A discussion full of irreverence, politically incorrect topics ('do gingers have souls?'), Matt the 'chink' and Damian the 'wog' and growing up with racism, the dark arts of Public Relations, culture wars, the fall of Hong Kong... ------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZOts3f8N3t4 Subscribe to Discernable on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/discernable?sub_confirmation=1 Stay connected in case we disappear: https://www.discernable.io/crew Watch episodes o...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 24 min
This is episode 2 of 'Behind the Curtain with David Limbrick'. David Limbrick MP joins me to explain why and how the ALP are trying to change Victoria's constitution. Watch Episode 1 'Alternatives to extending Victoria's State of Emergency': https://youtu.be/kZaSl_wbHWI Subscribe to Discernable on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/discernable?sub_confirmation=1 Stay connected in case we disappear: https://www.discernable.io/crew...
Feb 23, 2021•14 min
David Limbrick MP joins me to explain the alternatives to Victoria's never ending State of Emergency. Not only is David Limbrick seeking simple amendments to the government's bill, but a highly experienced team of QCs have gone ahead and drafted an alternative Bill that gives the government everything it needs to manage Covid-19 but without the sledgehammer powers is wants. Will the government scuttle these common sense proposals? Watch this 20min episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/kZaSl_wbHWI...
Feb 21, 2021•22 min
Season 3 Premiere! Episode 1 of The People's Project where we discuss: The Facebook News Ban NHS Propaganda in the U.K. The difference between propaganda and satire Victorian government messaging The Resistance Loses Itself Job Seeker rate increases The political compass What does it mean to be Australian? Full episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/hg9o96CN_QE Join the Discernable Crew (email list) to never lose access to our content: https://www.discernable.io/crew Subscribe to Discernable on Yo...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr
Dr Niall McCrae is a senior lecturer in mental health at King’s College London. He is a prolific academic researcher and was one of the few academics to publicly support Brexit to leave the European Union. He co-authored Moralitis: a Cultural Virus with Robert Oulds of The Bruges Group in the U.K., where they posit woke ideology as a virus that has infected the West. His special interest is the dynamics in the child/teen/young adult population and he has been a vocal critic of COVID-19 lockdowns...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Professor Nikolai Petrovsky is the Director of Endocrinology at Flinders Medical Centre with a conjoint position as Professor of Medicine at Flinders University. He is Vice-President and Secretary-General of the International Immunomics Society. Nikolai is the founder of Vaxine, a company funded by the US National Institutes of Health to develop novel vaccine technologies. in 2009 Vaxine won the Amp Innovation Award at the Telstra Business Awards and Australia's Coolest Company award from Austra...
Feb 02, 2021•54 min
Pia Therese returns! In September 2020 we spoke to Pia about her gym MFW Fitness which was closed due to Victorian lockdowns. 4 months later we caught up on how the fitness industry is travelling post lockdowns, as well as covering body image, gym culture, mental health and PTSD. ---------------------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/RrMNVl39mI0 Follow MFW Fitness: https://www.mfwfitness.com.au/ https://www.instagram.com/mfwfitness/ https://www.faceb...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Episode 2 of The Law Series where we explore: 1. Who are the Police? 2. What do Judges do? 3. Fines don't mean you're guilty 4. How to respond to police Co-hosted by criminal solicitor Samir Banga from bangalegal.com.au. Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/yfecX9rW64c
Jan 28, 2021•15 min
Mike Riccard is a small business owner in Melbourne who believes Communism is both the preferred and inevitable evolution of capitalism. In this discussion I tried to find out why and how…and what a Communist society would look like. With so much discussion on Discernable over Marxism and other world views lately, it seems wise to seek out those who actually hold those world views to hear what they have to say and how they say it. ----------------------------------------------- Show notes 1:33 W...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Episode 1 of The Law Series where we explore: 1. COVID-19 Lockdowns reach NSW 2. COVID-19 Fines 3. How to Contact Police Prosecutors 4. Probability of Success 5. How to Respond to Police Co-hosted by criminal solicitor Samir Banga from bangalegal.com.au. -------------------------------- The Public Health Order 2021 about face masks that we referenced in this episode: https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/file/Public%20Health%20%28COVID-19%20Mandatory%20Face%20Coverings%29%20Order%202021.pdf Watch t...
Jan 22, 2021•16 min
David Limbrick MP is a member of Victoria’s Legislative Council (the upper house). A long-time member of the LDP ( www.ldp.org.au ) he has risen to fame during Victoria’s COVID-19 lockdowns for being one of the only politicians to stand for basic human rights such as school children returning to school. David has also been providing scrutiny on the government’s State of Emergency laws through the PAEC (Parliamentary Accounts and Estimates Committee) where he has argued that the Victorian Labor g...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 16 min
The tables have turned: this morning I was a GUEST! Former ABC journalist and news-reader Damian Coory had me on to discuss: The biased media The Brisbane/QLD lockdown Actual death rates (Australian Government) Government stupidity Dangerous border closures Scomo is middle management The human cost of border closures S92 of the Constitution What economists really do Poverty is the default human experience Authoritarianism is the real problem When Aussies protest Fighting culture wars Crisis mana...
Jan 09, 2021•53 min
Alice Blake is a Melbourne based singer/songwriter who has been writing under the mentorship of Jon Hume (Evermore, New Tribe Music) and has penned successful releases on Dami Im’s debut album and ‘Song for Everyone’ which was performed by New Zealand artists Stan Walker, Vince Carter et al. Since 2015 Alice has been part of the writing team at Shout!Publishing cowriting successful releases in Australia and overseas. Her own 2020 debut album has aired nationally on the Hit Radio Network, JJJ Une...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Samir Banga is the executive solicitor and director of Banga Legal, a law firm in Sydney that specialises in family and criminal law. Samir has practised law as Special Counsel for a number of law firms conducting hearings and representing clients around Australia. ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Samir: https://www.instagram.com/bangalegal/ https://www.instagram.com/samir.banga/ https://www.facebook.com/bangalegal ------------------------------------------------...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Ryan Smith MP was first elected Member of Parliament for Warrandyte District in 2006. Before entering Parliament, his career spanned 18 years in the financial markets working for a number of Australia’s leading institutions including the Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, BP Finance and Pacific Dunlop. Ryan represents the suburbs of Park Orchards, Warrandyte, North Warrandyte, South Warrandyte, Warranwood, Donvale, East Doncaster, Wonga Park and parts of Ringwood North. In addition to s...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Steve Macarthur is a former Australian politician in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1992-2002). He currently serves as a board member for the Community Advocacy Alliance and is passionate about preserving democracy in Victoria through the introduction of ‘recall elections’. ------------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/PZAVqPcINkg Sign the petition for Recall Elections: https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-the-legislative-council-of-victoria-giv...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Damian Coory had an extensive career in broadcast journalism in newsrooms around Australia including the ABC, Network Ten, Triple M, and 3AW Talkback radio before specialising in public relations. For decades Damian worked from Hong Kong and became one of the most sought-after speakers and experts in public relations and crisis management. He now hosts The Other Side podcast – a regular look at the news from a centrist perspective. ------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Yout...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 26 min
You may have already read or watched Alexandra Marshall in The Spectator Australia, SkyNewsAustralia, The Good Sauce, Penthouse Australia, The Other Side Australia, and Caldronpool. A prolific writer, Alexandra is also a Young Ambassador for the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) and a political tragic spending endless hours analysing the political trends of Twitter. She joined me in conversation from the family farm in northern NSW. ---------------------------------------------------...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 22 min
John Loeffler's career in broadcasting has spanned more than 50 years and includes radio and television positions at local and network levels, most of which have been in news and talk radio. He has hosted the ‘Steel on Steel’ radio news/talk/interview program since 1990, covering the relationship between economics, politics, and religion. John grew up in post-war Germany and North Africa as well as the US. He speaks Spanish and German proficiently, and has degrees or minors in broadcast communic...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 37 min
Andrew Cooper is the President of Liberty Works Australia, a non-profit think tank that supports free speech, the preservation of natural rights for all citizens, access to a just legal system and free markets as the bedrock for a moral and prosperous society. ---------------------------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/WwltTlBILZU Follow Andrew Cooper and Liberty Works: https://www.facebook.com/AndrewCooper.biz https://www.facebook.com/libertyworks....
Nov 26, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Professor William M. Briggs is a statistician and scientist. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School he specialized in Mathematical Statistics amongst other academic pursuits such as cryptology, atmospheric physics and meteorology. His latest book ‘The Price of Panic’ explores the cost of the global response to COVID-19. ---------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/pDT6Cq175es Check out his blog: http://wmbriggs.com Read the book: https://...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Robert Oulds is the director of the Bruges Group – a think tank in the United Kingdom that has been promoting discussion on the European Union for 30 years as well as exploring political correctness and identity politics and the effect they are having on societies globally. ------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/duoaBfes-gg Follow The Bruges Group: https://www.facebook.com/BrugesGroup/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbkxWbjfKbgA9LDOJeRzkkw https://twitt...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 39 min
Gene Tunny is a former official at the Australian Treasury. As an economist and director of Adept Economics, Gene is frequently sought for his views on economics and policy. In this interview Gene canvases a number of economic and tax issues ultimately settling on recommendations for a return to a cabinet-led, consensus approach to sound policy that is built on a multitude of counsel. -------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/vZjkWOLiDbc Listen to thi...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Dr Dan Mitchell is the Chairman of the U.S. Center for Freedom and Prosperity. A self-proclaimed ‘swamp creature’ Dan has been working as a public economist to drain the swamp his entire life and is one of the nation’s leading experts on tax reform and regularly explains the complexities of politics in easy-to-understand terms. -------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: Read Dan’s incredibly rich blog: https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/ Dan’s Center for Freedom and...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Ivan Ray is the Chief Executive Officer of the Community Advocacy Alliance and a retired Inspector from Victoria Police. He leads an organisation that fights for the restoration of community policing and is excited at the direction the new Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police is charting – a return to a more friendly and helpful police ‘service’. -------------------------- The Community Advocacy Alliance: www.caainc.org.au The CAA’s petition for Recall Elections: https://www.change.org/p/petiti...
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 45 min
5 million Australians rely on small business. As a group, small business is the largest employer and biggest contributor to the national economy but it remains fragmented because small business owners by their nature run their own race with little time or will to organise politically. Enter Small Business Australia - an organisation founded by Bill Lang two decades ago to represent all small businesses in this country and bring attention to their role as community hubs and the heart of our econo...
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Jodie Myintoo is a counsellor and author specialising in relationship breakdown, separation, family law, grief, and trauma and is a member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). As Melbourne emerges from a dark hibernation of many months, it is vital we have conversations around mental health and what it means not just for the vulnerable, but for the millions of Victorians who have are now exiting what has become a globally unprecedented human experiment of isolation and community divi...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 40 min
At the end of a long day, I don’t turn to Netflix to relax. I jump onto Youtube and there are only 2 things I watch: a psychology lecture by Jordan Peterson, or something from the Jim’s Group channel. There’s something addictive for me watching people mow lawns or build fences on that channel. New media sources like that are taking over our lives and in this episode of the Business Innovation Series we are exploring ‘content creation’. Why create content? How? Where should business start brandin...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Gideon Rozner is the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian policy think tank that focuses on economic and political freedom. This was the longest and most fun interview I’ve done in all of 2020. ---------------------------------------- Watch this episode on Youtube: Listen to this episode: Follow Gideon: www.facebook.com/TheFullRozner ---------------------------------------- Show notes: 3:15 Is Gideon a climate change denier? 7:44 Why Gideon loves politics 15:28 Sh...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Richard Riordan is a Liberal MP representing the regional electorate of Polwarth west of Melbourne. With a multi-generational history of business in Colac, Richard turned his hand to politics in 2015 and has been a straight-shooting pollie ever since. He has some big ideas to explode growth and investment in regional Victoria but most importantly he is a breath of fresh air getting things done via ‘the bush telegraph’ while other politicians talk in circles as their bureaucracies grind slowly on...
Oct 17, 2020•1 hr 13 min
