Bogan Intelligentsia

Professor Warwick Powell is an Australian academic and regular contributor focused on geopolitics, political economy, and Australia’s place in a changing Asia-Pacific. He examines how deep-seated primacist impulses and millenarian ideas of exceptionalism continue to shape American foreign policy, and how those same assumptions still structure Australian strategic thinking. Powell joins us to unpac...

Laith Marouf is a Beirut-based Palestinian-Syrian-Canadian journalist, media producer and founder of Free Palestine TV, whose on-the-ground reporting has tracked the resistance fronts across Lebanon, Yemen and the wider region since the start of the current war. In this conversation we begin with a direct update on the state of the resistance fronts, before examining the main escalation risks ahea...

Anthony Klan is an Australian investigative journalist and founder of The Klaxon, known for rigorous reporting on political funding, institutional power, and accountability in Australian public life. He has spent years documenting the financial and political networks behind major parties, donors, and influence operations.  Anthony joins us for a wide-ranging conversation that opens with the 2026 U...

 ussein al-Bukhaiti is a Yemeni journalist and political commentator based in Sana’a, the capital held by the Ansarullah-led government since the September 2014 revolution. He has appeared extensively on international media including Al Jazeera, the BBC, Press TV, The Cradle, and others, offering a perspective from inside Yemen that is almost entirely absent from Western and Australian coverage. D...

David N. Gibbs is Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Arizona, specialising in U.S. foreign policy, intervention, and the political economy of alliances. Drawing on declassified documents, he has shown how post-Cold War U.S. strategy treated European autonomy as a problem to be managed, using the Yugoslav wars to lock in NATO primacy and block independent European secur...

Marco de Jong is a Pacific historian and lecturer in the AUT Law School, specialising in New Zealand foreign policy, Pacific regionalism, and the history of regional security. Drawing on declassified archives, he has traced the deeper roots of strategic denial in the Pacific and the contested “community” approaches that once sat alongside it. He is also known for his recent analysis of the Treaty...

Gurridyula is a Wangan and Jagalingou man and representative of Waddananggu, living on country at the camp established on the Adani Carmichael mine lease in central Queensland. He has maintained a continuous presence there as part of cultural resistance and ceremony, and is also known as Coedie McAvoy. Gurridyula joins us on the growing public friction around Aboriginal protocols in Australia, sta...

Dr. Jay Chako is a geopolitical analyst and political economist with a PhD from the University of Sydney. His research focuses on imperialism, currency hegemony, and the long-term conditions that produce geopolitical conflict. He has written and spoken extensively on the Middle East, including previous work on Syria and Yemen. Chako joins us for a full crash course on Yemen — a country most Austra...

Tony Kevin is a former Australian ambassador to Poland and Cambodia, and the author of Return to Moscow (2017). He served in Moscow from 1969 to 1971 and has returned to Russia several times since 2016. Kevin joins us on a war he says Kiev has already lost, and that the West is still prolonging. The conversation runs from his Cold War posting and the decay of the Soviet system, through Maidan, Ban...

Bryant Harris is a former journalist with more than a decade covering U.S. foreign and defense policy from the White House and Capitol Hill. He is now pursuing a Master of Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, and is the author of Rebuilding New Zealand’s Navy for Security, Not Aggression (Center for International Policy, 17 September 2026). Harris joins us on the sliding-doors d...

On Episode 82 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Ambassador John Lander returns for an episode on Australia as a US military colony and sovereignty gone via the 2014 Force Posture Agreement and AUKUS. He outlines a China war not of our making, asking what veto is left if Washington uses our bases over Taiwan, and sets Albanese’s UNGA appearance and words against the realities of the decisions made in Canber...

On Episode 81 of Bogan Intelligentsia, journalist, author and Australia Institute chief political analyst Amy Remeikis joins the program to discuss Screw Nice, the politics of civility, and how manners became a tool for keeping Australia’s real arguments off the table.  Podcast Details:  55 min | Released 27 September, 2026 | Amy Remeikis – Author, journalist and chief political analyst, The Austr...

On Episode 80 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Adelaide journalist and climate researcher Royce Kurmelovs joins the program to discuss the climate crisis and the impact of the deteriorating global political situation on effective solutions and consensus driven outcomes. Climate action was pinned to an international system that assumed law, consensus, and enough peace for complex work; war and the wrecking...

On Episode 79 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Lebanese-Canadian journalist and Free Palestine TV founder Laith Marouf returns for a unique discussion on resistance, the United States empire, and the last Western outpost in the Levant. Marouf also speaks on the untold story of the fully colonised states like Australia: conquest so complete that the settlers themselves became the most captured subjects of...

On Episode 78 of Bogan Intelligentsia, retired Australian diplomat, former Deputy Ambassador to China and first Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran John Lander joins us for a tight, unsermonic hour on sovereignty, and AUKUS through the lens of the Force Posture Agreement. Lander walks through what Australia conceded on unimpeded US access to bases and facilities, why he says that arrangemen...

 On Episode 77 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Australian human rights lawyer, former Human Rights Commissioner and UN commission of inquiry member Chris Sidoti joins us for a tight, unsermonic hour on law, visas, the IDF running the Sydney Marathon,and the killing of Zomi Frankcom. Starting from Israel’s decision to close the Zomi Frankcom file and refuse criminal charges days before the Sydney Marathon...

On Episode 76 of Bogan Intelligentsia, American-born IR scholar, Un-Diplomatic host and Victoria University of Wellington associate professor Van Jackson joins us for a sharp conversation on empire and Australia's role within it. Starting from Mark Carney’s Davos “rupture” speech and his August address after Canada walked away from U.S. trade talks, Van unpacks last-minute American demands Canada,...

On Episode 75 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Australian-Palestinian writer, director and filmmaker Ala’a Al Qaisi joins us for a deep and moving conversation on storytelling as memory, resistance and healing. Drawing on her upbringing with her grandmother’s stories of a Palestine she has never seen, Ala’a examines diaspora identity and the homeland, the shift from screen to theatre as soft power, the ge...

On Episode 74 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Yorta Yorta journalist, broadcaster and 7am co-host Daniel James joins us for a wide-ranging and unflinching conversation on Australia’s unfinished business with its First Peoples. Drawing on his work hosting The Mission on 3RRR and his sharp political analysis, Daniel examines the post-Voice landscape, the vacuum of truth-telling, the battle over national id...

On Episode 73 of Bogan Intelligentsia, former South Australian Senator, Royal Australian Navy submariner and transparency warrior Rex Patrick joins us for an excellent analysis into the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. Drawing on his recent testimony to the AUKUS Public Inquiry, ongoing FOI battles and sharp analysis of the June 2026 shift to second-hand Virginia-class boats, Rex examines the growing...

On Episode 72 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Beirut-based Palestinian-Syrian journalist, media producer and founder of Free Palestine TV, Laith Marouf, joins us for an update on the war in southern Lebanon. Drawing on his continuous on-the-ground reporting from Beirut and the south since our last conversation in early June, Laith examines the limited Israeli withdrawals and the widening gap between offi...

On Episode 71 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Dr Yousef AlKhouri, Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Bethlehem Bible College, Gazan-born Palestinian Christian theologian and board member of Kairos Palestine, joins us for a powerful conversation on the living Christian presence in Palestine. Dr AlKhouri unpacks Christianity’s ancient and continuous presence in Gaza, the concept o...

On Episode 70 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Honorary Professor of Modern European History at the University of Newcastle and leading expert on Russian and Soviet history, Roger Markwick, joins us to unpack the often omitted historical elements that impact on the Ukraine war. Drawing on decades of scholarship, Professor Markwick examines the post-1945 roots of the conflict, NATO expansion, the 2014 Maid...

In a sharp and revealing conversation on Bogan Intelligentsia, investigative journalist and editor of The Klaxon, Anthony Klan, joins us to pull back the curtain on the pro-Israel lobby’s influence in Australian politics, media and public institutions. Drawing on his recent reporting, Anthony dives deep into Jillian Segal’s dual role as Antisemitism Envoy while tied to pro-Israel lobby groups, her...

Podcast Details : : 45 min | Released 05 July, 2026 |  Wendy Bacon – Investigative Journalist & Activist   Support the Launch: Subscribe for free on Substack at www.boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month).  Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.  Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates.  Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month.  Share th...