A Friday Rave

Interview with Rawan Arraf - Australian Centre for Internattional Justice

A Friday Rave is joined by Rawan Arraf, Principal Lawyer and Executive Director of the Australian Centre for International Justice to discuss the Federal Court Order against Defence Minister Richard Marles to disclose th

Gina's One-Woman Supply Chain and Data Centres

This week we explore Gina's lastest investments in critical minerals projects and her MAGA-style courtship of Pauline and Elon. We talk about data centres, semiconductors, bottle-necks and the South China Sea. And a

Radiothon Week 2

Radiothon Week 1

Optimum pathways ain't neccesarily all that optimum: there may be multiple optimums it seems

Flying Under the Radar: Australian sole-source F-35 suppliers you may not have heard of

Today we talk about the 11th hour adjournment of the case brought by AL-HAQ against Richard Marles for documents pertaining to defence exports to Israel in the Federal Court. And we look at some of the lesser known Austr

Department of Defence doing the Investor's bidding

Defence has announced increased private investment to bolster the multi billion dollar defence budget. We look into the Advanced Capabilities Investment Fund and some of the companies poised and ready to take up the cash

78th Nakba Day, the catastrophe has never ended

It's the 78th year since the first Nakba, but the catasrophe has never ended. The defence budget, the whole of government approach, israel's impunity and australian surveillance planes are all part of the genoc

A National Stage for Lobbying: Lynas at the National Press Club, Oh and there's a new defence bank

Outgoing CEO of Lynas Rare Earths addressed the National Press Club, so we dig into that as an exercise in lobbying, and trying to convince kids that mining is excellent, nothing to see here. And we have a quick yarn abo

Everyday is May Day

It all comes back to May Day.... It has always been about workers having a say in how we live.. from when we will and won't work, and what we will do with our time, the dignity of working people. So where are we tod

Clinton Fernandes on gas companies winning big from publicly funded surverying, the IMF and impending food crises in Indonesia

We are joined by Clinton Fernandes to discuss the ramifications for food security by the war on Iran, debt as a mechanism for control and how Geoscience Australia conducted the publicly funded gas surveys only to sell th

2026 National Defence Strategy: 98 Pages of the same old spin; Pete Hegseth can't tell scripture from film script

We go over Richard Marles' (yes, he's still defence minister) National Press Club address announcing the 2026 National Defence Stategy and Intergrated Investment Policy... A couple of hours of spin to say not a

Ben Roberts Smith and a Government that cares more about authority than atrocity

We talk about the arrest of Ben Roberts Smith on allegations of war crimes, the government seeming to care more about maintaining the authority in the conduct of atrocities rather than the atrocity themselves. And how wa

Albanese the Cringeworthy, War for Extraction and Corporatisation

The pitiful address to the nation.. and all the rest of it

"We have what you need": Zelensky in Saudi Arabia... and the tech industry is surviving on war

This week we revisit Brave1 in the context of Zelensky's visit to Saudi Arabia to talk weapons transfers. Jumping off of our conversation about the war economy last week, we have a bit of a rave about the tech indus

An Aberration or Business As Usual? The War Economy.. oh and no need for audits any more

This week we discuss the business as usual that is the US empire; regardless of who's at the healm, it commits the same atrocities but change how they spin it. And the Australian Government goes hand over fist to pl

Sovereignty... in Australia.... yeah, right!

Mercedes is away today, but Jacob raves on about Australian Sovereignty... almost as if it exists.

Yep: The West is back on Crusade

The first Friday Rave since the War started in earnest.

Meanwhile in Ukraine... Remember Ukraine?

The War in Ukraine continues.

What can we say about the Epstein Files that no-one else has already?

The Eptein Files revealed a lot of awful stuff that was illegal... but its the awful stuff that's legal that we talk highlight today