Barely Gettin' By

COP27 Special: Transformation, not Targets

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:36:04 GMT

COP27 was held in Sharm El-Sheik in November this year, and has already faded from the news cycle. In this reflective discussion, Emma is joined by Professors Ben Cashore and Navroz K Dubash, both of whom attended the meeting as observers. Ben and Navroz reflect on their experiences at the meeting, changing political narratives, on outcomes (or otherwise), and what it might all mean for the future of climate negotiations and action.

Professor Ben Cashore is the Li Ka Shing Professor in Public Management and Director, Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Professor Navroz K Dubash works at the Centre for Policy Research, where he conducts research and writes on climate change, energy, air pollution, water policy, and the politics of regulation in the developing world.

This episode is a recording of a live webinar held on Thursday, 1 December. The event was hosted by the EU Centre of Excellence at RMIT and the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore. It's part of a series hosted by the Jean Monnet Network on Scientific and Social Innovation in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which is co-funded by the Jean Monnet Activities Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

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Radical Hope

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:00:00 GMT

Finally, we are back for season four! This week we bring you the live recording of Emma's conversation with special guests Jeff Sparrow and Mittul Vahanvati as they examine climate policy as an urgent global modern imperative and how radical hope might help us envisage and enact the path out of a climate change emergency.

Presented in partnership with RMIT Culture and City of Melbourne.

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Radical Hope - Join us at Melbourne Conversations

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:45:00 GMT

Join a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin’ By as host Emma Shortis and special guests Jeff Sparrow and Mittul Vahanvati discuss the necessity of imagining different futures, local activism, action-based research and governments’ roles.

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Radical Hope - Join us at Melbourne Knowledge Week

Fri, 06 May 2022 06:00:00 GMT

Be part of the audience for a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin’ By, hosted by Emma Shortis and featuring special guests: James Blackwell, Mittul Vahanvati and Jeff Sparrow. Forming part of Barely Getting By’s fourth season, “Up in Flames”, this event will examine climate policy as a global modern imperative.

Tue 10 May - 6pm – 7pm

The Capitol – RMIT

113 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000

Tickets are free and available here: https://www.eventopia.co/event/MKW-Barely-Gettin-By-Radical-Hope/475617

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COP26 Special: Our Exceptional Friend

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:00:00 GMT

Barely Gettin' By might be on a lockdown hiatus, but the climate news keeps coming. In the lead up to the all-important COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, this special episode examines the historic relationship between Australia and the United States when it comes to climate change. Emma reads an extract from her book, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States, and asks what that relationship might mean for Glasgow, and the future.

Reading

Emma Shortis, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States (Hardie Grant, 2021), https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/our-exceptional-friend-by-emma-shortis/9781743797839

Climate Council Australia, From Paris to Glasgow: A World on the Move, 21 October 2021, https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/paris-glasgow-world-move/

Wesley Morgan, “What is COP26 and why does the fate of Earth, and Australia’s prosperity, depend on it?” The Conversation, 14 October 2021, https://theconversation.com/what-is-cop26-and-why-does-the-fate-of-earth-and-australias-prosperity-depend-on-it-169648

Angela Dewan, “Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks,” CNN, 13 September 2021, https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/12/australia/australia-climate-cop26-cmd-intl/index.html

Michael Slezak and Penny Timms, ‘Climate change report from IPCC a 'code red for humanity', United Nations chief warns’ ABC News Online, 9 August 2021, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-09/coal-climate-change-global-warming-ipcc-report-released/100355952

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Lockdown Hiatus

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT

With Melbourne in the midst of Lockdown 5.0, we will be taking a short break until we can get back in to the studio again.

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Up In Flames

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 03:00:00 GMT

Donald Trump is gone, the pandemic is getting under control (in some places, maybe?), and all is well. Not.

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Inauguration Special - This is America

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:20:00 GMT

After a long 2020 (and a very long January 2021) Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on the morning Thursday, 21 January (Australian time). What does a Presidential Inauguration look like when it’s overshadowed by a pandemic and threat of insurrectionist violence? Chloe and Emma talk about what what we can expect on Thursday, how Australia’s relationship with the USA will change after Donald Trump, what the violence on 6 January means, and what the Inauguration may tell us about the coming Biden Presidency.

Emma’s editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/national/there-s-a-lot-of-blame-to-go-around-for-the-chaos-in-the-capitol-but-some-belongs-to-australia-20210107-p56sfg.html

The Wall Street Journal put together a guide to events on the day

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inauguration-guide-schedule-of-events-performances-and-how-to-watch-11610730674

“Scott Morrison says 'Chinese Government should be totally ashamed' of 'repugnant' tweet”, ABC, 30 November 2020, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/china-fake-image-australian-war-crimes-afghanistan-tensions/12934538

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More democracy, and an attempted coup

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:18:00 GMT

In the last episode of the season, Emma and Chloe reflect on Joe Biden’s victory and Trump’s refusal to concede. They look at how institutions and people are responding to Trump, and whether Fox News has finally seen the light. They ask if Trump is in fact attempting a coup, whether it will be successful, and whether fascism has to be successful in order to be called “fascism”. They then turn to the levers of power, looking at what will happen in Georgia and what that says about the future of American democracy.

Links

Samuel Moyn, “How Trump Won,” New York Review of Books, 9 November 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/11/09/how-trump-won/

Joe Guinan and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, “After Trump, before Biden: What’s next for the American left?” Renewal, 10 November 2020, https://renewal.org.uk/after-trump-before-biden-whats-next-for-the-american-left/

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Post-election wrap

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:01:00 GMT

A very tired Emma and Chloe regroup, two days after polls closed to discuss the election. Were the polls wrong? What does Georgia say about American democracy? What next for the Democratic Party? A lot of things are still uncertain—and will remain so for the coming days and weeks—but one thing is clear: Donald Trump’s vote isn’t going away, even if he leaves the White House.

Articles

https://slate.com/culture/2020/11/election-2020-haruspex-model-sheep-entrails-deformed-fetuses-biden-trump-florida-democracy-in-action.html

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Four More Years? - Bonus episode with Matt Bevan

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 02:22:00 GMT

In this bonus, pre-election episode, Chloe and Emma speak to Matt Bevan, ABC Radio journalist and host of the America, If You’re Listening Podcast, about the past four years of the Trump Presidency, the relationship between journalism and history, and whether it’s possible—or desirable—to predict an outcome in the 2020 Presidential Election. Chloe and Emma then pick up their conversation about contingency in history and why caring about the election is part of, not a distraction from, analysing what’s happening in America.

Links

ABC Radio: America, If You’re Listening https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/russia-if-youre-listening/

Chloe and Emma on the long crisis of American Democracy in the Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/it-s-up-to-people-power-to-overcome-a-system-that-trump-has-trashed-20201029-p569m6.html

The Vanity Fair article that made Chloe cry https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/becoming-aoc-cover-story-2020

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All That Matters

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 04:49:00 GMT

In this episode, Chloe and Emma welcome a very special guest - Dr Elizabeth Ingelson, Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University. Joining them from New Haven, Connecticut, Lizzie discusses what it is like to live in Trump’s America. They cover how the United States is responding to pandemic, Lizzie’s experience in rural Pennsylvania, and the volatile state of American politics.

They then turn to Lizzie’s expertise—the history of the United States and China. Lizzie brings extraordinary complexity and understanding to what is an otherwise impoverished conversation both in the US and here at home. She explains why ‘strategic competition’ is dangerous, Trump’s connections to the history the relationship, and why climate change overshadows everything.

Links

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson - https://www.elizabethingleson.com/ or on Twitter: lizingleson

For some of Lizzie’s writing, see https://www.elizabethingleson.com/opinion

Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote - How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, Bloomsbury, 2018. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/one-person-no-vote-9781635571387/

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A Force For Good?

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:40:00 GMT

In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about how Joe Biden has linked the personal and the political throughout a long and successful career. But could the 2020 election force the two apart? They also speak to special guest, press gallery legend Barrie Cassidy, about past presidencies, this year’s election, and what it all means for Australia. Finally, Emma answers a question that still worries us: Despite Biden’s seemingly secure position in polls, what if Donald Trump refuses to leave office?

Links

Fintan O’Toole, ‘The Designated Mourner’, New York Review of Books, 16 January 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/01/16/joe-biden-designated-mourner/

Siva Vaidhyanathan, ‘The Hunter Biden story was a test for tech platforms. They barely passed’, Guardian, 20 October 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/19/hunter-biden-story-big-tech-facebook-twitter

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Not every disagreement is a fight

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:47:00 GMT

This week, Chloe and Emma try (and fail) to lighten things up with a discussion of the young, progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shoes … and fracking. They also talk about the first ‘television president’ and why JFK’s Presidency might be a weird mirror for Donald Trump’s. And, in a week where polls seem to show Joe Biden set for victory, they discuss the history and the so-called “science” of polling, where pollsters went wrong in 2016 and whether they can redeem themselves in 2020.

Links

‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wore the Most Divisive Version of These Already-Controversial Comfy Shoes’, https://www.instyle.com/look-of-the-day/2020-09-14

‘The Electoral College is also a Climate Problem’ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/electoral-college-also-climate-problem/616347/

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You're not Woodward and Bernstein!

Thu, 08 Oct 2020 05:41:00 GMT

This week, we can’t not talk about the President of the United States contracting coronavirus. But instead of speculating about Trump’s illness and what it might mean, Emma and Chloe discuss what it reveals about American healthcare. They also take a look at the Senate, and how some previously safe seats like Lindsay Graham’s in South Carolina have some Republicans worried this election cycle.

They also take a look at the role of the media in US politics, and the legacy of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. Watergate reshaped the relationship between the White House and journalism; journalists became focused on accountability, but also on glamourous, ‘gotcha’ moments, helping to create a journalistic tradition removed from the public interest.

Finally, Emma and Chloe take a look at why Americans do and don’t vote, explaining just how different our own compulsory voting system is to a voluntary system mired by racist voter suppression.

Links:

Felipe De La Hoz in the New Republic on the vast inequalities of American healthcare: https://newrepublic.com/article/159550/covid-symptoms-outlast-insurance

Slate covers the South Carolina Senate race: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison-south-carolina-senate.html

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Hanging by a Chad

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:34:00 GMT

Chloe and Emma discuss how Aaron Sorkin’s the West Wing went from an alternate-world liberal consolation prize in the early 2000s, to playbook for the Obama White House, and now back again in the age of Trump.

They also talk through what might happen if (when?) Trump contests the 2020 election, and how the Republican Party took advantage of an unclear result in 2000, leading to George W. Bush’s victory in the Supreme Court.

They also explore the Electoral College, and its origins in 19th century mistrust of the voting public and the oldest American institution—slavery.

Links:

Aaron Sorkin writes the script for election night, 2020 https://variety.com/2020/film/festivals/aaron-sorkin-the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-san-sebastian-1234781014/

Corey Robin on ‘the Obamanauts’ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanauts

Barton Gellman on the interregnum: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

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A New Deal For America

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:13:00 GMT

In the first episode of Season 3, This American Carnage, Emma looks at the way climate change and the West Coast fires are covered by the New York Times, while Chloe looks at vaccine nationalism and the politics of Big Pharma. They discuss the much-mythologized New Deal and whether President Joe Biden would be the new Franklin Roosevelt. And finally, they explain the powers the President holds and their limits.

This time around, Emma and Chloe are adding something new: a weekly newsletter covering the history behind the major events of this election cycle, plus some recommended readings to guide you through the overwhelming onslaught of news, think-pieces and hot takes. You can subscribe here: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/3B47D9547CCBBA3E2540EF23F30FEDED

Stories

Christopher Flavelle, “How California became ground zero for climate change,” New York Times, 30 September 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/climate/california-climate-change-fires.html

Adam Tooze, “The World Is Winning—and Losing—the Vaccine Race,” Foreign Policy, 19 September 2020 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the-world-is-losing-the-vaccine-race/

Joe Biden on the New Yorker Radio Hour https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/id1050430296?i=1000488913623

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Introducing Season Three - American Carnage

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 05:52:00 GMT

In the year 2020 where everything seems to have gone wrong, your often confused, occasionally insightful and (sometimes) optimistic hosts Emma and Chloe are once again making sense of the present by looking at the past.

In season three our historical experts go back four years, to when the world turned on its head when Donald Trump won the US Presidential election and set the stage for the now tumultuous present the United States finds itself in.

This season, Shortis and Ward are using history to navigate and make sense of what is undoubtedly a turning point in the United States’ future. Across eight episodes they’ll break down key moments in the 2020 campaign, campaigns past, and the inner workings of American democracy.

Why does a Green New Deal need to be much more ambitious than its much-mythologised predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s?

How did Watergate shape the fourth estate’s relationship with the White House to this day, and why did America’s pundit class insist on taking the wrong lessons from the scandal?

And for those of us increasingly confused by the ins and outs of the Electoral College, which has determined the fate of so many would-be presidents, learn how the origins of the system can be traced to America’s oldest and most maligned tradition of all – slavery.

Barely Getting' By Season 3 launches Thursday 24 September – and this time around, Emma and Chloe are adding something new: a weekly newsletter covering the history behind the major events of this election cycle, plus some recommended readings to guide you through the overwhelming onslaught.

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Episode 11 Part 3 - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:00:00 GMT

11.1 Battle for Seattle

11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice

11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended?

Links

Harry Cheadle, How Seattle Police in 1999 Set the Terrible Example Others Have Followed Ever Since, Daily Beast, 14 June 2020 https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-seattle-police-in-1999-set-the-terrible-example-others-have-followed-since

Mark Engler, The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”, Dissent, 19 September 2011,

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-legacy-of-anti-globalization

Feyzi Ismael, Protest has helped define the first two decades of the 21st century – here’s what’s next, The Conversation, 30 December 2019, https://theconversation.com/protest-has-helped-define-the-first-two-decades-of-the-21st-century-heres-whats-next-128745

Dara Lind, Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does, Vox, 2 June 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8701499/patriot-act-explain

Max Fisher, Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Atlantic, 19 April 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/lessons-of-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/345921/

Jamelle Bouie, The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch, 18 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/mcveigh-new-zealand-white-supremacy.html

J.M. Berger, The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving, The Atlantic, 7 August 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-new-strategy-of-violent-white-supremacy/595648/

Annika Neklason, The Columbine Blueprint, The Atlantic, 19 April 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/columbines-20th-anniversary-mass-media-shooting/587359/

Rachel Tresiman, Poll: Number Of Americans Who Favor Stricter Gun Laws Continues ToGrow, NPR, 20 October 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/20/771278167/poll-number-of-americans-who-favor-stricter-gun-laws-continues-to-grow

Arundhati Roy, My Seditious Heart (particularly “the Algebra of Infinite Justice”), Penguin 2019

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizations

Arundhati Roy, ‘Things Can’t Go On Like This’, National Herald, 20 July 2020, https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/things-cant-go-on-like-this-author-activist-arundhati-roy-writes-to-jailed-friend-prof-saibaba

Credits

Battle in Seattle, 1999 - AP Archives

George W. Bush Excerpts, Sept. & Nov. 2001 - George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum

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Episode 11 Part 2 - The Algebra of Infinite Justice

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:00:00 GMT

11.1 Battle for Seattle

11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice

11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Links

Mark Engler, The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”, Dissent, 19 September 2011,

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-legacy-of-anti-globalization

Dara Lind, Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does, Vox, 2 June 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8701499/patriot-act-explain

Max Fisher, Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Atlantic, 19 April 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/lessons-of-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/345921/

Jamelle Bouie, The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch, 18 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/mcveigh-new-zealand-white-supremacy.html

J.M. Berger, The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving, The Atlantic, 7 August 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-new-strategy-of-violent-white-supremacy/595648/

Annika Neklason, The Columbine Blueprint, The Atlantic, 19 April 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/columbines-20th-anniversary-mass-media-shooting/587359/

Arundhati Roy, My Seditious Heart (particularly “the Algebra of Infinite Justice”), Penguin 2019

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizations

Credits

Battle in Seattle, 1999 - AP Archives

George W. Bush Excerpts, Sept. & Nov. 2001 - George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum

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Episode 11 Part 1 - Battle for Seattle

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:00:00 GMT

11.1 Battle for Seattle

11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice

11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Links

Mark Engler, The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”, Dissent, 19 September 2011,

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-legacy-of-anti-globalization

Dara Lind, Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does, Vox, 2 June 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8701499/patriot-act-explain

Max Fisher, Lessons of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Atlantic, 19 April 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/lessons-of-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/345921/

Jamelle Bouie, The March of White Supremacy, From Oklahoma City to Christchurch, 18 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/mcveigh-new-zealand-white-supremacy.html

J.M. Berger, The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy is Evolving, The Atlantic, 7 August 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-new-strategy-of-violent-white-supremacy/595648/

Annika Neklason, The Columbine Blueprint, The Atlantic, 19 April 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/columbines-20th-anniversary-mass-media-shooting/587359/

Arundhati Roy, My Seditious Heart (particularly “the Algebra of Infinite Justice”), Penguin 2019

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1993-06-01/clash-civilizations

Credits

Battle in Seattle, 1999 - AP Archives

George W. Bush Excerpts, Sept. & Nov. 2001 - George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum

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Episode 10 - The Palace Letters

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Episode 10: The Palace Letters

It’s a historical emergency! With the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ this week historians and journalists are promising answers to decades of questions about the 1975 Dismissal of the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. Chloe and Emma aren’t so sure. In this episode, they explain why the Palace Letters are important, how the media got the story wrong, and how historians can approach this new information.

Links

Jenny Hocking, ‘The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal’, The Conversation, 14 July 2020, https://theconversation.com/the-big-reveal-jenny-hocking-on-what-the-palace-letters-may-tell-us-finally-about-the-dismissal-142473

Guy Rundle’s series on the ‘Whitlam coup’, Crikey, 2015, https://www.crikey.com.au/topic/whitlam-coup/

... And Guy Rundle’s first go at reading the Palace Letters https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/07/15/if-you-cant-see-the-palace-played-politics-youre-fooling-yourself-or-trying-to-fool-others-%ef%bb%bf/?utm_campaign=Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

The Elecn

Mark Mazower, ‘Clear, Inclusive, and Lasting’, New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/eric-hobsbawm-clear-inclusive-lasting/

Gough Whitlam dismissal speech excerpt - 1975, ABC News

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Episode 9 Part 1 - My Heart Will Go On

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:00:00 GMT

E9: Standing in Front of a Boy

E9.1 My Heart Will Go On

Emma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also left many women behind.

Links

James Hibberd, “Vanilla Ice throwing Fourth of July concert: 'We didn't have coronavirus' in the '90s,” Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2020, https://ew.com/music/vanilla-ice-4th-of-july-concert-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=5efd1c86621aa70001d0241a

Alan Riding, “Why 'Titanic' Conquered the World,” The New York Times, 26 April 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/movies/why-titanic-conquered-the-world.html

Tatiana Siegel, “"His Brand Is Excellence": How Leonardo DiCaprio Became Hollywood's Last Movie Star,” Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-leonardo-dicaprio-became-hollywoods-last-movie-star-1225416

Jason Rodrigues, “Hugh Grant arrested with sex worker 20 years ago,” The Guardian, 26 June 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/film/from-the-archive-blog/2015/jun/26/hugh-grant-arrest-prostitute-divine-brown-20-1995#_=_

Darragh McManus, “Just 20 years on, grunge seems like ancient history,” The Guardian, 1 November 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/31/grunge

Chioma Nnadi, “Why Kurt Cobain Was One of the Most Influential Style Icons of Our Times,” Vouge, 8 April 2014, https://www.vogue.com/article/kurt-cobain-legacy-of-grunge-in-fashion

Double J, “The 50 most important female artists of the 90s,” ABC Online, 16 June 2017, https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/the-50-most-important-female-artists-of-the-90s/10267896

Allison Yarrow, “How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality,” Time, 13 June 2018, https://time.com/5310256/90s-gender-equality-progress/

Evelynn McDonnell and Elisabeth Vincentelli, “Riot Grrrl United Feminism and Punk. Here’s an Essential Listening Guide,” The New York Times, 6 May 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/03/arts/music/riot-grrrl-playlist.html

El Hunt, “A brief history of Riot Grrrl – the space-reclaiming 90s punk movement,” NME, 27 August 2019, https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/brief-history-riot-grrrl-space-reclaiming-90s-punk-movement-2542166

Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1995, NBC Studios & NBC Productions

Wayne’s World, 1992 Paramount Pictures

Titanic, 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment

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Episode 9 Part 3 - Cassandra

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:00:00 GMT

E9: Standing in Front of a Boy

E9.3: Cassandra

Links

Alan Riding, “Why 'Titanic' Conquered the World,” The New York Times, 26 April 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/movies/why-titanic-conquered-the-world.html

Darragh McManus, “Just 20 years on, grunge seems like ancient history,” The Guardian, 1 November 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/31/grunge

Chioma Nnadi, “Why Kurt Cobain Was One of the Most Influential Style Icons of Our Times,” Vouge, 8 April 2014, https://www.vogue.com/article/kurt-cobain-legacy-of-grunge-in-fashion

Allison Yarrow, “How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality,” Time, 13 June 2018, https://time.com/5310256/90s-gender-equality-progress/

Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1995, NBC Studios & NBC Productions

Wayne’s World, 1992 Paramount Pictures

Titanic, 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment

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Episode 9 Part 2 - Oopsy Daisy

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 08:00:00 GMT

E9: Standing in Front of a Boy

E9.2 Oopsy Daisy

Links

Alan Riding, “Why 'Titanic' Conquered the World,” The New York Times, 26 April 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/movies/why-titanic-conquered-the-world.html

Darragh McManus, “Just 20 years on, grunge seems like ancient history,” The Guardian, 1 November 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/31/grunge

Chioma Nnadi, “Why Kurt Cobain Was One of the Most Influential Style Icons of Our Times,” Vouge, 8 April 2014, https://www.vogue.com/article/kurt-cobain-legacy-of-grunge-in-fashion

Allison Yarrow, “How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality,” Time, 13 June 2018, https://time.com/5310256/90s-gender-equality-progress/

Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1995, NBC Studios & NBC Productions

Wayne’s World, 1992 Paramount Pictures

Titanic, 1997 Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment

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Episode 8 Part 3 - A truth, universally acknowledged

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:15:00 GMT

Episode 8

In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today.

8.1 Stand By Your Man

8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich

8.3 A truth, universally acknowledged

Links

Amy Goldstein, “How the demise of her health-care plan led to the politician Clinton is today,” The Washington Post, August 25, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-health-care-missteps-a-chastened-hillary-clinton-emerged/2016/08/25/2d200cb4-64b4-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html

David A Graham, “A Short History of Hillary (Rodham) (Clinton)'s Changing Names,” The Atlantic, 30 November 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-short-history-of-hillary-rodham-clintons-name/418029/

Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo

Amanda Hess, “’Ditsy, Predatory White House Intern’: Looking back on how Maureen Dowd painted Monica Lewinsky as a crazy bimbo—and won a Pulitzer for it,” Slate, 7 May 2014, https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-returns-how-maureen-dowd-caricatured-bill-clintons-mistress-as-a-crazy-bimbo.html

Olivia B Waxmann and Merrill Fabry, “From an Anonymous Tip to an Impeachment: A Timeline of Key Moments in the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal,” Time, 4 May 2018, https://time.com/5120561/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-timeline/

Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Bill Problems: As Donald Trump attacks both Clintons, it’s like 1992 all over again,” The New Yorker, May 29, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/hillarys-bill-problem

Zoe Williams, “Was Mark Darcy based on Keir Starmer? Here’s the definitive answer,” The Guardian, 14 January 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2020/jan/13/was-mark-darcy-based-on-keir-starmer-heres-the-definitive-answer

Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lb

Clueless, 1995 Paramount Pictures

Pride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC Studios

Bridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working Title

Bill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Hilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives

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Episode 8 Part 1 - Stand By your Man

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:15:00 GMT

Episode 8

8.1 Stand By Your Man

8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich

8.3 A truth, universally acknowledged

Links

Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo

Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lb

Clueless, 1995 Paramount Pictures

Pride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC Studios

Bridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working Title

Bill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Hilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives

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Episode 8 Part 2 - Handsome, clever, and rich

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:15:00 GMT

Episode 8

8.1 Stand By Your Man

8.2 Handsome, clever, and rich

8.3 A truth, universally acknowledged

Links

Monica Lewinksy, “Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo,” Vanity Fair, 25 February 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo

Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project, University College London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lb

Clueless, 1995 Paramount Pictures

Pride and Prejudice, 1995 BBC Studios

Bridget Jones' Diary, 2001, Universal Pictures, Little Bird, Studio Canal & Working Title

Bill Clinton Excerpt, The William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Hilary Clinton Excerpts, AP Archives

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Episode 7 Part 3 - Captain Planet

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:30:00 GMT

Episode 7: Pale Blue Dot

E7.1 Rio to Ruin

E7.2 Mr Vice President

E7.3 Captain Planet

On Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn’t see the progress the 1990s promised when it came to environmental protection. They discuss the failure of global negotiations, the role of Emma’s favourite almost-president and environmental activist Al Gore, and why all of us promising to be ‘Planeteers’ wasn’t ever going to be enough.

Links

Ellen Spears, Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 (especially Chapter 5, “Globalizing Environmentalism (1990-2000)”), Taylor and Francis, 2019, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203081693

“Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot,” NASA Solar System Exploration, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/

Tom Griffiths, “The planet is alive: Radical histories for uncanny times,” Griffith Review 63, 2018, https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/planet-is-alive-radical-history/

Niels von Kohl (Producer), “The Earth Summit,” UNTV, 1992, https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2078/2078993/

Clive Hamilton, “Australia hit its Kyoto target, but it was more a three-inch putt than a hole in one,” The Conversation, 16 July 2015, https://theconversation.com/australia-hit-its-kyoto-target-but-it-was-more-a-three-inch-putt-than-a-hole-in-one-44731

Marc Hudson, “A brief history of Al Gore’s climate missions to Australia,” The Conversation, 14 July 2017, https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-al-gores-climate-missions-to-australia-81023

Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, Columbia University Press, 2001, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-compromise-of-liberal-environmentalism/9780231120364

Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, MacMillan, 2013, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477742

Larissa Behrendt (Director), Maralinga Tjarutja, aired May 2020, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutja

Tony Wright, Matthew Gledhill, Andrew McCathie and Andrew Byrne, “From the Archives 1995: World outrage as French prepare for bomb No 2,” The Herald, 6 September 1995, https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/from-the-archives-1995-world-outrage-as-french-prepare-for-bomb-no-2-20190830-p52mi9.html

Lauren Rickards and Mark Howden, “Climate adaptation is not a far-off idea – it's here and it affects us all,” Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2020,

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-adaptation-is-not-a-far-off-idea-it-s-here-and-it-affects-us-all-20200109-p53q7r.html

Captain Planet Excerpt, Turner Program Services and DIC Enterprises, 1990 - 1992

Al Gore Kyoto Excerpt, CSPAN, 1992

John Howard Address Excerpt, AustralianPolitics.com, 1997

George HW Bush, Rio Earth Summit Excerpt, AP Archives, 1992

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Episode 7 Part 2 - Mr Vice President

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:30:00 GMT

Episode 7: Pale Blue Dot

E7.1 Rio to Ruin

E7.2 Mr Vice President

E7.3 Captain Planet

Links

“Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot,” NASA Solar System Exploration, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/

Tom Griffiths, “The planet is alive: Radical histories for uncanny times,” Griffith Review 63, 2018, https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/planet-is-alive-radical-history/

Niels von Kohl (Producer), “The Earth Summit,” UNTV, 1992, https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2078/2078993/

Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, Columbia University Press, 2001, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-compromise-of-liberal-environmentalism/9780231120364

Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, MacMillan, 2013, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477742

Larissa Behrendt (Director), Maralinga Tjarutja, aired May 2020, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutja

Lauren Rickards and Mark Howden, “Climate adaptation is not a far-off idea – it's here and it affects us all,” Sydney Morning Herald, 11 January 2020, https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-adaptation-is-not-a-far-off-idea-it-s-here-and-it-affects-us-all-20200109-p53q7r.html

Al Gore Kyoto Excerpt, CSPAN, 1992

John Howard Address Excerpt, AustralianPolitics.com, 1997

George HW Bush, Rio Earth Summit Excerpt, AP Archives, 1992

An Inconvenient Truth Excerpt, Lawrence Bender Productions, Participant Productions, List. Paramount Classics, 2006

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Episode 7 Part 1 - Rio to Ruin

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:30:00 GMT

Episode 7: Pale Blue Dot

E7.1 Rio to Ruin

E7.2 Mr Vice President

E7.3 Captain Planet

Links

“Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot,” NASA Solar System Exploration, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/

Tom Griffiths, “The planet is alive: Radical histories for uncanny times,” Griffith Review 63, 2018, https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/planet-is-alive-radical-history/

Niels von Kohl (Producer), “The Earth Summit,” UNTV, 1992, https://www.unmultimedia.org/avlibrary/asset/2078/2078993/

Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism, Columbia University Press, 2001, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-compromise-of-liberal-environmentalism/9780231120364

Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, MacMillan, 2013, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780865477742

Larissa Behrendt (Director), Maralinga Tjarutja, aired May 2020, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutja

Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot, carlsagan.com, 1990

Al Gore Kyoto Excerpt, CSPAN, 1992

John Howard Address Excerpt, AustralianPolitics.com, 1997

George HW Bush, Rio Earth Summit Excerpt, AP Archives, 1992

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Episode 6 - Living Through History

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:46:00 GMT

Episode 6: Living Through History

We have been captivated by Black Lives Matters protests of the past two weeks, which started in the USA and have quickly spread across the world. In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about the toppling of statues of imperialists, slave traders and white supremacists in Britain and the USA, comparisons with German history and the remembrance of Germany’s Nazi past, and return to a question they’ve asked before on the podcast: is Trump’s America fascist?

Links

Barely Gettin' By Season 1, Barely Gettin' Fascism, Parts 1 and 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/barely-gettin-fascism-part-1/id1478594339?i=1000453795264 and https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/barely-gettin-fascism-part-2/id1478594339?i=1000454260342

Amia Srinivisan, ‘Under Rhodes’, London Review of Books, 31 March 2016 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n07/amia-srinivasan/under-rhodes

James Watts, ‘Edward Colston statue toppled: how Bristol came to see the slave trader as a hero and philanthropist’, The Conversation, 9 June 2020, https://theconversation.com/edward-colston-statue-toppled-how-bristol-came-to-see-the-slave-trader-as-a-hero-and-philanthropist-140271

Samuel Moyn, ‘The trouble with comparison’, New York Review of Books, 19 May 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/19/the-trouble-with-comparisons/

Susan Nieman, ‘There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials’, The Atlantic, 14 September 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/germany-has-no-nazi-memorials/597937/

Jasmine Aguilera, ‘Confederate Statues Are Being Removed Amid Protests Over George Floyd's Death. Here's What to Know’, Time, 10 June 2020, https://time.com/5849184/confederate-statues-removed/

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/this-day-in-politics-may-5-1985-565776

Paul Daley, ‘Statues are not history. Here are six in Australia that need rethinking’, Guardian, 25 August 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2017/aug/25/statues-are-not-history-here-are-six-in-australia-that-need-rethinking

Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, Oxford University Press, 2020, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-the-south-won-the-civil-war-9780190900908?cc=us&lang=en&#

Adam Weinstein, “This is Fascism,” The New Republic, 2 June 2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/157949/fascism-america-trump-anti-police-george-floyd-protests?utm_content=buffer39854&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Cornel West, “A boot is crushing the neck of American democracy,” The Guardian, 1 June 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/george-floyd-protests-cornel-west-american-democracy

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Episode 5 Part 2 - Australia at the End of History

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:30:00 GMT

S2 E5: The 90s at Home

E5.2 Australia at the End of History

This week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to further Aboriginal rights and the ensuing white backlash led by John Howard and Pauline Hanson.

Links

Amy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deaths

Alison Whittaker, ‘Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame’, https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873

[Note: Chloe mistakenly said noone had been ‘arrested and charged’ over a death in custody. In 2019, murder charges were laid against two men, for the murders of, respectively, Joyce Clarke and Kumanjayi Walker https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/01/deaths-in-our-backyard-432-indigenous-australians-have-died-in-custody-since-2008]

Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.

Boris Frankel, ‘Beyond Labourism and Socialism: How the Australian Labor Party developed the Model of 'New Labour'’, New Left Review, 1/221, 1997 https://newleftreview.org/issues/I221/articles/boris-frankel-beyond-labourism-and-socialism-how-the-australian-labor-party-developed-the-model-of-new-labour [subscription required]

Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/

Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.

‘The drink that started the Mueller investigation: George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer tell us everything’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-24/mueller-investigation-george-papadopoulos-alexander-downer-speak/11107712

Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtr

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/comment

Paul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament House

Paul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

John Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 News

John Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV Australia

Gun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 News

John Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party Australia

Gulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 News

Port Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

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Episode 5 Part 3 - Australia in the World

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:30:00 GMT

S2 E5: The 90s at Home

E5.3 Australia in the World

Links

Amy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deaths

Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.

Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/

Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.

Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtr

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/comment

Paul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament House

Paul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

John Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 News

John Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV Australia

Gun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 News

John Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party Australia

Gulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 News

Port Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

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Episode 5 Part 1 - We did the dispossessing

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:30:00 GMT

S2 E5: The 90s at Home

E5.1 We did the dispossessing

E5.2 Australia at the End of History

E5.3 Australia in the World

Links

Amy McQuire: ‘We must bear witness to black deaths in our own country’ https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/we-must-bear-witness-to-black-deaths

Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, 2002.

Frank Bongiorno, ‘Are we in Accord?’, Inside Story, 27 May 2020 https://insidestory.org.au/are-we-in-accord/

Elizabeth Humphrys, How Labor Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project, Brill, 2019.

Robert Manne, “Little America: How John Howard has changed Australia,” and “The History Wars,” both in The Monthly, March 2006 and November 2009.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-little-america-how-john-howard-has-changed-australia-184#mtr

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/november/1270703045/robert-manne/comment

Paul Keating question time excerpt - Australian Parliament House

Paul Keating in Indonesia News Story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

John Hewson ‘Birthday Cake’ GST excerpt - Channel 9 News

John Howard’s GST excerpt - ABC TV Australia

Gun Buyback news story excerpt - Channel 10 News

John Howard’s Indigenous Rights excerpt - Liberal Party Australia

Gulf War News Story excerpt - Channel 9 News

Port Arthur Massacre news story excerpt - ABC TV Australia

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Bonus Episode - The UN in the 90s

Sat, 30 May 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt, Senior Research Fellow in the Social & Global Studies Centre at RMIT University, about the UN’s role in conflict and peacekeeping in the 90s, the lessons it learned and what they mean for today.

Find out more about Charlie’s work at https://charlesthunt.com/ , and read his op-ed on the future of peacekeeping here: https://theconversation.com/why-covid-19-offers-a-chance-to-transform-un-peacekeeping-139416

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Episode 4 Part 2 - Acts of Genocide

Wed, 27 May 2020 08:00:00 GMT

The end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy outside its own borders.

ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.

Links

Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/

Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019

https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-review

Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention

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Episode 4 Part 1 - Killing In The Name

Wed, 27 May 2020 08:00:00 GMT

E4: A Decade of Peace? Wars in the 90s

E4.1: Killing in the Name

E4.2 Acts of Genocide

E4.3 Problems from Hell

ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.

Links

Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/

Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019

https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-review

Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention

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Episode 4 Part 3 - Problems from Hell

Wed, 27 May 2020 08:00:00 GMT

E4: A Decade of Peace? Wars in the 90s

E4.1: Killing in the Name

E4.2 Acts of Genocide

E4.3 Problems from Hell

ALSO – keep an eye out for a bonus episode, released Friday, where Chloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt from RMIT University about the UN’s role in peace and war in the 90s.

Links

Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, Basic Books, 2002

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/samantha-power/a-problem-from-hell/9780465050895/

Daniel Bessner, “The Fog of Intervention,” The New Republic, September 4, 2019

https://newrepublic.com/article/154612/education-idealist-samantha-power-book-review

Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, September 2019.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention

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Episode 3 Part 1 - Thing Can Only Get Better

Wed, 20 May 2020 09:30:00 GMT

3.1 Things Can Only Get Better

3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose

3.3 Different Class

In this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why, in her opinion, some of the best explanations of what was really happening in Britain in the 90s came, in fact, from culture.

Links and sources

‘Blair aide asked Keating for hate lessons’, SBS, 23 August 2013.

Jonathan Davis, ‘History didn’t end with the fall of the Berlin Wall – but only now is the new battleground clear’, The Conversation, 7 November 2019.

Noel Gallagher on *that* visit to Downing Street

‘Tony Blair told Princess Diana her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a problem’, Guardian, 1 September 2010.

Thomas Dixon, ‘History in British Tears’, The History of Emotions Blog, 10 September 2015.

Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 21 February 2013.

‘Greek finance minister responds to claim that wife was inspiration behind Pulp hit’, Guardian, 12 May 2015.

Owen Hatherley, ‘Pulp matter more than ever in today’s cowed cultural landscape’, Guardian, 15 June 2011.

Owen Hatherley, Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp, Zero Books, 2011.

And one video on Princess Di conspiracy theories

Common People by Pulp

Written by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior

Cocaine Socialism by Pulp

Written by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber and Antony Genn

Tony Blair ‘Windfall Tax’ excerpt from UK Parliament

Queen Elizabeth II ‘Death of Princess Diana’ excerpt from AP Archives

Noel Gallagher ‘Downing Street Part Invitation’ excerpt from kinoLibrary at www.knolibrary.com Clip Ref DW022092

Tony Blair ‘Sinn Fein’ excerpt from UK Parliament

Tony Blair ‘The People’s Princess’ excerpt from AP Archives

Queen Elizabeth II ‘Annus Horribilis Speech’ from ITN Source

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Episode 3 Part 3 - Different Class

Wed, 20 May 2020 09:30:00 GMT

3.1 Things Can Only Get Better

3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose

3.3 Different Class

Links and sources

‘Blair aide asked Keating for hate lessons’, SBS, 23 August 2013.

http://.https:/www.sbs.com.au/news/blair-aide-asked-keating-for-hate-lessons

Jonathan Davis, ‘History didn’t end with the fall of the Berlin Wall – but only now is the new battleground clear’, The Conversation, 7 November 2019.

https://theconversation.com/history-didnt-end-with-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-but-only-now-is-the-new-battleground-clear-125768

Noel Gallagher on *that* visit to Downing Street

‘Tony Blair told Princess Diana her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a problem’, Guardian, 1 September 2010.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-diana-relationship-fayed

Thomas Dixon, ‘History in British Tears’, The History of Emotions Blog, 10 September 2015.

https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2015/09/weeping-britannia/

Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 21 February 2013.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies

‘Greek finance minister responds to claim that wife was inspiration behind Pulp hit’, Guardian, 12 May 2015.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-minister-responds-claim-wife-inspiration-pulp-common-people

Owen Hatherley, ‘Pulp matter more than ever in today’s cowed cultural landscape’, Guardian, 15 June 2011.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/14/pulp-festivals

Owen Hatherley, Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp, Zero Books, 2011.

And one video on Princess Di conspiracy theories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38T7_uLio0

Common People by Pulp

Written by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior

Cocaine Socialism by Pulp

Written by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber and Antony Genn

Tony Blair ‘Windfall Tax’ excerpt from UK Parliament

Queen Elizabeth II ‘Death of Princess Diana’ excerpt from AP Archives

Noel Gallagher ‘Downing Street Part Invitation’ excerpt from kinoLibrary at www.knolibrary.com Clip Ref DW022092

Tony Blair ‘Sinn Fein’ excerpt from UK Parliament

Tony Blair ‘The People’s Princess’ excerpt from AP Archives

Queen Elizabeth II ‘Annus Horribilis Speech’ from ITN Source

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Episode 3 Part 2 - Goodbye, Englands Rose

Wed, 20 May 2020 09:30:00 GMT

3.1 Things Can Only Get Better

3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose

3.3 Different Class

Links and sources

‘Blair aide asked Keating for hate lessons’, SBS, 23 August 2013.

http://.https:/www.sbs.com.au/news/blair-aide-asked-keating-for-hate-lessons

Jonathan Davis, ‘History didn’t end with the fall of the Berlin Wall – but only now is the new battleground clear’, The Conversation, 7 November 2019.

https://theconversation.com/history-didnt-end-with-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-but-only-now-is-the-new-battleground-clear-125768

Noel Gallagher on *that* visit to Downing Street

‘Tony Blair told Princess Diana her relationship with Dodi Fayed was a problem’, Guardian, 1 September 2010.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-diana-relationship-fayed

Thomas Dixon, ‘History in British Tears’, The History of Emotions Blog, 10 September 2015.

https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2015/09/weeping-britannia/

Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 21 February 2013.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies

‘Greek finance minister responds to claim that wife was inspiration behind Pulp hit’, Guardian, 12 May 2015.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-minister-responds-claim-wife-inspiration-pulp-common-people

Owen Hatherley, ‘Pulp matter more than ever in today’s cowed cultural landscape’, Guardian, 15 June 2011.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/14/pulp-festivals

Owen Hatherley, Uncommon: An Essay on Pulp, Zero Books, 2011.

And one video on Princess Di conspiracy theories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38T7_uLio0

Common People by Pulp

Written by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior

Cocaine Socialism by Pulp

Written by: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior, Mark Webber and Antony Genn

Tony Blair ‘Windfall Tax’ excerpt from UK Parliament

Queen Elizabeth II ‘Death of Princess Diana’ excerpt from AP Archives

Noel Gallagher ‘Downing Street Part Invitation’ excerpt from kinoLibrary at www.knolibrary.com Clip Ref DW022092

Tony Blair ‘Sinn Fein’ excerpt from UK Parliament

Tony Blair ‘The People’s Princess’ excerpt from AP Archives

Queen Elizabeth II ‘Annus Horribilis Speech’ from ITN Source

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Episode 2 Part 3 - Its the (global) economy, stupid

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Emma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in the Clinton impeachment saga took leading roles in the Trump presidency. Finally, they look at how America remade the global economy in its own image, and in ways that served its own interests, and the market dogmatism that may now, finally, be unravelling in the liberal West.

Dan Roberts, “Clintons continue to tout legacy where others see era of mistakes and scandal,” The Guardian, 22 May 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/hillary-clinton-bill-90s-nostalgia-reform-scandal

Patrick Andelic, “As it celebrates its 25th birthday, how does the Clinton administration look today?” The Conversation, 17 January 2018.

https://theconversation.com/as-it-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-how-does-the-clinton-administration-look-today-89718

German Lopez, “Joe Biden's controversial criminal justice record, explained,” Vox, 26 August 2015.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter?__c=1

Ron Elving, “The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?” NPR, 13 August 2019.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

Ed Pilkington, “How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump,” The Guardian, 25 January 2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/how-the-drudge-report-ushered-in-the-age-of-trump

David Smith, “Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump,” The Guardian, 28 January 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/kenneth-starr-trump-impeachment-trial

Andrew Chatzky, James McBride, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, “NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade,” Council on Foreign Relations, 24 February 2020.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/nafta-and-usmca-weighing-impact-north-american-trade

Stephen Grenville, “No consensus on the Washington Consensus,” The Interpreter, 7 June 2017.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/no-consensus-washington-consensus

'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullen

http://stuartcullen.net

hello@stuartcullen.net

Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton excerpts courtesy of The William J. Clinton, Presidential Library.

Donald Trump excerpt courtesy of The White House

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Episode 2 Part 2 - Wading in The Swamp

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Dan Roberts, “Clintons continue to tout legacy where others see era of mistakes and scandal,” The Guardian, 22 May 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/hillary-clinton-bill-90s-nostalgia-reform-scandal

Patrick Andelic, “As it celebrates its 25th birthday, how does the Clinton administration look today?” The Conversation, 17 January 2018.

https://theconversation.com/as-it-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-how-does-the-clinton-administration-look-today-89718

German Lopez, “Joe Biden's controversial criminal justice record, explained,” Vox, 26 August 2015.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter?__c=1

Ron Elving, “The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?” NPR, 13 August 2019.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

Ed Pilkington, “How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump,” The Guardian, 25 January 2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/how-the-drudge-report-ushered-in-the-age-of-trump

David Smith, “Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump,” The Guardian, 28 January 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/kenneth-starr-trump-impeachment-trial

Andrew Chatzky, James McBride, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, “NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade,” Council on Foreign Relations, 24 February 2020.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/nafta-and-usmca-weighing-impact-north-american-trade

Stephen Grenville, “No consensus on the Washington Consensus,” The Interpreter, 7 June 2017.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/no-consensus-washington-consensus

'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullen

http://stuartcullen.net

hello@stuartcullen.net

Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton excerpts courtesy of The William J. Clinton, Presidential Library.

Donald Trump excerpt courtesy of The White House

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Episode 2 Part 1- The Clintons America

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Dan Roberts, “Clintons continue to tout legacy where others see era of mistakes and scandal,” The Guardian, 22 May 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/21/hillary-clinton-bill-90s-nostalgia-reform-scandal

Patrick Andelic, “As it celebrates its 25th birthday, how does the Clinton administration look today?” The Conversation, 17 January 2018.

https://theconversation.com/as-it-celebrates-its-25th-birthday-how-does-the-clinton-administration-look-today-89718

German Lopez, “Joe Biden's controversial criminal justice record, explained,” Vox, 26 August 2015.

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter?__c=1

Ron Elving, “The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?” NPR, 13 August 2019.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

Ed Pilkington, “How the Drudge Report ushered in the age of Trump,” The Guardian, 25 January 2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/24/how-the-drudge-report-ushered-in-the-age-of-trump

David Smith, “Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump,” The Guardian, 28 January 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/kenneth-starr-trump-impeachment-trial

Andrew Chatzky, James McBride, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, “NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade,” Council on Foreign Relations, 24 February 2020.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/nafta-and-usmca-weighing-impact-north-american-trade

Stephen Grenville, “No consensus on the Washington Consensus,” The Interpreter, 7 June 2017.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/no-consensus-washington-consensus

'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullen

http://stuartcullen.net

hello@stuartcullen.net

Tony Blair, Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton excerpts courtesy of The William J. Clinton, Presidential Library.

Donald Trump excerpt courtesy of The White House

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Episode 1 Part 1 - The End of History

Wed, 06 May 2020 05:00:00 GMT

Emma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the future made by the historian Eric Hobsbawm.

Links and references

Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, Summer 1989, 3-18.

Louis Menand, ‘Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History’, New Yorker, 27 August 2018.

Francis Fukuyama, ‘The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus’, The Atlantic, 30 March 2020.

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Hachette, 2020.

The Late Show – Interview with Eric Hobsbawm

‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Quotes’, Guardian, 1 October 2012.

Damien Cave, ‘Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way’, New York Times, 24 April 2020.

Credits

'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullen

http://stuartcullen.net

hello@stuartcullen.net

Ronald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

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Episode 1 Part 2 - The End of the Cold War

Wed, 06 May 2020 05:00:00 GMT

Links and references

Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, Summer 1989, 3-18.

Louis Menand, ‘Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History’, New Yorker, 27 August 2018.

Francis Fukuyama, ‘The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus’, The Atlantic, 30 March 2020.

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Hachette, 2020.

The Late Show – Interview with Eric Hobsbawm

‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Quotes’, Guardian, 1 October 2012.

Damien Cave, ‘Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way’, New York Times, 24 April 2020.

Credits

'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullen

http://stuartcullen.net

hello@stuartcullen.net

Ronald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

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Episode 1 Part 3 - The Long 1990s

Wed, 06 May 2020 05:00:00 GMT

Links and references

Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’, The National Interest, Summer 1989, 3-18.

Louis Menand, ‘Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History’, New Yorker, 27 August 2018.

Francis Fukuyama, ‘The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus’, The Atlantic, 30 March 2020.

Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Hachette, 2020.

The Late Show – Interview with Eric Hobsbawm

‘Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in Quotes’, Guardian, 1 October 2012.

Damien Cave, ‘Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way’, New York Times, 24 April 2020.

Credits

'Theme for Barely Getting' By' written and produced by Stuart Cullen

http://stuartcullen.net

hello@stuartcullen.net

Ronald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

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Introducing Season Two: The Long 1990s

Mon, 04 May 2020 06:03:00 GMT

Barely Getting' By is back! In separate states and from isolation, Emma and Chloe preview Season Two, as they give us a taste of their upcoming nine week long exploration of how the politics and culture of the 1990s set us up for today’s catastrophic failures, as well as what is and isn’t considered history.

Season Two premieres on Wednesday 6 May.

Credits:

Ronald Reagan speech excerpt Courtesy, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Bill Clinton speech excerpt Courtesy, William J. Clinton Presidential Library.

George H W Bush speech excerpt Courtesy, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

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Barely Gettin 2019 - Mini Episode

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 02:55:00 GMT

One week on from Boris Johnson’s big victory in the British General Election, Emma asks Chloe what on earth just happened. They talk racism, neoliberalism, and the role of leadership. Does “electability” matter? And how might all of this play out in other places, like Australia and the US?

And speaking of the US...Trump has been impeached, but does it even matter? In this final episode of Barely Gettin’ By, Chloe and Emma reflect on the end of the year and what might be in store for the world in 2020. Merry Impeachmas everyone, and thanks for listening!

P.S. Looking ahead to our next season, we’d love to hear from you about what you liked, didn’t like, or want to hear more about, so please get in touch! You can post a review here or get us via Twitter: @DrChlod and @EmmaShortis.

P.P.S. Boris Johnson’s timetable for a trade deal with the EU.

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Barely Gettin Boomers

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:14:00 GMT

‘Ok, Boomer’? Chloe and Emma have been thinking about boomers, millennials, and intergenerational warfare for a while now. In this episode, they discuss racist aunties on the internet and what to do about them. Next, they dive into historical questions like, who are boomers, why are they so entitled, and why are they so bad at the internet? They narrow down their discussion to the ‘boomer elite’, who got the best of all worlds in the second half of the 20th century as beneficiaries of first the post-war expansion of the welfare state and later neoliberal prosperity.

They find that in fact, there are plenty of older Australians who share the precarity and cynicism of millennials – so bring on the millennial/boomer alliance!

Richard Cooke, ‘The Boomer Supremacy’, The Monthly, March 2016 [$]

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/march/1456750800/richard-cooke/boomer-supremacy

David Graeber, ‘On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs’, Strike, August 2013.

https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs, Penguin, 2018.

‘What’s with all the minions?’, Starts at 60, 19 August 2015. [This site is AMAZING for insights into the Boomer mind - CW]

https://startsat60.com/discover/lifestyle/whats-with-all-the-minions

Nicola Davison, ‘The Anthropocene Epoch: Have we entered a new phase of planetary history?’, The Guardian, 30 May 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/30/anthropocene-epoch-have-we-entered-a-new-phase-of-planetary-history

Meera Subramanian, ‘Humans versus Earth: the Quest to Define the Anthropocene’, Nature, 6 August 2019.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02381-2

Tom Griffiths, ‘Coming of Age in the Great Acceleration’, Australian Book Review, November 2014.

https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2014/125-november-2014-no-366/2220-coming-of-age-in-the-great-acceleration

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Barely Gettin The British Election - Mini Episode

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:20:00 GMT

With just one week until the UK General Election, Emma asked Chloe for a special mini episode to explain exactly what's happening. Chloe outlines the differences between elections in Britain and Australia, why this makes polling difficult, and why it makes predicting an outcome even harder. They discuss how Brexit, the NHS, and media bias will shape voters’ decisions, and what to look out for in the election on 12 December as the Labour Party seeks to deny the Conservatives the majority they need to leave the EU on Boris Johnson’s terms.

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Barely Gettin Feminism

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:25:00 GMT

From Elena Ferrante to Roxane Gay, in this episode Chloe and Emma talk about the many women who inspire them … and a few who enrage them. They take a historical tour of feminism from the first wave to the second, through the 1980s when feminism became *very comfortable with capitalism*, and up to the present day of #MeToo. After talking about feminist heroes of old, they ask: who should we be reading and listening to, to understand what feminism means today? (hint: it’s not Julie Bishop).

[Note: Emma was pregnant at the time of recording ... but we are now delighted to welcome the newest, littlest feminist, and the reason for any future delays in releasing episodes, Baby Viv <3 <3 <3]

Must reads:

Mary Beard, ‘The Greer Method’, London Review of Books, 24 October 2019.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n20/mary-beard/the-greer-method

G.D. Dess, ‘Elena Ferrante: The Mad Adventures of Serious Ladies’, LA Review of Books, 29 July 2017.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/elena-ferrante-the-mad-adventures-of-serious-ladies/

Monica Lewinsky, ‘Shame and Survival’, Vanity Fair, June 2014.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/society/2014/06/monica-lewinsky-humiliation-culture

Alana Schetzer, ‘Friendly Reminder: Julie Bishop Is Not Your Woke Feminist Bae’, Junkee, 27 September 2018.

https://junkee.com/julie-bishop-not-woke-bae/176531

Kimberley Truong, ‘AOC Has Finally Dropped Her Skin-Care Routine’, The Cut, 28 January, 2019.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-skincare-beauty-routine.html

Marci Robin, ‘Why it Matters That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wore Hoops to Her Swearing-In Ceremony’, Allure, 5 January 2019 [Note: AOC was modelling her look on Sonia Sotomayor, not RBG!]

https://www.allure.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-red-lipstick-hoops-swearing-in-sonia-sotomayor-nail-polish

Hannah Ryan and Gina Rushton, ‘The Leaders Of Australia's "Time's Up" Movement Made Big Promises They Couldn't Keep’, Buzzfeed, 18 October 2019.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahryan/metoo-movement-now-australia-tracey-spicer

Roxane Gay and Dr Tressie McMillan Cottom, Hear to Slay (but seriously, read everything! - E.S.)

https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/roxane-gay-and-dr-tressie-mcmillan-cottom/hear-to-slay/b52dbaee-2243-4230-ac20-8dc36ca6a453

Constance Grady, “Why Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood is facing #MeToo backlash,” Vox, 17 January 2018 (as a follow up to our discussion in the previous episode).

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/17/16897404/margaret-atwood-metoo-backlash-steven-galloway-ubc-accountable

Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control, and Domestic Abuse, Black Inc, 2019.

Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars, MUP, 2019.

Alison Whittaker, ‘Get Krack!n's season finale was the most nourishing despair I have felt in a long time’, Guardian, 28 March 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/28/get-krackns-season-finale-was-the-most-nourishing-despair-i-have-felt-in-a-long-time

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Barely Gettin Fiction

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:18:00 GMT

Emma and Chloe have now spent a bit of time talking about British politics, and they’ve already spent some time delving into the rise of the right--or possibly even neo-fascism--in the US. In popular analysis, it’s basically impossible to avoid references to fiction in discussions about politics on both sides of the Atlantic. How many times have you heard the word “Orwellian” when you read about the state of politics today? But who exactly was Orwell and what did he actually write about? Chloe and Emma discuss how and why Orwell is everywhere and whether it’s useful to use his work to draw parallels to today. Are we living in 1984, or is it Gilead? Does fiction have anything to tell us about the state of the world?

Show notes

The tweets

30 June, Ann Coulter tweets an article about the Virgin Atlantic “Pride Flight” with her thoughts: “I get annoyed when the pilot talks. This is Room 101 in Orwell's "1984."

https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1145462857057705984

@ericrnolan1: Re: the footage of Trump meeting Kim Jong Un:

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." -- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

https://twitter.com/ericrnolan1/status/1145445914221404160

Bernie’s campaign manager, tweeting about ICE raids: “family op. How Orwellian.”

https://twitter.com/fshakir/status/1142131845309620229

Daily Beast: “2020 Candidate Marianne Williamson: Vaccine Mandates Are ‘Orwellian’”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/2020-candidate-marianne-williamson-vaccine-mandates-are-orwellian

Books and articles

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Project Gutenberg.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201111.txt

Karl Cohen, “The Cartoon that Came in From the Cold”, The Guardian, 7 March 2003.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/mar/07/artsfeatures.georgeorwell

“1984 (the BOOK not the year)”, Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything, August 2019.

https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/2019/08/1984-the-book-not-the-year/

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power, Allen & Unwin, 2018.

Zoe Williams, “Handmaid’s Tale comes to life in Alabama”, The Guardian, 2 July 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/02/handmaids-tale-alabama-women-marshae-jones-manslaughter-unborn-child

Dara Mathis, “The Handmaid’s Tale’s Worsening Race Problem”, The Week, 18 June 2018.

https://theweek.com/articles/773904/handmaids-tales-worsening-race-problem

Angela Jade Bastién, “In Its First Season, The Handmaid’s Tale’s Greatest Failing Is How It Handles Race”, Vulture, 18 June 2018.

https://www.vulture.com/2017/06/the-handmaids-tale-greatest-failing-is-how-it-handles-race.html

Michelle Debczak, “Study: Kids Who Read Harry Potter Grow Up to Be Better People”, Mindfloss, 30 December 2017.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/521382/study-kids-who-read-harry-potter-grow-be-better-people

Alyssa Rosenberg, “Grappling with ‘Harry Potter’ on the series’ 20th anniversary”, The Washington Post, 28 June 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/06/27/grappling-with-harry-potter-on-the-series-20th-anniversary/

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Barely Gettin Fascism - Part 2

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 03:15:00 GMT

If Donald Trump’s presidency suggests America is sliding towards fascism, what can we do about it? Picking up on their last conversation, in this episode of Barely Gettin’ By Emma and Chloe look at the role of American institutions in enabling Trump. They compare this with the democratic weakness that enabled the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, to unpick the myth of America’s uniquely strong, resilient democracy. If Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court can’t stop Trump, can Elizabeth Warren save America from a fascist future?

Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’, New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995 [$]

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Jane Caplan, ‘Trump and Fascism. A View from the Past’, History Workshop, 17 November 2016

http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/trump-and-fascism-a-view-from-the-past/

David Runciman, ‘Is this how democracy ends?’, London Review of Books, 1 December 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/david-runciman/is-this-how-democracy-ends

Richard Cooke, ‘Christ on a Bike’, in Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline, Black Inc, 2019.

Pankaj Mishra, ‘Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism’, New York Review of Books, 19 March 2018.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

Samuel Merrill, ‘Punching Nazis: What Would Indiana Jones Do?’, The Conversation, 24 January 2017.

https://theconversation.com/punching-nazis-what-would-indiana-jones-do-71756

‘Every Nazi Punch from Raiders of the Lost Ark’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nkHeMGsuo

And here’s *that* painting of Trump in the DC swamp...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/crossing-the-swamp-good-painting

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Barely Gettin Fascism - Part 1

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:13:00 GMT

Is Donald Trump a fascist? In this episode of Barely Gettin’ By, Emma and Chloe ask if we are seeing a visitation from Europe’s fascist past in America’s present. With the help of Chloe’s unusually vast library on the subject, they look at Trump’s use of propaganda and the media, his targeting and marginalisation of people of colour, Jews, and LGBTIQ people, the rise of the (pseudo) intellectual right and the weakness of American institutions. They ask how this compares with the rise of fascism in the 1930s, especially in Nazi Germany. They also take a brief detour into history counterfactuals, and explain how this could all have been avoided if Al Gore was allowed to win the 2000 Presidential Election.

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Barely Gettin Climate Change

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 05:09:00 GMT

Emma and Chloe discuss the recent election result in Australia and what it means for the environment. What should people worried about climate change do now? To explore that question, they go back and look at former PM Bob Hawke’s environmental legacy and the role he played in saving Antarctica from mining. They discuss how environmental wins come about and how the landscape has changed since Hawke. How do we talk about climate change today and why isn’t that translating into action? What kind of communication works, and why? Why are we so obsessed with market solutions and tech billionaires? Chloe goes deeper into a discussion of the role of social movements, and what the long historical threads of nonviolent action might tell us about the way forward.

Reading List

On environmentalism and climate change:

Micha Frazer-Carroll, “On environmentalism, whiteness and activist superstars,” gal-dem, 25 September 2019

http://gal-dem.com/on-individualism-whiteness-and-activist-superstars/?fbclid=IwAR2nZWGp9zqK04FGukcFIddz1HTLoQEWG5bDUPStAxwTIwMFG_18yl6TTRQ

Martin Gelin, “The Misogyny of Climate Deniers,” The New Republic, 29 August 2019.

https://newrepublic.com/article/154879/misogyny-climate-deniers

Christopher Jones, “The Delusion and Danger of Infinite Economic Growth,” The New Republic, 2 October 2019.

https://newrepublic.com/article/155214/delusion-danger-infinite-economic-growth

Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019)

Noami Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014) and On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (2019)

David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019)

Maia Wikler and Thanu Yakupitiyage, “11 Young Climate Justice Activists You Need to Pay Attention to,” Vice, 1 October 2019

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8xwvq3/11-young-climate-justice-activists-you-need-to-pay-attention-to-beyond-greta-thunberg

On tech billionaires:

Luke Darby, “Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists,” The Guardian, 19 August 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists

Justine Musk, "I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce, Marie Claire, 10 September 2010

https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/

Adam Rogers, “How Rich Donors Like Epstein (and Others) Undermine Science,” Wired, 15 September 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/the-problem-with-rich-people-funding-science/

James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA,” New York Times, 31 Juy 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html

On Antarctica:

Emma Shortis, “Lessons from the Last Continent: Science, Emotion, and the Relevance of History,” in Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge, Perspectives, Issue 2019/4, Rachel Carson Centre.

http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2019/4/communicating-climate-knowing-change-changing-knowledge

Emma Shortis,“History repeating as Greenpeace returns to the Antarctic,” Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 18 April 2018.

https://www.greenpeace.org.au/news/historyrepeatingasgreenpeacereturnsto-the-antarctic/

Emma Shortis,“Saving Antarctica, the last continent,” Daily Review, 17 December 2016.

https://dailyreview.com.au/saving-antarctica/53885/

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Barely Gettin Trump and Brexit - Mini Episode

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:55:00 GMT

Chloe and Emma get together to update us on big moves in the US and the UK. Emma explains why the Democratic Party launched impeachment proceedings against President Trump last week, why it took them so long, and what happens next. Meanwhile, the British Supreme Court has ruled Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament illegal. Chloe explains why this offers hope to opponents of Brexit, and why it also introduces new dangers to an already explosive political situation.

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Barely Gettin By with the USA

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:49:00 GMT

This week, Scott Morrison is going to Washington--or is it Mar-a-Lago? In anticipation of the Australian PM’s state dinner with Donald Trump, Emma and Chloe look back on the history of American-Australian relations. From the ANZUS treaty to Iraq (and detouring through conspiracy theories, Gough Whitlam, and the CIA), Australia has a track record of following the US everywhere it goes, including into war. With Trump ‘locked and loaded’, Emma and Chloe ask whether history repeating, and will Australia find itself at war in Iran?

Reading List

On Trump and Morrison/the US in the World:

Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, 16 September 2019.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-intervention

Elaine Pearson, “Trump’s Attack on Asylum-Seekers Was Made in Australia,” Foreign Policy, 24 July 2019

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/24/trumps-attack-on-asylum-seekers-was-made-in-australia-png-manus-island-nauru-new-zealand-refugees-offshore-detention/

Tanya Levin, “What Scott Morrison’s faith means,” The Saturday Paper, Edition No. 261, July 13-19, 2019

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2019/07/13/what-scott-morrisons-faith-means/15629400008440

Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

“America’s ‘credibility’ is not the problem here,” Crikey, 31 October 2017.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/10/31/yale-diaries-americas-credibility-is-not-the-problem-here/

“The History of the USA and Australia’s Love In – and Turnbull’s Grovelling,” Daily Review, 6 May 2017.

https://dailyreview.com.au/history-great-relationship-australia-us-love/59439/

“Trump, Syria and the Irrelevance of History,” Daily Review, 15 April 2017.

https://dailyreview.com.au/trump-syria-irrelevance-history/58522/

“Teaching History in TrumpWorld,” Daily Review, 4 March 2017

https://dailyreview.com.au/teaching-history-trumpworld/56534/

On handshakes:

Adam Boult and Chris Graham, “Justin Trudeau's handshake with Donald Trump the 'biggest display of dominance in the history of Canada',” The Telegraph, 14 February 2017.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/13/justin-trudeau-becomes-latest-world-leader-brave-trumps-awkward/

On Whitlam:

Christopher Knaus, “Whitlam dismissal 'palace letters' case wins right to be heard by high court,” The Guardian, 16 August 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/16/battle-over-whitlam-dismissal-palace-letters-heads-to-high-court

Guy Rundle, “All facts point to US involvement in the Dismissal,” Crikey, 13 November 2015 [$].

https://www.crikey.com.au/2015/11/13/rundle-all-facts-point-to-us-involvement-in-the-dismissal/

James Curran, “How Whitlam rattled the ANZUS alliance,” The Monthly, August 2012.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/august/1348618116/james-curran/dear-mr-president

On the US and anti-Semitism in the UK:

Owen Jones, “Fighting smears and the antisemitic minority in the Labour party,” 8 March 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qxk0hW0_EQ&feature=youtu.be

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Barely Gettin Brexit

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:57:00 GMT

With Brexit fast approaching, Emma and Chloe are slowing down to look back at how Britain came to the brink of crashing out of the EU.

In this very first episode of Barely Gettin’ By, they discuss how hard Britain worked to get into Europe in the first place and why, ever since, more and more people have wanted to get Britain out.

Starting with David Cameron’s decision to put the question of Britain’s membership of the EU to a referendum, they go over a long three years of political mistakes, elections, and negotiations. Chloe covers the social and political divisions of contemporary Britain, and what it was like to live through the 2016 Referendum.

Emma and Chloe cover the big and the basic questions, like why Britain just can’t seem to make a deal with the EU, what even is the backstop, what happens next with Parliament revolting and the 31 October deadline to leave the EU suddenly in question.

Reading List

Some illuminating fiction:

Seasonal Quartet Series, Ali Smith

Crudo, Olivia Laing

Derry Girls, on Netflix

The Favourite (2018)

And some non-fiction:

“The Northern Ireland Backstop”, Institute for Government, 12 March 2019

Cahal McLaughlin, “Where politicians fail, storytellers address the Troubles in Ireland”, The Conversation, 29 October 2014

Robert Saunders, “The myth of Brexit as imperial nostalgia,” Prospect Magazine, 7 January 2019.

“The Two Jacobs: James Meek on Post-Brexit Britain,” The London Review of Books, Vol. 41 No. 15, 1 August 2019, p 13-16.

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Introducing Barely Gettin' By

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 05:00:00 GMT

Historians, millennials, and friends Emma Shortis and Chloe Ward spend a lot of time getting angry at the way public discussion about history and politics is dominated by the same voices-- sometimes old, usually white, and almost always male. So, like many woke bros with opinions (and a few unreflective white ladies), they decided to start a podcast.

Barely Gettin’ By is about trying to make sense of a world that is changing in ways Emma and Chloe, as historians, never could have predicted. Why did almost no-one predict Trump and Brexit? What do we do when the Amazon is on fire and the worst-case scenarios for catastrophic climate change are coming true, in real time? Does history offer us any guide for how to get through, when everything seems to be totally unprecedented?

If you feel like you're Barely Gettin' By, listen in from 2 September 2019.

Supported by RMIT University.

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