The 9pm Extra: Keep the Bastards Honest episode 5, “The Murder on Thursday Law with Stilgherrian”

You may well have thought that a certain once-potent political party, the Australian Democrats, imploded around the turn of the 21st century, and you’d be right. But they’re back, with a podcast titled Keep the Bastards Honest. This week I became their first non-party guest.

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The 9pm His Plague Diary 7

The Great Western Highway through the Blue Mountains is usually very busy on a sunny Saturday, but during the COVID-19 lockdown it can sometimes be all but deserted. Photograph taken 25 April 2020.

It’s Day 42 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. People are getting restless, and Australia’s COVID-19 tracing app has been downloaded by a couple million loyal citizens. There’s quite a bit about that.

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