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The tables have turned: this morning I was a GUEST!

Former ABC journalist and news-reader Damian Coory had me on to discuss:

Alice Blake is a Melbourne based singer/songwriter who has been writing under the mentorship of Jon Hume (Evermore, New Tribe Music) and has penned successful releases on Dami Im’s debut album and ‘Song for Everyone’ which was performed by New Zealand artists Stan Walker, Vince Carter et al.

Since 2015 Alice has been part of the writing team at Shout!Publishing cowriting successful releases in Australia and overseas. Her own 2020 debut album has aired nationally on the Hit Radio Network, JJJ Unearthed Radio.

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Show notes:

3:12 Alice’s becoming an artist herself

7:00 The challenges facing women in the music industry

10:18 Alice’s inspirations - Ash London and Kimye

12:12 The importance of music and art for our culture

14:00 Kanye and Yeezys

16:07 Stigmas within fashion

19:07 How growing up in Melbourne influenced Alice with music

22:08 How culture helps shape our society

24:30 How the Kardashians are a positive cultural influence

27:46 What is it really like behind the curtain of the music industry?

29:50 Alice’s counter-culture approach

34:39 Alice’s rough past

35:48 Eating disorders and the way to health

42:35 The struggle with depression

44:45 Setting up boundaries to protect mental health

46:59 Taking action attracts hate

48:32 How faith helped her overcome the hard times

49:48 Forgiving her abuser to heal

53:02 Working during lockdowns

56:50 How to engage with music culture

1:01:17 Advice for budding creatives

1:03:15 Dealing with comparison

Samir Banga is the executive solicitor and director of Banga Legal, a law firm in Sydney that specialises in family and criminal law.

Samir has practised law as Special Counsel for a number of law firms conducting hearings and representing clients around Australia.

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Show Notes

4:02 The difference between Melbourne and Sydney Culture

7:28 Airports and flying Sydney to Melbourne

9:38 Masks, PCR testing, mortality rates, global lockdowns

12:33 COVID-19 vs Influenza

13:13 Proportionate response to COVID-19

15:00 Not everyone feels the pain of lockdowns

17:02 The Job Keeper Apocalypse

18:35 Domestic violence in Australia

26:05 Legalising Morality

30:57 The Melbourne towers that were imprisoned

32:20 Money and power above the law

37:05 Jails don’t work

38:42 Blackstone’s Ratio – Better that 10 guilty escape than 1 innocent be imprisoned

40:32 Paedophiles

43:14 Executive overreach in Victoria – directives or laws?

46:25 Exercising your rights in court

49:43 Masks and temperature checks

52:29 The fragmented states of Australia

54:40 Permanent masks in Victoria?

56:56 Exercise and general health as preventative

58:39 Schools should teach critical thinking

59:21 Power in numbers

1:02:31 Trump vs The Swamp

1:03:58 Is Pauline Hanson still racist?

1:04:22 China - the most powerful country in the world

1:07:24 Shifting spending habits local

1:11:16 From family restaurant to law firm – Samir’s story

1:18:01 ‘New Law’

1:24:59 Content creation

Ryan Smith MP was first elected Member of Parliament for Warrandyte District in 2006. Before entering Parliament, his career spanned 18 years in the financial markets working for a number of Australia’s leading institutions including the Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, BP Finance and Pacific Dunlop.

Ryan represents the suburbs of Park Orchards, Warrandyte, North Warrandyte, South Warrandyte, Warranwood, Donvale, East Doncaster, Wonga Park and parts of Ringwood North. In addition to serving as Victoria’s Minister for the Environment and Minister for Youth Affairs during the Baillieu/Napthine governments, Ryan has held Shadow Ministerial roles covering Industrial Relations, Roads and Industry.

He is currently the Shadow Minister for Energy, Renewables & Resources and Shadow Minister for Manufacturing & Innovation.

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Show Notes:

1:10 Victorian opposition is more relevant than ever

3:16 The ignored COAG roadmap

5:23 The alternative government

7:17 Tell stories, not facts!

11:04 Why Ryan got into politics

15:48 The philosophy of ‘make your own way’

18:56 Pragmatism vs Ideology

20:30 Dan Andrews only cares about a small section of the electorate

21:51 What is Dan Andrews like in person?

23:45 How to rattle Dan Andrews

25:28 Who is the real Dan Andrews?

27:39 A shift in mood in the electorate

30:17 Lockdown 3 coming for Melbourne

31:08 A decent and helpful politician

35:39 Woke politics doesn’t appeal to the mainstream

37:17 Diversity of everything but thought

38:05 The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020

43:20 Matt challenging the Liberals

43:45 Referendum to ensure no future government can repeat what happened in VIC

46:36 Will Victorians allow a 3rd lockdown?

47:33 Do lockdowns work?

51:08 Mental health and lagging effects of lockdown are being ignored

53:48 Royal Commission into Hotel Quarantine Deaths

55:41 The stacked bureaucracy in Victoria

1:00:51 Psychological profiling

1:05:20 Ryan is a ‘big sook’ but Dan is a bully

1:06:55 Politicians who just let us get on with our lives

1:09:00 Advice for aspiring politicians

1:13:10 A call for communities to look out for each other

Steve Macarthur is a former Australian politician in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1992-2002). He currently serves as a board member for the Community Advocacy Alliance and is passionate about preserving democracy in Victoria through the introduction of ‘recall elections’. 

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4:45 Today’s politicians lack real life experience 

7:35 Lockdowns destroy rights 

9:17 What would Steve do as Premier 

10:35 Support of Dan Andrews 

11:15 Hotel Quarantine failure 

12:37 Mask Culture in Victoria 

16:25 Unwavering obedience in Victoria 

17:00 The resurrection of democracy 

19:36 Lockdowns are not long-term solutions 

20:24 NSW’s handling of Covid-19 

22:47 How people vote 

25:31 South Australian lockdown 

27:27 Direct democracy and Recall Elections 

34:34 The integrity of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) 

36:35 Building the case for Recall Elections 

38:42 Lockdown suicides 

42:00 Lockdown’s lagging effects 

43:10 How would Dan Andrews win the next election? 

44:48 The Direct Democracy Model 

45:25 Educating Generation Z on democracy and freedom 

46:31 The cost of Dan Andrews on future generations 

54:31 The right-wing need to show their care for the environment 

56:11 The city/country divide 

59:18 Will people still migrate to Victoria or will there be a mass exodus? 

1:01:19 How to attract people to Victoria

Damian Coory had an extensive career in broadcast journalism in newsrooms around Australia including the ABC, Network Ten, Triple M, and 3AW Talkback radio before specialising in public relations.

For decades Damian worked from Hong Kong and became one of the most sought-after speakers and experts in public relations and crisis management.

He now hosts The Other Side podcast – a regular look at the news from a centrist perspective.

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0:42 Damien’s background

3:20 Love for radio

8:47 FM news vs AM news

10:05 The Other Side Australia Podcast

12:06 Linear broadcasting is dying

14:42 Leaving journalism for PR

21:16 Businesses making decisions based on public opinion

29:54 The difference between Millenials and Generation Z

33:02 How has Andrews, McGowan and Palaszczuk maintained such high levels of popularity?

38:05 Dan Andrews’ persona projections

41:08 Andrews' and Palaszczuk’s manipulative PR strategy

42:06 How Liberals lost the Qld election

45:55 Which corporates are doing a good job with PR

46:50 Crises are opportunities for market share

48:00 Flight Centre

51:25 Dan Andrews and his successful PR strategy

53:11 The science behind Public Relations

55:55 How do Conservatives counter the Left’s PR strategy

57:00 Why are centrists losing the debate?

1:01:37 The Great Reset

1:06:46 Closing the wealth inequality gap

1:08:00 The Great Reset is a Trojan Horse for socialism

1:11:24 Australians want big government

1:18:02 Questioning ‘Woke-ism’

You may have already read or watched Alexandra Marshall in The Spectator Australia, SkyNewsAustralia, The Good Sauce, Penthouse Australia, The Other Side Australia, and Caldronpool.

A prolific writer, Alexandra is also a Young Ambassador for the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM) and a political tragic spending endless hours analysing the political trends of Twitter.

She joined me in conversation from the family farm in northern NSW.

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2:14 Current Liberal politicians

3:27 The right-wing fears the left-wing press

5:30 Policies are driven by bureaucrats, not politicians

9:35 People won’t vote for weak politicians

12:31 Governments rule by fear

16:31 Scott Morrison won’t activate the Federal government’s health authority

20:08 Scott Morrison doesn’t want to take responsibility

22:17 Victorian Liberals are weak

23:45 Weaponising fear to rule the masses

26:05 Whose fault is it for the current political climate?

29:34 Minor political parties are crucial

31:51 How do we change culture?

34:30 Twitter trends

37:06 Is conservatism on the rise?

41:38 Scott Morrison’s backflips

44:05 Alexandra’s career history

46:40 Women in media

51:42 The impact of the ‘Me Too’ movement on women

54:01 What shapes Alexandra’s politics?

58:19 Is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party more mainstream than we realise?

1:02:07 Minor Parties are tied to major party performance

1:04:58 We need strong leaders with conviction

1:11:05 What the left-wing can teach the right-wing

1:13:35 The fragility of Democracy

1:17:03 Utopian Politics

John Loeffler's career in broadcasting has spanned more than 50 years and includes radio and television positions at local and network levels, most of which have been in news and talk radio.

He has hosted the ‘Steel on Steel’ radio news/talk/interview program since 1990, covering the relationship between economics, politics, and religion.

John grew up in post-war Germany and North Africa as well as the US. He speaks Spanish and German proficiently, and has degrees or minors in broadcast communications, linguistics, psychology, philosophy and theology, and is an instrument-rated pilot.

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2:33 Secularism is a religion in itself

3:31 The origin of morality

5:38 Racism in our society

9:16 Addressing Racism

13:26 Left-wing grievances

14:38 Critical race theory

16:01 Marxism and its rising popularity in the US

17:58 Equality of outcome

19:07 Why socialism fails

21:11 The failure of Venezuela

22:37 Difference between the US Revolution and other revolutions

25:35 Mandatory COVID-19 laws

28:18 US vs UK attitudes

30:45 What makes a good debate moderator?

41:24 Countries struggling to recover from the far left

43:08 How do you wake people up?

46:00 Christians are the canary in the coal mine

48:29 Persecution of Christians around the world

50:42 Difficulty of arguing against a ‘good’ tyrant

53:35 Socialists always devour their own

57:38 The road to global government

1:04:30 What are the warning signs in Australia?

Andrew Cooper is the President of Liberty Works Australia, a non-profit think tank that supports free speech, the preservation of natural rights for all citizens, access to a just legal system and free markets as the bedrock for a moral and prosperous society.

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1:16 What is the state of liberty in Australia?

3:22 What is Liberty Works?

4:28 What is conservatism in the modern age?

5:24 The slow rise of big government in Australia

8:11 How do you communicate a Libertarian view?

9:11 Libertarianism is a philosophical issue, not a political one.

11:01 Can progressives be freedom minded?

12:56 The political left is harder to engage with

15:46 Do Australians actually value freedom?

17:12 Mark Latham’s freedom of expression

19:46 Everyday Aussies more likely to be civilly disobedient than protest

21:30 Victoria’s culture leans left

24:04 What ideas inform liberty?

26:23 The Libertarian Creed

27:16 Public Choice Theory

30:40 Liberal Democrats and their fight

34:29 Victorian lockdowns

36:47 Zoe Buhler’s Facebook arrest court case

38:12 How would a Libertarian approach current Covid-19 measures?

42:28 How Sweden has handled Covid-19

44:27 Why are governments reaching for the pandemic ‘ban hammer’?

47:56 How Anna Palaszczuk won the election

49:38 Do oppositions or governments lose elections?

50:18 The economic cost of Covid-19

51:14 The weakness of the Queensland LNP

53:24 Education should be privatised

56:04 Campbell Newman and his 180 turn on drug decriminalisation

58:27 The law is not the arbiter of morality

1:02:59 Embracing natural law over positive law

1:05:02 The Culture Wars

1:07:07 The Left are scared of CPAC conferences

1:08:28 The natural emergence of liberty

1:11:10 Future Predictions

1:11:30 The power of Bitcoin

Professor William M. Briggs is a statistician and scientist. Previously a Professor at the Cornell Medical School he specialized in Mathematical Statistics amongst other academic pursuits such as cryptology, atmospheric physics and meteorology.

His latest book ‘The Price of Panic’ explores the cost of the global response to COVID-19.

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1:14 Worldwide reaction to Covid-19

4:27 Where has the flu gone?

6:08 Are lockdowns beneficial?

8:47 Cases vs Infections

11:55 Zero tolerance policy on infections or deaths

13:00 Trust the ‘all cause death rate’ instead

13:23 The statistics debunking Covid-19’s lethality

15:07 Identifying Covid-19 as the cause of death

17:32 Measuring cases instead of deaths keeps the panic going

19:54 How do we break out of the panic?

21:25 Trump vs Johnson in their response to contracting Covid-19

22:22 Should we be scared of Covid-19?

24:10 Why are we seeing such ‘amazing’ results in Australia and NZ?

27:10 Praising Dan Andrews and Jacinda Arden’s lockdown policy

28:35 Lockdowns didn’t work everywhere

29:17 People ignore real statistics

30:27 Leaders let citizens down by not being realistic

31:17 Which leader is doing it right?

33:21 Living in the Technocracy

35:13 Scientism and morality

39:05 Appeals to authority

39:46 Masks debunked

41:50 Have people forgotten we have immune systems?

43:30 Complicity with bad leadership

43:58 Civil disobedience in the US

45:56 Have scientists been swept up in the hype?

50:14 Where do we go for trustworthy information?

53:00 Why are people buying the hype and staying in a panic state?

54:45 Future predictions

55:33 Economic effects of the pandemic

58:00 Should we make policy decisions based on modelling?

1:00:58 Models are only as good as their assumptions