69: It Ain't Exactly Real

For our 69th episode, Liam and Declan punish themselves for you. The two dads discuss Julia Baird's introduction to the ABC Boyer lectures. They have a bad time talking about Democracy but at least they have their Daddy. 2025 ABC Boyer Lecture Series: Australia: A Radical Experiment in Democracy -…

68: Productivity Circlejerk

Are CEOs and establishment politicians actually Evil Marxists? Liam interviews Dave Eden* (*not an economist) of Living the Dream to find out. The lads hang out in a pod in the Ipswich Library and go deep on Jim Chalmers’ recent Economic and Productivity Roundtable. What was that, you ask? Good poi…

67: Ee I Ee I Oh!

Ryan interviews Clare and John about the politics and practice of working in a Greens electoral office. He also asks the question “was it worth the effort and would you do it again” but does not recommend that you ask your recently sacked friends the same. Support the show on Patreon so it can con…

66: Marooned at the Teachers Strike

Pt 3 of our electoral struggle session is coming soon, but in this inaugural Dadcast, three dads (Declan, Ryan and Liam) drink coffee and get worked up about the recent strike by public school teachers in Queensland. Ryan gives an on-the-ground report from the perspective of a tired first year teac…

65: Inside the Mental Illness Factory

Ryan, Maddy, Max and Liam pick back over the experience of engaging with that most sanctified of institutions, the beating heart of our truly exceptional democracy: Australian Federal Parliament. We also talk through the strategy of utilising electoral office resources for (and this is crazy) actua…

64: Pushing on an Open Void

We're back, people. In this first episode in our latest reincarnation Deccas, Max, Nicole and Liam delve back into the past to find ancient secrets about the Art of Winning – how the Queensland Greens grew into a major political force from 2016 to 2022. This is the first of a three- (maybe four? st…