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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• ‘Creeping politicisation’ in Victoria’s public service needs ‘urgent attention’, ombudsman warns.
• Alleged politicisation of the public sector.
• Alan Jones’s lawyers taking ‘first steps’ towards defamation proceedings over indecent assault allegations.
• Profile: Kate McClymont AM.
• New migration strategy aims to reduce Australian arrivals to ‘sustainable level’.
• NDIS Commissioner Tracy Mackey said she might have to resign over mistakenly misleading Four Corners, court documents allege.
• Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk resigns in shock announcement.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Former US secretary of state and controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger dies aged 100.
• Kissinger outlived so many people that not only did he outlive his obituary writer, he outlived the obituary writer of his obituary writer.
• Powerful Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo sacked after investigation into backchannel lobbying.
• Bruce Lehrmann tells court he believes Brittany Higgins’s fiance sent him threatening email titled ‘Coming for you’.
• Bruce Lehrmann admits in court asking for cocaine on evening Brittany Higgins interview aired and lying twice to boss.
• Ben Roberts-Smith ordered to pay indemnity costs for entirety of his failed defamation case against Nine.
• Why Americans’ ‘YOLO’ spending spree baffles economists.
• Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns as Optus CEO.
• Barbra Streisand Explains: Why I Cloned My Dog.
• Javier Milei: Argentina’s far-right outsider wins presidential election.
• Javier Milei wants to gut spending and ditch the peso, but will it save Argentina’s economy?
• Dan Andrews Is Locked In A Battle With Melbourne Golf Clubs Still Bitter About Lockdowns
• OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns.
• New OpenAI CEO Was a Character in a Harry Potter Fanfic That’s Wildly Popular With Effective Altruists.
• Helen Toner, the effective altruist who sparked the Open AI coup.
• Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI.
• Jan. 6 rioter dubbed “QAnon Shaman” plans to run for U.S. Congress.
• Squid Game: The Challenge contestants threaten legal action against Netflix and producers.
• Truck stowaway ‘lucky to be alive’ after hiding beneath B-double for 390km trip to Gold Coast.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Detainees released without visas after High Court decision in immigration revelation.
• Optus identifies cause of nationwide outage, says ‘changes to routing information’ after software upgrade to blame.
• Optus says 228 triple-0 calls were unable to be made during the outage.
• Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has faced a Senate grilling over customers being unable to call triple zero during their 12-hour network outage, with Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young asking the CEO to “cough up” and “accept responsibility”.
• David Cameron makes shock return to British politics as Home Secretary Suella Braverman sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
• Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI.
• OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO.
• Meta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Federal government announces investigation into Optus outage, minister urges telco consider compensation.
• The landmark High Court ruling that’s left Anthony Albanese in a political pincher.
• Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum.
• Ukraine military officer had key role in Nord Stream sabotage, reports say.
• Four men charged over $9 million golden toilet heist at Winston Churchill’s birthplace.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Suspected mushroom poisoning: Erin Patterson fronts court in Victoria on murder charges.
• Melbourne man Jacob Hersant set to be charged with performing a Nazi salute under new laws.
• Protest vote shows the ‘near-unanimous disdain’ the public has for Qantas, senator says.
• The Daily Mail and the West Australian have reported Jacinta Price was at the Sydney pro-Palestine rally. She wasn’t. 
• John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism.
• US House vote fails to expel Republican George Santos after 23 federal charges.
• Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video.
• ‘Crypto King’ Sam Bankman-Fried faces decades in jail after guilty verdict.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Bruce Lehrmann revealed as high-profile man charged with Toowoomba rape.
• Brittany Higgins & Bruce Lehrmann: A Timeline Of Events.
• Retired MP jailed for falsely claiming more than $170k.
• Australian Federal Police raids target alleged money laundering by Changjiang Currency Exchange.
• Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers.
• Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis takes plea deal in Georgia election subversion case.
• Hear what Jenna Ellis said in tearful court speech.
• Trump’s ex-lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election case.
• Watch Trump’s former lawyer, Sidney Powell, try and justify ‘stolen election’ claims | Four Corners.
• Trumpist Mike Johnson is the US House speaker. There’s plenty to fear.
• Mike Johnson: The man, the MAGA, the moron.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Tony Abbott reckons we shouldn’t do acknowledgement of country anymore.
• High Court rules against Victoria’s electric-car road-user tax in landmark case.
• US Republicans revoke speaker bid of hardline conservative Jim Jordan after third failed vote.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

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@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• Voice referendum updates: Nation votes No to Voice to Parliament, with all six states rejecting change — as it happened.
• Referendum dates and results.
• Transgender movement next on Price hit list.
• US House Republicans nominate Jim Jordan for speaker on day 10 of House deadlock, testing hardline appeal.
• New Zealand elects centre-right National Party as Chris Hipkins concedes defeat.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow

On this week’s episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss:

• More than 70 university law professors say Voice ‘not constitutionally risky’ in letter to Australian public.
• Referendum question and constitutional amendment.
• How a soap opera star pushed a conspiracy theory linking the Voice to Parliament to a UN takeover.
• Lidia Thorpe calls the Voice referendum an ‘act of genocide’ after receiving threats from far-right extremists.
• Voice polls show support lower than that of failed republic referendum.
• CPSU and George Brandis say Michael Pezzullo’s position is ‘untenable’.
• Kevin McCarthy is the first house speaker in US history to be ousted. Here’s why Republicans turned on him.
• Big Oil’s Using Fortnite, TikTok, And Twitch In Effort To Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool.

The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things.

The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

Twitter:

@JorgeTsipos

@TomDHeath

@UnnaturalShow

Instagram:

@JorgeTsipos

@Tom.Heath

@UnnaturalShow