A Friday Rave

A Friday Rave

Jacob Grech & Mercedes Zanker

Episodes 202
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Since Dec 2017
Latest Episode May 2026

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Weekly
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www.3cr.org.au

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About This Podcast

A Friday Rave looks at the ever-increasing influence of the military industrial complex in Australian society and attempts to document the who's who that's swindling you!

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Flying Under the Radar: Australian sole-source F-35 suppliers you may not have heard of

May 29, 2026

Today we talk about the 11th hour adjournment of the case brought by AL-HAQ against Richard Marles for documents pertaining to defence exports to Israel in the Federal Court. And we look at some of…

Department of Defence doing the Investor's bidding

May 22, 2026

Defence has announced increased private investment to bolster the multi billion dollar defence budget. We look into the Advanced Capabilities Investment Fund and some of the companies poised and…

&8th Nakba Day, the catastophe has never ended

May 15, 2026

It's the 78th year since the first Nakba, but the catasrophe has never ended. The defence budget, the whole of government approach, israel's impunity and australian surveillance planes are all part…

A National Stage for Lobbying: Lynas at the National Press Club, Oh and there's a new defence bank

May 08, 2026

Outgoing CEO of Lynas Rare Earths addressed the National Press Club, so we dig into that as an exercise in lobbying, and trying to convince kids that mining is excellent, nothing to see here. And we…

Everyday is May Day

May 01, 2026

It all comes back to May Day.... It has always been about workers having a say in how we live.. from when we will and won't work, and what we will do with our time, the dignity of working people. So…

Clinton Fernandes on gas companies winning big from publicly funded surverying, the IMF and impending food crises in Indonesia

Apr 24, 2026

We are joined by Clinton Fernandes to discuss the ramifications for food security by the war on Iran, debt as a mechanism for control and how Geoscience Australia conducted the publicly funded gas…

2026 National Defence Strategy: 98 Pages of the same old spin; Pete Hegseth can't tell scripture from film script

Apr 17, 2026

We go over Richard Marles' (yes, he's still defence minister) National Press Club address announcing the 2026 National Defence Stategy and Intergrated Investment Policy... A couple of hours of spin…

Ben Roberts Smith and a Government that cares more about authority than atrocity

Apr 10, 2026

We talk about the arrest of Ben Roberts Smith on allegations of war crimes, the government seeming to care more about maintaining the authority in the conduct of atrocities rather than the atrocity…

Albanese the Cringeworthy, War for Extraction and Corporatisation

Apr 03, 2026

The pitiful address to the nation.. and all the rest of it

"We have what you need": Zelensky in Saudi Arabia... and the tech industry is surviving on war

Mar 27, 2026

This week we revisit Brave1 in the context of Zelensky's visit to Saudi Arabia to talk weapons transfers. Jumping off of our conversation about the war economy last week, we have a bit of a rave…

An Aberration or Business As Usual? The War Economy.. oh and no need for audits any more

Mar 20, 2026

This week we discuss the business as usual that is the US empire; regardless of who's at the healm, it commits the same atrocities but change how they spin it. And the Australian Government goes hand…

Sovereignty... in Australia.... yeah, right!

Mar 13, 2026

Mercedes is away today, but Jacob raves on about Australian Sovereignty... almost as if it exists.

Yep: The West is back on Crusade

Mar 06, 2026

The first Friday Rave since the War started in earnest.

Meanwhile in Ukraine... Remember Ukraine?

Feb 27, 2026

The War in Ukraine continues.

What can we say about the Epstein Files that no-one else has already?

Feb 20, 2026

The Eptein Files revealed a lot of awful stuff that was illegal... but its the awful stuff that's legal that we talk highlight today

So, Isaac Herzog was in town... and don't forget to subscribe!

Feb 13, 2026

Apologies dear listener for the technical issues with last week's broadcast... no we weren't being intercepted, it was human error on AFR's end...But of course, we discussed Albanese and Herzog's…

Nuke Subs- Not today, not next decade, not ever... and the Board of Peace Charter

Feb 06, 2026

We take a look at the Navy Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS Submarine (Pillar 1) Project: Background and Issues for Congress.... 116 pages about the division of labour for the nuke subs…

Revisiting the G.R.E.A.T Plan in the Context of the Board of Peace

Jan 30, 2026

Jacob and Mercedes are out of action this week so we chopped together a show about the G.R.E.A.T Plan, the first iteration of the Board of Peace, which we will be dicussing in more detail next week.

A Friday Rave - Omnibus or Ominous: The New Bill and where it'll lead us... Into the hands of Palantir

Jan 23, 2026

This week we go other the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 that was rubber stamped in Parliament this week, and just a few of the glaring issues. We also go back to Palantir, who…

Saturday Kick Ons - Prediction Markets; A Life or Death Gamble

Jan 16, 2026

For the final Saturday Kick Ons of the Summer Series, we go into the dark depths of predictions markets, and the sites that let you gamble on pretty much anything, regardless of how macabre. We dive…

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