Pod On The Hill - Victorian Labor Podcast

In August, the Andrews Labor government announced its Suburban Subway Rail Loop.

A transformational and historic public transport policy that will modernise and reshape the way Victorians commute.

Jacinta Allan, the Victorian Transport Minister joined us to give us the low-down on this visionary project.

In 2014 Tim Richardson was elected to the seat of Mordialloc helping elect the Andrews Labor Government. We hear how Tim's values were formed, his journey to the Labor party the importance of community and if he regrets being an Essendon supporter.

It is Grand Final Week so Matt Keogh Labor MP for Burt and West Coast fan went head to head with Labor MP for Dandenong and Collingwood fan Gab Williams.

After long-standing member for Cranbourne, Jude Perera, announced his retirement from parliament a new face emerged to defend a new Labor heartland in our growing outer suburbs.

Pauline Richards has taken a road less travelled to become Labor's candidate for Cranbourne in the 2018 Victorian election. She talks about her family, the vision for Cranbourne and bringing fairness and liveability to the suburbs.

The Big Steps campaign has been fighting for equality for early childhood educators for 10 years now. We find out about the campaign, the conditions and pay facing our critically important early childhood educators, and how to be involved.

Ben Carroll has a mighty job on his hands. As Minister for Industry and Employment Ben works every day to shape the way Victorians work now, and also the jobs they will have in the future. What does Ben have to say about what the Abbott Government did to destroy the car industry? What positive things does the Andrews government do to give meaningful work to people and build a manufacturing future?

Ben has an obvious passion about the work he does as the Minister in Daniel Andrews Government, but he also takes time to talk about his upbringing in the north west, his family, and the steps that have led him to take on such an important role in influencing how we live and earn.

Linda Burney was 10 years old when the 1967 referendum was held, a vote which famously changed the constitution to allow the commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people, and corrected the injustice that had excluded Aboriginal people from being counted in the census.

Linda is today the member for Barton in the Federal Parliament and has served as a minister in the NSW parliament. She spoke to Pod on the Hill about constitutional justice for Aboriginal people, the leadership failures in Canberra and the work she is doing in preventing family violence.

On Tuesday morning August 20 Peter Dutton unsuccessfully challenged Malcolm Turnbull for the Liberal Party leadership. Since then what has occurred has been unprecedented.

Rob Mitchell the Labor Member for McEwen joined us for an insiders perspective on the weeks events.

Its only taken the Victorian government 146 years to appoint a woman as the Agriculture Minister, but Labor's Jaala Pulford is busy making up for lost time.

As this week's guest on Pod On The Hill, Conrad spoke with Jaala about growing up in regional Victoria, working at a male dominated blue collar union in the 90’s, and dealing with the tragedy of losing her daughter.

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the historic elevation of Joan Kirner as Victoria’s 42nd Premier.

This week’s special episode is extracts from an interview from 2013 conducted by Nicola Castleman and RTBU Secretary Luba Grigorovitch and provides an insight in to what drove Joan as a passionate campaigner for education, her love for Nelson Mandela, working with communities and her achievements as Premier of the state.

We thank Ron Kirner for supporting the publication of this timeless piece of both Labor’s history and Joan’s story.