Serious Danger

In this 82-minute* bonus episode for Patreon subscribers, Tom gets into superannuation with Robert Lechte ( @djrobstep ), who has written on the topic for Jacobin, and likely at some point in your Twitter feed. Is super theft? Does it enshrine generational inequality? And how would you fix it? Is Paul Keating a smart financial genius or a stupid neo-lib dummy?

* Tom has a chapter on super in his book and has many things to ask and say!

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Some old lady died. Emerald and Tom watched Lidia Thorpe’s “Labor Is Gammin” speech (14:03) and use it to launch into a recap some of the government’s recent crappy moves - the fake welfare increase, stage 3 tax cuts, new coal and gas, making jokes about public housing while living in a mansion, and finally refusing to renationalise Qantas. Phew.

Then it’s Australian politics’ night of nights as the Midwinter Ball is bizarre and awful (58:15), but did the Greens’ protest hit the mark?

Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU 

New Patreon bonus episode with Tom Tanuki is out, pulling apart Sammy J’s recent Greens “comedy” sketch and the state of comedy taking the piss out of lefties. Why does it suck so much? Was Sammy J specifically making fun of Emerald? Can Tom (Ballard) navigate this convo without insulting his comedy mates? Check it out on the Patreon, along with the exclusive full episodes with Wil Anderson and more.

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Links -

https://atui.org.au/2021/09/how-unions-won-the-weekend/ 

https://reneweconomy.com.au/greens-climate-trigger-bill-faces-tough-crowd-in-parliament-but-gets-billionaire-backing/ 

https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/support-for-and-attitudes-towards-socialism-in-australia-and-the-united-states 

Call to action -

Join a Move Beyond Coal launch party in your city or online - https://www.stopadani.com/movebeyondcoallaunch 

Support Pakistan Floods Emergency Appeal -  

https://alkhidmat.org/

CARE’s Pakistan Flood Emergency Fund - https://my.care.org/site/Donation2?df_id=33607 

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Red flags about the lack of Greens flags. Emerald and Tom discuss the Greens’ proposed National Energy Transition Authority (7:15) and what we can learn from failed transitions in America. Then Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam joins us  (34:44) to chat about the upcoming state election and the murk that is Victorian politics. Finally, a call to action (1:09:10).

Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU 

New Patreon bonus episode with Tom Tanuki is out, pulling apart Sammy J’s recent Greens “comedy” sketch and the state of comedy taking the piss out of lefties. Why does it suck so much? Was Sammy J specifically making fun of Emerald? Can Tom (Ballard) navigate this convo without insulting his comedy mates? Check it out on the Patreon, along with the exclusive full episodes with Wil Anderson and more.

https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU 

Follow Samantha Ratnam @SamanthaRatnam

https://greens.org.au/vic/person/samantha-ratnam 

Links -

Greens announcement on a National Energy Transition Authority Bill: https://greensmps.org.au/articles/greens-move-energy-transition-authority-parliament 

Sam Adler Bell - Life After Coal in the New Internationalist (2019): https://newint.org/features/2019/04/09/life-after-coal 

Tarence Ray - “A Way Out” article on just transition (2018): https://popula.com/2018/11/18/a-way-out/ 

CALL TO ACTION 

Donate or post about #DadVsAdani to support climate activist Ben Pennings’ legal defence against Adani: https://chuffed.org/campaign/dadvsadani 

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In a new Patreon exclusive episode for subscribers, Tom Tanuki joins us to pull apart Sammy J’s recent Greens “comedy” sketch and discuss the state of Aussie comedy that takes the piss out of lefties. Why does it suck so much? Was Sammy J specifically making fun of Emerald? Is Tonightly bad? Can Tom (Ballard) navigate this convo without insulting his comedy mates? 

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Robo-justice! Emerald and Tom talk about the state of renting, and the new Greens’ proposal for a rent freeze to make it less totally cooked (4:47). And speaking of being cooked, our cooker correspondent Tom Tanuki returns (36:39) to update us on a SovCit child abduction, the freedumb folks, and Avi Yemini’s visa troubles. Finally, a call to action (1:14:20).

Bonus Patreon full episode with Tom Tanuki coming this week, pulling apart Sammy J’s recent Greens “comedy” sketch and the state of comedy taking the piss out of lefties. Why does it suck so much? Was Sammy J specifically making fun of Emerald? Can Tom (Ballard) navigate this convo without insulting his comedy mates? Out this week on the Patreon, along with the exclusive full episodes with Wil Anderson and more.

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Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU 

Links -

Read about the Greens’ plan for a national rent freeze https://www.maxchandlermather.com/rent_freeze 

Follow Tom Tanuki on Twitter @tom_tanuki

https://youtube.com/c/TomTanuki 

https://tomtanuki.net/ 

CALL TO ACTION: 

Tom’s hosting a trivia night fundraiser for Ellen Sandell’s state campaign this Thursday night https://victoria.greens.org.au/smec_soc_20220901 

Join and share the Greens campaign to protect the coast from Labor’s deep sea drilling:   https://greens.org.au/campaigns/no-new-oil-gas-exploration 

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Scotty From Multitasking has so many jobs! Emerald and Tom are joined by Elizabeth Humphrys (12:02), author of How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, The Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project. What is neoliberalism and when did it take over Australia? Is Paul Keating actually bad? Will the upcoming Jobs & Skills Summit be the Accord 2.0? Finally, a call to action (1:00:59).

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Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @anintegralstate

All her links - https://linktr.ee/anintegralstate  

Toohottowork.org  

Order Elizabeth’s book here - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1360-how-labour-built-neoliberalism

‘The Hawke-Keating agenda was Laborism, not neoliberalism, and is still a guiding light’ by Wayne Swan -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/14/the-hawke-keating-agenda-was-laborism-not-neoliberalism-and-is-still-a-guiding-light 

Tom talking to Wayne Swan about neoliberalism on his other podcast (and it makes Wayne tetchy) - https://likeimasixyearold.libsyn.com/206-wayne-swan 

CALL TO ACTION -

Check for Greens events in your area -

https://greens.org.au/events 

If you’re outside the ACT, email your state MP and ask them to raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 years old - https://www.changetherecord.org.au/RTA_EmailMP

Don’t NAB our future campaign -

https://chuffed.org/project/ss4c-dontnabourfuture 

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The Members of the 47th Parliament have begun disclosing their interests, and they’re… interesting. In this bonus Patreon ep Emerald takes Tom through the few things no politician can apparently live without, who’s a landlord and who has crypto, before our hosts disclose their own interests.

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Adam Bandt’s fake drug tweet is based. Emerald and Tom react to Terri Butler’s accusations that the Greens are populist (7:41) and delve into a chat about what populism means, whether it is a good or bad thing, and whether the Greens are doing it.  Finally, a call to action (45:59).

New Patreon bonus episode out! Emerald and Tom go through MPs’ register of interests and all the cooked stuff they’ve claimed so far this term. Subscribe to Patreon for access, and don’t miss last week’s full hour-long interview with Wil Anderson - 

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Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU 

Links -

“Greens turned to populism to win my seat: Terri Butler” Latika Bourke, Sydney Morning Herald ​​https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greens-turned-to-populism-to-win-my-seat-says-terri-butler-20220802-p5b6q0.html 

“We need to reclaim populism from the right. It has a long, proud leftwing history” Thomas Frank, The Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/12/we-need-to-reclaim-populism-from-the-right-it-has-a-long-proud-leftwing-history 

Read Tom’s interview with Max in Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-greens-left-wing-vote-conservative-queensland 

CALL TO ACTION 

Refugee Action Collective’s Melbourne Let Them Stay rally Wednesday 24 August at 4:30pm 

Join Emerald at the Qld Greens’ snap rally calling on Qld Parliament to RAISE THE AGE this Tuesday (8am 16 August)

https://www.michaelberkman.com.au/raisetheage_rally 

XR WA Perth Stops for Climate critical mass rally - https://actionnetwork.org/forms/perth-stops-for-climate/ 

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Tom’s back! And he’s VERY TALL? Our hosts discuss their alarming size discrepancy, Max Chandler-Mather’s dress code faux pas (4:06) and Lidia Thorpe dissing the Queen (13:37), then get into a juicy chat about the big on the Government’s climate bill and whether it represents a win or a cowardly failure for the Greens (16:15).  

Plus a bonus excerpt from our chat with comedian and ABC host Wil Anderson (44:43) about his political philosophy, advertising, capitalism, and informal voting. Subscribe on Patreon to access the full 57-minute interview with Wil, and help pay our producer Mike: https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU 

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CALLS TO ACTION -

Tom’s fundraiser COMEDY IN THE WEST is on Saturday August 13th: https://victoria.greens.org.au/mari_soc_20220713  

Support the Tomorrow Movement: http://tomorrowmovement.com/ 

Visit Wil’s website: https://wilanderson.com/ 

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What would you say during your first speech to the nation? Emerald’s guest co-host this week is Jim Malo, Deputy Editor at Pedestrian and “prolific poster.” They talk about some great speeches from the new Greens MPs and get into the bizarre pomp and circumstance of parliament (2:29), before making predictions for how this new one will go (26:47). Next, they delve into the Manly pride jersey controversy muck (38:38) before finally, a call to action (57:54).

New Patreon bonus ep now out! Play Rusted-On Bingo with its creator, cartoonist Jon Kudelka! Sign up for it and more exclusive episodes at - https://www.patreon.com/SeriousDangerAU 

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Links -

Support the Greens: watch and share our new MPs’ first speeches next week (Penny: Monday, Max & David: Tuesday, Barbara: Wednesday https://www.facebook.com/AustralianGreens/events) 

Read Pedestrian (especially the political stuff): https://www.pedestrian.tv/

Follow Jim @thejimmalo on Twitter

“Don’t blame Pacific Island cultures for queer fear. Blame colonisation” - Jioji Ravulo in the Sydney Morning Herald 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/don-t-blame-pacific-island-cultures-for-queer-fear-blame-colonisation-20220727-p5b50c.html 

The “Susanne Lister” essay Emerald mentioned is actually Susanne Luhmann’s chapter “Constructing Gender, Regulating Sexuality” In Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality (2017) - from pages 139-142. It’s here if any nerds want to read it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJUlNObQqzOAk6H1QtDCzsTL4m-Pu08o/view?usp=sharing 

Support LGBTQ+ people: Donate to Black Rainbow, Australia's leading Indigenous suicide prevention and mental health support source for LGBTQ+ people: https://giveeasy.org/charity/appeal/black-rainbow/default 

Donate to Switchboard, which provides peer-driven support services for LGBTIQA+ people, their families, allies and communities: https://www.givenow.com.au/switchedonforswitchboard 

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