FontCast

A podcast dedicated to Tasmanian news, politics and business from Font PR. Join Brad Stansfield, Becher Townshend and Win News' Alex Johnston to get up to date on everything that's happening in Tassie, and take an in-depth look at the biggest issues of the day.

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Episodes

A cheeky special episode

The former state politician who made tens of millions of dollars on the sale of the fitness empire he built from scratch is back with a new book and a no holds barred conversation with the FontCast team. The former state Liberal leader's Dumbells to Diamonds is the incredible true story of how Cheek cracked the code on 24-hour fitness centres going from self-confessed business failure to runaway success in just eight years. “It took me more than forty years of hard work to become an overnight su...

Mar 01, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 2

The politically safe reshuffle

The political gods have gifted the FontCast team with a cabinet reshuffle to kick off a new season of the podcast. Sarah Courtney's sudden departure from the state government raised some eyebrows among the team but Stansfield was not surprised. Jump into this episode for some cutting edge analysis of how this reshuffle will play out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 18, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 1

The Golden Font 2021

The most anticipated FontCast of the year is here. Becher and the Brads are joined by newshound and friend of the FontCast Alex Johnston to decide who gets the coveted Golden Font for 2021. Each panellist chooses three public figures they believe have made an outstanding contribution to Tasmania throughout 2021. The person with the most votes takes out the prize. Obviously, Peter Gutwein is an unbackable favourite to make it three in a row but there are always surprises when the votes are cast. ...

Dec 21, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 15

The year that was and predictions for 2022

Alex Johnston joins the team as they make reflect on 2021 and make their sweeping predictions for 2022. Alex helps Brad, Becher and Brad cover everything from state and federal politics to Covid-19 and small business. This episode is the last one of the year before the famous awarding of the coveted Golden Font later in the month. Don't miss this episode for some of the state's most astute and informed political analyses.UPDATE: The Hon Ruth Forrest and the Hon Mike Gaffney advise she did not ha...

Nov 26, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 14

Estimates wrap-up with Jenna Cairney

The editor of The Mercury newspaper, Jenna Cairney, joins the FontCast team to unpack budget estimates and all the excitement that goes with it. It wasn't so much the Government's performance in delivering the estimates that got the conversation flowing but the opposition's reply. Jenna's assessment of the opposition, on the whole, is that it was a "shocking state of affairs". She says the opposition has been so severely affected by the demise of David O'Byrne and the internal politics continuin...

Sep 24, 2021•42 min•Season 3Ep. 13

Bringing out the hay - budget analysis with Amanda Lovell

Becher calls it the hay-out-of-the-barn budget. The Gutwein Government has handed down a surprise-free state budget. The first since the Liberals held power in the election. The numbers were better than expected. While other states are foundering, Tasmania is sailing strong through the COVID storm. Fresh out of budget lockdown, the editor of the Tasmanian Business Reporter, Amanda Lovell, joined the FontCast will all the juicy budget details. Most importantly, she said the journalists were fed e...

Aug 26, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 12

The Cheshire cat that got the cheese

Great Scott! We're going back to the future in an action-packed episode. Rebecca White has reclaimed the opposition leader's throne just weeks after losing a state election. In the words of Doc Emmet Brown "If you're going to build a time machine... why not do it with some style?" And nobody can accuse Ms White of lacking style. But was she the best choice the Labor Party had? Rejoining the FontCast team newshound and former Labor Party senior advisor Alex Johnston says yes and Becher agrees alt...

Jul 09, 2021•28 min•Season 3Ep. 11

Out of the shadows

As David O'Byrne emerges from the shadow ministries to lead the Labor party after its third election defeat in a row, the FontCast team emerge from the halls of Font PR to analyse the situation in a special episode of the FontCast. While Labor gets used to its new-look front bench the Government has made a veritable cascade of announcements with a "renewed vigour" as Brad Stansfield describes it. "The Government's has achieved more in the last six weeks than it did in six months prior to the ele...

Jun 18, 2021•19 min•Season 3Ep. 10

Sunrise on a new government

Stansfield is quite keen to point that he predicted friend-of-the-FontCast Madeleine Ogilvie would be the 13th Liberal elected to the house, handing the party another four years in government. The team was recording this episode as the sun was rising over Government House where Peter Gutwein was arriving to be sworn in as Premier. But what is in store for this unprecedented third Liberal Government in the Labor state that is Tasmania? Nowland says the election of former Glenorchy Mayor Kristy Jo...

May 19, 2021•19 min•Season 3Ep. 9

FontCast Your Vote - the wash up

The votes have been cast and Brad Stansfield returns to the FontCast to analyse the events of the past six weeks. Brad Nowland, Becher Townshend and regular guest Alex Johnston are joined by Luke Martin from the Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania as the Liberal Party solidifies its majority government for the third time. Fresh from working on the Liberal campaign Stansfield declares it a resounding success. Alex, however, points out that it's pretty much the same government except they've swap...

May 03, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 8

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