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The SUWA Show - Squatters and Unwaged Workers Airwaves
The Squatters and Unwaged Workers support and promote those resisting social order and trying to create an alternative to it. Interviews with local and interstate unwaged and unemployed activists, squatters and plugs of local and interstate actions, protests, conferences, meetings and film screening...
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One Billion Dollars of Taxpayer Money
Featuring former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, in the hot seat at the Robodebt Royal Commission. The Robodebt scandal was appalling enoug...
Yes, We Can Have It All!
De-growth, de-carbonise, well-being, inclusion, a healthy environment. Yes, we can have an economy that is sustainable, and that includes everyone --...
Growth Is Killing The Planet
MMT-informed ecological economist Professor Phil Lawn says "Growth is killing the planet". What exactly is growing? Can we have good growth and bad gr...
Three Non-experts Discuss the Federal Budget
How about a budget analysis without a 'Spurt in sight?Yes we had a federal budget this week. And yes it was in the context of recalibrating a budget t...
MMT Meets the Marxists
What is an advocate of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to think when some Marxists accuse MMT of being not much of a theory, and MMT-ers as bourgeois apo...
Don't Panic! It's Only Supply-Side Inflation
Why are interest rates going up? Why is inflation going up? Why is it that every time you ask a question about economics you uncover yet another swind...
Economic Ideology versus Everyday Reality
Past and present federal treasurers voluntarily shackle themselves in the imaginary debt dungeon. We'd be happy to let them rot there, except they for...
A Hostile System: Australia's Treatment of Unemployed Workers
We've proven it! Beyond a shadow of a doubt. The current "employment services" system is "mean", "horrible" and "hostile" for no legitimate reason.We...
Digital Dole Parole: Workforce Australia
Are we "stumbling zombie-like into a digital dystopia"?From the frontlines of a NON-full employment economy, we speak with Dr. Simone Casey on her obs...
Why Bother?
Why bother with economics? Why bother with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)? After-all, the government can still govern without bothering about MMT.Anne &...
Voting Strategies for Trying Something New
What if disposing of 17 tonnes of dead fish was part of your day job? We speak with Greens party candidate Suzette Rodoreda about what is motivating h...
Long Live the Species
What if you wanted to do something, but you didn't ever spell out quite what it is you want to achieve, and you didn't put any time or energy into doi...
UWFB: The Seven Circles of Temporary Migrant Worker Hell (part 2)
What keeps someone working ten hours a day, in a field, under the hot sun, for as little as $3 an hour? While putting up with verbal and physical abus...
UWFB: The Seven Circles of Temporary Migrant Worker Hell (part 1)
What's worse than not having a job? Try working in slave-like conditions.Uncovering the lie that unemployed Australians are “too lazy to pick fruit” e...
A Reasonable Job Guarantee with Andrew Johnson
What kind of politician would want to give everyone a job? A Job Guarantee is an economic game changer. It would provide jobs to the few who otherwise...
It's Not the Money (or Wages!) Honey, with Darren Quinn
Taking their cue from a blogpost by Professor Bill Mitchell, Anne & Kev dig into the current debate over wage rises and inflation.Then, Anne speaks wi...
UWFB: A Wellbeing Economy with Steve Keen
What kind of politician would want to give every adult $100,000? From employment to housing to banking, Anne & Kev chat with Steve Keen about the sort...
UWFB: Poverty is Still a Political Choice
Returning to the events of Anti-Poverty Week, Anne & Kev dissect a rare moment of neo-Liberal honesty. This was an article published on Oct 19, 2021,...
UWFB: Poverty is a Political Choice
On this Friday of Anti-Poverty Week, Anne & Kev chat with Daniel Levy from the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union (AUWU). We catch up on AUWU activi...
UWFB: Less Is More
What could be more empowering than Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)? Try mixing MMT with ecological economics. Together, they give us the tools to turn th...
UWFB - Barnaby vs The New Liberals
This episode Anne & Kev dissect Barnaby Joyce's economic understanding only to discover he may think baby cows come from cabbage patches. We also inte...
UWFB: Economic Foretelling
Back in 2007, the vast majority of economists did NOT see the two-trillion-dollar global financial crisis (GFC) coming. What was going on with their e...
UWFB - Libertarians, Inflation & the UBI vs JG
Anne & Kev discuss the neoliberal origins of the libertarian freedom marchers, answer queries from listener Eric about inflation and discuss the pros...
UWFB: Kill Superannuation Stone Cold Dead
Following the lead of Queensland LNP Senator Gerard Rennick, Anne & Kev poke around in the stinking rotten carcass of superannuation. They chase away...
UWFB - What if we just paid people properly?
The main constraint on Government spending isn't debt. It's inflation. So what happens if we build public housing and pay aged care workers properly?
UWFB: Mystery Celebrities & Obligations
We are much obliged to the fast-talking and fast-thinking Luke McGregor, actor and writer on the highly acclaimed comedy, Rosehaven, and comedian well...
UWFB - Kevin's Crazy Theory
Back in the 1970s Milton Friedman introduced a crazy theory on how to run the economy called neoliberalism, and the whole world bought it! Now Kevin i...
UWFB: Fully Funded
When a central bank governor describes how money is created on computer keyboards, you might wonder why the Australian government needs to sell bonds...
UWFB: Spend Up or Let Down?
Anne & Kev are joined by Professor Bill Mitchell, Australia's foremost economist for cutting through the spin and making sense of what our government...
UWFB: The Case for Free Universal Childcare
Why do women do less well out of our economy? Didn't the feminist revolution of the 1970s deal with all that? We speak with two women about a signific...
UWFB: A 1950s Economy for Women
Why are women feeling the pinch more than men in the covid-economy? How do attitudes towards women wend their way into a national budget? Are we squee...
UWFB: Animated MMT
Anne & Kev chat with Mischa Herman about what gets a sound engineer excited enough about macroeconomics to produce a 2-part animation on an Introducti...
UWFB: Inflation: Don't F*ck Up The Resources!
Zoltan Bexley walks Kev & Anne through the inflation controversy, and explains who are inflation's winners and losers. Holy cow, you can lose big! But...
UWFB: Lost
Kevin shares his thoughts on Australia Day, and we look at how covert racism sneaks in under cover of views about the economy. Pssst! Who is going to...
UWFB: It's Complicated: All About QE
The Australian federal government seems to be spending a lot of money to support the economy as we fall into a recession due to the pandemic lockdowns...
UWFB: Kevin's Economic Theorum
A tradie, an admin assistant, and a retired civil engineer walk into a recording session and give Kevin's Economic Theorum a burl.
UWFB: Let Them Pick Cherries!
What is Christmas without a bowlful of cherry-picked cherries? And what is a neoliberal understanding of unemployed Australians and cherries without c...
UWFB: The NAIRU Horror Show
Have you ever been unemployed, but wanted work? Know anyone looking for work and unable to find a job? You might think that's due to the pandemic, or...
UWFB: I'm An Individual
Anne & Kev discuss the historic and philosophical underpinnings of neoliberalism with housemate Pete.
UWFB: Everything Sux, But Here's To The Future!
Anne & Kev take stock of the recent spate of good news. We speak with Young Labor members Ben Dudman (Tasmania) & Savannah Benson (ACT) about how a jo...