Month: January 2022

Damian Coory is a crisis management expert who spent 20 years in Asia leading corporations such as Edelman Asia Pacific. He later rose to fame as a political commentator on his show The Other Side Australia and is now running for the lower house seat of Ryan, QLD in the 2022 Australian federal election.

Disillusioned with the Liberal party which has become decidedly illiberal in Damian’s view, he joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) because of what he describes as a rational and logical understanding of history, government and policy.

Topher Field has been a political commentator, speaker and content creator for 12 years. He was our first live guest on Discernable and returns today to discuss his first feature-length documentary, ‘Battleground Melbourne: The Fall of the World’s Most Liveable City, through the eyes of those who risked everything to save it’.

Classically, ‘history is written by the victors’ but in the age of new media and indie film-making, Topher has managed to show Melbourne through the eyes of the protest groups who he regularly describes as having ‘lost to Premier Daniel Andrews’.

In this interview we discussed the motivation behind Battleground Melbourne, the bias of the piece, history wars and geopolitical realities that we could all be facing in the coming decades.

Topher describes Battleground Melbourne as the ‘finest’ and ‘most important’ work he’s ever done and in many ways it serves as an answer to the question ‘who is Topher Field?’. Watch this interview to discover how Topher thinks, how he evolved, the challenges he sees facing the world today, and where he thinks we are heading.

Tom McDonald plays for the Melbourne Football Club – 2021 AFL Premiers. In this sit-down Tom educates Matt on the life of an athlete, their earning potential, how their careers are fashioned and what the transition back to a regular life looks like.

**Update**
As we warned in this interview, the Federal Minister for Immigration Alex Hawke possesses the emperor-like powers to unilaterally cancel visas and deport people.

He has now exercised that power and Novak Djokovic has been booted from Australia because: his presence in Australia ‘may put lives and civil order at risk by increasing anti-vax sentiment and disregard for COVID rules’.

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Novak Djokovic defeated the Australian Government and has been released into the Australian community. How exactly did he and his legal team pull this off?

Going deep on the law and procedures of visas and migration, immigration law professional Anka Sahin sat down with Discernable to lay out exactly what unfolded, from the airport detention, to the court case.

We also discussed the political machinations behind the scenes and how the Australian Government postures endlessly, finally ending our discussion on the plight of many people stuck inside the Australian migration system, often for years at a time.