Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

Look out for your young people as the social media ban comes into effect on Dec 10. We've pulled the rug out from under them and some will need help. So please talk to your kids and keep a caring eye out for the young people in your life e know many Australians, especially parents, support this ban. Their concern for their children on social media are valid (as parents ourselves, we share those concerns) and something absolutely needs to be done. But our kids deserve better than this; they deserve leaders who'll fight for them against industries that profit from their harm - and not just Big Tech, also the gambling and fossil-fuel industries. So let's keep pushing for reforms that do that; and which protect not just our kids but all of us, our societies and democracy. We can do this. But right now, the main message we want to get out is: look out for the young people in your life as the ban comes into effect. Links to sources and further reading in the video description.

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Are Renewables Really Driving Energy Prices? | The West Report by Michael West

'Why are your energy bills so bloody high? Is it renewables, as the Coalition and fossil media claim? No. In this episode of The West Report, Michael follows the money through the entire grid, from generators to gentailers, to show that the real culprits are soaring coal and gas prices and corporate profiteering, not renewables.  We pull live data from the national electricity market to show how cheap rooftop solar and utility solar really are compared with coal and gas, and why renewables are already making up around half the grid while your bill still keeps climbing. Michael breaks down how privatisation created layer after layer of middlemen, why AGL, Origin and EnergyAustralia are raking it in, and how both major parties have let fossil fuel donors write the rules.'

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The Party Line on Migration, the NDIS & the Liberals-

'Episode 11 - The Party Line on the NDIS, migration and the Liberals The team start this ep with a bold marketing ploy: attacking our listeners. We then discuss Jordy’s invitation to attend am allegedly anticapitalist forum hosted by SBS (turns out, it wasn’t). We then discuss the disgraceful comments made by Zack Polanski in relation to migrant workers in the UK, and what it reveals about the limits of liberal anti-racism, before launching into a critique of Labor’s NDIS program and their plan to use AI to further dehumanise and disenfranchise people with disabilities, as well as the workers who support them. The main segment features Chloe Rafferty from Red Flag Radio, our smarter, more sophisticated elder sibling, who led us in a discussion about the current crisis in the Liberal Party, why Sussan Ley is not the answer, why the Teals are no better, and how the growth of the far right will impact Australian politics into the future.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors, Persephone Waxman and Charlie Wardrop.'

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We look to the rollicking Senate Estimates for our prestigious Scam of the Week. Who will it be, the world's most useless corruption commission, or the red Porsche at Home Affairs supremo, or the heroic 'terror granny'? Michael unpacks how a handful of very well paid public servants and political mates keep dodgy deals secret while ordinary Australians are told to just trust the system.

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The Party Line on Rising Tide and the Greens’ climate capitulation (ft Z...

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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

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