Having been the scribe behind AFR's Rear Window for 12 years, then writing a best-selling book about the travails of Qantas, Joe Aston is no stranger to the comings and goings (and rights and wrongs) of corporate Australia. And he doesn't hold back in this interview! Host Scott Phillips sits down with Joe to discuss his career, some of his biggest scalps and his brand new journalism venture, Rampart.

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Continuing with the aim of this podcast, conversations with entrepreneurs, executives and experts, the people who know what’s going on, and the people who make things happen.....today’s guests - plural – are two people who really know what’s going on and are making things happen, by making things themselves, here in Australia.

Murchison River Swags is a manufacturing business based just North of Geraldton, WA and, if you trust the reviews, make some of the very best camping swags in the country, if not the world.

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Author, journalist and broadcaster Richard Glover retired from ABC Radio Sydney's Drive program at the end of 2024 after 26 years behind the microphone.  He describes it as the best job in media.  So what do you do when you leave the best job in media?

In this episode of The Good Oil Scott Phillips interviews the interviewer, and we learn how Richard shaped his incredible career with a determination to try to make the world a better place....and even making the most of the chance to one-up the Brits!

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Claire Aird hosts a brand new podcast series on LiSTNR 'Secrets We Keep - Should I Spit?'.  The series looks at the global DNA industry and whether or not you should provide DNA to find out more about your ancestry.

As part of Claire's investigation, she discovered the extraordinary amount of money big business has invested in DNA and tracing ancestry.  It is mindblowing amounts spreading from Australia to Wall Street to vaults managed by Mormons in Salt Lake City.

In this episode of The Good Oil, Scott Phillips delves deep into the world of DNA and how big business is cashing in on genetics.

You can find LiSTNR's Secrets We Keep here

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SMSF? Or hand it off to one of the big dogs? Aggressive? Passive? What's the best strategy? 

It's a topic for everyone and we thought, worth revisiting.......Andrew Fisher from Australian Retirement Trust sat down with Scott Phillips to explain his team's process for makin' dough, and what that means for your own investment strategy. 

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Recorded literally as the sale of Foxtel was being announced, the future of legacy media remains uncertain, in the face of an onslaught from digital and streaming options. But it needn't be one-way traffic, as 30-year television and radio veteran Rob McKnight of tvblackbox.com.au tells host Scott Phillips.

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Whether we know it or not, Australians have inherited, and carry forward, a long history of what we now know as (small-l) liberalism. And it’s a worldview worth celebrating, according to philosopher, academic and writer Alexandre Lefebvre. Host Scott Phillips sits down to chat with Alexandre about what liberalism really means, and why we should lean into it.

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The Australian economy is not the same as it was over the past half-century, and policymakers risk making a big mistake if they use that history to decide what to do next according to economist Warren Hogan. Host Scott Phillips sits down to chat with Warren, who also thinks interest rate forecasts are likely to be proven wrong.

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What do you get when you mix an authentic host, quality filming, a beautiful backdrop and campfire cooking? You get the YouTube channel and cookbook success of Fire To Fork, with 117,000 subscribers. And that doesn't happen by accident.

Host Scott Phillips talks to Harry Fisher about content creation, the future of long form videos and the business of YouTube.

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There are more than 60,000 charities in Australia. So how do you know which is the right one for you... And whether that charity even passes muster? That's where charity matchmaking service, Seedling Giving, is trying to make a difference.

Host Scott Phillips chats to Seedling Giving's co-founders Kylie Wallace and Jessica Bowman about the challenges of giving, and how Seedling Giving is trying to help.

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