Australia just beclowned itself.

Why? What can we do next?

00:04:14 Hypocrisy

00:10:10 RoboDebt

00:17:02 Voice

01:00:17 Meetings

01:15:04 Games

01:32:50 Lies

Pretty hard to do timestamps this week, it was a pretty wide-ranging discussion. But some real ideas on what we can do did emerge during our chat.

02:07 Painting Protest

11:34 Do diversity for us but don't actually say anything

19:35 Go home Cardinal Pell

22:38 Farewell Jacinda, we like you much more than the brief mention here would suggest

30:20 Perrotet: who knew in 2003 that dressing up like a Nazi is bad?

35:22 Molan: the tragedy when war criminals die

40:16 It's perfectly okay to say not-nice things about evil dead people

50:10 Tom's Book

01:53 Victorian Election This Very Saturday

21:26 What Shall We Do About Poor Little Twitter

02:39 Naughty Sportsminions thinking they're there to play sport

22:43 Media Watch Goes To The TERFs

32:04 Because Lidia Thorpe Dated An Ex-Bikie, Now The Greens May Not Criticise Actual Corruption

00:03:47 Why stage 3 tax cuts going through is a real, serious long-term problem and will not only seriously harm people in the short term, it will seriously stuff up progressive politics in the medium and long term; also can we reverse the bloody ratchet?

00:19:15 ALP's paid parental leave... eventually? And still without super, ability to promote the change it's supposed to promote

00:35:31 Thorburn: another fake "religious persecution" beat up

01:11 Covid receives a strongly-worded letter from the National Cabinet; will the virus go away now the premiers say it’s over? (No.)

15:18 Labor tries to make its new ICAC model appealing to Peter Dutton, whose approval would definitely mean they’re on the right track;

23:04 The Libs refuse to be dismayed by Coolio’s passing, because they’ve found their own new rapping talent;

30:42 Jeremy and Denise try to figure out why the left is so much worse at finding common cause with allies than the right (thanks Tom, Emerald and Wil for the conversation trigger).

It was the last day of Scummo after all! But is the new Ablo government all we hoped? (No, and we had pretty low hopes.) Also, Well May We Say “God Save the Queen”, because nothing will save the unsympathetic and, frankly, pretty annoyed lefties on this podcast.

01:36 Frydenberg - "Everything's affordable if it's a priority"

02:17 Frydenberg jokes about everyone in his electorate hating him

02:45 Clive's ONE HOUR ads on seven, nine and ten

04:10 The "no voting for you" window

07:55 when you have a decent local candidate but also like the Greens

13:45 Something to consider with your bouncing Senate vote

01:42 They Wanna Live Like Common People

12:26 Waleed vs wage rises

21:57 Gotcha got