Interview

Dr Debbie Garratt is an author, counsellor to physicians, clinical supervisor and registered nurse. As the counsellor to GPs and other medical practitioners, Debbie is witnessing first hand the unnecessary destruction to our healthcare systems in Australia by governments on the warpath to ‘keep us safe’.

Corrine joins Matt to teach us what cosplay is all about and why everyone needs to ‘find their inner hero’, no matter their age.

Dr Cameron Murray returns to Discernable to talk virtue signaling and group psychology. As an economist specialising in human behaviour, corruption and property, he conducts research and experiments on the ‘groupish’ behaviour of humans and how those groups are formed, maintained, and dismantled.

A key ingredient of any human ‘group’, ‘tribe’ or ‘crowd’ is the signals they employ and spread to new converts. Group ‘signaling’ explains much of the pandemic reaction we witness today in both government and populations, especially as both health experts and governments openly admit that science is not the determining factor of their policies. The latest admission from NSW and VIC figures is that the performance art of QR code check-ins helps to soothe the anxious in our community, so even though they are now ‘useless’, we should continue the theatre anyway.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/27/qr-code-check-ins-useless-in-australias-omicron-wave-but-experts-urge-for-them-to-stay

‘Groups’ form around these sort of signaling behaviours precisely because groups use signals, and signals create groups. Just like Victoria’s ‘creeping assumption’ that killed ~800 people in 2020, the current circular feedback loop is a fertile nursery for the many ‘sides’ you see society divided into today.

So then what are we to do in this groupish world? Matt discusses with Cameron the best ways to see, to form, and to dismantle groups in the name of classical science, academia, logic and reason.

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.

Gigi Foster is a Professor and Director of Education at The School of Economics at UNSW Business School. She holds qualifications in ethics, politics and economics, and has been speaking out against the ‘Covid Panic’ from the very beginning of the pandemic.

Professor Foster was one of the first to publish a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns, and quickly came to the conclusion that governments around the world are causing net harm on the lives of their citizens, both from a quality of life perspective and a biological survival perspective.

This discussion is our Christmas present to all who care to receive it – a discussion full of rationality and sense-making, ending with broader perspectives and predictions on what 2022 will look like.

Samuel Eddy is a workplace stress consultant and joined us in interview to talk about what every human on the planet needs right now: more self-awareness of our stress and anxiety response, and the tools to manage it.

Professor Nikolai Petrovsky invented SPIKOGEN (formerly called Covax-19) which has now rolled out to millions of people with zero deaths, zero cases of myo/pericarditis, and zero cases of thrombosis.

Such a remarkable adverse event profile is, according to the professor, absolutely normal in traditional vaccine development but has been forgotten in a sea of adverse events around the world.

Now approved in New Zealand as a travel vaccine, the professor joined me to discuss a massive range of topics including the science behind spike proteins, C-19 variants, truth in efficacy reporting, natural immunity, viral attenuation, and the future for his vaccine SPIKOGEN.

Nikolai is the Director of Endocrinology at the Flinders Medical Centre (South Australia), Professor of Medicine at Flinders University (South Australia), Vice President of the International Immunomics Society, founder of Vaxine and creator of SPIKOGEN.