Sep 2, 2026 · 34 min · 12 segments
A dramatic political shift in Western Australia has put the major parties on notice and raised a much bigger question: what happens to Australia's national resilience when voters stop trusting the…
Marcus ThompsonHostIt's certainly underway and in the works, and we'll be concentrating on that over the period ahead of us because, Marcus, I think The dialogue and discussion that we had with this podcast when it was nascent was largely built around cyber and the utility of cyber for both positive and negative effects and the nefarious use of cyber compromising Australian businesses, the Australian establishment.
It's ranged from anti-Semitism discussion and debate here in Australia through to numerous wars in the Middle East, whether it's the conflict in Gaza and or Iran, all the way out through to the ongoing consequence of the war in Ukraine.
I've never seen, in as long as I've been in Australia, so much conflict right across the spectrum.
And I mean, this surge in the support behind One Nation, I mean, it's fascinating.
I mean, who would have seen this coming, Phil? You know, that there's clearly some deep dissatisfaction with the major parties, including the government.
Of course, there was the by-election in Susan Lay's former seat, which was won by one nation as well at a federal level.
But I mean, if this all remains sort of uniform as folk who election commentators talk about, I mean, who knows what might happen at the next sort of federal election.
And what has always been seen as a Labor safe seat has never, ever been in the hands of anyone else.
And now the rhetoric is around coming out of One Nation is that there is no safe seats anywhere anymore in Australia.
And particularly, I think there's a lot of people making reference to this seat and sort of analogs that you have in other parts of Australia.
It's certainly underway and in the works, and we'll be concentrating on that over the period ahead of us because, Marcus, I think The dialogue and discussion that we had with this podcast when it was nascent was largely built around cyber and the utility of cyber for both positive and negative effects and the nefarious use of cyber compromising Australian businesses, the Australian establishment.
It's ranged from anti-Semitism discussion and debate here in Australia through to numerous wars in the Middle East, whether it's the conflict in Gaza and or Iran, all the way out through to the ongoing consequence of the war in Ukraine.
I've never seen, in as long as I've been in Australia, so much conflict right across the spectrum.
And I mean, this surge in the support behind One Nation, I mean, it's fascinating.
I mean, who would have seen this coming, Phil? You know, that there's clearly some deep dissatisfaction with the major parties, including the government.
Of course, there was the by-election in Susan Lay's former seat, which was won by one nation as well at a federal level.
But I mean, if this all remains sort of uniform as folk who election commentators talk about, I mean, who knows what might happen at the next sort of federal election.
And what has always been seen as a Labor safe seat has never, ever been in the hands of anyone else.
And now the rhetoric is around coming out of One Nation is that there is no safe seats anywhere anymore in Australia.
And particularly, I think there's a lot of people making reference to this seat and sort of analogs that you have in other parts of Australia.
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