Gahey, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. And the dangerous idea today is that if politicians don't get better at having uncomfortable conversations in public with citizens, with journalists, then all the rest of us are screwed because voters are going to go for candidates who seem more authentic, more unfiltered and more willing to answer questions directly.

In the United States, we've seen the rise of some truly toxic political candidates, mainly on the right, I must say.

There's this James Fishback character who is a Florida,

a congressional wannabe who is overtly, basically racist and anti-Semitic and is getting a lot

of cred from the online right because he just tells it like it is. He's not going to be censored by

anybody. We've seen the damage that the Trump administration has done to the

discourse, largely because Donald Trump presented himself, especially during his first run for the

White House, as being someone who wasn't going to be cowed by political correctness and was going to

tell people what he thought, regardless of whether or not they liked it or whether it was the

proper thing to say. And here in Australia, one nation, the far right, certainly anti-immigrant party, is more

popular than it's ever been.

The only thing that stands between us and a thumping win by one nation at the next election,

not that they would take government, but significantly control the House and or the

Senate, is the opposition leader, who is the head of

the centre-right party, Angus Taylor. Now, what I want to do today is something a little bit different.

I want to play you a media interview between Angus Taylor and the country's preeminent current affairs

show, which is called 730, used to be called the 730 report on the

National Public Broadcaster, as an example, as just a little chiming in.

At the risk of taking pot shots from the sidelines, I think I have a pretty good idea of

how to have uncomfortable conversations, of how politicians might do better at having

uncomfortable conversations and seeming a fair income, seeming free from bullshit, without putting

their foot in it in a way that's going to give them massive pain in our crazy 24-hour news

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