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Ads are a ubiquitous part of the world we’ve grown up in: they peer at us from billboards, sit next to us on the train and obnoxiously clog up our news feeds. No matter where you look there are ads and it’s only getting worse. You probably find ads annoying, but have you ever stopped to ask what impact all that advertising might be having on your brain? Because it turns out it’s probably not good for you.

In this episode we speak to Tim Hollo from The Green Institute to find out why advertising makes us feel bad and what we can do to reclaim our brains.

Further reading

• Confronting Advertising: The elephant in the bus shelter – Tim Hollo
• Advertising Sh*ts in Your Head
• The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (C.A.T.S.)

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Are you anxious because you feel like the world is ending? Well the good news you aren’t crazy and it definitely is. In fact scientists confirm that all the predictions of a fiery climate change apocalypse are being realised promptly ahead of schedule! And you can thank the fossil fuel industry and years of political inaction for that one. 

This week co-hosts James and Cat both reveal that thinking about the climate apocalypse is their day job and we all get our climate nerd on and talk about what it will actually take to slow down global warming and safeguard our future.

Sources:

The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’  (The Nation)

Climate Change Is Giving Us ‘Pre-Traumatic Stress’ (Motherboard, Vice)

When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job (Esquire) 

Places to get involved

Fossil Free Universities Australia 

Join the campaign to #Repower Victoria  (Environment Victoria) 

Volunteer with Australian Youth Climate Coalition 

SEED Indigenous Youth Climate Network 

 

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It doesn’t seem to matter what the topic is, every time we talk about the issues facing young people today one word keeps popping up: neoliberalism. It appears to be at the root of so many issues facing this generation of young people, but do we even know what it is?

To help us understand neoliberalism we are joined by Amanda Cahill, one of Australia’s leading thinkers on economic development and founder of the Centre for Social Change. Amanda helps us understand what neoliberalism is, where it comes from and where we can go from here.

If you liked this episode please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe wherever you get you podcasts. You can find previous episodes at generationaxniety.com

Sources

• Centre for Social Change
• Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | George Monbiot
• Flogging the dead horse of neoliberalism isn’t going to improve the economy | Greg Jericho
• The Next Economy – Green Agenda

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Housing is at the intersection of security, stability and community: all things we know are vital to mental wellbeing, but the housing market in Australia is stacked against tenants and first home-buyers. With the news that the rent-bidding “Rentberry” is coming to Australia promising to push already sky-high rents even higher, we are joined by Yaelle Caspi from the Tenants Union of Victoria to take a look at what that could mean for young renters. We find out why housing is the number one worry for young Australians and what we can do to fix it.

Sign the petition to Make Renting Fair

Further Reading

• This new rent-bidding app is some housing market Hunger-Game bullshit
• Australia’s housing affordability crisis somehow just got even worse
• The Tenants Union of Victoria

 

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With our lives being lived online more than ever before we are creating more sensitive data about ourselves and our lives than we realise. In this episode we are joined by Carla*, a forensic technology expert, to look at just how much personal data we are creating, who could be using it and what this environment of omnipresent surveillance is doing to our relationships and our wellbeing.

*Carla asked to speak anonymously, so we are using a pseudonym.

Further reading

What reporter Will Ockenden’s metadata reveals about his life – The ABC
How the law allows governments to publish your private information – The Conversation
How to Protect Your Data When You Travel to the United States – The Conversation
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – Jon Ronson