Perspective: Nationals Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan have launched a wireless program. They call it a podcast. The trend of politicians podcasting is a worrying one, writes JacquelineMaley
Now that Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan have created their own buddy podcast, we can be fairly sure the medium has peaked. Teenagers across Australia had better hope the pair don’t take next to Tik-Tok, or it too will be ruined by association. As for Snapchat, we pray Joyce has never heard of it.
A person called Avid Reader, from Sydney, gave it five stars, as did Vonnie, of Hervey Bay. But scroll down to Emelle of northern NSW and things get a little more spicy. “Self-indulgent waffle,” she writes. “Want my money back.” And: “No wonder the regions are struggling if that is the quality of political leadership.”But instead, we have Joyce and Canavan, who seem to be using their podcast to project a vision of what their alternative, pro-coal leadership of the National Party might look like.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was pilloried for calling climate change “the great moral challenge of our generation”, and then spectacularly abandoning the challenge himself. Now Labor, under Anthony Albanese, is trying to frame climate change as less of an abstract moral challenge and more of an economic one. This is a much better sell, and more tangible to the voters directly affected – the 50,000 Australians employed by the coal industry.
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