My First Party

Owen chats with Jay Iwasaki, the local Greens councillor for Bulleke-bek (Brunswick). We chat about the morality of Brunswick residents and how their civil rights are being improved under ongoing Greens leadership.

Rachel Versteegen and host Owen Miller were both candidates for the recent federal election in Wills. Join us in this chat about decreasing the size of government and what effect it would have on taxation and slavery.

Rayna Fahey from Prosper Australia talks about how Australia is missing out on prosperity and how we can get involved in ensuring it gets fixed. We look at some historical examples and discuss the signs that this government might finally do something more substantial.

Nancy Atkin is one of the organisers of the Brunswick Residents Network (https://brunswickresidents.wordpress.com/) which carries out a variety of activies aimed at keeping residents informed and keeping governments accountable.

Angelica chats with Owen and Peter about being the youngest mayor of Merri-bek, and how she feels various problems were addressed, especially housing. We also chat about inspiration for getting political and what's happening with Angelica's continuing involvement in refugee rights.

Owen and Peter are joined by William from the Renters & Housing Union (https://rahu.org.au/) to discuss how the grassroots movement is giving more rights to Australians living in homes 🏡🏙

Simon Gnieslaw was recently a senate candidate for the Fusion Party in Victoria. Peter and Owen chat with him about a variety of topics and we introduce our policy / quote guessing game from the first episode.

Owen narrowly manages to avoid getting cancelled during a discussion with Peter about grassroots political movements, and how our podcast could shine a light on them to help realise some fantastic changes in society. The discussion clarifies what's ahead for the season and how the podcast will be unique amongst political podcasts.