Continuity And Change

Labor loses one election in South Australia, wins another in Batman, and faces a scare campaign about 'going after pensioners' on their dividend tax policy. Meanwhile, academic/internet personality/memelord Jordan Peterson visits our great nation. The C+C team discuss those recent events and whether Peterson has anything of value to say.

The plebiscite result is here and so are we - Bennelong and Northcote elections, Triple J date change and the 19th People's Congress in China.

Can the Nick Xenophon Team survive as a party without its leader in federal politics? Does Bill Shorten's career have much of a future? NPJ and Tim take on the above issues on this week's Continuity and Change.

With the postal vote having been approved by the High Court, and a new Fair Work bill having passed parliament affecting franchise underpayments, your original correspondents (and good audio quality) are back in the one place to discuss those domestic issues.  We also take on the foreign events involving the North Korean nuclear scare, the New Zealand election, and Trump's approach on the DACA program.

This episode was recorded while our usual audio equipment was out of commission. We recorded one anyway to see how it would go and were pretty disappointed with the result. We'll have our regular gear back next episode. We've decided to upload the episode, but with fair warning that we think it's below our usual standard. We won't promote this one on social media so keep your eyes peeled for a return to usual business soon when we post a higher quality episode. In this one, we discussed the NZ election, Charlottesville, Pauline Hanson and the Burqa, and s44 ("the dual citizenship provisions") of the Constitution.  

With Nick in India, Tom fills in and tells us the wisdom Tony Abbott gave a Labor boy, how to get hired by ASIO and his feelings on the success of Corbyn in the UK. We also consider the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from UK to China, tensions in the Greens and Liberal Parties with their rogue MPs... and the strange story of Malcolm Turnbull, defamation law and a dead cat.  

This week, Kai, Nick and a guest analyse the talking points of the 2017 budget, go into the history of China and Korea and elucidate the implications of James Comey's resignation.

Does One Nation have a vetting issue, or do they naturally only attract freaks? Was it right for Obama to take a $400,000 speaking fee? What direction will Korean and French elections take us in world politics? These questions and more answered for YOU in this week's Continuity and Change.

Despite constant criticism/praise that Turnbull is supposedly "moving the liberals to the Left" the Coalition has gone and scrapped 457 visas and toughened up the citizenship test! The Continuity and Change team have a yak about that, housing affordability, and foreign elections in France and the UK.

Trump has taken the unexpected step of an air strike in Syria and the Continuity and Change team discuss this, as well as the idea vs the reality of Malcolm Turnbull, NSW by-elections, and the other matters of the week.

We continue to reach new heights and unforeseen surprises as our self-identified far-right recurring guest, Daniel returns and compares Nelson Mandela to Pauline Hanson. On this episode, we talk about the closing of Hazelwood, the failed attempt to amend 18C, and the bill in the Upper House to protect penalty rates from the Fair Work Commission's proposed changes.

Kai and Tim share their hot takes on the WA election, the failure of the Obamacare repeal, proposed amendments to 18C, the Westminster Attack, the visit of Li Keqiang, and whether penalty rates cuts have a relationship to lost tax revenue! 

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Our returning Trump-supporting guest Daniel returns to share his insights into the populist movement that your humble regular hosts despise. The key stories of the week we examine are the Penalty Rates decision along with Victorian state issues including the Werribee Youth Justice Centre.  Clive Palmer's recent foray into haiku poetry is noted as well.

Nothing will ever be the same since Trump unleashed his first solo press conference in the world. Satire is dead. You are now living in the hyper-real. But one thing remains - Continuity and Change is here, and we follow up the latest in Australian politics and debate the proposition put to us, by our guest, James - that a belief in equality leads to totalitarianist Soviet rule.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald and the ANU, this is the cross-section of the population that Continuity and Change represents. With Bernardi having left to create the Australian Conservatives, Turnbull attempting to channel shades of Paul Keating with his sledging, and and Scott Morrison having brought a lump of coal into parliament, there's a lot to talk about this week.

The boys reflect on the tragedy of poor Malc having paid $1.75million to become Prime Minister only to be called Trumble, the French election, the local justice system Bakers Delight, and whether One Nation has alienated single mothers.

With Tim away, we analyse the threats regarding bail laws, privacy and legal employment

On this episode, the hosts debate: Can you be economically right-wing and socially progressive? Does putting the Liberals first and the Greens second make any sense? We also explore the continuing news fodder of One Nation, with MPs defecting from the Liberal party to them, while their candidates dispute the existence of the Port Arthur massacre. We also touch on Australia's relationship with Japan and whether the TPP has a future.