A progressive podcast about Australian politics
Website for the Australian progressive political podcast, Well May We Say
00:00:00 Apology
00:01:03 Acknowledgment
00:02:03 Advertising
00:04:10 Advances
00:11:55 Americans
00:12:05 Adversaries
00:15:10 Amazon
00:15:28 Audible
00:15:40 Advertising
00:16:15 Australians
00:16:38 Authoritarians
00:16:59 Arbitrary rules
00:17:37 Arseholes
Alright it's a broad discussion over two hours mainly trying to figure out WTF we can do to change the direction the country is going.
Unbreathable Sydney. A religious fundamentalism bill even worse than the last one. Will "the Opposition" manage to capitalise on the government's unforced errors? You'll never guess the answer.
Link for submissions to Victorian Government review (due Wednesday 18 December 2019) - https://www.tenantsvic.org.au/regulations/
00:01:25 Improving the lot of tenants in Victoria (wide-ranging discussion about the balance and steps forward) (Ben's audio quality improves after the first ten minutes)
00:51:11 Labor digs up the Rudd/Turnbull ETS from 2009 to have a dig at the Greens
00:56:49 Lambie betrays refugees on extremely silly grounds
00:58:25 Rugby Australia betrays LGBTI Australians by rolling over to Folau on extremely silly grounds
02:30 Folau blaming bushfires on marriage equality - opportunity to separate him from supporters and harm the Religious Discrimination Bill (which Porter is threatening to make even worse)
05:18 Scummo bushfires - cricket; nothing we can do on climate change but we're doing lots
15:34 Emerson "international green socialism" is "white supremacy" article, along with supportive tweets by Crabb, Sales, Riley etc
Episode 109 - "Upsetting the Children" (feat Daile Kelleher)
11k climate scientists warning of "untold suffering"
Response
- Scummo saying protesters are indulgent (AUDIO)
- Dutton wanting protesters to pay for police, to lose social security (AUDIO)
- Marles agrees, says they're not protesting for a cause (AUDIO)
- Scummo promises Queensland Resources Council he's going to stop secondary boycotts (AUDIO)
Stories we had to skim:
- The Libs admitting in court they were trying to look like the aec
- NSW police minister saying strip searching kids is fine and he wouldnt mind it happening to his kids
- Georgina Downer gives up on SA
- Margaret Court demands to be treated like Rod Laver. Her remarks back in the 70s/80s "She is a great player but I'd like somebody at the top to whom the younger players can look up" and "It is very sad for children to be exposed to it". (She meant Navratilova and "homosexuality")
- Leunig's infuriatingly absurd non-apology (endorsed by the Oz's political editor appalled he had to write an apology, which of course it wasn't)
ALP Self-Review
- Tom Ballard has the ALP's avoidance of division Stuck In His Craw
- Lessons not learned