Episode 36 - There Can Be Only One (feat Denise Pirko)

01:28 The especially forgetful ineligible senator; battling former and current solicitors general
16:57 family law review
22:05 space! (although after we recorded we learned that the Australian govt is mainly interested in it to persecute refugees)
25:10 Texts vs Robocalls; Freedom of speech vs Macklemores; Paul Kelly and John Howard demand specifics of religious privilege powers, but not too much bc actually they don't really want us to know what they are.
55:43 Australia Vs Humanity - a tiny % of refugees in Manus/Nauru to go to the US, govt wants praise; meanwhile trying to pay Rohingyans to return to Myanmar
01:07:04 Stuck in My Craw - rental anxiety (Ella Webb)

Episode 35 - An argument about how to "yes" (feat Ella Webb)

After cruising through the jolly topics of the LNP's obsession with magic coal plants like Liddell, and an especially one-sided version of media law reform, Jeremy and Ella have quite a vigorous argument about whether Love being Love is enough, or whether the Yes side in this vicious postal survey needs to go harder. Cam Smith returns to tell us what's stuck in his craw.

Episode 34 - An urgent message for "Yes" (feat guest host Denise Pirko)

A thoroughly devastating week in Australian politics, and we're only up for discussing the awful consequences of the High Court's decision on Thursday, what it means, and what the hell the Yes side needs to do about it.

Also in a fortnight of crazed anti-vaxxer antics, Dutton briefly does something right. And then a lot wrong.

01:26 A terrible day, a depressing week
03:40 A pyrrhic victory as the executive gains the ability to do whatever it likes whether parliament approves or not
08:55 What hideous "religious protections" are they going to gain to make life worse for LGBTI people?
09:28 John Howard rises from the crypt to reveal what the "no" side is fighting for: maintaining the "authority" of their religion over the rest of us
11:35 The "Yes" side needs to resist being boxed into the corner of pretending equality for LGBTI people is just about marriage - if we let them push us into denying we want full equality, and into insisting all we want is marriage, then that's all we'll get, and we'll go backwards elsewhere
14:20 Everything the "No" side is fighting against and fighting for
21:44 Come on, "Yes" side, OWN THAT YOU WANT FULL EQUALITY. Don't act like it's something you're ashamed to stand for.
24:56 What if we end up with a "yes" vote win, but a dodgy "SSM" bill with new discriminatory powers that make life worse for LGBTI people.
29:30 We weren't even ever offered a real plebiscite; also, people are selling their surveys.
30:30 What else we can do to help
33:31 Dutton's brief moment
39:17 But remember, still the worst person in Australia
 

Episode 33 - When Bad Governments Panic (feat Cam Smith)

Cam Smith from Gather Around Me joins Jeremy to discuss

01:25 Does winding back negative gearing or family trust rorts really feel all that much like East Germany, really Matthias?
03:47 reductio ad absurdem: any kind of tax increase is "socialism".
04:24 if you must broadcast Lyle Shelton constantly bloody do better at pinning down what he's saying
24:31 drug testing - it's this month's way for right-wingers to get their jollies in kicking the poor
32:56 Tony's not feeling up to work today
40:48 Australia vs humanity: starving some very poor refugees in the community here, and the Daily Telegraph lying about it; PNG telling Australia they can't stay there; Nauru stopping refugees getting medical treatment; ACT welcomes them
52:07 Canavan and Roberts in the High Court with shiny new stories
56:24 more stupid statue nonsense