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The full Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM, live from the dining room table on Friday 30 October 2026, with Gary and the team. Caller Maria on the brumbies, the Greens and the cost of living; Positive Pete Switzer turning cautious on recession risk and the AI float frenzy; Caleb Bond on aged care, the superannuation rort and why sixteen-year-olds should not vote; and MacroBusiness ch...

Jeremy Cordeaux takes a call from Maria, who is in no mood to hold back. She wants the wild brumbies of the high country left alone and the New South Wales environment minister held to account, pointing to the Rewild the Wild campaign and the fight to stop the cull. She argues the Greens have become a party of control, and rails against the wind factories and green hydrogen plants she says never s...

Commentator Caleb Bond joins Jeremy Cordeaux for a wide-ranging talk that starts with the Erin Patterson appeal and lands squarely on the cost of government. Caleb argues the superannuation system has grown out of control, questions where the money in aged care really goes, and makes the case against lowering the voting age to sixteen, pointing out how young voters tend to lean and why that is no...

Financial commentator Peter Switzer, the man they call Positive Pete, joins Jeremy Cordeaux from Sydney and admits he is not feeling his usual optimism. He walks through the shape the economy is really in, why he worries about a possible recession, and the frenzy around AI floats and multi-trillion-dollar valuations like Nvidia, warning it carries echoes of past manias. Switzer explains his multif...

Leith van Onselen, chief economist and founder of MacroBusiness, joins Jeremy Cordeaux and makes a blunt case: Australia’s state and federal budgets are drowning in debt, and the fastest-growing part of the public service is the back-office bureaucracy, not the nurses and teachers who actually serve the public. He takes Victoria as the warning, where core bureaucrat numbers have jumped roughly two...

Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Peter Clayton and Gary Hiscock for the Court of Public Opinion. The headline is the steepest quarterly fall in house prices on record, with every capital city down and Perth off 7.4 per cent, and Jeremy’s verdict that Labor has taken us from negative gearing to negative equity, with the government itself the biggest loser once you count the stamp duty. He...

Jeremy Cordeaux is back around the dining room table in the garage with Pete and Gary for the Court of Public Opinion. This episode: energy expert Professor Bruce Mountain says enough is enough on Snowy 2.0 after a blowout to twelve times its estimate, and Jeremy argues Chris Bowen should be sacked, with the project tipped to run from two billion dollars to as much as fifty. The COP31 gathering in...

Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary for another Court of Public Opinion, and he is still counting the cost of government. He returns to the 59 personal advisers working for the Prime Minister and asks the question nobody in Canberra wants to answer: if everyone knows, why does no one in opposition say a word? He digs into the family trusts sitting inside Parliament itself, whe...

Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on the number the government would rather you did not notice: unemployment is now higher than it was at the peak of the pandemic, with 50,000 small businesses gone in the past eighteen months. He argues Labor keeps loading up what it calls reform, measures designed to save or make the government money, while doing nothing to curb its o...

The complete live stream of The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM, from around the dining room table on Friday 16 October 2026. Author and real estate agent Zed Nasheet on the art of closing, Dr John Bruni on Starlink, Ukraine and the Houthis, Professor Ian Plimer with a gold nugget and his new book on gold, historian Professor Carolyn Strange on live streaming an execution, Ann Nald...

Adelaide writer and performer Peter Goers joins Jeremy Cordeaux to talk about In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past, his new one-person show based on his second book about the deaths of his parents in a plane crash in New Orleans in 1982. He describes being sent to America at 25 and why he calls the show a tribute to his parents, told with a wry humour. Peter also explains why he believes grief h...

Real estate agent and author Zed Nasheet joins Jeremy Cordeaux and Gary Hiscock to talk about his new book, The Art of Closing Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Zed says selling is about persuasion and storytelling rather than pressure, and that real estate is about people, not properties. He shares the tough first three years when he made no money, his run as a top salesperson, the story of dating someo...

Dr John Bruni of SAGE International joins Jeremy Cordeaux at the dining room table for a wide ranging look at world affairs. He starts with his podcast conversation with Harvard's Avi Loeb about UAP claims, then turns to Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Ukraine, and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Dr Bruni argues that Elon Musk's control of Starlink shows how exposed a dependent ally can be, and ask...

Ann Nalder, founder and CEO of the Australian Small Business Association, joins Jeremy Cordeaux to explain why she believes the country's 2.7 million small businesses are being ignored, squeezed by rising costs and buried under one-size-fits-all policy. She takes aim at big corporations paying small suppliers 120 days or more late, questions why a Parliament House meeting on small business policy...

Professor Ian Plimer joins Jeremy Cordeaux in the studio with a five-ounce gold nugget from his own small North Queensland mine and his seventeenth book, Gold, Everything You Need to Know, which is already in reprint a week after release. He explains why gold is so heavy and how nuggets grow, argues that gold has held its value for two thousand years while money has lost it, revisits the sale of A...

Nigel Daw from the South Australian Aviation Museum at Port Adelaide joins Jeremy Cordeaux to preview the museum's family engine run and open cockpit day on Sunday 25 October, with historic engines fired up on stands and visitors invited into the cockpits of the F-111, DC3, Fokker F27 and more. Nigel also reveals a Bristol Freighter is on its way from Point Cook, and he and Jeremy trade stories of...

Former Advertiser arts and entertainment writer Samela Harris joins Jeremy Cordeaux to explain why she has lost patience with Premier Peter Malinauskas over the felling of old trees for motor racing and the handling of Adelaide's park lands, which she says is happening behind closed doors. She also questions the paid Michelin guide arrangement and what she calls a lot of undisclosed sums. Samela t...

Emeritus Professor Carolyn Strange from the ANU History Department joins Jeremy Cordeaux to discuss the planned live stream of a US military firing-squad execution, which has now been called off while the execution itself is set to proceed. She explains how the power to take a life has always been tied to rulers, from Roman emperors to modern presidents, why the live stream plan echoes 19th centur...

Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens with a timely warning for anyone posting Christmas presents overseas: don't leave it past the first of December. He takes aim at the Prime Minister's chosen legacy of rewiring the nation, saying the transmission towers and wires criss-crossing the country will be remembered with every electricity bill, and slams a proposed levy on...

Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens by congratulating South Australia's police commissioner Grant Stevens on his appointment as the state's next governor. He marks 25 years since Australia committed to the war in Afghanistan, then turns to a property market where he says values are down 19 to 20 per cent across the country, asking how anyone can call it good news wh...

Jody Fitzgerald of Brightside Mediation spent six years as a political adviser in the South Australian Parliament before turning to mediation full time. She joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM around the dining room table to talk about the knives in politics, the role of advisers, and why she thinks skill is not always what gets people elected. Jody explains how mediation works in family, small business, cou...

Emeritus Professor David Flint AM, former head of the Australian Broadcasting Authority and the Australian Press Council and National Convener of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM to discuss his Spectator column arguing Australia is on the road to ruin. He explains why he believes Switzerland's system of citizen-initiated referendums would put politicians back on a...

Geoffrey Watson SC of the Centre for Public Integrity joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM to respond to claims that the High Court overreached in its Hunter Valley Operations mine decision. He argues the 111-page judgment is conventional administrative law about bureaucrats obeying the statute, and that it has been misunderstood and manipulated in the media. Geoffrey also explains the difference between brow...

Veteran broadcaster John Ovenden makes his monthly visit to the dining room table, bringing his trusted computer expert Melanie Lewis. Melanie tells Jeremy Cordeaux AM why technology feels more complicated than ever, when it is safe to ask AI for tech help, why updates sometimes change your settings, and why you should never click unsubscribe on spam. John shares scam advice for older Australians...

Dr John Bruni of SAGE International joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM around the dining room table for his regular look at the world stage. He discusses reported US aircraft losses in the Middle East, diesel prices and the Red Sea, why cheap drones are rewriting modern warfare, and how US manpower compares with China's. John also explains SAGE International's idea of 'threshold conditioning', the Russian g...