Yesterday I stopped by 2SER Breakfast with Tim Brunero to give a quick news update on the latest Australian political upheaval surrounding Barnaby Joyce’s attempted spill and the Greens leadership transition, as well as the Iowa caucus app crash and the Australian Open’s controversial decision to give Margaret Court a lifetime achievement trophy.
Better than nothing! Listen below or in your podcast feeds or at https://newsfighters.libsyn.com/
We’re back for 2020! It’s summer music festival season so we look at huge new Aussie hip hop drill group ONEFOUR, and the NSW Police shutting down their debut national tour, pressuring them into changing their lyrics and even trying to get their music taken down off the internet. Will taking the anti-authoritarianism out of Aussie hip-hop turn us into Russia or China? Or should ONEFOUR just pretend to be old white men so they get left alone? Also ScoMo raps!
HUGE final ep for the year:
In fact big I split it in two parts on Youtube.
In the first part we look at Prime Minister Scott Morrison spending the bushfire season drinking cocktails in Hawaii while Australian burns in a massive bushfire emergency.
Then News Fighters looks back at all the hilarious wacky clips and gaffes in politics and dumb Aussie news in 2019*. From baby Yoda to Barnaby’s meltdowns to bushfires to Hong Kong democracy protests to Greta Thunberg’s climate strike and ScoMo’s White House state dinner, take look back on the year and weep… hopefully with laughter! (* may contain four elections).
Also includes a look back the year in pop culture with special guest Stefan Pazur.
2019 is almost over but not without one more election episode of News Fighters, this time from the U.K. (sorry Bougainvilleans!) Is this election about Brexit, the NHS or is it just one long argument over whether numbers are a left wing conspiracy? We look at all the hilarious and headache inducing gaffes from the campaign so far and then dial in author and the producer/presenter of Russell Brand’s Trews Reports, John Rogers to give us some actual election insight and analysis. Check out John’s website at http://thelostbyway.com/
Also in case you missed it we did a whole episode on Boris Johnson when he became PM back in July:
We got a new episode out in your feeds and on Youtube!
While a bushfire crisis and catastrophic drought engulfs the country, Australia’s politicians think it’s the perfect time to start blaming each other and triggering their opponents. We also look at Barnaby Joyce’s failed magnetism, Rupert Murdoch’s climate denier denial, Alan Jones’ cow obsession and why Scott Morrison should send thoughts and prayers to himself!
Out now! It’s our double-double length look at the unpredictable 2019 Canadian election. We look at all the political parties’ bad 90’s-rock style theme songs, why Justin Trudeau can’t escape the brown face incident, Andrew Scheer’s weird pants-based catchphrases, the multicultural racism of Quebec and how Australia could provide an answer to Canada’s political uncertainty. Also expect Rush and Bryan Adams jokes.
In the fourth and final episode of our pilot week guest host Dan Ilic cherry picks at Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s appearance on Insiders this morning. Also ABC broadcaster and American political podcaster Josh Szeps drops by to talk Scott Morrison in Washington, the 2020 Democrat candidates and the most important issue on breakfast television. And finally we check in with our new finance reporter Rodney Todd.
