Episode 195 - "The lesson is, Never Try" (feat Nick Carr)

00:02:04 Greens and Labor reach a deal on "environment protection" bill

00:29:15 Far right polling well as other polls suggest Australians more concerned about immigration than climate change, and horrific survey results of NSW men and sexual violence.

00:38:47 Victoria police "upholding the right"

00:43:48 ALP cuts to public services ("efficiency dividend", where you remove capacity from the system)

00:50:44 Jeremy is apparently an old bastard now

00:52:14 Anti-trans nonsense at our ABC

Links -

Support for Greens passing environment bill - https://au.news.yahoo.com/albanese-government-passes-milestone-laws-to-protect-australias-future-045406212.html

Canberra hacks on Greens and ALP - go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.ph%2FtpFlb

Australia vs migration - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/25/giridharan-sivaraman-australia-doesnt-need-another-migration-debate-tackle-inequality

NSW men survey - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/24/minns-labor-pledges-action-man-box-survey-reveals-how-many-young-nsw-men-admit-sexually-harassing-women

Vic Pol's wild ambit claim over Melbourne for next 6 months - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/25/melbourne-police-search-powers-warrantless-pat-downs-six-months

Meanwhile heavily on side of racist protesters and against counter protesters - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/vic-police-melbourne-protest-violence-arrests/106076166

Cuts to CSIRO and public service - https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/labor-to-slash-5-6-billion-from-public-service-20251125-p5ni6g - instead how about not paying for dodgy consultants and $96.5m websites https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/bom-website-approved-by-coalition-ceo-says/106047518 and not paying heads $800 - see dodgy NACC head https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/nacc-ceo-apologises-for-inaccurate-evidence/106056840

Episode 193 - "It's in the name!" (feat Nick Carr)

Sorry we recorded just before the excellent news of the Victorian Treaty - we'll cover that next time.

00:02:13 Nick's trip to Canberra and the Revenue Summit - teaser

00:05:25 Housing disaster getting worse thanks to Albo - but lets not forget Keating

00:07:17 ALP sneaking in another way to starve poor people

00:12:10 Privatisation doesn't work - Russo, NDIS

00:17:49 Climate tipping point and Murray Watt's "environment" bill

00:20:45 How the Greens can best tackle the shambles

00:31:46 A useful service?

00:32:52 Is Jeremy embarrassed about naysaying the idea of Albo meeting with Trump?

00:41:13 NOVEMBER 11 - LEFTY PODCAST CELEBRATION DAY