Episode 83

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13th May 2026

Australia - Time for Big Boy Pants!

For decades, Australia has drifted on short-term politics, cheap slogans, and the assumption that someone else — usually America — would handle the hard stuff. In this episode, we examine whether the country is finally ready to pull on its “big boy pants” and reverse the disastrous decisions of the past: deindustrialisation, hollowed-out defence capability, energy incoherence, reckless immigration settings, housing neglect, and the bipartisan addiction to selling off national assets. From strategic dependence to economic complacency, we unpack how years of poor leadership left Australia exposed — and what it would actually take to become a serious, resilient nation again.

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David Lodge

David has lived a weird and wonderful life, full of adventure and mistakes (many, many mistakes).
His dream of working as a stockbroker was crushed and he found himself as a young apprentice sweeping floors in a barbershop. After 20 years of bad jokes and bullshit, he would eventually find his way to university culminating in over 15 years of work in the Higher Education sector. David’s journey from humble apprentice to global corporate traveller has seen him learn that, while people of the world have many differences, there is a common theme to how they learn, grow, succeed and achieve happiness. That pathway is through the freedom to be oneself, speak one’s mind, make mistakes, essentially, having a right, to be wrong.