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October 30 Leith van Onselen: Australia Is Drowning In Bureaucrats, And Here’s The Fix | Court of Public Opinion
Leith van Onselen, chief economist and founder of MacroBusiness, joins Jeremy Cordeaux and makes a blunt case: Australia’s state and federal budgets are drowning in debt, and the fastest-growing part of the public service is the back-office bureaucracy, not the nurses and teachers who actually serve the public. He takes Victoria as the warning, where core bureaucrat numbers have jumped roughly two-thirds since 2014 while the population grew a fraction of that, and argues we need a prolonged period of budget austerity and a genuine razor gang. He explains why the Reserve Bank is left fighting governments that keep spending, how a burnout economy took hold, and what real central-bank independence would look like. This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 30 October 2026. The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM streams live every Friday from the dining room table at jeremycordeaux.com and via Auscast Radio at auscastnetwork.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app.
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22 min
October 30 Positive Pete Turns Cautious: Peter Switzer On Recession Risk And The AI Float Frenzy | Court of Public Opinion
Financial commentator Peter Switzer, the man they call Positive Pete, joins Jeremy Cordeaux from Sydney and admits he is not feeling his usual optimism. He walks through the shape the economy is really in, why he worries about a possible recession, and the frenzy around AI floats and multi-trillion-dollar valuations like Nvidia, warning it carries echoes of past manias. Switzer explains his multifaceted offering of postings, video and a weekly TV show, and he and Jeremy range across interest rates, inflation and where a cautious investor should look. Find his daily work at switzer.com.au. This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 30 October 2026. The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM streams live every Friday from the dining room table at jeremycordeaux.com and via Auscast Radio at auscastnetwork.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app.
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37 min
October 30 Caleb Bond On Aged Care, The Super Rort And Why Sixteen-Year-Olds Shouldn’t Vote | Court of Public Opinion
Commentator Caleb Bond joins Jeremy Cordeaux for a wide-ranging talk that starts with the Erin Patterson appeal and lands squarely on the cost of government. Caleb argues the superannuation system has grown out of control, questions where the money in aged care really goes, and makes the case against lowering the voting age to sixteen, pointing out how young voters tend to lean and why that is no accident. He and Jeremy turn to what is being taught in schools, America’s mood under Trump and a Glenn Beck warning about preparedness, and the pair trade views on where the country is heading. This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 30 October 2026. The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM streams live every Friday from the dining room table at jeremycordeaux.com and via Auscast Radio at auscastnetwork.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app.
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29 min
October 30 Brumbies, The Green Agenda And The Cost Of Living: A Caller Named Maria Lets Fly | Court of Public Opinion
Jeremy Cordeaux takes a call from Maria, who is in no mood to hold back. She wants the wild brumbies of the high country left alone and the New South Wales environment minister held to account, pointing to the Rewild the Wild campaign and the fight to stop the cull. She argues the Greens have become a party of control, and rails against the wind factories and green hydrogen plants she says never stacked up. Jeremy and the studio weigh in on Pauline Hanson, David Shoebridge and the price of electricity. This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 30 October 2026. The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM streams live every Friday from the dining room table at jeremycordeaux.com and via Auscast Radio at auscastnetwork.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app.
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17 min
October 30 FULL SHOW: Switzer, Caleb Bond And Leith van Onselen | Court of Public Opinion Live, 30 October 2026
The full Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM, live from the dining room table on Friday 30 October 2026, with Gary and the team. Caller Maria on the brumbies, the Greens and the cost of living; Positive Pete Switzer turning cautious on recession risk and the AI float frenzy; Caleb Bond on aged care, the superannuation rort and why sixteen-year-olds should not vote; and MacroBusiness chief economist Leith van Onselen on a public service drowning in bureaucrats and the budget austerity he says is coming. Plus the Erin Patterson appeal, a this-day-in-history run and the music Jeremy loves. Thanks to Rossdale Homes. When trust is a must, rossdalehomes.com.au. The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM streams live every Friday from 9am at jeremycordeaux.com and via Auscast Radio at auscastnetwork.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app.
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2 hr 18 min
October 29 Steepest House Price Crash In History, And Why They’re Blaming The Wrong Thing: Jeremy Cordeaux In The Garage
Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Peter Clayton and Gary Hiscock for the Court of Public Opinion. The headline is the steepest quarterly fall in house prices on record, with every capital city down and Perth off 7.4 per cent, and Jeremy’s verdict that Labor has taken us from negative gearing to negative equity, with the government itself the biggest loser once you count the stamp duty. He turns to the alleged attack on independent MP Dr Helen Haynes and the excuse culture that reaches for mental illness, drugs or extremism, arguing we should focus on the person rather than the weapon, and asks what the closure of places like Glenside left walking our streets. There is the retired decorator now 2.3 million dollars richer from a shoebox of Pokemon cards, the protest set down for Remembrance Day, and a rich run through this day in history, from Black Tuesday and the Great Depression to Nvidia becoming the first five trillion dollar company on the very same date. Thanks to Rossdale Homes. When trust is a must, rossdalehomes.com.au. Listen and watch every Garage edition at jeremycordeaux.com and across the Auscast Network.
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20 min
October 26 Sack Him Over Snowy 2.0, And The Morning Anthrax Shut Down The Studio: Jeremy Cordeaux In The Garage
Jeremy Cordeaux is back around the dining room table in the garage with Pete and Gary for the Court of Public Opinion.

This episode: energy expert Professor Bruce Mountain says enough is enough on Snowy 2.0 after a blowout to twelve times its estimate, and Jeremy argues Chris Bowen should be sacked, with the project tipped to run from two billion dollars to as much as fifty. The COP31 gathering in Fiji has climbed from twenty million dollars to thirty five. Jeremy reflects on the shocking attack on independent MP Dr Helen Haynes and warns against using it to turn down the temperature in a way that muzzles debate, with a pointed word on the Prime Minister’s advisers and the dirt they dig. Plus the wild morning a powder-filled envelope addressed to the Court of Public Opinion shut down the radio station, and a stroll through this day in history, from nylon and Winx to Elon Musk taking over Twitter.

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20 min
October 21 59 Advisers, 156 Trusts And A Secret Michelin Bill: Jeremy Cordeaux In The Garage
Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary for another Court of Public Opinion, and he is still counting the cost of government.

He returns to the 59 personal advisers working for the Prime Minister and asks the question nobody in Canberra wants to answer: if everyone knows, why does no one in opposition say a word? He digs into the family trusts sitting inside Parliament itself, where 70 members declare 156 trusts between them and one Labor MP alone lists six, then reminds you that minimising your tax is a right, not a crime.

He wants to know what the government quietly paid to bring Michelin to Adelaide, where ten restaurants took a star and Magill Estate took two, and he makes the case that you cannot buy credibility at any price. There is the extraordinary story of how Ford sold its old engine line to China and helped create Chery, the brand now on track to outsell Ford in Britain. Plus the Bureau of Meteorology weather-stats row, the CFMEU questions hanging over the South Road build, and a rich run through this day in history, from Edison's light bulb to Eva Peron.

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24 min
October 19 Unemployment Worse Than The Pandemic, 59 Advisers On $400k & The "Fairness" Argument That Falls Apart | Court of Public Opinion
Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on the number the government would rather you did not notice: unemployment is now higher than it was at the peak of the pandemic, with 50,000 small businesses gone in the past eighteen months. He argues Labor keeps loading up what it calls reform, measures designed to save or make the government money, while doing nothing to curb its own spending.

He reads the mood inside Labor as the finger pointing begins, with talk of a reshuffle and questions over Treasurer Jim Chalmers, and warns it is starting to echo the Rudd and Gillard years. Then he takes apart the fairness argument put by Assistant Treasurer Dan Mulino on trusts and tax, pointing to the Comcar, the superannuation and the travel allowances that politicians enjoy and the rest of us pay for, and asks where the real savings are: the 59 personal advisers to the Prime Minister on up to $400,000 each.

Plus Labor's digital duty of care and the we will control slip on free speech, why gambling advertising escapes the same scrutiny, a brief word on the allegations around Senator Jordon Steele-John, and the usual look back at this day in history, from the Sydney Opera House opening in 1973 to Tom Petty.

The Court of Public Opinion streams live every Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (ACST) at jeremycordeaux.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app via Auscast Network. With thanks to Rossdale Homes.
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20 min
October 16 Should an Execution Be Live Streamed? Historian Carolyn Strange Tells Jeremy Cordeaux What History Says | Court of Public Opinion
Emeritus Professor Carolyn Strange from the ANU History Department joins Jeremy Cordeaux to discuss the planned live stream of a US military firing-squad execution, which has now been called off while the execution itself is set to proceed.
She explains how the power to take a life has always been tied to rulers, from Roman emperors to modern presidents, why the live stream plan echoes 19th century arguments that moved executions behind prison walls, what really happens with firing squad rounds, and why 200 US exonerations since 1976 matter in any debate about appeals and death row.
This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 October 2026.
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14 min