The Party Line on the Mamdani-Trump meetup, social media ban (with Channel 6’s Leo Puglisi) and Pauline Hanson

Episode 9 - The Party Line on the Mamdani-Trump meetup, social media ban (with Channel 6’s Leo Puglisi) and Pauline Hanson Anneke kicks off the episode with a sad story about alleged police harassment - and the risk of not paying fines promptly. We then examine the decision by Vic Pol to designate the entire CBD and surrounds as a zone where they can stop and search anyone without reason, for an incredible six months. This is especially dangerous in light of a recent report which shows that Indigenous and African people are massively more likely to be searched, harassed, tasered and so on by police. We chat next about Hanson’s racist stunt in Parliament and her broader rise to prominence in Australian politics. We wrap up with an interview with Channel Six’s Leo Puglisi about his successful efforts to establish an alternative media project as a school-aged journalist, the coming social media ban, and why young people should be able to vote.ContentAfter the surreal Trump-Mamdani summit‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months | MelbourneHow we beat Pauline Hanson in the 1990s Check out Leo’s work at 6 News Australia | Independent & unbiased journalismHeadlines:Cotality Housing Affordability Report shows 'extraordinary rise' in home valuesHastie knows Libs could die if they lose this fightWhy governments should stop raising the minimum wageBody-cam footage shows police coaching a father who murdered his family. As a psychologist, I’m enragedThe exceptional thing about the battle of the bobs? It’s not exceptionalHospitalised and told to send the kids to foster care: Tenants’ VCAT woes revealedIndigenous, African men endure rampant police profilingImmigrant crime: Trump administration orders US embassy to collect data from Australia*****************This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.If you like what you hear, please subscribe and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) This pod was produced on land that was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.