City of Sydney Councillor Angela Vithoulkas joins me to help make sense of the Freedom Protests across Australia. Angela is a lonely voice reading the protests as a desperate cry of ordinary workers and small business owners who have been driven to the brink and feel there is only one channel remaining for them to be heard: protest.

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/69kj5jbn10c

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1:30 'Hunting Down' our fellow Australians

2:56 Desperate and driven to protest

4:50 Premiers and Police losing control of their states

6:53 Return Jobkeeper to calm the people

9:10 ADF deployed on our streets against citizens

11:17 tightening the screws on South West Sydney

12:46 Politicians blame the people

14:44 'NSW Police cannot stop another protest'

18:35 NSW Government backing down

20:50 City of Sydney not helping small business

23:00 Small businesses can actually vote for the Sydney Mayor

24:23 City of Sydney doesn't want small business to vote

28:10 80,000 small businesses in Sydney employing 600,000 people, 75,000 of whom live in the LGA

29:46 The Liberal Party is useless

30:00 The media bias against small business

32:26 Small business is not the same as big business

35:34 Misunderstanding small business profits

36:27 Boycotting the Sydney Morning Herald

39:06 Mayor of Sydney Angela Vithoulkas?

43:03 The new Small Business Advocate at The City of Sydney

45:55 Small Business - register to vote for the Dec election