Drug and Prison reform in Australia.

19 May 2017
Andy and Ian talk about gray corruption.

Andy speaks with Cameron Murray who is an economist. Cameron says that there are favours given to mates that bleed the nation. It is called ‘game of mates’ or ‘gray corruption’.

These favours are traded by a network of mates in many Industries. This game is a global phenomenon that is stealing from one group to another. They have cushy jobs and examples are with Land rezoning which benefit those who get favourable decisions by the authorities. It is a sale of rights which were publicly owned to private developers. Murray noticed he had empirical data that showed re-zoning was not a random lottery he looked at six areas in Queensland where landowners had a favourable decision and found that it was the landowners who gave political donations. He looked at political donations data and he said it was about how well connected to work he made a comparison with the Italian mafia.

He called it connectivity inside and in the 6 cases he looked at it was $710 million dollars gifted to the people in the group.

He looked at relationships between property developers and politicians such as Tim Soorely, Campbell Newman and Anna Bligh. These people have control over society’s resources. the game of mates was regarded as being a natural thing to do, a positive thing, sociable and was regarded as a good thing to do it was ripping off money from rest of society in areas of mining banking and superannuation fees were charged

Apparently the Ontario teaches fund it is buying Fairfax Newspapers through a private equity company TPG capital.

Podcast

Playlist
Rein – C.A.P.I.T.A.L.I.S.M.
Algiers – The underside of power
Rivermouth – Money come
King Ayisoba – Wicked leaders
Evan Greer – Never surrender

Paradigm Shift 12 May 2017.

Andy speaks about Native Title and plays some classic and new aboriginal music.

Pitfalls of Native Title
Native title is a lengthy process – Eddie Mabo spent 10 years in court.
Indigenous land use is a form of ‘extinguishment’ of land rights.
Does not benefit all aboriginal people – a race for private ownership.
Government exercises compulsory acquisition.

Podcast

Playlist
Yothu Yindi – Mabo
Goanna – Solid Rock
The Painted Ladies – Stranger in my country
Birdz – Black lives matter

Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 friday 5 May 2017 at noon.

Andy and Ian speak about May Day.

Andy interviews Josh Cullinan who has started up the new Retail and Fast Food Union – all about the need to have a fighting Union instead of a boss’s union like the SDA. Josh has spent 20-25 years in the services industry: Seven-Eleven 7/11, Coles and IGA. He raises the importance of defending penalty rates and speaks about how to get a union up and running.

Andy talks with Phil Monsour about his latest CD project: One song, One Union which began with the Hutchinson’s dispute on the waterfront last year and extended to the Baby Asha campaign for refugees and became a 12 song album which is one song per Union.

ACTU leader, Sally McManus, outlines in her May Day speech, the issues confronting the union movement, the need to defend our rights at work and penalty rates.

Podcast

Playlist
Evan Greer – Picket line song
The Criminals – Union yes
Phil Monsour – One more day than them
Phil Monsour – We teach our children hope
Redgum – Killing floor
Dilemmas – Bomb the clock

Paradigm Shift 28 April 2017 4zzz fm 102.1 friday at noon.

Andy interviews David Stevens (Honest History) about how in 1918 Australia was a broken nation – 70% of the men had stayed home, 30% went fought in the First World War. There were two conscription referenda both defeated. A clash between Protestant and Catholic.A heavy secret police presence. David talked about histories by Jesse Webb, Cecilia John and Paul Daly, about Manus and Nauru, Tjandamarra, a Kimberley man who fought against colonisation.

Andy interviews Jim Dowling about East Timor. They discuss the oil and gas theft by Australia from the poor neighbour, East Timor.

About how Jim & friends would go up to Canungra and blockade the military training & talk to soldiers, letterbox all the houses, spill blood on the tiles.

They discuss independence in East Timor and what happened in 1999 when the Indonesian left leaving a peacekeeping force remain for many years.

Podcast
On Soundcloud

Playlist
John Schumann – On every ANZAC Day
Glenn Skuthorpe – Sacred land
Ted Egan – Tjandamarra
Ancestress – One by one
Paddy McHugh – Gin’s leap