This is some highlights from the event ‘Left Q/A – Election 2016’ – featuring Phillip Sutton from Save the Planet and Zane Alcorn from Socialist Alliance. You can hear the full event, which also includes Janet Rice from the Greens and politics professor Robert Manne, by following the links below:
https://archive.org/details/LeftQAndAPart1
https://archive.org/details/LeftQAndAPart2

This event was recorded at The New International Bookshop - Melbourne's famous radical bookshop. Located at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton, Melbourne, 3053: https://newinternationalbookshop.org.au/

These highlights of the event were also played on episode 138 of Progressive Podcast Australia, along with some additional discussion about the event: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/06/28/138/

It's a Climate Emergency, but for some more than others: Left Q/A - Election 2016

Kirsten Bayes discusses Brexit and what people can do to make positive change post-Brexit.

This is a shortened version of this discussion. You can hear the whole thing on episode 139 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/07/04/139/

Follow Kirsten on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KirstenBayes

Kirsten Bayes on the Fallout from Brexit

Jess Ison discusses the upcoming Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) conference. It will be held from Friday September 30 to Saturday October 1 at the University of Canberra. Full details are here: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/oceania-conference/

This is a shortened version of Jess and Nick's discussion about ICAS and this conference - check out the whole thing on episode 140 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/07/07/140/

Join Us at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania 2016 Conference!

Katie was on the BBC! You can listen to the segment with her and others discussing racist, misogynist Milo Yiannopoulos being banned from Twitter after harassing Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones, from 24.23-41.50 of this episode of BBC World Have Your Say: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p041970l

You can hear an extended version of our discussion on this issue on episode 141 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/07/26/141/

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Katie takes on MRAs, on the BBC!

This discussion features politics professor Jason Brownlee on the topic of Australian ethicist Peter Singer’s work on effective altruism. 

To hear a longer version of this discussion, check out episode 142 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/08/21/142/

An Introduction to Effective Altruism

Politics professor Jason Brownlee discusses some critiques of Peter Singer’s work on effective altruism, focusing mainly on a failure to address the structural causes of poverty, such as capitalism. 

This is part two of our discussion with Jason on effective altruism, you can hear part 1 here:
https://soundcloud.com/progressivepodcastaus/singer (short version) or here: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/08/21/142/ (long version).

You can also hear a longer version of this discussion on episode 143 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/08/30/143/

Effective Altruism and the Structural Causes of Poverty

We take on the idea that reverse "sexism" against men is a real thing we should care about, with the help of Jan Fran from The Feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS_fyX_lKCk

For a longer version of our discussion on this topic and reverse "racism", check out episode 144 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/09/10/144/

Reverse Sexism is Not a Thing!

This discussion features writer Ariella Van Luyn and sociologist Dr Theresa Petray. They discuss Ariella’s book Treading Air, as well as sex work and feminism and fiction.

You can buy the book here: http://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/treading-air/

You can hear a longer version of this discussion on episode 145 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/09/18/145/

Ariella Van Luyn on her book Treading Air and the Themes of Sex Work and Feminism

This discussion features politics professor Jason Brownlee on the US election. He discusses the dangers of a Trump presidency and makes the case that Trump is not less imperialist than Clinton, despite his claims about rejecting the Iraq invasion.

Relevant links:
https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/23/john-pilger-why-hillary-clinton-is-more-dangerous-than-donald-trump/
https://thinkprogress.org/9-terrifying-things-donald-trump-has-publicly-said-about-nuclear-weapons-99f6290bc32a#.24qlqlnyl
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/10/candidates-and-foreign-policy?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/

To listen to a longer version of this discussion on the US election, check out episode 146 of Progressive Podcast Australia: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/10/16/146/

Trump's Hand on the Button would be Scary!

Politics professor Jason Brownlee discusses the implications for abortion rights in electing Clinton compared to Trump.

You can hear a longer version of this discussion here: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2016/10/21/147/

Clinton vs Trump on Abortion Rights

We discuss current events and political issues from a progressive perspective that is pro-animal rights, anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, pro-environment and anti-capitalist.

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