JobSeeker was a massive corporate handout, Tasmanian Liberals don't want to frighten the kids, and the government gives millions of dollars to gas miners (with Labor's help). Politics of envy The 2020 JobSeeker program handed out millions of dollars to prop up record corporate profits . Scott Morrison is “not into the politics of envy” . Independent MP Rex Patrick pushed for a bill to force companies to reveal information showing if they really needed the Jobkeeper grants . Labor backed down. Ja...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast The cops shut down food banks, people are snitching on kids, and everyone is at breaking point. Also Australia abandons Afghan people. Bad times… Police are helping by shutting down food banks . In South Australia, the DHS chief executive is trying to shut down a communist soup kitchen . …vulnerable people Massive lockdown protests in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend. Tom Tanki’s coverage of the lockdown protests is excellent . White supremacists are using the protests as a recruiting groun...
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast NSW is LITERALLY at war the with virus. We discuss the IPCC report and what to do about it. It’s WAR It’s WAR ! NSW is LITERALLY at WAR with the virus . Berejiklian has said that the police will receive more power and resources than they “needs and want” . Oh dear I left the gas on The 6th IPCC report into the effects of climate change has been released . It’s saying mostly what we knew already, just more so . Deconstructed podcast on the IPCC report . Even the International Energy Agency say we...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Pros and cons of chucking a sickie. Should the government should pay us $300 or give it to Tabcorp? TERF madness is spreading in Australia. Sickie for the boys 60% of Australia is back in lockdown . A NSW Tradie chucked a sickie, saying he had Covid . There’s Covid in the Flemington housing towers again . But the response has been a bit more humane this time. People in Victorian public housing have had access to on-site vaccinations . Fuck you, pay me The ALP have suggested that people should be...
Aug 11, 2021•51 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast The NSW Government almost got scammed out of half a billion dollars, and who knows what McKinsey are up to? At least we have a strong opposition to keep things in check. Please stop making us do this Origin Energy is writing down a bunch of their fossil fuel assets . Origin Energy is Australia’s most polluting corporation, and Angus Taylor has worked hard to make sure they stay that way . NSW Mask watch The NSW Government almost paid $430 million to a scammer, for 50 million N95 masks that didn’...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast FM radio hosts are sick of Morrison's shit. The reef is fine, guys, don't even worry about it. Gronks go wild across Australia. Grilling the PM Scott Morrison went on KIIS FM and got grilled . He then doubled down . He finally apologised in the most petulant way possible . Horrifyingly, Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan have a podcast . Paying for the pleasure of digging our own graves Australia is shoveling shit-tonnes of cash into fossil fuel companies . Reef madness Sussan Ley is back from a whi...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast Santos isn't bighting, Australia is sending furries to the Olympics, and we're back in lockdown and cooking our brains. No bighting Santos has decided not to drill for gas in the Great Australian Bight . (because it’s not profitable) The first Furry Olympics The Australian Mint commissioned an artist to create Australian Olympic fursonas . You can get them as stickers at Woolies . Go check out their art ! Olympics fuckin suck though . Shitting yourself at the Engadine Maccas Scott Morrison went ...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast The Labor party are really sad without anyone to play with, the government has a new Vaccine ad, Questacon made a bad video. The Labor party wants Scott Morrison Anthony Albonese really wants Scott Morrison . Julian Hill is worried about Scott Morrison missing . Tanya Plibersek is bored without Scott Morrison to play with . Stephen Jones drew a little cartoon about his mate . Michelle Rowland just wants to see her little friend . Good news! The Government is scrapping their plans to force indepe...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast We chat about Scott Morrison's accidental-on-purpose vaccine rollout, the reckless and deadly actions of Victoria Police, and the $660 million thrown at car parks in Liberal seats. Cooked Generation Greenpeace posed as corporate recruiters, and got Exxon lobbyists to admit that they only supported a carbon price because they knew that it would never happen . The Gulf of Mexico is on fire . Australia is ranked dead last in the World on climate action . Vaccine Kings Scott Morrison maybe accidenta...
Jul 07, 2021•57 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast We spend about half an hour yelling about lockdowns. Sorry. Then we chat about what Australia's Environment Minister has been up to. Lockdown again again A limo driver at the center of the Sydney outbreak was eligible for the vaccine , but didn’t get one because he was afraid to. Police are trying to pin something on him . Gladys Berejiklian admits to pork-barrelling . Richard Pusey filmed dying police officers . Prime Minster Scott Morrison says the outbreak is NSW’s fault . Ssussann Ley Federa...
Jun 30, 2021•57 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast The government is handing their homework in late and we tell you just how Both Parties Bad. Then we step into the Jordies discourse. 7th Ed. The Government released the “7th edition” of a plan to prepare the Aged Care sector for Covid. Turns out editions 1-6 did not exist . Aged Care Richard Colbeck stated that “The government maintains it’s position that it has a plan in place” . LNP Bad Normal Guy Scott Morrison is away at the G7, so Nationals leader Michael McCormack get wild with it . In Jan...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast We chat about the conspiracy theory running rampant on Victorian Telegram channels, then discuss the situation of the Biloela family, and how we got here. DanAnon On the 9th of March Victorian Premier Dan Andrews fell down the stairs . Soon afterwards, conspiracy theories started spreading . Dan Andrew’s wife Catherine posted a slightly odd photo of him getting a haircut . Shadow Treasurer Louise Staley has spent too long indoors, and is now pushing the conspiracies too . Victoria Ambulance rele...
Jun 14, 2021•55 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast We discuss the cops who can't stop leaking sensitive information to abusers, Victoria's return to lockdown and the government ministers who keep forgetting that Grandma exists. Porter stuff Christian Porter has dropped his case against the ABC . …a week after calling on the ABC to not drag out the case, because they’re spending taxpayer money . Fairfax papers published a weird puff piece on Porter’s new relationship . Abusive leaks In 2013, a QLD Police sergeant Neil Punchard deliberately leaked...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast We're joined by legal expert Lauren to discuss the government's new duty of care to protect young people from the climate crisis. We also chat about international law and exploding coal power plants. Defamation watch Ben Roberts-Smith is just carrying flowers around ? Five days ago, he wiped a laptop (after being told by his legal team not to). After burying evidence of alleged war crimes in a pink lunchbox . Scope the man’s very weird portrait at the Australian War Museum . The kids save the da...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast We chat about hangovers, what's up with the energy sector (and who's getting the handouts), and the government simply refuses to deliver a vaccine. Hangovers It was RAHU’s first birthday ! Shoutout to the Renewables in Agriculture Conference . Energy sector The International Energy Agency dropped a new report saying that fossil fuels are bad . Climate change-denying former Federal Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann was elected as head of the OECD . The “Green Energy Fund” can now be used to fu...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast We talk about the media's narratives of omission, whether the subject is Kristina Keneally's necklace, the federal budget or the people of Palestine. Drawing the line Kristina Kersher Keneally wore a necklace given to her by Kopi of Biloela family in Parliament … …while the Labor party passed a bill making indefinite detention legal , and allowing the immigration minister to strip people of refugee status. The supreme court originally ruled that stateless people could be held indefinitely in 201...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast We keep up to date on the War consent manufacturing machine, chat about ACIC's claim that encryption is for criminals, and follow up on the jobseeker dob-in hotline. Assault update The cop who beat up a Blak kid 11 months ago has been charged with assault . We talked about this back in episode 22 . War chat Scott Morrison doesn’t know why Australia should go to war with China . Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao, calls Australian politicians the “real troublemakers” . In the Saturday...
May 12, 2021•55 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast We review urgent reviews, talk about jail time for traveling to Australia from India, and discuss Andrew Laming's ADHD. Urgent review review The government has ordered an “urgent review” into the Australia Day council . The review is being conducted by Glenys Beauchamp, who you may remember for destroying her sports rorts notebooks . India travel ban The situation in India is real bad . The government is instituting a policy of jail time or massive fines for people who travel from India . This m...
May 05, 2021•58 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast On the pod this week: stealing valor, cringing out of our skin, Scott Morrison's climate spin and children used as political pawns. Thanks to special guest show-notes author, podcast host Tom Lang. Anzac Biscuit Day Anzac day is becoming increasingly iffy , and the kids just aren’t feeling it any more. The government loves to pay lip service to the troops, and then turn around and do things like lend money to veterans using their pensions as collateral, and then not restore the pension after the...
Apr 28, 2021•58 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast We talk about alleged war crimes, alleged lunch boxes, allegedly improper firing of CEOs and alleged plans fossil-fuel companys to pay nothing in resources taxes. Lunchbox update Ben Roberts-Smith (alleged war criminal) allegedly buried some incriminating evidence in a lunchbox . It is also alleged that he kept a bunch of burner phones and sent intimidating letters to witnesses . Channel 7 are standing by Roberts-Smith, and paying for his defence fund . Holgategate Christine Holgate, Former CEO ...
Apr 21, 2021•49 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast We chat about drama in the Health Minister's group chat, stripping the NDIS and check in with the Covid vaccine situation. Good stuff! Massive protests this week against the continued indigenous deaths in custody, and continued inaction . Shoutout to AFLW Emma Kearney for taking a knee during the national anthem last week . The government hate poor people… The government knew Robodebt was illegal, but kept it going… because it might have been confusing if they stopped ? Stuart Robert giving hims...
Apr 13, 2021•52 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast We chat about Scott Morrison's week of waterworks, proposals to ban Posting and the big Cabinet job swap. War crime update Afgan villagers are being allowed to testify from Afghanistan in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case . Check out Episode 46 for detail on Roberts-Smith’s alleged war crimes . Defamation laws didn’t protect the women who had their faces plastered over the front pages of newspapers and called “enemy of the state” . Turning on the waterworks Scott Morrison turned on the water...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast We're joined by James Clark of the Tomorrow Movement to discuss Joel Fitzgibbon and why he's on the side of fossil fuel billionaires, not the workers he claims to represent. Labor Platform The Labor party are holding the Special Platform Conference on the 30-31st March 2021 . Labor takes lots of money from the fossil fuel industry . Fire Joel Fitzgibbon Joel Fitzgibbon’s brother Mark is the head of health insurer NIB, and in 2009 used Joel’s ministerial office to lobby the ADF to buy insurance ....
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast We discuss plagues of mice, sexual misconduct and coverups in Parliament, and left-wing Nazis. Content warning: we spend about half the episode discussing the ongoing saga of sexual assault and misconduct within Australia’s Parliament. Climate changed The floods are bad, folks . Plagues of mice too . Boys club Thousands of people in Canberra and other cities across Australia marched against sexual assault . Scott Morrison says the people marching for justice should be glad they aren’t shot . NSW...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast The Yallourn power station is breaking down and everyone won't shut up about NFTs, so we chat talk about mining for coal and mining for cryptocurrencies. Labor landslide Mark McGowan has led Western Australia’s Labor party to a landslide victory . Liberal party leader Zak Kirkup used to have a business card calling himself “Future Prime Minister” . Labor are talking about keeping WA’s border restrictions going indefinitely . Gas rorts The Federal government has spent millions of dollars in consu...
Mar 15, 2021•57 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast We're joined by Lee Constable to discuss the history of International Womens Day, women in STEM and Woolworth's attempt at raising awareness about bees. Thylacine watch It’s not a thylacine :( Girlboss day It’s International Women’s Day ! The hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day is #ChooseToChallenge Women ask for pay rises as much as men, but are knocked back more . Google has fired both of the (women) AI Ethicists they employed . Google has also filtered candidates from historical...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast We respond to some listener feedback, discuss the LNP's miserly raise to the Jobseeker Rate, and the media's response to some basic new rights for Victorian renters. Cap watch One “cap” of cocaine, please young sir . Listener feedback Listener Tara Nipe’s blog post on the practicalities of a fly-in-fly-out COVID quarantine . Victoria have instituted dedicated agency, the COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV), to manage the hotel quarantine program . Raise the rate The Coronavirus supplemental payme...
Mar 04, 2021•56 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast We're joined by Joanna Horton of Floodcast to discuss the political and media response to the Brittany Higgins story, the Facebook news ban and Kristina Kersher Keneally's posts. Content warning: A chunk of this episode is spent discussing the Brittany Higgins story, which at its core is about sexual violence. We don’t discuss specifics of the incident itself, but do talk about the surrounding political context. Good news Victoria is out of lockdown ! Public drunkenness has been decriminalised i...
Feb 24, 2021•58 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast We're back in lockdown again, the government still loves fossil fuels (but hates workers) and hybrid cars are a trick to lock us into using petrol. Victoria has the COVID again We’ve got this . Poor nebuliser guy . COVID spread from a quarantine hotel worker to their housemate who worked at an airport Brunettis . A man is stranded in the Spirit of Tasmania terminal . Behrouz Boochani — “The border is part of Australia and it reproduces at home” Scott Morrison says he won’t take over hotel quaran...
Feb 16, 2021•59 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast We chat about Australia's bushfire/covid/storm situation, then a deep dive into why exactly Eddie Maguire should quit (he did), followed by a check-in with cooked unit Craig Kelly. Australia is on fire Perth has massive bushfires, with at least 86 homes lost . COVID lockdowns and evacuation orders make for confusing mixed messages . Fire, plague and storms. Kangaroo Island is on fire, threatening the little Pigmy Possum , which was feared lost after devastating the 2019-20 bushfires . Eddie McGu...
Feb 10, 2021•58 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast 
