{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68dca13f597bc7d53fc34327/6a0c58353aa9b90ba2510bff?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Party Line on Labor’s \"Communist\" Budget","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68dca13f597bc7d53fc34327/1779193846486-c84d6dc0-98d7-486d-a13d-19c1ef6ff3bc.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Episode 46 - The Party Line on Labor’s <s>Communist</s> Budget</p><p><br></p><p>This week’s ep is all about the state of Australian political life post-budget. We take look at Labor’s BIG NEW DEATH TAX ON AUSSIE BATTLERS and why they’re out to DESTROY our start-up culture, including #inspiring companies/merchants of death like ‘Drone Shield’. More importantly, we look at what the budget does not address - crumbling healthcare system, woefully inadequate welfare payments, soaring university costs, or anything else we desperately need. We also take a look at Angus Taylor’s budget response, and his decision to denounce migrants as dole bludgers and unaustralian racists. Plus, a look at how the country liberal party in the NT is weaponising the tragic murder of Kumanjayi Little Baby to further steal and imprison Indigenous children.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Readings:&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/northern-territory-child-protection-reforms-first-nations-indigenous-children-in-care-ntwnfb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crisis of First Nations children in care will worsen under NT child protection reforms, advocates warn | Indigenous Australians</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/19/nt-northern-territory-laws-hold-young-people-48-hours-aboriginal-indigenous-children-prisons-ntwnfb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NT laws to allow police to hold young people for 48 hours will be ‘funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons’, advocates warn | Indigenous Australians</a></p><p><a href=\"https://redflag.org.au/article/so-much-budget-bluster/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">So much budget bluster</a>&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/15/angus-taylor-opposition-plan-cut-benefits-ndis-non-citizens-visa-holders-dog-whistling-marginalising-immigrants\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">‘We are not in Trump’s America’: migrant groups say Angus Taylor in race to bottom with far right</a></p><p><br></p><p>Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.</p><p><br></p><p>While we will always release our content for free, please support us on <a href=\"http://www.patreon.com/cw/ThePartyLine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">patreon</a> if you can.</p><p><br></p><p>*****************</p><p><br></p><p>This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.</p><p><br></p><p>If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at <a href=\"http://patreon.com/thepartyline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">patreon.com/thepartyline</a>.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at <a href=\"http://socialists.org.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">socialists.org.au</a>. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.</p><p><br></p><p>(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.</p>","author_name":"Victorian Socialists"}