There's about to be a federal election. I know, right, who knew? 

 

Modified from an image by: Rama - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2067181

 

Daria and Jill are about to appear on your player, not to tell you how to vote, of course, but to have a look at some of the issues that have appeared around the event.

 

Episode links:

 

The Australian Electoral Commission:  http://www.aec.gov.au/

Edmund Burke at Wikiquote:  https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

Vote Compass at the ABC:  https://votecompass.abc.net.au/

This Week in Blackness, home of TWIB Nation:  http://thisweekinblackness.com/

Brexit at Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_withdrawal_from_the_European_Union

Aqua Harmony Enriched Learning Partnerships:  http://www.aquaharmony.com.au

 

First broadcast:  1 July 2016