Craig "Fozzy" Foster is a former Socceroo who has become not only one of Australia’s most respected sports commentators and broadcasters, but also one of our most respected social justice advocates and human rights campaigners.  This episode is Craig's keynote speech at the 2022 Refugee Legal Annual Dinner, which I happened to MC online. It's followed by a brief Q&A between Craig, myself, and Refugee Legal's Executive Director (and former LIASYO guest) David Manne. Fozzy is extremely dedicated and clear-sighted when it comes to the fight for human rights - for refugees, for women, for workers, for sportspeople, for everyone - and this speech was a great reflection on the various campaigns he's been involved with, and the state of human rights on Australia and across the world right now. It was especially enlightening to hear Craig discuss the human rights issues surrounding the World Cup in Qatar, and how massive sporting events can sometimes provide massive opportunities to advocate for greater human rights protections.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron  My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out now!!! I'm touring my new stand-up show IT IS I all over the country in 2023 Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @Craig_Foster  ARTICLE: Craig Foster lashes out at FIFA over 'gutless' move at World Cup Cause of the Week: Refugee Legal (refugeelegal.org.au)

257 - Craig Foster

My book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out in the world! Gosh.  We launched it in Melbourne with a lovely event at the Easey Street Concert Hall in Collingwood, featuring me in conversation with my mate Osman Faruqi. Oz and I discussed the guts of the book and why I wrote it, and I read some bits out and took questions and we all had a great time. I hope you enjoy listening back to our conversation.  If you're in Sydney, you can come along to the launch at Better Read Than Dead tonight where I'll be chatting to Jan Fran; or if you're in Brisbane, come along to Avid Reader on Tuesday night to hear me chatting with my Serious Danger comrade, Emerald Moon.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I'm doing some big fun shows at Just For Laughs Sydney this weekend, too   

256 - Talking "I, Millennial" w/Osman Faruqi

This week I'm bringing you a taste of my debut book  I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else. You'll hear the full prologue from the audiobook that sets the whole thing up and talks about me doing drugs. The book comes out next week -  you can pre-order it here. I'm having book launches in MELBOURNE, SYDNEY and BRISBANE -  check out the details and book tickets here. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I’m hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December  I’m doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger  

255 - "I, Millennial" Prologue

Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality.  Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much. This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron  My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December  I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @BenSchneiders  Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA & Fair Work Commissions by Ben & Royce Millar Cause of the Week: Join your union (australianunions.org.au) IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (raffwu.org.au)

254 - Ben Schneiders

I'm back! Again! Sorry about the big gap between episodes. I am bad.  Leo Puglisi is a digital journalist who just so happens to be 14 years old. He founded what would eventually become the online news service 6 News Australia when he was just 11, and he's since grown it into a respectable independent media outlet that does pretty great journalism, and regularly puts mainstream "adult" media outlets to shame. During the 2022 election, Leo even managed to secure and conduct insightful interviews with Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese.  Here Leo talks to me about starting a media outlet so young, what he sees as the mission behind 6 News, the kind of criticism and trolling he's had to face online, his dedicated to fact checking and what he thinks makes for a great political interview.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron  My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th - pre-order it now Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @Leo_Puglisi6 @6NewsAU 6newsau.com patreon.com/6newsau Cause of the Week: Sponsor me in the ASRC's KMs of Compassion here

253 - Leo Puglisi

Jim Casey is a firefighting unionist, socialist and co-founder of the Australian Firefighters Climate Alliance. He is an anti-capitalist GREENS EXTREMIST who has twice run as a candidate against Anthony Albanese in the seat of Grayndler.  As he gears up to run for Greens preselection to be an upper-house candidate in the 2023 NSW state election, Jim took some time to talk to me about his time leading the Fire Brigade Employees Union,  the state of the Australian labour movement, his theories on why real political power lies outside of parliament and the controversies he ran into when taking on "Albo".  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger  My special "ENOUGH" is out on Paramount+ this Friday @JimCaseyGreens jimcasey.online  ARTICLE: We've Never Seen Conditions As Bad As This by Jim Casey    ARTICLE: Anthony Albanese: Labor heavyweight's Greens rival Jim Casey defends "Trotskyist" speech Cause of the Week: Rachael Jacobs, Greens Candidate for Grayndler (support her here)

252 - Jim Casey

Georgia Steele is a former corporate litigator and now independent candidate running in the NSW seat of Hughes at the upcoming federal election. (The seat's currently held by former Liberal MP, now United Australia Party TRUTH-TELLER Craig Kelly.)  In this conversation I discuss with Georgia Kelly's bizarro mind and political career, why she thinks the people of Hughes deserves better, the issues that she's campaigning on, her rejection of political ideology and her thoughts on why the two-party system is failing.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger  I’m coming to The Clubhouse in Hobart March 17th I'm making a cool TV show in lutruwita with Kates McLennan & McCartney @Steele4Hughes georgiasteele.com.au  ARTICLE: Ex-lawyer Georgia Steele to run as independent in Craig Kelly's seat during federal election LISTEN: Our Serious Danger episode on the "teal wave" of independents running in the upcoming election Cause of the Week: The Family Co (thefamilyco.org.au)   

251 - Georgia Steele

David Shoebridge MLC has served in the NSW upper house since 2010, and has been the Greens spokesperson for workers' rights, energy and Aboriginal justice.  In 2022 he's running to pick up another NSW Senate seat for the Greens (and it's actually possible!).  In this conversation I ask David about NSW politics' love of corruption, how he developed his radical politics, what the Greens could achieve in balance of power and whether Greens MPs should have anything to do with investment properties.   Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger  I'm coming to The Clubhouse in Hobart March 17th @ShoebridgeMLC David's Facebook page David's instagram The Greens' Balance of Power pitch  Cause of the Week: David Shoebridge's Senate campaign (nsw.greens.org.au) 

250 - David Shoebridge MLC

This week I'm bringing you the audio of a panel I appeared on, discussing the reason behind and ideas around the recent boycott of the 2022 Sydney Festival.  I joined dozens of other artists in withdrawing from the Festival to protest its acceptance of $20k in sponsorship money from the Israeli embassy; a sponsorship which guaranteed Israel the honour of being a "star partner" of the festival.  Here I'm in conversation with academic Dr. Jumana Bayeh, the Executive Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy Salem Barahmeh and my fellow boycotters Dr. Mohammed Ahmad (founding director of Western Sydney literacy outfit Sweatshop) and Maissa Alameddine (the Artist Director of the Ensemble Dandana, which is part of the Arab Theatre Studio).   Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @PalestineRising  "Artists Against Apartheid Sydney Festival" petition   ARTICLE: Sydney Festival acts boycott over Israel by Farid Farid  ARTICLE: Why I'm helping to organise a boycott of this year's Sydney Festival by Jennine Khalik   ARTICLE:Boycotts are an essential and necessary part of public life by Osman Faruqi  ARTICLE: From Safsaf to Sydney: Palestinian resistance and the festival boycott by Jeanine Hourani, Rihab Charida & Matt Chun Cause of the Week: Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Australia bdsaustralia.net.au 

249 - Palestine Justice Movement Sydney Forum: "Why We Are Boycotting The Sydney Festival"

Writer and journalist Johann Hari has returned to the show to discuss why our brains have melted. His new book is called Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and it is a fascinating, depressing and insightful look at the "attention crisis" we're facing as a society. Johann tells me about just how bad this situation is, how much social media and technology is responsible for it, its social and political implications and what the fuck we can do about it - as individuals, and as a collective.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @johannhari101 johannhari.com Johann's first appearance on the show was back at Ep #73 You can order Johann's latest book Stolen Focus here: stolenfocusbook.com  Read an extract of the book here

248 - Johann Hari Returns (On "Stolen Focus")

Van Badham is a playwright, author and activist, and she's returned to the show to discuss her latest book, QAnon: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. Here Van lays out precisely what the QAnon conspiracy theory actually is, how it came into existence and how much it has shaped - and continues to shape - politics in the US and here in Australia. We discuss the most bonkers beliefs involved in all this and what the theory's success tells us about the internet and the failures of the modern Left, and we disagree about what happened to JFK. Merry Xmas everyone! See you in 2022, when everything will be fixed forever xx  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron  Catch me (and a crazy good line-up) performing at Just For Laughs Australia at the Malthouse Theatre in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @vanbadham  Van's book QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults  Van's podcast is The Week on Wednesday  ARTICLE: If your friends or family have fallen for an internet conspiracy cult, here's what you should do by Van Badham  AN EDITED EXTRACT OF VAN'S BOOK: QAnon: how the far-right cult took Australians down a 'rabbit hole' of extremism Cause of the Week: Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (asrc.org.au)

247 - Van Badham Returns (on #QAnon)

James Button is a freelance journalist, ALP member and former speechwriter for the former prime minister Kevin Rudd. He recently wrote a three-part, in-depth series for Nine/Fairfax on "cancel culture": what it is, why it exists and what it means for the Australian Left.  In this conversation James and I go deep into his argument and the three pieces and try to clarify how this social phenomenon manifests itself when it comes to issues of race, gender, art and politics.  On some fronts we agree, on others I try to push back and challenge some of the common arguments that are wheeled out on this stuff.  It's long, but (I hope) really worthwhile. TL:DR - class politics is GOOD and we need MORE OF IT PLEASE.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @JamesButton49 (though he rarely tweets!) Read James' three-part series on cancel culture:    "They cancelled me as a human": what nearly killed Logie winner Hugh Sheridan  Gender, sex and power: the debate dividing universities  Is identity politics killing the left?   ARTICLE: The Failure of Occupy is Almost Complete by Freddie deBoer  ARTICLE: Woke politics and power by Waleed Aly  Cause(s) of the Week: Savannah Pride (savannahpride.com.au); Marrin Weejali Aboriginal Corporation (marrinweejali.org.au)

246 - James Button (on Cancel Culture)

Nyadol Nyuon is a former refugee, lawyer and passionate advocate for human rights and anti-racism. This is her keynote address at the 2021 Refugee Legal "Not The Annual Dinner" (held via Zoom), which I MC'ed, followed by a Q&A session with Nyadol and Refugee Legal Executive Director David Manne. It's a passionate address about why human rights are important to her (and why they should be important to you), the realities of race in this country and the ongoing legacy of the War on Terror on our society and politics.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel THIS WEEK! Two shows only Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger  @NyadolNyuon Nyadol's address at the National Press Club, "Australia Reimagined"  Cause of the Week: Please support Refugee Legal's work (refugeelegal.org.au)     

245 - Nyadol Nyuon (Refugee Legal Dinner 2021)

NEWS: I have a brand new podcast to share with youse.  It’s called Serious Danger, it’s about the Australian Greens and green politics in Australia generally and I’m doing it with my cool friend Emerald Moon. Also it’s going to fix everything. Have a listen to hear the trailer and find out why I wanted to make the show in the first place. (Also don’t stress: I’ll still be posting episodes of LIASYO for the time being.) Find out more and subscribe to the show by heading to seriousdangerpod.com Find us on twitter, Instagram, Patreon and YouTube on @SeriousDangerAU Get to know Emerald more by catching up on our conversation together from last year. &lt;3 u  

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Luke Hilakari has been the Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council since 2014. He's been a Labor member since he turned 18 and has played a key role in electing (and re-electing) the Andrew Labor government and fighting for marriage equality and workers' rights.  In light of all the BATSHIT anti-vax protesting that's been going on in Melbourne of late, I wanted to ask Luke about the presence of anti-vax organising within the labour movement, why some workers might be attracted to this ideology and what can be done about it.  We also discuss the class war that the pandemic has shone a light on, solidarity, why strikes are beautiful, spanking the Labor Party and how the union movement will be approaching the upcoming election.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December @lhilakari weareunion.org.au  ARTICLE: We need a royal commission into the organised far-right in Australia by Luke Hilakari  ARTICLE: Has solidarity succumbed to the rise of rage? by Waleed Aly  Labor's policy's on workers' rights for the upcoming election  Trades Hall's Sticking Together book Cause of the Week: Australians For A Murdoch Royal Commission (murdochroyalcommission.org.au)  

244 - Luke Hilakari

Professor Megan Davis is a Cobble Cobble woman from Queensland and is the current pro Vice-Chancellor and Balnaves Chair in constitutional law at the University of New South Wales. She's worked for the United Nations and has been intimately involved in the campaign for meaningful constitutional recognition for Australia's First Nations people, and had the honour of first reading out the Uluru Statement From the Heart publicly in 2017. Four years on from the creation of the Statement - with its call for Voice, Treaty & Truth - Megan updates me on where the campaign for a constitutional First Nations Voice to Parliament is at, the roadblocks that remain, designing a model and searching for bipartisanship ahead of a possible referendum.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December  I’m doing Easey Comedy in Collingwood on Thursday November 11th with Dave Hughes @mdavisqlder  ARTICLE: The Uluru Statement, four years on by Professor Megan Davis INTERVIEW: The Uluru Statement - where to from here? on ABC Overnights with Rod Quinn  ARTICLE: Police officer not guilty of murdering woman during confrontation on Geraldton street (ABC NEWS)  Cause of the Week: Uluru Statement From The Heart Campaign (ulurustatement.org)  

243 - Professor Megan Davis

Sean Kelly is a writer and journalist, who's a former adviser to Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. His new book is The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison and it's great/scary/infuriating. With great insight and wit, Sean really tries to get at who our Prime Minister is, what drives, what (if anything) he believes in and what his political success says about us a country. We discuss how Morrison plays the "game" of politics, why he won in 2019 and whether he can be beaten again by the ALP in its current state.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December  I’m doing Easey Comedy in Collingwood on Thursday November 11th with Dave Hughes  I appeared on "The Culture" podcast to discuss Dave Chappelle's latest special with Osman Faruqi & Cassie Workman My last episode with Sean @MrSeanKelly The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly at Black Inc Sean's writing for Nine Fairfax Media  ARTICLE: Morrison sees votes in anti-Muslim strategy by Lenore Taylor (2011)  ARTICLE: Albanese says he's in the final quarter, so when is he going to start kicking goals? by Sean Kelly  Cause of the Week: The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au)  

242 - Sean Kelly (Returns)

Sylvie Ellsmore is the Greens mayoral candidate for the City of Sydney in the upcoming NSW local elections. She's running a campaign to make Sydney a city for everyone, not just the rich, with a particular focus on housing and grassroots democracy.  This was a fantastic conversation about the state of local Sydney politics, the legacy of independent mayor Clover Moore and the Greens' vision for how the local city council can play a much more activist role in fixing the truly cooked Sydney housing market. I think you'll find Sylvie's passion ideas inspiring and cool. Go team.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December  I’m doing Easey Comedy in Collingwood on Thursday November 11th with Dave Hughes @Sylvie_E Sylvie's candidate page Sylvie's Facebook Sylvie's instagram  If you live in NSW make sure you're enrolled to vote in the local elections by the end of TODAY (October 25th)  ARTICLE: Greens want the City of Sydney to lead on affordable housing Check out the federal Greens' policy to build 1 million homes Cause of the Week: Welcome Merchant (on linktree); book for the Greens for the City of Sydney Dinner Party  here

241 - Sylvie Ellsmore

Christiaan Van Vuuren is a comedian and YouTube star who you know from Bondi Hipsters, Bloom and At Home Alone Together. He's the presenter of a great new documentary about money in Australian politics called Big Deal, which was directed by the Chaser's Craig Reucassel.  This issue drives me (and I'm sure you) crazy, and it was great to get stuck into a similarly-outraged Christiaan. We touch on just how much money is washing around our politics, how much anti-democratic influence that money has, why "transparency" simply isn't enough and why Christiaan is optimistic about the possibilities of change and fixing this shit.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron  I'm doing Easey Comedy in Collingwood on Thursday November 11th with Dave Hughes I’m recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December  I'm hosting a discussion with Craig Reucassel and a great panel as a fundraiser for the Greens at 6:30pm tonight; book now!  @ChristiaanVanV @MakeItABigDeal Watch "Big Deal" on ABC iview DemocracyForSale.net Cause of the Week: MakeItABigDeal.org  

240 - Christiaan Van Vuuren (Big Deal)

Dr. Helen Haines is a former nurse and midwife who now serves as the independent member for the Victorian seat of Indi. Since she entered the parliament Helen has been fighting for the establishment of a federal anti-corruption / pro-integrity body that will actually do what we want it to do: justly hold our public servants to account and root out the shitty corrupt behaviour that is rife in our politics.  In the wake of Gladys Berejiklian's resignation as NSW Premier after ICAC announced it was investigating her (because that it's job), Helen and I discuss what an effective federal body would look like, the Morrison government's scaremongering about accountability, the chances of Helen's bill getting passed and the corrosive influence of political donations.   Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron WE ARE ALL IN THIS is scheduled for the Brisbane Comedy Festival in November I'm recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December  THIS THURSDAY NIGHT come along to the Greens' National Campaign Kick-Off @helenhainesindi helenhaines.org  Helen's press release on the Federal Government's response to Gladys Berejiklian's resignation  ARTICLE: Why Scott Morrison and his government oppose a NSW-style anti-corruption watchdog   ARTICLE: The long history of political corruption in NSW - and the downfall of MPs, ministers and premiers   Cause of the Week: UNICEF's CoVax Appeal (unicef.org.au/covax-appeal)  

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