The Shot Podcast

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The Shot Podcast episodes

December 20, 2024 Farewell to All That
Jo, Dave and Ronni ruminate on the good and mostly bad moments of 2024 and look forward to 2025, which brings a Federal Election but the release of Ronni’s debut novel, Gunnawah. Set in Riverina in 1974 as the Whitlam years are transforming Australia, Jo and Dave quiz Ronni on the inspiration behind the book and the complicated dangerous local politics of the time.
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43 min
December 13, 2024 "A Carefully Constructed Charade"
Jo and Dave talk with Chair of Private Media, publisher of Crikey and author of The Men Who Killed the News Eric Beecher on the future of journalism, the fallout for the Murdochs of the Nevada “Project Harmony” decision and whether Rupert is an horrific narcissistic psychopath with the power of immortality.
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39 min
December 06, 2024 Hanging the Parliament
Jo and Ronni get enjoyably down in the weeds with George Megalogenis to discuss all matters electoral: the Albanese Government’s prospects for a second term, Dutton’s efforts to thwart them and the disruption of our political duopoly as outlined in George’s new Quarterly Essay, Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics.

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46 min
November 22, 2024 Democracy in Peril
Jo and Dave talk to Zack Beauchamp, senior political writer at Vox and author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World about the fragility of democracy and the autocratic agenda to destroy it from within.
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46 min
November 15, 2024 Ethics Washing and Corporate (cancel) Culture
Jo and Dave talk to lawyer and author Josh Bornstein about his book Working for the Brand, an analysis of how corporations force staff to uphold their “values” and “integrity” or face being sacked on one hand while they gleefully destroy the world on the other. And how much are we loving Blue Sky?
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38 min
November 01, 2024 Robodebt: A Bureaucratic Hallucination
Jo and Ronni speak with Rick Morton about his definitive account of the great Government shakedown that was Robodebt, the immensely readable Mean Streak, and speculate on how long National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Paul Brereton can cling on to his job.
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47 min
October 18, 2024 Project Gaslight
Jo and Dave are joined by Joel Jenkins of Bogan Intelligentsia to discuss how the world-beating concentration of Australia’s media - third behind only China and Egypt - leads to a desperately distorted image and narrative of the carnage in Gaza.

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32 min
October 11, 2024 The Demise of Twitter
Ronni and Jo talk to New York Times journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about their revelatory new book, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, a cracking read about a story close to the hearts of many of our listeners: a page-turner that fills in all the jaw-dropping details about how our beloved Global Townplace became the plaything of the one of the world’s richest and most mercurial men.
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42 min
September 27, 2024 Dave is Back!
Dave is back behind the microphone, joining Jo and Ronni to discuss the shrinking prime ministership of Anthony Albanese and echo the title of Ronni’s latest article for the Shot: “What was it all for, Anthony?”
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33 min
September 13, 2024 No Care, No Responsibility
On the day we learned that no-one would be punished or be otherwise held accountable for the Robodebt catastrophe, Jo is joined by Anthony Klan, Founder and Editor of The Klaxon, to discuss the Klaxon’s ongoing series into the National Anti-Corruption Commission: its mishandling of the Royal Commission’s referrals, its counter-intuitive lack of transparency and the “recusal” that wasn’t.
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38 min

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A weekly podcast about Australian politics, power and corruption. Each week Jo Dyer and Dave Milner probe the myths and half-truths pushed by those in power.

Sometimes profound,…