Episodes

  • Democracy in Peril

    Democracy in Peril
    Nov 22 2024
    Jo and Dave talk to Zack Beauchamp, senior political writer at Vox and author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World about the fragility of democracy and the autocratic agenda to destroy it from within.

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    45 mins
  • Ethics Washing and Corporate (cancel) Culture

    Ethics Washing and Corporate (cancel) Culture
    Nov 15 2024
    Jo and Dave talk to lawyer and author Josh Bornstein about his book Working for the Brand, an analysis of how corporations force staff to uphold their “values” and “integrity” or face being sacked on one hand while they gleefully destroy the world on the other. And how much are we loving Blue Sky?

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    38 mins
  • Robodebt: A Bureaucratic Hallucination

    Robodebt: A Bureaucratic Hallucination
    Nov 1 2024
    Jo and Ronni speak with Rick Morton about his definitive account of the great Government shakedown that was Robodebt, the immensely readable Mean Streak, and speculate on how long National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Paul Brereton can cling on to his job.

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    47 mins
  • Project Gaslight

    Project Gaslight
    Oct 18 2024

    Jo and Dave are joined by Joel Jenkins of Bogan Intelligentsia to discuss how the world-beating concentration of Australia’s media - third behind only China and Egypt - leads to a desperately distorted image and narrative of the carnage in Gaza.



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    31 mins
  • The Demise of Twitter

    The Demise of Twitter
    Oct 11 2024
    Ronni and Jo talk to New York Times journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about their revelatory new book, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, a cracking read about a story close to the hearts of many of our listeners: a page-turner that fills in all the jaw-dropping details about how our beloved Global Townplace became the plaything of the one of the world’s richest and most mercurial men.

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    41 mins
  • Dave is Back!

    Dave is Back!
    Sep 27 2024
    Dave is back behind the microphone, joining Jo and Ronni to discuss the shrinking prime ministership of Anthony Albanese and echo the title of Ronni’s latest article for the Shot: “What was it all for, Anthony?”

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    33 mins
  • No Care, No Responsibility

    No Care, No Responsibility
    Sep 13 2024
    On the day we learned that no-one would be punished or be otherwise held accountable for the Robodebt catastrophe, Jo is joined by Anthony Klan, Founder and Editor of The Klaxon, to discuss the Klaxon’s ongoing series into the National Anti-Corruption Commission: its mishandling of the Royal Commission’s referrals, its counter-intuitive lack of transparency and the “recusal” that wasn’t.

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    37 mins
  • Breaking Worse

    Breaking Worse
    Aug 26 2024
    Jo and Ronni stage a Shot takeover to discuss the collapse of brainworm-infested RFK Jr’s US presidential campaign and the apparently-not-brainworm-infested Linda Reynolds' inexplicable campaign of cruelty against rape survivor Brittany Higgins.

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    43 mins