Is the Sensus a Hack or a Statska?

Emerald’s back! And she’s brought a reading list! It’s 2009 all over again as the difficult Greens are facing criticism for threatening not to wave in Labor’s dogshit climate policy (7:14). Are targets important or a distraction? Then it’s quizmaster Emerald’s favourite time of the half-decade as census results are out. Can you beat Tom’s knowledge of weird census data? (39:57) Why does religion still hold such control over Australia, despite its drastic decline? Finally, a call to action (1:12:13).

Full video version of this episode available on https://www.youtube.com/c/SeriousDangerAU 

Links -

Download the census data: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/snapshot-australia/latest-release 

ABC article showing decline of Christianity alongside rise of ‘no religion’: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-28/census-2021-data-shows-a-changed-australia/101177152 

Emerald’s holiday reading list:

Straight Edge: clean living youth, hardcore punk and social change - Ross Haenfler

How to Vote Progressive in Australia - ed.  Dennis Altman

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power - Amy Sonnie and James Tracy

A Threat of the First Magnitude - Aaron J Leonard

Women and the Subversion of the Community - Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Selma James

Chavs - Owen Jones 

Call to action -

Magabala Books (Indigenous publisher): https://www.magabala.com/ 

COMEDY OUT WEST - Tom’s fundraiser comedy gig for the Greens campaign for Western Metro, happening on Saturday August 13th

victoria.greens.org.au/mari_soc_20220713 

Produced by Michael Griffin

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