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Former Advertiser arts and entertainment writer Samela Harris joins Jeremy Cordeaux to explain why she has lost patience with Premier Peter Malinauskas over the felling of old trees for motor racing and the handling of Adelaide's park lands, which she says is happening behind closed doors. She also questions the paid Michelin guide arrangement and what she calls a lot of undisclosed sums.

Samela tells the story of the page three colour piece that led Scott Hicks to David Helfgott and the film Shine, shares news of her work with Women in Media and her recovery from retina surgery, and swaps memories of the Grand Prix and classic cars with Jeremy.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Nigel Daw from the South Australian Aviation Museum at Port Adelaide joins Jeremy Cordeaux to preview the museum's family engine run and open cockpit day on Sunday 25 October, with historic engines fired up on stands and visitors invited into the cockpits of the F-111, DC3, Fokker F27 and more.

Nigel also reveals a Bristol Freighter is on its way from Point Cook, and he and Jeremy trade stories of South Australian aviation history, from Dame Nancy Buttfield's DC3 in a paddock near Chain of Ponds to the Vickers Vimy that Jeremy thinks Adelaide Airport is hiding.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Professor Ian Plimer joins Jeremy Cordeaux in the studio with a five-ounce gold nugget from his own small North Queensland mine and his seventeenth book, Gold, Everything You Need to Know, which is already in reprint a week after release.

He explains why gold is so heavy and how nuggets grow, argues that gold has held its value for two thousand years while money has lost it, revisits the sale of Australia's gold reserves, and takes listeners inside the Kalgoorlie Gold Police and some of history's great gold heists. The conversation finishes on universities, mining engineering graduates and why he believes the sector has lost its way.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Ann Nalder, founder and CEO of the Australian Small Business Association, joins Jeremy Cordeaux to explain why she believes the country's 2.7 million small businesses are being ignored, squeezed by rising costs and buried under one-size-fits-all policy.

She takes aim at big corporations paying small suppliers 120 days or more late, questions why a Parliament House meeting on small business policy has gone nowhere, and backs Jeremy's call for small business to organise like a union and make its voice heard.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Dr John Bruni of SAGE International joins Jeremy Cordeaux at the dining room table for a wide ranging look at world affairs. He starts with his podcast conversation with Harvard's Avi Loeb about UAP claims, then turns to Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Ukraine, and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

Dr Bruni argues that Elon Musk's control of Starlink shows how exposed a dependent ally can be, and asks what that means for Australia's defence. He also explains who the Houthis are, why he believes Saudi forces have struggled against them, and why Yemen remains a humanitarian disaster.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Real estate agent and author Zed Nasheet joins Jeremy Cordeaux and Gary Hiscock to talk about his new book, The Art of Closing Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Zed says selling is about persuasion and storytelling rather than pressure, and that real estate is about people, not properties.

He shares the tough first three years when he made no money, his run as a top salesperson, the story of dating someone for six weeks to land a listing, and why too much choice kills a sale. Jeremy recalls the armed guard at a Burnside jewellery store and confesses he is usually sold on a house before he makes the inquiry.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Adelaide writer and performer Peter Goers joins Jeremy Cordeaux to talk about In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past, his new one-person show based on his second book about the deaths of his parents in a plane crash in New Orleans in 1982. He describes being sent to America at 25 and why he calls the show a tribute to his parents, told with a wry humour.

Peter also explains why he believes grief has become the theme of our times, shares a moving story of a grieving corella at Naracoorte, and joins Jeremy in asking where Australia's great ratbags have gone, from Prince Leonard of Hutt River to Bea Miles. The show plays five performances at Star Theatres from 23 to 31 October.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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The complete live stream of The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM, from around the dining room table on Friday 16 October 2026. Author and real estate agent Zed Nasheet on the art of closing, Dr John Bruni on Starlink, Ukraine and the Houthis, Professor Ian Plimer with a gold nugget and his new book on gold, historian Professor Carolyn Strange on live streaming an execution, Ann Nalder of the Australian Small Business Association on why small business needs a voice, Nigel Daw on the South Australian Aviation Museum's open cockpit day, Peter Goers on his new one-person show, and Samela Harris on Adelaide's trees.

In this show
0:00:00 Jeremy Cordeaux opens the show
0:16:03 Zed Nasheet Dated a Girl for Six Weeks to Win a Listing
0:32:38 Dr John Bruni Warns Australia Could Be the Next Ukraine
1:00:05 Professor Ian Plimer Brings a $45,000 Gold Nugget to the Table and Tells Jeremy Cordeaux How to Steal Gold
1:36:01 Should an Execution Be Live Streamed? Historian Carolyn Strange Tells Jeremy Cordeaux What History Says
1:52:42 Ann Nalder Tells Jeremy Cordeaux Small Business Has No Voice, And It's Time To Fight Back
2:10:56 Engines Roar And Cockpits Open: Nigel Daw Tells Jeremy Cordeaux What's Coming To The SA Aviation Museum
2:31:44 Peter Goers Reveals the Tragedy Behind His Most Personal Show Yet
2:46:39 Samela Harris Unloads on the Premier Over Adelaide's Trees and Reveals Her Shine Secret

Prefer one conversation at a time? Every interview is also available as its own episode in The Court of Public Opinion feed.

This show aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 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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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens with a timely warning for anyone posting Christmas presents overseas: don't leave it past the first of December. He takes aim at the Prime Minister's chosen legacy of rewiring the nation, saying the transmission towers and wires criss-crossing the country will be remembered with every electricity bill, and slams a proposed levy on power bills to fund electric vehicle charging stations, which he dubs the recharge surcharge. If you choose an EV, he says, the cost of charging should be yours.

He questions the digital duty of care legislation and why it does not extend to gambling advertising, then turns to the Greens' plan, led by Max Chandler-Mather, for the government to take over 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets and run cut-price stores. Jeremy recalls Bob Hawke-era ventures such as Bourke's department store and the ACTU's Solo service stations, and points out supermarket profit margins of around one per cent. He also calls for an end to the $200 million spent by the state government on advertising in four years.

Jeremy remembers Lord Jeffrey Archer, a frequent guest from his radio days, looks at David Jones' $95.5 million loss as Country Road, Witchery and Mimco pull out of 100 shopfronts, questions the High Court's coal decision, and says South Australia's 100 per cent renewables target has quietly become 75 per cent. Plus 53,000 complaints about phone reception, Finland's search for a professional smeller, and this day in history, from Mata Hari, Napoleon's exile and the invention of shredded wheat to Penny Marshall, Cole Porter and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

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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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens by congratulating South Australia's police commissioner Grant Stevens on his appointment as the state's next governor. He marks 25 years since Australia committed to the war in Afghanistan, then turns to a property market where he says values are down 19 to 20 per cent across the country, asking how anyone can call it good news when most people's only significant asset is now worth less. He criticises President Trump's decision to lift the ban on Russian diesel and tell Ukraine not to strike Russian oil refineries, and says he hopes Europe will make up the shortfall.

On immigration, Jeremy says migrants have largely been great contributors to Australia, asks why one million people remain on the dole while jobs go unfilled, and argues a country has every right to be selective about who it lets in. He takes aim at the tax office's credit card decision, with the Treasurer granting small business a reprieve for the rest of the financial year, and says that if the system has forced small business to pay its tax on a credit card, something is terribly wrong. His fix: throw the 17,000 pages of tax law in the bin and start again with a simpler system that rewards achievement. Plus birthday wishes in the garage and this day in history, from William Shatner reaching space and the birth of Margaret Thatcher to Paul Simon, Ian Thorp, Nellie Melba's operatic debut and Nana Mouskouri.

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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