News Weakly Podcast
1) 162 - "The Wall at Werethere"
NEWS WEAKLY 162 – 5th June, 2025This week on News Weakly, an editorial edition that's more of a dramatic reading of a short story I've written. It's about how a utopia slides into dystopia with the be...Show More
2) NEWS WEAKLY 199 – Can You Feel the Cohesion?
Social Cohesion, News Now…NEWS WEAKLY 199 – 07 Feb 2026This week on News Weakly:Australia discovers its newest national value, which mostly means everyone should stop talking while the government...Show More
3) News Weakly 198: Minister for Islam
NEWS WEAKLY 198 – 31st January 2026This week on News Weakly:• Scott Morrison resurfaces to reform Islam, Western civilisation, and reality itself, proposing authoritarian religious controls while insi...Show More
4) News Weakly 197: Strong Laws, Weak Thinking
NEWS WEAKLY 197 – 24th January 2026This week on News Weakly:• George R. R. Martin gives an interview that finally, definitively kills The Winds of Winter and with it the last surviving ...Show More
5) News Weakly 196: Not Talking 'Bout the Revolution
NEWS WEAKLY 196 – 17th January 2026Top Stories of the WeekRunning From IranA nationwide internet blackout, mass killings, exile fantasies, and the danger of confusing silence for stability.Albo Hates ...Show More
6) Quick Announcement about my new documentary!
Just a quick announcement that the next episode of News Weakly will contain a bonus audio documentary about News Satire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
7) News Weakly 195 - The Empire Forgets to Whisper
NEWS WEAKLY 195 – 10 January 2026This week on News Weakly, the empire stops pretending, the internet gets unplugged, a royal commission settles in for the long haul, and a writers’ festival demon...Show More
8) News Weakly 194 - Ahmed Al Ahmed teaches Journalism 101
NEWS WEAKLY 194 – Media Ethics, Paper Wars, and a Currency in Freefall03 January 2026TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK• A terror hero meets Australian media ethics• Humanitarian aid fails an ideological complia...Show More
9) News Weakly 193 - Overwrought Analogy For Curbs On Free Speech
NEWS WEAKLY 193 - 24th Dec, 2025Temporary Democracy, Permanent ConsequencesThis week on News Weakly, grief turns into legislation at speed, history offers an inconvenient warning, and Australia t...Show More
10) News Weakly 192 - Politics Before Pain
NEWS WEAKLY – 20 Dec, 2025TOP STORIES OF THE WEEKA national tragedy becomes a political talking pointAlso, why the antisemitism plan didn’t come with a time machineAll that, and more, on News Wea...Show More