In Episode 45 of Bogan Intelligentsia, we sit down with MUDRAT — the explosive Australian artist delivering raw, confrontational, and cathartic music with a clear working-class edge and a cutting political message. The conversation explores how all art is political, the contrast between their high-energy shows and Australia’s cultural wasteland, and the band’s journey from liberal views to class consciousness. MUDRAT breaks down how class defines modern Australian society, the growing impact on youth, wealth inequality, and the meaning behind their album Social Cohesion. We discuss racism in the Australian DNA, national shame and ignorance, the links between Australian settler colonialism and Palestine, and how decades of foreign and domestic policy reflect brutality at home and abroad.

Duration: ~82m | Release Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 | MUDRAT – Musician, Rebel Leader & Powerful Working-Class Voice from Australia

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#MUDRAT #SocialCohesion #ClassConsciousness #AustralianHeavyMetal #WorkingClassAustralia #AustralianLeft #SettlerColonialism #MutualAid #LivedExperience #WealthInequality #CulturalWasteland #NeoliberalismCritique #SocialJusticeMusic #AustralianPolitics

In Episode 44 of Bogan Intelligentsia, we sit down with Renee Davidson — founder of the fast-growing independent platform Mssing Context — for a sharp, unflinching look at how Australian media has covered (and often distorted) the Palestine-Israel conflict. Renee launched Mssing Context in July 2025 to directly challenge misleading narratives in mainstream Australian outlets. Renee shares insights from her regular “West Bank Weekly” monitoring series and draws on her own lived experience living in the West Bank to highlight the wide gap between on-the-ground reality and how it’s reported back in Australia. We also look at some of the issues with the Australian media landscape.

Podcast Details: Duration: ~44m | Release Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 | Renee Davidson – Founder of Mssing Context & Independent Media Critic on Palestine Coverage

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Renee Davidson Mssing Context, Australian media Palestine coverage, From the River to the Sea ban Queensland, West Bank violence escalation, post-Bondi media failures, Australian protest restrictions, media silence Lebanon, West Bank Weekly reports, misleading Palestine narratives Australia, lived experience West Bank, media fact-checking failure Bondi, Queensland chant ban context

#MssingContext #ReneeDavidson #AustralianMedia #PalestineCoverage #MediaBias #FromTheRiverToTheSea #WestBankViolence #WestBankWeekly #MediaFail #PostBondi #QueenslandBan #FreeSpeechAustralia #ProtestRights #LebanonSilence #MissingContext #AustralianMediaCritique #PalestineAustralia #WestBankEscalation #MediaAccountability #LivedExperience

In Episode 54 of Bogan Intelligentsia, we sit down with Dr Warwick Powell — adjunct professor, supply-chain veteran, blockchain pioneer, and author of the brand-new book Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters: Rethinking Theory, China and International Geopolitical Economy (released March 15, 2026) — for a breakdown of why energy is the real foundation of value in economies.

Dr Powell lays out his groundbreaking Systemic Exchange Value (SEV) framework, showing how human economies are open metabolic systems governed by thermodynamics: they must fight constant entropy through "negentropic" moves like better energy systems, tighter supply chains, and viable information. He explains declining EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) as the hidden math driving socio-economic decay, why fictitious capital bubbles are the short-term fix that widens the gap between claims and real production, and how informational noise wastes energy and accelerates disorder. Essential viewing/listening for anyone rethinking political economy, China-West dynamics, energy security, and why old equilibrium models fail us now

Podcast Details:

Duration: ~78m | Release Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 | Dr Warwick Powell – Adjunct Professor, Supply-Chain Expert, Blockchain Pioneer & Author of Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters

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#Thermoeconomics #TimeOfMonsters #EnergyIsValue #ChinaVsWest #DecliningEROEI #FictitiousCapital #NegentropicInterventions #USDecline #GlobalPowerShift #ChinaElectrification #WestAsiaEnergyShocks #GramsciMonsters #HeterodoxEconomics #EnergySecurity #PoliticalEconomy