1.07 - Inescapable - The New Constables

1.07 - Inescapable - The New Constables

From Inescapable by Benjamin Grundy & Aaron Wright

March 27, 2026 · 1h 18m · Season 1 · Episode 7

About this episode

The episode discusses Australia's fuel crisis, immigration issues, and cultural critiques, featuring a conversation with Jayant Bhandari.

Australia's fuel crisis is accelerating and the cracks are starting to show. Service stations are running dry, truckers are stranded, bin collections are being cut, and a government is scrambling to catch up with a second emergency cabinet meeting. We track how bad it has actually gotten on the ground, why the same scenes are playing out from Chile to Thailand, and why some financial analysts are bracing for a global depression. From there we get into remigration, the increasingly mainstream argument that mass immigration and national identity are on a collision course, and spend time with the framework of Jayant Bhandari, an Indian migrant who pulls no punches in critiquing his own culture and questioning whether it can ever truly assimilate into Western society. It is a confronting conversation that cuts across resource strain, demographic change, and what holds a civilization together. In the Plus+ extension, we turn to Australia's culture war battlegrounds: Indigenous recognition, the Welcome to Country industry, historical narratives, and the media's role in shaping all of it. Competing versions of the country's past and future are being constructed in real time, and we dig…

People in this episode

Hosts: Benjamin Grundy, Aaron Wright

Guest: Jayant Bhandari

Topics covered

  • fuel crisis
  • immigration
  • national identity
  • cultural critique
  • Australia's culture wars
  • historical narratives

Keywords

  • fuel crisis
  • immigration
  • national identity
  • cultural critique
  • Australia
  • global depression
  • remigration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ABC News, Sky News Australia

Places: Australia, Chile, Thailand

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