Month: August 2022

Box Hill is the Chinese capital of Melbourne, much like Hurstville in Sydney. Traditionally a Liberal seat (1955-1982 and 1992-2018), it is tipped to return to the Liberals in the Nov 2022 election with Malaysian candidate Nicole Werner.

Daughter of working class migrants from Malaysia in 1987, Nicole is a lifelong local of Box Hill whose career has been managing charities in the not-for-profit sector (foodbanks).

We discussed:

• A working class migrant family arrives in Box Hill
• Point Cook Rd and why Labor won’t double it
• How SW-Sydney suburbs were treated differently during lockdown
• The ‘super station’ being built in Box Hill
• Mont Albert residents denied access to the secret Union Station plans
• Why media won’t accept a young, Asian female running for the Liberal Party
• Affirmative action and racism in Australia
• Is Daniel Andrews popular on the street?
• Monte Carlo Pizza in Noble Park
• Foodbanks overwhelmed in 2020
• How would the Liberals have done any better?
• Vulnerable Victorians should leave the state
• Media blackouts
• Equality of opportunity, outcome and effort
• Motivations to work for the community
• Where do values comes from?
• The foundation of faith
• Compromising values for the political party
• Friends outside of politics
• What Millennials are talking about
• Minority groups over represented in media
• The personality of Nicole Werner
• Great food in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs
• Crossfit and F45
• Participating in school sport

NICOLE WERNER
https://www.nicolewerner.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/NicoleWernerBoxHill

Robert Barwick is the Research Director of the Australian Citizens Party and has been revealing the influence of big banks at the core of our politics for decades.

In this interview we explored:

• How lobbyists control the direction of Australia’s politics
• How Australia’s cash ban was defeated
• Australia’s ‘bail in laws’ that steal the savings of Australians
• The immorality of Uber
• The kind of protest that works
• Banks have a goal of eliminating cash
• Australia won’t survive without cash
• The true extent of bank branch closures in Australia
• How ‘bail in’ laws work by shifting accountability from the banks to the customers
• Glass-Steagall laws and Obama’s fake regulation after the GFC
• The corporate assassination of AusPost’s CEO Christine Holgate
• The dysfunction of Australia Post
• The machinery of political parties
• Decentralised finance and cryptocurrency
• Are Australian house prices a giant bubble?
• How to keep banks accountable and fix the property market
• Choose your medicine: crash, hyperinflation or depression
• Are ‘renters’ still ‘losers’?

ROBERT BARWICK
https://twitter.com/RobbieBarwick
https://www.youtube.com/c/CitizensPartyAU

Norman Fenton is a professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary University of London and director of Agena – a company focused on uncertainty quantification, probabilistic models and smart data.

He has spoken out loudly and often against ‘statistical illusions’ that, though convincing, are in complete mathematical error.

The professor believes these statistical illusions have been used by governments to falsely justify many policies, and that even his fellow statisticians who see the error are too afraid to speak out.

Professor Fenton test the voracity of mortality statistics, vaccination statistics, infection/case statistics et al and in this interview he gives both the theory and calculations behind his claims that the world has been conned by bad statistical analysis.

PROFESSOR NORMAN FENTON
https://www.normanfenton.com
https://twitter.com/profnfenton

How Wikipedia Defames
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/how-wikipedia-defames-and-delegitimizes-anybody-raising-concerns-against-the-who-narrative-on-covid

FOI response re covid deaths:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021

Prof. Fenton’s article on the BBC documentary “Unvaccinated”
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/a-critique-of-the-bbc2-documentary-unvaccinated

The survey carried out for the BBC for the above programme
https://www.icmunlimited.com/our-work/exploring-attitudes-towards-covid-19-vaccinations-for-stv

Modelling and results for the Bangladeshi mask study
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/the-bangladesh-mask-study-provides-no-evidence-that-masks-reduce-covid-19-infection
The full paper is here: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26189.92649

Professor Mattias Desmet is the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism – a book that describes a world in the grips of ‘mass formation’.
Under the correct conditions, the professor believes that a specific type of group formation can emerge, and has emerged in 2020. He cites historical examples where masses formed such as ‘concentration camps to deal with the Jews, crusades to deal with the Muslims and witch-hunts to deal with the witches’ but makes the distinction that in a technocratic era it ushers in totalitarianism.

Professor Desmet notes that totalitarianism, understood as a ‘diabolical pact between the elite and the masses’, is not the same as dictatorships where power is exercised in one direction. Totalitarianism always starts with an ‘obsession and illusionary idea that a new society should be created according to a certain pseudo-scientific theory. It will create a new technologically, scientifically based paradise’.

We covered:

• What is the difference between dictatorships and totalitarianism?
• Is Trump Derangement Syndrome, or Trump is Our Saviour sentiment, related to totalitarianism?
• Will there be future mass formations?
• Is the climate change movement a mass formation?
• A new, technocratic totalitarianism
• Real problems with climate
• Criticisms of mass formation theory
• Rational, mechanist materialism that creates a new ‘elite’
• The result of violent revolution
• Klaus Schwab, the W.E.F. and the W.H.O
• Destroying the elite will not work
• Proof that the madness exists
• It is never safer to remain silent
• Where should ethics come from?
• The problem of religions and dogmas
• How mass formations end
• Non-conformists will bring the solution
• The greatest risk of all: silence and violence
• How to survive the next mass formation
• Who influences Mattias Desmet?
• Mattias’ message to Australia

MATTIAS DESMET
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001743835
https://bookshop.org/books/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/9781645021728
https://p-nt-www-amazon-com-kalias.amazon.com/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet/dp/1645021726
https://wordery.com/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism-mattias-desmet-9781645021728

Amar Singh is the founder of Turbans 4 Australia and a practising Sikh. Growing up in the same area as Matt (Campbelltown, NSW) he sat down with Discernable to discuss what it was like growing up in South West Sydney and his embrace of Sikhism and everything it represents.

TURBANS 4 AUSTRALIA
https://www.t4a.org.au

Professor Joseph Camilleri is one of Australia’s leading International Relations scholars, publishing over 15 books and contributing hundreds of chapters and refereed articles in academic journals.

He joined Discernable to explain where Australia sits in the world, and whether Australians perceive their place in the world.

We explored:

• Whether and how China would invade Australia
• Why China wants Taiwan back (and what will happen)
• Why Australians are unaware of international politics
• The influence of UK and USA anglo-centric culture
• The failure of the Academy to educate Australians
• The failure of Australian politics
• The Doomsday Clock
• The spectre of nuclear war
• Human rights in lockdowns
• Balancing the rights of the individual against the rights of the collective
• Chinese society as a cultural role model
• The values of competing societies

PROF JOSEPH CAMILLERI
https://www.josephcamilleri.org

Ryan Smith MP was the Minister for Environment and Climate Change and Minister for Youth Affairs in Victoria between 2010 and 2014. He remains a sitting member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Shadow Minister for Finance, Planning & Heritage and Suburban Recovery. He will be contesting to retain the seat of Warrandyte in the November 2022 election.

He joined Discernable to face the popular accusation that the Liberal Party ‘doesn’t stand for anything’. With no time limits and no topic limits, we asked Ryan about:

• Climate change policy
• Failures of Liberal leader Matthew Guy MP
• The Coate Inquiry into Hotel Quarantine
• The health and hospital crisis in Victoria
• The Operation Watts report into corruption inside the Labor Party
• High-taxing and high-wasting
• Election swings when people get sick of arrogant, corrupt governments
• Balancing the competing demands of Victorians
• Left wing party hypocrisy
• How the Liberals would have handled lockdowns
• The obvious weakness of Daniel Andrews
• The secret of long term Liberal governments
• The future quality of politicians
• Government contracts for small businesses
• Speed camera revenue raising in Victoria
• The stacked bureaucracy in Victoria
• The biggest weakness of Daniel Andrews: ridicule

RYAN SMITH MP
https://www.ryansmith.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/RyanSmithMP
https://www.instagram.com/RyanSmithMP