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Congratulations for surviving all the way to 2023! Here is a review of the best wisdom dropped by our guests throughout 2022, as well as our message for 2023 (from 46:42). Check out all of our long form content for free: https://discernable.io Get our merch at https://teamhuman.au Catch us in our private community on Locals: https://discernable.locals.com

'We suffered, no you must suffer too.' Quiz: Where have you heard that sentiment before? This is HIGHLY representative of the average Australian's psyche. Also, credit to Ally Langdon (Ch9) for some hard hitting Aussie journalism securing a solid source and breaking this story.

How the Socialists became the Capitalists through a shared love of authoritarianism. Our full Vic election coverage was brought to you by: https://squareroot.com.au Online maths tutoring that imparts confidence and competence. Send them an email with the area of maths you'd love to see your child confident in! info@squareroot.com.au https://www.instagram.com/squareroottutor https://www.facebook.com/SquareRootMaths Full election coverage: https://discernable.io/victorian-election-2022-live-coverage

DoingWhatMatters™ It’s great to see our kind Victorian premier flexing his Catholic faith. After taking the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne to task (and winning!) over Essendon (AFL) dumping dangerous Christian CEO Andrew Thorburn, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) can now take his rightful place in Victoria. #DanSlide2026

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There is a radical difference in the way NSW and VIC motorists are treated by speed camera policy. One state at least appears to cooperate and encourage their drivers to 'slow down' and obey speed limits through the use of warning signs and other messaging. The other state prefers to hide, forego messaging, and catch drivers who break the rules. In the human mind, this creates an atmosphere of surveillance to drive compliance, and was demonstrated by the 'Panopticon' designed by Jeremy Bentham - a founding father of utilitarian ethics.

Ken Phillips from Self Employed Australia explains the legalised, systemic corruption in the Victorian construction sector. Our full Vic election coverage was brought to you by https://squareroot.com.au - online maths tutoring that imparts confidence and competence. Send them an email with the area of maths you'd love to see your child confident in! info@squareroot.com.au https://www.instagram.com/squareroottutor https://www.facebook.com/SquareRootMaths Full election coverage: https://discernable.io/victorian-election-2022-live-coverage

Tales from Albert Park and Mordialloc where Australians demonstrate that they are 'still feeling unsafe'. Our full Vic election coverage: https://discernable.io/victorian-election-2022-live-coverage/

Victoria Election LIVE COVERAGE with Discernable Panel 7:30pm - midnight on election night. Our panel has been standing on pre-poll booths and researching each seat, preparing a thorough analysis of the Victorian electorate. We will be going deeper than any other coverage: into the weeds of the turn against Daniel Andrews across Victoria, as well as the psychology of the state past, present and future. What will become of Victoria? ---------------------------- Streaming Live on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and Rumble.

Brought to you by SJ Venues, Hopper Motor Group, The Little Environeers and Jagger Watches, this is the pre-election dinner hosted by Discernable and Voice for Victoria. As well as recording a live episode of the PollieBites podcast, we had an extended panel + audience discussion about the probable outcomes of the 2022 Victorian election. With special guests Ian Cook (Independent for Mulgrave against Premier Daniel Andrews), Paul Hopper (Independent for Werribee against Treasurer Tim Pallas), Krystle Mitchell (former Acting Senior Sergeant of Victoria Police), and Ken Phillips (Self Employed Australia), watch an extended cut of the evening at: https://discernable.io/a-discernable-dinner-with-voice-for-victoria Warning: Explicit Language Throughout the show you will notice Matt and Emily wearing stunning timepieces. These were on loan from Jagger Watches who has kindly extended a huge 30% discount to all Discernable viewers. Use the code discernable at checkout to save 30% on your own timepiece at https://jaggerwatches.com Hopper Motor Group, a family business selling vehicles since 1962, kindly sponsored the evening because they believe in building long term relationships with Victorians, not just customers. They are dealers of Jeep, Fiat, Hyundai, Isuzu Ute, Kia, and Renault. http://www.hoppermotorgroup.com.au The venue (Cargo Hall, South Wharf) was secured for us by SJ Venues, who provide a free service to find and negotiate your next function. It doesn't make sense to do it any other way. https://www.sjvenues.com.au Tamieka from Little Environeers is also a proud sponsor, and runs nature playgroups and sustainability drop-off workshops for children aged 0-6 in Melbourne. Embracing all that nature has to offer, Little Environeers does not shrink back from the dirty, the fascinating and the rough and tumble of a real childhood education, blending play and research for your little ones. https://www.instagram.com/littleenvironeers Grab Team Human merch at https://teamhuman.au Catch all things Discernable at https://discernable.io

Join us for LIVE coverage of the Victorian Election 2022 on Discernable. Our panel has been standing on pre-poll booths and researching each seat, preparing a thorough analysis of the Victorian electorate. Crossing live to the major speeches of the night, our panel's main focus will be following each seat as they fall, answering your questions, and connecting the dots of what could be a major shift in Victoria. From 7:30pm - midnight, we'll bring you all the action as it happens, and go much deeper than other media outlets into the psychology, history and trajectory of Victoria well beyond this election. Streaming on Youtube and Facebook, Rumble and Twitter...see you at 7:30pm on Saturday.

Victoria Election LIVE COVERAGE with Discernable Panel 7:30pm - midnight on election night streaming on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Rumble.

LEAKED: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' demands that politicians call him first before voting on electoral reform. He further details how he refuses to help any candidate or party that won't guarantee a continuation of the manipulative Group Voting Ticket system in Victoria that allows him to sell seats in parliament. Raw video provided to Discernable by the Angry Victorians Party. Call recorded 1 Nov 2022. This is video 6 of 6.

This is a secret recording of a conversation between Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' and Heston Russell, the founder of The Australian Values Party and The Angry Victorians Party. The call was recorded on 10 Nov 2022 and reveals how Australian elections are tampered with if the admissions and allegations by Glenn Druery are to be believed. In the recording, Glenn Druery makes allegations and admissions that include: -Selling bank shares with insider information about an impending Royal Commission into the banking sector -Interfering with the announcement of a Royal Commission so he could sell his shares -Ashley Fenn (Family First) paying Glenn Druery a retainer (approximately $90k) to secure him a seat in parliament -Coordinating with Greg Barns SC from WikiLeaks to get Julian Assange elected as a senator -Electing Ricky Muir on only 0.5% primary vote as a demonstration against Assange and Ashley Fenn -How he got Fiona Patten (Sex Party/Reason Party) elected for a payment -Spies inside Clive Palmer's and Aidan McLindon's private meetings reporting to Druery -Various details on alleged dealings with Clive Palmer, Pauline Hanson, Derryn Hinch, Jeff Bourman, Warren Pickering, Aidan McLindon, Craig Ellis et al. The Angry Victorians Party is led by Chris Burson in Victoria and is contesting a number of seats in the upcoming Victorian state election. Their party tagline is 'Bring Accountability Back to Politics'.

Brought to you by SJ Venues, Hopper Motor Group, The Little Environeers and Jagger Watches, this is the pre-election dinner hosted by Discernable and Voice for Victoria. As well as recording a live episode of the PollieBites podcast, we had an extended panel + audience discussion about the probable outcomes of the 2022 Victorian election. With special guests Ian Cook (Independent for Mulgrave against Premier Daniel Andrews), Paul Hopper (Independent for Werribee against Treasurer Tim Pallas), Krystle Mitchell (former Acting Senior Sergeant of Victoria Police), and Ken Phillips (Self Employed Australia), watch an extended cut of the evening at: https://discernable.io/a-discernable-dinner-with-voice-for-victoria Warning: Explicit Language Throughout the show you will notice Matt and Emily wearing stunning timepieces. These were on loan from Jagger Watches who has kindly extended a huge 30% discount to all Discernable viewers. Use the code discernable at checkout to save 30% on your own timepiece at https://jaggerwatches.com Hopper Motor Group, a family business selling vehicles since 1962, kindly sponsored the evening because they believe in building long term relationships with Victorians, not just customers. They are dealers of Jeep, Fiat, Hyundai, Isuzu Ute, Kia, and Renault. http://www.hoppermotorgroup.com.au The venue (Cargo Hall, South Wharf) was secured for us by SJ Venues, who provide a free service to find and negotiate your next function. It doesn't make sense to do it any other way. https://www.sjvenues.com.au Tamieka from Little Environeers is also a proud sponsor, and runs nature playgroups and sustainability drop-off workshops for children aged 0-6 in Melbourne. Embracing all that nature has to offer, Little Environeers does not shrink back from the dirty, the fascinating and the rough and tumble of a real childhood education, blending play and research for your little ones. https://www.instagram.com/littleenvironeers Grab Team Human merch at https://teamhuman.au Catch all things Discernable at https://discernable.io

LEAKED RECORDING: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' Teaches How to Sacrifice Lower House Candidates for Upper House Seats LEAKED: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' advises minor parties to antagonise Labor in marginal lower house seats in Victoria, then trade preferences for Labor's help in the upper house. Raw video provided to Discernable by the Angry Victorians Party. Call recorded 1 Nov 2022. This is video 5 of 6.

LEAKED: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' offers to 'sell' a seat in VIC Parliament for $55k. He details how he has successfully installed 'exectives from airlines, a divorced mother, a former prostitute, taxi drivers, school teachers, accountants, a grave digger, all kinds of people' into parliaments in Australia over 25 years. Raw video provided to Discernable by the Angry Victorians Party. Call recorded 1 Nov 2022. This is video 4 of 6.

LEAKED: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' boasts how he manipulates State and Federal Politics in Australia; takes credit for keeping the Victorian State of Emergency going. Raw video provided to Discernable by the Angry Victorians Party. Call recorded 1 Nov 2022. This is video 3 of 6.

LEAKED: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' boasts that he ‘installed’ Andy Meddick (Animal Justice Party) into parliament at the request of the CFMEU who promised to secure Labor preferences for Druery in return. Raw video provided to Discernable by the Angry Victorians Party. Call recorded 1 Nov 2022. This is video 2 of 6.

LEAKED: Glenn Druery 'The Preference Whisperer' describes how he created the Sack Dan Andrews Party to suck votes away from UAP, One Nation, and primarily The Freedom Party (Aidan McLindon). Raw video provided to Discernable by the Angry Victorians Party. Call recorded 1 Nov 2022. This is video 1 of 6.

Brought to you by SJ Venues, Hopper Motor Group, The Little Environeers and Jagger Watches, this is the pre-election dinner hosted by Discernable and Voice for Victoria. As well as recording a live episode of the PollieBites podcast, we had an extended panel + audience discussion about the probable outcomes of the 2022 Victorian election. With special guests Ian Cook (Independent for Mulgrave against Premier Daniel Andrews), Paul Hopper (Independent for Werribee against Treasurer Tim Pallas), Krystle Mitchell (former Acting Senior Sergeant of Victoria Police), and Ken Phillips (Self Employed Australia), watch an extended cut of the evening at: https://discernable.io/a-discernable-dinner-with-voice-for-victoria Warning: Explicit Language Throughout the show you will notice Matt and Emily wearing stunning timepieces. These were on loan from Jagger Watches who has kindly extended a huge 30% discount to all Discernable viewers. Use the code discernable at checkout to save 30% on your own timepiece at https://jaggerwatches.com Hopper Motor Group, a family business selling vehicles since 1962, kindly sponsored the evening because they believe in building long term relationships with Victorians, not just customers. They are dealers of Jeep, Fiat, Hyundai, Isuzu Ute, Kia, and Renault. http://www.hoppermotorgroup.com.au The venue (Cargo Hall, South Wharf) was secured for us by SJ Venues, who provide a free service to find and negotiate your next function. It doesn't make sense to do it any other way. https://www.sjvenues.com.au Tamieka from Little Environeers is also a proud sponsor, and runs nature playgroups and sustainability drop-off workshops for children aged 0-6 in Melbourne. Embracing all that nature has to offer, Little Environeers does not shrink back from the dirty, the fascinating and the rough and tumble of a real childhood education, blending play and research for your little ones. https://www.instagram.com/littleenvironeers Grab Team Human merch at https://teamhuman.au Catch all things Discernable at https://discernable.io

Trump has his red hats, the leftards have their masks, the freedom movement has their slogans...and now we too have a way to remind ourselves, and each other, that we are all on #TeamHuman Get yours at https://teamhuman.au

With so many calls for a 'covid amnesty', let's get one thing clear: amnesty is only for the guilty. So are you finally admitting you screwed us? This is why there can be no pandemic amnesty. ----------------------------- Thank you to LibsofTikTok for collating many of the news headlines used here. Other news headlines are collected by Discernable, with some original footage and some stock photography used throughout.

Australian unions telling their members to vote for Labor is nothing new. But our audience (which skews young) will likely never get to see the inside of a union work meeting, so have a gander at what construction workers are being told before a state election. This is a very tame example considering what my family members have been forced to sit through on union controlled sites, as well as hundreds of stories sent to us by viewers. The point is, a democratic result is never the pure will of the people. It's always distorted through campaigning by all sides, media biases, self-preservation fear mongering, pork barrelling, smear campaigns, emotional manipulation... This includes freedom parties. This includes climate change parties. This includes all the majors. Some are worse than others but any politician that crows in victory on election night claiming a single mandate is lying to themselves, and to us. We often make messy and reluctant choices at the ballot box.

Transcript: As we approach the election season in Victoria, let's remember what authority is and where it comes from. Authority is invested in an office, never in a person. And so the moment someone in authority appropriates that power as a personal attribute of their own, they forfeit their authority. To be in authority is to be authorised by something or someone greater than yourself. You are said to be 'under authority' because you hold that power and that authority in trust for something or someone greater than yourself. You are merely a representative of that authority. Insofar as someone starts to govern at an impulse of their own will, they cease to be 'authorised'. They cease to be an authority, and they become arbitrary and autocratic. And the thing about arbitrary and autocratic rule is it requires a strong penal code to enforce. A despot rules through fear, through fines, through threats, and through sheer bullying. Whereas, on the contrary, someone under authority has no such desperation to enforce their power because they don't require strong penal codes to command respect or to command their authority because they know it comes from somewhere else. In fact, the primary trait you will see in people in true authority - who are acting on behalf of someone else...holding power in trust - is not bullying, and not threats, and not punitive measures as we see in a lot of our politicians and leaders. The primary trait you see in people under authority is docility. They're docile. They are quietly confident because they know they act on behalf of someone else. So, for the politicians that we elect and the leaders around us in the world today...have a think about whether they behave like they are under authority, holding it in service of others, or they are acting like autocrats? Appropriating authority that's not really theirs and pretending it's their own. Because those people, they're not authorised. They themselves are morally illegitimate when they personally appropriate power and authority for themselves and act out of the own impulse of their own will.