Best weaknessforbleakness Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 59 - God Bless Ye Merry Godboyz 1:53:29

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Happy holidays, Bleakers. This time around we're talking about Victorian Labor and the big rural rail project (but not really) and then about our past experiences of religious faith or lack thereof (or is there a difference!? Yeah.)By weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 58 - PresBident 1:43:40

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ayyy, we're talkin heeyuh! It'sa a me, Maaahrio! Gedda loada these mooks Biden and Fitzgibbon, ya goombah! Ayy, dat's it. Tell Bowzah I said ayyy, I'm WALKIN HEEYUH!By weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 57 - The Absolute Goy 2:31:40

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Hey listeners, heard you like megasodes. What's that? Two and a half hours is too long for a podcast episode? Well, on the one hand, you're right. And on the other, here we are. We got carried away with our first in-person record but there was a lot to talk about: The upcoming US election, the downgoing QLD state election, a li'l Musk Update for ya…

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Episode 56 - The New Levelers 1:42:06

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oi oi Bleakers. More bad audio this time. Bought the wrong batteries. We're talkin' supreme court, we're talkin' Kent border, we're mainly talking the New Libs, the Diggers (not those ones) and the Levellers. Levelers? Levelers. orright. Take it easy, have a good one.By weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 55 - Darcy Davis 1:42:32

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Hey bleakers. The Zoom is running out of battery, I can't find the power supply and there are no fresh 9 volts in the house so you're dealing with the warpy shit audio from Kieran again. We've got a langurous look at the mental workings of the enemy today. First up, the wonderbrains of the mostly-lib writers over at Unherd - where genius goes to je…

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Episode 54 - High IQ Boys 1:36:42

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Yo bleakers, another tardy episode to chew on. This time around we're talking private high schools, Elric Degandre, the Sargon/Warhams nexus, and lifestyles of the rich and the famous! (building obnoxious temples to dizzying excess while drawing from the privatised care sector like a total parasite) Take it easy, friends.…

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Episode 53 - Statues are Slytherin 1:25:31

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Long time, bleakers. We're back and we're talkin' bout statues and the Zoomer v Millennial Generation War.By weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 52 - Hell's Pells 1:46:28

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Another wonky audio episode this time, hopefully less wonky than last time and I think we're getting closer to something that doesn't sound like pure garbage. We talk briefly about Dan Andrews' council reforms and the US Democrat primaries, but our main meat this episode is a double dose of injustice: the George Pell High Court decision, and the re…

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Episode 51 - Bored of the Things 1:05:13

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Literally just a slow conversation between two friends gradually losing their minds. Darcy has been going back to Lord of the Rings, and Kieran has been going back to videogames and also spends the whole episode fucking around with a latex glove that he doesn't realise is making a super irritating noise. Can't even muster up a title pun that isn't …

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Episode 50 - COVIDIOTS 1:15:31

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It's episode 50, what a milestone. To celebrate, we record in separate places, being good little antiviral warriors. That's why the audio for this episode is so resoundingly bad. We don't want to talk too much about news and politics. We end up doing it anyway but we don't want to, and eventually we manage to transition into our meandering bullshit…

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Episode 49 - CoronaViden 1:28:40

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Bleaker than beforeBy weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 48 - Choo-Choo-Chooseday 1:31:02

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Episode 47 - Darcy's Grab Bag! 1:16:17

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Hey everybody, it's Darcy's Grab Bag! A series of small treats and tidbits from the warm pouch of Melbourne's favourite son. We got a Dutton bite, a Weinstein bite, a Cashless Welfare Card Bite, a Transport Union fracas bite, and I think maybe another small morsel in the bottom of the bag. In the second half of the show we talk about the Nevada cau…

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Episode 46 - Thoughts on Sports Rorts and Coarse Retorts for the Sort of Wart Who From Their Forts Cavorting Distort the Import of Their Hoard to Exhort the Court to Let Them Extort More-t 1:37:59

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Moron alert: listening to this during editing made it crystal clear how little we can be trusted with basic arithmetic involving simple rounded numbers. Almost every claim involving simple addition, subtraction or multiplication is an error - see if you can spot them all! After a very brief touch on the NH primary and Darcy's experience protesting …

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Episode 45 - I Wanna Frick You Like An Animal (To Clarify, I Am the Animal and the Animal is a Rat) 1:42:03

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Episode 44 - From Russia With Faves 2:10:04

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New Year Same Old Us. What we've done here, essentially, dear Bleakers, is accidentally record two episodes instead of one. Our opening "wee chat" constitutes the first episode, where we talk about the US Democrat Party primaries again (I promise, only another interminable several months of this shit) and about the Witcher TV show. For the "actual"…

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Episode 43 - 2019 Christmas Bleaktacular! 2:14:35

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Episode 42 - Northern Terrortory 1:24:59

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Was gonna do a "Terror Tory" double pun but tbh Labor are fully culpable too in today's topic from Darcy: The Northern Territory "Intervention". Plus, listen to a sleepy Kieran give a run-down on FBI profile-em-up "Mindhunter". Happy bleaking.By weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 41 - Whistleblower Crushed by State Powers for Uncovering Rampant War Crimes Goes on Bizarre Rant 1:31:17

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We've streamlined our format! After a bumbling start of outstanding business and two new peerless and definitely funny characters Kieran's cooked up we dig into the preposterous shit going on with Julian Assange at the moment and then have a semi-directionless rumination on horror movies. Even our episode descriptions are getting more concise.…

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Episode 40 - Joaquer 2:15:50

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We have an exclusive, unique thing that no other podcast or media outlet of any sort is offering: Two white dudes talking about Joker. We also talk about the huge child forfeiture crisis happening due to NDIS delays as well, just to cut dumb with harrowing. In stories, we have Babymarch, Epsteinkin Park, The Incredible Climate Moron and a MUSK UPDA…

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Episode 39 - Nothing on the TV, Nothing on the Radio 2:23:32

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Hey bleakers. It's been months! Kieran is back from his quest to find himself in the wasted landscape of America. For an agonising fifty minutes, hear him deliver his field report about conspiracy theory, celebrity sightings, Yosemite mai tais and American Italian cuisine. Then listen to Darcy's breakdown of the Andrews/Hanson family court investig…

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Episode 38 - Actually His Name is Epstein's Monster 2:49:39

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Kieran's going away for two months so enjoy this Weakness for Bleakness Megasode(tm) in the interim. We look at the genuinely baffling scope of the Epstein madness and ponder a future where the craziest conspiracy plot out there turns out to be more true than we could have feared. And then we enter into a sort of rambling theological war with our P…

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Episode 37 - Wet Bandits v Dry Bandits 2:07:50

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Hoy bleakers, Darcy's back and there's a couple weeks before Kieran's gone. So here's a bit of a megasode, a two hour paean to political monstrosity that orbits around the dark star of the UK Tories. Darcy runs down the origins of the name and the deep legacy of vicious ineptitude that lives on in the current party. He also takes a look at how they…

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Episode 36 - Get (politically cor)Rekt 1:50:47

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Come hear us congratulate ourselves. Darcy wants to talk about political correctness, specifically how easy it is to say sorry and back off from a shit position, specifically how easy it is for him to walk back his vile racist slurs from last week. We're here, we're white, and we're ready to accept your plaudits for solving the problem. Kieran want…

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Special Episode - Debates Are Boring 1:09:20

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Little special between-episodes episode here, where Kieran, by himself, talks through the first round of debates in the US Democratic Party primary. Ever wanted to listen to one person stutter through a tedious political evade-a-thon only to come to the conclusion that Bernie Sanders Is Good? Then this is the episode for you.…

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Episode 35 - Iran, Iran So Far Away 1:36:42

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Middle-East heavy episode this week, bleakers. We talk about the looming Iran war, how terrifying and stupid it is, and also about the baffling proportion of UK Tories who think the country is riddled with sharia-law no-go zones. The stories we're looking at are CFMMEU party donations, Scumbum's "Trumpian" ambitions for the Australian economy, his …

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Episode 34 - Civil Dick Source Code 1:43:46

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Ciao, bleaklings. Another post-fast feast for you today. Our big topic from Darcy concerns refuting the idea that bigots are experiencing undue prejudice at the hands of bleeding heart leftist hypocrites, when in fact the correct take is that it's good, actually, that they're being shouted down. We talk about tolerance, the Karl Popper's paradox th…

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Episode 33 - Federal Eruction 1:59:26

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Holy hell, bleakers, it's been a spell. We're back, for a few weeks anyway, and we want to talk to you about the results of the election. What went wrong? What were the bad things? Were there any good things? And more importantly, is there a way for us to pivot and rip the piss out of the Labor party? You bet your god damn sweets there is. And in h…

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Episode 32 - Ol Vennie 1:55:12

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Greetings, my tetrachromatids. Internet and University are to blame for the lack of an episode last week and the late episode this week. But with those problems resolved, we bring you this, our thirty-second episode, a scrabbly thing looking back at the last few weeks. First up, Venezuela! What can we take from the current clusterfuck and apply to …

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Episode 31 - This Is My Favourite Infographic 1:52:51

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Hey kids, and welcome to, uh, "Season 2" I guess we're calling it. We're talking global poverty numbers this week, and why you shouldn't trust your friends when they tell you that, contrary to all reason, only 10% of the world's population are poor. We're also talking about the Gilette ad, and yes, you're right, it's not exactly timely, but somebod…

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Episode 30 - Get Me Fingerhut! 1:47:35

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This time it's for real - the arbitrarily chosen endpoint for the meaningless designation of "season 1"! We're talking Fingerhut, the Washington guy with an amoral recommendation for left-of-centre parties. Here's a surprise: it's what we kind of want them to be doing anyway. Also, we run through the contenders announced so far for the Democratic P…

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Episode 29 - More Like Pootriotism 1:38:58

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It's that time of year when Australians everywhere start debating the wisdom of codifying nationalism, the world's worst political mindset, in a Purge-style day of divisive hatred. Find out whether or not we support it in the episode! And in headlines: Wavves & the Slumlord Fiasco; Morrison & the Mundine Dream Team; Victorian Liberals & the Revisio…

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Episode 28 - Auld Lang Tired 1:40:32

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We're back, folks, and Darcy has an only slightly untimely 2018 wrapup/2019 speculation rundown for us. And Kieran wants to talk dead fish, and the cotton irrigation that likely caused the deadness of said fish. In headlines, we got Peta Credlin and Right Power; we got the Bob Katter toad gambit; we got Macedoniae of varying legitimacy; we got the …

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Episode No Episode 3 - A Christmas Message 5:01

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Hey everyone, we were gonna have a Christmas episode but it just didn't work out. Kieran's away for a couple of weeks now so we'll be rejoining you in the second half of January where, without the vicious monstrosity of the holiday season, we will be able to maintain a more sensible release schedule. Take it easy, listeners.…

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Episode 27 - Backdoor Access 1:34:32

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We're back! And it's a good thing too, because we have to talk to you about this execrable encryption bill that the Labor party have gently guided through the parliamentary process instead of opposing like sane people. Pretty soon downloading this podcast will be a vector for Peter Dutton's Home Security malware. And our B topic is this: the Labor …

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Episode No Episode 2 - Apology from the Plague Pits 4:48

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Kieran got sick. So here's a pointless five minute episode if you feel like listening to him apologise in person.By weaknessforbleakness

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Episode 26 - Darcy DESTROYS Feminist! Must Listen!!! 1:01:47

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Just kidding, all you chuddy boys. Sorry to disappoint. We're talking about Kelly O'Dwyer's valiant effort to eat her cake and still have it tomorrow, by taking her place as a feminist hero within the inherently misogynistic apparatus of the Liberal Party. And in other news, the climate strike. Get yer clarinets out for the environment, kids. Headl…

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MINISODE - Victorian State Election 15:48

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Hello weaklings, As we mentioned last week, no full episode this week as Kieran's away. But, since the Victorian State Election just resulted in a crazy bloodbath win for Labor, we thought we'd throw up a very short episode talking it over. Plus, Michael Lamb had a hysterically funny interview and we want you to hear it. That's all, take it easy.…

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Episode 25 - Don't Do as Don Dale Does 1:26:56

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Just a total hate-in today, a real bleaker. Darcy's recovering from a literal blow to the head and Kieran's going through some weird McDonald's-induced vagueness episode, so marvel as they stumble over their own attention spans in order to talk about: the Don Dale facility, notorious hellhole where human decency goes to die. Oh, and it's a youth de…

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Episode 24 - One Latham Party 1:19:54

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I love Philip Seymour Hoffman. One interesting thing he said, which I heard today during fifteen minutes of half-arsedly listening to an interview for some completely non-podcast related research, is "I'm not good at accents, you know, mimicking people." Just an interesting factoid! Our big topic today is the Armistice Day Centennial and the surrou…

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Episode 23 - Git 'errorism Done 1:31:39

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America sucks, friends. This week's topic is the three high profile domestic terror attacks carried out by shapeless white boomers with massive chips on their shoulders, as the US of A continues to slide comfortably into its old white supremacist jeans. Darcy lightens the mood, though - he hates your human rights, and he wants to take away Putin, J…

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Episode 22 - The Polymoronic Spree 1:20:50

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This week the boys allow themselves to flirt with dangerous levels of optimism as Darcy poses the question: Is the Libs' experimentation with political extremity possibly winding down? And Kieran continues to parse the world through the only lens he has available: stylised fiction, in this case The Man in the High Castle, which he suggests might be…

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Episode 21 - I Can't Believe It's Not Hell! 1:05:11

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I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news first? Makes sense, take the band-aid off and then soften the sting. Well, all right. The bad news is the IPCC have let us know that we've got until 2030 to get our shit together and there's no chance of that happening, especially when the debate is always framed in terms of what you as an individ…

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Episode 20 - Story Not Story 1:18:06

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It's an extremely hungover/generally exhausted episode this week folks! Darcy's got a missive from Alex Rosenberg (not Greenberg) about the role that narrative plays in our understanding of history. The long and the short of it: we reckon yeah, probably, but like, what can we do about it? And Kieran takes a quick look at the extremely incompetent S…

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Episode 19 - What a Kavanarsehole 1:26:35

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It's back across the ocean for this week as we take a squiz at the strange US national-psychic rupture over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court candidacy. Will they elect a likely sexual assaulter and compulsive perjurer to the highest legal office in the land? Probably! Those crazy kids. And Darcy wants to talk about representative democracy. Somethin…

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Episode 18 - Our House, Well, We're Sleeping on the Streets 1:12:17

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This week we're talking homelessness and housing, as the nation's disenfranchised begin to sprawl out to the suburbs. Then we have a trip report from the second "State of the Union" panel, which leads to a conversation about social movement unionism. In the headlines: Cop powers pumped! Farmers gazumped! Housing market slumped! Abbott nearly bumped…

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Episode 17 - Bannon, And On, And On 1:16:42

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Yo what's up? For your main course, Kieran will be taking you through the Steve Bannon/New Yorker Festival shit-show and inarticulately trying to explain why it has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with trying not to be in Mad Max world before 2025. He also ties in that lazy Jazz Twemlow video that's doing the rounds. Meanwhile, …

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Episode 16 - A Golli-what!? 1:02:41

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Guest Description by Mark Latham: These two stuck-up wankers virtue signal over the supposedly "racist" tradition of golliwogs. Let me get this straight - they're not even accurate depictions of black people and yet somehow they're "racist" because of how they depict black people? Another great example of consistency from the Left. Golliwogs are fi…

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Episode 15 - Broken_Political_Scene--Lovers_Spill.mp3 1:10:38

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This is getting repetitive: What a week for the Liberal party! We go into some of the wild business surrounding the leadership spill that saw us with Morrison in the Lodge - it's all voting records, WhatsApp controversies and mystifying Cronulla profiles this week. To lead softly into the topic we have some headlines about Derek, Newspolls, John Mc…

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Episode 14 - Love Me, I'm a Liberal (Whatever That Means) 1:32:55

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Wow, what a week for the Liberal party. The Libs' relentless battle with their own sense of ideological identity is confusing, so we talk about it. We also talk about complete non-issue 'Insatiable', the sound and the fury surrounding it, and whether or not any of it is justified (basically not). In headlines: Fraser Anning is a Nazi for the modern…

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