How Powerful Networks Exploit Australia: Speaking with Dr. Cam Murray, the Fresh-Thinking Aussie Economist
Just how much cronyism exists in Australia? Is it true that younger generations are worse off economically than baby boomers? Is home-ownership good metric for economic success? Is there a perfect num...
7 Nov 202347min
AI Girlfriends Are Good For Society: Evolutionary Biologist Rob Brooks on Artificial Intimacy and Mating Economics
Rob Brooks is an evolutionary biologist who focuses on the evolutionary consequences of sexual reproduction. His areas of interest include the evolution of mate choice, the costs of being attractive, ...
26 Okt 202344min
Care Feminism vs Career Feminism
Zoe interviews Virginia Tapscott, a freelance journalist and mother of four from rural New South Wales, Australia. They discuss the concept of care feminism, which emphasizes the value and importance ...
5 Okt 202338min
This Musical Contains Slurs. And It’s Hilarious.
In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe sits down with Christopher HF Mitchell and Jayan Nandagopan, two Australia-based artists whose show, The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, is now showing at the...
28 Sep 202347min
Why We Don’t Have White Guilt + the Spanish Kiss Overreaction
Claire and Zoe discuss how overblown the Luis Rubiales and Jenni Hermoso scandal was, and how much they enjoyed Heather Mac Donald's piece about it in Quillette. Then they go on to discuss the Austra...
21 Sep 202338min
Too Gay for the Christian Church, Too Problematic for the Woke Church
As a Christian lesbian and non-woke artist, Melody Rachel has always felt isolated from the communities she gets grouped into. But as Melody shows, perhaps happiness comes from accepting your own iden...
15 Sep 202328min
Women: Oppressed or Oppressor?
Do we live under a patriarchy? Should women boycott sex with men? What's the Nordic approach to prostitution? Is masculinity celebrated more than feminity? We cover all that + more in this conversati...
5 Sep 202350min
The Australian Press Council Has Been Captured
In this episode, Claire and I discuss a complaint lodged with the Australian Press Council concerning one of Claire's articles in The Australian. In her piece, Claire compares Australia's method of tr...
30 Aug 202331min
