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December 31, 2022 Welcome to 2023 - reviewing the last 12 months of wisdom from our guests!
Congratulations for surviving all the way to 2023!

Here is a review of the best wisdom dropped by our guests throughout 2022, as well as our message for 2023 (from 46:42).

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56 min
December 23, 2022 The People's Project LIVE: Lefties, Climate and Speed Cameras
Joined by our first LIVE audience, this episode of the People's Project with the re-elected Ryan Smith MP and David Limbrick MP:

KEEP LEFT IN VICTORIA
Why do the Victorian Liberals keep failing so badly? Who did Victorians actually vote for? (it wasn't Daniel Andrews) And is the state turning even more left?
SPEED CAMERAS: BECAUSE NOTHING SAYS 'SAFETY' LIKE A FINE IN THE MAIL
The difference between NSW and VIC speed camera philosophies proves the dark underbelly of Victoria: fear-driven compliance of its population and preferring surveillance over safety. Welcome to Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon.
GUILT FREE ELECTRICITY
The cost of renewable energy that nobody will admit to: massive fossil fuel inputs, and why young Australians do not fear nuclear power.

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1 hr 37 min
December 10, 2022 Editorial: The Twitter Files
Our new series of audio editorials! Today's instalment is all about the Twitter Files and censorship and why it matters for all of us.
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1 hr
December 02, 2022Luke Donnellan MP - Labor Minister in the Daniel Andrews Government
For 20 years, Luke Donnellan was the Victorian Labor MP for the outer suburban electorate of Narre Warren. He served as the Minister for Roads and Road Safety and Minister for Ports (2014-2018) and then as the Minister for Child Protection and the Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers (2018-2021).
Before the Nov 2022 state election, the Labor Party denied Luke preselection for his seat, and was thus pushed out of parliament altogether.
Luke joined Discernable for an open conversation about the lives of everyday Victorians. What do they care about? Why do they keep electing Labor governments?
We also delved into the ethics of protests, social justice, and the corruption tendencies of long term governments. As the Minister for the most vulnerable cohort of Victorians during Covid-19 (the elderly), we also explored his thinking on vaccine mandates, segregation and community safety.
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/luke-donnellan-mp-labor-minister-in-the-daniel-andrews-government
We discussed:
The grass roots instincts of Daniel Andrews

Door knocking your electorate

Pandering to minorities in the electorate

Labor/Liberal comes in cycles

Where the Liberal Party went wrong

Door knocking is the key to success

The future for both political parties: the outer suburbs

Why the north and west of Melbourne have underdeveloped infrastructure

Who Victorians voted for - the rise of minor parties

The baseball bats for Daniel Andrews never came

Everyday Australians don't care about corruption

The dismissal of Casey Council which is still in caretaker mode

Regulatory capture and systemic 'grey corruption' in Victoria

Stale governments become corrupt governments

Renewal inside the Labor Party of Victoria

Factional wars: Labor Socialist Left vs Labor Right

Liberals are stuck in the Baby Boomer generation

Australians have moved left

The Victorian Socialists' weird success in the election

Greens taking over country electorate of Polwarth

Labor Party surprised at the election result

The internal mood toward Daniel Andrews

How Luke was pushed out of parliament

Driven by Social Justice

Rugby as early intervention against crime

Pacific Islanders: God and Rugby

Child Protection: Foster Care, Kinship Care and interventions

A billion dollars for wire rope barriers on highways

Irrational objections from the Country Fire Authority

In politics you write your own rules

The Victoria crackdown on protests

Chinese protests vs Melbourne protests

Relative ethics: what the people want they get

Are lockdowns morally good or bad?

Are mandates morally good or bad?

Daniel Andrews' victory speech double speak

The impending economic recession

Why the left wing won't do longform media

Labor Party communications discipline
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1 hr 24 min
December 01, 2022How the Left Wing Thinks: Empathy and Caretaking with Rob McMullan
How do left-wing/progressive/woke people think? Is there a way for the right wing to speak to the left? Why do they misunderstand one another?
Rob McMullan joins us to discuss the psychological differences of those loosely defined as politically left and right wing. Ultimately, Rob's hope is that the moderates on either side will find a way to communicate and cooperate.
We discussed:
What is 'the collective good'?

The left have no interest in cooperation

Claims of 'hate speech'

Each side is blind to the other

Left Wing Caretaking vs Right Wing Capitalising

Case study: what is marriage?

Fairy tale thinking on world politics

How conservatives should talk to the left wing

Interpersonal empathy does not scale

A dysfunctional marriage between the left and the right

Case study: would Dan Bilzerian care about a speech on moralism?

Gina Rinehart calls out Netball Australia

Conservatives in power are too comfortable

How to speak to the left: emotional validation

The lack of social consensus = pain for the left

Differentiating the 'woke left' from the sensible left wing

Freedom from the law of scarcity

'Boomerservatives'

The left has a greater verbal ability than conservatives

Wokeism is the evolution of religion

The Star Trek reality

The life of a Twitter worker: caretaking beyond reason

How conservatives should speak to the left

Powerful conservatives have checked out

The left will double down even when it 'hits their hip pockets'

Empathetic Thinking vs Systematic Thinking

Daniel Andrews' hypocrisy of excluding some Victorians

The long arc of social technology created by the empathy brains

The empathetic herd

How women speak to one another

'Herds vs packs' and the differing strategies and moralities

'Individuals vs the collective' is incorrect

Purity spirals

We need a new aristocracy to balance the left

The left should pay with 'gratitude'

Solutions for the future of Australia

A new strategy: Separate and Co-operate

Vaccine mandates driven by social and herd consensus
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1 hr 54 min
November 26, 2022 Victorian Election 2022 LIVE Coverage
This is our LIVE coverage of the 2022 Victorian Election.
Joined in studio by Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia, Anka Sahin from True Blue Migration, and Gideon Rozner from the Institute for Public Affairs.
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4 hr 59 min
November 25, 2022 Pre-Election Livestream BOLD Predictions by my Panel for Victoria
Joined in studio by Mulgrave candidates Ian Cook and Premier Daniel Andrews, we go over the bold predictions by our election panel on what will happen in Victoria, and where the key upsets will occur.
Matt also dives into the Labor and Liberal policy websites comparing the psychological approach of each. The Labor website treats voters incredibly differently from the Liberal website and represents how each party sees the electorate.
48 min
November 16, 2022The Origin of Human Rights and Self Determination with Human Rights Lawyer Peter Fam
Peter Fam is a human rights lawyer from Sydney, Australia. He believes that today's society has become detached from the principles our species has upheld and respected for thousands of years.
We took a particularly deep dive into the origin of human rights, natural law and how that is evolving in today's post-modern society that is reimagining the human rights landscape. It forced us to ask deep epistemological questions to trace the authority of self-determination and the origin of truth.
Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/the-origin-of-human-rights-with-human-rights-lawyer-peter-fam
We discussed:
Fasting and food shortages

Human rights law based in ancient Egyptian society

Greco-Roman natural law

Society's attempt to enshrine natural law

When governments create exceptions to human rights

Can human rights ever be granted?

Post modernism and the erosion of natural rights

Vaccine mandates and human rights

Australian peer pressure and its convict past

Contact tracing through Woolworths supermarket loyalty cards

Privacy as a lightning rod for human rights

Schools requiring fingerprints to enter bathrooms

Australians don't value human rights

Collapse in trust for medical system

Parallel systems always arise under absolutism

Lockdown attitudes are not sustainable

The psychotic on both sides who are consumed by fear

The crash that western societies must have

The inevitable collapse of societies when human rights are trampled

Blue Zones on earth

Lifespan vs Healthspan

Empires that succeed - the British Empire?

The longest human society - the Indigenous Australia

How should we measure human 'success'?

Objective truth and human values

Self-determination a modern cross-cultural value, aka 'Free will'

What normal people want - comfort

Useless international conventions on human rights

When only 10% of population dissent, societies change

The fires that bring renewal

How to survive long cycles

Is there a God?

Doesn't take long for bad times to change anymore

Human rights cases in Australia

Legal actions claiming false imprisonment in hotel quarantine

The High Court 'Australian Babies Case'

Mehdi Ali, the lying refugee

Why the left wing refuse to interview
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2 hr 2 min
November 14, 2022Mulgrave Candidate Aidan McLindon: 'Jobs, Homes, Families'
Aidan McLindon was an elected Liberal politician in Queensland before establishing The Queensland Party, merging with Katter's Australian Party. He now lives in Victoria and is running for the Freedom Party of Victoria in the seat of Mulgrave against Premier Daniel Andrews.
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We discussed:
Why Aidan has been involved in so many different political parties in Australia

'Jobs, Homes, Families'

Reclaiming the word 'freedom'

Do Australians value freedom?

The lure of the 'nanny state' in Australia

Who should own Australia's power and energy production assets?

Queensland toll roads that milk the public purse

Who are the candidates of the Freedom Party of Victoria?

Why the Liberal Democrats (LDP) don't understand 'freedom'

Menzies 2.0

Parties by Pauline Hanson, Bob Katter, Clive Palmer 'don't have longevity'

The media has trashed the word 'freedom'

Parties are capitalising on the word 'freedom'

Glen Druery 'the preference whisperer'

Refunding all GST for all small business 2023-2024

Outlawing gender transitions

Gender dysphoria a symptom of other issues?

Limiting spending through legislation and copying corporate oversight

Tax cuts to landlords who keep rents low

$330 to change a light bulb

Breaking up the Coles/Woolworths duopoly

Schools only give students 60min per day of solid education

Prioritising life skills in school curriculums

Daniel Andrews' fake religious signaling

Hypocrisy of Woke

Nuclear energy policy

Why Morgan C Jonas performed poorly in the federal election

Australians do want freedom but haven't been offered it

Who makes up the supporters of the Freedom Party?

Labor voters turning to the Freedom Party

Parties knifing themselves internally

Chances of defeating Premier Daniel Andrews in Mulgrave

Preferences and deals across Victoria

Are deals with the devil worth making?

Aidan McLindon's attraction to politics

We need to stop focusing on ourselves and the 'stuff' we acquire

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AIDAN MCLINDON
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1 hr 38 min
November 11, 2022 A Discernable Dinner with Voice for Victoria
Brought to you by SJ Venues, Hopper Motor Group, The Little Environeers and Jagger Watches, this is the pre-election dinner hosted by Discernable and Voice for Victoria.
As well as recording a live episode of the PollieBites podcast, we had an extended panel + audience discussion about the probable outcomes of the 2022 Victorian election.
With special guests Ian Cook (Independent for Mulgrave against Premier Daniel Andrews), Paul Hopper (Independent for Werribee against Treasurer Tim Pallas), Krystle Mitchell (former Acting Senior Sergeant of Victoria Police), and Ken Phillips (Self Employed Australia), watch an extended cut of the evening right here on Spotify. Warning: Explicit Language

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Tamieka from Little Environeers is also a proud sponsor, and runs nature playgroups and sustainability drop-off workshops for children aged 0-6 in Melbourne. Embracing all that nature has to offer, Little Environeers does not shrink back from the dirty, the fascinating and the rough and tumble of a real childhood education, blending play and research for your little ones. https://www.instagram.com/littleenvironeers

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1 hr 39 min