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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Matt Chorley speaks to the former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull on why British politics is similar to down under, Boris Johnson, the monarchy and his tribute to Olivia Newton-John.
Also columnists Oliver Kamm and David Aaronovitch on not having a government, amnesty international and fine wines.
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0:58.6 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Chauley. Good day, I should have said, because we're |
1:11.2 | all Australian now, while the weather's very hot, and politics in Britain has all gone a bit like |
1:17.3 | it has down under. Elections all the time, more and more fast paced, wedge aside, leaders coming |
1:23.6 | and going. So how do we cope if our politics is more Australian? Well, who better to ask, |
1:27.9 | and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull? Really interesting conversation coming up with him |
1:33.1 | on the podcast, casting an eye over the state of politics, at the prospect of Australia becoming |
1:39.2 | a republic, and his memories are a living newton job. So that's coming up in just a little. First |
1:43.9 | note, as ever, we kick off with our Congress panel. It is Tuesday that there's no think of it, |
1:47.0 | because Daniel Finkelstein is off, I don't know, cleaning football blutes has on me. So instead, |
1:50.8 | we've got Oliver Campbell and David DeVonovich. How are we coping without a government? I remember |
1:57.6 | there was that time when, was it Belgium went for months without a government and everyone said |
2:01.8 | it functioned quite well. Should we worry about not having a government of it? Yes, we should, |
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