Here's what we have for you this week:
- Killer Grabs: Quotes from around the traps.
- The Daily Aus Promotes Its Investors, Hannah Ferguon’s Rocky Campaign Start and News Corp Cuts Arts Coverage — By Osman Faruqi
- The Good Ones: New York Magazine goes Habibi, a new thick mystery to stream and a stunning new investigation on Australian arms exports.
Something you may not know, as a Lamestream subscriber, is that you can actually watch us as well!
We have been uploading episodes of the podcast to YouTube for a while now, but now we've been able to start publishing every episode and make the whole experience a lot better.
It's pretty confronting for us to be on video this much, but if you have ever wanted to see the genuine shock, horror or joy painted across our faces as we reveal things to each other, we'd appreciate you checking it out.
On Monday's episode, we did a deep dive into the ABC and announced we had set up an encrypted proton mail address: lamestream@protonmail.com
Our reports on the ABC were the impetus for us to set that up, but our investigations certainly aren't limited to the ABC!
If you would like to tip us off to something, and you want to do it securely, then it is the best way to protect yourself. If you set up a proton mail address as well, then our entire correspondence will be end-to-end encrypted.
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This is, of course, only one element of source protection. But if a source gets in touch, we can talk about all the other ways we protect sources as we pursue our investigations.
Osman Faruqi
Killer Grabs
"Dave, you’ve become Mark Latham but without his sense of humour." — Hugh Riminton, 10 News National Affairs Editor
The latest development in the continuing descent of comedian Dave Hughes, is that he is coming after specific journalists he believes are somehow a part of protecting the great Labor party conspiracy to give taxpayer money to "literal criminals".
This has involved claiming to have gone over months of Hugh Riminton's tweets and found not a single one is critical of Labor (untrue). Riminton's reply?
"Dave! How nice to hear from you old cobber. I don’t think you really have."
"Even if I got 12%, 1 in 8 people in Clacton would rather vote for a space warrior shaped like a bin than Nigel Farage. That would be interesting, wouldn't it" – Count Binface, candidate for the Clacton by-election
Counting is continuing in Clacton as we go to print, but it does appear Nigel Farage may be re-elected in this political stunt of a by-election that he called himself.
All other parties decided not to contest, with the exception of Count Binface.
The Daily Aus Promotes Its Investors, Hannah Ferguson’s Rocky Campaign Start and News Corp Cuts Arts Coverage
The Daily Aus Promotes Its Investors
Beyond The Valley is one of Australia’s largest remaining multi-day music festivals. Every summer, 40,000 people descend upon the Barunah Plains in Victoria for four days of live music. This year’s lineup includes The Black Eyed Peas, Skepta, The Veronicas, Vince Staples and The Jungle Giants.
Tickets to this year’s festival sold out entirely through pre-sale, which is an impressive achievement considering the state of the live music industry.
Pre-sale was available to those who signed up on the Beyond The Valley website, with the first round of tickets only being available to those who also agreed to sign up to The Daily Aus’ newsletter.
In fact, The Daily Aus has been a big promoter of the festival – pushing its Instagram audience of over 600,000 followers to the Beyond The Valley website, as well as that of its sister festival Wildlands (held in Brisbane and Perth) multiple times.
