It’s the last episode of The Young IPA Podcast and we’re going out with a bang. Premiers rush to shut their borders to NSW despite the outbreak being under control and cause a fresh wave of suffering – why is it constant panic and where is Scott Morrison? The Coate inquiry into Victoria’s Hotel Quarantine gets handed down and it’s a dud – but forme…

The vaccine hits the UK and the US but Australia still won't budge its approval date. The Four Corners saga continues to play on which is exactly why the ABC should be privatised and Victoria cancels the Australia Day parade even though 30,000 are allowed at the Boxing Day test. Heroes and villains this week includes cricketer Ben Dunk not kneeling…

This week the boys talk about the IR changes on the table at the federal level and why you should care, the slow lifting of COVID restrictions around Australia and how the creaking EU bureaucracy is preventing Europeans from accessing COVID vaccines as quickly as the British. Heroes and Villains this week include Walter E. Williams, an LA businessw…

Penguin employees revolt over Jordan Peterson's latest book, COVIDSafe data 'incidentally' collected by intelligence agencies and the Liberal Party's proposed ban on cash payments is quietly shelved. James and Pete discuss those stories and share their heroes and villains for the week, including Piotr Marklielau, the schoolkids protesting to learn …

South Australia has one of the wildest weeks in political history and borders open and close across the country. James and Pete discuss all that and share Heroes and Villains for the week, including the Year 12s who got married so they could have 100 people at a party, the rebel Conservative MPs who may save Britain from lockdown, Gavin Newsom flou…

South Australia’s new cluster sparks fears of another lockdown and other states immediately close their borders…after 20 cases. James and Pete discuss the fallout from this and a new proposal for the government to track credit card purchases to fight COVID which will never, ever have any downsides. Heroes and Villains this week include the Coalitio…

James and Pete recap all the latest with the US election - including what a Biden administration might be like, is Kamala Harris as far left as people think and how America isn't actually on fire - and the Four Corners MeToo episode making waves across Australia. Heroes and villains this week are Californians, Joel Fitzgibbon, AOC’s blacklist and U…

YUGE show this week with everything you need to need know about the US Presidential election (except of course, who won). Will the Dems steal it? Will Trump lead a coup? Is “Trump is racist” now dead? And if Trump loses, what will Trumpism be like without Trump? (00:00 - 27:19) We talk to Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor at The Australian, about what …

Victoria is (somewhat) free as the lockdown comes to an end, and the US and Queensland prepare for elections while Israel continues to sign peace deals with Middle Eastern countries. Pete and James discuss those topics and share their heroes and villains for the week, including Nick Cave, Kanye West going on Joe Rogan, Chelsea Handler saying she ha…

There are Kiwis on the loose in Australia and fingers are being pointed everywhere. Victoria’s new roadmap continues to leave retail and hospitality out and the Western Australia border closure is under more pressure as the CHO admits to a Parliamentary Inquiry he thinks they should be open. In the US, Big Tech tries to suppress the New York Post’s…

One of the all-time news days on Monday as Victoria’s top public servant resigning over hotel quarantine still isn’t the biggest news story as we all learn far more than we wanted to about Gladys Berejiklian’s personal life. James and Pete talk about those two stories and also the IPA’s new report into the long term effects of lockdowns on the econ…

Trump got COVID, the federal budget promises income tax breaks and Keynesian spending programs and ABC staff won’t accept a freeze on a 2% pay rise. James and Pete discuss those stories, and share heroes and villains for this week: People actually being classy online, polio is eradicated in Africa, the New York Times saying Hong Kong is part of Chi…

IPA polling shows the cost of elimination strategies at federal and state level could cost $319 billions, Victoria sees a new roadmap and the resignation of the Health Minister as another IPA poll shows Victorians want those responsible for the hotel quarantine system to resign, and anti-discrimination laws come for sitting members of Parliament. H…

Daniel Andrews’ Covid Omnibus Bill is an extraordinary attack on civil liberties and could see people arrested on suspicion they may break restrictions. Newspoll shows majority support for our leaders despite the mistakes, Queensland opens its border to the ACT just after it banned Sarah Caisip from her father’s funeral, Europe faces a looming seco…

Premier Palaszczuk stops a woman from attending her dad’s funeral but the rules are different if you’re Tom Hanks. Melbourne’s curfew was not brought in on health advice but it’s staying anyway. IPA research shows we’re in a K-shaped recession and we’re not all in this together and the NSW coalition nearly falls apart because of koalas. We talk to …

Victoria’s lockdown is extended, Zoe Buhler is arrested for a Facebook post, public service payrises are as unpopular as you’d expect, WA’s hard border stance continues to derail National Cabinet discussions, Extinction Rebellion threaten free press in the UK and Trump bans critical race theory from the federal government. Bjorn Lomborg joins the s…

State of Emergency powers are extended in Victoria but citizens seem to support it. Australia goes into recession as 60% of JobKeeper payments will be to Victorians by the end of 2020. Trump roars back in the polls and Facebook threatens to remove Australian news from its site in the latest chapter of their saga against the government. (0:00-21:14)…

Daniel Andrews wants state of emergency powers to last another 12 months, border closures continue to create economic and social chaos, the truth emerges about the amount of infected people breaking restrictions in Victoria, federal Parliament can actually sit (who would have thought) and hotel quarantine workers were trained in diversity, not in i…

Johannes Leak’s cartoon sparks outrage but Biden’s original comments go unremarked. Three out of four applications to leave Australia are rejected, the Queensland government tried to make it illegal to report on corruption allegations, WA gets rid of the rule of law because it doesn’t like Clive Palmer and New Zealand delays an election. (0:00-19:1…

A jam-packed episode this week. We feature the IPA’s new video Give Us Our Lives Back, which leads to a discussion with world-renowned writer Jeffrey Tucker from the AIER on Victoria’s lockdown, the prospects for liberty around the world after coronavirus and why the free market is the most empowering and socially beneficial market system. (6:20-38…

We talk about stage 4 lockdown in Victoria, Trump trying to get a finders fee for selling TikTok, how Pete reckons Vine was better anyway and the CCP controlling what the UNSW says about Hong Kong. (00:00 - 19:49) Heroes and villains this week are Trader Joe’s, Majak Daw, Bible-burning Portland protesters and Bernie Fraser. (19:49 - 28:40) We chat …

A huge blow for freedom of speech in Australia as the Federal Court finds against Peter Ridd – James and Pete break down why this is so important. In coronavirus news, the disease spreads to nursing homes in Melbourne and a BLM rally in Sydney is stopped by police. Josh Frydenberg says debt will grow to $850 billion by mid next year but he says he’…

We apologise for James’ audio quality – he forgot to plug in his microphone. He will be punished. The federal Parliament won’t sit because of COVID but expects everyone else to work from home. Masks become compulsory in Victoria, horrifying footage emerges from China about the treatment of Uighur muslims, Labor MPs are calling for less green tape t…

Victoria is in lockdown again, Pete proclaims Dan Andrews his most hated politician, and NSW are saying they won’t lockdown…for now. James is a little sceptical of the cancel culture letter making waves over the last few days and there’s rumours Facebook won’t allow political advertising in the lead up to the US presidential election. (0:00-19:24) …

Australia’s economy is threatened as Victoria is cut off from the rest of the nation, Queensland is set to open (most of) its borders, and Dan Andrews brings in public housing tower lockdowns seen only in China. (0:00-13:05) Heroes and Villains this week include Terry Crews, nations taking in Hong Kongers escaping the CCP, the protesters insulting …

JobSeeker and JobKeeper are stopping people getting back to work, state border openings are threatened by Victoria’s growing coronavirus numbers, COVIDSafe is basically useless but at least there was a big win for liberty on vaping this week. (0:00-16:45) Heroes and Villains this week includes Colorado reforming police immunity, the brave people st…

Daniel Andrews brings tougher restrictions into Victoria and James and Pete are fired up about it. Donald Trump’s fizzle of a rally might spell doom for his reelection and Australia is under cyber attack...sort of. [0:00-16:50] Heroes and villains this week includes JK Rowling’s publisher and Peter Hitchens standing up to the woke mobs, and the ahi…

Nearly half a million Australians between the ages of 15 and 25 are not in full-time education and are not working – this is why we call for the easing of restrictions. We talk about the update from the ABS and also the latest victims of cancel culture – Colonial Brewing Co, Josh Thomas, The Guardian and the song Swing Low Sweet Chariot. (0:00-18:2…

A new round of restriction easing is good, but Victoria continues to trail the rest of the country. The statues debate continues to rage around the world as a Greens staffer tags the James Cook statue in Hyde Park, a petition calls for the removal of a Ghandi statue, Google removes an image of Winston Churchill from search results and UK Labour and…

The fallout from the weekend’s protests continues: One protester in Melbourne had coronavirus, there’s more this weekend even if hosting them will delay restriction easing and now a wedding company will flout restrictions now that the government won’t fine protesters. Cancel culture is back in a big way as Gone with the Wind, Cops, The Mighty Boosh…

BLM protests happened across Australia, and barely any fines were handed out. Coronavirus is over. We talk about the protests, the statues torn down in England and the move to defund the police, as well as your metadata under yet another attack. Heroes and villains this week include the great Ron Manners, Kevin Rudd somehow making sense on a topic,…

The protests are coming to Australia, but police aren’t handing out fines in Victoria. Therefore, social distancing regulations are dead – so let’s celebrate. We also talk the HomeBuilder scheme and pork-barrelling, as well as Nine and Newscorp losing their appeal to not be held legally responsible for what’s posted on their Facebook pages. Likes a…

America is on fire – James and Pete recap an extremely tough weekend of news. June 1st brings a fresh wave of easing of restrictions across the country and we run through the main changes. Heroes and Villains this week include Elon Musk’s space launch going ahead, any video from America that doesn’t make us sad, the Global Times running three artic…

We finally get to lead off a show with something other than coronavirus – Donald Trump signs an executive order with huge implications for social media. So should tech giants be regulated like publishers and not platforms? We also discuss Hong Kong no longer seen by the US as independent of China and recap the latest with Peter Ridd. Likes and disl…

Huge show today! We talk about the JobKeeper numbers stuff up, why it's actually better news than you think and what it reveals about the people overseeing our economic response to coronavirus, and Pete continues to show why it's morally good to want an end to the lockdown. Heroes and villains this week include the Hong Kong protestors standing up …

We're back in a studio and it feels good! We talk COVIDSafe not working and the government not accessing data with it, state borders still not open and Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas taking China's side in the trade dispute. Likes and dislikes this week include Donald Trump's executive order on deregulation, ergonomic chairs, Sleeping Giants' campa…

Pete declares victory for Australia after China accepts the coronavirus inquiry, but James is more sceptical. Victoria opens pubs and clubs in June and state governments refuse to open borders. Heroes and villains include the Hong Kong protestors, Tim Smith, Germany making it illegal to burn the EU flag and unions pushing for higher minimum wages i…

Our good vibes Friday rule is ruined by the ABS employment data and the Queensland government trying to buy Virgin. Likes and dislikes this week include Elon Musk staring down the government and winning, friend of the show Bridget Phetasy’s article in The Atlantic, the QLD Chief Health Officer admitting schools were closed for messaging purposes an…

Due to technical difficulties, this podcast has been delayed. States move to Stage 1 of restriction easing, but Daniel Andrews continues to drag his feet about it, data out of Sweden show lockdowns might be overrated and unemployment data out of the US shows that people who care about the economic effects of restrictions aren’t evil. Senator James …

The National Cabinet gives us a plan out of restrictions but will the states play ball? James and Pete recap the developments as well as the Cedar Meats scandal and the new report showing how lockdown measures around the world are increasing the spread of other diseases. Likes and Dislikes include The Wolverines in Canberra, a good old fashioned po…

The ABC apologises to the IPA (yet some presenters are crying poor over cuts), Greg Hunt basically bribes Australians to download the app and Australia had a Dan-off between Dan Tehan and Dan Andrews over schools. James and Pete recap all this before talking to political commentator Topher Field about protests emerging around Australia against the …

This week’s Friday show sees James and Pete discuss the IPA’s new poll making headlines, the Deputy CHO in Victoria’s tweet about James Cook and Twiggy Forrest hijacking a government press conference.Likes and Dislikes this week include the Northern Territory (again), 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore’s fundraising efforts, the hypocrisy of the Believe…

Dave Rubin joins the show this week to talk about his new book Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking For Yourself in the Age of Unreason, the importance of speaking your mind and how not to listen to the mob. Make sure you enter the competition for a signed copy of his book! After the interview, James and Pete talk the rush to download the tracing app, st…

Second show for the week! With 1.5 million Aussies getting their hands on their super, Pete and James ask why it can't always be like this? They boys review Michael Moore’s new doc Planet of the Humans – a devastating critique of renewable energy, with a sinister solution; chat about the problems already hitting the government’s COVID-19 tracing ap…

The government announces a tracking app to fight coronavirus, protests break out in America against social distancing restrictions and James has precisely 30 seconds to explain the best solutions to Virgin Airways going into voluntary administration. Economics Editor of The Australian Adam Creighton joins the show to discuss the economic effects of…

Pete and James ask why Parliament is going on hiatus when we could see Bob Katter use zoom, marvel at the NSW Minister who still maintains he did nothing wrong despite getting fined for breaking the lockdown, talk about the group of mates in Victoria fined over 5k for playing video games, and agree with Donald Trump for saying the WHO are trash. Am…

A giant week of news calls for a bonus episode! The ABC does some real journalism airing the IPA's new video, but taking out a key sentence. Boris Johnson is in the ICU with Coronavirus yet the tide is turning as more people, including medical experts, call for the protection of civil liberties. The EU is struggling to deal with what Merkel is call…

The wage subsidies come in which sends Australia into massive debt, the cops are driving through public parks warning people for reading books, Queensland public sector workers get a pay rise and China is lying – it’s grim reading but James and Pete try to make sense of it all. Heroes and villains this week include companies building masks and prov…

The boys are still self-isolating and are both at war the NBN, but the show must go on! We talk coronavirus and the government's lockdown of all non-essential businesses, government services minister Stuart Robert's bad, bad day explaining what happened with mygov and Centrelink and the Ruby Princess debacle. Heroes and villains this week include E…

Pete and James are BOTH in self-isolation from the dreaded COVID-19 so it was up to Adam and Gideon Rozner to step in! The boys talked about tax cuts for the airlines to stimulate the economy and the incredible discrimination against Generation Liberty at Monash University. Then they skype the two workshy recalcitrants themselves to find out what t…