Shouldn'ta Come

Hi folks! We're back with Jac part 2, the second part of our...trilogy...saga...about Jacqui Lambie of Tasmania. We talk about Jacqui's time working her way up through the army, the types of boys she's had to deal with over her life, and the process of wresting any decency from the Department of Veteran's Affairs. If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love to...

Hi folks! The Good Ship Shouldn’ta makes her first stop on the North Western Coast of Tasmania, or as they call it in Devonport, The Coast. We are here to meet one of the more enigmatic and entertaining yet ignorantly racist politicians that this country has ever produced: Jacqui Lambie. This will be a three part series, and we spend this week getting to know her family history and her upbringing,...

Hey Folks! Rawr! That is how a Dinosaur would say "welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come"! This week, Ciaran takes us to paleontological height this podcast couldn't have dreamed of reaching. We look at the relatively few confirmed cases of Dinosaurs Down Under, including an extended look at Gondwanaland. It's a great time if you're into Dinosaurs, especially ones with slightly disappointing names. If y...

Hey Folks! It's the end of April, where things are getting wet and wild! (It's raining again). It's been raining bleak times lately, and I appreciate the chance to get them out of my head, have a laugh about them, and hopefully help people stay on top of some of the big and small stories that happened in the last few weeks. We speak about Bikram Lama, Sydney's "Birdman", whose body lay at a train...

Morning folks! We've got a fun one this week, or at least one that's not about the worst of Australian society and war crimes. In Australia, we have plenty of towns named after places in the British Isles, or at least after some Englishman or another. But have you heard of Surat, Queensland or Bagdad, Tasmania? Yes, we also have some places named after other parts of the world, and today we go on...

Hey Folks! Ben Roberts Smith, famously evil piece of shit war criminal, is also an abuser, a cheater, a general bully and has some of the most powerful supporters in the land. Hopefully he'll go to jail! If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love to have you over on our Patreon, at Patreon.com/shouldntacome . If you have any questions about sourcing and such f...

Hey Folks! We are back with an episode that isn't a whimsical adventure, so if you were hoping for more of that, wait for next week I guess? We're talking about Surrogacy! The practice of implanting a fertilised egg into a woman, usually a poor woman, who's going to carry it for you so that you can have a baby. This is, in our opinion, a gross practice. We look at what the laws about surrogacy are...

Clickety-click and welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! This week Ciaran is feeling a little nostalgic and so we dive into an Australian classic film, Dot and the Kangaroo. Australia's second ever animated feature film is a cherished memory for generations of Aussie kids, but what do you remember about it? And did you know there were eight subsequent Dot films? Come closer, eat this magical root, and...

Hey Folks, Among the death, disaster and looming famine, interest rates have gone up. I don't really know what that means, so we try our best to understand what levers are actually being pulled here. We spend a bit of time looking at the people who make up the RBA board and their odd connections to a specific country...obviously, it's Israel. If you like what you hear and would like to support us...

Hey Folks, Remember when the Australian prime minister cowardly supported illegal, brutal and racist military action by the United States and Israel? Oh, I'm not being specific enough? Rather than the ongoing Iran attacks, the Genocide in Palestine, the invasion of Syria or the string of Gulf Wars, we will today be talking about the 2003 war in Iraq. We start by looking at whether John Howard was...

Hey folks! If you're in the Brisbane area and Friday the 13th of March has not passed yet, please consider signing the Save Woogaroo Forest petition, regarding a development in Springfield threatening to clear 136 hectares of Koala Habitat. Link here . This week, we start by taking a brief look at the phenomenon of European wellness trends describing extremely mundane activities, like going on a w...

Hey Folks, We're putting this episode out early because we talk about a few timely things, and don't want to be completely out of date when we put it out. I (Yani) am going to make the classic mistake of saying "Khomeni" when talking about "Khamenei", but just know I mean "the guy who just died". We also talk about the so-called "ISIS Brides" and the disgusting jingoism and sadism behind the Austr...

Hey folks, lovely to have you here on Shouldn'ta Come! Bob Katter is notorious for 'claiming to be a blackfella on odd occasions' while being an old-school racist. He's also regarded as slightly confusing for the occasional seemingly contradictory belief, especially when it comes to Economics issues. This week, we have a look those two aspects of Bob Katter, Australia's most notorious politician,...

Welcome back to Shouldn’ta Come! This week is all about updates and news, baby. Ruh-roh, Raggy! Recent changes to protest and hate speech laws might mean a phrase in John Farnham’s ‘Two Strong Hearts’ is ILLEGAL. In NBA basketball news, are we to see reform or revolution with the draft process? Then we (don’t) travel back to K’gari to discuss the impact of a Canadian tourist’s death on the dingo p...

Hey folks! I prophesize that you're going to listen to this episode and share it with all your friends! We take a look at some of the prophecies—predictions without percentages—that have visited Australia's shores since colonisation. There's the Smith Wigglesworth statements, The Mulunga Cult during the Indigenous Resistance, and then some modern kooks giving us their awful opinions. If you like w...

Good morning everybody! I hope you're ready to dive into the history of Pauline Hanson, because that's what we're doing today. It's going to be a multi parter, and we start looking at the shit husbands she had before she was famous. If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love to have you over on our Patreon, at Patreon.com/shouldntacome . If you have any questi...

Welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! But come we have with the second chapter in our series on Australia's notorious B.O.B (Katter). This week we dive into An Incredible Race of People , Bob's 2012 foray into literacy, to learn a bit more about what Australia means to our favourite Lebanese-Australian (don't say that). We also look at some of Bob's interactions in parliament, and his big plans to solv...

Well hey there! Are you one of the many people confused about North Queensland MP, Robert Carl Bellarmine Katter? Well, tune on in to the first of our multi-part series about the big man, trying to unpick what it is he's actually trying to do. In this episode, we spend a lot of time in the 1800s, meeting Bob's uncle Anthony Arida and the Lebanese Independence Movement. If you like what you hear an...

What's up folks! Do you have issues spelling? So do many Australians! We explore some possible solutions to the crisis facing Australian children, in that they can't read or write. But first, we read through an article from the substack Militarism in the Northern Territory, rounding up some alarming military buildup in the NT. If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we w...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS! We are back for another season of Shouldn'ta Come, and we've got a full house today. We go over some events of the last few months that we didn't have a chance to look at, namely the appointment of a Rightwing Psycho to the Queensland Curriculum Board, Concussions, Mike Cannon-Brookes, AI and Surveys, Racism, Armed Zionists and the Selling Off of Australia. If you like what y...

Merry Crisis Everybody! It is the end of the year and we've got a smooth dismount into our little two week break coming up. Yani quizzes Ciaran on what Australia's biggest Google Trends were this year, the crew discuss sports controversies and then we play "True Crime Podcast or Underbelly Episode"! Have a nice holiday and we'll see you again soon :) If you like what you hear and would like to sup...

Hi folks! We're back with our second-last episode of the year, where we're just going to go around some recent happenings—although, obviously, the news has moved on to the other big thing that happened. Anika Wells is the latest Minister for Sport, and politician in general, to be caught up in a scandal regarding the amount of public money that goes to the lifestyles of the rich and dangerous. We...

Australia's Racial Discrimination Act, brought in by the Gough Whitlam government in 1975, is an optimistic attempt to legislate away racism in public life, like housing and employment. Section 18c tries to do that with hate speech. And that's perhaps a challenge not befitting Australia's legislative system—or, maybe, any. We have a look at an ongoing case by the Zionist Federation of Australia's...

Welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! Today we defy all logic to assk the quesstion: Who Iss Sussan Ley? Sussan is not only the first women to be Leader of the Liberal Party (and the Liberal-National Coalition), she's also the first woman to be Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to do so with a pilots license, and the first woman to do all that and also add an extra S to her name for numerology...

Hi folks! We're back with another episode in the ongoing Saudi Australia series, comparing and (occasionally, but not often) contrasting the two sport-focused countries constructing anachronisms in the desert. How would an archaeologist even begin to approach the Line as a concept? If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love to have you over on our Patreon, at...