Bogan Intelligentsia

Joel Jenkins

A show focused on the intersection of class, the state of the nation, and Australian independent ideas.

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Mar 29, 2026 • 1h 21min

MUDRAT: Musical Rage Against Australia’s Cultural Wasteland

In Episode 45 of Bogan Intelligentsia, we sit down with MUDRAT — the explosive Australian artist delivering raw, confrontational, and cathartic music with a clear working-class edge and a cutting political message. The conversation explores how all art is political, the contrast between their high-energy shows and Australia’s cultural wasteland, and the band’s journey from liberal views to class consciousness. MUDRAT breaks down how class defines modern Australian society, the growing impact on youth, wealth inequality, and the meaning behind their album Social Cohesion. We discuss racism in the Australian DNA, national shame and ignorance, the links between Australian settler colonialism and Palestine, and how decades of foreign and domestic policy reflect brutality at home and abroad. Duration: ~82m | Release Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 | MUDRAT – Musician, Rebel Leader & Powerful Working-Class Voice from Australia Support the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: #MUDRAT #SocialCohesion #ClassConsciousness #AustralianHeavyMetal #WorkingClassAustralia #AustralianLeft #SettlerColonialism #MutualAid #LivedExperience #WealthInequality #CulturalWasteland #NeoliberalismCritique #SocialJusticeMusic #AustralianPolitics

Mar 25, 2026 • 45min

Mssing Context: Why Australia’s Media Failed on Palestine | Renee Davidson

In Episode 44 of Bogan Intelligentsia, we sit down with Renee Davidson — founder of the fast-growing independent platform Mssing Context — for a sharp, unflinching look at how Australian media has covered (and often distorted) the Palestine-Israel conflict. Renee launched Mssing Context in July 2025 to directly challenge misleading narratives in mainstream Australian outlets. Renee shares insights from her regular “West Bank Weekly” monitoring series and draws on her own lived experience living in the West Bank to highlight the wide gap between on-the-ground reality and how it’s reported back in Australia. We also look at some of the issues with the Australian media landscape. Podcast Details: Duration: ~44m | Release Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 | Renee Davidson – Founder of Mssing Context & Independent Media Critic on Palestine CoverageSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: Renee Davidson Mssing Context, Australian media Palestine coverage, From the River to the Sea ban Queensland, West Bank violence escalation, post-Bondi media failures, Australian protest restrictions, media silence Lebanon, West Bank Weekly reports, misleading Palestine narratives Australia, lived experience West Bank, media fact-checking failure Bondi, Queensland chant ban context #MssingContext #ReneeDavidson #AustralianMedia #PalestineCoverage #MediaBias #FromTheRiverToTheSea #WestBankViolence #WestBankWeekly #MediaFail #PostBondi #QueenslandBan #FreeSpeechAustralia #ProtestRights #LebanonSilence #MissingContext #AustralianMediaCritique #PalestineAustralia #WestBankEscalation #MediaAccountability #LivedExperience

Mar 23, 2026 • 1h 19min

Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters: Energy, Entropy & Global Shift | Dr Warwick Powell

In Episode 53 of Bogan Intelligentsia, we sit down with Dr Warwick Powell — adjunct professor, supply-chain veteran, blockchain pioneer, and author of the brand-new book Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters: Rethinking Theory, China and International Geopolitical Economy (released March 15, 2026) — for a breakdown of why energy is the real foundation of value in economies. Dr Powell lays out his groundbreaking Systemic Exchange Value (SEV) framework, showing how human economies are open metabolic systems governed by thermodynamics: they must fight constant entropy through "negentropic" moves like better energy systems, tighter supply chains, and viable information. He explains declining EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) as the hidden math driving socio-economic decay, why fictitious capital bubbles are the short-term fix that widens the gap between claims and real production, and how informational noise wastes energy and accelerates disorder. Essential viewing/listening for anyone rethinking political economy, China-West dynamics, energy security, and why old equilibrium models fail us now Podcast Details: Duration: ~78m | Release Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 | Dr Warwick Powell – Adjunct Professor, Supply-Chain Expert, Blockchain Pioneer & Author of Thermoeconomics in a Time of MonstersSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. #Thermoeconomics #TimeOfMonsters #EnergyIsValue #ChinaVsWest #DecliningEROEI #FictitiousCapital #NegentropicInterventions #USDecline #GlobalPowerShift #ChinaElectrification #WestAsiaEnergyShocks #GramsciMonsters #HeterodoxEconomics #EnergySecurity #PoliticalEconomy

Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 15min

Epstein Revelations, Cultural Normalisation & Protecting Kids Today | Grace Tame

In this episode we sit down with Grace Tame — survivor, 2021 Australian of the Year, founder of the Grace Tame Foundation, and fierce advocate against child sexual abuse — for a direct, survivor-led breakdown of the Epstein files' horrors, elite silence, cultural normalisation of evil, and intersections with global vulnerabilities like systematic child abuse. Podcast Details:Duration: ~60m | Release Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026 | Guest: Grace Tame – Survivor Advocate, Founder Grace Tame Foundation, Former Australian of the YearSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: Grace Tame Epstein files, Grace Tame Herzog protest Sydney, child abuse elite networks, survivor perspective trauma, Gaza child protection Epstein, parents grooming prevention, normalisation evil society, Australia advocacy 2026#GraceTame #EpsteinFiles #ChildAbuse #Gaza #SurvivorStories #EliteAccountability #HumanRights #Australia #GenocideNormalisation #ProtectKids

Feb 7, 2026 • 52min

“Cancel Herzog NOW!” Top UN Human Rights Lawyer’s Explosive Warning to Albanese | Chris Sidoti

In Episode 47 we sit down with Chris Sidoti — veteran Australian human rights lawyer, former Australian Human Rights Commissioner, and current member of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel — for an important examination of accountability, international law, and Australia's moral crossroads.Sidoti dissects the deeply divisive invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog — extended by Prime Minister Albanese via the Governor-General in the wake of the Bondi antisemitic attack — amid calls for its cancellation. He addresses Herzog's widely cited statements (declaring “an entire nation” responsible, “no innocent civilians in Gaza,” and fighting “human animals”) as meeting thresholds for incitement to genocide or collective punishment under international law; the moral and legal case for withdrawal; what an arrest or investigation might look like despite head-of-state immunity; Australia's record on international law and its selective reverence in the 21st century; the protective role of international norms in the absence of a domestic bill of rights; the dangers of cherry-picking enforcement; and the new Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Act 2026 — its offences for promoting racial hatred, hate-group bans, severe penalties (up to 7–15 years), visa powers, and chilling risks to free speech and criticism of Israel.With tens of thousands killed in Gaza and the West Bank — including Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and countless professionals — Sidoti confronts the message sent by hosting Herzog, the implications of associated networks (Epstein links), and concrete steps ordinary Australians can take to demand sovereignty, accountability, and alignment with human rights.Podcast Details:Duration: ~52m | Release Date: Saturday, 7 February 2026 | Guest: Chris Sidoti – International Human Rights Lawyer, Former Australian Human Rights Commissioner, UN CommissionerSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: Chris Sidoti Herzog visit Australia 2026, Isaac Herzog incitement genocide, UN Commission Palestine Israel, Albanese Herzog invitation Bondi, Australia international law selective, Combatting Antisemitism Hate Extremism Act 2026, Gaza genocide allegations, Zomi Frankcom, free speech Australia, middle power sovereignty, human rights accountability#HumanRights #InternationalLaw #HerzogVisit #Gaza #AustraliaForeignPolicy #FreeSpeech #GenocideAccountability #UNInquiry #ChrisSidoti #BondiAttack

Feb 2, 2026 • 1h 25min

Carney Says the Old Order Is Dead – Should Australia Listen? | Prof. Warwick Powell

In Episode 46 we sit down with Professor Warwick Powell – Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, expert on global political economy, China’s rise, tariffs as geopolitical tools, and Australia’s place in a fracturing world order – for a clear-eyed, incisive examination of the accelerating rupture in the international system. Powell unpacks Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s dramatic pivot: his January 2026 Beijing visit forging a new strategic partnership with China on energy, agri-food, and trade, followed by a provocative Davos speech declaring the old liberal rules-based order dead and urging middle powers like Canada and Australia to stop pretending and act together against great-power coercion and autarky. Amid Trump’s invite to his “Board of Peace,” the US 2026 National Defense Strategy downplaying China as the explicit threat, and escalating tariff weaponisation, Powell explores the sincerity of Carney’s moves, the viability of a middle-power union, US domestic instability and spillover risks, the credibility crisis for Australia’s neocon establishment, AUKUS under pressure, and whether this is the moment for a bold Australian foreign policy reset toward genuine sovereignty.Podcast Details:Duration: ~1h 24m | Release Date: Monday, 2 February 2026 | Guest: Professor Warwick Powell – Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology Support the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: Warwick Powell Carney, Mark Carney Davos 2026, middle powers rupture, Canada China partnership 2026, Trump Board of Peace Canada revoked, US National Defense Strategy 2026 China, Canadian military US invasion planning, Australia foreign policy reset, tariffs geopolitics, multipolar world, AUKUS viability, Global South China, NATO fragility, Australian neocons, sovereign outlook Australia, geopolitics 2026#BoganIntelligentsia #MiddlePowers #MarkCarney #Davos2026 #MultipolarWorld #AustraliaForeignPolicy #ChinaPivot #Trump2026 #AUKUS #Geopolitics #Sovereignty

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