 2019-04-24T21:00
Kath Larkin is a unionist and socialist activist. She’s the Victorian Socialists candidate for the seat of Cooper (formerly Batman) in the 2019 fe...
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132 - Simon Holmes à Court from 2019-04-18T03:28:55
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 b...
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131 - Greg Larsen from 2019-04-09T21:00
Greg Larsen is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my whole bloody life. He and I worked together on Tonightly w...
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130 - Sally McManus from 2019-04-02T21:00
Sorry about the delayed episode, all! My bad. Comedy Festival is on and all that. Anyway.
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129 - Samah Sabawi from 2019-03-20T02:18:23
Samah Sabawi is a playwright, poet and activist who is passionate about fighting for the rights of the Palestinian people. Just days after the hor...
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128 - Melissa Davey from 2019-03-12T20:00
Melissa Davey is the Melbourne Bureau Chief for Guardian Australia. She’s done brilliant reporting about lots of different things...
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127 - School Strike 4 Climate (Emma&Anthony) from 2019-03-06T01:46:46
Emma is in Year 11, Anthony has just started uni and together they're involved in organising the second School Strike 4 Climate on Friday ...
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126 - Giordano Nanni (The Juice Media) from 2019-02-26T20:00
Giordano Nanni is a historian and satirist and the driving force behind The Juice Media.
He was the co-creator of the hugely successful Rap News<...
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125 - Aimee Terese from 2019-02-19T13:01
Aimee Terese is a law student, podcaster and socialist.
Until this week she was the co-host of the
124 - Hello Again from 2019-02-18T05:13:17
I'M BACK, BABY.
It's a new year and I'm unemployed so what better time to restart this podcast. This is just a cheeky ...
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123 - Stan Grant (Live at Yack Festival 2017) Pt. 2 from 2017-12-18T13:30
This is part two of an interview I recorded live at the inaugural Yack Festival at Giant Dwarf a few weeks ago.
Stan Grant is a journalist, author and presenter who has w...
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122 - Stan Grant (Live At Yack Festival) Pt. 1 from 2017-12-11T12:29:01
Hello! I know this has been a long time coming. Apologies: I have been busy writing jokes about Bob Katter.
This is part one of an interview I recorded live at the inaugural Yack Festival...
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121 - Apologies&An Announcement from 2017-10-29T20:30
Hello everyone! I am sorry I have not posted an episode in a while.
I have a reasonably good excuse: I am going to host a TV show.
120 - Geoffrey Winters from 2017-10-05T12:40:24
Geoffrey Winters is a native title lawyer who ran against Tanya Plibersek as the Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Sydney in the 2016 election. He's a Gamillaroi man who's...
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119 - Alex Greenwich MP from 2017-09-26T23:00
Alex Greenwich is an independent MP in the NSW parliament and the National Convenor of Australian Marriage Equality. He's been campaigning for equal marriage for 10 years now an...
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118 - Owen Jones from 2017-09-14T02:18:37
Owen Jones is an activist (first) and celebrated writer (second). He's the author of bestselling books Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class and The Establis...
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117 - Ahir Shah from 2017-09-05T17:25:54
Acclaimed comedian and all-round nice guy Ahir Shah was just nominated for the big award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his passionate, insightful and hilarious show C...
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116 - Geoff Norcott from 2017-08-17T17:26:41
Geoff Norcott is a rare thing indeed: an (openly) right-wing comedian. His recent stand up shows have explored his working class background and his conservative politics and the...
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115 - Sally Rugg from 2017-08-09T12:35:22
What better week to talk about Australia and marriage equality lolololol
Sally Rugg is an out and proud campaign director at GetUp! calling for queer rights. She's been l...
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114 - Mark Di Stefano from 2017-08-01T21:16:56
Mark Di Stefano is the outgoing political editor at BuzzFeed Australia.
This is a frank chat where we both air our g...
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113 - Caroline Marcus (Live) from 2017-07-25T14:26:41
Caroline Marcus is the "Political Reporter for the People" for Sky News and an opinion columnist for The Daily Telegraph.
Caroline joined me live onstage at the ...
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112 - Tanya Plibersek (Live) from 2017-07-18T14:30
Tanya Plibersek has been the Member for Sydney since 1998. She's the Deputy Leader of the ALP and Shadow Minister for Education and for Women.
Tanya joined me live onsta...
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111 - Jeff Sparrow from 2017-07-11T14:30
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, broadcaster and activist. He's a former member of the International Socialist Organisation and was one of the founding members of the Socialist Alterna...
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110 - Human Rights&Populism: An Amnesty Panel from 2017-07-04T14:30
This week I'm bringing some highlights from a panel I chaired last week for Amnesty International Australia entitled Defending Human Rights In A Time Of Heightened Populism<...
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109 - Samantha Ratnam from 2017-06-27T14:30
Samantha Ratnam is a social worker and Greens politician who's currently serving as the Deputy Mayor of Moreland City Council. She's previously served as Mayor in Moreland and i...
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108 - Julian Burnside AO QC from 2017-06-20T14:30
Julian Burnside AO QC is a barrister and refugee advocate who has acted in some of the highest profile legal cases in Australian history, from the cash for comment inquiry to th...
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107 - Shireen Morris from 2017-06-14T04:02:37
Shireen Morris is the Constitutional Reform Advisor at Noel Pearson's Cape York Institute.
In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the Uluru Statem...
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106 - Jack Latimore from 2017-05-30T14:30
Jack Latimore is a Goori man of the Birpai nation. He's a journalist and researcher who covers indigenous affairs, media, culture and politics and his work has appeared in The G...
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105 - John Safran from 2017-05-23T14:30
John Safran is one of the most interesting writers/comedians/filmmakers/broadcasters/provocateurs/social commentators Australia has ever produced. He’s fascinated by issues surr...
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104 - Wil Anderson from 2017-05-16T14:30
One of the biggest and best comedians in Australia, Wil Anderson is super funny, super smart and super nice. Wil is a world-renowned stand up, the host of the ABC hit Gruen<...
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103 - Sara Saleh from 2017-05-09T14:30
Sara Saleh is a self-identifying "radical" poet and human rights activist. She works in refugee resettlement, is a GetUp! board member, co-founded the Dubai Poetry Slam and has ...
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102 - Chris Berg from 2017-05-02T14:30
Chris Berg is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs and a Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT. He's passionate about civil liberties, defending freedom, shrinking the size ...
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101 - Tim Lo Surdo from 2017-04-26T05:26:02
This guy is a gun. At just 22 years old, Tim Lo Surdo has advised federal senators and worked at everywhere from the Oaktree Foundation to the Australian Youth Climate Change Co...
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100 - Paul Oosting (Live) from 2017-04-18T03:10:52
100 episodes, everyone! We bloody made it. Gosh.
Thanks so much for getting onboard with this little show. I love doing it and hope you get something out of each episode. I've learnt so ...
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99 - Senator James Paterson from 2017-04-04T07:36:04
James Paterson has been a Victorian senator for the Liberal Party for just over a year now. He's been making a name for himself as a passionate advocate for freedom of speech in...
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98 - Daniel Webb from 2017-03-28T13:06:46
Daniel Webb is the Director of Legal Advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre. He is a passionate voice for human rights and for treating people seeking asylum with dignity and h...
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97 - Eva Cox AO from 2017-03-21T13:30
Writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator, activist and postage stamp honouree Eva Cox AO is a remarkable person. A Jewish refugee child, Eva has always been something o...
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96 - Fin Taylor from 2017-03-14T13:00
Fin Taylor is a British comedian who's making some fascinating politically-charged work at the moment. I saw his show Whitey McWhite Face at the Edinburgh Fringe last y...
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95 - Kate Ellis MP from 2017-03-07T13:30
Kate Ellis has been the Federal member for the seat of Adelaide since 2004. She was the youngest person ever appointed as a minister in the Australian government, holding a numb...
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94 - Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore from 2017-02-28T13:30
Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore was elected as part of the Nick Xenophon Team in the 2016 election.
Now that she's 7 months in, she reflects on the job in all its glory and ...
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93 - Ronny Chieng from 2017-02-14T13:30
Comedian and Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng is back in Australia at the moment and gave me some of his time to talk about a whole many things. We covered offence...
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92 - Adam Jacoby from 2017-02-08T12:53:45
Let's talk about a little thing called democracy.
MiVote is a new political movement that launches next week and it's all about direct democracy. It's an online platform ...
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91 - Charlie Wood from 2017-02-07T06:30:28
Charlie Wood is the Campaigns Director at 350.org, an international climate action organisation that are fighting for a future that’s free from fossil fuels. Listen
90 - Nakkiah Lui from 2017-01-24T13:30
Playwright, Black Comedy writer, tweeter and Aboriginal not-activist Nakkiah Lui joins me for a chat ahead of that ugly date, January 26th. Nakkiah reveals how she and ...
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89 - Lara Jeffery from 2017-01-17T23:40:01
Lara Jeffery is the director of MyChoice Australia and describes herself as a right-wing libertarian. She's all about pushing back against the "nanny state", re...
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88 - Sally Goldner from 2017-01-10T13:30
Happy 2017 everyone!
Sally Goldner is the Executive Director of Transgender Victoria, the treasurer of the Bisexual Alliance Victoria and the first ever trans woman to b...
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87 - Adam Bandt (Live) from 2016-12-06T13:30
The Greens MP for Melbourne Adam Bandt joined me for the first ever live instalment of LIASYO.
Recorded in Collingwood on Sunday afternoon at the Easy Street Concert Hall...
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86 - First Contact Episode 2 Reaction (with Nayuka Gorrie) from 2016-11-30T07:57:53
Nayuka Gorrie returns to unpack Episode 2 of First Contact with me. It's bloody tough going as the episode looks at overcrowded housing and poverty in the NT to...
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85 - First Contact Episode 1 Reaction (with Nayuka Gorrie) from 2016-11-29T13:21:45
Episode 1 of First Contact has arrived.
The kind Nayuka Gorrie joined me for a viewing of the show and to share her thoughts. We discuss #DefineAborigin...
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84 - Jamila Rizvi from 2016-11-22T03:24:27
Jamila Rizvi is a writer, commentator, former Labor staffer and political junkie. She was raised in Canberra by her immigrant public service parents, joined the Labor Party at 1...
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83 - Timothy Rosenberger from 2016-11-16T22:53:48
On the dancefloor at Mardi Gras this year, I met Tim Rosenberger. He is a gay, conservative, Republican law grad from Ohio. And he has supported Donald Trump's candidacy for Pre...
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82 - Neil&Judy Ballard from 2016-11-15T01:51:38
In these times of uncertainty and fear, I speak to my mum and dad.
Neil and Judy tell me about their political beliefs, the changes they've seen in the...
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81 - A Special Post-Trump Episode from 2016-11-10T04:51:21
It happened. Donald J. Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.
I am very sad.
I don't know about you, but I want to help. I want to make th...
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80 - Nur Warsame from 2016-11-08T12:25:38
Nur Warsame is Australia's first openly gay imam.
Yep.
He's an incredible man with a fascinating story that I think is really important to hear. If you're like m...
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79 - Yassmin Abdel-Magied from 2016-11-01T13:30
Activist, writer, engineer, motoring enthusiast and outspoken young Muslim woman of colour Yassmin Abdel-Magied is kicking arse on multiple levels right now and I felt very luck...
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78 - Gay Alcorn from 2016-10-25T13:30
Gay Alcorn has been a journalist for over 25 years. She's been a Washington correspondent, edited The Sunday Age, won three Walkley Awards and is now the Melbourne edit...
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77 - Shen Narayanasamy from 2016-10-18T13:30
TIME TO MEET ANOTHER HERO, EVERYONE! Shen Narayanasamy is the Human Rights Campaign Director at GetUp!. She's an outspoken activist for refugee and migrant righ...
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76 - James Mathison from 2016-10-11T13:30
He used to co-host Australian Idol but this year James Mathison ran against former prime minister Tony Abbott for the federal seat of Waringah as an independent.
75 - Brendan Busch from 2016-10-04T13:30
22-year-old student Brendan Busch is angry and frustrated about Australian racism and denial, particularly in relation to First Nations peoples.
He's spoken out against A...
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74 - Josie Long from 2016-09-27T14:30
Comedian Josie Long makes me feel better about the world. She is a ball of delightful, charming and passionate energy whose comedy is hilarious and socially conscious and life-a...
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73 - Johann Hari from 2016-09-21T05:15:09
Backstage at the Soho Theatre I got to sit down with journalist Johann Hari to discuss how the media corrupts our public debate, Australian television and his powerful book,
72 - Nish Kumar from 2016-09-13T11:41:31
Finally! An actual new ep!
And what an ep it is. Comedian, writer and broadcaster Nish Kumar hosts topical comedy show Newsjack on the BBC and has been twice nom...
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71 - This Podcast Still Exists from 2016-09-02T10:58:19
Just a small message to say that this podcast is still happening and everything, I just got distracted and tired and drunk at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sorry lol.
New episodes ...
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70 - David Manne from 2016-07-19T14:30
In a week of Sonia Kruger and Pauline Hanson nonsense, let's talk to someone who's actually doing something GOOD for immigrants and refugees and people of colour.
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69 - Alain de Botton from 2016-07-12T14:30
It's episode 69 so let's talk about LOVE.
Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton is in the country to promote his (brilliant) new book The Course of Love...
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68 - Jeremy Sear from 2016-07-04T12:24:57
How about that election, hey?!?!?!?!
As the votes continue to be counted and we all wait to see what happens next, half of the brilliant Something Wonky podcast J...
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67 - Jason Ball from 2016-06-28T15:07
I’m back! And the election is upon us! Before the big day, I sat down with Jason Ball, the Greens candidate for the seat of Higgins. Some polling suggests the Liberal Party’s pr...
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66 - Sami Shah from 2016-06-07T14:30
Sami Shah is a comedian who just so happens to be an ex-Muslim atheist "militant leftist". Raised in conservative Karachi, Pakistan, and now living in Melbourne (after 5 years l...
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65 - Eva Orner from 2016-05-31T14:30
Eva Orner is an Academy Award-winning documentarian who is exposing Australia's shameful offshore detention regime with her new film Chasing Asylum. Th...
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64 - Edward Bourke from 2016-05-24T14:30
Edward Bourke is a 15-year-old right-wing conservative who loves the monarchy, Margaret Thatcher and Donald Trump.
In fact, he loves Trump so much he’s launched <...
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63 - Rebecca Shaw (Brocklesnitch) from 2016-05-17T14:30
Rebecca Shaw is a writer, podcaster and twitterer extraordinaire. You may know her best as Brocklesnitch or have chuckled at her parody twitter account,
62 - First Dog On The Moon from 2016-05-09T14:11:40
First Dog On The Moon is a dog and a Walkley award-winning cartoonist. His work has appeared in Crikey and now Guardian Australia and it is fun...
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61 - Osman Faruqi from 2016-05-03T11:34:09
Writer, engineer, former political candidate and now pollster Osman Faruqi has written for Guardian Australia, Junkee and SBS ...
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60 - Ben Eltham from 2016-04-26T14:30
Ben Eltham is the National Affairs Correspondent for New Matilda, the Industry Columnist for Arts Hub and has written for Guardian Aust...
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59 - Nayuka Gorrie from 2016-04-20T04:05:30
Nayuka Gorrie is a Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman who's passionate about progress for Indigenous Australians.
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58 - Sally Warhaft from 2016-04-13T05:14:23
Journalist, anthropologist and broadcaster Sally Warhaft is a former editor of The Monthly, host of The Wheeler Centre's Fifth Estate podcast and moth...
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57 - Simon Hunt (Pauline Pantsdown) from 2016-04-01T03:23:26
YES I KNOW IT'S BEEN QUITE A WHILE I'VE BEEN VERY BUSY SORRY LOL.
The good news is this episode is well worth the wait. Simon Hunt is a political satirist, film maker, l...
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56 - Scott Edgar from 2016-03-15T13:30
Yes, he is the nerdy one with the glasses and the guitar from Tripod, but Scott "Scod" Edgar is also a politically-conscious clever-clogs who just so happens to...
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55 - Premier Jay Weatherill from 2016-03-08T10:33:15
Since 2011, Jay Weatherill has served as the premier of South Australia - a state where the Labor Party has been in power for the past 14 years.
He's been attracting som...
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54 - Aidan Killian from 2016-03-01T11:01:24
I saw Irish comedian Aidan Killian performing at the Adelaide Fringe and knew that he'd be good value for a chat.
The former Bear Stearns investment banker is currently ...
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53 - Brad Chilcott from 2016-02-24T00:41:52
Brad Chilcott is a highly-principled pragmatist. A progressive pastor, political activist and founder of super-cool outfit Listen
52 - Corinne Grant from 2016-02-16T13:30
You probably know Corinne Grant best from her comedic work on Rove, skitHOUSE or The Glass House. She’s been passionate about ...
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50 - Senator Scott Ludlam from 2016-02-04T23:49:01
Episode 50 you guys!
Senator Scott Ludlam is a Greens Senator for Western Australia. He’s co-deputy leader for the party and its spokesperson for issues such as communica...
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49 - Jim Coad from 2016-01-24T13:30
January 26th is upon us again!
To reflect on the issues of blind nationalism and patriotism that Australia/Invasion/Survival Day (of Mourning) throws up, here's a slice of Stan Gr...
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48 - Mohammad Ali Baqiri from 2016-01-19T13:30
Mohammad Ali Baqiri is a former refugee who came to Australia by sea as a child. He spent three years in Australian immigration detention on Nauru.
Here he kindly shares...
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47 - Fiona Patten from 2016-01-12T13:30
Fiona Patten is a former lobbyist for the sex industry, she's the founder and leader of the Australian Sex Party and she was elected to the Victorian Legislativ...
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46 - Paul Farrell from 2016-01-05T13:07:11
Paul Farrell is a Guardian Australia journalist who writes about juicy stuff like national security, privacy and immigration. He’s concerned with what our gover...
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45 - James Fry from 2015-12-30T07:20:03
James Fry is a writer whose debut novel, That Fry Boy, tells the story of his journey from a normal happy childhood to a violent wh...
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44 - Lyle Shelton (Part Two) from 2015-12-22T07:05:14
My chat with the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby continues.
Things get heated as Lyle and I discuss the ACL's objections to the S...
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43 - BONUS! How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Gay Bomb from 2015-12-17T09:43:35
Here's a quick taste of the in-depth radio investigation I put together for ABC Radio National.
In the mid-1990s, the US Air Force considered investing $7.5 million i...
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42 - Lyle Shelton (Part One) from 2015-12-15T13:30
Merry Christmas everyone! To remind us all of the reason for the season, who better to talk to than the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle Shelton...
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41 - Ali Hogg from 2015-12-08T13:30
Activist Ali Hogg is the Victorian convenor of national marriage equality campaign Equal Love. She's proudly radically progressive and she's been leading the ca...
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40 - David Marr (Part Two) from 2015-12-01T13:30
David Marr is a self-described "bourgeois do-gooder". He's written for Fairfax Media, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and
39 - David Marr (Part One) from 2015-11-24T13:30
Respected journalist and MORTAL ENEMY OF GERARD HENDERSON (not really), David Marr is a self-described "bourgeois do-gooder". He's written for Fairfax Media,
38 - Peter Reith from 2015-11-17T12:47:10
Peter Reith was a member of John Howard's cabinet from 1996 to 2001. He served as Minister for Small Business, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister f...
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37 - Aamer Rahman from 2015-11-11T01:35:23
Comedian, writer and activist Aamer Rahman jokes about race and detention centres and terrorism and hip-hop and comic books and cultural appropriation. Formerly of the comedy du...
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36 - Out of Canberra w/ Alice Workman, Sam Dastyari&Prof. James Arvanitakis from 2015-11-02T02:18:26
Here's a live panel on where the jolly hell Australian politics is heading at the moment, recorded at This Is Not Art 2015 in Newcastle, as part of Crit...
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35 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young from 2015-10-18T11:28:58
At just 33, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young already has eight years of experience serving as a Greens Senator for South Australia in the federal parliament. Once a protégé of Bob Bro...
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34 - Freya Newman from 2015-10-09T06:21:37
It's been almost a year since a magistrate gave whistleblower Freya Newman a two-year good behaviour bond for “unauthorized access to information” under the NSW Crimes Act. Her ...
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33 - Erik Jensen from 2015-09-27T07:48:48
After another bit of a delay and SOME JOLLY CRAZY HAPPENINGS in Australian politics, we’re back. Hello.
Erik Jensen is the definition of “precocious”. He’s in his mid-tw...
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32 - Philip Nitschke from 2015-09-05T13:03:15
Again, apologies for the delay, everyone. It's been a while, but I'm back with a doozy of an episode.
Philip “Dr. Death” ...
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31 - Kieran Hurley from 2015-08-24T14:57:55
Hello! I'm back! Sorry about the wait for a new episode. I'm in Scotland, so let's talk to a Scot.
Kieran Hurley is a playwright and poet based in Glasgow. His work touc...
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30 - Damien Power from 2015-08-04T15:02:21
I think Damien Power is one of the most exciting comedians in Australia right now. He opened for Tenacious D on their Australian tour a few years back (I saw the show and he cru...
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29 - Van Badham from 2015-07-28T16:48:41
Van Badham exudes passion for political action. She’s a playwright, novelist, columnist for T...
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28 - Rod Quantock from 2015-07-21T18:58:28
Rod Quantock recently received a Medal of the Order of Australia for his 45+ years of being an outspoken comedian/environmentalist activist...
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27 - Tim Wilson from 2015-07-14T14:30
Tim Wilson is a former policy director at the Institute of Public Affairs, Australia's Human Rights Commissioner, public commentator and tea-dr...
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26 - Shatha Hamade from 2015-07-07T14:30
Vegan lawyer Shatha Hamade is a former prosecutor for the RSPCA and is now the Head of Investigations for Animals Australia. S...
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25 - Dan Ilic from 2015-06-30T14:30
Dan Ilic is a political satirist who employs what he calls “evidence-based shit-stirring”. He loves taking the piss in all sorts of media; ...
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24 - Waleed Aly from 2015-06-23T14:30
Waleed Aly (aka Nazeem Hussain) is a politics lecturer, columnist, author, radio broadcaster...
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23 - Jake Stone from 2015-06-16T14:30
This week - something a bit different.
I am a very big fan of former Bluejuice frontman, comedian and broadcaster Jake Stone and feel very lucky indeed ...
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22 - Tracey Spicer from 2015-06-09T14:30
Newsreader, journalist, writer and philanthropist Tracey Spicer doesn't tolerate make-up, God, prudishness or sexism in the workplace. She rips through bullshit with a smile and...
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21 - Nic Holas from 2015-06-02T14:30
Nic Holas is a moustached writer and advocate living with HIV. He's written for Junkee, Hello Mr., Star Observer, Cosm...
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20 - Jarrod McKenna from 2015-05-26T14:30
Jarrod McKenna is one of those "cool Christians" you've heard about, except he actually is genuinely cool.
Jarrod is many things: a pastor, a protestor, the National Advi...
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19 - Sara Pascoe from 2015-05-19T14:30
Super-dooper brainy (and very funny) comedian Sara Pascoe was in Australia for a bunch of festivals and kindly gave me some of her time to talk about sperm and hymen in a hotel ...
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18 - Father Bob Maguire from 2015-05-12T14:30
After my little rant about this nonsense, sit back and enjoy my wide-ra...
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17 - BONUS! Deathboat - Bloody Borders from 2015-05-07T14:30
Here's a special little treat because I love youse so much: my piece for Fan Fiction Comedy at this year's Melbourne International Com...
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16 - Helen Razer (Part Two) from 2015-05-05T14:30
My chat with Helen Razer continues and by now she’s really in her groove.
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15 - Helen Razer (Part One) from 2015-04-28T03:27:28
Helen Razer is a writer, a broadcaster and a gardener who doesn’t fuck around. Presenting alongside Mikey Robbi...
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14 - Robin Ince from 2015-04-21T05:22:20
I was happier than a pig in shit to have a chat with comedian Robin Ince last week. I've been a fan of Robin's comedy ever since I saw him supporting Ricky Gervais on his tour D...
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13 - Andrew McMillen from 2015-04-14T14:30
Freelance journalist Andrew McMillen writes about all sorts of fascinating stuff. While I was in Brisbane I sat down with him to briefly discuss dead bodies and Wikipedia, but w...
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12 - Clementine Ford from 2015-04-08T01:33:48
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11 - Richard Cooke from 2015-03-31T12:41:36
Journalist and comedy writer Richard Cooke has worked with the likes of The Chaser, The Checkout, The Saturday Paper, ...
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10 - Ben Riley from 2015-03-24T15:00
Ben Riley describes himself as a classical liberal, a Queenslander and a larrikin. He's a former president of the Young Liberals and the current Vice President ...
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9 - The Welcome Centre from 2015-03-17T11:32:38
Adelaide's Welcome Centre is an initiative of Welcome To Australia, an organisation dedicated to changing the conversation around Australia's immigration polici...
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8 - Arj Barker from 2015-03-11T05:44:52
The one-and-only Arj Barker is hilarious on stage, but serious when it comes to reports and...
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7 - Jimblah from 2015-03-03T22:25:36
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6 - Quentin Kenihan from 2015-02-25T01:06:29
Quentin Kenihan is a movie star, a TV presenter and producer, friend to celebrities, disability advocate and enthusiastic Jewel fan.
Brought into the national spotlight a...
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5 - Nazeem Hussain from 2015-02-17T13:30
Comedian, writer, TV & radio host and outspoken activist Nazeem Hussain escaped the watchful gaze of ASIO to join me in my house for a chat.
The creator and star of L...
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4 - Senthorun Raj from 2015-02-10T13:28:17
For an in-depth breakdown of what exactly is going on with Australia's immigration policy and exactly how many laws we're breaking, I talked to academic and advocate Senthorun Raj Listen
3 - Ian "Dicko" Dickson from 2015-02-03T21:00
You probably know Dicko best as that arsehole judge from Australian Idol, but there's a lot more to the old codger than that. He's been a window washer, a music journal...
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2 - Kate Doak from 2015-01-27T06:23:24
Kate Doak is a freelance investigative journalist who runs her own current affairs website (thedeadlynewt.com) and w...
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1 - Samah Hadid from 2015-01-18T11:35:57
Samah Hadid is a human rights and social justice campaigner who's worked with the Global Poverty Project, the UN and grass-roots organisations all over the world.
She ver...
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