- Nick is joined by sustainable transport advocate Jeremy Mendelson from Critical Transit and Transit Matters podcasts for the entire episode. - National politics and Bernie Sanders. - Jeremys experience with 9 to 5 work. - Trying to escape the 9 to 5. - David Graeber on bullshit jobs. - Living vegan on a low income. - Basic income. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/10/26/114/

- Katie is joined by Jenny Ejlak from Reproductive Choice Australia. - The various state and territory abortion laws. - The importance of viewing abortion as a health issue not a criminal one. - Exclusion zones. - Some people being sooo pro life they advocate killing doctors. - Planned Parenthood and the hash tag shout your abortion. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/10/18/113/

- Nick is joined by journalist Michael Brull, who discusses what has changed and what hasn't as a result of the government's new rhetoric around Islam and terrorism, in the wake of the Parramatta shooting. - Nick also elaborates on Turnbulls response to the shooting, analysing this reaction in terms of dominant narratives around the racial and religious basis for labelling and responding to terrorism. - How the love it or leave it mentality that has been promoted in the wake of the Parramatta shooting works against confronting some of the root causes of terrorism, such as Western imperialism and police racism. - The US airstrike on a Mdecins Sans Frontires hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. - Islamophobia as the latest form of white supremacy in Australia. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/10/13/112/

- Were joined by politics junkies Jen Perry and Kieran Massie. - The libspill and gender. - Farewell to Tony Abbott. - New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. - The results of the Canning by-election. - UK politics, Scottish nationalism and socialist backbencher Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the British Labour Party. - Analysis of the Australian Greens mainstreaming and moving to the right, using the example of a recent portfolio reshuffle. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/09/25/111/

- This episode features an interview with Samah Sabawi, a Palestinian Australian Canadian writer and human rights advocate. - She discusses the ongoing oppression Palestinian people face, even when the bombs are not dropping and most of the media is ignoring the issue. - Samah Sabawi also leaves us with her powerful poem Red Shirt, Blue Jeans about Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who recently drowned, sparking changing discussions about asylum seekers. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/09/14/110/

- Amnesty International has recently announced that decriminalisation is their official human rights policy on sex work. - We discuss this development, partially drawing on and critiquing an episode of The Minefield on ABC radio. - Decriminalisation is for sex workers not for sex buyers. - Sex work as work. - First World versus Third World sex work. - Sex work and capitalism. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/09/04/109/

- Recap of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania 2015 conference, which we recently attended in Melbourne. - What ICAS stands for. - Some of our favourite talks from the conference. - An overview of some of the critical discussions about the mainstreaming of veganism within capitalism that were a common theme of the conference. - Celeste Liddles talk on Aboriginal Feminism and Intersectionality. - Where are the animals in Critical Animal Studies? - For more information on the episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, plus links to more talks from the conference, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/08/14/108/

- Were back with a new episode featuring Coggo from the Melbourne Street Medic Collective. - Background on the racist Reclaim Australia movement and why it is important to oppose them. - Links between the current demonisation of Muslims and historical Jewish oppression. - Police violence against medics and anti-fascist protestors at the recent counter-rally in Melbourne. - Melbourne Street Medics crowd funding campaign. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/08/02/107/

- Following on from episode 105, this episode is a further discussion on sex work. - We finally go through listener mail on our older sex work episodes 44 and 64. - We investigate the idea of sex work as another form of labour as well as First World versus Third World sex work. - An academic study on the psychological characteristics porn stars. - The documentary Date My Pornstar. - An article on a US college student doing porn to pay for her education. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/07/106/

- This episode features an interview with Jane Green and Cameron Cox. - Jane Green is a sex worker who is on the Executive Committee of the Scarlett Alliance and Cameron Cox is a sex worker who is involved in a sex worker outreach organisation. - Links between homophobia and whorephobia. - Sex work as work. - Amnesty Internationals AGM where different approaches to sex work were debated. - Decriminalisation is the model that leads to the best outcomes for sex workers. - You can hear part 1 of our interview with Jane and Cameron on episode 64, sorry for the delay. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/07/04/105/