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The 9pm Edict is a podcast looking at the news and its frustrations. Produced and presented by Stilgherrian. It contains strong language and disturbing mental imagery.
It’s September, and that means that here in the Southern Hemisphere, Spring has sprung. In the United States, there’s a thing called Spring Break. But in Australia, things didn’t quite break. It was more of a bruise, though a pretty bad one.
In this podcast there’s talk of Mark Zuckerberg, crime, science, journalism, bruising, the Sydney Push, and more.
Continue reading “The 9pm Spring Bruise”
The next recording session for The 9pm Edict podcast will be streamed live this Tuesday 6 September 2016 from 2100 AEST via Spreaker.
You can listen right here. The widget immediately below currently shows all the episodes of the Edict uploaded to Spreaker. A “Live” button will appear when the broadcast starts.
You can also use the Spreaker apps (the listening apps, not the studio/production apps) or listen on The 9pm Edict‘s show page.
Tweet along using the hashtag #9pmlive.
A test transmission will start at 2055 AEST, five minutes before the program proper starts at 2100 AEST. Give or take.
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[Photo: Image of Reaper audio production tool.]
It’s that special day that comes but once every five years. Australia’s national Census 2016. And so far hasn’t it been a disaster.
“Look we don’t like to call it data mining, it’s more like data fracking,” tweeted by Johannes Jakob on 9 August, and he’s right.
Continue reading “The 9pm Fracking Your Data Real Good”
Tonight’s recording session of The 9pm Edict podcast will be streamed live from 2100 AEST via Spreaker.
You can listen right here. The widget immediately below currently shows all the episodes of the Edict uploaded to Spreaker. A “Live” button will appear when the broadcast starts.
You can also use the Spreaker apps (the listening apps, not the studio/production apps) or listen on The 9pm Edict‘s show page.
Tweet along using the hashtag #9pmlive.
A test transmission will start at 2055 AEST, five minutes before the program proper starts at 2100 AEST. Give or take.
[Photo: Photo of Census form, with a microphone in the foreground.]
It’s now 20 years since Pauline Hanson first entered the Australian parliament with her controversial views. Well now she’s back. At last Saturday’s federal election, Queensland voters propelled her into the Senate.
Hanson isn’t worried about just Asians these days. She’s targeting the supposed threat of Islam. And there’s more — much more — in the policy agenda of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. It’s time to take a closer look.
In this special episode of the Edict, we go inside the mind of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, as Stilgherrian reads their entire policy agenda — live. Every single word. You’ll also hear some of Pauline Hanson’s political wisdom in her own words.
Continue reading “The 9pm One Nation Policy Reading”
Saturday’s recording session of “The 9pm One Nation Policy Reading” will be streamed live from 2000 AEST via Spreaker.
You can listen right here. The widget immediately below currently shows all the episodes of the Edict uploaded to Spreaker. A “Live” button will appear when the broadcast starts.
You can also use the Spreaker apps (the listening apps, not the studio/production apps), or listen on The 9pm Edict’s show page.
If you want to read along at home, grab One Nation’s policy agenda. Tweet along using the hashtag #9pmlive.
A test transmission will start at 1945 AEST, a quarter of an hour before the program proper starts at 2000 AEST.
[Photo: Part of One Nation’s policy flyer, with a Sennheiser microphone in the foreground.]