Auspol Snackpod: Australian Politics and Memes

Whatup snackerfans! We're back with a one-off episode we owe to our Shadowy Financiers! Noon read Weatherboard and Iron by Barnaby Joyce, the pettiest book ever written.

We miss you and hope you love the episode

Well, that's it! We're out of here. And we're leaving you with one last episode that unfortunately has the worst sound quality since like episode 5. Hopefully it's still listenable and you enjoy hearing me and Zac say goodbye.

Huge immense thankyous to all our listeners, friends, supporters, patreons, snackerpals, well-wishers and onlookers, and especially to the people who sent in potlucks for our final episode. 

This week we're serving up...

NOTHING. 

And you'll have to listen to the end for our last ever Pupdate.

Please don't sign up to ou...

We're very sad to announce that Auspol Snackpod is coming to an end. We've got a regular news episode for you this week, then next week will be some kind of special finale episode. It's your LAST CHANCE to send us potlucks about news, politics, or memes, or really anything and we'd really love to hear from you so PLEASE record yourself speaking for a minute and send it to us at contact@auspolsnackpod.com.

We also have another bonus episode to do and our plan is to answer EVERY SINGLE QUESTION OR REQUEST all in one...

We're very excited to have friend, confident, and member of our inner sanctum, Travis on the show! He's a founder of Awesome Black, a First Nations multi-media organisation that "develops original First Nations talent and unique storytelling content across a variety of mediums". Go check out their shows and support the AB Club: https://awesomeblack.org/ 

This week we're serving up...

SPOTW: Bevaning is at dangerously high levels after the SMH outed Rebel Wilson. The good news is this new data allows us to develop a clearer understand of Bevandynamics. 

Kook Watch/First Na...

Welcome back to... season 2? We've taken a hard right turn so we can continue to be critical of SOCIALIST TYRANTS the Australian Labor Party. This week we're serving up...

Aperitifs: Price of money going up. Coolibah herb unionist get an incredible win. Clowns CAN legally rub their butt on windows. 

Positivity Corner: the Murugappan family are back in Biloela!!!! 

(Post-) Election Section: There, uh, there was an election? We have a new PM, a new opposition leader, and... well, that's about it thus far. 

First Nations: Tasmania is raising the minimum age...

Zac's been taken to a black ops site on a small island, so we're releasing last month's bonus episode this week! It's a fun, loose and long one today because we dived as deep as we could into some whacky (or are they??) Australian conspiracy theories.  

As the basis of our research we used @John_Macgowan's "definitive Australian conspiracy theory iceberg" which you can see in high(er) res here: https://mobile.twitter.com/john_macgowan/status/1333922659185303553 

The ones we ended up going into were: RAAF Min Min Lights Investigation, Tamam Shud, Bjelke-Petersen Death Camps, pre...

We had an election! Not sure if you heard. This episode is in two parts, the first part on Election Day and the second part after the results have come in. It's a loose & fun one where we just shoot the shit.

And we also have an extra special Political Pupdate!

Support Snackpod financially: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

If you can't or don't want to listen you can READ our episode transcripts over at www.auspolsnackpod.com 

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It's a super special excellent amazing NOT AN ELECTION special episode!

We are heartily sick of the boring, reactionary, useless and misguided policies that are being floated, proposed and discussed during this election campaign. So we thought we would reach out to some of our extended Snackpod family who work or volunteer or study or live or care about various issues and topics to ask, what would an actual GOOD policy be?

The potlucks we're serving this week are...

Feminism: Leah from Loud Angry & Not Sorry gives some wide-ranging and incredible policy suggestions...

This week we’re serving up…

Aperitifs: The government gave a sort of dodgy contract to a fairly dodgy company and also wrote them a nice letter

Election Section: Pauline Hanson has ‘ghost candidates’ and a hilarious website, and the News Corp media is bashing the teal independents

Positivity Corner: Strikes, strikes, more strikes! Vic & NSW Bus Drivers and also NSW Public School teachers have all taken industrial action this week.

Fashy Australia: refugees are being treated awfully and moved in handcuffs to Christmas Island 

First Nations: the NT Governmen...

Earlier this week Zac sat down with Anastasia Kanjere from A New NTEU. She's running for the NTEU General Secretary position and came on the show to chat about her campaign, the National Tertiary Education Union, and the tertiary ed sector in general.

You can follow Anastasia (https://twitter.com/a_kanjere) and A New NTEU (https://twitter.com/ANewNTEU) on twitter to keep up to date with their work. 

We also have a regular show for you! This week we're serving up... 

SPOTW: Goes to first time poster Maeve, with honorable mentions to...

There's pretty much nothing happening except the election, i.e., there's pretty much nothing happening. But we have a show about it! 

Election Section: There was a leader's "debate", the Labor Party have announced they hate the planet and everyone in the country, Albo got "da bib", and Liberal Transphobe Katherine Deves continues to make everyone mad (see episode 108 for more: https://auspolsnackpod.podbean.com/e/108-cheese-n-crikeys/) 

Fashy Australia: Todd Sampson is a doofus and is taking happy snaps with active, out-and-proud white supremacists 

First Nations/Positivity Corner: CW for discussion of massacres + geno...

"Mini" he said. "Just a few minutes" he said. Well, here's a not-super-long episode from ya boy Noon about Pesach (Passover) the Jewish festival that Easter happens at the same time as.

There's even a teeny tiny little bit of Auspol in there if you pay attention.

I hope you all have a revolutionary pesach full of freedom

Get your mowers going because it's a long episode this week. We're serving up:

Aperitifs: Shoutouts to Loud, Angry and Not Sorry for their recent episode with Celeste Liddle, listen here: https://loudandangry.podbean.com/e/feminist-baddies-with-celeste-liddle/ 

Also, the Government's reduction in the fuel excise has left truck drivers with almost nothing. 

Mains: What is an inflation? What is an interest rate? What the hell is everyone talking about? 

Positivity Corner: All the men held in Park Hotel Prison have been released! 

First Nations: Two Indigenous senators from the Green...

It was the budget! And you know what that means: almost nothing. This week we're serving up...

Fashy Aus: A couple of terrible laws have been passed: the Mutual Obligations Bill and new anti-protest laws in NSW. Yikes! 

Positivity Corner: Australia is at record high levels of industrial action. And it was Trans Day of Visibility this week!

This week we're serving up...

Aperitifs: Aged care workers getting screwed over by the government (surprise!) and John Barilaro is suing Google. 

Election Section: Labor won the SA election last weekend! 

First Nations: Yoorrook Justice Commission has officially launched! Go check out their website:  https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/ 

ACAB: Why are cops involved in the flood recovery? Seriously, wtaf? Watch Tom Tanuki's video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srbwelwyzlo 

SPOTW: Shoutouts to Liam and/or the Herald Sun for their Albo policies infographic 

Positiv...

Hello dear listener! We're back on our regular nonsense with a normal show for you all. This week we're serving up...   Aperitifs: Kimberley Kitching has died, and the government has announced a one-off vote buying payment   First Nations: (CW 7:30 - 23:35) the result of the Rolfe trial in NT   Election Section: South Australia went to the polls!   Positivity Corner: Star Casinos is getting absolutely hammered for their alleged massive crimes   C is for Climate: Good news everyone! The Environment Minister doesn't need to consider Australian children when expanding coal mines.   Potluck: Thanks to C for sending this in! My bad, and thanks...

Zac's away having fun or something so earlier in the week I sat down with Jo, host of the Chronically Fully Sick podcast to snack down on the news and memes.

There's been a LOT of news since we recorded, especially the murder trial for a police officer in the NT, which we will definitely talk about next time. So just a warning that there might be some things you expect us to discuss that we do not. 

This week Jo and Noon are serving up... 

Aperitifs: International Women's Day and Labour Day! 

We're back! Sorry about last week. Also maybe about next week. But this week we have a regular old show for you all! We're serving up...

Aperitifs: Morrison has COVID; Clive Palmer has Hitler's car; World War III?

SPOTW: You never want to go full Bill Shorten. 

Climate Cookies: Floods all over the North East of Australia 

First Nations: a teenaged boy was killed by cops and then the cops lied to his father about it. Also, Victoria has approved reparation payments for victims of the Stolen Generations. 

Positivity Cor...

We had such a good time with our guest last week, we decided to get another one! We got JB to come on the show to talk about sex work decriminalisation and other legal frameworks, as well as the ethics of the sex industry, moralising, and about a million other things. And they didn't even get to their second point! 

This week we're serving up... 

Election Section: NSW had four by elections, most of which were at least fairly interesting! 

SPOTW: Antony Green got Ligma'd. 

Positivity Corner: JB talks to us abou...

We're very excited to announce our guest host Tilde! She's a unionist and organiser and twitch streamer and a confirmed poster and came on to talk to us about the Religious Freedom / Anti-Trans Kids Bill and to explain the sad machinations of our political parties. 

There's a content warning for our First Nations story which involves an Indigenous man who was killed by police, and the use of his name. The story runs from 44:40 to 55:50.

Oh and by the way, sorry about the little peeps from Bagel. He was in dog jail while we recorded a...

There was legitimately way too much news this week. We had to cut loads of stories and all the stories we kept ended up being TOO INTERESTING. So, hopefully you have plenty of lawns to mow today. This week we're serving up...

Aperitifs: Queensland is having ANOTHER Fitzgerald Inquiry - an anti-corruption investigation of their anti-corruption body, because they might have done a tiny little coup of one council one time. Separately, Ben Roberts-Smith is Barbara Streisanding and Mr Beaning his way to having his alleged war medals revoked. 

Kook Watch: Canberra is hosting some mo...

It's a post-heavy episode this week, with plenty of news and even a new sting/segment! We're serving up...

Aperitifs: Solar grants for struggling yacht clubs; Anne Ruston manages to be deeply insulting to disabled people while trying to praise them; Centrelink doesn't have a database so much as a pile of inaccessible documents. 

Positivity Corner: Zac gives us some patented Le Snak brand art analysis, about the red paint poured over colonial statues of Captain Cook. 

First Nations: The copyright to the Aboriginal flag has been purchased by the Federal Government, in di...

"It took twenty seven takes, and that was the best one." That's our motto for the first 5 mins of the show. But after that we're serving up all the news, politics, and memes that you could possibly eat in one sitting.

This week we have...

Aperitifs: Ben Roberts-Smith, alleged war hero, lost a side-case in court and has been forced to pay close to half a million to Jo Dyer. A cop has been suspended and charged with assault after throwing someone face first into the ground. Morrison lies blatantly (but is that news at t...

It's our first episode of 2022 and we're bringing our new year slimy matrix goo pod energy! This week we're serving up...

Coronas: There are no RATs! Partly because half the truck drivers in the country are sick with the covid! Partly because there are no RATs! Also there's a labour crisis! Is there a great resignation going on in Australia? Whomst could say. 

Kook Watch: Sovereign Citizens set fire to Old Parliament House, then tried to use the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as cover. The situation is complex and shitty in multiple ways. 

Positivity Co...

We're back! With another episode of memes, memes, and more memes, with a robust side of extremely cool and popular guest host Holly!

We go from July to the end of the year with our posts of the week, meandering a little as we all fall asleep (we ended up recording this roughly 3 hours later than intended). From NAIDOC to loving submarines (it risky) to the Croods, it's been a year of absolute c o n t e n t and we salute you for it. We'll be back in January sometime! Love youse all, have a...

Boy howdy it's been a long year. A long, painful, long, difficult, isolated, long year. But we've been posting through it. The entire nation has really lifted our meme game during the pandemic and in this week and next week's episodes we're going through the posts, content, tweets, and memes that defined our year. We're also joined by robust and popular podcaster extraordinaire, Holly! 

Part 1 is January to June, and there are some quality posts we've got for you, from the foreboding omen of our first ever SPOTW all the way to FOUR TYPES OF DAMAGE and t...

Zac's away again this weekend so we recorded this earlier this week. Hopefully there haven't been any massive developments in these stories since then...

Aperitifs: Gladys may or may not run for Parliament; we're boycotting the Olympics but kinda not really; and Barclay McGain dressed up as Kyle Rittenhouse for Halloween (slightly late but extremely gross!) 

Coronas: NSW has seen several court cases about vaccine mandates. Thus far they have all failed. 

Positivity Corner: NSW teachers and public transport workers have both gone on strike! 

Fashy Aus: The NTEU carefully removed stu...

It's another longthful episode this week because there's just too much dang news! There are a couple of CWs, time-codes are below. 

This week we're serving up...

Aperitifs: Craig Kelly on new Social Media Inquiry, Greg Hunt is retiring to spend more time watching porn on twitter, VicForests will save Christmas by destroying Melbourne's water supply, and Coles is thefting even more wages than they were wage-thefting before! 

SPOTW: Adam Bandt's corporate blue tick facebook profile joined our meme group, and so far, has disappointed us 

Kook Watch: Victorian pandemic powers bill...

We're finally back with a normal episode and it's an extra long one because there's just too much dang news! This week on the menu is:

Aperitifs: Trans Day of Remembrance, NSW State Elections, VicForests doing mad crimes, and Dutton wins a defo suit (boooo). Read more about forestry crimes here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-24/hi-res-elevation-data-pinpoints-outlaw-logging-in-forests/100626640 

Potluck: Big thanks to Jess for this potluck about Powershop. Please send us a potluck! Just record yourself speaking for one minute and send it to contact@auspolsnackpod.com 

Fashy Australia: The religious dis...

It's another pre-recorded episode this week - lucky there's no news, right?? Snackpod are the proud owners of one of maybe only eight or ten copies of Gina Rinehart's alleged jokebook, Jokes and Joys (Dedicated to Aussie Mother). So for this week's episode, we read some of the least vile jokes and memes straight from Australia's richest person.

This episode somewhat apropos of Alex McKinnon's article about Australia's billionaires (read it here: https://www.gawker.com/politics/meet-australias-batshit-insane-mining-billionaires). Shoutouts to Elyce Philips, owner of another one of these deeply cursed books. (Check her out on twitter: https...

Noon is away this week dealing with a smol MH crisis, but never fear because robust fan favourite and peoples' champion Holly is back to celebrate No Knowledge November. Excitingly, we also have a new segment and sting for you! Also just a heads up that next week will be another unusual episode but it will have both Zac and Noon on it (unless something goes horribly wrong).

This week we are serving up...

Aperitifs: Morrison gets a haircut (it's election season), and Tim Smith crashed his Picklemobile! 

SPOTW: Goes to Noon's mum fo...

Zac's off this week, so Noon caught up with Mev, one of the organisers at Slutwalk Naarm/Melbourne. She chats with us about the history of the movement, consent, victim blaming, the word slut and the pros and cons of using it as part of a radical organisation, and more! We hope you love the show this week. 

Slutwalk Naarm/Melbourne is happening next week 13th November at 1pm on 3CR. It will be hosted hosted by Chilli & Aretha Brown! Tune in & turn it up!

2021 rally fb event: https://fb.me/e/2Bpg8tHY2 

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It's a newsy week and we've got a long newsy show for you all. This week we're serving up...

Aperitifs: Crown Casino lose their license but also don't, featuring Noon singing. The Federal Government is trying to bring in voter ID laws. And Michael Leunig has been fired from the age. We also have a SPOTW for Meag's Leunig knock-off. 

Positivity Corner: ICAC continues to ICAC, with both Gladys Berejiklian and Daryl Maguire taking the witness stand this week. We re-enact some of the tapped phone calls and get you up to date with all th...

Hello and welcome to Freedompol Snackfreedom, the freedom-based podcast that is no longer in lockdown. It's a jam-packed episode this week! We do have a content warning from 46:40 - 53:00 for a story about the death of an Indigenous woman at the hands of police, so if you don't want to hear that you can skip past it.

We also have MULTIPLE SPOTW award winners, thank you all for your hard work. This week we're serving up... 

Aperitifs: Lockdown is over in Melbourne; Candace Owens is invading Australia; ICAC continues to investigate the situation with Daryl an...

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...

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 abo...

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 dec...

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 ove...

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: Ea...

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 d...