We're much refreshed and back at it again after a week off. Luckily there was juuuust enough news for us to put together a show. There is a CW for one of our First Nations stories, which involves the name of an Indigenous man who has died at the hands of police. That segment runs from 45:50 - 50:05. This week we're serving up...   Aperitifs: Morrisons climate targets, COP21, and News Corps' new slightly pro-climate headlines  UFU: Victorian Labor are in trouble over branch stacking after Federal MP Anthony Byrne was questioned by IBAC this week. They also corruptly embezzled $14 000 worth of stamps. It's truly riveting stuff.  Positivity Corner: Queensland renters now are legally allowed to have a pet except in extreme circumstances. ALso, Wilcannia, the Western NSW town that was the epicentre of a corona outbreak, now has zero active cases!! All thanks to the incredible collective response of the community and Aboriginal health organisations.  First Nations: CW from 45:50 - 50:05 for the name of an Indigenous man who died during a police interaction and the sad and horrible story behind it. We have another First Nations story which is more uplifting about the Wangan and Jagalingou people conducting a ceremony on their land which just so happens to be where Adani wants to build a coal mine.  Check out their websites: https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/ and https://standing-our-ground.org/ and follow them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WanganJagalingouStandingOurGround/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wjstandingourground/)   Blurst Take: Columnist Janet “witch hunts are cool when I do it” Albrechtsen wrote a terrible, terrible hit piece on Grace Tame. Stay classy, Alberchtsen.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Give us $1 a month and get a monthly bonus episode, and help us pay for transcriptions! www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  If you want to read the episode instead of listening, transcripts are uploaded usually within a few days at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Watch Noon play games on twitch at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

Auspol Snackpod: Australian Politics and Memes

119 - Shortstack Branches (with IBAC syrup)

We're taking a week off! Woo! So we're releasing this bonus episode from a couple months ago. Zac did some actual research about Bob Hawke acting as an informant for the US Government, and Noon did some rants about the Rendlesham Forest incident and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.  Support us financially over on Patreon for a bonus episode every month: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  For more please check out Cameron Coventry's work about Bob Hawke: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341655929_The_'Eloquence'_of_Robert_J_Hawke_United_States_informer_1973-79  For more about Bobby Kennedy, check out the RFK Tapes: http://rfktapes.com/  For more about Rendlesham Forest, keep watching the skies.   

118 - UNLOCKED BONUS: Definitely True Facts about Bob Hawke (and aliens)

You know, Gladys? Gladys Berryjuicelemon? Well, anyway, this week we're serving up: Aperitifs: It is #BirdoftheYear time! Drop your vote for the regent honeyeater here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/27/australian-bird-of-the-year-2021-vote-now-for-your-favourite  Also, the fallout for our cancelled submarine deal with France continues with the EU delaying negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement.  Coronas: The Victorian outbreak is getting real big and scary, though we're getting closer to our vaccination targets. We also look at how the Disability Royal Commission has put the government on blast for their sneaky and underhanded decision to remove people with disabilities from the vaccine rollout.  Read the draft report here: https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/covid-19-vaccine-strategy-and-roll-out-people-disability-seriously-deficient-draft-report  ACAB: Queensland cops are suing their employer over the vaccine mandate. Do YOU have thoughts about the vaccine mandate? Because we don't know what we should think.  Potluck: Our listener Peter had some thoughts about recruitment tactics. First Nations / Positivity Corner: The Daintree Rainforest and three other National Parks have been officially handed over to the management of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama (people).  SPOTW: It's a Gladys roundup!  UFU/Mains: We remind you what happened with Gladys and Daryl and ICAC, and catch you up with the events of this week, and the likely replacements for Gladys both in the seat of Willoughby and as Premier of NSW.  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially and get a monthly bonus episode: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

117 - Gladys Berryjuicelemon

It's another super long episode because our story on the Melbourne protests accidentally went nearly an hour long. Whoopsie doodle! Hopefully you find our discussion at least somewhat interesting or insightful. We also have a couple of trigger warnings at the end of the show. Time codes are below and we give warnings when you're listening before the stories start.  This week we're serving you... Aperitifs: Christian Porter is out of the ministry. Also, there was an earthquake! Fashy Australia/ACAB/SPOTW: Protests in Melbourne around the construction industry. We chew over the events of the week and try to come to some actual positions. Plus we have a Potluck from Mitch, one of the hosts of Not Good Enough Pod! You can listen to them at https://notgoodpod.com/  Positivity Corner: Jordon Steele-John has been given the Greens' Federal Health Spokes role, and announced a new mental health care policy that would see unlimited mental health care funded by Medicare. We also have some amazing art from Imo Timo and you can see more of their work at https://www.instagram.com/imotimos_art/ or buy prints at https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ImoTimosArt  First Nations: CW for names of people who have died from 60:00 - 1:05:00 and discussion of police violence against First Nations people from 1:05:00 - 1:10:00. We have three stories here. 1: a cool art exhibit called Viewpoints (also check out this article: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/07/first-nations-photography-reframed-this-is-who-we-really-are). 2: Fella's Bill passes the SA upper house unanimously, meaning that the state will ban and criminalise the use of Spit Hoods. 3: update on the inquest of an Aboriginal man who was killed while being chased by police.  Mains: CW for intense misogyny and sexual harassment and assault from 1:10:00 to 1:21:00.  A listener wrote in to us with their story about sexist discrimination in the Labor Party.  Business Time/the P-Zone: Please support us over on Patreon! For just $1 you get a monthly bonus episode PLUS a bunch of other stuff. www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Follow us on the Soc Meedz! @auspolsnackpod on all the things. You can also watch Noon play games at www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames. You can ALSO also listen to Noon talk about Judaism on Perth Radio here: https://rtrfm.com.au/show-episode/midnightspecial-2021-09-23/ 

116 - CFMEUman Centipede

We have a big show this week, with some actual uncomplicated positivity, some big brain economic analysis, and of course, le memes. We have a CW for our First Nations story for the name of someone who has died and descriptions of police violence. IF you'd like to skip that story it runs from 24:00 - 30:50. Our second FN story is also about racist policing but isn't graphic, and goes from 30:50 - 33:50. This week we're serving up...  Aperitifs: Christian Porter kind of discloses donations, and Joel Fitzgibbon is stepping down.  Positivity Corner: Eastern barred bandicoots are no longer extinct in the wild! And a wombat did a HUP  SPOTW: Picnic is Coming to Victoria.  Coronas: Victorian Indigenous vaccination rates have been massively inflated, and we also check in on the outbreak in Wilcannia, NSW. Read more about the Wilcannia situation here: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/2705/Transcript%20-%20Pandemic%20inquiry%20-%2013%20September%202021%20-%20UNCORRECTED.pdf  First Nations: CW for the name of an Indigenous woman who died and police violence. If you want to skip it it runs from 24:00-30:50, it's about an inquest into the death of Ms Wynne at the hands of police.  UFU: The Australian economy miiiiiiight do a small collapse as the worlds most indebted company, Chinese developer Evergrande, circles the drain. How will this affect the trout population?  Fashy Australia: What's that? We're overly reliant on China? Why don't be build nuclear subs to point at them? This will affect the trout population I think.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! Please consider giving us a dollar at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

115 - Iron Chef

Welcome back to another serving of Snackpod! We're trying things a little differently so we're starting off this week with... Aperitifs: Matthew Guy is back; Lyle Shelton is disendorsed by God; Women's Safety Summit was pretty depressing (more of this in the next story); Kristina K Keneally is parachuted into the Lower House.  Fashy Australia: (CW from 13:30-24:30 to for discussion of sexual assault and systemic misogyny) The Human Rights Commission job has been handed to Lorraine Finlay, a terrible conservative Liberal from WA. We also talk about Scott Morrison not just abdicating responsibility to deal with violence against women, but he's actively making things worse.   First Nations/Positivity Corner: Two First Nations women are standing as Greens candidates. Dorina Cox will replace Rachel Siewert in the Federal Senate, while Dianne Stokes has just been elected to the Barkly Regional Council in the NT.  SPOTW: We have a load of posts! Shoutouts to Steph, Effy, and Frank, with whatever the opposite of a shoutout is to Julian Burnside.  Potluck: this is the segment where we hear from our audience! This week we have a great potluck from Jack (listen to him on the Spooky Speaks podcast!) about Universities and their crappy employment practices.  Mains: The High Court - Australia's highest court, dontchaknow - has ruled that media companies are at least potentially liable for defamatory statements made on their Facebook posts. We discuss it from a few different angles.  And you'll have to wait until the end for our Pupdate!  Please support us over on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

114 - Hummus & Rice Commissioner

We have another bumper episode for you all to chow down on! I think the first half of the show is pretty fun, but with our usual emotional whiplash, the back half of the show has a few content warnings. There are discussions of police violence against Indigenous people, discussing people who have died, and discussion of DV and sexual assault. We've mentioned it in the show before each story and there are timecodes below for you to skip. This week we're serving up... Entree/Blurst Take: Barnaby won't be bullied about climate policy / it was our fourth hottest winter ever  SPOTW: Cringe of the Week goes to Dr Queen Victoria with a lay-up assist to Nys! But the worst post of the week goes to Family Voice for their Fathers' Day photo competition.  Positivity Corner: We have actual positivity corners! Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action sue the NSW EPA; Queensland moves to decriminalise sex work; Srsly Wrong who are our idols are definitely aware of who we are; and Noon's orange tree has finally fruited after several years.  First Nations (CW 35:30): Zac watched Incarceration Nation and reports back about the film and some of the debate that it has raised.  Coronas: There's a UK deal for vaccines and people aren't going to their appointments. But the real news is that the Government totally abandoned their responsibility and has allowed coronavirus to get into prisons. The way they're dealing with it is also bad. Also an Indigenous man has died of Coronavirus for the first time since the pandemic began.   Fashy Australia / Mains (CW 1:03:30): It's a misogyny round-up. John Setka gets worse by the day, as does the Federal Government, who are refusing to implement recommendations for women's safety.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  If you like the show please consider supporting us financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

113 - Covid-Cola

I know we say "there's bad news" every week but this really is a pretty heavy episode, at least the back end of the show. We have a few content warnings that start at about 59 minutes - more specifics below. To balance it out we've tried to put in a few mini positivity corners throughout.  Transcripts of our episodes are uploaded within a few days at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Entree/Blurst Take: Craig Kelly has joined the United Australia Party which surely can't be good news for anyone.  Mini-Posi-Corner 1: Tasmanians will have much easier abortion access!  Coronas: Gladys is un-lock-down-ing, just as the cases continue to skyrocket. Plus, the government COVID Safe app is not only useless, it's actually making contact tracing much harder.  Potluck: We're not good at quick maths, but Nathan is! If you want to send us a potluck please record yourself talking for about a minute and email it to us at contact@auspolsnackpod.com  Mini-Posi-Corner 2: Truck drivers who work for Toll Group are striking!  SPOTW: How can we go past Croodsposting? But we also had a great SPOTWOOH as well as some honourable mentions. Waaaa!  Mini-Posi-Corner 3: 33 refugees have been released into community detention this week! So good. But they still need help setting up their new lives so please consider supporting this fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/freedom-for-refugeees  ACAB: The police have been going HAM beating up children and pepper spraying people. Meanwhile, the anti-lockdown protesters are also useless jerks!  First Nations: Wilcannia is an Indigenous community that has been systematically discriminated against for years and is now a covid hotspot. Info for how to donate to help them eat and get medical care: https://twitter.com/Meriiki/status/1431014887392563201  Fashy Australia: CW at 59:00 for suicide and descriptions of violence. Koneshwaran Krishnapillai, a Tamil refugee, died this week by setting himself on fire in Melbourne. Help his family pay for the funeral: https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-for-koneshwaran  Mini-Posi-Corner 4: It Could Happen Here is happening again! It's a podcast by Robert Evans, one of our favourite podcasters, about the collapse of modern society.  Season 2 has just started, go check it out!  And you'll just have to wait to the end for our quite extensive Pupdate!  Support us on Patreon and get a monthly bonus episode and some other cool stuff! www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod Watch Noon play games and read theory: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames   

112 - Paleo Croodités

After fully two years of mildly hassling him, our Fifth Beatle Lewis has finally come on the show! He's here to drop some knowledge about Afghanistan and critique some common left wing positions about the war (as well as the war itself, of course). Also featuring a fascinating and alarming digression about the NSW-Sudan war. We have a regular show for you too - we're serving up...  Positivity Corner: Australian neo-Nazis have been impressively infiltrated by journalists and their numbers are dropping as a result. This is the Yeah Nah video about Jarrad Searby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvu6HYhlJ8  SPOTW: There was a great thread riffing on Zac's meme with Rex Patrick's submarine costume, plus a lay-up assist to Holly for flying a kite at night  Coronas: It's bad! Numbers are rising rapidly in NSW and playgrounds are being closed in Victoria.  First Nations: Surprising absolutely no one, it turns out that when Aboriginal people are put in charge of their own healthcare management they do really, really well. Also unsurprisingly, the colonial government is exposing First Nations communities to unnecessary risk.  Fashy Australia: Really this could have been every segment... but two refugees are suing the Australian Government for illegally imprisoning them on Nauru as children.   Mains: What's up with Afghanistan, and the withdrawal, and the Taliban, and Australia's war crimes, and so on?  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! ft. Lewis's doge Koca.  Support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Watch Noon Play Games: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

111 - Bronanas ft. Lewis

Hello Snackpack and welcome back to another episode! We took a week off but we're back at it again with a chonky yet easy-to-swallow episode full of Australian news, politics and memes.  This week we're serving up...  Entree: IPCC report on Climate Change and Scott Morrison's useless response  SPOTW: Goes to Matt Canavan for being a useless sod  Broken Clock: We're awarding this to Scott Morrison and the Parliamentary Liberal Party for very very briefly doing something decent  Positivity Corner: We have two fully positive corners, the first is WA legislating safe zones around abortion clinics, and the second is that Victoria has finally decriminalised sex work! Let the Victorian Government know you support the changes here: https://engage.vic.gov.au/sex-work-decriminalisation  First Nations: There's a CW from 46:00 for the use of the name of someone who has died. Specifically, a woman from Yolngu who was involved in the creation of three absolutely spectacular volumes about Yolngu language, land, and culture. Check out their website for more info and links to purchase: https://www.yolngusignlanguage.com.au/  Coronas: the Government's double standard around Jobkeeper and "privacy" for big businesses who have made record profits during the pandemic.  And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Please consider supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod which helps us pay for transcripts! Transcripts of episodes are released (usually within a couple of days) at www.auspolsnackpod.com  Go watch Noon playing games on twitch: www.twitch.tv/NoonPlaysGames 

110 - Marinara Subs

We're very excited to announce our special guest host this week, Australia's Boyfriend, Tom Tanuki! You know who he is - he's one of the country's pre-eminent antifascists, as well as a kook-watcher, and he's on this week to talk about the anti-lockdown protests. He drops a bunch of knowledge and even gives us an update on his beautiful cat Chimpy. And thank you all so much for getting us up to 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts! Even though we have more than 100 we would LOVE more so please go leave us a review uwu Watch him on the youtubes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYgRzstFX-CwCGq781If_dw  Support our show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Read this article Tom mentions from Cam Wilson: https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/07/28/seven-people-groups-anti-vaxxers-vote-next-election/   

109 - 2 Tom 2 Tanuki

Please stick with us past the first minute of this episode because we start messy but I think the episode is a good one! We spend quite a while on everyone's favourite segment of Auspol Snackpod: the sports news. Also, we're nearly at our goal of 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts, please go and leave us a review. There's a CW from 35 mins til the end of the show because we discuss transphobic views in a bit of detail. This week on the show we're serving up... Entree: Friendlyjordies is asking John Barilaro to weaken his own position in their court case  Coronas: Gladys wants all the Pfizer for NSW and we talk about the ATAGI (Atagi?) issue and how Scott Morrison has yet again made life difficult for himself by being a useless muppet  First Nations: the Eastern Guruma people are refusing to do Welcome to Country ceremonies for Rio  SPOTW: Golden Dawn! They're... swimmers?  Blurst Take / Fashy Aus / Mains: Crikey published a rabidly transphobic article, and Zac does a bit of a deep dive into the author and the way that transphobia and fascism are related / the same thing, and the way violent anti-semitism pops up if you scratch the surface of a transphobe. And you'll have to listen to the end for our Pupdate!  Support the show financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  Read about fascism and transphobia: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/03/20/alert-transphobic-feminism-and-far-right-activism-rapidly-converging/  Tweet thread from @christapeterso: https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1416599964214448130   

108 - Cheese n Crikeys

It's a long one, Usul! We're serving up two hefty stories - Fashy Australia about the BLM protest at the Parklea Prison, and a roundup of the last few weeks news about Da Corona! Plus we have a couple of Positivity Corners, some quality memeage, and of course a Pupdate about our good and worthy little shriekhounds.  Please RATE AND REVIEW us on Apple Podcasts, we need somewhere between 3 and 5 more reviews to get to 100!! If you like what we do and want to chuck us some cash, please do so at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod   

107 - VR Bacon

It's NAIDOC Week so we have a fully First Nations focussed episode. Our last few stories have heavy content warnings for the names of dead Indigenous people and discussion of police violence, which starts at about 41:20.  Entree: What does NAIDOC stand for, and why does it stand for that? Check out this thread by Khadija Gbla: https://twitter.com/KhadijaGbla/status/1412950412643028996  Also, listen to Broriginals: https://awesomeblack.org/podcast/ep-107-always-was-always-bilby/  SPOTW: Multiple winners this week with a variety of NAIDOC content! Coronas: Once again it's extremely obvious that First Nations communities have just vastly better outcomes when they are in control. Zac takes us through a vaccine rollout in the NT and Noon has a brief aside about St Joseph's.  Positivity Corner: Seed Mob are an awesome group that has managed to get a senate inquiry up into fracking in the Beetaloo Basin ACAB: Content warning starts here at about 41:20 for the rest of the show. Zac talks about the police shameful behaviour at the coronial inquest of a man killed during a police chase.  Fashy Australia: An Australian forensic pathologist gave evidence that "excited delirium" was a factor in an Aboriginal man's death in custody. Noon gives a bit of a history lesson of this incredibly racist, made up disease. For more check out Behind the Bastards: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-excited-delirium-how-cops-81965684/  We're trying to get to 100 reviews on Apple Podcasts! We have 94 so we need.... roughly six more! You can also support us financially at www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod  And you'll just have to listen to the end for our Pupdate! 

106 - NAIDOC Weets

We're taking a week off so we're playing our very popular bonus episode in which Zac finally talks about veganism at length! The challenge was to talk about it "from a non-entitled wanker point of view" which I think Zac managed to do admirably. This isn't an hour long rant about how meat eating is evil, it's more like an hour long rant about how much Zac loves animals, so regardless of your relationship with veganism there's almost certainly something you can get out of this interesting discussion. And please leave us reviews over on Apple Podcasts! We're nearly at 100 reviews and we only need a couple more! To those who left reviews this week, we'll read 'em out next time but THANK YOU they were unbearably sweet. Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

105 - (UNLOCKED) Vegan DESTROYS carnists with FEMINISM and LOGIC

Bite sized chunks of Australian politics and news, served up with a side of crispy memes