What a week! The Nationals had a leadership contest, the Liberals had a contested ballot, the Greens elected a new leader, and even Labor felt left out and decided to have an factional implosion despite scoring their greatest ever election result.
We discussed the political lay-of-the-land on this week's episode of the podcast and how the media was covering the Liberal's new leader, Sussan Ley, in particular (spoiler alert: she isn't as 'moderate' as they're claiming).
We also dug into the commercial radio landscape and the enormous $200m bet one of Australia's biggest radio companies has put on Kyle and Jackie O. Plus, we covered some developments in the AFL media controversy dogging Fremantle captain Alex Pearce.
But the main item in today's newsletter is more politically focussed. There's a unique opportunity in the new parliament, which will be dominated by Labor in the House of Representatives and Labor and the Greens in the Senate, to drive real, progressive change. The main stumbling block? How much these parties hate each other. Os takes a look at why, whether it can be overcome and and what's at stake.
Enjoy!
👀 Killer Grabs: Quotes from around the traps.
✍ Can the Greens and Labor stop hating each other? By Osman Faruqi
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Killer Grabs
"Even if my daughter became the leader of the Greens, I would not join the Greens." – Independent senator Lidia Thorpe
Thorpe found herself unexpectedly pulled into the leadership deliberations of her former Party on Thursday, after The Australian published a seemingly baseless story that she was open to rejoining the party depending on who was elected leader. The quotes were gold, but the real question is: what senior Greens source is leaking to The Australian, of all places?
"In Spanish it means ‘every,’ in Sanskrit it can mean ‘passionate,’ and in the Indian dialect Marathi it can mean ‘loose-tongued’ or someone who blabs." — The press release for the launch of radio station CADA in 2022, tries to explain why they chose the name.
ARN, the company behind KIIS FM and IHeartRadio Australia, made a valiant attempt at appealing to diverse young people in the launch press for CADA. The audio conglomerate tried speaking to Western Sydney kids in their own language... Sanskrit?
