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Sanjeev Sabhlok resigned in protest from the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. He has a long history of campaigning for freedom, the individual, happiness and rational thinking.  To know that such an intellect was working within our public service in Victoria is encouraging but also devastating that they lost that intellect. 

In this interview we explore not just his thoughts on the illegality and immorality of the lockdowns around the world, but also how he came to his classically liberal philosophy and how that informs his crusade to maximise the happiness of people all over the world.

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Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/c1Fg0TOSXsM

Follow Sanjeev:

https://www.facebook.com/sabhlok

https://www.sabhlokcity.com/

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08L26W2WY/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_CqAHFbXHJDRV1

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Show notes:

1:25 Why lockdowns are immoral

7:35 The ethical issue of ‘control’

8:50 Victorian lockdowns are a human experiment

10:00 Crimes against humanity and Godwin’s Law

12:18 Humans as chattel and the return of slavery?

15:30 Dan Andrews doesn’t understand human rights

16:44 How the Public Service works

20:14 The Great Hysteria plaguing the world

25:50 The death of hysteria brings shame

27:30 Government bureaucracy mindsets

30:08 Debates within the public service

32:34 The lethality of COVID-19

37:50 Economists seek human happiness, not money

46:05 Cost Benefit Analyses are not suitable when it comes to crimes against humanity

48:40 Why Sanjeev’s left the most prestigious job in India

56:00 Why are non-Victorians fighting for Victoria?

1:03:05 Will the rise of India challenge China?

1:11:57 Alternatives to ‘Made in China’

1:14:36 Finding happiness through internal consistency

1:20:28 Classical liberals drawn to the U.S.A.

1:23:40 Victorians must organize politically to prevent this happening again

If you’re old enough to remember the advent of computers – they used to be a specialised device sold in specialised stores for specialised purposes. Somewhere around the 1990s they became commoditised and now the choice of store is mainly determined by price.

Nathan Jungwirt has run a computer store for 6 years in a highly competitive and commoditised sector. Not only that, he has a keen interest in investing, e-commerce and entrepreneurialism.

If you are interested in e-commerce, small business, or investment – Nathan is an inspiring young Australian who is surprisingly well-read. If this is the standard of young Australians, we are in good hands!

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/7nB_wqXXdgg

Follow Nathan:

www.jungtech.com.au

instagram.com/jung_tech

facebook.com/jungtech 

twitter.com/jungtechau

linkedin.com/company/jung-tech

co.pinterest.com/jungtechau

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Show notes:

2:35 The cultural change to embrace computers

8:50 Personalising e-commerce and doing it better

9:55 Struggling to survive

12:25 Discovering Alibaba and the first entrepreneurial failure

15:00 Doing it right – finding the right product

20:20 How to start in e-commerce online

21:28 Buying retail at Walmart and reselling it on Amazon

23:15 Rice and Milo on Amazon

27:05 Choosing dead end jobs

29:15 The easiest start – dropshipping from aliexpress onto ebay

32:57 What do you do when you achieve your dreams?

36:52 How do you find your passion?

44:16 Entrepreneurial drive to take control of your financial future

48:17 Fearful to deploy excess cash

50:40 The problem of ‘too much money’

51:20 No excuse – financial education is now FREE

53:26 The left wing don’t understand the private sector

59:23 Good ideas are forged in fire

1:03:34 Government gets its licence from its people

1:06:43 Victorians will stop caring about Dan Andrews

Dr Catherine Fyans is a practising G.P. of some 40 years in Melbourne. She was one of the most popular guests in the history of my other show ‘The People’s Project’ where she was able to demonstrate common sense positions on COVID-19, masks and government lockdowns.

Catherine seems to have a great deal of empathy and she agreed to an interview for our EMPATHY SERIES where we sought to explore all things COVID-19, as well as the psychological role lockdowns (and emerging from them) play in all of our lives.

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Watch this episode (Youtube): https://youtu.be/4TJWFlx2ioM

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Follow Catherine:

http://www.drcatherinefyans.com/ https://www.facebook.com/DrCatherineFyansAuthorandPractitioner/

Catherine's book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Wounding-Health-Care-Fragmentation-Integration-ebook/dp/B01CC6YZTG

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Show Notes

2:55 Human nature is innocently gullible

5:27 The unprecedented changes to humanity could be positive

7:45 Catherine wanted to run back to Ecuador

8:34 Stockholm Syndrome

10:50 The infantilisation of a population

10:40 Why do people applaud a paternalistic government?

13:32 Reverting to our limbic brain – how do we stay rational?

15:00 Relentless messages of fear

16:50 Breaking people’s minds through prolonged fear states

19:35 The danger of apathy

20:48 The perversion of government support

22:00 Liberty vs a Nanny State

24:29 Time for us to grow up?

25:44 Beach ‘protests’ in Melbourne

26:50 Remembering what freedom is without masks

28:25 Are masks effective?

32:25 The harms of masks

35:20 The masking of children

36:04 Was COVID-19 engineered in a laboratory?

38:24 The subconscious effect of masks

42:55 Children asking to wear masks

45:15 The tribalism of mask wearing

48:15 More pandemics to come

50:37 Face shields are useless

52:35 We are not talking about good health – only sickness

58:37 Calls for health leadership instead of sickness leadership

1:00:40 What is empathy? Sympathy? Pity? Compassion?

1:04:55 Enlightenment and the scientific method in medicine

1:06:40 The Eagle and the Condor Philosophy

1:10:27 The Problem - Reaction - Solution model

1:11: 10 Empathy and Compassion is a strength

1:13:15 The dark night of the soul

1:17:25 The value of community

1:18:32 Dobbing in your neighbours

1:20:16 Predictions for the remainder of 2020

The Covid-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry wrapped up this week with counsel assisting submitting that the Government's failures were responsible for 768 deaths and the entire second wave in Victoria. Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia has triggered a prosecution request by writing to the OHS authority - WorkSafe - under section 130 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic).

They are now required by law to take action or detail reasons why they failed to take action, by late December 2020.

Ken asked me to conduct this interview so the true and balanced story could get out. It's a doozy.

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/WsrSSpmDF3o

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Show notes:

2:44 The risks of hotel quarantine were known from the beginning

4:27 Compulsory reporting for communicable diseases

7:03 ADF support rejected and private contractors used instead

8:01 COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry (Coate Inquiry)

10:10 Contravention of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004

13:05 Victorian Government failed to provide a safe system of work

14:28 OHS Act triggered under section 130

15:20 Timelines required by the OHS Act

17:43 The letter that triggered the prosecution request

19:05 The largest OHS prosecution in the history of Australia

20:30 Worksafe investigative powers are supreme

21:40 Changing the OHS landscape

24:46 The best OHS Act in the world?

26:25 Ramifications of successful prosecution

27:56 Collective amnesia at the Coate Inquiry

30:16 Legitimacy of legal claim

31:16 Who is Self-Employed Australia?

34:40 Union official turned small business advocate

36:20 Union influence in hotel quarantine contracts

38:44 An explanation for Dan Andrew's decision making

39:40 Manslaughter laws

42:00 Government must be bound by the Rule of Law

43:50 How to support the fight against the Victorian Government

When you think of the word 'champion', you probably think of a 'winner' -somebody who takes first place. But the true meaning of champion is more than winning a competition.

It's a 13th Century concept for a person who fights on behalf of another. A champion advocates for something or someone, especially when that someone cannot do it themselves.

This is the noble goal of our political system but I'm sad to say that our parliaments are not necessarily filled with the people's champions.

That's why it's so incredible to have found one in Angela Vithoulkas. It's unlikely you've never heard about before because she is so noisy when it comes to small business being the engine room of our economy.

Angela is a sitting councillor for the City of Sydney, and is the founder and leader of the Small Business Political Party. She's owned many small businesses, you've probably heard her on national television or radio, and she now brings all of that rich experience together into an excellent TV show called SMETV which you can see for free on Youtube. Despite all of this achievement, I think her most impressive feat is catching her first shoplifter at the age of 3.

In today's conversation we'll talk about how business can and will rise from the ashes of COVID-19, but what I really hope we discover is - why is Angela our champion? Was it always there? Or was it created by circumstance?

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/f2r6x7NeNbU

Angela's TV show: https://www.youtube.com/c/SMETVPodcasts

Follow Angela: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelavithoulkas/

https://www.facebook.com/VithoulkasAngela/

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Show Notes:

2:40 Angela was catching shoplifters at 3 years old

7:30 Greek restaurants in Sydney

11:22 The birth of Vivo Cafes

12:27 The formula for flipping businesses

15:00 The Vivo Cafe strategy

16:25 The Sydney Light Rail saga

20:00 The secrets of politics

25:25 The state of George St, Sydney

29:40 The birth of the Small Business Political Party

33:24 Why Angela became the people's champion

35:50 Lobby groups

38:15 Angela's message to business owners

41:00 SMEs have more hope than big business

42:00 Predictions for Melbourne

45:00 the invention of Pty Ltd companies

46:00 Victoria needs to live with the virus

53:10 Why did Victoria abandon its pandemic response plan?

54:34 Melbourne adopted the Wuhan response to COVID-19

58:50 Victoria's failure to respond to the Aged Care crisis

1:03:00 Vote for your local champions regardless of party

1:04:30 Finding your local champion

1:05:38 Forcing MPs to work harder

1:10:40 Voting for people who actually care

1:13:19 What makes politics worth it

1:15:55 SMETV Gives people a voice

1:20:40 A dictatorship rules the City of Sydney Council

1:24:00 Political campaigns cost millions of dollars

1:28:30 Melbourne responds to Angela's message of solidarity

1:30:25 Angela's biggest life lesson

If you grew up in suburban Australia, you would be familiar with the green and gold trailers regularly appearing on our streets to mow our lawns. Jim’s Mowing has since expanded and the Jim’s Group is now the largest franchise in Australia and New Zealand with some 4,000 franchise owners turning over more than $500m a year serving 35,000 customers a day!

But don’t let the blue-collar grass mowing success story fool you – Dr David Jim Penman, that’s right…Dr, is an avid student of history and how its cyclical nature is determined by biology, epigenetics and character amongst other things.

Buckle up for a wild ride as we explore a huge range of topics including how civilisations are built, how to reverse their decline with epigenetics, why he is fighting the Victorian lockdown laws, and how Jim's franchises are truly a family.

Show notes:

1:40 Jim’s academic history

3:10 Gibbons vs Baboons

5:00 Slow vs fast life history strategy

6:32 Genetic hard wiring and adaptations

7:35 Epigenetics

8:27 How civilisations are built

11:02 Restrictions that create productivity

12:15 Religions as cultural technologies

13:30 Where is civilisation going?

15:50 Elon Musk draws together high productivity people

16:34 Advanced peasant societies

17:20 Strictness on infants can set productivity

20:18 Using epigenetics to halt the decline

21:50 Caloric restriction in rats transferred through pheromones

23:15 CRISPR gene editing

25:00 Alternatives to Ritalin for students

26:22 Dystopian social engineering?

27:45 Victoria Australia descending into tribalism

28:38 Parallels with the decline of the Roman Empire

29:55 Giving up the Rule of Law for personal loyalties to Dan Andrews

31:00 Where Dan Andrews draws his political power from

32:20 The absurdities of lockdown laws covered by blind loyalty

34:00 Saving liberty through science?

38:12 Why Jim makes idealistic business decisions

39:50 Humanism won’t work because it’s incomplete

41:45 Progressive vs fundamental churches

43:52 10% of the population saving civilisation

46:35 The new immunisation?

48:38 Jim’s defence of Bill Gates

49:25 Jim clarifies his stance on Victorian lockdown laws

51:35 What is an unjust law?

53:10 Civil disobedience in Melbourne

54:50 The human cost of the lockdowns

56:05 The importance of mental health

1:00:50 The uniqueness of Jim’s Group franchises

1:03:30 Customers are not at the top of Jim’s hierarchy

1:06:10 Shareholder value should not be the final goal

1:09:10 What will Jim do until he dies?

1:10:45 Jim’s strengths and weaknesses

1:13:00 Jim doesn’t think about numbers – he thinks about culture

1:14:40 Jim’s message on Christianity

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/O2YGNzhxSYY

Follow Jim:

Twitter - @thejimpenman

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thejimpenman

IG - @thejimpenman

Jim's Podcast - https://jims.net/the-jimscast/

Jim also does a weekly Facebook live show #ASKJIM Wednesday nights from 7 PM AEST via his FB page.

Arron Wood is not your typical politician. In fact, I'm not sure he's a politican at all! Granted - he does hold the office of Deputy Lord Mayor for the City of Melbourne, and he is campaigning in next month's council elections to become the Lord Mayor. But when I came across Arron on social media, it wasn't via a political ad or a sponsored post. I simply noticed someone who was posting sympathetic, thoughtful, and engaging content, and perhaps most tellingly a majority of that interaction was in replies and comments to other people. 

Political messaging is often unidirectional, and getting community leaders to listen and engage in a genuine way is rare but I'm convinced it's the key to electoral success. It would be no surprise to me then should I be addressing Arron as Mr Mayor at the end of next month. And it's my pleasure to welcome him to our Series on Business Innovation which explores how business can and will rise from the ashes of COVID-19, and the unprecedented lockdowns around the world.

NOTES

1:14 A non-politican politician

3:20 Why enter politics?

5:00 Who would Arron vote for in a federal or state election?

7:04 Arron's long walk to political office

9:40 Business destruction under government lockdowns

11:20 Extending 5km radius limit to 10km

13:36 A better way out of lockdown

15:50 15% of Melbourne hospitality businesses are already gone

17:00 Melbourne is a conversation town

18:25 The fabric and heart of Melbourne

19:50 Arron's condemnation of the lockdown

22:30 The internal machinations of political parties

23:25 Arron lays out an alternative plan for Melbourne

25:25 switching from handouts to cutting red tape

26:20 We should expect COVID cases to go up when lockdown ends

28:38 The shift in tone around lockdowns

30:18 Arron predicts Melbourne's recovery timeline

33:35 Resurrecting Melbourne without the government

35:50 Make your bed!

36:55 Environmentalist or businessman?

39:30 A plan to export hydrogen worldwide

41:10 What does Arron drive?

43:30 Sustainability is more than the environment

44:20 Sustainability in regional Australia

47:00 Ambitions for state parliament and the original intent of parliament

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Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/8OuU89uXoOk

Follow Arron:

https://www.facebook.com/ArronWoodMelbourne

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arronwood

https://twitter.com/ArronWood

Today we are going to the gym. My guest Pia Therese is a small business owner in Melbourne, Australia who risked it all and opened a fitness studio called MFW Fitness. Under what is now likely the world's longest and most severe lockdown, small businesses like MFW have been smashed. And this is despite plenty of evidence that small businesses are not only willing but are capable of opening up in a COVID-Safe way. 

Take for example gyms, where we are now learning that they were never a source of COVID transmission, and in fact are better equipped than the government to conduct deep contact tracing because of their detailed and close relationship with their members. This is to say nothing of the fact that COVID-19 is a disease of immunity, like all coronaviruses are, and yet we have seen no messaging from authorities on living a healthy life that encourages a robust immune system. 

But It's not just our bodies we are told to hide inside from this virus, daily messaging from our Premier downplays the incredible and growing mental health harms that result from lockdown rules that increasingly appear arbitrary and not based in science.

I'm hoping this conversation with Pia will give us an insight into what's really happening with small businesses in Melbourne, and open up a broader conversation on what we all struggle with but don't admit to anyone - mental health, social media, and the evolving definition of community.

Show Notes:

Follow Pia Therese​ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mfwfitness

Need a mask? Support Pia: https://www.instagram.com/melbsfacemasks

Topher Field demands attention. Not for his own popularity - quite the opposite! In fact, he would rather the spotlight pass him by so he can quietly raise his young family in the suburbs of Melbourne.

But when the world that you are raising those children into appears darker and more authoritarian than the world we grew up in, silence becomes complicity.

For years Topher has warned us that the freedoms we enjoy may have been free to us, but they didn't come cheap. They were in fact purchased, just not by us. The choices we make today decide whether we keep them or dispose of them.

And that's why you just can't look away from Topher. The beautiful thing about this man is that when you dig into him, on the inside is not a doomsday message, but a utopian one. Somehow he remains an optimist and prosecutes the case for hope in forums like his new podcast Living Value.

It was my honour to interview the man, the myth, the legend - to find some clarity around the strange times we are living in.

Show notes:

2:37 Haircuts

3:39 The Little Government That Could

5:52 Why do we support authoritarian governments?

10:10 Failure of parenting and learning to provide

11:22 The Welfare Trap

13:05 The Malthusian Trap

14:50 Innovation pre-dated the industrial revolution

16:00 Capitalism is the default mode of mankind

18:23 The default state of humanity is poverty

21:45 The failure of Venezuela

25:30 Crony capitalism

30:10 Travelling with 680 condoms

35:04 The morality of civil disobedience

37:48 Natural law

38:40 The new religions

42:00 Do pro-lifers really care?

47:50 Jesus the solution to condemnation

50:15 Topher's revelation of fallibility

53:00 Wrong does not equal evil

54:00 Seeing behind the conservative curtain

57:00 Premier Dan Andrews has no empathy

58:50 Victoria Police is completely demoralised

1:01:00 Civil disobedience

1:03:50 Disobeying immoral orders in the military

1:06:00 Military deployed on Australian soil

1:07:40 Militarisation of police

1:08:30 The Dunning Kruger Effect

1:10:10 Victoria Police Reputation

1:12:40 ALP spill in Victoria

1:14:30 Optimism and faith in each other

1:18:00 Making a choice to show empathy

Damien Silm is an apple farmer in regional NSW who stands to inherit a fortune. I'm not referring to assets, to land or even to the legacy of his great-grandfather who planted those apple trees so many decades ago.

It is clear to me that Damien, as one of the most empathetic people I know, will inherit the future as our world increasingly values empathy in all spheres of life. 

Not only does empathy make you a more agreeable person it means that you are more easily able to understand other people's perspectives. And that can be pressed for a commercial advantage when designing products and services that the market actually wants.

It was refreshing to interview Damien for our series on empathy, as he joined me live from the rolling plains of NSW.

Show Notes:

02:37 Cedar Creek Orchards

05:20 Farmers show more empathy

06:57 What apple farmers actually do

09:38 The difference between sympathy and empathy

13:09 Empathising with Victoria during lockdown

14:45 The commercial advantage of empathy

17:35 What is 'reconstituted juice'?

19:47 Why you MUST live on tank water!

21:02 Why Damien grows apples instead of being a pilot

24:15 You must enjoy your career

26:15 Did you feel 'trapped' in a generational business?

28:28 Other states don't understand Victoria's mess

29:12 Is Victoria a leper state?

31:03 Melbourne protests - justified?

32:35 Damien displays his empathy

34:00 Defending Dan Andrews

35:04 What would a farmer say to millions of people?

http://www.cedarcreekorchards.com.au/

Watch this podcast on Youtube: https://youtu.be/rg6rsMWUBpE