Episode 68 of In The Shed is a big one. Mick and Chris take on the mining lobby, the anti-union hysteria around ETU organising in the Pilbara, and the nonsense being pushed by politicians and commentators who reckon workers asking for fair pay is somehow “wrecking the economy”. We explain: • Why workers at BHP and Rio Tinto are organising • How protected industrial action actually works • Why mining companies are terrified of unions • Why Australia gives away its gas and resources while ordinary...
Apr 13, 2026•2 hr 36 min
In this episode, Mick and Chris take on the latest escalation in the Middle East and the narratives being pushed around it. From “it’s not a war” messaging to AI-generated misinformation flooding social media, they unpack how propaganda is shaping public perception in real time. The discussion digs into: The long history of Western intervention and its outcomes The economic interests sitting behind global conflict The role of media, AI, and political messaging Why working-class people always bea...
Mar 21, 2026•1 hr 7 min
In this episode Mick and Chris tackle some of the biggest political flashpoints dominating headlines right now. The conversation starts with Australia’s new hate speech laws and the growing concern about how criticism of governments, movements, and political ideologies could be criminalised. From there the discussion moves into the politics surrounding Israel, Zionism, protest movements, and the idea of “social cohesion.” The boys examine how quickly political narratives can shift — and who bene...
Mar 09, 2026•58 min
This week on In The Shed , Mick and Chris sit down with Jordan Van den Lamb — better known online as Purple Pingers — fresh off the launch of the Tasmanian Socialist Party. We dig into: The housing crisis and why empty homes exist alongside homelessness Artificial scarcity, land banking, and who actually benefits How capitalism turns basic human needs into profit streams Why productivity has nothing to do with wages The failure of governments to act — by choice, not mistake Why unions matter mor...
Feb 03, 2026•1 hr 19 min
In Episode 65 of In The Shed , Mick and Chris return with a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred discussion on power, empire, and how tragedy is exploited to protect the status quo. We examine the Bondi attack and the immediate political and media response — including the weaponisation of antisemitism, the silencing of criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the complete refusal to address root causes. This episode covers: • The link between Gaza, imperialism, and radicalisation • Media hypocrisy an...
Jan 15, 2026•1 hr 11 min•Season 2026Ep. 65
In Episode 63 of In The Shed , we wrap up our three-part dissection of the 60 Minutes hit piece on the CFMEU. Mick and Chris return to take a blowtorch to the final instalment of the media’s anti-union propaganda. We break down the spin, pull apart the contradictions, and expose the agenda behind this so-called "journalism." Spoiler: It’s all about protecting developers and demonising workers. This isn’t just about the CFMEU – it’s about how they come for all of us when we stand together. 🎙 Sub...
Jul 27, 2025•33 min
The post-election wrap you didn't get on Sky News. Mick and Chris are back in the shed, unpacking Labor’s historic federal election win – the biggest since Gough. We dive into: Why Australians rejected Dutton’s MAGA cosplay The Liberal Party’s house of cards and Susan Ley’s glass cliff What Labor must do with its political capital (spoiler: TAX THE RICH) The case for ending poverty and fixing housing with proper resource royalties The genocide in Gaza and Labor’s moral cowardice And why if you'r...
Jul 20, 2025•53 min
It’s the final stretch of the 2025 Federal Election, and the chaos is dialled up to 11. In this episode, Mick and Chris sift through the Libs’ nuclear fantasies, Jane Hume’s work-from-home backpedal, Dutton’s dollar-a-litre petrol bribe, and a Liberal candidate who owns 11 houses but wants to pay pensioners $10/hour. We break down the last-minute bullshit, call out the media spin, and ask the one question that matters: whose side are they really on? This week:– The Coalition’s MAGA cosplay– The ...
Apr 29, 2025•57 min
In Episode 60, we torch our way through the 2025 Federal Election madness—spotlighting the most cooked candidates, hollow slogans, and fake tradies the Liberal Party could dredge up. 💥 Featuring: Dutton’s Dogfood Origin Story Sarah Henderson vs Free TAFE MAGA cosplay with Jacinta Price Burner account clangers from Angus Taylor Lib candidates with 10 homes complaining about the cost of living Zahid Safi’s fake NDIS empire Nuclear dreams in Bass and Gippsland And plenty of scathing one-liners fro...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 3 min
🎙️ Episode 59 – CFMEU Hit Job Part 2: The Blowback They’re at it again. Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes has launched another overcooked hit piece on the CFMEU — and Mick and Chris are here to tear it to shreds. In this explosive follow-up to Episode 58, we break down: The wild claims, missing facts, and twisted narratives The attempted takedown of Lisa Zanetta and the disgraceful politicisation of domestic violence The media-police tag team that fell apart under cross-examination Peter Dutton’s unhin...
Apr 12, 2025•1 hr 17 min
🎧 Episode 58 – Don’t Risk Dutton: The Scorched Earth Special Full Length Episode Ready For A Polling Booth Near You Housing. Energy. Workers. Class War. Racism. Lies. Peter Dutton’s record gets the In The Shed treatment in this full-length two-hour takedown. Mick and Chris go full scorched earth on the bloke who wants to be Prime Minister — exposing the hypocrisy, the propaganda, and the straight-up bullshit behind his every word. We break it down:🏚 Housing: Dutton’s massive property empire, i...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Episode 58 Part 2 – Dutton, Nuclear Fantasy & the Neoliberal Wasteland Mick and Chris return to finish what they started — a scathing takedown of Peter Dutton, the Liberal Party, and the ideological war they’ve been waging on working-class Australia for decades. We tear through: The chaos of Coalition energy policy: 22 plans, no results Dutton’s nuclear obsession: expensive, slow, doesn’t exist The hypocrisy of the Coalition’s “economic credentials” Decades of neoliberal policy failure – TAF...
Apr 05, 2025•47 min
In Episode 58 Part 1 of In The Shed , Mick and Chris go full scorched earth on Peter Dutton’s relentless hypocrisy. From his massive property portfolio while blaming housing issues on migrants, to posing as a "friend of the worker" while pushing to deregister the CFMEU – we’re exposing it all. We’re also breaking down Dutton’s hawkish trade rhetoric while he cozies up to China behind closed doors, plus his obsession with cutting public services while paying billions to private contractors. If yo...
Mar 25, 2025•47 min
Episode 57 – AI, Trump, and the Future of Reality This episode, we tear into Trump’s latest AI-fueled delusion—a vision of Gaza as a five-star tourist paradise. We break down how AI is being weaponized to rewrite history, manipulate elections, and crush the working class. From deepfake news anchors to AI-powered economic warfare, we explore the terrifying speed at which this tech is evolving and who’s really pulling the strings. We also take a hard look at how billionaires like Musk, tech giants...
Mar 16, 2025•56 min•Ep. 57
Episode 57 – AI, Trump, and the Future of Reality This episode, we tear into Trump’s latest AI-fueled delusion—a vision of Gaza as a five-star tourist paradise. We break down how AI is being weaponized to rewrite history, manipulate elections, and crush the working class. From deepfake news anchors to AI-powered economic warfare, we explore the terrifying speed at which this tech is evolving and who’s really pulling the strings. We also take a hard look at how billionaires like Musk, tech giants...
Mar 16, 2025•38 sec•Ep. 57
Episode 56 – "The Betrayal of the CFMEU: Democracy in Decline" In this explosive episode, we break down one of the most significant political attacks on a union in Australian history—the orchestrated takedown of the CFMEU. We examine the ALP’s betrayal of the workers' movement, the role of right-wing media in shaping public perception, and how this sets a dangerous precedent for all unions. With deep analysis and first-hand insights, we expose the hypocrisy, the power struggles, and the real ben...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 56
What happened? Sit down, crack a can or three, enter the shed and solve the many problems of the universe. Throw water on a few fires and some fuel on others; it gets spicy. From wandering through reems of detailed notes and diving down as many rabbit holes as opportunities provide, enjoy comrades, enjoy.
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Breaking down conflict in a general sense, using the current Middle East conflict for context and the parallels to all disputes, including the workplace. Wherever the priority is profit or the accumulation of wealth exists, it is incredible how quickly the motivations of humanity and its survival become corrupted.
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 54
This one slips under the tree just in time for Christmas, comrades. Wrapped in a festive haze, the sticky tape is on an angle, and the folds are far neat, but the shed will never let the perfect get in the way of the possible. It has been a year of military conflict, conflicting positions, and positions that seem to contradict, and that's just when you realise a half-decent dip has nothing to do with a bunch of freedom fighters in the Gaza Strip. Keeping your finger on the pulse may have been a ...
Dec 24, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Australians are being asked a question about an idea. An idea formed from a position of human to human respect, unity and equality. This is an opportunity to acknowledge the indigenous peoples of Australia and their place in this country for 65 million years and to set the country on a path of healing from the recent history since colonisation. A Yes is hope. A No is the Status Quo at best. The Shed looks at the upcoming referendum through a working class lens. This is a working class struggle b...
Oct 09, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 52
It's a tangent-riddled episode! Everything is on the menu; Tales from the road, tales of activism, tales of democracy, segways, same job, same pay, bosses who prefer division over productivity, politics in sport, stadiums in Tasmania, it is all dished up, some served cold!
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 51
The French are flipping cars again, gas pipelines are blowing up, Friendly Jordie is still vertical and still fighting the good fight, a power revolution is finally upon us, Clarkys RW journalist mates get fully upright and erect over subs, Australian money printers go brrr, strong old testament vibes, privatised essential public services continually fail to self regulate, and the Shed turns 50. That's right; we are almost boomer. Episode links and shoutouts: Friendly Jordies - YouTube Channel U...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 50
In The Shed Ep.048 - Jan.21 2023 - When a conservative dies, We have a party Jacinda pulls the pin on NZ's drift to the left, Pell's in hell, Molan exits leaving a trail of broken dreams ...and conservative commentators wind themselves into a status quo lather on their version of historical storytelling. The eternal search continues for a politician patriotic to the skin and bone of their nations, beyond their borders, embracing a global, collective, class struggle. Eyes Left Podcast delivers mo...
Jan 26, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Part 2 Picking up where we left off with Steph - The cost of addiction, the war on drugs, incarceration, post-incarceration, and homelessness is a cycle that needs worker-led solutions. Steph walks us through the solutions that are working in pockets worldwide and how Australia has an opportunity for the first time in a decade to do something to address inequality, predatory capitalism and many more systemic issues undermining a good life for all workers. The war in Ukraine - Letterman's Propaga...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 48
2022 was a mixed bag, and this is a mixed-bag episode, something for everyone. There is no tangent or rabbit hole this episode wouldn't embrace. Tips for Christmas BBQs, dealing with your boomer relatives, how to be a swear bear on Twitter whilst not being sin-binned, how to take 10 mins to answer a yes/no question. Rich people missing the point; starring Meghan and Harry. What can good Labor Governments do for working people? Why do the right and the wealthy they serve hate progressive politics...
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Solidarity vs Division; Advocating Peace in the face of a Publicly-Funded War Machine Comrade Max, fresh from the frontline of the Amazon dispute and Labor Day in NY, joins the shed for the first time. Solidarity, Shenagins and inspiration from the US and some personal reflections on the SAPN dispute; the importance of publically owned essential services and worker power through solidarity. Advocate for peace in eastern Europe and prepare for a war of words on those who refuse to cheer death on ...
Nov 09, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Lizzy's carked it, and simultaneously, her death became a sideshow, a distraction and a source of division hiding in plain sight. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, round tables, summits that aren't on the top of mountains, Andrew can't find his Forrest for the trees, searching the dark corners of the profit model on aged care, child care and investment opportunities in the NDIS. Multiple tangents ensue; wage cuts are not innovation, not all business owners are the Einstein they think they are, and when the penn...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Hey, it's ep 45, don't worry, we know what we're doing... but yeah, it has been a while! Labor is back federally; what do we do? Pack up and go home? Will centre-right reform solve all the problems for the working class? Well, it should solve a few, but it's going to take constant pressure from the collective to keep the ship sailing to the port of worker utopia. A couple of lads in the shed can dream... But what do we do? Many people doing lots of small positive collective things often will hel...
Aug 14, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 45
The stalk is over. Clarky conquers the Everest of podcast guests and puts the final boarding call for Dr Richard Denniss on the next plane to Tassie. Simple answers to simple questions; Richard has made it his life work to break down the spin and call bullshit where it lands. The National conversation about economics has done plenty to disenfranchise the average worker from big decisions. Unnecessarily big words and jargon have made solving and participating in finding solutions space for a smal...
May 28, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 44
The Shed's back! "Like trying to hold back the tide," resisting the wave of enquiries surrounding a new episode proved futile. With an election on the horizon and a war just over it in Europe, the time had come to dust off the microphones, stock the fridge, apply some WD40 to the shed door and finally welcome 2022 For some background on the war in Ukraine, here are some excellent links. First, Jeremy Corban offers his take from the perspective of class and how working-class solidarity respects n...
Apr 24, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 44
