Continuity And Change

Our guest this week, Daniel, identifies with the Alt Right - he's happy to go on record as a Trump supporter. The regular Continuity and Change team question him on his view that Australia has a left-wing media bias, and we also go into detail about the Centrelink scandal's relationship with big data and the travel entitlements of Sussan Ley.   It's a conversation different to any of our other episodes - civil, but with quite a bit of disagreement - that I hope you enjoy.

We take on such uncontroversial issues as Trump and Hanson teaming up to free Taiwan, lobbying for overweight citizens, Australia becoming a republic, and Barrie Cassidy stealing our content for ABC Insiders on this episode.

We take on the backpacker tax, Tanya Plibersek's comments on private schools, Trump freeing Taiwan, and the Liberal party's war with Simpsons memes. This episode with special guest Toby filling in for Kai.

Along with discussing the death of Castro, Nick's dating preferences and the supposed clash of identity v class politics, we return to a focus on Australian domestic shores discussing ABCC, One Nation, domestic violence leave, and the racist comments of Peter Dutton.

We're back from our hiatus with a podcast reflecting on the recent election of Donald J. Trump and how it happened, with a quick catch-up on Australian and international politics as well.

Labor has won the ACT election, the Liberals have for the first time in Australian history voted for a second reading amendment in an embarrassing parliamentary blunder, Pauline Hanson is on the NBN committee, and the C+C team are taking a hiatus for several weeks over exams!

This year, a nine-point swing towards Greens candidate Jason Ball brought the Greens to second-place, closer than ever to winning the thought-to-be safe Liberalseat of Higgins. His campaign manager, Josephine Maguire-Rosier, was interviewed by C+C about: - Can minds be changed in thought-to-be-unwinnable seats? - Does emotion or logic win out in the end? - Should we microtarget specific ethnicities in campaigns? - And reflects on her own experiences also campaigning for Obama in 2012

Since our soon-to-be-posted interview is the focus of this week, we've opted to make a punchier regular episode: the controversy regarding "grab her by the pussy" and the vice presidential debates, as well as Family First Senator Bob Day, foreign investment and the ongoing plebiscite saga are discussed.

Are private schools overfunded - and should they even receive any public handouts at all? Did renewable energy cause the power failure in SA? Did Trump beat Hillary in the debates? We give our answer to these questions, and give you a chance to imagine being in Iraq with Wyatt Roy.

How about that debate yesterday? The C+C team is back with a look at disturbing anti-Muslim poll figures, updates on the plebiscite, and thoughts about the US election and the phrase 'military-industrial complex'.

Until he starts advocating for Noodle Snack Packs instead of HSPs, there's no proof that Sam Dastyari did anything wrong. Listen to us talk abut Sam, the failed government votes in the House of Reps, the SDA and the G20 Summit in #19.

Uber has been legalised in Victoria and the Plebsicite has been delayed, and we talk about these news stories while dancing on the corpse of the NT Country Liberals aboard a pile of money from our Chinese corporate sponsors.

It's a Union-themed episode: casual employment, Coles and McDonalds and examine the never ending story of the CFA and section 18C. We also talk climate change denial, thanks to the attentions of our new favourite MP, Malcolm Roberts. In a blast from the past, Y2K is suddenly relevant again.

Where will the Olympic take our heroes this week? After our free-ranging chat about Rio, we take on the census fallout, liberal party factionalism, Lleyonhelm's attempt to invoke 18C, and the pros and cons of free trade.

The Census is a big source of privacy concerns, and we tackle whether or not this is legitimate. We also investigate the history of One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, and deal with a few interesting issues with discrimination law, gambling law, and international law.

Xenophon wants to define games such as Counter-Strike as 'gambling' and our correspondent Kai isn't too happy about it. We also talk about Rudd's failure to become secretary general, the NT corrections scandal, and US politics.

A quiet week in domestic affairs (aside from greyhound racing and an alleged donation of $1mil by Turnbull to his own party) leads us to focus on more international issues this week, including the Turkish coup, the attack in Nice, the UN's role in the South China Sea Dispute, endorsements in the US presidential election, and the new British Prime Minister, Teresa May. 

On our most heated episode yet, we talk about three topics intimately connected with race: the Liberal party's targeting of Chinese voters on social media, identity politics in the the context of candidate demographics, and an alleged link between failed welfare-state disenfranchisement and nationalism. We also reflect on the topic of electronic voting, given how long the count has (and in some ways still is) taking to get a result.

In this episode our trio explores the vote tally as it unravels before them. We consider the performance of parties both minor and major, the merits and weaknesses of a hung parliament and minority governance, and take a specific look at several seats of interest.

With special guest Jenny Au from the Political Interest Society, we have a look at the fallout from Brexit and cast our final election predictions. Other points of focus are the Shadow-Attorney Generals debate, Greens preferences, and Julie Bishop.