Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens with a timely warning for anyone posting Christmas presents overseas: don't leave it past the first of December. He takes aim at the Prime Minister's chosen legacy of rewiring the nation, saying the transmission towers and wires criss-crossing the country will be remembered with every electricity bill, and slams a proposed levy on power bills to fund electric vehicle charging stations, which he dubs the recharge surcharge. If you choose an EV, he says, the cost of charging should be yours.

He questions the digital duty of care legislation and why it does not extend to gambling advertising, then turns to the Greens' plan, led by Max Chandler-Mather, for the government to take over 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets and run cut-price stores. Jeremy recalls Bob Hawke-era ventures such as Bourke's department store and the ACTU's Solo service stations, and points out supermarket profit margins of around one per cent. He also calls for an end to the $200 million spent by the state government on advertising in four years.

Jeremy remembers Lord Jeffrey Archer, a frequent guest from his radio days, looks at David Jones' $95.5 million loss as Country Road, Witchery and Mimco pull out of 100 shopfronts, questions the High Court's coal decision, and says South Australia's 100 per cent renewables target has quietly become 75 per cent. Plus 53,000 complaints about phone reception, Finland's search for a professional smeller, and this day in history, from Mata Hari, Napoleon's exile and the invention of shredded wheat to Penny Marshall, Cole Porter and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

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Emeritus Professor Carolyn Strange from the ANU History Department joins Jeremy Cordeaux to discuss the planned live stream of a US military firing-squad execution, which has now been called off while the execution itself is set to proceed.

She explains how the power to take a life has always been tied to rulers, from Roman emperors to modern presidents, why the live stream plan echoes 19th century arguments that moved executions behind prison walls, what really happens with firing squad rounds, and why 200 US exonerations since 1976 matter in any debate about appeals and death row.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 October 2026.

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Former commercial lawyer and freelance journalist Joseph Friedman joins Jeremy Cordeaux on this week's Court of Public Opinion to talk about About Time, the monthly newspaper he founded for people in Australian prisons, inspired by the UK's Inside Time.

He explains how the paper won over eight separate corrections authorities, why criminal and personal injury lawyers are its biggest advertisers, what prisoners write about, and why he believes rehabilitation, not punishment inside, should be the priority. Jeremy also shares a memorable call he once took from a prison exercise yard, and the table swaps stories of creativity behind bars.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 2 October 2026.

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Demographer and social researcher Mark McCrindle of McCrindle Research joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM to unpack two major new reports, Treasury's Intergenerational Report and the HILDA survey. He explains what a population heading for almost 40 million in the 2060s means for housing, health, aged care and the tax base.

Mark also tackles adult children living at home, overqualified graduates, a falling birth rate and why most Australian couples rate their relationship as better than average. Plus a caller with memories of post-war migrant housing and the two words the table reckons guarantee a happy marriage.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 25 September 2026.

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Dr John Bruni of SAGE International joins Jeremy Cordeaux AM around the dining room table for his regular look at the world stage. He discusses reported US aircraft losses in the Middle East, diesel prices and the Red Sea, why cheap drones are rewriting modern warfare, and how US manpower compares with China's.

John also explains SAGE International's idea of 'threshold conditioning', the Russian grey zone campaign he says is spreading across Europe, why he believes China will not invade Taiwan, and why he is sceptical about Elon Musk's plan to put data centres in orbit. Plus a cloned John Laws voice that has the whole table talking about trust in the age of AI.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 October 2026.

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The complete live stream of The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM, from around the dining room table on Friday 9 October 2026. Dr John Bruni on the 81 lost US warplanes and Russia's shadow war on Europe, Professor David Flint on Pauline Hanson's Swiss style reforms, mediator Jody Fitzgerald on Parliament's knives and feuding neighbours, Geoffrey Watson SC on the High Court and grey corruption, and John Ovenden with tech whiz Melanie Lewis on beating the scammers.

In this show
0:00:00 Jeremy Cordeaux opens the show
0:25:46 Dr John Bruni: The 81 Lost US Warplanes and Russia's Shadow War on Europe
1:01:40 Professor David Flint: Only Pauline Hanson's Swiss-Style Reforms Can Save Australia
1:35:03 Mediator Jody Fitzgerald on Parliament's Knives, Feuding Neighbours and the $100 Goat
2:07:14 Geoffrey Watson SC Fires Back at the High Court Critics and Exposes Grey Corruption
2:36:06 Don't Hit Unsubscribe! John Ovenden and Tech Whiz Melanie Lewis on Beating the Scammers

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This show aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 9 October 2026.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, opening with Australia's porridge cannoli taking best speciality dish at Scotland's Golden Spurtle, before asking why a "mid-year" budget review lands in December and whether it will carry any cost of living relief. With the football grand finals over, he argues the media has the sports rights business backwards: broadcasters pay billions to the codes when it is their coverage that fills the grandstands and attracts the sponsors. He recalls doing exactly that at 5DN, when the SANFL wanted $50,000 for the season and he offered to pay it, then charge the same for the coverage and promotion; both sides ended up doing it for nothing.

He salutes the people who went to court to try to save the trees in the Adelaide parklands, questions the call for a Royal Commission into AI at around $100 million when he says the technology exists to replace jobs, and welcomes the Liberals' immigration policy for putting Australia's needs first, returning to the almost one million people on unemployment support. He also touches on the failed execution in Tennessee, the climate talks in Fiji, and hazing at universities and in the military, which he says has to stop. Plus this day in history from the microwave oven, Paul Hogan and John Lennon's Imagine to Sergeant York and Sir John Monash.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on a scandal close to home: "corridor care" in South Australia, where patients are being treated, and dying, in the hallways of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the most expensive hospital building in the world. The same system, he notes, is now building a new Women's and Children's Hospital at $3 billion, and he asks where the media and the opposition are, and why the old hospital is being turned into apartments rather than kept to ease the load.

He relays ASIO chief Mike Burgess's blunt warning not to talk in your Chinese-made car, and extends it to phones, smart speakers and the Chinese electronics inside nearly every vehicle, citing a Four Corners demonstration of a car being remotely hacked. He rounds on Tony Burke's suggestion that homeowners take in a lodger, noting Burke owns six houses, and warns of a possible spare-room tax, skewers Jim Chalmers for mocking early super access while doing it for his own staff, and welcomes the scrapping of the veterans' medical-expenses cap as a template for reinstating the over-65s health rebate before 1.2 million people drop their cover. Plus Transport Minister Catherine King's lifetime Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership, the $7 billion home-battery scheme he likens to the pink batts scandal, the Alan Jones trial's anonymous accusers, and this day in history from Howard Florey and Jim Henson to The Muppets and the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

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