WYP - Politico Comes to Australia
Enjoy our weekly download of politics over a weekend walk with the launch editor of the global bible for political nerds Ryan Heath.
Burning Platforms
Technology, democracy and culture in a world on fire: views, news, discussions and discoveries curated by Peter Lewis.
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Mind Craft with Miah Hammond-Errey
Cuts and curios from this week’s show where we discuss cognitive readiness and how information is the new theatre of conflict.
2016 Time Machine
Some cuts and curios from the political year 2016 in preparation for my 10th anniversary Guardian Australia column
WYP: Hacks are from Mars, Wonks are from Venus
Enjoy this week’s cracking episode with Caroline and Denise from the Westminster Tradition, plus a few shots from the rapidly-growing archives for those who are coming to the show late.
Roll Your Own with Beth Noveck
Cuts and curios from our first show back after our winter sabbatical where we meet the visiting US academic and author of Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy
What’s Your Poison - The Beattie Gambit
Some snippets and curios from the this week’s show where got the chance to explain the political play named after the former Queensland Premier.
Big Week. Live Shows, Life Choices.
Well, it’s been quite a week, a perfect storm of Burning Platforms, Essential Report releases, Guardian missives and big personal announcements.
What's Your Poison: Adios, Adelaide
Some cuts and curios from the ALP National Conference where I recorded this week's show from a sound-proof booth. It was all going well till the security took my beer,
Burning Platforms Live with Hamish Macdonald
Join us in person at Parramatta or online next Tuesday (July 28) at a special forum to support the Democracy Counts campaign.
What’s Your Poison: When Worlds Collide
My nascent dream of a Marvel Universe of political podcasts came a step closer when my partner in crime on Burning Platforms Lizzie O'Shea met my Evil Twin Dame Damjanovski.
Hot Albo’s First Economic Rodeo
In my Guardian Australia piece today, I frame the Prime Minister’s landmark AI speech around his involvement in a rancorous decades long battle for legitimacy by political economists within the Sydney
Equitable Outrage
Political debrief over the second least expensive bottle of red from the local. Me and Damian Damjanovski rake over the coals with Amelia Metcalf - we kick around ICAC, Kyle and that Telstra outage.
The Sydney Table - Crossing the Aisle on Data Centres
This new initiative by the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue and its chair Chris Brown resonates with a lot of what I'm trying to explore - better modes of disagreement based on civility.
Your Palantir Primer
With the controversial US data company’s growing footprint into Australia, now is the time to look closer at who they are and what they do.
Retail Politics with Ed Coper
Here's our latest Friday arvo chat with my old friend, pod-tart and author of Angertainment, a book that has really got me thinking about the way we do politics.
How we’ve treated Hanson – a 30-year retrospective
My piece in today’s Guardian Australian argues that meeting Hanson’s anger with our own is a zero-sum game. These artefacts illustrate my point.
What's Your Poison - Southern Comrade's Edition
Here's your weekend dose of political prognostication from across the political aisle with special guest Danae Bosler from the VTHC.
Little Voices with Clare Stuchbery
Updating last week’s show notes a bit late but it’s a great discussion with the head of the Local and Independent News Association about the importance of grassroots media.
What's Your Poison - Pauline Edition
Happy weekend readers. I thrash out Hanson's National Press Club speech and what it means for the major parties with my evil twin, Dame Damjanovski.
Aloha Freaky Alumni
More than 30 years go I was a volunteer at 2SER where I was part of the highly chaotic 'Aloha Freaky Monday' collective.