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Veteran broadcaster John Ovenden makes his monthly visit to the dining room table, bringing his trusted computer expert Melanie Lewis. Melanie tells Jeremy Cordeaux AM why technology feels more complicated than ever, when it is safe to ask AI for tech help, why updates sometimes change your settings, and why you should never click unsubscribe on spam.

John shares scam advice for older Australians from a seniors guide by the member for Mayo, including where to report scams, and talks walking soccer in Mount Barker. The table also discusses the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros merger, John's memories of Channel 10, and why catch-up TV is winning viewers.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 October 2026.

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Geoffrey Watson SC of the Centre for Public Integrity joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM to respond to claims that the High Court overreached in its Hunter Valley Operations mine decision. He argues the 111-page judgment is conventional administrative law about bureaucrats obeying the statute, and that it has been misunderstood and manipulated in the media.

Geoffrey also explains the difference between brown paper bag corruption and grey corruption, the invitation-only grants scheme his organisation exposed, Professor Anne Twomey's evidence to a parliamentary inquiry, and the bright line rules he says would stop ministers spending public money for political gain. Dr John Bruni joins in from the dining room table.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 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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Emeritus Professor David Flint AM, former head of the Australian Broadcasting Authority and the Australian Press Council and National Convener of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM to discuss his Spectator column arguing Australia is on the road to ruin. He explains why he believes Switzerland's system of citizen-initiated referendums would put politicians back on a leash, and recalls South Australian premier Charles Kingston's 1891 proposal to give the people the final say.

Professor Flint also takes aim at the caucus rule, preferential voting, a House of Representatives he calls a rubber stamp, and the way High Court judges are appointed. Dr John Bruni joins the conversation to question whether today's Australians have the civic appetite for it, and the Professor answers with lessons from the 1999 republic referendum.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 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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Jody Fitzgerald of Brightside Mediation spent six years as a political adviser in the South Australian Parliament before turning to mediation full time. She joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM around the dining room table to talk about the knives in politics, the role of advisers, and why she thinks skill is not always what gets people elected.

Jody explains how mediation works in family, small business, court and neighbourhood disputes, what it costs, why most people settle, and why the best outcome is one you can live with. Plus a memorable dispute over a $100 goat, the problem with fences and possums, and how she might handle Zelensky and Putin.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 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 9 October 2026. Dr John Bruni on the 81 lost US warplanes and Russia's shadow war on Europe, Professor David Flint on Pauline Hanson's Swiss style reforms, mediator Jody Fitzgerald on Parliament's knives and feuding neighbours, Geoffrey Watson SC on the High Court and grey corruption, and John Ovenden with tech whiz Melanie Lewis on beating the scammers.

In this show
0:00:00 Jeremy Cordeaux opens the show
0:25:46 Dr John Bruni: The 81 Lost US Warplanes and Russia's Shadow War on Europe
1:01:40 Professor David Flint: Only Pauline Hanson's Swiss-Style Reforms Can Save Australia
1:35:03 Mediator Jody Fitzgerald on Parliament's Knives, Feuding Neighbours and the $100 Goat
2:07:14 Geoffrey Watson SC Fires Back at the High Court Critics and Exposes Grey Corruption
2:36:06 Don't Hit Unsubscribe! John Ovenden and Tech Whiz Melanie Lewis on Beating the Scammers

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 9 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 AM around the dining room table for his regular look at the world stage. He discusses reported US aircraft losses in the Middle East, diesel prices and the Red Sea, why cheap drones are rewriting modern warfare, and how US manpower compares with China's.

John also explains SAGE International's idea of 'threshold conditioning', the Russian grey zone campaign he says is spreading across Europe, why he believes China will not invade Taiwan, and why he is sceptical about Elon Musk's plan to put data centres in orbit. Plus a cloned John Laws voice that has the whole table talking about trust in the age of AI.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 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, opening with Australia's porridge cannoli taking best speciality dish at Scotland's Golden Spurtle, before asking why a "mid-year" budget review lands in December and whether it will carry any cost of living relief. With the football grand finals over, he argues the media has the sports rights business backwards: broadcasters pay billions to the codes when it is their coverage that fills the grandstands and attracts the sponsors. He recalls doing exactly that at 5DN, when the SANFL wanted $50,000 for the season and he offered to pay it, then charge the same for the coverage and promotion; both sides ended up doing it for nothing.

He salutes the people who went to court to try to save the trees in the Adelaide parklands, questions the call for a Royal Commission into AI at around $100 million when he says the technology exists to replace jobs, and welcomes the Liberals' immigration policy for putting Australia's needs first, returning to the almost one million people on unemployment support. He also touches on the failed execution in Tennessee, the climate talks in Fiji, and hazing at universities and in the military, which he says has to stop. Plus this day in history from the microwave oven, Paul Hogan and John Lennon's Imagine to Sergeant York and Sir John Monash.

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 in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on a stalled property market: he says 20 per cent of homes for sale have sat unsold for six months, and ties it to the latest RedBridge survey reported in the Australian Financial Review, which has Labor's primary vote at a record low and the personal standing of Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers falling. He questions the $25 million Australia is spending to host a pre-COP31 meeting in Fiji, notes the main conference is in Turkey, which he describes as Europe's biggest coal producer, and argues that after 31 years of these conferences it is fair to ask what they have achieved.

He turns to the Treasurer's appearance on Insiders and the word "responsible", arguing a government should only spend what it has. Jeremy says the national debt is costing $80 million a day in interest, that $23 billion has been added to the cost of electricity and that $75 billion is committed to the green energy transition. He calls for a freeze on public service recruitment, asks whether Thriving Kids simply renames the NDIS problem, says the fuel excise should be removed temporarily, and traces the decline of Australian manufacturing back to the Whitlam government and the Lima Declaration. Plus a happy birthday to Ken Weeks of Grafton, 113, and this day in history from the first sitting of the High Court and The Jazz Singer to Nelson Riddle, the Sabin polio vaccine, The Mousetrap and the launch of Instagram.

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 2 October 2026. QF32 captain Richard de Crespigny reacts to the Flydubai cockpit attack, Dr John Bruni takes aim at Pete Hegseth's Pentagon, Joseph Friedman tells the story of a newspaper produced behind bars, IPA economist Adam Creighton says rate rises won't fix inflation, Wes Lambert warns about the card surcharge ban, football legend Peter Motley shares his inspiring story, and Andrina Clisby previews the Vintage Grand Prix.

In this show
0:00:00 Jeremy Cordeaux opens the show
0:15:54 QF32 Hero Captain Richard de Crespigny Reacts to the Flydubai Cockpit Attack
0:32:18 Dr John Bruni Takes Aim at Pete Hegseth's 'Warrior' Pentagon and Australia's Lost Inventions
1:05:38 The Newspaper Behind Bars: Joseph Friedman Tells Jeremy Cordeaux How About Time Got Over the Wall
1:32:32 IPA Economist Adam Creighton Says Rate Rises Won't Fix Inflation and Climate Policy Is a Religion
2:00:58 Wes Lambert Warns the Card Surcharge Ban Will Cost You More at Every Cafe
2:09:58 Football Legend Peter Motley's Inspiring Story: Such Is Life
2:36:46 Andrina Clisby on Vintage Grand Prix Racing and Her Father's Ferrari Engine Claim

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 2 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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Andrina Clisby of the Sporting Car Club of South Australia joins Jeremy Cordeaux around the dining room table on this week's Court of Public Opinion to preview the Vintage Grand Prix Carnival, which will take historic cars, motorcycles and enthusiasts through the Adelaide Hills and the Barossa, including the Collingrove hill climb and a day at Woodside.

She shares her father's remarkable motoring legacy, from his eighth placing at the Lobethal Grand Prix to the Clisby engine on display at the club and her belief that Ferrari's Sharknose engine bore a strong resemblance to his design. Along the way she talks about her own Ferraris, and the table debates what the colour of your car says about you.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 2 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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