Join a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin’ By as host Emma Shortis and special guests Jeff Sparrow and Mittul Vahanvati discuss the necessity of imagining different futures, local activism, action-based research and governments’ roles.

Radical Hope - Join us at Melbourne Knowledge Week

May 6th, 2022 51s

Be part of the audience for a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin’ By, hosted by Emma Shortis and featuring special guests: James Blackwell, Mittul Vahanvati and Jeff Sparrow. Forming part of Barely Getting By’s fourth season, “Up in Fl

COP26 Special: Our Exceptional Friend

Oct 28th, 2021 36m 47s

Barely Gettin' By might be on a lockdown hiatus, but the climate news keeps coming. In the lead up to the all-important COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, this special episode examines the historic relationship between Australia and the United St

Bonus

Lockdown Hiatus

Jul 23rd, 2021 4m 38s

With Melbourne in the midst of Lockdown 5.0, we will be taking a short break until we can get back in to the studio again.

Up In Flames

Jul 9th, 2021 18m 49s

Donald Trump is gone, the pandemic is getting under control (in some places, maybe?), and all is well. Not.

Inauguration Special - This is America

Jan 19th, 2021 39m 11s

After a long 2020 (and a very long January 2021) Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on the morning Thursday, 21 January (Australian time). What does a Presidential Inauguration look like when it’s overshado

More democracy, and an attempted coup

Nov 13th, 2020 36m

In the last episode of the season, Emma and Chloe reflect on Joe Biden’s victory and Trump’s refusal to concede. They look at how institutions and people are responding to Trump, and whether Fox News has finally seen the light. They ask if Trum

Post-election wrap

Nov 6th, 2020 29m 31s

A very tired Emma and Chloe regroup, two days after polls closed to discuss the election. Were the polls wrong? What does Georgia say about American democracy? What next for the Democratic Party? A lot of things are still uncertain—and will rem

Four More Years? - Bonus episode with Matt Bevan

Oct 30th, 2020 50m 26s

In this bonus, pre-election episode, Chloe and Emma speak to Matt Bevan, ABC Radio journalist and host of the America, If You’re Listening Podcast, about the past four years of the Trump Presidency, the relationship between journalism and histo

All That Matters

Oct 29th, 2020 55m 18s

In this episode, Chloe and Emma welcome a very special guest - Dr Elizabeth Ingelson, Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University. Joining them from New Haven, Connecticut, Lizzie discusses what it is like to live in Trump’

A Force For Good?

Oct 22nd, 2020 51m 39s

In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about how Joe Biden has linked the personal and the political throughout a long and successful career. But could the 2020 election force the two apart? They also speak to special guest, press gallery legend

Not every disagreement is a fight

Oct 15th, 2020 59m 12s

This week, Chloe and Emma try (and fail) to lighten things up with a discussion of the young, progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shoes … and fracking. They also talk about the first ‘television president’ and why JFK’s Presiden

You're not Woodward and Bernstein!

Oct 8th, 2020 52m 29s

This week, we can’t not talk about the President of the United States contracting coronavirus. But instead of speculating about Trump’s illness and what it might mean, Emma and Chloe discuss what it reveals about American healthcare. They also

Hanging by a Chad

Oct 1st, 2020 51m 42s

Chloe and Emma discuss how Aaron Sorkin’s the West Wing went from an alternate-world liberal consolation prize in the early 2000s, to playbook for the Obama White House, and now back again in the age of Trump.They also talk through what might h

A New Deal For America

Sep 24th, 2020 36m 58s

In the first episode of Season 3, This American Carnage, Emma looks at the way climate change and the West Coast fires are covered by the New York Times, while Chloe looks at vaccine nationalism and the politics of Big Pharma. They discuss the

Trailer

Introducing Season Three - American Carnage

Sep 18th, 2020 1m 52s

In the year 2020 where everything seems to have gone wrong, your often confused, occasionally insightful and (sometimes) optimistic hosts Emma and Chloe are once again making sense of the present by looking at the past.In season three our histo

Episode 11 Part 2 - The Algebra of Infinite Justice

Jul 23rd, 2020 26m

11.1 Battle for Seattle11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how F

Episode 11 Part 3 - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Jul 23rd, 2020 33m 19s

Episode 11 Part 1 - Battle for Seattle

Jul 23rd, 2020 19m 56s

Episode 10 - The Palace Letters

Jul 15th, 2020 26m 37s

Episode 10: The Palace LettersIt’s a historical emergency! With the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ this week historians and journalists are promising answers to decades of questions about the 1975 Dismissal of the Australian Prime Minister, Go

Episode 9 Part 1 - My Heart Will Go On

Jul 8th, 2020 22m 36s

E9: Standing in Front of a BoyE9.1 My Heart Will Go OnEmma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hu

Episode 9 Part 3 - Cassandra

Jul 8th, 2020 21m 55s

E9: Standing in Front of a BoyE9.3: CassandraEmma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant,

Episode 9 Part 2 - Oopsy Daisy

Jul 8th, 2020 18m 45s

E9: Standing in Front of a BoyE9.2 Oopsy DaisyEmma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Gran

Episode 8 Part 2 - Handsome, clever, and rich

Jul 1st, 2020 19m 24s

Episode 8In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism mea