{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67c7911ffc5f88b98d0c14f9/6ace3a5a5f788808a734a06e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep 78 - To Redefine Depravity","description":"<p>BRUTALISING THE WORLD ON A LIVESTREAM</p><p>The Trump administration wants to livestream the firing squad execution of a radicalised US soldier according to a gleeful US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth - triggering global disgust. The broadcast risks traumatising and brutalising countless people around the world in order to satisfy the Trump administrations lust for vengeance as a public spectacle.</p><p>We contrast Hegseth&#39;s relish for unleashing “murder porn” on the public with the historic practice of asking journalists to witness and report on closed executions - the last time this happened in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan.</p><p>[from 4:00]</p><p><br></p><p>We put the spotlight on the racist language (“Take Back Australia!”) woven through the Liberal National plan to slash the immigration intake - backed in by the blatant racism in One Nation’s campaign ad depicting African men as machete carriers and Middle Eastern men as suicide bombers.</p><p>[from 19:00]</p><p><br></p><p>And we are reminded that there are fine and wonderful people who have warmed our souls and enriched our lives as we farewell gentleman ABC newsreader Richard Morecroft who has died too young.</p><p>[from 39:30]</p>","author_name":"Nicole Chvastek, Denis Muller"}