152: Social Media Laws & Fairfax-Nine on the Greens

"Sydney's a big city, you know, I mean, a couple of hundred bucks, right?” Emerald and Tom check out the government’s new obsession with regulating the internet - kicking kids off of social media, a digital duty of care, and policing misinformation (11:02). Why can children go to jail but can’t go …

Teaser: We watched ‘How to Blow Up A Pipeline’

In this bonus series for Patreon subscribers, Emerald and Tom watched the 2022 film How To Blow Up a Pipeline, adapted and fictionalised from the 2021 non-fiction book by Andreas Malm. Is property destruction the answer to the climate crisis, or should the movement embrace non-violence? Speaking of…

151: US Election & Student Debt ft. Dave Anthony (The Dollop)

Kamala Harris ran a “flawless” campaign. This week on the doomer leftist election loss show, Emerald and Tom are joined by Serious Danger’s US election correspondent Dave Anthony, comedian and co-host of The Dollop podcast! (11:17) How screwed is America? How screwed is Australia? And why did Dave …

150: Goodbye, Greensland? Emerald’s Qld election recap

You’re allowed a week to mourn. Emerald takes Tom through the results of last week’s Queensland election (13:09). Why did the Greens underperform? Did Labor “steal” the Greens policies, or are the Greens being bad losers? Why are Labor gloating about losing? What are the funniest stories from the c…

Teaser: Inside The Greens #6 pt 2: 1998 Election, GST, One Nation

In this bonus series for Patreon subscribers, Emerald takes Tom through chapter 6 of author Paddy Manning’s epic history of the Australian Greens movement, “Inside The Greens: The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics.” In this instalment - 1998 brings a Tasmanian election, f…

149: Splitting Heirs on Lidia Thorpe ft. Amy Remeikis

An Animal Justice candidate supports the Greens and would love to be the dictator of this country. Tom is joined by guest host and #auspol legend Amy Remeikis. First up Amy explains what she’s up to now she’s left The Guardian. Next a recap of the ACT election, with some bad news for Vanessa Amoros…

148: Albo’s mansion, the Greens slumlord & school funding class war

Canberra Liberals leader gives media the finger, loses election. Emerald and Tom learn that PM Albo bought a mansion and try to work out why exactly it feels so wrong (7:01). Is it his Hawaii moment? Meanwhile a Greens mayoral candidate is alleged to be a moldy slumlord. Then the fight is brewing o…

Teaser: Kevin 07 - 2007 Election Retrospective

In this bonus episode for Patreon subscribers, Emerald and Tom recap the 2007 federal election. Kevin 07! Rudd-slide! Workchoices! The idea that you could have a PM who wasn’t Little Johnny Howard! Rudd eating his ear wax in parliament! Nothing bad will ever happen again. ---------- The show can …

147: Dealing with the Greens & Fatima’s Voice ft. Rachel Withers

Emerald is joined by guest co-host Rachel Withers, our favourite adult #auspol writer. Everyone hates the Greens (12:11), with Labor campaigners running a seminar on how to Deal With them, and Zionist lobbyists trying to get them out of office. Also they look at parliament’s reactions to October 7t…

146: Hezbollah, Shrinkflation & the Door-knocking Green Lion

Put on some pants, there’s a Green Lion knocking on the door. Emerald and Tom try to get their heads around the escalating conflict in Israel, Lebanon and Iran, Dutton’s grandstanding, and the Hezbollah flag-gate at protests (7:34). Then an update on supermarkets as the government threatens to do s…