News Fighters

This week:

• Delta hits Canberra (and Tamworth and Dubbo and everywhere else)
• NSW abandons Covid zero as Emperor Gladys says we have to vaccinate our way out.
• Things can only get worser!
• We’re all doomed!
• Also from The Chaser Report podcast Dominic Knight stops by to talk daily news comedy!

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

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This week:

• Melbourne enters Lockdown Number 6
• Labor offers $300 a jab
• NSW’s Delta Farce Continues with schools closed until who knows when.
• Stefan Pazur updates us on the Tokyo Sporting Event

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

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With Sydney currently facing its longest ever lockdown and highest ever Covid case numbers thanks to the current Delta outbreak, we take a comprehensive look at every single stuff up, mixed message and confusing backflip the Gladys Berejiklian and the New South Wales government has done to get us here.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/6e9Gvq9hqA4

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: http://www.patreon.com/newsfighters
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It's our 75th episode and this week we look overseas to Russia and take a look a bizarre and bombastic annual TV event: Vladimir Putin’s marathon annual call in show, Direct Line (Прямая линия с Владимиром Путиным). This year it offers some interesting insights into the state of Russia as Putin feigns interest in the everyday struggles of his subjects for a massive four hours while dodging responsibility and promising to eventually fix things.

Also we look at the controversial use of AI to bring Anthony Bourdain back from the dead to voice his new documentary.

And our guest is Sanspants podcaster, DJ, chef and children's author Andrew Levins. We chatted to Levins before the current lockdowns about his bizarre previous year as a socially distanced DJ and lockdown mixtape producer extraordinaire.

Follow Levins:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/levdawg

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levdawg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/levdawg/

Watch this episode on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/m1sLAGM0FDo

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: http://www.patreon.com/newsfighters
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• Buy me a coffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/newsfighters
• Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/newsfighters
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• Email: [email protected]
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This week we revisit our deep dive episode from April on Australia's botched vaccine rollout, updated with some new clips and info that has since come to light.

Were we at the front or the back of the queue? How many eggs did we order and why were they all in one basket? Why did Scott Morrison tell us he was going to get AstraZeneca and then he got Pfizer?

Watch this segment on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/bqfhUgycvsY

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: http://www.patreon.com/newsfighters
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• Buy me a coffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/newsfighters
• Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/newsfighters
• Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewsfightersPod
• Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newsfighterspod/
• Email: [email protected]
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As Sydney’s outbreak of the Covid Delta strain keeps getting worse, we’re stuck in a Vaccine Hunger War Games (except if you were one of the lucky private school kids who ‘accidentally’ got vaccinated). There’s so many repeats of the stuff ups of 2020 it feels like we’re listening to the same songs over and over again!

Also Comedian Bec Melrose stops by with some funny updates on some dark new stories.

Follow Bec on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/becmelrose

(Note: this episode was recorded before Sydney introduced new restrictions on shopping and travel on Friday, July 9).

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: http://www.patreon.com/newsfighters
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As most of Australia goes back into the lockdown for the first time since the pandemic started, we blame Scott Morrison while Scott Morrison blames the virus.

And our botched vaccine rollout gets re-botched as AstraZeneca becomes allowed for younger people (kind of) while Queensland says ‘Yuck, No Thanks!

Also some good news! Happy News Correspondent Stefan Pazur stops by with some happy good news reports to cheer us up! Happy!

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This week: Sydney catches Covid, NSW State Parliament hosts a super spreading event, Gladys goes casual and Barnaby is back!

Also Greg Jericho, economics writer for The Guardian Australia, talks housing affordability and how good Australia’s economic recovery has really been.

Follow Greg on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GrogsGamut and read his Guardian columns at http://www.theguardian.com/profile/greg-jericho

Watch the Sydney outbreak mono on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/l4STjAdw3Y4

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/newsfighters
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This week: Scott Morrison observes the G7 in Cornwall, keeps loving coal and can’t get a solo meeting with Biden. Then he signs a biscuit-based free trade agreement agreement with Boris Johnson in London.

Also Dylan shares covid jab stories with renowned Aussie TV comedy writer Dave Bloustien. 

Follow Dave Bloustien on twitter at https://twitter.com/i_before_e

Donate a Covid Vaccine to a developing country at https://gogiveone.org/

Watch the monologue on Youtube: https://youtu.be/-JbJUCs8qNE

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/newsfighters
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This week we have an update on Australia’s evolving and increasingly strained relationship with China and we chat to Michael Smith, one of the last remaining Aussie journos in China who fled last year amid a tense diplomatic standoff. He tells us all his time covering President Xi, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Uighurs in Xinjiang, and his new book, “The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China.”

Follow Michael Smith on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mikesmithafr

Buy The Last Correspondent here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-last-correspondent-michael-smith/book/9781761150005.html

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Rmi8TUNbYco

News Fighters is a comedic look at the week in Australian news, media and political hypocrisy, hosted by ex-Tonightly and Chaser editor Dylan Behan.

• Support us and get monthly bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/newsfightersJoin our newsletter: https://newsfighters.substack.com
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