Everything You Wanted to Know About Australian Politics (w/ ActuallyAdu)

ActuallyAdu (@adu__) is a video essayist and political commentator. He has a background in economics and makes videos about Australian and global politics. In this episode, we discuss the housing crisis, how bad the Australian economy is compared to the rest of the world, neoliberalism and its discontents, decommodifying housing, energy policy, migration, identity, preferential voting and building alternate systems. You can find more of Adu's work at https://www.youtube.com/@adu__ and https://www.instagram.com/actuallyadu/ RSam Podcast #74 --------------------------------------- Please consider financially supporting my work (ONLY if you have the means). Patreon: https://patreon.com/trsam?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com PayPal: https://paypal.me/rsampod?country.x=AU&locale.x=en_AU --------------------------------------- {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le SFP: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://substack.com/@trsam/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://x.com/trsam97 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://youtu.be/LZLwKwWOW88?si=xUE95QtYt9lY30Vq https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/05/morrison-government-spent-208bn-on-consultants-and-outsourcing-public-service-in-final-year-audit-finds https://www.innovationaus.com/australias-economic-complexity-ranking-worsens-again/ {Music Used} "Supapao - Can't Fall In Love" is under a Free To Use YouTube license https://soundcloud.com/supapao Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/VZkFJAb_gx4?si=J6AwKLAmikAzoqHj Chill Lofi Hiphop - 'Breath' by l33 is under a Free To Use YouTube license SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/nocopyrightlofi/no-copyright-chill-lofi-hiphop-breath-by-l33 --------------------------------------- If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ --------------------------------------- Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at trahulsam@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.