Is It On?

It’s another bonus mini episode, brought to you by the irrepressible Mark Di Stefano and the less good version of Alice Workman, Lane Sainty. A week is a long time in politics, and in the past seven days we’ve seen not one, but TWO Greens senators resign after the shock discovery that they’re actually dual citizens. In other news, Malcolm Turnbull handed Peter Dutton a huge promotion and also stood in front of soldiers wearing gas masks. Creepy! Finally, is the plebiscite back from the dead… in postal form? Who can say.

Desperately missing Alice, Mark coerces his colleague Lane Sainty into joining him for a short rundown of the latest political news. In this bonus elevator podcast (like an elevator pitch, but more podcast-y), Mark and Lane talk same-sex marriage, the latest round of Turnbull vs. Abbott, and why criminal gangs might be buying our Medicare details online.

In our last episode for season one (sad!) Alice and Mark take a look at the biggest leadership battle in Australian politics, and it’s happening inside…the Greens!  Also, Tony Abbott’s election manifesto Make Australia Work Again. And former Liberal MP Wyatt Roy tells us what it was like to fight ISIS during his gap year after federal politics.

This week Mark and Alice chat to Liberal senator Dean Smith about the future of the same-sex marriage plebiscite as well as a mystery politician for ~ Gallery Whispers ~ who has a surprise link to the film The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. Also... do shoving tampons up your nose solve a nose bleed? Hit us up on the DMs. 

This week Alice and Mark prepare for war with the US after audio of Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull impersonating president Trump was leaked. We also chat to Labor senator Lisa Singh, the Tasmanian politician touted as Australia’s Bernie Sanders.

This week Alice and Mark discover what it’s like to do tequila shots with Neo-Nazis. Their guest is John Safran,  a documentary-maker and author who spent the year hanging out with extremist groups, white nationalists and socialists for his book Depends What You Mean By Extremists. 

This week Alice resurrects Healthy Harold and Mark relives his wog boy childhood. We also chat with TV and radio broadcaster turned senator Derryn Hinch about rouging nipples. Seriously.

Pauline Hanson learns animals are alive before you kill them, the PM rejects a request for Outkast’s 'Hey Ya!' to replace the national anthem, plus Mark and Alice speak to the man behind the government’s controversial plan to drug test young people on welfare: human services minister Alan Tudge! 

Mark and Alice chat with NSW Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi about the failed attempt to decriminalise abortion (yes, it’s 2017 and abortion is still a crime in New South Wales). Gallery Whispers is back, the banks are mad as hell, and what da heck is happening in the Labor party - Is It On?

In this Budget special, Mark and Alice sit down with Australian treasurer Scott Morrison to find out if the government is using toilet water to figure out where to run their drug testing trials.Former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan gives his take on ScoMo’s Budget and Greens leader Richard Di Natale accuses the government of waging a war on young people. #LetsGoSharks