No Turning Back
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -This pandemic is going to change our society forever. The question we need to answer is how. Will we let big business grab even more power, or will we stand together and demand something better for ourselves and our communities?
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dan stans, thank you ma’am – w/ Dr Jerry Brown
October 18, 2020 00:12 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBThe Melbourne community has done its bit, patiently sitting under house arrest for months on end watching and waiting for freedom. Everyone’s at breaking point but if you dare express the sentiment you had best be prepared for a bunch of dan stans to scald you online. Didn’t you know people had it worse during the London Blitz!? Joining us for a Daniel Andrews performance review and to talk about the sentiment in Melbourne is wellbeing, freedom and democracy researcher Dr Jerry Brown. Reg...
a bunch of losers
October 09, 2020 02:34 - 41 minutes - 33 MBWelcome to the No Turning Back budget spectacular! You’ll find no winners here, only losers. Frydenberg’s announcement was basically what we expected – an effort to shift things out of the public sector and into the private, with a few surprises like Jobmaker and some insulting platitudes for women and the environment. Join James and Cass as they pull it apart and try to predict how Albo will respond. Check it out: The New Daily’s budget roundup with quotes from Alison Pennington of the ...
the (in)fight for our future – with Connor Jolley
October 02, 2020 00:57 - 49 minutes - 39.3 MBWould a job guarantee be ‘work for the dole 2.0’? short answer – no. This week we’re joined by Connor Jolley, one of the co-authors of the Australian Unemployed Workers Union’s Green Jobs Guarantee, to talk about David Sligar’s prescriptive, unimaginative, and narrow criticisms of a job guarantee. Don’t you just love to be told your big plans will fail before you’ve even had a chance to try? Even better, when the person saying you’ll fail has no alternative solutions! We wanna get out th...
emotional labor
September 25, 2020 01:53 - 36 minutes - 28.8 MBSo you ran a national day of action, what next? Seems like a bit of momentum is building for a society that isn’t completely determined by the interests of old mate big business. Is it possible to make Labor stand up and become the champions of the working class again? How would you even start? Cass has a lot of questions for the boys this week as we explore what it would take to improve the Labor party. Look, it won’t be easy but it’s worth a shot. Check it out: Tomorrow Movement had it...
zinger thickshake
September 17, 2020 22:24 - 47 minutes - 38.3 MBAs we continue hurtling towards climate disaster, Morrison has decided the path towards a prosperous future is…..gas? Yeah cool thanks dude. Thanks so much. Meanwhile, the ALP has leaked a bunch of vague feels to The Australian in lieu of bold policies that could invigorate their base and inspire voters. Does Labor actually want to govern? Maybe it’s time to find some new political champions outside of the game of politics… Check it out: Tom Tanuki has released part 2 of his Aussie Qanon...
evil, unyielding monsters
September 11, 2020 02:31 - 42 minutes - 33.8 MBDozens of little Bravehearts took to the streets of Melbourne to rail against Dictator Dan last weekend. What’s the connection to Qanon and is this actually something we should take seriously? Probably, yeah. Friends, did you know landlords aren’t evil, unyielding monsters? I know right!? They’re being left behind during this pandemic somehow while they manage to get their grubby hands on all our money and enjoy billions of dollars in tax breaks. Don’t you just feel so sorry for them? We a...
take it easy
September 04, 2020 00:06 - 36 minutes - 29.5 MBI don’t know about you but we’ve all got the lockdown blues. Feel like you’re also starting to lose your mind? You’ve come to the right place. Morrison’s government has used this week in Parliament to push through a heap of really awful motions with little to no opposition from Labor. Things are gonna get pretty bad unless the ALP gets their shit together and start advocating for their constituents. Check it out: Victorian lockdown rumours are messing with our heads. How long are we gonn...
lickin’ the boot
August 28, 2020 02:01 - 45 minutes - 36.8 MBDaniel Andrews wants to change the Public Health and Wellbeing Act to give it the power to extend Victoria’s state of emergency for up to another 12 months. If you try to criticise that decision, oohhhh you’re gonna get scalding from the DanStans. We love to think of ourselves as rule breaking larrikins but boy are we a nation of boot licking cop lovers and narcs. Last week we started talking about a Climate Jobs Guarantee and why it would be so transformative, so how do we win? It’s gonna...
just give everyone a job – feat. Evie
August 21, 2020 02:01 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week we’re joined by Evie of Not Good Enough to return to the rich, infuriating vein of The Fight For Planet A – did you know the term ‘carbon footprint’ was invented by BP in 2004? Madness! We swear we aren’t gonna turn into a F4PA response pod though – we also dive into the reasons why we have to fight tooth and nail to win a recovery that works for all of us, and what a Climate Jobs Guarantee is. This is revolutionary stuff, friends! The masks are off! We are members of Tomorro...
pick your battles
August 14, 2020 01:12 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBCW: pornographic content Yep, you read that right. Melt your brain with us as we read some Brett Sutton erotic fan fiction from twitter account @120sutton. Skip to 4:30 if you’re seeking some less sexually charged ranting and raving. On this episode Cass runs us through the first episode of Craig Reucassel’s new documentary series The Fight For Planet A: Our Climate Challenge, which is frustratingly stuck in the 2009 climate politics of ‘individual responsibility’. It’s 2020, Craig, LED l...
very naughty children
August 07, 2020 01:00 - 31 minutes - 25.5 MBRemember back in the first lockdown when we were all in this together? Big Daddy Andrews has told us that if we don’t stop being naughty the cops will come and take us all away. Cam thinks regional areas are key to winning working class rights, Cass rants about JobSeeker and James just does not understand why people are so horny for Daniel Andrews. Andrews just loves throwing cops at problems Like cops don’t even need a warrant now Jim of Jim’s Mowing is trying to force his franchisees t...
Bad bosses and scapegoats
August 03, 2020 10:05 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBWe thought last week was a hope-crusher when we recorded this but we had no idea what Andrews would have in store for us this week. Hang in there baby! We talk about casualisation and shitty employers fuelling the Victorian Covid crisis, and how the media landscape of our country pushes the blame onto individuals – especially if they are people of colour. We also talk about how Albo disappointed us this week. Spotless take staff to Fair Work Commission because they didn’t want to get Covi...
Introducing noturningback.tv
May 08, 2020 06:59 - 2 minutes - 2.41 MBThere is no turning back after this crisis. This pandemic is going to change our society forever. The question we need to answer is how. Will we let big business grab even more power, or will we stand together and demand something better for ourselves and our communities? Launching in June, NoTurningBack.tv will explore what it means to create a society that works for everyone and what it will take to make that real. Each week we’ll be joined by some of the most interesting people we can...