Episode 37 - Civil Liberties We Weren't Really Using Anyway (feat Tom Ballard)


01:02 If Latham sh*ts in the woods, does it really make a sound
08:48 Civil Liberties you weren't using - the right not to be imprisoned for two weeks without charge, even if you're older than 10. COAG knows we don't need that any more.
23:00 New creepy surveillance powers that definitely won't be abused
30:37 A step forward for housing and renters in Victoria!
40:55 Rigged survey news - church set up to change definition of marriage gives $1m to "no" because changing definition of marriage is wrong; No side has huge sums of cash
52:27 SIMC - self care at a time of national horror - Denise Pirko
57:38 Australia Vs Humanity - Dutton reckons refugees actually quite like his offshore gulags THEY HAVE BEACHES and also they're quite rich but also economic refugees look don't think about it too hard. Also the world that we're told "envies" our brutality turns out not to, and a Guardian-reading pensioner does something good to undo a ridiculous injustice that shouldn't have happened in the first place
01:15:33 Things we didn't have time for (Xenophon quitting Senate, Serco running Centrelink call centres, ABC axes Lateline, federal govt refuses to ban import of Grenfell-style cladding, Tony and volcano gods etc, the Oz seeks Senate be neutered)

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