Wrapping up 2021 with a whip around the states Steph(Vic.), Andy(Tas.), Rob(WA) and Alex(SA). Every worker must be engaged and supported in their personal struggle from a position of collective strength. Get around Health, Aging and Disability workers in their struggle for a pay packet that reflects their role in the community, support workers re-educating, get around young workers in the workplace, join your union and be part of a proud historical movement supporting the rights of workers. But ...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 43
A pandora's box of tangents explodes as Australia goes nuclear and sets out to school the west on "foreign diplomacy for dummies", all, at, the same time. Barnaby alerts the nation to a global energy crisis caused by renewables, whilst here at home, the cost of wholesale power drops below the cost to generate for coal and gas, coincidence? Political corruption in NSW generates an outpouring of love and sympathy for the very same corrupt politicians. Australian journalism leads the charge for dem...
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Searching for meaning in the choices society makes, finding personal responsibility in space travel and are carbon credits absolved in lower "shit space" orbit tourism. The news feed is littered with challenges and internal conflicts for a thinking member of the community and mental health should be a daily consideration for those who question the status quo and not left to an annual RUok day The Shed also grapples with its reverse sponsorship conundrum and is free merch at the bottle shop actua...
Sep 18, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Episode 40 brings with it a special guest, a one Mr K. Harkins swings by the shed for an ale and a yarn or three. A constant in the union movement over many years, he is a sparkie, an organiser across multiple branches of the ETU and now with the CFMEU Vic-Tas, and a Secretary in Tassie with both the ETU (now CEPU) and Tasmania's Trades Hall. The episode attempts to explore every rabbit hole and tangent possible; joining the union, workplace education, bridging the gap into workplace leadership,...
Jun 27, 2021•2 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Our man on the ground in WA for the election heads to the beach, but no matter. the working class (95% of the population) finds their political compass and voted accordingly. Is the time right for a renewed Harvester Decision in Australia? Listeners are encouraged to check White Riot (2019) hitting cinema's in Tassie and did having a Labor PM in Hawk during the peak period of neo-liberalism help soften the blow but did it soften Australia's contribution to the output of Working-Class Anthems? A ...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Rains of biblical proportions hammer the shed to kick off 2021 and whilst the modern mainstream media doesn't need the heavens to whitewash history, no amount of rain will wash away Clarkys ability to tangent from submarines to water bombers and seamlessly rewrite Australia's foreign policy...you're welcome! Morrison's Industrial Relations Omnibus Bill is met with ire from workers and the #StopTheBus campaign rolls out nationally Steph is welcomed to the shed once again, smashing misconceptions ...
Feb 27, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Solidarity amongst Australian organised labour is put to the test as the aspirations of a few seeking to gain a drink from Porter's wine cabinet threaten the future of the country's most effective unions. Multiple musings, brain farts, tangents from the shed; a space where consistent with a general 2020 theme, the truth at times can be considered irrelevant! See ya in 2021 Podcast recommendations aplenty with The Week on Wednesday , Revolution Now! , Concrete Gang check out Dr Gabor Mate on YouT...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 37
What to do with food production? How many bins of the fruit must you pick before you make bank on the farm? Should we nationalise food production, park the profit margins and pay a decent wage? What level of wealth do Gina and her ilk in the BRW Rich List need to accumulate before Australia stop subsidising their enterprises? The dangerous questions come thick and fast as well as a bit of commentary on current events, including Tesla's proxy Government in Bolivia are defeated in recent elections...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Episode 035 sees Clarky roll out a new mic and he morphs in old golden tonsils Chris "Laws". Some out there on the interwebs believe Australian Farmer's continue their struggle to find workers they can exploit in this era of restricted travel. Peddled out by mainstream media as the "real victims" of Covid_19, along with business in general and the many markets impacted as being, the only true victims. Commentators spewing out "we must open up for the sake of business" and other such statements o...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Tasmania's leaky border finally gets media attention it deserves through the lens of political corruption. Clarky describes his vision of Utopia and a million tangents ensue. Gilly once again finds his inner boomer much to the amusement of the shed. International solidarity is required for the human tragedy playing out in Beruit, leading by example once again are the legends at APHEDA . The working class makes up 95% of the population and is the single motivation for the powerful to keep looking...
Aug 23, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Smashing Breakfast Burrito's, skipping ABCInsiders to pick up dog shit, it's hard work, but what is hard work? where did #RubyDutton go... wait a minute, Dan Andrews must be sacked, Nah just joking? Identifying those who need to Face the wall. Nationalise Farming, Let the state absorb the risk, hot tip: be wary of the Angus cow profile pic, Uncle Baz gets the shits with the Chinese farm ownership, Prioritising the organisation of humanity around human-rights, The ABC hits a new low: celebrating ...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 33
This one is over to the phones, Frosty from FB page " Politics Simplified ", Pat, Danny and Stephanie all dial in and virtually drop by the shed for a mad rant or three. Covid Isolation, Housing affordability, how much shit does one person need?, Ignorance, left/right, ANTIFA, fake news, Pork Barrells, Learning the lessons of the Sports Rorts Saga by offering up drought relief on the flood plains of northern Tasmania. Mick's Memes and all the usual polish applied to a Friday night In the Shed...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Early-onset boomer issues. Active listeners ph in and discuss uniting the downtrodden of capitalism by developing political awareness, especially amongst the worker class. Looking for trust in the institutions of consolidated power. From trials held in secret in China: Media says Bad, whilst trial's held in secret, Australia (Witness K): Media says fine. Phew. Employer's searching for solutions from within the realms of their benevolence. ANTIFA, BLM etc. "Micks Memes", Sully takes a tumble and ...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In this week’s episode of In The Shed. After a long winded intro, the lads discuss the unfolding geopolitical and trade tension with Australia’s largest trading pattern, China, and the tension it’s causing within government ranks with the usual In The Shed humour, crack a beer and enjoy.
Jun 13, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Scumbo extends a wilting olive branch to workers, whilst Dreg(air)tasker founder attempts to reverse auction your labour whilst telling you that insecurity is all in your head. George Floyd dies in the US and looting squares up a systems ledger where it can no longer provide the $$$ to buy stuff
Jun 07, 2020•1 hr 31 min
Should a high literacy rate be a thing in anti-lock down USA? and will 5G mutate us into a walking dead future? (The) WHO knows, for sure. So when private property rights begin to circle a vaccine for covid-19, the Shed says nationalise everything, well except for takeaway coffee, the free market can have that. Strap in for some global solidarity and triples on the reg. Sit back and enjoy a beer in the Shed
May 20, 2020•2 hr 11 min
Any idea's for the future? Nah, fuck it we are not in government. "Go Households, go early"? Nah, deliver LNP Darwinism with conditions and confusion and let your boss handle it but hey what the fuck. Why is it only workers that have to demonstrate productivity? meh, do as Tory Jesus says, "sell ya mother and invest in toilet paper"
Apr 11, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Back In The Shed, Ep 027 The Shed's Mascot "Lady" the dog survives a near miss. Misconceptions surrounding Foreign Aid gets a run; What would you do if your neighbour suffered financial misfortune amidst a crisis? Attempt to turn a profit? Developing Country as a term gets defined as a "Deliberately Impoverished Country". New Shed Pastimes; Sky-Trolling, Entrepreneur-Trolling. Corona (virus) is not a shit beer, it ain't a mouth party, but the numbers don't match the hysteria. Scarcity, Fear and ...
Feb 24, 2020•2 hr 12 min
This Australian fire season the Government has pushed Volunteer Fire Fighters past, miles past the concept of volunteering your time to benefit your community. Work that is an essential public service is work and should be recognised as such. The shed applies loose understandings of "The Right-Wing Ratchet" "Trickle Down Economics" as a lens to view the exploitation of volunteer firefighters who at 100 days went past volunteering a while ago. From here the tangents come thick and fast, dis-infor...
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 24 min
The one point missed whilst Australia's PM was taking a holiday during a bush fire season like no other, THE... RIGHT... WING... RATCHET... #SCOMO, #SCUMO, #SCROMO whatever you want to call the PM, he is the poster child for a fiscal policy that guarantees the underfunding outcomes of social services (like fire fighting), improved health and education outcomes etc whilst their financial policies deliver public money with interest to private shareholder ventures like toll roads, franking credits ...
Jan 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The climate of change, freedom to produce, deny, exploit and Angry Markets. How scarce is artificial scarcity? Is the real solution for change more opportunity, for capital interests, more resource imperial bloodshed? This time over Lithium, the "new oil"? Shout outs to Podcasts #eyesleft #TheMichaelBrooksShow #MediaRootsRadio QUESTION THE STATUS QUO
Dec 01, 2019•1 hr 6 min
On the fly again in the Shed for episode 23. The usual local, national, and global current affairs run down, cutting through the bullshit and delivering all the answers with: Tangents, poor geographically references, & False Dilema's. Updates on Pickett Lines, Proxy contests, The IPA Red Tape Crisis, The Uluru Statement, how to avoid the Gulag, Tinfoil Hat's etc, etc, etc. Shout outs to the band "Myrtle Place", the FaceBook page "Politics Simplified", the Australian Legend "Peter Norman", th...
Nov 10, 2019•1 hr 3 min
A short and sharp episode this time round, cover the 102-year anniversary of the 1917 Great Strike, The Newstart Allowance, US I.C.E. Raids and the insanity of Imminent Crisis to What Crisis? Sully the cat & Lady the dog provide their usual impromptu entertainment, oh and Clarky has a new sound effects Toy?
Aug 18, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Is "Jim's Mowing" branching out toward Jim's Law Enforcement, Jim's Military, Jim's Ambulance? who knows but there are others out there with an eye for opportunity and "having a go". Has Jim been duded the opportunity to succeed? Viper Force, Blackwater and Uber Ambulance may spell the answer of the missed opportunity for Jim but there is still hope in the area of Nuclear Power and the storing of its waste. All that, plus SE Asian travel, a free press and free country, flat taxation and The AFP ...
Jul 31, 2019•2 hr 29 min
Straya Votes, the episode that was supposed to be a celebration but ended up being a space full of questions. Did the bar lower? Is that why we ended up with Barnaby? Well done Angus? No? See Ya Tony Abbott, hello Conservative light. Should we lower the voting age? Should those without a vested interest in the future be allowed to vote? Is the negative message a sure thing? Pensioner tax, Death Tax, Is fake news an election winner? Is asking an individual wearing an LNP t-shirt "if they are, Ric...
Jun 27, 2019•1 hr 55 min
We are back in the shed after escaping to the big island in the north. First up we address a little housekeeping in the form of an apology to our episode 18 guest Jack, in essence for preventing him from completing a full sentence without being cut off for the first full 40min of the podcast. Haha sorry mate And with that squared away we revisit the delights of The Curtin Hotel in Lygon Street's delicious Cheesy balls, take a swipe at Dutton for his putrid shot at Ali France, his opposing candid...
Apr 26, 2019•52 min
Episode 18A Ando, Clarky, Gilly and guest Jack Todaro, part two of our arvo at The Curtin and whilst the cheesy balls have been consumed so have a pint or three. There are more complex issues explained poorly, The 1917 Tram dispute gets a run in the context of political education being an essential part of our industrial muscle, Rebuilding workers conscience to fight for and demand more, Overcoming apathy, The limitations of a UBI and what defines a standard of living from the workers perspectiv...
Apr 19, 2019•51 min
In Episode 18 Ando, Clarky, Gilly and guest Jack Todaro go deep on the power of music,Karl Marx, the imperialism Olympics, complex issues explained poorly, political education an essential part of our industrial muscle, Clinton Fernandes book Island Off The Coast Of Asia gets a mention and Victorian Socialists get a plug, plus we have a beer or two and eat some amazing deep fried cheese balls.
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 43 min
In Episode 17 we talk about the Royal Commission for the Banks, how Australia robbed its poorest neighbour of its natural resources. Suddenly Venezuela, a oil rich nation needs some freedom, continuing decades of interference in South America by the US. And Fahrenheit 11/9 review, where Neil tries not to give too much away while explaining how the political system has let down the average American while making the rich richer.
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