# Van Badham

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Episode 175: Busting Budget Myths and Saving Giant Tortoises

Van Badham is joined by the articulate an impassioned Emma Dawson of the Chifley Research Centre to get down and dirty in the "earthquake" aftermath of the Albanese Labor government's nation-changing 2026 Budget. Van and Emma think that Dr Jim Chalmer's has got the right mix of ambition, pragmatis‮…

Episode 176: The Imaginary Inflation Bomb, Not-So-Mutual Obligations and Chinese Fish

Van Badham is reunited with Ben Davison for an episode tackling the politics of inflation, the failures of Australia’s regime of "mutual obligations" and the economic challenges posed by an Australian economy organised around extraction rather than participation. Pluckily, our pair unpick the ideo‮…

Season 3 - Episode 1- Start at the beginning

Send us Fan Mail After the Bondi massacre, many Australian Jews were shocked — but not necessarily surprised. In the opening episode of season three of Tensions Transplanted, Rob Kaldor and Izzy Oderberg begin with the question now facing Australian Jewish life: where to from here? Not by replayin‮…

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Media, Social Media and Cancel Culture

Send us Fan Mail In episode three of Tensions Transplanted, Media, Social Media and Cancel Culture, Rob Kaldor and Isy Oderberg turn their attention to the creative spaces, news media, social media algorithms, misinformation, and the silencing effect of cancel culture. This episode features board ‮…

Episode 177: The Fryer is a Liar, the Online Orange Disinformation Bomb and Soil-Powered Batteries

Van Badham and Ben Davison rip into Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club appearance, stripping the grievance from the reality that no, actually, one-in-five Australians DO NOT eat from bins. In this emotionally-charged episode, they unravel the politics of migration, housing, wages, economic anxie‮…

Episode 178: Poll dive for One Nation, the Online Information War... and Italian Forests

Van Badham reunites with Emma Dawson of the Chifley Research Centre to discuss the sudden poll dive of the not-so-inevitable One Nation Party, and they speculate on its causes. Are Australians just fickle? Are we fiercely proud of our multiculturalism? Just bigger fans of Paul Hogan than Karl Stef‮…

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Polarisation, Extremism and Mis & Disinformation

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 4 of Tensions Transplanted, Rob Kaldor and Isy Oderberg explore how political disillusionment, extremism and online disinformation are fuelling antisemitism across the political spectrum. Through interviews with pollster and social researcher Kos Samaras, activist and e‮…

EPISODE 179: An AI Invasion SPECIAL EPISODE, with extra good news about puffins.

Van Badham is joined this week by Australian Writers’ Guild CEO Claire Pullen for a SPECIAL EPISODE on the artificial intelligence invasion. Who owns AI? Who profits from it? Who gets to write the rules? From the challenge of copyright theft to the transformative impact of new technology on your j‮…

Episode 180: Fascist Versus Bin, Britain Has a New PM… and How to Feed a Thirsty Bee”

This week on The Week on Wednesday, Van Badham engages a lively and timely discussion about modern British politics and its resonance for Australia with recently elected councillor and UK Labour activist, Peter Marshall. Together, they pick through the wreckage of a smashed and unpopular local con‮…