Join me today is the founding editor of Kuala Lep, clearly been welcome to the Ruben Report.

Thanks Dave, thanks for having me.

I am thrilled to finally have you here.

This has been like what, 87 years in the making.

Yeah, well I live a very long way away so it's difficult for me to get here.

Yeah, well you made it.

You made it thousands of miles.

You are part of what I would say is IDW Australia.

Yeah, the diaspora.

Yeah, exactly.

Okay, so there's a ton I want to talk about.

Obviously I want to focus on Kuala Lep and the work that you're doing and we obviously have a lot in common on the issues that we care about.

And things of that nature, but first off you are from Australia.

I've only had I think two other guests that are Australian natives on the show.

Yeah.

What's going on in Australia these days?

What does the rest of the world need to know about Australia?

I would say that in Australia we're pretty chilled out at the moment, at least politically and culturally compared to America.

And even Europe to a large extent, we have had 25 years or more of economic growth.

So people are pretty relaxed, people are doing well, the middle class is doing well.

There's not so much of a feeling that there's a zero-some competition going on, like people are fighting over scarce resources.

And we obviously have political correctness and identity politics.

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