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Welcome back to Shouldn’ta Come! Are you a failed or failing Australian business?Maybe a large department store that rhymes with Schmavid Schmones? Or a video game company with a penchant for horses?

There’s only one person you can trust to tell you what went wrong and what you should have done instead, you silly little fool. They say hindsight is 20/20, but Ciaran’s hindsight is 40/40. Welcome to Business Advice With Ciaran!

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Hellooooooooo (but said to rhyme with "boo"). It's Yani and Ciaran, back once again to discuss the ghosts of Australian colonialism. But today, we will be looking at some of the frightening ways the violence of the past shapes the lives of the present, through some place names, hyperincarceration of Indigenous people, and maybe some spooky stories from the outback.

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Good Morning and Good Riddance! Wait. Bad Riddance! Get off the damn table!

We're here to talk about the NEWS! Not, like, "The News", but Data Centres, Sweatshops, Fast Fashion and Ben Roberts-Smith

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Is that Wedding Bells I hear? Perhaps a Sitar? Maybe a Balinese instrument or felt texta of some sort?

It's time for Part 2 of our WAGs and HABs series, and this week we look at a young man living his best life in Britain, some white Maharanees and a surprising appearance from a giant of our childhoods.

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Congratulations! You are an Australian and you have hitched your wagon to a powerful or influential person overseas!

We've got a fun one for you over the next couple of weeks, looking at Australians who have found themselves in odd situations, married to foreign aristocracy and such. We look at exiled Russians, Tech Moguls and whatever it is Elle MacPherson's been up to.

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Hi again everybody! What are your thoughts on the expression of the soul? The latent homosexuality of the idealised Australian man? The moments of realisation that turn a story on its head?

We finish, this week, our unexpected little two-part series on Dave "Hughesy" Hughes, Australia's comedian attempting to rebrand as a serious ambassador of money. We mainly, however, talk about the traditional theoretical components of tragedy and see what we think about them.

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Hi again everybody! This week we are stooping to cover entertainment news; as everybody, we are confused and astounded by the recent political turn of erstwhile Australian Hughesy, and it felt like a good time to knock out one of these more fun episodes. We take a look at the big fellas biography and then start to talk about tragic tropes, but then we go on too long so you can look forward to more Hughesy next week!<...

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Good morning party people! What a wonderful week it's been, unseasonably warm like every other season! Wait

We have guests again! This week we are lucky enough to be joined by James (Brisbane based musician with PistonFist, The Black Swamp, Razor Nun, Swamp Gully Howlers and a writer for Good Call Live) and Gab (cool gal, friend of the show, young person) to go through the history of chivalry and chauvinism through chorus in this country...

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Good morning folks! If you're a person alive in this country, you're desperate to conceive of a way of life that isn't hurtling towards extended pain and disaster for your descendants. This week, we chat to one of many groups trying to prototype a better, fairer and more sustainable world—my old employers at the Canberra Food Co-operative Shop and Café!

We speak with Tyla, an old friend who is part of the Co-op's 50th celebration org...

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You ever wanted to have sex with a cryptid? Ever tried to fight all of your party guests with a baby lock? How many kinds of animal can we talk about!

This week, for Ciaran's birthday I sourced some wonderful questions from friends and fans and put them to Ciaran, so we can all get to know him a little better, find out his thoughts on stuff and perhaps have a little chuckle.

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Good morning everybody! Had this one ready so I've dropped it a day early.

This week, we're just having a little look at the news, but we're going to be focusing on some oddly timed stories from the ABC and Guardian (among other papers of record). Among the multinational rescue effort reacting to the deadly Nepal/Tibet floods is China, and in the West, that's an opportunity to launder Sinophobia into respectable press.

We...

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I can't believe we're here!

The Barnodessy, our four part series about Australia's Most Famous Dog Menacer, Barnaby Joyce, is over. This is the downfall, where we cover the part of the story you've definitely heard about. Relive the riveting events of 2018 or so, travel with us through the vignettes that take us to One Nation, and see how the Joyce of Reason finally shed his skin for good.

Still red underneath.

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SIDDOWN!!!

Folks it's part 3 of four of the Barnaby Joyce story! This is where we reach the summit of the Barnaby Joyce experience. Moving from the Senate to the House of Representatives, Barnaby wrings every last drop of money that get put in his power as Agriculture Minister. He then finds himself in the position of Deputy Prime Minister, and we follow his, uh, machinations.

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Hi folks!

We're back with another look at the Barnaby Voice! It's part 2, where we cover Barnaby's time as a Senator for Queensland. Telstra gets sold, students get sold out, and climate action is cut.

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SIDDOWN! And brace your ears for another wonderful episode of Shouldn'ta Come, where we look at the childhood, young adulthood and early misadventures of Barnaby Joyce.

Most notably in the news for cheating on his wife and two separate dog-intimidation incidents, briefly reaching international attention when he threatened to deport Johnny Depp's dogs, Barnaby Joyce has been a reliably chaotic voice of Australia's Populist Right Wing. Now a member of One Nation, his red face promises...

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Hi folks!

This week, Yani puts Ciaran through a contrived quiz, to guess the age of Australia's Invasive Religious Buildings. Basically, we're going to work backwards in time, from 1994 to 1793, and Ciaran's going to try guess which religion set up their first place of worship in Australia in the year in question.

What that means for you, is a perplexing trip through Australia's migration and industrialisation I guess. Hope you enjoy!

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Hello everybody! Sorry this episode was a little late to get up, I just forgot to actually upload it.

For Queensland listeners: send an email to your State MP via the Conservation Council

This week we're looking at some of the things that just happen here, or here and one or two other places and those places are really telling. A bit of anticolonial revenge, some animals that unexpectedly roam the desert, our national...

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Hello and welcome!

This week on Shouldn'ta Come, we have a little deeper look at the Territory behind the Government described recently as "Trump-like". Is this true? Are people in the Northern Territory using the mechanisms of government to enrich themselves and commit violence on an underclass? We look at what the last few years have been like up North, from the brutality and racism inherent in the prison system to the lazy corruption that political...

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Namaste Folks!

This week, Yani takes Ciaran through some of the basic structures of Hindu Nationalism; the relationship between the Hindu majority and the Dalit/Adivasi minorities, some poorly-understood Genetics, and then the ways in which Hindu Nationalist organisations operating outside of India conceal their ideology and promote a liberal multiculturalism all the while supporting (emotionally and, in many cases, financially) violent, nativist groups in India.

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Hi everybody! We're back with another thrilling week of Australian Jurisprudence or whatever. We're looking at the Social Cohesion Antisemitism Royal Commission, and I had a read through all of the presented evidence and I have something to report!

We try our best to get to the meat of what's presented, what peak Zionist bodies such as the Zionist Federation of Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry would want us to know about the...

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Hello everybody!

Wonderful to have you with us again! We are working on our big look into the Antisemitism Royal Commission and wanted to do a little companion piece looking at Royal Commissions of the old and slightly less old days. We wanted to figure out their general purpose and effectiveness, but mainly ended up pointing and going "huh???" at some weird people from the 1930s.

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Hey folks!

This week we're popping around the news to cool off a little bit, see what's going on, catch up on our stories, all the good stuff.

We start with the story of a Queensland man with a "High public profile" who's named as a party in some legal proceedings. We follow up by talking about the extremely high profile Julie Bishop and the impact she had on the Australian National University, where...

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Hi folks!

Wonderful news—we live among geniuses! Yes, though we are pretty hard on the Australian intellect at times, there have been the odd resonant brainwaves on this parched continent. We talk about a super cool spear thrower, some political bullshit, a food, a vehicle, a drink and some surprising instrument lore!

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Hi folks!

We have reached the end of Jacqui Lambie month here at Shouldn'ta Come, where we cover her time in political wilderness, her reality show moments, and the second iteration of the Lambster as a politician.

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Hi folks!

We continue the Month of Lambie with part 3, where we get properly acquainted with the Jacqui Lambie years that everybody remembers; Clive Palmer, the Sharia Law arguments, her son with an ice addiction, and the big stunts. Featuring some returning characters!

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Hi folks!

We're back with Jac part 2, the second part of our...trilogy...saga...about Jacqui Lambie of Tasmania. We talk about Jacqui's time working her way up through the army, the types of boys she's had to deal with over her life, and the process of wresting any decency from the Department of Veteran's Affairs.

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Hi folks!

The Good Ship Shouldn’ta makes her first stop on the North Western Coast of Tasmania, or as they call it in Devonport, The Coast. We are here to meet one of the more enigmatic and entertaining yet ignorantly racist politicians that this country has ever produced: Jacqui Lambie.

This will be a three part series, and we spend this week getting to know her family history and her upbringing, as well as...

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Hey Folks!

Rawr! That is how a Dinosaur would say "welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come"! This week, Ciaran takes us to paleontological height this podcast couldn't have dreamed of reaching. We look at the relatively few confirmed cases of Dinosaurs Down Under, including an extended look at Gondwanaland. It's a great time if you're into Dinosaurs, especially ones with slightly disappointing names.

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Hey Folks!

It's the end of April, where things are getting wet and wild! (It's raining again). It's been raining bleak times lately, and I appreciate the chance to get them out of my head, have a laugh about them, and hopefully help people stay on top of some of the big and small stories that happened in the last few weeks.

We speak about Bikram Lama, Sydney's "Birdman", whose body lay at a...

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Morning folks! We've got a fun one this week, or at least one that's not about the worst of Australian society and war crimes.

In Australia, we have plenty of towns named after places in the British Isles, or at least after some Englishman or another. But have you heard of Surat, Queensland or Bagdad, Tasmania? Yes, we also have some places named after other parts of the world, and today we go on a quest...

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Hey Folks!

Ben Roberts Smith, famously evil piece of shit war criminal, is also an abuser, a cheater, a general bully and has some of the most powerful supporters in the land.

Hopefully he'll go to jail!

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Hey Folks!

We are back with an episode that isn't a whimsical adventure, so if you were hoping for more of that, wait for next week I guess? We're talking about Surrogacy! The practice of implanting a fertilised egg into a woman, usually a poor woman, who's going to carry it for you so that you can have a baby. This is, in our opinion, a gross practice.

We look at what the laws...

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Clickety-click and welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! This week Ciaran is feeling a little nostalgic and so we dive into an Australian classic film, Dot and the Kangaroo. Australia's second ever animated feature film is a cherished memory for generations of Aussie kids, but what do you remember about it? And did you know there were eight subsequent Dot films? Come closer, eat this magical root, and come with us into the Dot-verse.

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Hey Folks,

Among the death, disaster and looming famine, interest rates have gone up. I don't really know what that means, so we try our best to understand what levers are actually being pulled here. We spend a bit of time looking at the people who make up the RBA board and their odd connections to a specific country...obviously, it's Israel.

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Remember when the Australian prime minister cowardly supported illegal, brutal and racist military action by the United States and Israel? Oh, I'm not being specific enough? Rather than the ongoing Iran attacks, the Genocide in Palestine, the invasion of Syria or the string of Gulf Wars, we will today be talking about the 2003 war in Iraq.

We start by looking at whether John Howard was ever going to not support the war...

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Hey folks!

If you're in the Brisbane area and Friday the 13th of March has not passed yet, please consider signing the Save Woogaroo Forest petition, regarding a development in Springfield threatening to clear 136 hectares of Koala Habitat. Link here.

This week, we start by taking a brief look at the phenomenon of European wellness trends describing extremely mundane activities, like going on a walk or getting some sun. Then, we continue our exploration...

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Hey Folks,

We're putting this episode out early because we talk about a few timely things, and don't want to be completely out of date when we put it out.

I (Yani) am going to make the classic mistake of saying "Khomeni" when talking about "Khamenei", but just know I mean "the guy who just died".

We also talk about the so-called "ISIS Brides" and the disgusting jingoism and sadism behind the...

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Hey folks, lovely to have you here on Shouldn'ta Come! Bob Katter is notorious for 'claiming to be a blackfella on odd occasions' while being an old-school racist. He's also regarded as slightly confusing for the occasional seemingly contradictory belief, especially when it comes to Economics issues. This week, we have a look those two aspects of Bob Katter, Australia's most notorious politician, as we continue our deep dive into the man.

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Welcome back to Shouldn’ta Come! This week is all about updates and news, baby.

Ruh-roh, Raggy! Recent changes to protest and hate speech laws might mean a phrase in John Farnham’s ‘Two Strong Hearts’ is ILLEGAL.

In NBA basketball news, are we to see reform or revolution with the draft process?

Then we (don’t) travel back to K’gari to discuss the impact of a Canadian tourist’s death on the dingo p...

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Hey folks! I prophesize that you're going to listen to this episode and share it with all your friends!

We take a look at some of the prophecies—predictions without percentages—that have visited Australia's shores since colonisation. There's the Smith Wigglesworth statements, The Mulunga Cult during the Indigenous Resistance, and then some modern kooks giving us their awful opinions.

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