The AshPolitik Podcast

Trump started a war. The Coalition spent a decade gutting Australia's fuel reserves. One Nation is pointing fingers while their own fingerprints are on the weapon. And the RBA just raised your mortgage to fix a problem that interest rates can't touch.In this episode, Ash breaks down the real story behind Australia's fuel crisis — who built the vulnerability, who lit the match, and why raising rates on struggling mortgage holders is economic vandalism dressed up as responsible policy.🔖 Topics covered:Trump's strikes on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz shutdownAustralia's 13-year failure to meet IEA fuel reserve obligationsOne Nation's convenient amnesia on the Coalition's refinery closuresThe RBA's rate hike — wrong tool, wrong problemWho's actually accountable, and who's just surfing the anger

The RBA lifts rates off the back of slight increase in inflation, and low employment. Was it required? Who's fault, is it? Who will be hurt the most?

This is week in #auspol and Australian politics. Pauline Hanson as prime minister — fringe fantasy or legitimate? An Australia Day rally bomb scare raises hard questions about media framing and national security, while the Liberals publicly deny a leadership spill as the noise around Sussan Ley grows louder. Potential RBA Interest rate rise, what it means for workers.

The Coalition is cracking in public — tears, tantrums, leadership chaos, and a conservative vote split. The Nationals are on the brink, One Nation is siphoning votes, and Trump-style politics keeps failing the Australian test.We walk through the polling the right doesn’t want to see, the donor games linking Mar-a-Lago to Australian politics, and the fantasy economics versus reality: jobs are strong, the dollar is up, inflation pressure is easing.Australians are proud, pragmatic, and done with imported grievance politics.

In this episode, Ash tests out podcast platform, to chat about this week's #auspol and global political issues. Gun Laws, Hate Speech and of course the car crash TV Show that is Trumps America.