Episode 9 - The Party Line on the Mamdani-Trump meetup, social media ban (with Channel 6’s Leo Puglisi) and Pauline Hanson

Anneke kicks off the episode with a sad story about alleged police harassment - and the risk of not paying fines promptly. We then examine the decision by Vic Pol to designate the entire CBD and surrounds as a zone where they can stop and search anyone without reason, for an incredible six months. This is especially dangerous in light of a recent report which shows that Indigenous and African people are massively more likely to be searched, harassed, tasered and so on by police. We chat next about Hanson’s racist stunt in Parliament and her broader rise to prominence in Australian politics. We wrap up with an interview with Channel Six’s Leo Puglisi about his successful efforts to establish an alternative media project as a school-aged journalist, the coming social media ban, and why young people should be able to vote.

Content

After the surreal Trump-Mamdani summit

‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months | Melbourne

How we beat Pauline Hanson in the 1990s

Check out Leo’s work at 6 News Australia | Independent & unbiased journalism

Headlines:

Cotality Housing Affordability Report shows 'extraordinary rise' in home values

Hastie knows Libs could die if they lose this fight

Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

Body-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enraged

The exceptional thing about the battle of the bobs? It’s not exceptional

Hospitalised and told to send the kids to foster care: Tenants’ VCAT woes revealed

Indigenous, African men endure rampant police profiling

Immigrant crime: Trump administration orders US embassy to collect data from Australia

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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

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(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

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Warning: huge session this week. The team start by celebrating two significant developments in US politics, the death of super-villain Dick Cheney and the defeat of billionaire sex-pest Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory was unfolding as the show was being recorded, but we took the time to bask in the fear and hatred of the American right-wing twitter. We analyse the troubles the Coalition is having with Net Zero, before looking at whether Labor’s approach is fundamentally any better (tldr: it’s not). We introduce a new segment (that still needs a name and/or jingle, plz help us out) on socialist theory, before wrapping up by taking a look into the far right manosphere.

Extra readings

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies | The Nation

An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens

Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive | Internet | The Guardian

The classes of capitalism | Red Flag

Woodside’s WA gas export expansion emissions greater than all Australia’s coal power stations

Climate Analytics | Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is…

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

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Episode 5 - The Party Line on corporate tax scams, for-profit healthcare and Trump’s big beautiful ballroom

We start with a moment of silence to mourn the loss of the White House’s east wing, a symbol of liberty and democracy whose light once shone brightly across the world. But then the ep takes a deep dive into some of the injustices of Australian capitalism right now. We take a look at the regressive nature of the Australian tax system, inspired by Jordan speaking at a tax conference in Canberra hosted by the Australia Institute. Why do nurses and teachers pay more tax than QANTAS? Only Albo knows. Then we return to the absurdity of median house prices reaching $1.75 million in Sydney, and the NIMBY vs. YIMBY ‘debate’, before looking at the stressed state of the public health system through the prism of the collapse of multiple NGO health clinics in Melbourne, including CoHealth.

Extra readings

Labor’s tax policy hits the middle class, not big business

Tax corporations and the super-rich

Missionaries, Radicals, Feminists: A History of North Yarra Community Health

Private profit vs public access: How class struggle shaped Australia’s healthcare system

The fight for Richmond’s rebel school | Red Flag

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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We were so glad to speak to US socialist brian bean, of the Tempest Socialist Collective, about the craziness of politics in Trump’s America. We discuss how the White House is increasing the funding and power of ICE, the problems with Mandani and other left electoral challenges within the Democratic Party, and the nature of the massive No Kings demonstrations last weekend.

The candidate, the billionaires, and the Democrats | Tempest

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s First Year | Against the Current

The Left under Brandon Johnson | Tempest

The No Kings protests must go beyond the Democrats to defeat Trump | Counterfire

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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the crew was inspired by Albo’s successful trip to Washington to meet with Herr Trump. We discussed that, and then spoke with US socialist brian bean about Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and the No Kings demonstrations on Oct 18. We then get a mystery caller to discuss police and government crackdowns on the right to protest, including at the anti-fascist protest on the weekend.

Against the New McCarthyism - Tempest

Ahead of DNC, Brandon Johnson puts Chicago homeless on the street to make room for tent city occupants

https://x.com/AlboMP/status/1980418575761609055 - Albo and Rubio

Trump, AUKUS and the US alliance | Red Flag

Premier’s tone-deaf response to a city crying for help - Chip le Grand

Constant protest gridlock in the CBD is symptom of how Melbourne has lost its way - Phillip Dalidakis

https://x.com/spencerhakimian/status/1980303616750788857 - Trump and Rudd

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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s ep takes a look at Trump’s despicable ‘peace plan’ and what it really means for the people of Gaza. We also discuss the Nobel Peace prize going to a wannabe Venezuelan dictator and Labor’s decision to take a courageous stand for multi-millionaire superannuation-holders.

Anneke would like to note that her last name is pronounced: “De man u el”

PS. Make sure you join the day of anti-fascist action this Sunday, October 12.

Email us! socialistpartypod@gmail.com

Extra content:

• Trump knocking on heaven’s door
• Gaza as a laboratory for a MAGA overseas empire | Toufic Haddad
• Newly minted peace laureate Machado firm on pro-Israel stance | Daily Sabah
• The far right is organising—we have to resist | Anneke Demanuele
• Labor's revised super proposal | ABC News

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This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

If you like what you hear, please subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline.

If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.

The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)

This pod was produced on stolen land - always was, always will be.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.