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Robert Oulds is the director of the Bruges Group – a think tank in the United Kingdom that has been promoting discussion on the European Union for 30 years as well as exploring political correctness and identity politics and the effect they are having on societies globally.

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Read the book ‘Moralitis – a cultural virus’: https://www.amazon.com.au/Moralitis-Cultural-Virus-Robert-Oulds/dp/1838065822

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1:04 What is the current feel of London?

1:44 A time of mass hysteria caused by their own government

3:15 Balance of power shifted from consumer to provider

4:27 Inaccuracy of Covid-19 tests

5:15 Disillusionment of London’s citizens

7:10 South Australia cases vs London’s cases

9:18 The Great Reset

12:14 What is the ambition behind the Great Reset?

15:10 Breaking down the bonds of ‘faith, family and flag’

16:18 Big Tech censoring voices

18:18 Narrowing the Overton Window

19:58 Fiction becomes reality

22:43 Affluenza and the war of moral currency

25:34 How authoritarian systems spread their ideas

28:44 Progressives want to weaponise ideologies

32:17 Where have the old school liberals gone?

32:39 Liberals, progressives and authoritarians

35:30 Authoritarians change their support according to popular opinion

38:19 Society naturally produces antibodies in the system – contrarians

40:00 What drives Robert to do what he does

42:08 The Delian League and centralisation of power

43:45 Naked Streets concept

45:40 The Great Reset - a morally superior tyrannical society

50:28 The fight for Brexit

53:27 Is Britain still in the EU?

57:25 Fighting for liberty anywhere is encouraging to people everywhere

58:22 Concern over extensive powers against freedom

59:10 Misleading approval ratings of leaders and government

1:01:18 The extreme policies in Victoria green lights other countries to do the same

1:03:18 Leftists have always wanted to remove people’s identity

1:04:04 Cultural Marxism and the removal of history

1:05:27 Culture wars in Victoria

1:06:50 How do you battle authoritarianism

1:11:28 Politics and Government is downstream of culture

1:14:16 The people need to push back

1:15:48 How do you win the culture wars?

1:20:15 The ‘Woke’ less likely to have progeny

1:21:53 The danger of importing extreme illiberal ideology

1:24:32 Future predictions

1:25:08 Dan Andrews re-election

1:26:13 US elections

Gene Tunny is a former official at the Australian Treasury. As an economist and director of Adept Economics, Gene is frequently sought for his views on economics and policy. In this interview Gene canvases a number of economic and tax issues ultimately settling on recommendations for a return to a cabinet-led, consensus approach to sound policy that is built on a multitude of counsel.

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Gene’s book ‘Beautiful One Day, Broke The Next’: https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/BEAUTIFUL-ONE-DAY-BROKE-THE-NEXT-Queensland%E2%80%99s-Public-Finances-since-Sir-Joh-and-Sir-Leo--Gene-Tunny_p_233.html

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3:44 Ken Henry Tax Review: fundamental reform

4:44 Concept of buying reform

6:07 Resource rent tax vs royalties

8:36 Triumph and Demise: The broken promise of a Labor Generation

10:16 The difficulty of tax reform: States vs Federal

11:14 Stamp duty on properties

13:07 How do you get political reform through?

18:09 Marketing would help sell reforms

19:59 Are people interested in economics?

22:26 No limit to debt levels

23:40 Where is Aus going with its economic policy?

25:56 Inflation not spilling over into consumer prices

30:10 The difficulty to predict  inflationary consequences

31:23 Can you create money for needs that arise? Modern Monetary theory is voodoo economics.

37:26 US health system vs Aus Medicare

39:31 What are views inside Treasury

43:39 Jobkeeper and the pitfalls of designing and implementing things quickly

45:07 Vaccine needed to reopen Australia

47:58 Fear helped Anna P win the elections

50:00 The cost of a QLD lockdown vs order closures

51:50 Justifications and evidence haven’t been published for lockdowns and border closures

53:43 Anna Palaszczuk’s 1st term and economic handling

1:00:24 Palasczuk just dominating MSM re: covid and her keeping Qld safe

1:03:37 Stockholm Syndrome supporting Dan Andrews and Palasczuk

1:06:53 ‘Beautiful one day, broke the next’ Book about Qld debt

1:17:01 How would an economist run the states or Australia?

1:21:43 Predictions for the future

Dr Dan Mitchell is the Chairman of the U.S. Center for Freedom and Prosperity. A self-proclaimed ‘swamp creature’ Dan has been working as a public economist to drain the swamp his entire life and is one of the nation’s leading experts on tax reform and regularly explains the complexities of politics in easy-to-understand terms.

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Read Dan’s incredibly rich blog: https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/

Dan’s Center for Freedom and Prosperity: https://freedomandprosperity.org/

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3:09 The private sector (entrepreneurs and innovators) improve people’s lives

6:14 Generational pressures and political psychology

8:15 Freedom produces a better society

8:50 Equality vs Equity

11:20 A win for Biden but a loss for the Left

12:45 Australian Medicare system vs private healthcare

15:00 The economics behind China’s rise

19:42 The US does not have private healthcare!

24:46 Overpriced healthcare

28:05 The real purpose of health insurance has been lost

31:35 Morality and ethics of those left behind

36:44 The beautiful example of Switzerland

38:32 The anti-Trump vote

41:00 The abdication of personal responsibility

45:00 Draining the swamp

47:23 Best country in the world?

49:45 USA’s culture of freedom

55:21 The psyche of Americans

1:02:49 Predictions of this being Democrats ‘high water mark’

Ivan Ray is the Chief Executive Officer of the Community Advocacy Alliance and a retired Inspector from Victoria Police. He leads an organisation that fights for the restoration of community policing and is excited at the direction the new Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police is charting – a return to a more friendly and helpful police ‘service’.

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The Community Advocacy Alliance: www.caainc.org.au

The CAA’s petition for Recall Elections:

https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-the-legislative-council-of-victoria-give-democracy-back-to-the-people-with-recall-elections

Follow the CAA: https://www.facebook.com/CAAgroup

To donate to the CAA in their efforts to restore community-based policing such as their schools programs: https://caainc.org.au/how-to-become-a-donor/

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5:15 The role of policing

7:45 VicPol members not happy with the bureaucracy

11:30 Changing of the old guard at VicPol

14:00 Skills vs Values

15:40 Community policing

19:20 Policing is a service

21:40 The New York broken window theory

28:00 Commissioner Patton relaunching schools programs

30:28 Who police really are

38:15 Police upset having to go against own values

41:00 African crime gangs weren't being arrested

49:50 The concentration of executive power

52:15 Inconsistent restrictions and true leadership

54:27 Police are looking the other way

56:33 Ivan’s career after leaving VicPol

1:09:29 The AFP have no policing experience

1:15:00 A better way to measure policing success

1:21:30 The challenge Commissioner Patton faces in changing VicPol culture

1:26:00 Ivan’s predictions for VicPol

1:27:45 Government is the problem, not VicPol

1:29:20 The Premier and CHO aren't trained in disaster management

1:31:40 the future of the Community Advocacy Alliance

5 million Australians rely on small business. As a group, small business is the largest employer and biggest contributor to the national economy but it remains fragmented because small business owners by their nature run their own race with little time or will to organise politically.

Enter Small Business Australia - an organisation founded by Bill Lang two decades ago to represent all small businesses in this country and bring attention to their role as community hubs and the heart of our economy.

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Join Small Business Australia for FREE: www.smallbusinessaustralia.org

Let’s Be Open campaign: www.sosbiz.com.au

Follow Bill:

www.facebook.com/smallbizaustralia

www.linkedin.com/company/67993566/admin

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wxoYJK1qzsk

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Show notes:

2:20 Local communities are supported by small business not large corporations

6:33 Winning the war by changing the government – ideas to save business

8:37 Change ‘imposed’ is often change ‘opposed’

11:50 ‘Australian Cadetships’ instead of JobSeeker

13:42 Private sector designed, government funded

15:58 ‘A chicken in every pot’

21:31 Giving politicians too much power

24:53 The U.K. stimulus for lockdowns

27:25 How to get staff at half price

32:35 People mistakenly believe that government supported all small businesses

34:53 Does the Victorian government ‘hate’ small business?

38:31 Companies captured by government

43:51 Citizen Action Plans (CAP) to change Victoria

48:15 Media bias and faked interviews

49:10 New bankruptcy laws?

54:43 QLD elections, Jacinda Ardern win, Daniel Andrews in 2022

1:03:12 Where to get news and avoid ‘if it bleeds it leads’

1:08:40 Private sector innovation for contact tracing

1:11:45 Service NSW shows us how it’s done

1:13:16 Why Australians still start small businesses

1:20:32 The coming wave of innovation

1:22:22 Succeeding during crisis

1:25:30 Hibernation and polar bears

1:30:12 Business is much more than profit

1:31:50 Moving beyond survival to focus on ‘thriving’ post-COVID

1:35:28 Recommendations for 2020/2021

Jodie Myintoo is a counsellor and author specialising in relationship breakdown, separation, family law, grief, and trauma and is a member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA).

As Melbourne emerges from a dark hibernation of many months, it is vital we have conversations around mental health and what it means not just for the vulnerable, but for the millions of Victorians who have are now exiting what has become a globally unprecedented human experiment of isolation and community division under a quasi-police state.

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Show notes:

3:43 Empathy is a weapon

8:24 Lockdown supporters getting desperate

15:00 Creating content on social media will get you hate

16:45 Our minds are wired to find the negative

19:55 The Box Exercise

23:46 High achievers deliberately process their thoughts

26:26 Everyone gets nervous. So pat the bear.

32:20 What does strong mental health look like?

37:12 Finding purpose to keep yourself sane

38:00 How early can you stop wearing ‘masks’?

41:16 Pixar’s INSIDE OUT

45:25 Processing anger

50:08 Discovering the WHY behind bad emotions.

56:39 The difference between sympathy and empathy

59:41 How to behave after lockdowns

1:04:08 Profiling Dan Andrew’s Mental Health

1:07:13 Is having an ego good or bad?

1:13:16 Don’t dob in your neighbour – VicPol members don’t actually want you to

1:16:31 Building character to support your success

1:20:37 Choosing new leaders wisely

1:27:17 Our power is in our choice of how to react

1:29:00 The beauty of Victoria and what lies ahead

At the end of a long day, I don’t turn to Netflix to relax. I jump onto Youtube and there are only 2 things I watch: a psychology lecture by Jordan Peterson, or something from the Jim’s Group channel.

There’s something addictive for me watching people mow lawns or build fences on that channel. New media sources like that are taking over our lives and in this episode of the Business Innovation Series we are exploring ‘content creation’.

Why create content? How? Where should business start branding through content?

Joel Kleber is the Chief Digital Officer for the Jim’s Group and can be followed at:

Instagram - @joelkleber_

Twitter - @joelkleber_

facebook.com/authenticcovospodcast

www.linkedin.com/in/joelkleber/

Podcast - https://anchor.fm/joelkleber

YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/joelkleber

www.hendrixmedia.com.au

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZPblke69Zhg

The Jim’s Group channel that I’m addicted to: https://www.youtube.com/user/JimsGroupPtyLtd

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Show notes:

5:50 Every brand should drop the façade and create genuine content

7:46 The future of brand – videography

10:02 The Service Recovery Paradox

13:07 Starting a business by creating content first

14:39 When customers welcome advertisements being ‘sold to’

16:47 Giving value to non-customers

17:40 Long-form content

21:55 Should you plan to monetise your content?

23:40 Writing your own eulogy

27:05 Everyone is their own brand

30:15 Body weight: growing up fat vs skinny

32:27 Child content creators

33:40 The changing culture of online content

35:30 Leveraging the rise of ‘voice’

38:38 Finding your niche

39:38 Millionaire gardeners overtaking lawyers

47:08 Money is an empty goal

49:10 Finding purpose

51:50 Personal trauma and the victim mindset

56:20 Business must adapt and no longer be victims

1:01:15 Remaking the commercial spaces of Melbourne

1:03:36 Politics is downstream of culture

1:07:17 Oversharing on social media

1:14:10 Don’t over-produce your content. Just MAKE!

1:15:10 Dealing with hate online

1:17:58 Hiding on LinkedIn and imposter syndrome

1:21:10 Underwhelming MPs

1:24:01 Dan Andrews’ Social Media

Gideon Rozner is the Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian policy think tank that focuses on economic and political freedom. This was the longest and most fun interview I’ve done in all of 2020.

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Show notes:

3:15 Is Gideon a climate change denier?

7:44 Why Gideon loves politics

15:28 Shout out to Bev McArthur MP

15:57 The state of politics in Australia

18:38 The Western World has descended into a ‘frenzy of sub-rational, paranoid, needless, nihilistic destruction’

22:07 The love of big government

25:40 Civil disobedience is everywhere

31:36 Policing through fear and intimidation

35:23 Why VicPol went bad (thanks to Topher Field)

37:18 Will experts feel guilty after the hysteria subsides?

42:09 The technocracy and our democracy

45:02 Personal success, finding purpose, peaking early

47:48 The failures of the Liberal government

49:56 Youth unemployment and industrial relations reform

55:06 The realities of politics

57:53 Lawyers love big government

59:24 The political ‘swamp’ in Australia

1:01:15 Renegotiating the relationship between the people and their government

1:04:28 Disasters of Victorian bureaucracy

1:05:59 Prime Minister Bill Shorten!

1:07:48 Culture determines politics – where is Australia at?

1:11:58 The Left lose elections but still win policy

1:13:39 The Left tell stories and the Right respond with statistics

1:18:17 ‘The Little Government Who Could’ by Topher Field

1:21:40 The right wing should welcome the disillusioned left wing.

1:25:22 The end of leftism?

1:29:36 Liberal politicians doing it right

1:34:46 What makes Gideon so confident in his opinions?

1:39:00 Words are not dangerous

1:40:47 Hope vs pessimism

1:43:54 Victoria is at a crossroads in history

Richard Riordan is a Liberal MP representing the regional electorate of Polwarth west of Melbourne. With a multi-generational history of business in Colac, Richard turned his hand to politics in 2015 and has been a straight-shooting pollie ever since.

He has some big ideas to explode growth and investment in regional Victoria but most importantly he is a breath of fresh air getting things done via ‘the bush telegraph’ while other politicians talk in circles as their bureaucracies grind slowly on.

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Show notes:

1:22 Victoria has been gripped by a ‘personality cult’

5:53 ‘The Labor party hates business’

9:16 Polls show Victorians don’t agree with Liberals

16:00 Don’t compare Australia’s COVID-19 stats to England and the USA

17:30 Victoria’s failed contact tracing system (and don’t fear outbreaks)

23:12 We have to learn to live with COVID-19

24:14 The mood in regional Victoria

26:17 Is Dan Andrews’ political star falling?

28:53 Lockdown may be over whether Dan likes it or not

29:45 Will Victoria Police stop enforcing bad laws?

32:08 Victoria’s 20-year government

33:20 PAEC revelations over COVID fines and the ADF Support saga

35:26 ALP running from Industrial Manslaughter laws?

38:10 Dan Andrews does not give up

39:40 Predictions of Dan Andrews sticking firm for another week

44:17 Protests would completely fix the problem in Victoria

47:12 Labor is getting nervous

49:15 Making signs to rattle Labor MPs

51:36 Political parties operate like teams

55:25 Why become a politician?

59:40 Big ideas for Regional Victoria

1:07:40 Fast trains connecting Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepperton, Colac…

1:08:54 A message for small business in Victoria

I was interviewed to talk about the Omnibus Bill that passed Victorian Parliament.

We answered questions about what the new powers mean, what didn't make it through, what some concerns might be, and what hope there is for Victoria.

Watch the full interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/mC42PtUQhwo