265 - Goodbye
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
Oh hello. As the title suggests, this is my little way of letting you know that I'm wrapping up Like I'm A Six-Year-Old once and for all. I've loved doing it - and thanks so much for listening to it and supporting it over the years! Bloody hell! - but I feel like after eight years, hundreds of conversations, a bunch of live shows, a pandemic and a book, it's time for me to move on and focus my energies on other things. - that's here to stay, and I'm excited to grow that show as much as possible in the coming years. The LIASYO back catalogue will remain up and available...
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264 - Ben Abbatangelo
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
Ben Abbatangelo is a proud Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk man and a social commentator. He’s the former deputy CEO of global non-profit AIME, has appeared regularly on The Project and the ABC and has written for The Guardian and The Saturday Paper. Based on some of his recent work, I’ve sensed that Ben’s been going through something of a political shift of late, towards somewhere a bit more radical, and I was keen to talk him about it. In this conversation we discuss what that shift has involved, the naivety he’s left behind and what it means for his politics now. Ben also tells me about...
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263 - Larissa Baldwin-Roberts
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Larissa Baldwin-Roberts is a proud Widjabul Wia-bal woman from the Bundjalung Nations and has been a progressive activist since forever. She's a co-founder of the First Nations climate pressure group SEED Mob and is the current CEO of GetUp!. In this conversation I ask Larissa about where her politics come from and how she thinks about political ideology. She outlines how she views GetUp!'s role under a Labor government, her unique perspective on climate politics and how she thinks (/hopes) the Voice referendum debate is going to play out. To get discounted tickets to Sydney, use the promo...
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262 - Professor John Quiggin
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
John Quiggin is a widely-respected economist and professor at the University of Queensland. He's a former member of the Australian Government's Climate Change Authority, and he's written widely about the scourge of neoliberalism and privatisation. I wanted to get John on the show to discuss the essay written by Treasurer Jim Chalmers for The Monthly back in February, "", in which he laid out his vision for "values-based capitalism". In this conversation we discuss what the hell that actually means, whether or not it's a hollow idea, and just how much this Labor government is prepared...
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261 - Alison Pennington Returns
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
She's back! Economist, comrade and now author Alison Pennington returns to the show to discuss her debut book . We discuss how all the good jobs disappeared, our massively cooked housing market, replacing intergenerational warfare with class warfare and how young people can build political power under this "progressive (?)" Labor government. To get discounted tickets to Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney, use the promo code PODCAST For discounted tickets to my shows in Brisbane,
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260 - "I, Millennial" Event LIVE in Warrnambool
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This week's episode brings you the conversation I had with some other generational voices at a live event at the public library in my home town, Warrnambool. Alongside Zoomer and journalist Sharna Rogers, Xer and psychologist Dr. Jodie Fleming and Baby Boomer and celebrated aid worker Bob Handby AO, I discussed three big topics I explore in my book : housing, work and the climate crisis, and how these issues play out for Australians of different ages. The conversation was moderated by the brilliant Ailiche Goddard-Clegg, and it was a bloody great chat,...
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259 - Polly Hemming
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute's Climate & Energy Program. Just this week she was giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the Labor Party's signature climate policy, the "Safeguard Mechanism" - which, I'm sorry to say, stinks. It stinks real bad. Here Polly lays out exactly just how much of a mess this policy is: how it's not designed to reduce emissions that are cooking the planet, but rather protect the profits and interests of the fossil fuel lobby. We also discuss the DEEPLY dodgy world of carbon offsets and the marketisation of the natural...
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258 - "I, Millennial" Extract: Privatisation
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Oh hello. I am back again. Look at us. This week I’m bringing you another taste of my debut book , which is now out and about in the world. This is an extract from the chapter on privatisation - "From Our Warm, Public Hands" - which lays out just how much of our public shit has been flogged off, goddammit. ALSO: To get discounted tickets to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney, use the promo code PODCAST For discounted tickets to my shows in Brisbane,
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257 - Craig Foster
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
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...
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256 - Talking "I, Millennial" w/Osman Faruqi
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
My book 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.
info_outlineDr. 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.
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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
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
Cause of the Week: UNICEF's CoVax Appeal (unicef.org.au/covax-appeal)