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Think Again

Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet

Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.

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357 episodes

  1. Buses for the west campaign and doing grassroots democracy
  2. Reflections on the state of our democracy in responses to the attack on Independent Helen Haines
  3. Creating democracy from the bottom up for a better and sustainable world
  4. The urgent need for true democracy of and by the people
  5. Solving the Australian housing crisis is complex but feasible: A conversation with Matt Lloyd-Cape
  6. Why aren't we regulating AI properly? The role of corporate power and negligent government
  7. Reflections on Zionism, Christian Zionism, and the self-serving delusions of people in Israel
  8. Is fascist politics on the rise world-wide? unpicking Germany's lurch to the (far?) right
  9. Why AUKUS is the stupidest policy that Australia has ever enacted, and what we can do
  10. Stopping Australian support for illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide: Four 'Red Lines' bills
  11. Housing and homelessness: Thinking outside the policy box
  12. Unpicking the new gambling legislation and the vested interests making sure it doesn't work
  13. We need to resist the move towards authoritarianism before it's too late
  14. AI: stealing human knowledge for private profit, and its effects on inequality and human learning
  15. An insider look at how companies and governments came to offload their admin work onto us
  16. Campaign to create a natural regional park in the face of ad hoc housing developments
  17. Trump and the dangerous imaginings and influence of the New Apostolic Reformation movement
  18. Automated decision-making affecting people's lives in the new NDIS Bill and across government departments
  19. Sudan's civil war and the fallout for refugees as told by Aziza Hussein
  20. People's declining faith in democracy, while the wealthy cry into their milk about tax changes
  21. Kelvin Thomson talks about his life-long engagement with nature and current community projects
  22. Radiothon retrospective: Revisiting some Think Again themes
  23. Lurch to One Nation, collapse of the two-party system, and confusions of the current Australian political-economy
  24. Threading together some of the key factors behind Israel's genocidal war
  25. Report on serious anti-Palestinian racism in our institutions and communities
  26. Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism! Strategies of the Zionist lobby to suppress pro-Palestine solidarity
  27. Australia's new hate speech laws and serious threats to protest, dissent and free speech
  28. A worker's movement within the Catholic church: Three personal stories from across the world
  29. Superintelligent AI: Why we need to shut it down NOW before it's too late
  30. Developing good teaching practice from the ground up (without ill-informed command-and-control from our polis)
  31. Democracy in Australia and what does Labor stand for?
  32. How policy is getting in the way of schools and teachers doing good education
  33. Israel, US and Iran (still) and imagining a better system for everyone in 2050
  34. Chaos and devastation unleashed by Israel and the US in their latest illegal war
  35. Going undercover at the reactionary Right’s Advance conference: What can we learn from it?
  36. Stop children being arrested, charged, hauled before courts and imprisoned as adults! Join the campaign
  37. 'Love letters to nature' and other ACF campaigns fighting for our natural world
  38. Imagining better and more democratic ways of organising ourselves: It's necessary for change
  39. Are we really in a democracy right now...? We have some doubts...
  40. Footscray Community Response: A community evaluation of the Footscray CBD Security Patrol Program
  41. Learning from Aboriginal and West Papuan communities: Robert Hoskin reflects
  42. We're in the middle of three cataclysms: ecology, community violence and world politics
  43. Loss of bodily and situational awareness while immersed in our mobiles: What are the implications?
  44. In the shadow of Trump's Gaza 'Peace' Plan: Palestinians are driven from the West Bank
  45. Runaway racial profiling by Victoria Police revealed in the data
  46. Revelations about Australia's foreign policy: What is really happening and why, as told by Prof. Clinton Fernandes
  47. Why we need to stop the Victorian Government from introducing adult jail sentences for children
  48. Ending violence against women and children: Interview with Phillip Ripper from No To Violence
  49. AI cannot and should not usurp and replace human creativity and interaction
  50. Voices under fire: Stories from Gaza