Anthony Albanese has finally united Australia to one point of view: his plan for social media bans on under 16 year old is being panned at all levels of society while Albanese tries to tell Australian parents their kids should be riding bikes like the 1970s and not being educated about electronic media and responsibility. There's an important background to this policy idea, though: the deal forcing the owner of Facebook and Instagram (Meta) to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to selected Australian media organizations, predominantly Murdoch-managed News Corp, ended after three years earlier this year. Meanwhile, the election of Donald Trump has lead to a) Australia's ambassador to the US Dr Kevin Rudd to delete a number undiplomatic tweets b) Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong to tweet their fealty to Trump c) News Corp to begin its campaign to remake Peter Dutton in the style of Donald Trump and d) at least one person to ask questions about Australia's $200 million dollar export market in vaccines to the US now that Robert F Kennedy Jr looks to be put in charge...

Songs played on RTHK3:

King Stingray - Light Up the Path

Night Parrots - you Tried To Let Me Down

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What really happened when a democratically elected Senator from Victoria with Aboriginal heritage shouted at the descendant of a European dynasty of Kings and Queens in Canberra? Hear how Senator Thorpe a) did not heckle and b) raised issues of fact in her short and loud serve delivered to King Charles III in the Great Hall of the Australian Parliament, including the tens of thousands of Aboriginal artefacts still not returned from museums across the UK, the King's refusal to issue a similar apology to that of Kevin Rudd in 2008, the facts of the Mabo decision in 1991 declaring no such thing as "Crown land" in Australia and the bigger issue of a "treaty" - promised in 1988 but yet to be delivered, making Australia the only nation one of few not to have one with its First Nations people.

But are we missing a bigger scandal? Keen-eyed observers have noticed an item on the canape menu for the Royal reception that might just be cause for a criminal investigation behalf of the ANZAC spirit...

Songs played on RTHK3

The Cruel Sea - Just a Man

The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again

The Seven Ups - Machine Learning



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The BBC, the British/Murdoch press are up in arms about Aussie humour in advance of 75 year old King Charles the Third making his brief visit to Australia on his way to Samoa for CHOGM; PM Albanese's republican and working class credentials in doubt after the last referendum and a multimillion dollar property purchase; Aussies don't care about royalty - it's climate change, cyclones and snakes they're worried about; the West Australian town of Carnamah joins the pantheon of Aussie towns with Big Things with the unveiling of their Big Tractor.

Songs played on RTHK3

Midnight Oil - Stand in the Line

Gut Health - Uh Oh

Horns of Leroy - It’s About Time

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Protestors turn out in their tens of thousands in Sydney and Melbourne to call for ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, while Australian mining billionaire Twiggy Forrest sends hundreds of millions in aid to the people of Gaza and Peter Dutton's Opposition flatly rejects a Parliamentary motion in favour of humanity; meanwhile a pair of Aussie women have developed a new kind of brewed tea drink to sell to Asia and GenZ who are favouring non-alcoholic drinks; the NRL rugby final brings one of the great Aussie operas told in three tweets, and what could possibly go wrong with a new Crocodile Dundee film?

Songs played on RTHK3

Hayley Mary - Primordial Glow

The Fauves - The UnAustralians

Cruel Sea - Straight Into the Sun

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Looking back on the massive 10 goal victory in the AFL Grand Final, the French roots of the Lions' team song and wondering did the AFL management really pay HKD$20 million for each song Katy Perry performed in her pre-game set; Australian Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers comes back from a visit to Beijing unable to say when Aussie lobster exports will again resume, while reformed drunkard and clown politician Barnaby Joyce declares all Chinese-made EVs and solar cells are potential weapons, given Israel's use of booby-trapped pagers in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Sydney moves ahead with refurbishing new ferries for Sydney Harbour with electric motors - and wasn't Hong Kong supposed to be trialling electric ferries by now?

Songs played on RTHK

The Seduceaphones - Darkness

Watty Thompson =- Rock and Roll

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What happened when a weapons convention of American, British, South Korean and Israeli arms manufacturers was held in Melbourne, a city where thousands have protested against the Gaza "war" every weekend since early October; Elon Musk declares the Albanese government "fascist" for its planned legislation to force the removal of misinformation from social media platforms in Australia; why Aussies are preparing for the "swooping season" as the nation's magpies begin divebombing hapless cyclists and pedestrians.

Songs played on RTHK3:

Guy Blackman - Carlton North

Night Parrots - On Your way to Somewhere Else

The Seven Ups - Free Flying Birds 

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A historic Aussie rules finals season beckons with only one Melbourne-based team left, and questions over why Katie Perry was chosen for the pre-game entertainment for the AFL Grand Final on September 28. PM Anthony Albanese makes headlines with a policy to limit access to social media for teens, but how will it work? Meanwhile his government loses support for their lack of action on climate change or the huge amount of online gambling ads. Hear more about the special Hong Kong/Australian musical fusion of sheng and didgeridoo happening this weekend when composer and didj player William Barton takes to the stage with Hong Kong sheng master Loo Sze-wang for a unique program of music with the Hong Kong sinfonetta.

Music played on RTHK3:

King Stingray - Cat 5 

TISM - 70s football

William Barton - Didge Fusion

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A 350 km/h jetstream through Bass Strait means floods, windstorms, bushfires - and weirdly, an historic week where more of Australia's electricity was generated from renewables than coal. Hong Kong finance secretary Paul Chan in Melbournf for a keynote speech in Melbourne calling for more investment while the Albanese government announces a crackdown on student numbers and Australia faces down a plunge in iron ore and coal demand from mainland China. Finally: remembering Australian music legend Judy Cannon and her work with Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page.  

Songs played on RTHK3:

Waikiki - Here Comes September

A Swayze and the Ghosts - Anthropology

Judy Cannon - Hello Heartache

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Talking in Cantonese in Mallacoota, a tiny fishing town on Victoria's far south eastern coastal tip and how one small brewery in Orbot is making beer from seaweed, sea urchin and oysters; the details and the realities of the new right to disconnect laws protecting Australian workers from forced unpaid overtime and how the pandemic and the history of Melbourne's involvement in the 8 hour work day campaigns of the 1880s are relevant; Sydney celebrates its new driverless train system, some 26 years after Hong Kong introduced the Airport Express; Australia's warmest winter temperature record and how climate change is changing the seasons, and flowering of native flora as well as breeding habits of kangaroos.

Songs played on RTHK3

Emily Wurramurra - Boom Biddy Bye

Jimmy Willing and the Real Gone Hick Ups - Cat Fish Fishin' 

Luke Watt - Sell Papa Sell

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