Podcast Episodes

Kmart Keating, Douglas Murray's wet dream & Hamas’s Gun Garage

Season 1 Episode 224

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah watches Victorian Labor replace Jacinta Allan with her own deputy and announce a fresh start from inside the same…

3 months ago

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Rise of the Cockroaches

Season 1 Episode 223

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah follows India’s Cockroach Janta Party from a Supreme Court insult and viral meme to mass youth protests over exam…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Reading Between The Headlines

Season 1 Episode 222

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah follows two news stories through the online outrage machine.

An ABC report about climate disasters increasing the …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Modi, Telstra & Iran’s Martyr Machine

Season 1 Episode 221

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at how disasters become PR opportunities.

Telstra somehow fixes a nationwide outage by creating another one,…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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America at 250 needs more Street Hawk

Season 1 Episode 220

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah marks America's 250th birthday by asking what its greatest populist, Huey Long, can teach us about Donald Trump, …

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Bloodsport of the Deal

Season 1 Episode 219

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah explains why Donald Trump's favourite movie might also explain his foreign policy.

From Jean-Claude Van Damme's Bl…

4 months ago

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One Culture Under Pauline

Season 1 Episode 218

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah takes a deep dive into Pauline Hanson’s first National Press Club address and the global rise of populist politic…

4 months, 1 week ago

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Hughsie and Cry

Season 1 Episode 217

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at how every political problem somehow ends up being blamed on immigrants.

Comedian Dave Hughes goes viral r…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Grace Tame, Charlie Pickering & The Cancellation Olympics

Season 1 Episode 216

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah dives into the latest Australian culture war, where an autism podcast somehow becomes a referendum on Israel, Gaz…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Abbott Returns, NDIS Cuts & The War on Oman

Season 1 Episode 215

This week on News Weakly, Sami Shah looks at what happens when political parties mistake nostalgia for strategy and spreadsheets for compassion.

Tony …

5 months ago

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