3 White Guys + Guest

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and the Wadi Wadi of Dharawal nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. The show notes were written on Dharawal land.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by First Nations people.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the xmas special episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Today, our plus guest is Blue Mountains resident, bushfire survivor, and friend of the podcast Paco. We look back on the decade, year, and month it's been.

Join us as we say good bye to 2019 and hello to the future.

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Find us on Twitter: @3whiteguyspod

Vive la revolucion

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the show notes were written on Dharawal land. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by First Nations people.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the fifteenth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Today, our plus guests are Toby Thompson from Extinction Rebellion Wollongong and Ben Gava from the Illawarra Climate Justice Alliance.

This episode was recorded near the end of 2019 but the release was delayed by an unforeseen climate emergency.

Follow us on Twitter @3WhiteGuysPod; full shownotes are available at shutupandreadthis.com

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation and the Wadi Wadi people of Dharawal nation. The show notes were written on Dharawal land. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by First Nations people.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the fourteenth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

The police crackdown on peaceful protesters outside IMARC in Melbourne last week was completely disproportionate to the disruption they caused, with the overwhelming majority of the violence being instigated by the police.

Nick was on the ground in Melbourne, and wrote about what happened, here is some of what he had to say:

Take a stand: Police beat me at the Melbourne IMARC blockade but they won't break my spirit

This was a very different episode because we felt the need to get stuck in on what is happening to democracy and civil rights in this country, especially in the wake of the police brutality at IMARC in Melbourne.

The Proper Way to Welcome the People Destroying the World

There were also a few missed points to add: when criticisms pour in that environmental movements are too white and middle class, it's important to remember that we have the privilege of not having to be concerned for our lives when interacting with police at protests.

If we are to be the allies we claim to be, the onus is on us to put our bodies on the line to protect those who may not be cut loose after a few hours in custody.

I'm not here to lecture, learning how pervasive my privilege tends to be has been the most powerful lesson I've experienced this year.

If we're going to use our privilege for good, we need to be capable of recognising where our blind spots are, especially when it comes to listening to those on the front lines in the fight against the police state.

Solidarity means standing with those who hurt your feelings when you weren't as woke as you thought.

Disagreements can be had behind doors, but we need to stop publicly splintering the left, and I'm as guilty of that as anyone.

Also, the new power for the government passed late last year was the ability to deploy the ADF (not the AFP) in the event of an emergency, which can be declared on national security grounds by Peter Dutton.

Climate change is destroying life on this planet.

Capitalism is destroying life on this planet.

Billionaires are destroying life on this planet.

Globally, people are waking up to what is happening to them and they will not tolerate this abuse any longer.

Take to the streets.

Resist.

Stand in solidarity.

Together we can survive.

Full shownotes available at shutupandreadthis.com

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

The show notes were written on Dharawal land, we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by First Nations people.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the lucky thirteenth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Today, our plus guest is Cam Lum.

Media Freedom - Your Right To Know

Mapping Economic Disadvantage in NSW

NCOSS: Full Report

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This podcast was recorded on Dharawal land. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by First Nations people.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the twelfth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Welfare and social security in Australia have been driven into the ground by successive Liberal and Labor governments. This bipartisan approach to punishing Australians for losing a job has created a system of entrenched poverty and desperate people are now at their wits end.

There are a number of things Australia could do to address this, but the fact that those in Canberra have refused to lift the rate of Newstart for a quarter of a century has really become a framing device for the debate.

Issues like robo-debt, cutting off payments, work for the dole, the cashless welfare card, road-testing punitive measures in Indigenous communities, and forcing thousands of vulnerable people off other support pensions and on to Newstart has created a powerful movement that is starting to gain some traction in the media.

And the fact that the only thing the government has to say in response (especially after they manufactured a recession through inaction and ideological lunacy) is "the best form of welfare is a job" means that we're officially in the upside-down.

Just today we've learned that there are 19 applications for every entry level position advertised, and that's a conservative assessment, the reality is likely much worse. There are literally no jobs. The government is actively hurting the capacity of people to find work through their punitive schemes that demonise the unemployed.

The government should be investing in public jobs because decades of austerity has fuelled generations of neglect, and the private sector has absolutely failed to deliver on what they promised when the government contracts were tendered, if they were tendered.

The system has failed.

And those in charge of it are actively creating more harm as they continue to blame the unemployed for the lack of jobs.

Will it be viva la revolucion, or suck it up sweetheart? Let's solve this once and for all.

Our plus guest is Jeremy Paul, unemployed wastrel, dole bludger, drug addict and general ne'er do well, he has been forced to deal with the Department of Human Services in all the worst ways, but doesn't complain because then Rupert Murdoch will cancel him. And today he's here to complain.

Your Rights: What Are They? - AUWU resource

Australian Council of Social Service - ACOSS

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This podcast was recorded on Dharawal land and the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

The show notes were written on Dharawal land. We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by First Nations people.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the eleventh episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Today, our plus guests are Iranian immigrant and housemate to the stars, Farshid Akhtarpour; and international security analyst Chris Mason-Cole.

This episode was recorded over Skype, apologies for the dodgy audio where it occurs, and a big fuck you to Malcolm Turnbull for ruining the NBN.

Full shownotes available at shutupandreadthis.com

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

The show notes were written on Dharawal land, we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by the First Nations people of this land.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the tenth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Today, our plus guest is Dejay Toborek, activist, former Greens candidate for Wentworth, and one of the Red Rebels for Extinction Rebellion.

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. We are on track to exceed two degrees of global warming, and given the reticence of global governments to address climate change, it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

If it gets better.

Climate change policy has ended the career of every Prime Minister since Howard left office, and still nothing is being done. Emissions are increasing endlessly, and have done so since the carbon tax legislation was scrapped.

And all we get from those at the top is more obfuscation, half-measures, and coal bandied about on the floor of parliament by the now Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as though all of this is a big joke.

So, are we going to die?

Is it all Mad Max from here?

Or can we still do something to prevent the worst case scenario from eventuating?

It's time to slip, slop, and slap as we gear up for the end of the world.

Extinction Rebellion

Full shownotes available at shutupandreadthis.com

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

The show notes were written on Dharawal land, we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.

We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by the First Nations people of this land.

G'day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the tenth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.

Today, our plus guest is Dejay Toborek, activist, former Greens candidate for Wentworth, and one of the Red Rebels for Extinction Rebellion.

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. We are on track to exceed two degrees of global warming, and given the reticence of global governments to address climate change, it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

If it gets better.

Climate change policy has ended the career of every Prime Minister since Howard left office, and still nothing is being done. Emissions are increasing endlessly, and have done so since the carbon tax legislation was scrapped.

And all we get from those at the top is more obfuscation, half-measures, and coal bandied about on the floor of parliament by the now Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as though all of this is a big joke.

So, are we going to die?

Is it all Mad Max from here?

Or can we still do something to prevent the worst case scenario from eventuating?

It's time to slip, slop, and slap as we gear up for the end of the world.

Extinction Rebellion

Full shownotes available at shutupandreadthis.com

Introducing: The James Buchanan Jamboree, a new podcast all about the 2020 US election hosted by Dean Cool, Sean McCallum, Nick McCallum, and Vinay Orekondy.

Theme music from Slick Willie.

Join us for part two of a delayed watch-party as we talk over the workshopped lines and doomed policies of a crowd of centrists who really should be running for (or staying in) the Senate.

Introducing: The James Buchanan Jamboree, a new podcast all about the 2020 US election hosted by Dean Cool, Sean McCallum, Nick McCallum, and Vinay Orekondy.

Theme music from Slick Willie.

Join us for the first half of a delayed watch-party as we talk over the workshopped lines and doomed policies of a crowd of centrists who really should be running for (or staying in) the Senate.