Floodcast

Calum, Matt and Declan discuss GetUp, and the potential role the organisation has played in killing JFK.

After some messages from our sponsors at Molechex, we discuss the truth of the thylacine and the sick cover-up effort by the lying fake news Hobart Museum. Then: Is Albo the antipodean Corbyn? Finally, we cover the JobSeeker changes and the dire state of unemployment benefits in Australia. (Keep listening to the end to find out about our plan to fix this via the ThylacineSeeker scheme that the Greens will be taking to the next election.)

Declan, Max, Elena and Calum discuss the News, feat. the Craig Kelly/Tanya Plibersek hallway confrontation/photo op, and Queensland Labor's heroic progressive stance on youth bail laws. We then explore the work of US union organiser Jane McAlevey and its relevance to the Australian context.

Liam, Max, Declan and Nicole record an emergency Labor Party attack podcast. We talk shadow cabinet reshuffles, Albanese's leadership, recent ALP stan Twitter meltdowns, and our idea for the book 'Lowering Expectations: An Organiser's Guide to the Labor Party'.

Why are books so bad these days? Matt and Jo discuss the decline of literature, the death of criticism, and the social and economic forces underlying it. We also weigh in on the Great Fanfiction Debate of 2021.

Lauren Oyler on literary criticism: endoftheworld.substack.com/p/i-feel-th…-made-crazy

Matt's Twitter (with links to his work): twitter.com/circusarmy

Buy Matt's book: www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-halto…duct-24322856.html

Jo, Matt and Declan are joined by former Domain writer and current thirst trap poster Jim Malo (@thejimmalo) to discuss the sorry state of housing in Australia. We talk about neoliberal housing policy, the future of the housing market, and the scourge of Landlord Brain. Plus: rental horror stories, ours and yours.

Matt and Declan talk with former ABC and NewsCorp reporter John Ballot about how the sausage gets made. We discuss political influence on the news, the future of left media projects, and tHe MuRdOcH pReSs. Plus: dames.

In the wake of Mean Girls-Gate, Jo and Matt talk with fellow veterans of the online outrage trenches, Joanna Nilson and Paul McMillan. We discuss the increasingly common phenomenon of political 'dirt units' using social media posts to smear an opposition party, what it's like to have your posts on the front page of the Herald Sun, why it matters for left-wing politics, and what we can do about it.

We won South Brisbane.