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Episode 61 - The Party Line on Labor’s Gambling Addiction


This week’s ep is all about the gambling industry - and the ALP’s refusal to cut it down to size. We start by looking at the sheer scale of money involved, tens of billions of dollars annually. This money is overwhelmingly taken from poor and working class people, and handed over to betting companies and their wealthy shareholders. We then explore the history of pokie machines in Australia and their close relationship with the ALP and the big sporting codes like the AFL/NRL.


We also discuss the Logies and the surprising left wing stance of Robert Irwin, Andrew Bragg’s argument that the poor should accept crap housing and the rebellions taking place by students (against Hanson), and students (against the government).


Thanks for listening, remember to like and share and HYPE!


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Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our new (MIFF Talent of Tomorrow Award-winning) producer Jak Scanlon who should be working for Hollywood.


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) or Labor apologism (@friendlyjordies). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current eventTs 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.


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 patreon.com/thepartyline.


If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.


(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.)


This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism.



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