The Party Line on the fuel crisis + the far right in France by Anneke Demanuele, Jordan van den Lamb and Luca Tavan

 Episode 35 - The Party Line on the fuel crisis + the far right in France

Omar was out sick so “friend” of the pod Luca Tavan joined us. Luca has “an internet connection and a library card” and has been doing a lot of research into the left and far right across Europe. Following the death of a fascist activist who attacked a left wing MPs meeting, the far right have been normalised and the political centre has rallied with them against France Insoumise, the party of Melanchon. We discuss the ways the far right have been normalised over the last few decades, as well as the fall out from the local elections across the country that took place this month. The human toll of America’s war on Iran continues to roll on, as we enter the fifth week. Thousands of civilians have been murdered, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has resulted in a global fuel and food crisis. The World Food Program estimates that 45 million more people will be plunged into acute hunger. Trump’s war for empire threatens the entire globe. The team also discusses the upcoming Marxism conference taking place in Melbourne this Easter. The conference will bring together over 1500 people and is organised around the theme of “Marxism for a new left”, and will discuss the dire need of developing a strong socialist movement to confront the barbarism of capitalism. Get your ticket and come along! https://www.marxismconference.org/tic... Readings: Death, destruction, destitution—and profits: https://redflag.org.au/article/death-... First came petrol pain. Now get ready for high-priced groceries: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/fe... Political confusion and fragmentation: the outcome of France's local elections - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières: https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip...

How do we solve the housing question? by Jordan van den Lamb AKA Purpel Pingers

 ordClick on Jordan 'Hello. I want to talk about this pamphlet on the housing question by Engles It's online if you want to read it. It pretty much describes you know what is a housing crisis? What is a housing shortage? And how do various groups of society solve it? Like from the ruling class to like utopian socialists uand how can you actually solve it? At the moment, we're hearing like pretty much every single politician being like, "I'm going to solve the housing crisis." And then literally none of them doing anything to do that. They proposed various things like cutting immigration, built to rent, like first home buyer schemes, and like we know all of this is just going to be useless. But uh yeah, 150 years ago, like in 1872, uh some old guy wrote out it and it's still true. Engles writes,’ that a housing shortage is a necessary product of capitalism. He says that the housing shortage is a necessary product of the bourgeois social order. That it cannot fail to be present in a society in which the great labouring masses are exclusively dependent upon wages. That is to say, upon the quantity of means of subsistence necessary for their existence and for the propagation of their kind. It's a world in whichviolent and regularly recurring industrial fluctuations determine on one hand the existence of a large reserve army of unemployed workers and on the other hand drive the mass of the workers from time to time onto the streets unemployed in which workers are crowded together in masses in the big towns at a quicker rate than dwellings come into existence for them under the prevailing conditions. He also says, and I think this is really interesting in the next sentence, that the capitalist has not only the right, but by reason of competition to a certain extent also the duty of ruthlessly making as much out of his property in house rent as he possibly can. In such a society, the housing shortage is no accident. It is a necessary institution. Jordan van de Lamb: What Engles is saying is that a housing crisis or a housing shortage is not like a bug within capitalism, like an imperfect version of capitalism or whatever. This is capitalism working exactly as it's intended and it was designed to do. He also says, and keep in mind this is in 1872……'

ded and it was designed to do. He also says, and keep in mind this is in 1872……' like an imperfect version of capitalism or whatever. This is capitalism working exactly as it's intended and it was designed to do. He also says, and keep in mind this is in 1872……' I transcribed your intro if you want to use Jordan. ordan 'Hello. I want to talk about this pamphlet on the housing question by Engles It's online if you want to read it. It pretty much describes you know what is a housing crisis? What is a housing shortage? And how do various groups of society solve it? Like from the ruling class to like utopian socialists uand how can you actually solve it? At the moment, we're hearing like pretty much every single politician being like, "I'm going to solve the housing crisis." And then literally none of them doing anything to do that. They proposed various things like cutting immigration, built to rent, like first home buyer schemes, and like we know all of this is just going to be useless. But uh yeah, 150 years ago, like in 1872, uh some old guy wrote about it and it's still true.

Engles writes,’ that a housing shortage uh is a necessary product of capitalism. He says that the housing shortage is a necessary product of the bourgeois social order. That it cannot fail to be present in a society in which the great labouring masses are exclusively dependent upon wages. That is to say, upon the quantity of means of subsistence necessary for their existence and for the propagation of their kind. It's a world in whichviolent and regularly recurring industrial fluctuations determine on one hand the existence of a large reserve army of unemployed workers and on the other hand drive the mass of the workers from time to time onto the streets unemployed in which workers are crowded together in masses in the big towns at a quicker rate than dwellings come into existence for them under the prevailing conditions. He also says, and I think this is really interesting in the next sentence, that the capitalist has not only the right, but by reason of competition to a certain extent also the duty of ruthlessly making as much out of his property in house rent as he possibly can. In such a society, the housing shortage is no accident. It is a necessary institution.

Jordan van de Lamb: What Engles is saying is that a housing crisis or a housing shortage is not like a bug within capitalism, like an imperfect version of capitalism or whatever. This is capitalism working exactly as it's intended and it was designed to do. He also says, and keep in mind this is in 1872……' I transcribed your intro if you want to use Jordan. an 'Hello. I want to talk about this pamphlet on the housing question by Engles It's online if you want to read it. It pretty much describes you know what is a housing crisis? What is a housing shortage? And how do various groups of society solve it? Like from the ruling class to like utopian socialists uand how can you actually solve it? At the moment, we're hearing like pretty much every single politician being like, "I'm going to solve the housing crisis." And then literally none of them doing anything to do that. They proposed various things like cutting immigration, built to rent, like first home buyer schemes, and like we know all of this is just going to be useless. But uh yeah, 150 years ago, like in 1872, uh some old guy wrote about it and it's still true.

Engles writes,’ that a housing shortage uh is a necessary product of capitalism. He says that the housing shortage is a necessary product of the bourgeois social order. That it cannot fail to be present in a society in which the great labouring masses are exclusively dependent upon wages. That is to say, upon the quantity of means of subsistence necessary for their existence and for the propagation of their kind. It's a world in whichviolent and regularly recurring industrial fluctuations determine on one hand the existence of a large reserve army of unemployed workers and on the other hand drive the mass of the workers from time to time onto the streets unemployed in which workers are crowded together in masses in the big towns at a quicker rate than dwellings come into existence for them under the prevailing conditions. He also says, and I think this is really interesting in the next sentence, that the capitalist has not only the right, but by reason of competition to a certain extent also the duty of ruthlessly making as much out of his property in house rent as he possibly can. In such a society, the housing shortage is no accident. It is a necessary institution. Jordan van de Lamb: What Engles is saying is that a housing crisis or a housing shortage is not like a bug within capitalism,ordan 'Hello. I want to talk about this pamphlet on the housing question by Engles It's online if you want to read it. It pretty much describes you know what is a housing crisis? What is a housing shortage? And how do various groups of society solve it? Like from the ruling class to like utopian socialists uand how can you actually solve it? At the moment, we're hearing like pretty much every single politician being like, "I'm going to solve the housing crisis." And then literally none of them doing anything to do that. They proposed various things like cutting immigration, built to rent, like first home buyer schemes, and like we know all of this is just going to be useless. But uh yeah, 150 years ago, like in 1872, uh some old guy wrote about it and it's still true. Engles writes,’ that a housing shortage uh is a necessary product of capitalism. He says that the housing shortage is a necessary product of the bourgeois social order. That it cannot fail to be present in a society in which the great labouring masses are exclusively dependent upon wages. That is to say, upon the quantity of means of subsistence necessary for their existence and for the propagation of their kind. It's a world in whichviolent and regularly recurring industrial fluctuations dete

Western Leaders CAN”T SLEEP - Panic Is Spreading by Owen Jones

Click on Owen Jones 'An economic tsunami which will change our lives forever, which will change the course of our history forever. Seems to be very little understanding or awareness of this. Although Italy's defense minister has said he is losing sleep. He says, sorry, he says he cannot sleep because of his awareness of what is about to come. Now that's the consequences of the US/Israeli illegal war in Iran. A catastrophe which will prove the biggest strategic defeat for the United States since its emergence as a superpower. Perhaps proving the final kill or blow for American hegemony. Now before we come on to that, it's worth noting Donald Trump's latest threats because that's obviously linked. He says the United States of America is in serious discussions with a new and more reasonable regime to end our military operations in Iran. truly bizarre spin given in actual fact the US/Israeli assassinations of Iranian leaders means that the Iranian regime is now more hardline than it was before. It's also benefited from its base being consolidated because of a backlash within Iranian society. For some reason, ordinary Iranians don't like being pummeled with bombs from the air. But he goes on to say this, "Great progress has been made, but if for any reason the deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Straight is not immediately open for business, we will conclude our lovely stay in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electrical generating plants, oil wells, and Kharg Island, and perhaps all desalination plants, which we have purposefully not yet touched. This will be in retribution for our many soldiers and others that Iran has butchered and killed over the old regime's 47-year reign of terror. Now, to be clear, what he's talking about here is committing grave war crimes, obscene war crimes. There's literally just boasting about violating the rudimentary basics of international law governing the conduct of warfare.Now, we saw the normalization of war of war crimes with Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. And because of the lack of outrage over what Israel has done, as we warned many of us at the time, this would simply normalize barbarism. And that's what we're seeing because now Donald Trump can just willy-nilly attack, you know, suggest war crimes, threaten war crimes. No outrage. It's not described as threatening war crimes by most media outlets, not by our politicians. You know, any pretenses of saving the Iranian people gone. Because what he's suggesting here would devastate Iranian society. It would have a catastrophic impact on the lives of ordinary Iranians. It would take many years to recover from such a catastrophic attack......'

Petrol Panic, Pauline’s War Cry and Rupert’s Iran Push | Scam of the Week by Michael West

Click on Michael West 'As petrol prices bite, the Coalition turns a servo photo op into theatre while Australia backs another disastrous US led war. This week’s Scam of the Week looks at the political spin around the cost of living, the posturing over Iran, Pauline Hanson’s call to back Donald Trump, and why Rupert Murdoch still looms over war propaganda in Australia.' #auspol #iran #trump #albanese 

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00:00 - Petrol Price Theatre 00:30 - Trump’s Iran War 01:54 - The War Lie 05:24 - Penny Wong Lies 08:42 - Pauline Backs Trump 12:46 - Super Funds Exposed 14:24 - Scam of the Week Winner

Mehdi PRESSES Iranians Spokesman on War, Negotiations, Iran’s Human Rights Record-Medhi Hasan

Click on Mehdi Hasan 'In this exclusive and wide-ranging Zeteo interview, Mehdi presses a senior Iranian official, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei, who was involved in last month’s nuclear meetings in Geneva,  on the state of the war, the future of negotiations, Iran’s human rights record, and more.

Mehdi and Baghaei discussed Trump’s claims that Iranian negotiators are “begging” for a deal, Iran’s attacks on its Gulf neighbors, the country’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, its government’s brutal crackdown on protesters earlier this year among a range of topics. Mehdi also presses the spokesman on Iran’s illegal use of cluster munitions in this war, including an Iranian missile attack that killed three Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank last week. *This EXCLUSIVE interview was published a few days ago on Zeteo’s substack. If you would early access to content like this, on the ongoing war in Iran, then head over to zeteo.com and become a paid subscriber today - your support matters!' Chapters: 00:00 Intro 03:10 End to War 04:52 Trump’s Claims 06:01 Negotiations 12:00 Enriched Uranium 16:39 Peace Plan 18:59 Attacks on Gulf 21:51 New Supreme Leader 24:48 Crackdown on Protests 30:25 Cluster Munitions

US Ground Invasion Of Iran LOOMS -Owen Jones with Sina Toossi

Click on Owen Jones: Is a ground invasion of some description looming? Of course, we're talking here about US troops. Iran troops are heading to the Middle East in their thousands.

Sina Toossi : Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for your kind words. Really happy to be back on.

Owen Jones: Always. Let's just start with this. The troops. Do you think I mean that's where this is heading because the only way Trump thinks he can well he's stuck isn't he in the sense he's he's stuck between accepting a strategic catastrophe militarily for the for the United States can't just walk away because the Gulf of is closed and it can't obviously allow the economic damage to continue as you would see it there. But so then he thinks he he has to escalate it with ground chiefs. Do you think that's where this is heading? 

Sina Toossi: Yeah, I mean Trump I mean it's very scary because if he does choose to escalate to ground invasion of Iran, that's not going to make this easier for him. I don't think that's going to give him the leverage he thinks it may give him to get Iran to concede on the trade of Hormuz. It's just it's more going to be him doubling down on this failed policy and this failed war where it was launched on a bunch of deeply flawed assumptions about Iran, about the viability and durability of the Iranian government of its ability to retaliate and they clearly didn't expect that this is the way the war was going to go. This war has so far been very costly on every indicator really for the US including just on purely military conventional terms which I think many people didn't really expect. Like there was this New York Times article yesterday saying that pretty much all it seems like all the military US military bases in the region like 14 or 15 military bases have been made quote unquote uninhabitable. There's been strikes against you know radars air defences you know air refueling tankers you know US forces have been kind of fleeing into hotels waging the war remotely going to Europe. So now that the idea that you know with these assumptions having proven wrong with the regime still there intact…….’

Iran REJECTS US Terms - In The Driver’s Seat Now Owen Jones with Sohrab Ahmari

Click on Owen Jones 'Iran has said no to the demands which have been imposed by the Trump administration which had claimed that Iran had called for negotiations and was trying to pressure to get negotiations doesn't seem to be the reality.  

What's going on with the whole kind of MAGA movement and all the rest? Well, I'm really delighted to be joined by Sohrab Ahmari, who is the US editor of Unherd. He's an Iranian-American analyst and also an author, for example, of Tyranny, Inc. very accomplished uh and fascinating thinker. So, I've been following your writing for a while and learned a lot. So, it's great to have you. 

Sohrab Ahmari: Likewise. Pleased to be with you. 

Owen Jones: Just want to start actually with so look Donald Trump says you know we're we're going to have all these demands they list 25 points I think for their supposed demands to Iran. Iran has come back and said no that the war will not end on the when Trump says so. They say the war will end when they say so and that they say. The US and Israel are losing this war. What do you make of I guess the demands, what Trump's positioning has been and how Iran has responded? What do you think? 

Sohrab Ahmari:Well, the sort of barrage of demands are in line with the broader aimlessness and confusion of this war. You'll remember when the president first launched it in that like one, two in the morning message, it really leaned toward regime change, right? We were going to put Iran in the in the hands of its own people. Its destinies in the hands of its people, that sort of stuff. And you heard a lot of regime change type rhetoric. Then it changed to um denuclearization...'

Iran Could END US Hegemony by Owen Jones

 

Click on Owen Jones "The US elite is in a state of panic, outright panic, as they realize that the Iran war is ending US hegemony. The US has been a global superpower for over eight decades and has had unchallenged global hegemony for 35 years now. Now, his power was already in chaotic decline because of other military strategic disasters, for example, like Iraq, like Afghanistan, like Libya, and because of a crisis stricken economic model, as the 2008 financial crash from which we never recovered has underlined. Donald Trump himself is a symptom of US decline, but he is also an accelerant of US decline as the Iran catastrophe underlines. As we'll see, the gravity of the situation is sinking in amongst US elites, the end of US supremacy.

Although that itself comes with an important warning, which we'll discuss. All of this, to be clear,is down to Iran having control of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world economy's main arteries, and its power to destroy the energy infrastructure and water desalination plants of the Gulf States, and thus plunge the world into a global depression. is already causing economic mayhem in the United States. That's why Trump has retreated from his threat to attack Iranian energy infrastructure, its power stations, and is now claiming to be negotiating with Iran, which Iran says is a lie. Indeed, the Iranian regime has become more hardline because of the war. For example, Israel killed Ali Larijani, the country's national security adviser, last week. He was seen as relatively pragmatic and moderate. He's now just being replaced by a general described as being uber hawkish. 

Wow. Impressive. Now, let's talk about this panic. Let's start with Donald Trump's former defense secretary, General Jim Mattis. He says, "Iran right now, if we declared victory, they would say now they own the straits. You'd see attacks for every ship that goes through." That's exactly what's happening, by the way. We'll come on to that. This four-star general who commanded US forces in the Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan, the Iraq war, who was commander of US Central Command, says, "We're in a tough spot, ladies and gentlemen. I can't identify a lot of options." To which he can only say, "Whoops." He notes that Iran's goal in negotiations would include reparations and the end of US military presence and support in the region. He concludes I'm not optimistic about negotiations under the current circumstances. This former top US general and former Trump defense secretary understands the basic reality. The United States of America has suffered strategic defeat. A shattering strategic defeat indeed…..”

 

Media aids Pauline Hanson's grift | ABC staff strike | Rupert Murdoch pushes for Iran attack by Antoinette Lattouf and Jan Fran

Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf look at the role the media played in One Nation’s South Australian election surge and ask how should the media report on Hanson moving forward?

Plus: the Aussie news site pumping out hundreds of timely and factual news stories with zero journalists - just one software engineer and a whole lot of theft. Then, how much sway did Rupert Murdoch have over Donald Trump’s attack on Iran? We unpack how Murdoch’s ideology trickles down to his reporters. And finally, ABC staff walk off the job for the first time in 20 years. What’s behind the strike—and what on earth is the “Lattouf clause”? 0:00 What’s on the show, our Tshirts and live events 06:57 Murdoch, Trump & Iran: the hidden influence? 10:34 Do Murdoch outlets follow the boss’s lead? 13:35 This Aussie news site has ZERO journalists (!!) 20:15 AI is coming for journalism—are we ready? 23:15 One Nation’s shock surge in SA 28:45 Did the media help One Nation’s rise? 32:30 Barnaby compares Muslims to cattle 35:19 One Nation blacklists ABC 44:20 One Nation: No policies, mystery backers 48:00 Far right rising: role of journalists moving forward 50:10 ABC strike: first in 20 years 53:03 The “Lattouf clause”: the fight behind the scenes 57:48 Tucker Carlson vs The Economist: on Israel 1:04:03 Why journalists won’t say this about Israel

The Party Line on Trump’s Middle East Mayhem + the South Australian Elections by Anneke Demanuele, Omar Sherrife & Jordan van den Lamb

Click on Anneke, Omar and Jordan "This pod was recorded just after Trump gave the Iranians 48 hours to avoid the destruction of their entire electricity network, and Iran responded by threatening the water and energy infrastructure of the entire Middle East. So hopefully by the time you’re listening to this ep the internet still exists and World War 3 has not yet begun. In that case, we try and break down what the hell is going on in the Strait of Hormuz and generally with this war, and how the US and Israel are sending the whole planet into a political, military and economic meltdown. We then discuss the implications for all this on Australian politics, including the rise in petrol and grocery prices, the despicable RBA’s decision to increase interest rates, the far right lies about city-dwellers hoarding all the fuel, and what a genuinely pro-working class government could do in this situation. We then look at the surge in support for Hanson in the recent SA elections, and analyse how the hell we got to a point where One Nation is the main opposition party on the right, and how the ALP is responding by emphasising a very tepid form of liberal multiculturalism. We wrap by discussing our very successful anti-Hanson door knocking campaign in Melbourne over the weekend, where nearly 200 people got together to talk to people in working class and migrant communities in Melbourne’s outer suburbs, as well as the strong results for the SA Socialists in their first ever electoral run."

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The War In Iran Will Have DEVASTATING Economic Effects Chris Hedges with Yanis Varoufakis

Click on Chris Hedges: I want to begin Yanis with the consequences of economic dislocation uh in terms of societal unrest, I think back to my coverage of the war in the former Yugoslavia that was precipitated by an economic meltdown and hyperinflation which I believe contributed to the vomiting up of these Trump-like figures Radovan Karadžić. This economic dislocation has always throughout history consequences that extend far beyond you know economic punishment and I just wondered if you can talk about that.

Yanis Varoufakis: Sure. You are referring to the unintended consequences of a very stupid war into which uh Donald Trump has been Trump trapped by Benjamin Netanyahu because you know Chris until now I think that Trump was winning everything. He won the uh trade war the tariff war with the Europeans. He was very successful in weaponizing big tech and cryptocurrencies with a genius act from his perspective. He was winning and this is uh you know this uh um ridiculous campaign in which he has been sucked into for reasons which I don't think we will know until quite a few years pass. This is going to have long running long long-standing effects uh long-term effects. Chris, I was reading in the Wall Street Journal in the Financial Times some wishful thinking articles uh in which the the comparison was being made between uh what's happening now in Iran and uh liberation day last year. Remember when there was a spasm in the markets? The markets got panicky and jittery after the announcement of the huge tariffs that effectively suspended world trade for a week or so. And so the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal wishful thinking goes along the lines of well it didn't turn out that bad. Within a month or two or three markets were back. The economy shook off all uh you know concerns about recession and well maybe if this ends soon in the next few weeks uh then uh we will again be able to uh proclaim in a couple of months that it was a a silly thing that had happened but you know uh world capitalism US-based capitalism dollarized capitalism um proved resilient. Well, I don't think that this is possible. Not only because this war is not going to end very quickly. I don't think none of us have has a crystal ball, but I think that Donald Trump has been well and truly caught in this trap that Netanyahu has set up for him......

Trump HUMILIATED - Iran Forces RETREAT by Owen Jones

Click on Owen Jones 'Donald Trump has capitulated to Iran as he presides over the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the United States since it emerged as a superpower. All because of an illegal war of aggression which he chose to launch alongside Israel. None of this is hyperbole. All of that is an accurate assessment of where things stand, which is very difficult indeed to contradict on factual grounds. Now, if it turns out that Trump is currently exploiting this moment as some sort of ruse before launching a ground assault against Iran, then he's simply guaranteeing that the strategic defeat will be even more catastrophic. Little recap, shall we?

On Saturday, Donald Trump posted on his True Social Network, …‘That if Iran doesn't fully open without threat the Strait [Strait of Hormuz of Hormuz] of within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.’

Unambiguous threat. Of course,

Strait of Hormuz is where about a quarter up to of the world's oil supply passes through normally. Obviously, it's been shut down by Iran. Now, Iran responded by saying that if these strikes happened, then Iran would hit energy and IT infrastructure and water desalination services in the Middle East. Now, it is difficult to overstate just how catastrophic this would have been. The Gulf economies have already been set back, according to some estimates, 10 or 15 years. Already devastating economic consequences for them. Their whole selling point as autocratic oases of calm shattered. But this going after their energy infrastructure and their water desalination plants, it would have collapsed their economies. I mean I mean it would be worse than that. I mean destroying desalination plants would render large swaths of territory uninhabitable for a start. I mean we're talking about societal collapse and it would have plunged the world into a great depression. Utterly surreal to think that people all over the world were just carrying on their everyday lives over these last few days with no idea of what was going to hit them. And it should be emphasized they're already going to suffer grave economic consequences because of this illegal war. But this this what Trump was going to detonate was going to be one of the big before and after events of modern human history.

To be honest, in those circumstances, you wouldn't rule out a situation where Israel is going to end up using nuclear weapons. Now, I'm sorry to say the danger of all of that is not over, just to cheer you all up. But Trump, as deranged and extreme and sociopathic as he may well be, clearly understood that a global depression on top of what would end up being an even more catastrophic strategic defeat, would envelop his presidency. That's just disregarding for a moment what you can imagine would have been furious lobbying to say the least by Gulf States terrified that they had an existential threat hanging over them like the sword of Damocles…..

Oil Shock, Charity Money and Warrantless ASIO Powers | Scam of the Week by Michael West

Click on Michael West 'Australia is staring down another cost of living hit as war drives up oil and gas prices, while Canberra ducks bigger questions at home. This West Report examines the political fallout, Pauline Hanson’s rise amid collapsing social cohesion, Labor’s refusal to act on charities linked to illegal settlements and the IDF, and the sweeping ASIO reforms that could expand detention powers without traditional safeguards.

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00:00: South Australia, Santos and Pauline Hanson 01:02: Pauline’s War Call and Hormuz 02:28: Pauline’s Polls and Australia’s Polarisation 03:53: Cost of Living, Rates and Petrol Prices 05:22: Israel and the Inflation Threat 06:49: Russian Oil, Gas Profits and Nationalisation 08:49: Katy Gallagher and Charities Funding Settlements 11:57: New ASIO Powers and the SOTW Winner'