The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove

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  • Episode 341 - Interest Rates Hike

    In this episode we discuss:

    • RBA Cash rate
    • Should APRA have eased lending rules pre-pandemic?
    • New Cars
    • Gas
    • Qld Police Union
    • Downer
    • Hospitality union challenges penalty rates ‘opt out’ agreement
    • Resource Companies
    • Qantas
    • Visit your local member
    • Booth Results
    • Indigenous Voice
    • Peter Dutton
    • The Real Dutton
    • Dutton want a USA culture war
    • Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
    • Bush slips up or does he
    • Are You OK Room?
    • Piers Morgan
    • Greg Norman
    • Jordan Peterson
    • Any Jordan Peterson fans out there?
    • Prince Charles
    • Am I exaggerating? Amazon

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    1 hr 20 min
  • Episode 339 - Post Election Thoughts

    Well, that was a good result. Let's talk about it.

    The topics we covered included:

    • Election Result 2022
    • Laura Tingle
    • 2019 Was a Great Election to Lose
    • Totals
    • But Qld
    • Libs are nearly a junior partner
    • Patchy but effective swings
    • Liberals reduced to fringe outer suburbs with no hope of regaining traditional voter base
    • Morrison was not an aberration, he was a manifestation so it is hard to imagine a solution for the Liberals.
    • Dutton Is not the solution, he is the problem.
    • McGowan on Dutton
    • Sky News calling on the Libs to give up woke left and go further right
    • Sky are not the only ones blaming defeat on entertaining woke leftism
    • Will Christians allow the Libs to turn left?
    • Morrison thanked the army
    • Greens and Teals – a new normal?
    • Albanese made an affirmation
    • Keneally Gone Too
    • Tim Wilson Gone too
    • Trans Issue
    • Entitled Princelings
    • Boat People
    • Murdoch and the Right-Wing Media
    • McGowan on the Press
    • The solution does not include QANDA
    • Proportional Voting
    • Labor and China
    • New Zealand

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 338 - The Socialist Equality Party

    In this episode, Trevor interviews Max Boddy and Oscar Grenfell from the Socialist Equality Party.

    The Socialist Equality Party is standing Senate candidates in NSW, Victoria and Queensland in the 2022 election to advance a socialist program of action for workers to fight for their class interests against the relentless assault on their basic social and democratic rights.

    Max Boddy, 33, is the Assistant National Secretary of the SEP and a member of the national committee. He writes for the World Socialist Web Site on the issues facing asylum seekers and their inhumane treatment at the hands of Australian governments, whether Coalition or Labor.

    Oscar Grenfell, 30, is the national convenor of the SEP's youth movement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, a member of the SEP’s national committee and a regular correspondent for the World Socialist Web Site. He has written extensively on key political and industrial issues, including in defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, the political and social crisis confronting young people and exposures of the pro-capitalist policies of the Greens and of the pseudo-left’s divisive “identity” politics.

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 335 - The Mythicism Debate

    Cameron Reilly and Hugh Harris debate whether Jesus existed as a historical figure.

    Below is a link to Hugh's article in the rationale.

    https://rationalemagazine.com/index.php/2022/04/18/challenging-the-jesus-myth-theory/

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    2 hr 2 min
  • Episode 333 - A Firehose of BS

    Enough! We need an election to lance this boil of a government.

    The topics include:

    • An article by Alison Courtice
    • David Garland
    • CPE qualifications
    • The Australian way of life is collectivist. Lachlan’s ‘freedom’ cry is a US import
    • That Slap
    • Joe’s Topics
    • Vaccine consent case for parents
    • VAD doctor describes what it's like to administer
    • Gonski was a while back, things are still broken
    • Shock-horror. Adani mine isn't bringing many jobs to QLD
    • True cost of fossil fuel subsidies
    • Anti-China Murdoch borrows money from China owned bank.
    • Anglican Church using government aged-care money to pay sex abuse victims.
    • Morrison and Liberals ep 333
    • Post Wedding Revelation
    • The List
    • Sex in the Prayer Room
    • Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
    • It’s not just Murdoch
    • Criticised the federal government for spending money on disaster relief?
    • Our Parliament is a joke
    • Scott Morrison must reveal any text messages from QAnon friend
    • Can’t Rent? Buy a house
    • Scott Morrison says it would have been ‘weakness’ for him to meet new Chinese ambassador
    • Incentives to ‘embrace’ training, digital world
    • 1 Star Reviews for Morrison
    • AAT Appointments
    • Preselection
    • Hillsong Update
    • Medivac Mystery solved?
    • Ash Barty
    • Australian Future Leaders Program.
    • In summary
    • Solomon Islands
    • Seven Mountains on the Gold Coast

    Dr. Stefanie Green has now written a book, "This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life,"

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    1 hr 21 min

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