STUPIDITY IS INFECTIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO CORONAVIRUS! How an illness has turned a population dumb & racist

Noted political journalist, Michael Brissenden, has taken some time out away from the news to turn his hand to crime-fiction writing in a novel that also places the cost of Australia’s participation in futile wars in the Middle East to the fore. Charles Sturt University academic, Therese Taylor, gives her take on The List.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Doyle resigned earlier this year as Melbourne’s lord mayor after a flurry of sexual harassment complaints against him became public. Since then, he’s kept a low profile and the allegations against him have seemingly gone nowhere due to the Liberal Party heavyweight’s apparent ill health. Our Melbourne correspondent, Gary Johnston, takes a look at just how sick Robert Doyle truly is, as well as persisting claims he took advantage of young female students under his care when a teacher in the 1970s.

This week on Renegade Radio we talk with Brian Robson – the author of ‘The Crate Escape’ – who joins us to discuss his bizarre and daring escape from Australia to London in 1965 via a small crate box and air mail. We also celebrate the international Stoner holiday of 4/20 while True Crime News Weekly’s deputy editor, Gary Johnston, also joins us to discuss the creeping religious Christian fundamentalism to be found within Australian politics as well as the latest dodgy shenanigans of Barnaby Joyce. With your hosts Serkan Ozturk and Chard Currie.