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Think Again
by Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet
Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.
Episodes
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The urgent need for true democracy of and by the people
The presenters return to the theme of democracy and the rather undemocratic political system we live in.They argue that restoring democracy 'of the people for the people' is more urgent than ever, especially given the 'overlord' threat of Artificial Intelligence.In our current political system,...
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Solving the Australian housing crisis is complex but feasible: A conversation with Matt Lloyd-Cape
The housing crisis in Australia is made to feel like a confusing, multi-facetted and complex monster. Daily we witness public opinion battles between groups and interests set to lose or win, with different factors presented as the real cause or solution of the housing problem ... And the…
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Why aren't we regulating AI properly? The role of corporate power and negligent government
Artificial Intelligence is back in the news with a vengeance, as OpenAI broke into a Medicare statistics website, and tech bosses called for a slow down in AI development until we can be assured it is safe. Meanwhile there is widespread community opposition to data centres to power AI.Jacques and...
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Reflections on Zionism, Christian Zionism, and the self-serving delusions of people in Israel
Veronica Sherman talks about Zionism, Christian Zionism, and the ideological bubble that people in Israel live in.This ideology includes their elite status as ostensibly chosen by god, and the dehumanisation of the Palestine people. It also includes an adopted victim status, in denial of the...
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Is fascist politics on the rise world-wide? unpicking Germany's lurch to the (far?) right
Parts of Australia's mainstream media have been replete with ominous bits of news about recent election victories of the far-right neo-Nazi party in Germany, the AfD – or (The) Alternative for Germany. The party reached over 43% of the vote in the state of Saxony Anhalt formerly part of East...
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Why AUKUS is the stupidest policy that Australia has ever enacted, and what we can do
Dr Albert Palazzo from UNSW-Canberra explains why the AUKUS deal that Australia has with the US is not in Australia's interests. In other words,'the US was smart to do it and we were dumb to do it'.AUKUS allows US military bases on our soil to contain China and underpin US dominance. This makes...
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Stopping Australian support for illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide: four 'Red Lines' bills
This program is about the Four Red Lines campaign, calling on Federal Parliament to review and pass a package of 4 Bills. If enacted, the 4 Bills will ensure that Australia doesn't fund, arm or invest in illegal settlements, war crimes, or genocide anywhere in the world.Jacques and solicitor Rita...
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Housing and homelessness: Thinking outside the policy box
The presenters re-visit the housing crisis, with rental affordability at a crisis low point for employed people and those living on Centrelink payments.Many renting long-term still require a stable home, and government policy needs to recognise this. In particular, the government needs to commit…
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Unpicking the new gambling legislation and the vested interests making sure it doesn't work
Dr Charles Livingstone from Monash University talks with Jennifer about the new gambling legislation just passed by the federal parliament (Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026).While it was meant to build on the late Peta Murphy’s landmark parliamentary inquiry report (You...
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We need to resist the move towards authoritarianism before it's too late
The presenters talk about the growing authoritarianism in Australia, and how it is being appeased to our peril.Capitulation to and accommodation of One Nation is a case in point, with our political leaders too timid to call it out. Meanwhile mainstream parties shift further to the right as a...
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AI: stealing human knowledge for private profit, and its effects on inequality and human learning
Jose Ramos talks with Jacques about the massive invasion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into all areas of our daily lives and systems and the profound implications of this takeover.As Jose points out, AI steals from our common human knowledge selling it back to us for private profit, rapidly and...
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An insider look at how companies and governments came to offload their admin work onto us
Have you ever wondered why interacting with governments and companies has become so complicated and time-consuming?Madison Moffatt gives an insider view of how governments came to offload regulation compliance work onto companies from the 1990s, and how companies subsequently developed ways to...
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Campaign to create a natural regional park in the face of ad hoc housing developments
Claire Weekley from Friends of Merri Creek talks about the campaign to create the Wallan Wallan Regional Park about 45 kilometres north of Melbourne CBD.The area includes wetlands, waterways, and grasslands, as well as astonishing grassy hills that are volcanic cones, and stony rises formed by…
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Trump and the dangerous imaginings and influence of the New Apostolic Reformation movement
The presenters discuss the dramatic breakdown of the separation between church/religion and state in the US, especially from the 1980s, under the influence of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). The NAR is key part of President Trump's support base, and he isn't too shy to bring it right into…
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Automated decision-making affecting people's lives in the new NDIS Bill and across government departments
Sarah Sacher from the Human Technology Institute (HTI) explains the expanded provisions for automated decision making in the new NDIS Bill before parliament, that lack human oversight and proper guard rails. This decision-making relates to the supports that people with disability can access.While...
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Sudan's civil war and the fallout for refugees as told by Aziza Hussein
Whilst we only very occasionally hear or view on our mainstream media about what's going on in Sudan, the civil war in that countrry has been and continues to be one of the most violent in recent history and still with any possible resolution in sight. It is known that the United Arabic Emirates...
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People's declining faith in democracy, while the wealthy cry into their milk about tax changes
Jennifer and Jacques have a closer look at why citizens are losing faith in political systems and processes, and the idea that democracies are working in their interests. This is a world-wide trend.Meanwhile, on the home front, tone-deaf representatives of wealth and power tell a senate committee...
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Kelvin Thomson talks about his life-long engagement with nature and current community projects
Ex Member for Wills, Kelvin Thomson, talks about his passionate connection with nature dating back to childhood, and current projects he is leading and is involved in to protect local habitats and waterways.These include the Moonee Ponds Chain of Ponds collaboration, and the 'Adopt a Creek'...
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Radiothon retrospective: Revisiting some Think Again themes
In this radiothon special, the presenters discuss the origins and 'reason for being' of Borderlands Cooperative and its program at 3CR, 'Think Again'.Themes have included:peace and how this is best folded into everyday relations and organising (while countering 'command and control'...
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Lurch to One Nation, collapse of the two-party system, and confusions of the current Australian political-economy
Jennifer and Jacques unpick what is happening in the Australian electorate with some big shifts in community sentiment and voting trends, such as a move to One Nation and the demise of the National-Liberal Coalition.They argue that the changing voting patterns are not temporary anomalies, but a...
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Threading together some of the key factors behind Israel's genocidal war
Jennifer and Jacques weave together a few threads relating to Israel's occupation and genocide in Palestine, including the complicity of the US and western powers, Zionism, Christian Zionism, big money, and the media. For their analysis they are helped by Jewish scholars and historians.The...
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Report on serious anti-Palestinian racism in our institutions and communities
Nour Salman, who leads the Anti-Palestinian Racism project, talks about a preliminary report on incidents recorded through a national online register (by APAN).Anti-Palestinian racism includes racial vilification and dehumanisation, suppression of political and cultural expression, and denial of...
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Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism! Strategies of the Zionist lobby to suppress pro-Palestine solidarity
Jacques and Jennifer continue their critique of pro-Israel hegemony, which is an active scourge on free and informed public discourse in Australia affecting our media, our legal system and our universities, to name a few institutions.For this program the presenters particularly focus on the...
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Australia's new hate speech laws and serious threats to protest, dissent and free speech
Greg Barns SC provides an overview of Australia's new hate speech laws at federal and state levels, and how they present a serious threat to free speech and dissent.While the patchwork of laws is confusing, in general they set some groups against others in partisan fashion, and favour the...
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A worker's movement within the Catholic church: Three personal stories from across the world
For this May Day special, Jacques talks with Stefan Gigacz and Jorge Jorquera about the history of the Young Christian Workers (YCW), a workers' movement that emerged within the Catholic church starting in Belgium over 100 years ago and rapidly spreading worldwide.All three of us have been…
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Superintelligent AI: Why we need to shut it down NOW before it's too late
Jennifer and Jacques return to the topic of Artificial Intelligence, this time focussing on the pressing dangers of Superintelligent AI, which is self-organising and self-directing and not within the understanding and control of any humans.They refer to a recent book by experts in the field,...
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Developing good teaching practice from the ground up (without ill-informed command-and-control from our polis)
Following the program on this topic two weeks ago, Rob Hattam and Marie Brennan discuss how Australia's policy regime silences the voices of teachers who are treated as mere technicians who should just carry out instructions. In this regime teachers are treated as stupid, requiring dumbed down...
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Democracy in Australia and what does Labor stand for?
Jennifer and Jacques return to the theme of the state of democracy in Australia.They begin with our seriously misguided military alliance with the US, before moving on to the conservative and highly compromised positioning of the Australian Labor Party, leading many to wonder what it stands for…
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How policy is getting in the way of schools and teachers doing good education
Marie Brennan, Borderlands Cooperative board member, hosts this program. She is joined by Professor Rob Hattam from Adelaide University, who talks about the ways that government policy has been impeding the ability of schools and teachers to carry out good education for several decades.Rob Hattam...
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Israel, US and Iran (still) and imagining a better system for everyone in 2050
Jennifer and Jacques take a deeper dive into the wider, historical context of the latest conflagration in the 'middle east', brought on by US-Israel attacks on Iran.They share some ideas for building a better future for all in the region, including: restoration of people's ability to relate…
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Chaos and devastation unleashed by Israel and the US in their latest illegal war
Jennifer and Jacques talk about the US and Israel's full scale attack on Iran which started in late February.They examine some of the reasons given for the war, plus the devastating ripples of harm spinning out from it, harming and uprooting millions of people.
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Going undercover at the reactionary Right’s Advance conference: What can we learn from it?
Conal Feehely from Get Up recently went undercover to an Advance conference and he shares some of his learnings.Amidst some predictably extreme themes from presenters (for example blaming migrants and climate policy for current woes) Conal had a range of civil conversations with attendees with...
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Stop children being arrested, charged, hauled before courts and imprisoned as adults! Join the campaign
It's a national disgrace and a tragedy that children across the country as young as 10 continue to be arrested, charged, and hauled before the courts, and are locked up in police and prison cells.And amongst all the rhetoric about 'closing the gap', Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children...
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'Love letters to nature' and other ACF campaigns fighting for our natural world
Jane Gardner from the Australian Conservation Foundation talks about a current ACF campaign 'Love letters to nature'.Already many Australians have put their love letters online, expressing how they feel about places that are precious to them. Jane and the presenters read some of the love letters…
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Imagining better and more democratic ways of organising ourselves: It's necessary for change
Jacques and Jennifer continue their discussion about democracy from last week, coming back to the question of how we could imagine our political system to be truly democratic - to have a system in which we the people truly govern ourselves.Once again, the presenters critique the current system…
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Are we really in a democracy right now...? We have some doubts...
Jacques and Jennifer talk about the dismal state of democracy in Australia, especially with little space between the two main parties on things that urgently need to change (even before the current downward spiral of the Coalition).Cases in point are: lack of real action on climate change and...
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Footscray Community Response: A community evaluation of the Footscray CBD Security Patrol Program
Maree Pardy is the lead author of a new report by Footscray Community Response, which evaluates Maribyrnong Council's use of security patrols to address social and health issues.The research found that Council's reliance on security, police and surveillance is causing direct harm to those…
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Learning from Aboriginal and West Papuan communities: Robert Hoskin reflects
After twenty years of working with and supporting the Womanjun Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley and a few years volunteering with communities in the Papua province of Indonesia, Robert reflects on what it all has come to mean for him.He talks about his deep spiritual learning and feeling…
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We're in the middle of three cataclysms: ecology, community violence and world politics
Jacques and Jennifer catch up on a few cataclysmic developments since the last 'Think Again' in 2025, namely:(1) extreme weather events brought on by climate change;(2) the Bondi massacre and its fall out, including some shameful weaponisation of the tragedy for political purposes, and(3) the...
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Loss of bodily and situational awareness while immersed in our mobiles: What are the implications?
If you've noticed people walking our streets and in public spaces, not looking where they're going while immersed on their mobile phones, it's not your imagination. It is happening everywhere! What is often referred to as 'distracted walking' has been well researched across the world, reducing...
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In the shadow of Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan: Palestinians are driven from the West Bank
Whilst our official media and our government seem to have decided that all's now OK in Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank, and that Trump's so-called Gaza Peace Plan 'needs to be given time to work its way through', on the ground stories from the West Bank give a rather devastating account of…
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Runaway racial profiling by Victoria Police revealed in the data
Tamar Hopkins from the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project talks about the latest data showing that Victoria Police target certain groups, with members much more likely to be searched than white people and have force used against them. These groups include people perceived by the police to…
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Revelations about Australia's foreign policy: What is really happening and why, as told by Prof. Clinton Fernandes
Jacques interviews Professor Clinton Fernandes about his latest book: Turbulence: Australian foreign policy in the Trump era (2025 Melbourne University Press).Clinton explains Australia's involvement as a 'sub-imperial power' assisting the US in its attempts to maintain and extend its hegemony…
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Why we need to stop the Victorian Government from introducing adult jail sentences for children
Sophie Ellis from Youthlaw talks about the Victorian government's proposal for children (14 years and over) committing certain crimes to be given adult jail sentences. The Bill is set to go to Parliament by the end of the year even though the legislation hasn't been drafted yet.As Sophie…
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Ending violence against women and children: Interview with Phillip Ripper from No To Violence
Phillip Ripper from No To Violence talks about the escalating problem of violence against women, while centring the responsibility of men in its prevention.It is evident that the previous National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children hasn't worked, and Phillip discusses what needs to...
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AI cannot and should not usurp and replace human creativity and interaction
Jacques and Jennifer talk about the thieving incursions that artificial intelligence (AI) is making into our lives, and the increasing rule and dominance of big tech.They argue that human creating processes in the real world are important for both producers and audiences, and for the social...
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Voices under fire: Stories from Gaza
Jennifer speaks with Hanna Shomali and Alice Drury about an event they have organised to raise funds for and support people in Gaza.'Voices under fire: Stories from Gaza' will feature readings of poetry and first hand accounts of Palestinians who have been forced to flee, who have died, and who…
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Making sense of the latest Israel-Palestine (occupier-occupied) 'peace' deal
Jennifer and Jacques discuss the latest 'ceasefire' deal and the intrinsic impossibility of lasting peace without putting first Palestinian rights to their stolen land and their self-determination.LinksEvent: Voices under fire - Stories from GazaWe teach Life Sir - Rafeef ZiadahAustralian...
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Building Jewish solidarity with Palestinians: A journey including 4 years in Gaza and fierce push-back from pro-Zionists back home
Jewish author, Marilyn Garson, talks about her experience working with people in Gaza for four years from 2011 through to 2015, as documented in her book, Still Lives. This period included Israel's devastating 50 day bombardment of Gaza in 2014. As told in Jewish Not Zionist, on returning home to...
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Centurion University leading the way: Working with, training and empowering local tribal communities
Supriya Pattanayak is Vice Chancellor of Centurion University of Technology and Management in India. She explains its unique, progressive model of working closely with communities in innovative ways, to address their needs and aspirations.Real-life problems are addressed locally with practical...
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Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.
HOSTED BY
Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet
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