Let's Save The Governor-General!

**CONTENT WARNING**

28th April 1996 sees the beginning one of the darkest incidents in Australian history - Martin Bryant, in possession of a number of firearms, fatally shoots 35 people and wounds 23 in and around the historic tourist attraction, Port Arthur, about an hour away from Hobart in Tasmania's far south-east, with the perpetrator being captured the next day, April 29th, after a shootout with police. 

Martin Bryant is tried, pleads guilty and is sentenced to 35 consecutive life sentences in Hobart's Risdon Prison – basically a death sentence without the execution. 

Join Phoebe, Clancy and Damo as they discuss the precedents, the lead-up, the events and the aftermath.

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Topics discussed:

- The Bruce Lehrmann Trial

- Israel-Palestine Conflict

- Les Twentyman passes

- Refugee shenanigans

In an Easter-ish episode, the three most amatuer analysts this side of ABC's Insiders discuss:

- The Tasmanian 2024 Election

- Danielle Woordward's drink-driving

- $43K in ComCar trips for one lucky individual

- The Exclusive Brethren being raided by the ATO

- Infighting at the Freemasons

- Massive berries

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Music by Ukulelvis

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Topics covered:

- The Four Corners investigation into the Coles/Woolworths Duopoloy

- The killing of Jessie Baird and Luke Davies, impending charges against Beau Lamarre-Condon, the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras response.

- ASIO reveals a former Australian politician was working for a foreign intelligence agency.

- The Dunkley-byelection, and a brief discussion on border policy.

- Derryn Hinch's mayoral tilt.

_ What is woke?

- Rupert tries again to go down the aisle.

- Sam Kerr's absolutely Aussie display of drunkenness and racism!

Links referenced:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-20/woolworths-coles-supermarket-tactics-grocery-four-corners/103405054

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MK-mNaEsmi0

https://www.9news.com.au/national/bombshell-allegations-revealed-about-alleged-coverup-of-jessie-baird-and-luke-davies-murders/b913fd1e-10d2-45d9-9e33-7ec671264d07

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/27/nsw-police-commissioner-criticised-for-quoting-taylor-swift-while-defending-response-to-missing-sydney-couple

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/whats-the-point-queer-cops-express-anger-over-mardi-gras-ban-on-police-marching/news-story/55d30b5c4a46ee02abfb10db4e9e6a21

https://www.aap.com.au/news/calls-to-name-traitor-ex-mp-who-sold-out-australia/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/what-we-know-asio-traitor-politician/103526508

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-04/dunkley-by-election-dutton-strategy-didnt-materialise/103539644

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/dutton-and-ley-chastised-for-using-immigration-detainees-mistaken-arrest-ahead-of-dunkley-by-election/ar-BB1j81Kl

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/politics/former-radio-personality-and-politician-derryn-hinch-announces-next-move/news-story/0386519e6b4f0e4a7de152c64049b9f4

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rupert-murdoch-92-plans-to-marry-for-5th-time/ar-BB1jC5ak

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/rupert-murdoch-wives-lovers-relationships-divorce-b1068891.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-05/sam-kerr-charged-over-allegedly-harassing-cop/103545168

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/i-apologise-to-sam-craig-foster-s-180-degree-turn-on-kerr-saga-20240309-p5fb4f.html

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511058/as-it-happened-tvnz-to-cut-up-to-68-jobs-in-proposed-restructure

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510406/newshub-closure-proposal-what-the-changes-will-mean

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-08/cranbrook-headmaster-nicholas-sampson-resigns-four-corners/103543614

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZNXZVNk74

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Back in 1993, Australia (coming off of a recession) had a federal election - the incumbent Labor Party led by Paul Keating were staving off a challenge from the resurgent Liberal Party led by Dr. John Hewson.

Dr. John Hewson, former RBA economist and director of Macquarie Bank, effectively had one hand on the keys to Kirribilli - until a question about a birthday cake undid his good efforts.

In this political retrospective, Damo, Feebie and Clancy look at what happened and give their thoughts on the good and the bad (and the ugly) of what happened. We also have a lot of laughs, and Damo learns about the female use of condoms...

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We're back! Damo, Feeby and Clan-C are back on the horse to discuss:

- 'Nemesis' and who we would have served under

- Barnaby Joyce's run-in with a footpath

- ScoMo finally buggers off...we mean, resigns from Parliament

- The NZYQ High Court Decision fall-out

- Refugees reach the mainland

- Tasmania's upoming election

- Asbestos in the Sydney streets

- And more!

Join Damo, Phoebe and Clancy as they recap:

- Usman Khawaja's cricket protest

- Annastacia Palaczuk resigns as QLD Premier

- Adelaide doctor killed in home invasion

- Local government shenanigans

Then we wrap up the year that was 2023!

- King Charles III's coronation!

- Ben Roberts-Smith loses his defamation suit.

- Bruce Lehrmann tries a defamation suit

- Politicians resigning

- Clare Nowland tasered in a nursing home

- Australia's first instance of Christian terrorism

- Charlie Teo found guilty of unprofessional conduct

- Nazi salutes and Moira Deeming

- Lidia Thorpe made the headlines for the wrong reasons

And more!

It's nearly the end of the year. It's been a topsy-turvy year. We got one more left in us.

In both Tasmania and Michigan's favourite Australian politics podcast, the three blusketeers discuss:

- Optus drops the ball.

- Gladys may take the reigns.

- Britain's High Court and Australia's High Court have their say on immigration and detention.

- Bruce Lehrmann screws the pooch.

- Ageing gracefully.

- AI and the entertainment industry

Links referenced:

- https://news.sky.com/story/how-the-chaos-at-chatgpt-maker-openai-has-unfolded-as-ousted-ceo-sam-altman-returns-and-why-it-matters-13012732

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-climate-change-activists-disrupt-shipping-coal-port-2023-11-25/

- https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/11/24/australian-warship-sails-through-taiwan

- https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/23/does-australia-exist-bing-search-no-bluesky-mastodon

- https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/20/child-sexual-abuse-study-finds-94-of-australian-men-report-having-offended-against-a-child

- https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/23/australia-100-wealthiest-schools-earnings-income-data-education-department

- https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2023/11/15/albanese-dutton-anti-semitism

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-12/mulgrave-byelection-politics-after-daniel-andrews/103091818

- https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/mcdonald-s-loses-legal-bun-fight-with-hungry-jack-s-20231115-p5ekam.html?btis=

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-26/dave-sharma-takes-marise-payne-nsw-senate-seat/103152738

- https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/unlawful-supreme-court-rules-against-uk-plan-to-send-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda-20231115-p5ekbq.html?btis=

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/confusion-over-high-court-indefinite-detention-ruling-response/103119836

- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/09/high-court-indefinite-immigration-detention-coalition-safety

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-22/optus-outage-documents-behind-the-scenes-two-weeks-since/103130998

- https://www.afr.com/technology/optus-ceo-kelly-bayer-rosmarin-resigns-20231120-p5el9o

- https://www.afr.com/technology/what-early-signs-suggest-may-have-gone-wrong-at-optus-20231108-p5eig9

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvD5apYnfU

- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-tents-homeless-lifestyle-b2441565.html

- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/23/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-trial-brittany-higgins-rape-sexual-assault-channel-ten-lisa-wilkinson-ntwnfb

- https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/school-funding-stoush-looms-over-spiralling-autism-costs-20231121-p5elpc.html

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**WARNING** - Discussions of domestic and intimate-partner violence and murder **

Oh my gosh! It's not only almost Christmas...but it's episode 39 of Tasmania's highest-rated politics podcast, Let's Save The Governor-General! (*no guarantee to governors-general)

Topics discussed:

- The board rejects Qantas' attempts at a pay rise.

- Albo gets on a plane...yet again!

- A discussion on politics and diplomacy.

- Mark Knight draws the ire of politicians without clothes.

- A discussion of satire in politics, which then becomes a discussion of sexualisation in society.

- Men behaving badly:

- Bruce Lehrmann's rape allegations

- Erin Patterson being charged with murder and attempted murder

- Russel Brand and the numerous allegations he is facing.

- Proposal to GPS-track and monitor the activities of men suspected to be capable of domestic violence.

- Adelaide is officially Australia's coolest city!

Sexual assault support services: https://au.reachout.com/articles/sexual-assault-support-services

Links referenced:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQMXmq5rUkc

- https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-has-touched-down-in-washington-dc-for-a-series-of-meetings/news-story/f609c0077d87ae43e1d7a3b30a18ee2f?amp&nk=19cb9b328ec9ca4d9be1127e4ee175c3-1699129323

- https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/airbus-albo-take-that-bait-and-you-ve-been-played-like-a-trout-20231101-p5egud.html

- https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/9/25/us-recognises-cook-islands-niue-as-biden-hosts-pacific-island-leaders

- https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/jacinta-allan-has-every-right-to-call-a-cartoon-sexist-but-that-doesn-t-mean-it-is-20231026-p5ef6r.html?btis=

- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/jacinta-allan-victorian-premier-herald-sun-cartoon-mark-knight/103013652

- https://web.archive.org/web/20231104231245/https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2023/10/25/state-dinner-biden-albanese/

- https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/patterson-faces-court-over-alleged-deadly-mushroom-murder-plot-20231103-p5ehih.html

- https://7news.com.au/news/qld/bruce-lehrmann-named-as-high-profile-man-charged-with-rape-in-toowoomba-queensland-c-12193580

- https://www.theage.com.au/national/tracking-men-likely-to-kill-the-radical-proposal-after-five-women-dead-in-nine-days-20231103-p5ehdd.html

- https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/keeping-denyer-in-prison-is-not-about-punishing-him-but-protecting-us-20231101-p5egol.html?btis=

- https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/his-behaviour-was-escalating-court-views-video-of-o-keefe-s-arrest-20231031-p5eghy.html?btis=

- https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-accused-of-killing-ex-partner-logee-osias-was-on-bail-20231102-p5egxg.html?btis=

- https://glamadelaide.com.au/is-adelaide-the-coolest-city-in-australia-the-wall-street-journal-seems-to-think-so/

In Episode 38 of Tasmania's most popular politics podcast:

-Phoebe sits in the middle as Damo & Clancy discuss why they voted differently in The Voice Referendum

- The nature of Australia's democracy.

- The Australian responses to the current tension in Israel.

- Dan Andrews has resigned as Victorian Premier

- New Zealand's new PM

- Clancy's doggos!!!

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Music by Ukulelvis

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