Wake Up Australia

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author and President of his think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center.  Michael McLaren spoke with Bjorn about the  enormous costs of meeting deep emission cuts.

3 times Formula One Champion Niki Lauda has passed away aged 70. Michael McLaren spoke with Jon Thomson, Motorsport expert about the career of the great Austrian.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

The cost of tolls on some Sydney motorways are rising more than three times the annual rate of inflation with calls for the state government to reassess tolling arrangements for major new roads as motorists struggle to afford the charges.

Michael talks to Martin Locke, adjunct professor at the Institute of Transport & Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney, who says the pace at which tolls were set to increase over the next decade is unsustainable given that many people were already struggling to pay.

Michael is joined by Jim Molan, Liberal Senator for NSW & Former Australian Army Major General - Chief of Operations, Coalition Forces, Iraq who is not just a great Australian, but also an indispensable asset to the government and the Senate.

Unfortunately, it appears he may just fall short in his spirited bid for re-election after being put into the apparently unwinnable fourth position on the Coalition’s Senate ticket… basically meaning he needed a big below-the-line effort to scrape in.

Michael talks to Gary Hardgrave, former Minister in the Howard Government, Sky News presenter & proud Queenslander about what he thinks turned the sunshine state against Labor.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

‘In the five days before election night, Professor Bela Stantic analysed 2 million social media comments, from more than half a million unique accounts, relating to 50 key terms, and predicted that Scott Morrison would win’ writes Max Koslowski in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Michael is joined by Professor Stantic, the director of Griffith University's Big Data & Smart Analytics lab to discuss how he was able to predict so accurately against that of what the polls were reporting.

Listen to the full show podcast with Luke Grant filling in for Michael Mclaren