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It is Discernable® episodes

May 18, 2023 A Nation of Serfs? Australia's Destiny, with Rob McMullan
Rob McMullan returns to Discernable to discuss the ongoing drift in society toward 'empathising' and 'caretaking' which ultimately leads to mass dependence. Is Australia destined to become a nation of compliant serfs who are comfortably satiated but totally without agency?

Rob foresees a two-tiered society of Elites and Serfs...a 'dependent mass' and an 'inner city elite' as opposed to a mixed and dominant middle class.

Unless and until an inevitable retaliation takes place.

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1 hr 45 min
May 09, 2023 Case Against Premier Daniel Andrews failed because Judge found it might cause him 'stress'
This is a standalone episode summarising the 'Not Above the Law' case against Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and other named politicians and bureaucrats, run by Self Employed Australia over hotel quarantine failures.

It is a story of government malfeasance, admission and farce (government prosecuting itself), and ultimately judicial activism where the presiding judge created and offered a defence for government that ultimately led to the case failing because of concerns over the mental welfare of Daniel Andrews and others named in the case.

The 57 page judgement makes the point that allowing the case to proceed would cause 'stress of potentially being subjected to prosecution for serious criminal offences' for the named individuals including Daniel Andrews, Jenny Mikakos, Lisa Neville, Martin Pakula, Chris Eccles, Kym Peake, Brett Sutton, Shane Patton, Graham Ashton, Andrew Crisp et al.

Justice McDonald goes on to say that if the case proceeds, 'the 20 individuals identified in the First Request may suffer considerable prejudice'.

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The 57 page judgement:
https://selfemployedaustralia.com.au/Downloads/NATL/Judgment-Supreme-Court-Victoria-ICA-vs-VWA.pdf

The full list of named individuals to be prosecuted:
https://selfemployedaustralia.com.au/Downloads/NATL/SEA-letter-to-WorkSafe-29Sept20.pdf
27 min
May 05, 2023 Medical Censorship of Australian Doctors and Health Professionals
Three cancelled medical professionals joined us to tell their stories of censorship by the Australian medical system. All three were de-registered by their professional licensing bodies for expressing views divergent from the ‘allowed’ opinion.

Since their expulsion from medicine, many of their views have become accepted fact though that does little to restore their careers.

Dr Paul Oosterhuis practiced Critical Care medicine for more than 32 years in Sydney, Australia. On 3rd September 2021, the Medical Council of NSW suspended his medical registration based on four anonymous complaints submitted to the regulator in relation to his Facebook posts.

Dr Robert Brennan taught anatomy and biomedical sciences for a decade before entering medical school and forging a career in mental health care. On 20th September 2021, the Medical Council of NSW suspended his medical registration based on five complaints (four named and one anonymous) in relation to distributing flyers/pamphlets warning about concomitant harms of lockdowns and other Covid-19 measures.

Ros Nealon-Cook was a registered psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience until 23rd September 2021 when the Psychology Council of NSW suspended her psychology registration, citing 10 anonymous complaints, related to a video she had released outlining serious concerns around harms to children due to the government pandemic response measures.

Watch this joint interview to hear about alarming adverse event signals, nudge units and medical manipulation, groupthink and peer pressure, medical ethics and faulty science, population psychology, and the state of Australia’s medical fraternity.

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1 hr 59 min
May 01, 2023 John Pesutto - The Identity of Victoria's Liberal Party
John Pesutto is the State Liberal Member for Hawthorn, Liberal Leader of the Victorian Opposition and Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He lost his seat in 2018 but re-won it in the Nov 2022 state election, before quickly being elected as party leader.

He joined Discernable to answer questions around what the Liberal Party actually stands for, why they made moves against their own MPs Moira Deeming, Renee Heath and Bernie Finn, what they will do about housing affordability, energy availability and equity programs, and ultimately why younger voters should consider voting for the Liberal Party.

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35 min
April 21, 2023 The People's Project: Victoria is Broken
On tonight's show with Ken Phillips and Nick Karamouzis from Self Employed Australia:

VICTORIA IS BROKEN
Once again Daniel Andrews is dogged by allegations of corruption in his government. We look at the systemic nature of 'grey corruption' that is now widely acknowledged across left and right wing media. We make comparisons with Liberal corruption in other states such as NSW.

NOT ABOVE THE LAW
Self Employed Australia provides a final and detailed summary of the entire NATL campaign, and what transpired in Victorian courts. We reveal outrageous moves by judges to assist the Daniel Andrews government, feeding them arguments in court.

ALBO ATTACKS THE GIG ECONOMY
The Australian Prime Minister seeks to 'protect' gig workers by fundamentally changing the notion of a 'commercial contract', forcing 'employee' standards on gig workers. We explore what this really means for anyone self employed, or those who use gig work to top up their ordinary income.

MARXISM IN MELBOURNE
Ken Phillips attended the Marxism 2023 conference in Melbourne, and brings us a full report on what he discovered.

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2 hr 7 min
April 18, 2023Kos Samaras: The Future of Australian Politics
Kos Samaras has over 25 years of experience in advertising and politics. Between 2005 to 2019 he served as Victorian Labor’s Deputy Campaign Director and is now the Director of Redbridge Group Australia, a social and community research company.

He specialises in combining research and socio-political analysis to illustrate emerging trends within the Australian community. He joined Discernable to discuss why the entire continent is turning red (voting for Labor).
We discussed:
Kos' history as Deputy Campaign Director for Daniel Andrews

Why the Redbridge Group published proprietary data on Twitter for free

The importance of strong political oppositions

Lockdowns are political, not scientific

Why the Liberals are dying

How Liberals held seats in Sydney

The winning formula for the Liberal Party

Why Daniel Andrews is so angry

Kos' struggle with depression

Political infighting

How the Greens are taking over

Sydney's property market hurts Labor in NSW

Melbourne has poorer migrants and a dispersed Millennial class

Transgender and minority groups

Councils that fake surveys and won't collect your bins

Empathy for the unvaccinated

Questions from Twitter

The Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Labor will lose the next QLD election

The new elites

Who is going to pay for 'Labor's debt'?

What is Stoicism?

What Kos has learned from surveying people

Low Information Voters

What makes a good politician?

Asking Kos to argue against himself

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1 hr 31 min
April 06, 2023Better than QandA: Impossible Conversations with Peter Boghossian
Better than QandA is a new format live panel show that appeals to those who want to think deeply about the world today.

Tonight's topic 'Impossible Conversations with Peter Boghossian' explores epistemology: how do you know what you know? After demonstrating multiple games of 'street epistemology' we will dive into the 'Sokal Squared' 'Grievance Studies Affair' where James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian successfully published hoax papers in peer-reviewed academic journals to demonstrate the intellectual corruption of academia.

Panellists:
Peter Boghossian joins us live, all the way from the USA. Peter is a Founding Faculty member at the University of Austin and the director of National Progress Alliance. His teaching pedigree spans more than 25 years and focuses on the Socratic method, scientific skepticism, and critical thinking. Peter’s dissertation explored increasing the moral reasoning of prison inmates and aiding their resistance to crime. His most recent book is How to Have Impossible Conversations and his writing can be found in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time Magazine, National Review, and elsewhere. His work is centred on bringing the tools of professional philosophers to a wide variety of contexts to help people think through what seem to be intractable problems.

Flying in from Perth is Australia's most controversial comedian: Corey White. Transitioning from criminal lawyer to comedian, Corey has appeared at The Sydney Writers Festival, on Triple M, SBS, and at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. He's mic dropped on the SAS, police, "journalists", the legal profession and government approved comedians, with a swag of agenda fluid gags that are rigorously tested, safe and effective for all. Until 2023 he was Australia's most cancelled comedian for daring to raise impossible conversations.

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2 hr 32 min
March 27, 2023 Better than QandA: The High Performance Life
On Mondays at 9:35pm you can tune into the ABC and watch their attempt at having an open discussion or at 7:30pm you can watch something better.
Better than QandA is a new format live panel show that appeals to those who want to think deeply about the world today.
Tonight's show is brought to you by the 20 brave souls in the room who helped seed what we hope becomes a monthly event. Tonight's topic, 'The High Performance Life', leads us to explore the ideas of success, happiness, identity, consistency, achievement and purpose.
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From 2:34 we play a game a Street Epistemology
From 26:00 we started the QandA panel:
'How do we determine success?'
'How do I find magic in the mundane?'
'How do I figure out what I should be doing for a job when I've spent my whole life doing jobs I've hated?'
'How do you consistently perform at an elite level?'
'How do you stay focused?'
'Is it really, and still, a man's world? Does the trope persist long after genders have been equalised?'
'How do we fight the war on meat, on health and push back against BigFood and BigPharma?'
'Why is veganism and plant-based being co-opted by BigFood?'
'How much does diet contribute to a high performance life?'
'What is one characteristic every leader should possess?'
'What is the role of a strong and functioning family unit in society?'
'What is better - intrinsic or extrinsic motivation?'
'How do you transform abstract ideas into quantifiable outcomes?'
2:03:08 - promotion for our next on Fri 31 Mar 2023
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2 hr 6 min
March 21, 2023 Trung Luu: Liberal MP, Police Officer and Boat Refugee
Trung Luu spent 24 years investigating crime scenes as a sworn member of Victoria Police. In 2022 Trung was elected to parliament as the Liberal Party's first Vietnamese MP in Victoria.

He travelled to Australia by boat as a young refugee and has since built a life and family in the western suburbs of Melbourne. In this sit down we discussed the Liberal Party's attempted expulsion of Moira Deeming MP, the refugee perspective of other refugees arriving by boat and 'skipping the queue', freedom of speech and privacy in Australia and the banning of certain people and subjects.

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1 hr 29 min
March 18, 2023 Dr Tien Kieu: Labor MP, Theoretical Physicist and Boat Refugee
Dr Tien Kieu was a Labor MP in the Daniel Andrews government 2018-2022. During that time he continued to publish academic papers as a theoretical physicist.

His story today comes in three parts: refugees, politics and science. For conversation on the politics and ethics of Covid-l9 lockdowns and government support of minorities in general and communism, skip to 20min 42sec. For our discussion on quantum mechanics and theoretical physics skip to 57min 40sec.

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2 hr 7 min