Macca and Nevena talk to Ged Kearney, MP Cooper, Asst Min for Prevention of Family Violence & Asst Min Social Services; about the year that was, new legislation on family, domestic & sexual violence in LGBTQIA+ relationships protections.

Macca and Nevena are also joined in the studio, well rather ambushed by Josh Burns, Georgie Purcell and Peter Khalil to announce the delivery of $250,000 from the Federal Australian Government to fund Joy Media.

Special delivery of the cheque is from 6:57 minute mark.

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Nevena and Macca are joined live on the phone by Peter Kurti, Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program and is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Law and Business at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

He has written extensively about issues of religion, liberty, culture and civil society in Australia, and appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio.

In addition to having written many newspaper articles, he is also the author or editor of a number of books, including The Tyranny of Tolerance: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia; Euthanasia: Seven Questions about Voluntary Assisted Dying; Sacred & Profane: Faith and Belief in a Secular Society; and Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.

In his most recent paper, Kurti, argues that, “that Australia’s democratic institutions must learn to manage, rather than resolve, deep moral disagreement. Building on the pluralist tradition of Isaiah Berlin, John Gray and Bernard Williams, this report contends that conflict between legitimate but incompatible values is a permanent feature of free societies. It warns against the illusion that political consensus can be achieved through neutrality, proceduralism or abstract ideals alone”.

“Liberal democracies must instead draw defensible lines — imperfect, contested, but necessary — that allow diverse groups to live together under common rules”.

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/drawing-the-line-moral-conflict-and-the-fragility-of-liberal-tolerance/

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Macca are Nevena are joined live in the studio by Ruchit Kulkarni, University of Melb; Climate Expert, as they discuss; what exactly is driving the heatwave across Australia ?Are these kinds of heatwaves becoming more common, and why? Is Australia heading toward a bad bushfire season this summer? How does La Niña this year is going to play the role in shaping Australia summer and bushfire season?

Ruchit Kulkarni graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Master’s degree in Atmospheric Science. His expertise lies in analysing the causes of extreme rainfall on a daily timescale across western New South Wales. Using historical records and modern datasets, he works to understand how our climate is changing and what that means for future risks. Ruchit is passionate about science communication and regularly engages with students and community audiences to discuss weather, climate, and natural hazards

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