143 - Van Badham (Returns)

Playwright, commentator and activist Van Badham is back on the podcast after she joined me in July of 2015.  Since then Van has been a passionate advocate for the re-election of a Labor government and a scathing critic of The Australian Greens. I was keen to dig further into her thinking on that and ask her what she thought went wrong in the 2019 federal election (the answer might surprise you). Van mounts a vigorous defence of Labor's policies here and explains why she sees it as the major hope for the socialist Left in Australia.  Plus also you will hear her dog barking in the background.  Woahhh how cool you can support this show by becoming a Patron please radical, man!  I'm doing two previews of ENOUGH at The Bill Murray in London on July 16th & 23rd Then ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September @vanbadham Van's Facebook page Van's play Banging Denmark at the Sydney Opera House Van's opinion pieces: Labor's support for tax cuts is an unfathomable betrayal of principle Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism. Can they lead it out? Labour has a chance if it replaces Corbyn. Look at Australia in 1983  Time to hail Hilary Clinton - and face down the testosterone left How I fell out of love with the Greens: a personal story about the Labor Party The ALP National Platform 2018 ARTICLE: Van Badham's defence of Hillary Clinton is insufferable right wing crap by Sarah Garnham ARTICLE: Van Badham's defence of Clinton is preposterous by Michael Brull ARTICLE: It wasn't Bob Brown who lost the election, it was the Labor Party by James Norman ARTICLE: How Australia's Labor Party Lost an Un-Loseable Election by Daniel Lopez Cause of the Week: The Australian Labor Party (alp.org.au)