The Two Jacks - Episode 160 - Smokes, Swings and Scandals: Polls, Panic and a Very Messy Week

About this episode

The episode discusses political polling, party dynamics, and various cultural issues in Australia and beyond.

Friends! Romans! Cuntrymen! It is indeed that time again for another serving of AI slop to vaguely describe the TWO JACKS PODCAST! This has been generated by Kimi K2.6 which is an AI model I've never heard of. It's offered with Perplexity Pro which I got for free for some reason. What a golden age of tokens we live in. Can't wait till they actually try to recoup costs on this shit. Enjoy! Jack the Insider and Hong Kong Jack unpack a striking set of political and cultural fault lines, led by One Nation’s polling surge and what it says about protest voting, party decay and Australia’s increasingly fragmented political mood. They also take aim at Labor’s failure to tell a convincing economic story, debate whether Victorian Labor can survive the year, and argue that Australia’s tobacco excise regime has become a textbook public policy disaster. Further on, the conversation ranges across Europe’s latest move against Russians linked to the war, the resilience and ingenuity of Ukraine, British politics around Andy Burnham and Reform, and a lively sport finish featuring the Luke Sayers/AFL mess, Fremantle’s flag credentials, and England cricket’s latest self-inflicted drama. Timeline…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jack the Insider, Joel Hill

Guest: Hong Kong Jack

Topics covered

• politics
• polling
• protest voting
• public policy
• cultural fault lines
• sports

Keywords

• polling surge
• protest voting
• economic story
• tobacco excise
• political mood
• sport drama

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: One Nation, Victorian Labor, Australia, Fremantle, England cricket

Places: Europe

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