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Former Sturt and Carlton footballer Peter Motley, whose career ended in a car accident at 22, joins Jeremy Cordeaux around the dining room table with his friend and co-author Paul Rose to talk about Such Is Life: My Story, a book they produced over three years with every dollar going to the Clown Doctors.

They share how a chance meeting on a golf course led to the book, why Peter's refusal to complain inspires those around him, what Peter thinks of today's AFL compared with the skill era of Jack Oatey, the year Carlton won the flag for Peter, and Paul's own journey from window cleaner to co-founder of a national facility management company.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 2 October 2026.

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Former commercial lawyer and freelance journalist Joseph Friedman joins Jeremy Cordeaux on this week's Court of Public Opinion to talk about About Time, the monthly newspaper he founded for people in Australian prisons, inspired by the UK's Inside Time.

He explains how the paper won over eight separate corrections authorities, why criminal and personal injury lawyers are its biggest advertisers, what prisoners write about, and why he believes rehabilitation, not punishment inside, should be the priority. Jeremy also shares a memorable call he once took from a prison exercise yard, and the table swaps stories of creativity behind bars.

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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Dr John Bruni of SAGE International walks in to the dining room table on this week's Court of Public Opinion and takes aim at US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's speech and anti-DEI push, arguing that in an age of drones and push-button warfare it is brains, not brawn, that win.

With Jeremy Cordeaux and Gary Hiscock, he then tackles Australia's cultural cringe, the brain drain and 'just in time' supply chains, the remarkable story of Brisbane's Metal Storm technology and its counter-drone potential, a security scare at a UK air base, and whether a South Australian seat in space is worth the price tag.

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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Captain Richard de Crespigny AM, the pilot in command of Qantas Flight 32 when an Airbus A380 suffered an uncontrolled engine failure out of Singapore in 2010, joins Jeremy Cordeaux on this week's Court of Public Opinion to give his verdict on the shocking flydubai incident in which one pilot attacked another on the flight deck.

He walks through the chain of luck that saved everyone on board, from the cockpit door being opened to a passenger's headlock and a relief pilot pulling the 737 out of a high-speed dive, questions airline recruitment and screening, explains why the aircraft might never fly again, and talks about his new book on personal, corporate and national resilience.

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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Adam Creighton, senior fellow and chief economist at the Institute of Public Affairs, joins Jeremy Cordeaux on this week's Court of Public Opinion as Australians digest another interest rate rise. He argues federal deficit spending is fuelling inflation, questions the evidence that lifting the cash rate brings prices down, and points to money supply growth that few people talk about.

He also describes net zero as a new religion, shares what former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe told him about the nuclear ban, and tackles top tax rates, corporate tax, the tobacco excise, public service salaries and One Nation's prospects at the next federal election.

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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Wes Lambert, CEO of the Australian Restaurant and Cafe Association, joins Jeremy Cordeaux on this week's Court of Public Opinion to explain why he believes the Reserve Bank's card surcharge ban is another nail in the coffin for hospitality, arriving in the same week as a rate rise and inflation above 4 per cent.

He argues the promised $1.6 billion consumer saving will simply reappear in the price of your coffee, pint and chicken parmigiana, revisits the fringe benefits tax and the free lunch debate, and makes the case for the 2.7 million small businesses that employ more than 5 million Australians. Jeremy also recalls a memorable exchange with Paul Keating from his own restaurant days.

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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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage for The Court of Public Opinion with the story of Metal Storm, the Australian-invented, electronically fired weapon that could have defended against drone swarms. The patents lapsed, the company folded and now China is producing the technology. Jeremy asks how a nation keeps letting its best ideas walk out the door.

Also on the show: only two fuel refineries left and talk of diesel rationing, why “just in time” has replaced “just in case”, the end of card surcharges from 1 October, no budget surplus until 2036 with interest on debt now costing as much as Medicare, the AMA's verdict on South Australia's hospitals, the $36,500 a year it costs to raise two kids and the push for 52 weeks' paid parental leave, vale Angry Anderson, and what happened on this day in history, from the Model T to Concorde and Julie Andrews.

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 for The Court of Public Opinion as the Reserve Bank lines up a fourth rate rise this year. Unleaded is sitting around $2.40 a litre, diesel is tipped to hit $4 and there is no further excise relief coming. Jeremy says households are paying for policy choices on spending and net zero, and warns of a recession we didn't have to have.

Also on the show: the Prime Minister's “Citizen of the World” award and the cost of the UN trip, AI hacks and calls for a moratorium, the disability housing funds where investors lost tens of millions and no homes were built, a Queensland poll putting Pauline Hanson ahead as preferred PM, the MotoGP and parklands trees in the Federal Court, Don McLean still touring at 81, and what happened on this day in history.

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 25 September 2026. Demographer Mark McCrindle explains why the falling birth rate is the real wake up call, Dr John Bruni covers Netanyahu, Ukraine and the AI race, Professor Ian Plimer takes on Snowy 2.0, Senator Alex Antic talks about taking back the Liberal Party, Professor Steve Worthington warns about rewards points after the surcharge ban, and 103-year-old Henry Young remembers barrel rolling a Spitfire.

In this show
0:00:00 Jeremy Cordeaux opens the show
0:17:50 Mark McCrindle on Why Australia's Falling Birth Rate Is the Real Wake-Up Call
0:38:56 Dr John Bruni on Netanyahu, Ukraine and the AI Race Between Trump and Xi
1:01:52 Ian Plimer Says Snowy 2.0 Was Built Blind and Fears Human Stupidity More Than AI
1:31:52 Senator Alex Antic on Taking Back the Liberal Party for Its Members
1:47:20 Card Surcharges Are Gone, but Professor Steve Worthington Warns Your Rewards Points Could Be Next
2:02:16 103-Year-Old Henry Young Barrel Rolled a Spitfire, and Tells Jeremy Cordeaux All About It

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 25 September 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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Senator Alex Antic joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM and Professor Ian Plimer fresh from winning the presidency of the South Australian Liberal Party. He explains how he won, why he wants to hand the party back to its members, and how grassroots members drove the push against net zero.

Alex also talks energy security, the scrutiny that keeps good people out of politics, the growth of government in Canberra and why he would happily spend a whole term repealing laws.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 25 September 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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