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January 22, 2025 Indymedia – 20TH of January 2025
Join Alex Whisson for a new, solo session of the Indymedia podcast!
A day filled with foreboding and trepidation. The circus show of the inauguration of the 47TH President of the United States, Donald J Trump.
We’ll discuss what Trump wants to enstore within the first few days of his second term and “it seems” that he has a relatively competent set of officials, bureaucrats and advisors, who have given rise to a whole series of executive actions and orders that are ready to be fired and ordered on the first day.
President of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, joins the show to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip.
The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, has finally come into effect.
One of the worst crimes of this young century caused at least 47,000 people to be killed and thousands of people, including children, having been buried under the rubble.
The Australian Government are complicit in providing diplomatic and political cover, whilst cowardly pretending to advocate for peace.
If any of the content in this episode is triggering or upsetting, please know that you’re not alone and help is always available.
Please call Lifeline (13 11 14) or Beyond Blue (1300 224 636) if you need to talk to someone about anything.
Join us next week for a new episode of the Indymedia Podcast!
50 min
December 20, 2024 20 Years of Indymedia – 20TH of December 2024
Join Alex Whisson & Raymond Grenfell for a brand new edition of the Indymedia Podcast!
On the 20th anniversary episode of Indymedia…
Longtime social justice advocate, Gerry Gerardus** joins the show to talk about the colonial inquest into the death of Cleveland Dodd.
16 year old, Cleveland Dodd passed away after self-harming in his cell at the youth Unit 18 wing of Perth’s maximum-security Casuarina Prison, in October 2023.
Cleveland‘s death was the first documented death in a youth detention facility in Western Australia and prompted an investigation by the CCC.
The team discuss the matter over recent inquest for the closure of Unit 18.
Plus, the news the mainstream media don’t talk about.
Join us for a new edition of the Indymedia Podcast next year!

48 min
December 11, 2024 Indymedia – 9TH of December 2024
Join Alex Whisson & Raymond Grenfell for a brand new edition of the Indymedia Podcast!
The Albanese Government and ALP Government have recently announced amendments to migration laws that have been met with criticism and rightfully so, as the Albanese Government have introduced these draconian laws:
The Australian Government now has the power: to pay undisclosed third countries to take non-citizens, including recognised refugees with Australian citizen family members, without any safeguards to prevent any harm, detention or return to persecution; to imprison people who will not return to countries where they fear for their lives; to create travel bans on citizens trying to visit Australia for study, business, tourism or to see family, in an effort to pressure their governments into accepting forced returns; to reverse refugees’ protection findings in order to remove them from Australia, and to seize mobile phones and conduct unwarranted searches on people in immigration detention. (Refugee Council of Australia, 2024)
Ian Rintoul, Spokesperson for Refugee Action Coalition NSW and political activist, joins the show to discuss the impacts these laws will have on people in Australia and for many people who are already here.
Federico Fuentes, longtime Latin-America political correspondent, joins the show to provide us with an update, 4 months later, on the presidential elections in Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected to the role in July of this year, but the result was disputed as many news outlets and opposition members provided evidence to show that opposition leader, Edmundo Gonzalez, was clearly successful. President Maduro remains in power, even after the United Nations Human Rights Committee have announced the beginning of their investigation into the situation.
If any of the content in this episode is triggering or upsetting, please know that you’re not alone and help is always available.
Please call Lifeline (13 11 14) or Beyond Blue (1300 224 636) if you need to talk to someone about anything.
Join us next week for a new episode of the Indymedia Podcast!
49 min
November 27, 2024 Indymedia – 25TH of November 2024
Join Raymond Grenfell & Jack Prendergast for a brand new edition of the Indymedia Podcast!
Jack speaks with El Gibbs, Deputy CEO of the Disability Advocacy Network Australia. NDIS users have been recently sent letters with 28 days notice, to prove their eligibility for the scheme. The letters are vague, not providing much information or what’s required to prove their eligibility.
Jack’s feelings about this, annoyance and anger, are what drove his want to interview El.
Ray speaks about the impacts of healthcare in Gaza. Over 1000 healthcare workers have been estimated to have been murdered due to the ongoing attempted genocide. This is a devastation to the healthcare system, with healthcare systems around the world having rallied around Gaza, demonstrating solidarity with workers in Gaza.
The ongoing horrors continue as the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant.
Ray speaks with Fiona, a local nurse. who is part of a nationwide group, Healthcare Workers for Palestine.
Plus, the news the mainstream media didn’t talk about.
If any of the content in this episode is triggering or upsetting, please know that you’re not alone.
Please call Lifeline (13 11 14) and Beyond Blue (1300 224 636) if you need to talk to someone.
Join us next week for a new episode of the Indymedia Podcast!
47 min
November 20, 2024 Indymedia – 18th of November 2024
Content Warning
The content in this episode of the Indymedia Podcast, may be triggering for listeners.
If the content of this show is triggering, please reach out to 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) who are a national domestic, family, sexual violence counselling service.
Join Alex Whisson for a brand new, solo edition of the Indymedia Podcast!
Former 2UE & 2GB talkback host, Alan Jones, was arrested at his Sydney home this morning, in relation to a long, thorough and protracted investigation by the NSW Police Child Abuse Squad.
If found guilty, Jones faces 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault, nine counts of assault with an act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching another person without their consent and two counts of common assault, dated from 2001-2019.
Major developments in the Russian-Ukrainian War, with the outgoing Biden administration, giving the approval of long range missile systems.
This has been a longtime request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be able to use these weapons and the outgoing president has now given approval for these weapons to be used.
Alex speaks to Clinton Fernandes, Author and Former Army Intelligence officer on the Indonesian Desk, and Professor of International and Political Science at the University of New South Wales.
Plus, Alex brings us his second editorial on the US Election.
If any of the content in this episode is triggering or upsetting, please know that you’re not alone.
Please call Lifeline (13 11 14) and Beyond Blue (1300 224 636) if you need to talk to someone.
Join us next week for a new episode of the Indymedia Podcast!
48 min
November 13, 2024 Indymedia – 11TH of November 2024
Join Raymond Grenfell, Alex Whisson & Jack Prendergast for a brand new edition of the Indymedia Podcast!
On the show today….
Tahlia from Disrupt Burrup Hub joins the show to provide an update on the campaign and to give us an update of the North West Shelf Expansion. Listeners unaware of the North West Shelf Expansion, Greenpeace wrote an article detailing it and in this article state, “Woodside’s North West Shelf is one of Australia’s oldest and most polluting gas processing plants. The plant is a key piece of infrastructure for Woodside’s Burrup Hub – the most climate polluting fossil fuel project currently proposed in Australia.”
Jack speaks with Tone Wheeler, President of the Australian Architecture Association & has extensive knowledge of the housing system in Australia. They join the show to discuss the current housing situation in Australia and the ramifications around it.
Plus, the news the mainstream media didn’t talk about.
Join us for a new edition of the Indymedia Podcast next week!
53 min
November 06, 2024 Indymedia – 4TH of November 2024
Join Alex Whisson & Jack Prendergast for a brand new edition of the Indymedia podcast!
Host of Behind The News at KPF Radio, Doug Henwood, joins the show to discuss the ongoing US Presidential Election.
As of speaking, the election is ongoing, several states are seen as possible swing states with Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona being particular states that have been targeted by the Democratic and Republican nominees, Kamala Harris & Donald Trump.
Jordan Van Den Lamb, also known online as purplepingers, is a housing rights activist who went popular online for talking about “Shit Rentals”. Jordan spoke with Jack about the current ongoing housing crisis and the motivation behind being an advocate for housing rights.
Plus, the news the mainstream media didn’t talk about.
47 min
October 30, 2024 Indymedia – 28TH of October 2024
Join Alex Whisson for a brand new, solo session of the Indymedia Podcast!
New member of the Indymedia collective, Jack Pendergrast, had the opportunity to speak to members of the Renters and Housing Union, including General Secretary Harry Millward, and local activist, Sadie Ward, who is setting up a new WA branch of the Renters and Housing Union.
Dr Philip Chilton, National Tertiary Education Union Activist and Historian at Curtin University, joins the show to discuss The Never Again Is Now rally.
The event, held on the 27TH of October outside Parliament House, was organised by a Christian Zionist Group, led by an Anglican Pastor, Mark Leach.
The event rallies under the cloak of fighting antisemitism but instead they’re hiding under a thinly veiled pro-Israel and pro-apartheid agenda. The event promotes the manipulative politics of hiding under the banner of anti-racism, whilst promoting a racist agenda.
Plus, the news that mainstream media doesn’t talk about!
48 min
October 23, 2024 Indymedia – 21ST of October 2024
Join Raymond Grenfell for a brand new, solo session of Indymedia!
Leonie from Stop AUKUS WA joins the show to provide us with a significant update on the situation with AUKUS. AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom & United States) is a trilateral security group formed with the intent of promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific that is stable and secure, however many of their decisions have been met with criticism as money is being spent on submarines, nuclear ramifications and potentially further injecting Australia into the US War Machine.
Also joining us is Neville Bruce from Grandparents for Climate Action WA, who recently rode from Perth to Canberra with a group of people on their bikes. Neville, who is 81, rode to raise awareness around climate action and bring to light the WA Government’s continued obsession with gas and oil, real lack of climate action.
They rode from Perth to Canberra to meet with MPs to discuss it further, but were only met by a small amount of MPs of mostly Greens and Teals members.
Indymedia host, Joni Boyd, talks with Narmon from the Asian Migrant Sex-Worker Advisory Group who joins the show to discuss the details around a Thai Trans sex-worker who has been detained in a male detention centre by border force. Border Force profiled her, cancelled her visa and detained her, under the idea that she was going to work her.
Plus, the news that mainstream media doesn’t talk about!
43 min
October 16, 2024 Indymedia – 14TH of October 2024
Join Alex Whisson and Raymond Grenfell as they present a new edition of Indymedia!
Richard Hamilton from the Victims of Nicheliving Group joins the show to discuss the ongoing saga of WA home builder, Nicheliving.
A deal between the WA State Government and Nicheliving to get incomplete homes built. More than 200 people have been left in financial limbo, with some having contracts that date back to 2019.
Nicheliving‘s insurance liability has been waived after they agreed to give up its building registration for the next decade.
Also joining the show is Mustafa, Chair of The Palestinian Community of Western Australia. They join us to discuss Run For Palestine, an upcoming event that will help support the children of Palestine, through organisation, Olive Kids.
Plus, the news that mainstream media doesn’t talk about!
48 min

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