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It’s not often politicians are taken to task by regular Australians on the issues that fill them with rage.
But that’s exactly what happened at this week’s senate inquiry into taxing Australia’s gas companies for their windfall war profits.
Konrad Benjamin, a former high school teacher, gave evidence at the hearing – and he didn’t hold back
The self proclaimed “citizen’s lobbyist” is making headlines around the country.
Today in a special bonus episode, founder of Punter’s Politics Konrad Benjamin on why he thinks gas companies are ripping off Australia – and the government is letting them get away with it.

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Guest: Punter’s Politics founder Konrad Benjamin
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This week, accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, who is out on bail for five charges of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners in 2009 and 2012, came out swinging.
The highly decorated soldier categorically denied the allegations against him, saying he will never give up the fight. Roberts-Smith insists he’s proud of his service in Afghanistan, and of the men and women who served alongside him.
Men like Glenn Kolomeitz – a defence force lawyer deployed with Ben Roberts-Smith’s squadron in Afghanistan – whose take on the charges, the investigation and the impending trial may not be what you’d expect.
Today, war veteran and defence lawyer Glenn Kolo meitz, on how the defence community feels about Ben Roberts-Smith, and what comes next for his former squadron mate.

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Guest: Veteran and lawyer Glenn Kolomeitz
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This year a Russian documentary filmed at a school in Russia won an Academy Award.
Its hero? A Russian Primary school teacher, Pasha Talankin.
After Russia invaded Ukraine Mr Talankin found himself trapped in the job of teaching propaganda to students.
He filmed it all until he was forced to flee the country.
And what he captured offers a rare glimpse into Putin’s Russia, and the classroom propaganda program indoctrinating Russian kids.
Today, Andrei Soldatov a Russian investigative journalist, who also fled - and is living in exile in London on how the Kremlin is indoctrinating kids, Putin’s plan to re-write history .. and Russians – are they buying it?

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Guest: Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov
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It’s been dubbed by underworld kingpins as “disorganised crime”
A new wave of young, amateur gangsters is changing the scene – with brazen daylight attacks, hit jobs on rivals’ family members, and cases of alleged mistaken identity.
Of course, it’s all about money, notoriety and settling scores.
Today, Mark Morri, crime editor at the Daily Telegraph, on the evolving world of gangland violence – where contract killing can now be ordered off an encrypted app.

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Guest: Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri
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The images coming out of the US-Israeli-led war in Iran have been described as apocalyptic.
Oil depots have burned for days. Strikes have hit petrochemical facilities and the area around the Bushehr nuclear power plant. In Tehran, toxic black smoke has blanketed the city, with residents reporting black acid rain falling from the sky.
After thousands of missile and drone strikes, Iran and parts of the Gulf are facing not only a humanitarian and economic crisis, but an environmental one too.
Analysts estimate that, in the first 30 days of the war, almost 9 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions were released into the atmosphere.
Today, Dr Patrick Bigger, the interim executive director of the Climate and Community Institute, on the long-term environmental cost of this war – and why some are calling these strikes ‘ecocide’.

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Guest: Research director of the Climate and Community Project, Dr Patrick Bigger.
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