*Note: This episode is an upload of an Instagram live recording. In this episode, I am again joined by Dean Hurlston, President of Council Watch, to host an online info session event for people who want to understand their local council operations better and may be thinking about running in the upcoming Victorian council elections in October 2024. …

In this episode I am joined by Damian Scattini, partner at Quinn Emanuel and the lawyer on record for the Hotel Quarantine Class Action. In this class action, Damian is representing thousands of businesses that suffered losses because of the months long lockdown following the State of Victoria’s botched operation of hotel quarantine. In this episod…

In this episode, Council Watch president Dean Hurlston joins the podcast again to talk about the latest news with councils, the growth of Council Watch as an organisation and most importantly, the upcoming council elections in Victoria in October. If you want to learn more about Dean and Council Watch you can visit the website www.councilwatch.com.…

Send us a Text Message. Join us today as Will Vincent from the VO Bar Podcast goes toe-to-toe with newcomer Hadi VargawinterBy Casey Finnigan

This week I was joined by David Limbrick MP, who sits as a member of the crossbench in the upper house of the Victorian Parliament and became known in recent years for his advocacy of human rights during the lockdown era. In this episode we go into his unexpectedly hard-left beginning in politics and how he developed into a Libertarian, what govern…

Send us a Text Message. Join us as Christopher Gonzalez and Andrew Morrison (host of the Voice Over Coffee Shop podcast) take to the pulpit to deliver a special message.By Casey Finnigan

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Gregory Dwyer and Bailey Turpin step up to the microphone! Gregory is our first international contestant, and The Wheel decides to take advantage of it! Join us for the fun! We want your voice! The more contestants we get, the more episodes we can release; and with greater frequency. If you would like to be …

This week's podcast guest is Leo Puglisi, the founder and chief newsreader of 6 News online. Over the past few years Leo has successfully taken a passion project started in his garage and developed it into a fledgling digital media empire - entirely run by teenagers. Having interviewed two Prime Ministers and a wide range of high profile guests in …

Send us a Text Message. On today's episode of VO Roulette, are contestants are put into a potentially dangerous situation. Let's hope they don't bomb! Are you interested in being on VO Roulette? Record a brief introduction and send it to VORoulette@gmail.com to be added to our list of contestants!By Casey Finnigan

The Pollie Bites podcast is back for 2024 with the first guest episode featuring Victoria's newest member of Parliament, Richard Welch. Selected by the Liberal Party to fill the upper house vacancy in the North Eastern Metro Region after Matt Bach resigned at the end of 2023, this was a rare 'golden ticket' opportunity to join Parliament mid-term w…

Send us a Text Message. In our second episode, Allison Cossitt and Vanessa Garcia join the show and spin something nasty on The Wheel. Those of you with weak stomachs may want to be careful!By Casey Finnigan

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the premier episode of VO Roulette! Today we have Kat Dollar and Charles Coates. What does The Wheel have in store for them? You'll have to tune in to find out!By Casey Finnigan

We're closing out 2023 with a catch up episode with Matt Wong from Discernable. It's been a while since we co-hosted an episode and so we had an informal catch up talking about politics, platforms and what the new year brings. If you're looking for more from Matt, you can find him at discernable.io. Support the Show.…

In this urgent special guest episode I am joined by Ken Philips from Self Employed Australia to talk about the major industrial relation law changes the federal government is currently trying to get through Parliament. An unexpected and sneaky deal in the last week of Parliament saw two crossbenchers, Pocock and Lambie, suddenly do a deal with the …

Ian Cook, best known for his business being at the center of the 'slug gate' saga joins the podcast for this special guest episode to talk about his ongoing court cases and his time running as an independent candidate for the seat of Mulgrave in both the 2022 state election and recent by-election. As mentioned in the episode, links to previous inte…

Send us a Text Message. Get ready for a voiceover podcast experience like no other! If you would like to participate, please send an email with a brief audio file to: voroulette@gmail.comBy Casey Finnigan

In this record-length podcast episode I am joined by Tosh Finnigan, the ex-Labor staffer, red shirts whistleblower and one of the founders of the 'Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews' Party from 2022. **Content warning - swearing & adult themes** In this episode we go through in detail, from start to finish, Tosh's journey in the Labor party and how…

This week on the podcast I am joined by a familiar face, Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia. In this episode we discuss what happened with his highly publicised "Not Above The Law" case where an attempt was made by SEA to have Work Safe do their job and investigate the Hotel Quarantine failure in Victoria. We also go through what's next for …

In this weeks episode I'm joined by Dean Hurlston, Vice President of Council Watch, a not-for-profit organisation that made headlines recently for publishing a full list of Council CEO's outrageous salaries. Council Watch's website state that they are the 'peoples watchdog' for councils and act to research, investigate and publish information to en…

This week I'm joined by Nicole Werner, who will shortly represent the Liberal Party on the ballot at the upcoming Warrandyte by-election after an intense and competitive preselection process. In this episode we talk about why Nicole joined the Liberals, how she has found being a young, ethnically diverse candidate, her response to the claims she is…

This week we are joined by special guest James Catlin, a previous journalist and political advisor turned barrister who has particular expertise and interest in protected disclosures (whistleblowing). In addition to working as a solicitor, he has worked as a finance journalist with Australia’s two leading news entities The Herald and Weekly Times a…

The Pollie Bites podcast returns with special guest Brad Rowswell MP, shadow treasurer for Victoria, to talk about the upcoming Victorian state budget. In this episode we go through the basics of; what a budget is, where the money comes from and why people should care about it. After that we delve into more detailed questions, including a number su…

It's the final episode for 2022 and Matt joins the podcast as usual to discuss the Victorian upper house election results, the new Liberal shadow cabinet and how many Victorian's now believe corruption is an issue. Victoria's upper house results New Liberal shadow cabinet More Victorian's believe corruption is an issue Watch Victorian Parliament si…

The recaps are back and this week Matt and I discuss the additional data that has come to light about how narrow some of the election results were, the new Liberal leader being Pesutto and what we think the next 4 years will look like in Victoria. If you want to hear more from Matt you can find him in his Locals community here - https://discernable…

We're back with the recap podcasts and of course we kick off with a special episode looking at what's happened with the state election results. Support the Show.

One of the most-requested interviews on the platform, I got to sit down very briefly with Jeff Kennett in between his busy schedule and the campaign trail to talk about the current performance of the two major parties, what he would do differently if he were still in the ring, Victoria's outrageous state debt level and what he thinks the election o…

It's a special episode this week as we record this live to an audience at the first ever Pollie Bites dinner with Discernable and Voice for Victoria. In this episode we talk about the train wreck media that Dan has been receiving, including the doctor that saved his life speaking out about a failure to receive hospital funds, Lydia Thorpe's latest …

We are back with Matt for another week talking about politics in Victoria as things continue to ramp up in the final few months before the state election. This week we discuss Kaushaliya's ongoing battle with WorkSafe over her bullying claims, Shane Pattons' crocodile tears over VicPol's pandemic policing and how both parties are performing. Love t…

We are back with Matt to discuss what's going on in politics as we get past the grand final long weekend, which means the media attention on politics will be ramping up for November. This coincides with the states finally dropping the isolation requirement for positive covid cases for most people and just in time for the government to have their pr…

We're back with Matt for another week of recapping politics as we head into the last sitting week of the Victorian Parliament before the election, with Labor also dropping their new campaign slogan. The media around this change was drowned out by the thoughtless comments of the Education Minister in relation to a cancer patient, while both sides of…

This week Matt and I are back to talk politics, starting with the impact the death of the Queen is having on Australian politics, the ongoing drama of the 000 (ESTA) report the government tried to sweep under the rug and the warfare declaration from the UFU trying to corner Labor into doing what they want. Dan offers 'an apology' following 000 repo…

We are back for another week in Victorian politics with Matt from Discernable talking about everything from Red Shirts being in the media (again) to the latest decision from the government to pledge 'free' study for new nurses and midwives. Red shirts whistle-blower police statement leaked to media. Shane Patton on 3AW talking about the latest leak…

Matt and I are back for another week talking about politics and what a week it's been with the Liberal party dropping their big policy announcement to shelve the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) to put the funds into healthcare, only days before a new costing analysis shows that it's blown out by a record amount before it's even started being built. Libs a…

The team is back together as Matt joins me once again to discuss a week in politics in Victoria. This week was all about the internal dramas of the Liberal party only mildly overshadowing the chaotic mess in Victoria that is our collapsing health system and hypocritical government. If you want to hear more from Matt you can find him in his Locals c…

We are back this week talking everything politics at both a state and federal level, from looking at if Albanese touring Ukraine during the latest floods really was his 'I don't hold a hose moment', to Victoria where our government just will not let go of the pandemic orders. Links to referenced materials: How the fuel excise impacts the trucking i…

In this week's episode we are back to talk about politics just in time to catch the news of a decent chunk of the Victorian Cabinet Ministry abandoning ship only a week after the government suddenly and unexpectedly ripped most of the vaccine mandates off without so much as a whiff of a presser. Adam Bandt removes Australian flag. Ministers abandon…

This week's episode we are back to talk politics and this time we really got carried away talking about everything that is going on - this is a long one! From Albanese having his first 'I don't hold a hose' moment as PM while the economic situation in Australia continues to decline, to looking at the week in Victoria where we're trying to bribe our…

In this weeks episode I am once again joined by Choc and we cover the major political events of the week, such as Albo forming a majority government while the economic situation continues to rapidly decline. In Victoria it's been another week of bad media and corruption headlines for the state government with the delivery of the toxic soil dumping …

Following the federal election and the state continuing to have various industries fall apart there was no shortage of things to talk about this week as I co-opted a friend into joining me for this recap episode. We talk about the brand new Labor government, what it means that the 'teals' may end up with no more power than a backbench and what the …

It's the last recap before the election and what better special guest to have for the episode than Victorian MP turned Senate hopeful David Limbrick. In this episode we get into the hits and misses in the last week of the federal campaign, from Albo muddling up borders to Scomo body slamming a child in a non-contact sport and the AEC managing to ca…

In this special guest episode is with Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia following his article in the Spectator raising concerns about federal Labor's policy to change the laws around 'employee-like' work that may affect self-employed business owners. While I had Ken we also caught up on the progress with the Not Above The Law Campaign, whic…

It's been a busy time as we head into the final week of the federal election campaign. Matt once again joins me for this episode but is off after this week to focus on building his fancy new studio, so next weeks pre-election-night episode will feature a special guest co-host. In this episode we discuss just how feral the campaign has become, which…

In this weeks episode I am once again joined by Matt from Discernable to discuss the developments in another week of the federal campaign trail, including Labor launching their housing policy and Albanese continuing to have 'gaffes' with the media. On a Victorian note we had the state budget drop this week which looks disturbingly like the promises…

This special guest episode is a bonus double interview where I ask the exact same questions to 'both sides of politics'. I am joined by Kos Samaras from the polling and advisory firm Red Bridge Group, who was also previously the campaign director for the Labor Party, and Evan Mulholland, a Liberal Party member who works as the Director of Communica…

We're back for the week with Matt from Discernable talking about how things are going as we hit midway in the federal election cycle and see the Victorian government face even more scandals as the preliminary IBAC report gets leaked to the media. In this episode we talk about political debates and if the public even pays any attention to them, the …

Matt from Discernable joins me again this week to recap everything that has been going on in both federal and Victorian politics. It's been a big news week with the federal election campaign in full swing and the first leaders debate, while in Victoria they suddenly ripped off the majority of the restrictions from midnight Friday - all except the a…

Our weekly episodes are back, this time featuring special guest Matt from Discernable (who will hopefully be sticking around). In this episode we recap a big week in politics as the federal election is finally announced but the campaign gets off to a train wreck start for Albo, while the Victorian government is finally starting to feel the heat on …

This week on the Pollie Bites Podcast I am joined by Evan from the Australian Electoral Commission to talk about, you guessed it, the upcoming federal election. In this episode we cover the basics; on voting - how can we vote & how to they get counted, on preferences - where do they go & what are how to vote cards, on viral rumours - do we use coun…

We're back with the Pollie Bites podcast and this special guest episode is with Victorian Shadow Treasurer David Davis to talk about the federal budget that was delivered yesterday. In this episode we run through a lot of the basics, like what the budget does, what it pays for, how federal budgets affects states and go into some Q+A on longstanding…