We're Back! Australia's Political Meltdown, the Fight Over Free Speech and What’s Really Happening in Iran?

Os and Scott are back with the first episode of 2026. They begin by sharing what they got up too over summer and the plans to make Lamestream bigger and better this year.

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In this episode, they discuss the political and media response following the Bondi terror attack and the battle over a Royal Commission, and how the the partisan campaigning for an inquiry into anti-Semitism exposed the hypocrisy of a number of senior media executives, editors and outlets.

Then, they unpack the government's extremely controversial plans to criminalise hate speech, why they are being pushed for by the pro-Israel lobby and why they are opposed across the political spectrum.

Later in the show, Scott looks at the protest movement in Iran and how Western media coverage does a disservice to the protestors and to the country more broadly. Os and Scott discuss how media coverage of Iran is largely filtered through the lens of US foreign policy interests and ignores the country's complexity and the various elements of the protest movement.

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