Ep 11: In which I have an in-depth chat about the Government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the CovidSafe tracing App, the economic bailout and more, with human/digital-rights lawyer Lizzie O’Shea and journalist Ben Eltham

This is the podcast companion to our latest Honest Government Ad - The Machine. If you haven't seen the video, you can watch it here.

This episode is also available in video form on our Youtube channel, you can watch it here. 

You can follow Lizzie O'Shay on twitter here: @Lizzie_OShea
You can follow Ben Eltham on twitter here: @BenEltham

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Chapters

0:00 - Welcome to the Juice Media Podcast

0:10 - HGA - The Machine

1:24 - Introducing our guests

3:37 - The Australian Response

6:16 - The COVID Safe App

13:15 - App Skepticism

16:40 - App as Security Theatre

19:41 - The Stimulus

23:50 - Groups excluded from the stimulus

29:00 - Modern Monetary Theory

35:51 - Class and COVID

38:14 - More Curves to Flatten?

39:37 - Wrap-up Headlines

40:06 - Digital Rights

43:10 - Relaxing Restrictions

44:29 - Austerity Redux

47:37 - Outro