Ben is joined by Peter Brent and the ABC’s Tom Crowley for the final pre-election episode of the 2025 federal election campaign. We discuss how a hung parliament might play out and the experience of riding Peter Dutton’s campaign bus. For our seat of the week we discuss the NSW seat of Werriwa.
How I’ll be voting this election and why.
It’s not often that we get the chance to directly influence the manner in which the Australian Government deals with a continuing genocide.
With that, I thought I’d give you a rundown on what will guide my vote, and how I’ll be voting in the Senate.
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2025
Let tax reform drive your voting decision this election with the Prosper Australia 2025 policy scorecard.
The post 2025 Federal election scorecard first appeared on Prosper Australia.
It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th April 2025
Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?
“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”
Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.
It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025
The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.
It has two main strategies, and you can see them both at work, right here, right now.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th March 2025
You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025
One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.
Epiphany plays an outsized role in the reductionist two-step model of invention. Step one is when an idea pops into an inventor’s head, and step two is when the invention spreads in an economy over time.
This model is misleading in numerous ways that would take a book to enumerate. Today’s column focuses on step two, aiming to one piece. How and why do businesses embed the invention in products and services while the invention spreads?
A prototype is a product or service’s early sample, model, or release. It is built to test a concept or process and serves as a tangible representation of an idea. Some prototypes are primarily commercial, while others are scientific.
Prosper Australia urges the government to embrace real reform that ensures prosperity is shared by all.
The post 2025 Budget betrays locked-out generation, kicks reform further down the road first appeared on Prosper Australia.
For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.
By George Monbiot. This is my response to the government’s Land Use Consultation, sent on 23rd March 2025.