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CounterCulture is weekly web show and podcast featuring sharp, lively commentary from regular Spectator Australia writers, analysis from IPA experts, interviews with the world’s leading thinkers, and Gideon Rozner's take on the issues of the week both in Australia and internationally.
Another day, another lockdown. With millions of innocent Victorians in covid prison, who will stop the real criminals from getting away with a state-wide reverse Robin Hood trick?
00:50 😰💰 Cian Hussey elucidates Australia’s ever-dividing wealth distribution, with economic misconduct under lockdown practices making the rich richer and the poor, well, poorer.
19:26 🚑 Tanveer blames activist doctors for misguiding euthanasia practises and leaving the most complex philosophical questions in medicine unanswered.
34:34 👪 Rachel Wong tears down woke narratives dictating crazy child care spending and the baseless ‘benefits’ of feminist motherhood that only seek to cancel all parental freedoms.
11:18 🤯 Rowan Dean updates us on the escalating anti-Semitist abuses overseas, and that for some reason, the woke left seems to ignore. Do Jewish lives matter? Or is their crisis not woke enough?
30:40 🦇 And Sarah Dudley reminds us that the world's covid priorities forget the CCPs filthy cover-up and WHO's critical role in furthering Covid's fake origin story.
Every second, the world silences millions of truths. Led by left-wing media misinformation, we are blinded to the real humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine.
00:46 ✡️ David Adler dismantles the false media narrative on the Palestinian crisis, and the twisted perception of Israeli counter-attack strategies against a rising Palestinian dictatorship.
22:22 😩 Maurice Newman uncovers the woke wars furthering America’s demise, with its international presence dying under Biden and strengthening an expanding China.
37:33 👮♂ James Macpherson slanders woke police guidelines as downright criminal, failing to protect citizens from real threats, and not realising some blue haired SJW fantasies.
13:46 💉 Rowan Dean forecasts further government intrusion upon Australian liberties, with vaccine blackmail and state confinement welcome measures to authoritarian COVID compliance.
32:26 🤳 And Sarah Dudley explores the dangers of politically motivated social media, corrupting young minds and fostering violence in pursuit of woke activism.
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From nappies to mini Greta Thunbergs, the leftist lunacies of Australian schools must cease! The most vulnerable must be protected from pointless progressive politics now taking over the entire Australian nation. 00:00
📚 Mark Latham joins us to ‘lifts the veil of secrecy’ in Australian classrooms with his bill to parliament helping voice parental rights in ending this woke madness! 21:01
🏅James Bolt exposes the real costs of hosting the Olympics, as usual, leaving taxpayers in last place to foot the bill. 38:43
🗣Tony Letford invalidates ‘Voice to Parliament’ demands, where woke symbolism cannot bridge the gap between succeeding government failures and increasing needs of Indigenous Australians. 14:42
💉 Rowan Dean reflects upon Dictator Dan’s disastrous COVID strategies, whose mismanagement led to radical socialist governing, unspeakable human rights abuses and irreversible economic damage. 31:48
✈️ And Sarah Dudley unfolds the irony behind banning Australian citizens returning, when its own ‘lack of social distancing’, between security guards and COVID travelers, led to a nation-wide COVID crisis!
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When the strongest crusaders of Western values are being cancelled left right and centre, the question remains, who is left to cancel the corrupt CCP?
Senator James Paterson (00:46) talks to us about the real possibility that is Australia's war with China - a rational reaction against what we see as history repeating itself. If liberal democracies keep frolicking in the fields of woke politics, there is little doubt that they're next in line to be China's puppet in world domination.
Going from climate change to ‘climate justice’, where is woke academia going to draw the line? John Ruddick and Professor Ian Plimer (16:34) join forces to uncover the true nature of alarmist environmental politics, as the ‘greatest scientific scam’ the world has ever seen! Politicising science faculties has only brought their flaws to the fore, unsurprising, when its corrupt nature ties back to Al Gore.
On today’s ‘woke watch’ with Bella d’Abrera (35:17), we explore the latest woke craziness in arts funding as a vehicle for superficial political symbolism. We ask ourselves then, will it ever be about the art, and not the artist?
And Sarah Dudley (31:29) brings us the latest on the scandals engulfing Boris Johnson, whilst Rowan Dean (12:58) explains how, if there is a war with China, Malcolm Turnbull and Christopher Pyne have left us woefully unprepared.
Wokeism is the next airborne disease we should all be worried about. Leftist culture seeks to kill every ounce of happiness that stands in its way, and #cancelculture being their weapon of choice.
This episode of CounterCulture looks at how exactly this ‘wokeist’ disease is infecting governments, workplaces, sports industries...and now even Marvel comic books?
Rebecca Weisser joins us to explain the failures of the Morrison government in controlling the HR industrial complex and its ever-expanding leftist influence across our Australian workplaces.
James Allan explains to us how major sports industries like the NBA are always happy to discuss politics, unless it's critical of China. Then it might cost them money!
Monica Wilkie tells us about how Marvel's newest supervillain is Jordan Peterson – literally! What's his evil plan for the world - making everyone's beds?
And Rowan Dean slams Scomo’s mismanagement of workplace sexual harassment scandals, and Sarah Dudley tells us how ‘democracy dies when media lies’ – calling for transparent media sources when fake news only continues to soar.
// READ ALL ABOUT IT 📰 ‘Scott’s Army’, The Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/scotts-army/ ‘Dangerous Liaisons’,
Rebecca Weisser | Flirting with Disaster in the Wokeplace https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/dangerous-liaisons-4/ ‘Professional sports are the wokest of them all’,
James Allan https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/professional-sports-are-the-wokest-of-them-all/ ‘Captain America versus… Jordan Peterson?’,
Monica Wilkie https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/captain-america-versus-jordan-peterson/ ‘Hello, darkness’,
Maurice Newman | Liberty’s lights are dimming https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/hello-darkness/ ‘Woke@work – and joyless, mistrustful dispiriting and dreary’,
Rowan Dean https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/wokework-and-joyless-mistrustful-dispiriting-and-dreary/ ‘Larrikindred spirit’,
Morgan Begg | Prince Phillip was at home amongst the Aussies https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/04/larrikindred-spirit/
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It’s been just over a year since the Wuhan coronavirus changed the world as we know it. Back then, only the most pessimistic of us could have believed that COVID restrictions could last forever. But as COVID-inspired threats to our freedom keep coming, more and more of us are wondering when – if ever – this will end.
In this episode of CounterCulture, we take a look at coronavirus restrictions in Australia around the world – past, present and future – and take an in-depth look at COVID and freedom.
Member for Hughes Craig Kelly talks to us about proposals overseas for domestic COVID passports, and the horrible precedent they risk creating for our right to participate in mainstream society.
Satya Marar takes us back in time to where it all began, when the international bureaucracy theoretically responsible for containing global pandemics dropped the ball. We talk about the way in which the WHO has been dominated by China – to the extent that the WHO ignored critical information on the coronavirus from Taiwan, the country that’s arguably done the best job at containing and managing the virus.
Bizarrely, BluesFest in Byron Bay was cancelled because of one single case. We try to make sense of it all with Spectator Australia regular Paul Collits.
And in our usual segments, we talk to Rowan Dean about the Spectator Australia and CounterCulture’s role in scuttling Matt Kean’s utterly tin-eared appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as NSW energy tsar, and Sarah Dudley shows us her brilliant and provocative front cover taking aim at the Australian Labor Party’s obsession with the Palestinian cause.
In our Easter special, CounterCulture is doubling down on our war on wokeness, taking a hard look at the most important ‘culture wars’ in Australia.
Editor-in-Chief of the Spectator Australia Rowan Dean shares his Easter message with our viewers, talking about the Brisbane lockdown panic, Scott Morrison’s perceived ‘women problem’, and the Australian Labor Party’s obsession with the Palestinian cause.
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham joins us to share his thoughts on the feminist debate occupying the media’s attention, and issues of alleged sexism in the Australian Parliament. He explains what the media gets wrong about Parliament’s ‘toxic culture’, and tells us what he makes of Scott Morrison’s press conference this week, in which he bizarrely introduced Marise Payne as the ‘prime minister for women’.
Did you know that extreme left wing critical race theory is being taught in Australian schools? The IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera joins us to talk about her research about how ideas of ‘white privilege’ and ‘systemic racism’ are making their way into Australian schools, and are being taught as early as kindergarten. We discuss what to make of this latest exercise in blatant woke racism.
The issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports is increasingly controversial in Australia, with politicians like Senator Claire Chandler speaking out against instances of unfair competition. We talk to James Macpherson about Joe Biden’s recent woke musings on gender differences, and the way in which radical gender theory is seeping into the current debate.
And Sarah Dudley takes us back in time to two past front covers that captured the demise of Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership in 2018.
When did Australian politics become so fixated on sex scandals? Why are we not talking about the economy in 2021, at a time when the Australian government’s debt is soaring? Why aren’t we talking more about public policy, like we did in the John Howard years.
Rowan Dean joins us to talk about his editorial on why quotas aren’t the answer for the Liberal Party, and why more women wouldn’t have prevented the shocking behaviour in parliament that we’re seeing.
Spectator Australia regular and future prime minister (we hope!) Senator Matt Canavan tells us what he makes of the sleazy sex scandal engulfing Australian politics this week, and responds to our questions about why the Channel 10 parliament sex scandal story captures our attention in a way that matters of public policy do not. He also explains why, if we listened to the United Nations’ environmental concerns about the Warragamba dam, we may struggle to mitigate natural disasters like the NSW floods.
Kerry Wakefield joins us to talk about her piece responding to phenomena like the recent women’s march and the way in which certain elements of third-wave feminism have backfired. She also shares her thoughts on the broader discussion around women’s safety.
Amid speculation as to whether Christian Porter will remain a cabinet minister, IPA Research Fellow Morgan Begg talks about his piece on the Morrison government’s abandonment of basic legal rights – including its muted reaction to conservatives being targeted by the Attorney-General’s Department, and why that set an unhelpful precedent for resisting an inquiry into the Christian Porter affair.
And Sarah Dudley gives us a first look at her brilliant front cover of the coming edition of the Spectator Australia, fusing the two issues of the NSW floods and Scott Morrison’s bizarre press conference responding to sleazy sex scandals in Australian politics.
Malcolm Turnbull’s career in Parliament has been over for years, but the Miserable Ghost continues to rattle his chains. We go over his government’s failures, like the higher taxes on superannuation funds that marred the 2016 Australian election, the scandalous spend on Australia’s new submarines, and the abandoned National Energy Guarantee.
As we reach the grim milestone of one whole year of lockdowns, border closures and more, we take a look back on the early expert medical advice at the beginning of the pandemic. In particular, we look at the contradictory advice on the benefits of face masks. Do masks really work? With mask mandates lifted overseas, we consider the possible their possible dangers, especially for children.
And Milo Yiannopoulos’ tour in Australia several years ago sparked protests in Melbourne. But now Milo has shocked the world yet again by coming out… as straight. We talk about this wokeness dilemma and what it says about leftist victim culture.
And as always, we have Spectator Australia Editor-in-Chief Rowan Dean, talking about Scott Morrison’s recent slip-ups on the Christian Porter affair - like his ‘talked to Jenny’ comment – and his response to the Women’s March this week. And Covers Editor Sarah Dudley shows us the two-headed beast on this week’s cover.
HOW SCOTT MORRISON IS FAILING AUSTRALIA IN 2021 | CounterCulture episode 3
This week on CounterCulture, we take an honest look at Australia’s Liberal government and the Scott Morrison prime ministership.
Australia GDP figures are on the way up, but is the Australian economy strong in any real sense? Can we say that everything is as good as it’s cracked up to be when it comes to the Liberal Party and the economy? With low wages in Australia, debt heading towards a trillion dollars and Australian dole queues stretching around the block last year, how strong is the Australian economy?
And when it comes to Liberal Party values, the Australian Prime Minister is missing in action. The witch hunt surrounding the Christian Porter rape allegations are a terrible indictment on our political and media class, but can the Morrison government expect the rule of law and presumption of innocence when it has done extremely little to protect fundamental legal rights?
Perhaps populism could help Australian politics – in the style of Donald Trump or Nigel Farage. We ask what is populism, and how Australian politicians should acknowledge that it has a point.
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Rowan Dean on the Meghan and Harry interview, and why Prince Charles’ embrace of woke projects like the Great Reset may be to blame for the new threat to the British monarchy.
James Allen on the great Morrison government spending spree, and why Australian GDP growth may not be the best indicator that the Australian economy is strong.
Maurice Newman on Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party and the ‘culture wars’, and why Scott Morrison’s failure to fight against wokeness, political correctness and cancel culture may have serious implications for us all.
Andrew Bushnell on populism explained, and the benefits of populism for our political class.
And Sarah Dudley on the Meghan Markle race card.
CHINA AND THE GREAT RESET // MAPS ARE RACIST // DAN’S WAR ON BARS | CounterCulture episode 2
The woke luvvies have given us a lot to talk about this week!
The Christian Porter rape accusations remind us all about the importance of the presumption of innocence, but has the Morrison government done enough to stand up to the kind of woke cancel culture that culminated in the extraordinary Christian Porter press conference this week?
What exactly is the Great Reset? What does the Great Reset mean for Australia? And how is the Great Reset being used by China to advance Chinese hegemony?
Woke cancel culture and woke craziness continue to rewrite history – we take a look at how UK cancel culture is trying to ‘decolonise history’ by declaring that maps are racist. What is the story behind political correctness at the British Museum and the British Library? Will we see this cancel culture and censorship in Australia? Will we resist this PC craziness? Or will we see Australian history erased?
In the aftermath of Dictator Dan Andrews’ long Melbourne lockdown, what has happened to Melbourne bars? Has Dan been reading Machiavelli?
// THIS WEEK’S GUESTS 📺
Rowan Dean on the Christian Porter rape accusations and what’s in this weekend’s edition of the Spectator Australia.
Judith Sloan on China and the Great Reset, the Green New Deal, ‘Build Back Better’ and other fascinations of the globalist elites.
The IPA’s Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program Dr Bella d’Abrera on political correctness at the British Library and the British Museum, and what we can expect in Australia.
Fred Pawle on Dan Andrews’ destruction of Melbourne bars and Melbourne nightlife in the aftermath of the long Melbourne lockdown.
And Covers Editor Sarah Dudley on the way in which woke political correctness is erasing our culture.
Welcome to the BRAVEST, BOLDEST, most ANTI WOKE show on the internet! 💪🏼 📺 | CounterCulture Episode 1 – Spectator Australia TV
Are you sick of the woke, luvvie-infested, ‘progressive’ [sic] Australian media? Well then get ready for a bold, exciting new era in conservative opinion content!
On this show we’ll tell it like it is, say no to political correctness, and serve up the antidote to wokeness, cancel culture, climate hysteria and left wing censorship.
// ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW 📺
Tony Abbott’s views on the 2020 US election aftermath, the Trump legacy, and what Scott Morrison should do about the Chinese threat to Australia.
Editor-in-Chief Rowan Dean on the long history of the Spectator magazine, and the shocking performance of Liberal Party leader Zak Kirkup in the WA election.
Dr David Adler on the Australian coronavirus vaccine rollout, and why COVID-19 misinformation from our own medical bureaucracy will make it harder.
IPA Director of Research Daniel Wild on how to defeat big tech censorship and Silicon Valley power, and why net zero would be a mistake for Australia in light of Chinese emissions.
Rebecca Weisser on the Brittany Higgins scandal and the response of Scott Morrison And Covers Editor Sarah Dudley on religious persecution in China under Xi Xinping and the Chinese Communist Party
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‘Lies, damn lies and coronavirus’, David Adler | Our authorities are undermining public confidence https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
‘Facebook and friends threaten our freedom’, Daniel Wild | We urgently need to preserve our right to free speech https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
‘Xivinity’, Kevin Andrews | There’s only one deity permitted in China https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
‘Affairs of staff and state’, Rebecca Weisser | Close encounters of the sordid kind https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
‘WA Liberals go nuts’, Judith Sloan | Kirkup’s ignorance will cost conservatives dearly https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
'Prisoner diary’, James Allen | My time in hotel quarantine https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
‘Kamala mania: prepare for President Harris’, Kate Andrews https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/02/...
‘Abbott and Trump’, Paul Collits | We wuz robbed, twice
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Welcome to CounterCulture, a weekly web show and podcast of sharp, lively commentary from regular Spectator Australia writers, analysis from IPA experts, interviews with the world’s leading thinkers, and Gideon Rozner's own take on the issues of the week both in Australia and internationally.