Cricket Australia - custodians of our national sport and the biggest Aussie chokers since Greg Norman - has decided Australia Day is 'unsafe'. Today on The Breakdown, we have a look at what reconciliation actually means, and is it even possible. (Oh, and Biden's first day but that's too awful to think about.)

For half the world, the nightmare is ending, for the other half, the nightmare is beginning. Today on The Breakdown, we take you through some of President BOF's greatest hits - and how the media has covered for a man who is almost certainly compromised by China, and doesn't see the danger right before his eyes.

Today on The Breakdown, as Australia Day approaches, it's time to ask, why does the left hate our national symbols so much? And COVIDsafe is the latest victim of coronavirus. It died unwanted and alone. Good.

Political donations are always a hot topic because the public assumes everyone's on the take. Today on The Breakdown we analyse a new report from the Centre for Public Integrity into political donations and what it's really campaigning for.

Today on The Breakdown we breakdown the lockdown - a new study has found that lockdowns aren't as effective as people thought. So why did we pursue them and why does the threat still hand over our heads?

After cheering the censorship of Trump, the Australian media realises Google's "chilling market power" - self-preservation has a way of focussing the mind of even the dumbest journalists, and we analyse how Big Tech rules the swamp.

Michael McCormack committed the sin of saying violence is bad no matter the perpetrator, then he said 'all lives matter'. Today on The Breakdown, we breakdown that dangerous idea and why he's in the poop, and why you're a dum-dum if you're only getting 9.5 per cent super (don't be offended, I'm a dum-dum too).

Today on The Breakdown we breakdown Kevin Rudd's wild rant against a free media in Australia and analyse the left's most powerful tool to silence you - guilt by association.

Journalists are the last people who should be rejoicing that a sitting president has been censored, and they should be the loudest voice to keep Parler on the air. They have failed on both counts. But it seems free speech has a champion - Deputy PM Michael McCormack! Free speech might be in more trouble than we thought.

George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not an instruction manual (and that cliche started as a joke but is now a truth). But in the past 24 hours, the tech tyrants have shown that they aren't afraid to show who's in charge, first by silencing a sitting US President and then going after a free-speech competitor to a woke social media platform. If you thought 2021 was going to be improvement on the dumpster fire of 2020, you're wrong.