My First Party

Daniel Mackinlay is an AI researcher from Australia's acclaimed CSIRO. This week he joined Owen and Peter to compare the AI policies of different Australian political parties and to ponder why so many parties are asleep at the wheel here 🤖📜

Owen and Peter discuss recent racial tensions in Australia, as well as the psychology of politicians and the impact it has on the legality of their behaviour.

Felix Dance from the Socialist Alliance joins Owen and Peter to discuss the struggle of workers and the need to overthrow imperialism and capitalism. Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nHD53L9_TBs

Antoinette Pitt (an independent candidate for Eastern Victoria) chats with Owen and Peter about homelessness, compassion, religion, and the issues holding back Victoria from living up to its full potential.

Miles Whiticker has been a candidate for Fusion and the President of the Pirate Party. In this chat with Owen and Peter, he covers topics including direct democracy, the meaning crisis, as well as Fusion's recent whistleblowing policy updates

Alex Kain (author of The Philosophy) joins Owen and Peter to discuss his book and how people can best approach life in a time when we're increasingly lost for meaning. Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4Dly5O0b5g

Danny Abledjabbar is a former Committee Person from Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. He is also a host of the popular podcast, Bro History. This chat with Owen covers the history of revolutions around the world and how they've been influenced by foreign actors who sometimes don't even try to hide their hand.

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.