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2025 Aussie election
🕑 Added 2025-05-05 07:52:59 +0000 UTCDear Patrons
Whether you're Australian or one of our international supporters, I am sure you all share a deep relief in seeing that Australia (like Canada just a few days earlier) rejected Trump-style politics. That we elected a more progressive Parliament (even if not as progressive as some may have wished!). And that Peter Dutton lost his seat, marking what is likely the death of Australia's Liberal (aka Shit) Party. It was nothing short of a historic election outcome.
There are already dozens of theories about what led to this outcome. I am sure you have some good ones of your own (and I am curious to know what they are).
But in the coming days, a single official explanation of "What Happened"™ will probably emerge as the dominant one. The "Lesson we learned"™ from this election will shape the way we approach future ones. So I encourage everyone to take their time, and read a range of views over the coming days, rather than seek "The Right One"™ today. (Especially since it will take days and possibly even weeks for some very close seats to be called).
But as I said at the start, one conclusion we can definitely draw with confidence is that in 2025 Australians told the MAGA-sphere to fuck right off. And whether you're an Aussie, Canadian or America, that's something we should all be extremely happy about.
Over the coming week or so I'll be putting together a video to mark the end of Seaons 3, featuring bloopers and behind-the-scene action from the past years; as well as some news about what to expect from the Juice Media in Season 4 of the Honest Government Ads.
We still have a long way to see genuine climate action and environment protection from this government, so that's one of the things we'll be focusing on most going forward.
But we'd also love to know: what would YOU like to see from us going forward? This is a great time to share any suggestions you might have; not necessarily limited to the Honest Government Ads; for example, what else would you like to see from the Juice Media?
I'll catch you shortly with my end of season video.
Till then, I leave you with a photo from our last HGA, in which Juno discovers the props basket and Luca tries to see if he can finally pick up Zoë, who normally is the one to pick up Luca when he runs on set during a shoot. (He still can't).
xo Giordano & team
Comments
Rebecca Officer
P.S. Truly stunning fact: the NZ govt gets about $3 million a year in royalties from mining across the whole country, and they spend, wait for it, $3.7 million a year cleaning up after just one mine. And that mine's from the company we're fighting.
Rebecca Officer
Hi Giordano, thanks for all the videos this year, as an NZer I've found you and your team's satire a bright light in the middle of a very dark year. One of the things that's made it dark has been NZ's own Shit Party and the Fast Track legislation they passed against a huge amount of opposition, which lets their mining mates rip up huge chunks of public conservation land with no right of public appeal (unbelievable, but them's the times). I'm part of a team trying to save one of these areas (Denniston Plateau) from coal mining and wondered if you'd be interested in doing an honest govt ad on this crap? We can give you a lot of info, photos and video footage. If this is something that interests you, please drop me a line. And good luck with planning Season 4 either way, I'm looking forward to it.
thejuicemedia
Hi Jay, thanks for the message and the suggestion. I love knowing some people appreciated the 3 years when we made the podcast. And I do miss doing it. It certainly does allow me to go on deep dives and explore issues in more details, than the HGAs. I'm currently working on our wrap-up video for Season 3 (it's taking me a long time coz I'm also making up for lost time on parenting duties!) and will put out a call for suggestions for what to focus on in Season 4. Thanks again for all the support for these past 7 years!
Jay Wilson
First up, my sincere thanks to you (Giordano) and your talented team for yet another year of outstanding world class vids! For next season my suggestion would be for you to consider resurrecting and sprinkling in the occasional 'We need to talk about..." YT podcasts. They seem to be the ideal vehicle for you to 'take a deeper dive' into issues that matter most... like the climate crisis. For openers I would think that a conversation with Richard Denniss from the Australia Institute on, shall we say, 'fair-go economics', would be both entertaining and help influence public opinion on everything from properly taxing methane gas exports to negative gearing reform .etc. My personal dictum is, 'once we get the money right, everything else will fall into place'. In any event, all the best for whatever you decide to do. Cheers mate!
Jorj Lowrey
The science that proves old growth forests protect themselves from fire (so we should stop interfering with them). See David Lindenmeyer’s irrefutable evidence https://www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/recording_lindenmayer_webinar. A focus on the corrupt and cruel salmon farming in Tassie (listen to Richard Flanagan’s audio book Toxic). Same as logging - plenty of greenwashing, pocket lining and tax-payer propping up. Whenever something goes and industrial, it’s goes bad.
thejuicemedia
Thanks so much Joe! Honoured to have your Boxing Club as one of our producers 🥊 🫶 (Lucy sends her love!)
Joe Walker
I thought your last how to vote video was your best work ever. Very proud to have Joe’s Boxing Club Sydney on your producers credits . great work and love to Lucy
