ScoMo’s lost his mojo, gains the shitty touch
ScoMo’s losing his mojo. If he were a president that would be fine, but in the Westminster system, that’s usually when his colleagues start sharpening the axe.
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The perils of living in a glasshouse
Labor was always flirting with danger when they ran hard on the Christian Porter allegations – now former Labor staffers are sharing their experiences. It is going to get tough for a lot of Labor luminaries. And how five workers were almost sacrificed to green gods.
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Labor ruins ScoMo’s holiday
Today on The Breakdown we examine how Labor is sabotaging ScoMo’s airline relief bill, the tragedy of Yallourn, and a hot, hot take on Fanta Pants and Princess Sparkle.
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All Black Lives Matter REDUX
Today we revisit an episode from 6 September 2020, All Black lives Matter. It created an incredible response from listeners by merely presenting facts about Indigenous incarceration and deaths in custody. It is not easy to listen to, but it is well worth your time.
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China Special 3: Clive Hamilton
Continuing the China theme, today we revisit an April 2019 interview with Clive Hamilton on China’s influence in Australia.
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China Special 2: For those with all the rocks, we salute you
There’s more to green power and transport than a windmill in your backyard and a plug on your car. Someone needs to mine the rocks and process the rocks and make the batteries – that someone is China. But there are bigger problems than that. Today on The Breakdown, we explore the challenge of going green.
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China Special Part 1: Made in China 2025 and Belt and Road
On today’s episode, we discuss China’s Made in China 2025 policy and the Belt and Road Initiative. These are essential to understanding China’s economic policy, its strategic ambitions, its foreign investment strategies and approach to international norms.
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Time to sharpen the pitchforks
Today on The Breakdown, the mob comes for PVO, Labor’s no-lose position with Christian Porter and evidence mounts for the cognitive decline of Joe Biden – why the media has a lot to answer for.
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Seuss wasn’t cancelled, Seuss was sacrificed
Attorney-General Christian Porter outed himself as the Cabinet minister alleged to have committed rape in 1988. In doing so, he’s also set a new ministerial standard. And we address the cancellation of Dr Seuss – why it’s a watershed moment in the destruction of the culture.
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Time to face the music
Today a Cabinet Minister will own up to being at the centre of the 1988 rape allegations. It should not have taken this long and the Prime Minister should not have taken his word (if it actually is who almost everyone believes it is).
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The harsh reality of aged care
The Aged Care Royal Commission report is an indictment on the country but the harsh, unpalatable reality is that nothing will change. Today on The Daily Breakdown, you’ll discover why.
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The toxic culture of politics
Today on The Breakdown, another MP has been accused of rape, Emma Husar takes an almighty swipe at Albanese about her treatment in Labor, and SA Liberal Nicolle Flint walks away from it all after being the target of a vicious campaign from the left.So if politics is so awful, whose fault is it and what can be done about it?
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The media dives into the sewer for clicks and eyeballs
Today on The Daily Breakdown, gutter politics and media lies become the motivation for new stories about Brittany Higgins, why Joe Biden loves COVID-19 and Kevin Rudd denies the only story of the past decade that made him even remotely likable.
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Where the Forrest meets the swamp
Less than three months after he left the epicentre of Australia’s national security apparatus, Nick Warner is working with Andrew Forrest who is neck-deep in business deals with Chinese state-owned enterprises. Can you see a problem?
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Kelly quits before he was dumped
Today on The Breakdown, Craig Kelly quits before he gets dumped, Facebook loves us again, and what would have happened if you’d decked a Prime Minister?
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The left goes hard to finish Craig Kelly
You want to see perfect media manipulation in action? Just look at how the left is going after Craig Kelly, using all the tricks they deployed against Tony Abbott, starting with a “poll”. But who conducted the poll? And why?
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Kevin needs a hug (and probably a shower)
Poor Kevin Rudd used the Senate on Friday to dump on the meanies at the Murdoch media. It seems Kevin’s forgotten about how sycophantically he used to pursue the Murdoch editors. Lucky The Breakdown’s here to remind him.
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Facebook’s Kamikaze attack on the media
Facebook has launched a Pearl Harbour-style attack on the Australian media, Kevin Rudd gets a Senate Inquiry into Murdoch and Joe Biden lays out his strategy with China. It is not good.
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Empathy through the Overton window
Today on The Daily breakdown we examine empathy. For decades we’ve been told it’s a virtue when a politician “feels our pain”. But what if it isn’t? What if empathy is actually making polarisation worse?
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A truly humble winner
Parler’s back! Maybe! Dan Andrews might win a really stupid award. Maybe. And what happens when a cop plays Yesterday?
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