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Shouldn'ta Come
by Shouldn'ta Crew
Hello and welcome to Shouldn'ta Come, a podcast deep diving into Australian politics and social life and why all this nonsense is why a bunch of us shouldn't have come here.
Episodes
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Aussie WAGs and HABs in odd places (Part 1)
Congratulations! You are an Australian and you have hitched your wagon to a powerful or influential person overseas! We've got a fun one for you over the next couple of weeks, looking at Australians who have found themselves in odd situations, married to foreign aristocracy and such. We look at...
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The Tragedy of David Hughes (Part 2)
Hi again everybody! What are your thoughts on the expression of the soul? The latent homosexuality of the idealised Australian man? The moments of realisation that turn a story on its head? We finish, this week, our unexpected little two-part series on Dave "Hughesy" Hughes, Australia's comedian...
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The Tragedy of David Hughes (Part 1)
Hi again everybody! This week we are stooping to cover entertainment news; as everybody, we are confused and astounded by the recent political turn of erstwhile Australian Hughesy, and it felt like a good time to knock out one of these more fun episodes. We take a look at the big fellas biography...
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MEGA EPISODE! Embarrassing Patriotic Songs Tournament (ft. James and Gab)
Good morning party people! What a wonderful week it's been, unseasonably warm like every other season! Wait We have guests again! This week we are lucky enough to be joined by James (Brisbane based musician with PistonFist, The Black Swamp, Razor Nun, Swamp Gully Howlers and a writer for Good…
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50 years of the Canberra Food Co-op!
Good morning folks! If you're a person alive in this country, you're desperate to conceive of a way of life that isn't hurtling towards extended pain and disaster for your descendants. This week, we chat to one of many groups trying to prototype a better, fairer and more sustainable world—my old...
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Happy Birthday Ciaran! (Q&A Episode)
You ever wanted to have sex with a cryptid? Ever tried to fight all of your party guests with a baby lock? How many kinds of animal can we talk about! This week, for Ciaran's birthday I sourced some wonderful questions from friends and fans and put them to Ciaran, so we can all get to know him a...
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Cheap Shots at China: An Australian Pastime
Good morning everybody! Had this one ready so I've dropped it a day early. This week, we're just having a little look at the news, but we're going to be focusing on some oddly timed stories from the ABC and Guardian (among other papers of record). Among the multinational rescue effort reacting to...
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Who's This Drunk Fucking Wreck? (Barnaby Joyce Part 4 of 4)
I can't believe we're here! The Barnodessy, our four part series about Australia's Most Famous Dog Menacer, Barnaby Joyce, is over. This is the downfall, where we cover the part of the story you've definitely heard about. Relive the riveting events of 2018 or so, travel with us through the...
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Who's This Drunk Fucking Deputy Prime Minister? (Barnaby Joyce Part 3)
SIDDOWN!!! Folks it's part 3 of four of the Barnaby Joyce story! This is where we reach the summit of the Barnaby Joyce experience. Moving from the Senate to the House of Representatives, Barnaby wrings every last drop of money that get put in his power as Agriculture Minister. He then finds...
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Who's This Drunk Fucking Senator? (Barnaby Joyce Part 2)
Hi folks! We're back with another look at the Barnaby Voice! It's part 2, where we cover Barnaby's time as a Senator for Queensland. Telstra gets sold, students get sold out, and climate action is cut. If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love to have you…
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Who's This Drunk Fucking Asshole? The Barnaby Joyce Story (part 1)
SIDDOWN! And brace your ears for another wonderful episode of Shouldn'ta Come, where we look at the childhood, young adulthood and early misadventures of Barnaby Joyce. Most notably in the news for cheating on his wife and two separate dog-intimidation incidents, briefly reaching international...
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Quiz Episode! Oldest Houses of Worship in Australia
Hi folks! This week, Yani puts Ciaran through a contrived quiz, to guess the age of Australia's Invasive Religious Buildings. Basically, we're going to work backwards in time, from 1994 to 1793, and Ciaran's going to try guess which religion set up their first place of worship in Australia in the...
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Things That Only Happen In Australia (with many caveats)
Hello everybody! Sorry this episode was a little late to get up, I just forgot to actually upload it. For Queensland listeners: send an email to your State MP via the Conservation Council This week we're looking at some of the things that just happen here, or here and one or two other places and...
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The Northern Tyrantory: Lia Finocchiaro and the Country Liberal Party
Hello and welcome! This week on Shouldn'ta Come, we have a little deeper look at the Territory behind the Government described recently as "Trump-like". Is this true? Are people in the Northern Territory using the mechanisms of government to enrich themselves and commit violence on an underclass?...
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Hindu Nationalism in Australia: Saffron Summers
Namaste Folks! This week, Yani takes Ciaran through some of the basic structures of Hindu Nationalism; the relationship between the Hindu majority and the Dalit/Adivasi minorities, some poorly-understood Genetics, and then the ways in which Hindu Nationalist organisations operating outside of…
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The King Wants To Know About Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
Hi everybody! We're back with another thrilling week of Australian Jurisprudence or whatever. We're looking at the Social Cohesion Antisemitism Royal Commission, and I had a read through all of the presented evidence and I have something to report! We try our best to get to the meat of what's...
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Royal Commissions: Gambling, Governments and The Goanna
Hello everybody! Wonderful to have you with us again! We are working on our big look into the Antisemitism Royal Commission and wanted to do a little companion piece looking at Royal Commissions of the old and slightly less old days. We wanted to figure out their general purpose and…
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Scandals, infidelity, indiscretion and contradictions: June News Roundup
Hey folks! This week we're popping around the news to cool off a little bit, see what's going on, catch up on our stories, all the good stuff. We start with the story of a Queensland man with a "High public profile" who's named as a party in some legal proceedings. We follow up by talking about…
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Australian Inventions: Food, Drink and Fighting
Hi folks! Wonderful news—we live among geniuses! Yes, though we are pretty hard on the Australian intellect at times, there have been the odd resonant brainwaves on this parched continent. We talk about a super cool spear thrower, some political bullshit, a food, a vehicle, a drink and some...
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Jacqui Lambie: Despite it all, we live (part 4)
Hi folks! We have reached the end of Jacqui Lambie month here at Shouldn'ta Come, where we cover her time in political wilderness, her reality show moments, and the second iteration of the Lambster as a politician. If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love…
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Jacqui Lambie: The Senate, Lambie Style (part 3)
Hi folks! We continue the Month of Lambie with part 3, where we get properly acquainted with the Jacqui Lambie years that everybody remembers; Clive Palmer, the Sharia Law arguments, her son with an ice addiction, and the big stunts. Featuring some returning characters! If you like what you hear...
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Jacqui Lambie: GI Jac (part 2)
Hi folks! We're back with Jac part 2, the second part of our...trilogy...saga...about Jacqui Lambie of Tasmania. We talk about Jacqui's time working her way up through the army, the types of boys she's had to deal with over her life, and the process of wresting any decency from the Department of...
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Jacqui Lambie: Jac the Ripper of a Good Time (part 1)
Hi folks! The Good Ship Shouldn’ta makes her first stop on the North Western Coast of Tasmania, or as they call it in Devonport, The Coast. We are here to meet one of the more enigmatic and entertaining yet ignorantly racist politicians that this country has ever produced: Jacqui Lambie. This…
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Dinosaur Hour with Ciaran
Hey Folks! Rawr! That is how a Dinosaur would say "welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come"! This week, Ciaran takes us to paleontological height this podcast couldn't have dreamed of reaching. We look at the relatively few confirmed cases of Dinosaurs Down Under, including an extended look at...
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April News Round Up: The Birdman & Homelessness, Dying Turtles & Writhing Budgets
Hey Folks! It's the end of April, where things are getting wet and wild! (It's raining again). It's been raining bleak times lately, and I appreciate the chance to get them out of my head, have a laugh about them, and hopefully help people stay on top of some of the big and small stories that...
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Punjaub, Jerusalem and Kentucky: Why are Australian Towns Named That?
Morning folks! We've got a fun one this week, or at least one that's not about the worst of Australian society and war crimes. In Australia, we have plenty of towns named after places in the British Isles, or at least after some Englishman or another. But have you heard of Surat, Queensland or...
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Ben Roberts Smith is somehow even worse than I thought
Hey Folks! Ben Roberts Smith, famously evil piece of shit war criminal, is also an abuser, a cheater, a general bully and has some of the most powerful supporters in the land. Hopefully he'll go to jail! If you like what you hear and would like to support us monetarily, we would love to have you...
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Australia's Surrogacy Generation, Where We Buy Babies and Rent Uteri
Hey Folks! We are back with an episode that isn't a whimsical adventure, so if you were hoping for more of that, wait for next week I guess? We're talking about Surrogacy! The practice of implanting a fertilised egg into a woman, usually a poor woman, who's going to carry it for you so that you…
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Dot and the Kangaroo: Into the Dot-verse
Clickety-click and welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! This week Ciaran is feeling a little nostalgic and so we dive into an Australian classic film, Dot and the Kangaroo. Australia's second ever animated feature film is a cherished memory for generations of Aussie kids, but what do you remember…
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Reserve CRANK of Australia raises DISINTEREST rates
Hey Folks, Among the death, disaster and looming famine, interest rates have gone up. I don't really know what that means, so we try our best to understand what levers are actually being pulled here. We spend a bit of time looking at the people who make up the RBA board and their odd connections…
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Revisiting Iraq 2003, the Howard Fib, and Why Everything is Always Bad.
Hey Folks, Remember when the Australian prime minister cowardly supported illegal, brutal and racist military action by the United States and Israel? Oh, I'm not being specific enough? Rather than the ongoing Iran attacks, the Genocide in Palestine, the invasion of Syria or the string of Gulf…
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Sandilands, Eurotrends, Coward Rankings and Unparliamentary Language
Hey folks! If you're in the Brisbane area and Friday the 13th of March has not passed yet, please consider signing the Save Woogaroo Forest petition, regarding a development in Springfield threatening to clear 136 hectares of Koala Habitat. Link here. This week, we start by taking a brief look at...
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Iran at War, Albo at a Breaking Point, Trafficked Women and other despairs
Hey Folks, We're putting this episode out early because we talk about a few timely things, and don't want to be completely out of date when we put it out. I (Yani) am going to make the classic mistake of saying "Khomeni" when talking about "Khamenei", but just know I mean "the guy who just died"....
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Bob Katter 3: Uncle Bobonomics
Hey folks, lovely to have you here on Shouldn'ta Come! Bob Katter is notorious for 'claiming to be a blackfella on odd occasions' while being an old-school racist. He's also regarded as slightly confusing for the occasional seemingly contradictory belief, especially when it comes to Economics...
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From The Sea To The River, Palestine Will Live Forever
Welcome back to Shouldn’ta Come! This week is all about updates and news, baby. Ruh-roh, Raggy! Recent changes to protest and hate speech laws might mean a phrase in John Farnham’s ‘Two Strong Hearts’ is ILLEGAL. In NBA basketball news, are we to see reform or revolution with the draft process?...
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Prophecy, Propheganda and Proper Resistance
Hey folks! I prophesize that you're going to listen to this episode and share it with all your friends! We take a look at some of the prophecies—predictions without percentages—that have visited Australia's shores since colonisation. There's the Smith Wigglesworth statements, The Mulunga Cult...
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Pauline Hanson's Precious Little Life
Good morning everybody! I hope you're ready to dive into the history of Pauline Hanson, because that's what we're doing today. It's going to be a multi parter, and we start looking at the shit husbands she had before she was famous. If you like what you hear and would like to support us…
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The Many Wars of Bobs Katters
Welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! But come we have with the second chapter in our series on Australia's notorious B.O.B (Katter). This week we dive into An Incredible Race of People, Bob's 2012 foray into literacy, to learn a bit more about what Australia means to our favourite Lebanese-Australian...
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Bobs Katters 1: Maronites & Martian Astronauts
Well hey there! Are you one of the many people confused about North Queensland MP, Robert Carl Bellarmine Katter? Well, tune on in to the first of our multi-part series about the big man, trying to unpick what it is he's actually trying to do. In this episode, we spend a lot of time in the 1800s,...
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Northern Militarism and Spelling Reform
What's up folks! Do you have issues spelling? So do many Australians! We explore some possible solutions to the crisis facing Australian children, in that they can't read or write. But first, we read through an article from the substack Militarism in the Northern Territory, rounding up some...
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Season 2 Premiere! Our 2026 Predictions
HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS! We are back for another season of Shouldn'ta Come, and we've got a full house today. We go over some events of the last few months that we didn't have a chance to look at, namely the appointment of a Rightwing Psycho to the Queensland Curriculum Board, Concussions, Mike...
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Questions from the Multiverse, Huge Deals and Crime Content
Merry Crisis Everybody! It is the end of the year and we've got a smooth dismount into our little two week break coming up. Yani quizzes Ciaran on what Australia's biggest Google Trends were this year, the crew discuss sports controversies and then we play "True Crime Podcast or Underbelly...
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Anika "Doing Her Job" Wells, Social Media Ban, and Bryce Courtenay
Hi folks! We're back with our second-last episode of the year, where we're just going to go around some recent happenings—although, obviously, the news has moved on to the other big thing that happened. Anika Wells is the latest Minister for Sport, and politician in general, to be caught up in a...
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Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act (Slurs Episode)
Australia's Racial Discrimination Act, brought in by the Gough Whitlam government in 1975, is an optimistic attempt to legislate away racism in public life, like housing and employment. Section 18c tries to do that with hate speech. And that's perhaps a challenge not befitting Australia's...
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Sussan Ley: Who Iss Sshe?
Welcome back to Shouldn'ta Come! Today we defy all logic to assk the quesstion: Who Iss Sussan Ley? Sussan is not only the first women to be Leader of the Liberal Party (and the Liberal-National Coalition), she's also the first woman to be Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to do so with a...
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Saudi Australia 2: The Working Australians Policy (WAP), Kafala-style Agricultural Slavery
Hi folks! We're back with another episode in the ongoing Saudi Australia series, comparing and (occasionally, but not often) contrasting the two sport-focused countries constructing anachronisms in the desert. How would an archaeologist even begin to approach the Line as a concept? If you like…
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Saudi Australia: Guns, Ore & Camels
Saudi Arabia and Australia are basically the same, if you ask the Shouldn'ta Crew, who spend some time looking at the links between Australia and Saudi Arabia, our investment in Weapons Companies, and how many guns we give people doing war crimes. If you like what you hear and would like to…
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I Don't Like Cricket (for Personal, Social and Political reasons)
Hey folks! This week we're having a look at Australia's Past-time, a sport that most people either don't like, don't know about, or don't want to hear a single fucking word about! We talk about how much space it needs, how the sport itself reifies classist relationships, the most debased things...
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Checking In On Old Stories: Another Underwhelming Storm
Hello everybody! It's wonderful to have you with us today, on this most wonderful of days, the day where we we reminisce. We check back in with the following people and stories that we've covered over the past most of a year: Adam "Lean, Green, Socialist Machine" Bandt, Anthony "Albo Forever"...
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Australian Cryptids NBA Draft (Halloween Double Feature Part 2)
Hey folks! Welcome to Part 2 of our Halloween Double Feature. Lots of discussion about flightless birds this time! Yani's going to do her draft of cryptids to take on the NBA All-star team. Episodes are now available on Youtube with a slideshow for your viewing pleasure! You can head to...
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Hello and welcome to Shouldn'ta Come, a podcast deep diving into Australian politics and social life and why all this nonsense is why a bunch of us shouldn't have come here.
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