Senator Ralph Babet & Sall Grover on The Chris Smith Show - 06 August 2024

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Senator Ralph Babet was elected in the 2022 federal election and is currently serving his first 6-year term. He's a champion of conservative Australian values, smaller government, and individual and national sovereignty. https://senatorbabet.com.au/
 
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Sall Grover is the Australian founder of an independent female-only social media networking platform and app called ‘Giggle’. She created Giggle as a platform centred around women connecting with, and supporting, other women. The purpose was to provide an app that allowed women to safely connect; an important consideration when dealing with strangers. Sall has been taken to court because she wanted her Giggle app to remain female-only. X: @salltweets https://gigglecrowdfund.com/
 

The Hon. Mark Latham, MLC on The Chris Smith Show - 06 August 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Mark Latham is an Australian politician and media commentator, currently serving as an independent member in the New South Wales Legislative Council. He previously served as the leader of the Australian Labor Party and leader of the opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. He is the author of 13 books, including Civilising Global Capital (1998), The Latham Diaries (2005), Outsiders (2017) and Take Back Australia (2018). Mark is one of Australia’s leading advocates of ‘outsider’ politics.

Dr Alan Moran & Dr John Laughland on The Chris Smith Show - 05 August 2024

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr Alan Moran is Principal of Regulation Economics. He is a noted economist who has analysed and written extensively from a free market perspective. Alan was the Director of the Deregulation Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs from 1996 until 2014. He was previously a senior official in Australia’s Productivity Commission and Director of the Commonwealth’s Office of Regulation Review. Alan was educated in the UK and has a PhD in transport economics from the University of Liverpool and degrees from the University of Salford and the London School of Economics. X: @alan_john_moran
 
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr John Laughland is Director of Forum for Democracy International and a lecturer in political science and history at the Catholic Institute of the Vendée in Western France. He was Director of the Euroskeptic think tank European Foundation until 2008 and Director of studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris until 2018. He worked at the European Parliament from 2018 to 2020. X: @john_laughland

Dr Renee Heath, MLC on The Chris Smith Show - 05 August 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr Renee Heath is the Liberal Party member for the Eastern Victoria Region in the Victorian Legislative Council. She was secretary of the Parliamentary Liberal Party from December 2022 to May 2023. Prior to entering Parliament, Renee was a health professional with a Bachelor of Health Science and Bachelor of Applied Science (Chiropractic), treating patients of all ages and backgrounds across Gippsland. She has led rewarding community projects that improved children’s health and the local environment and has a long history of volunteerism and community service. https://www.reneeheath.com.au/
 

Steven Nowakowski and Kevin Loughrey on the Chris Smith Show - 2 August 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Steven Nowakowski is an award-winning wilderness photographer and conservationist. Based in North Queensland, Australia, Steven has exhibited internationally, worked in Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste, and collaborated extensively with other world-class photographers, and also with Traditional Owners. His spectacular works are in demand around Australia and the world, and remind us of the precious natural wildness on our doorstep.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Kevin Loughrey graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1972 with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. For 23 years, four of which were on exchange with the British Army, he served in the Army rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During that time, he was responsible for a number of innovations that significantly added to the defence preparedness and capabilities of Australia. He left the Army in 1991 and held a variety of senior management appointments.

Jim Ball on the Chris Smith Show - 2 August 2024

 
GUEST OVERVIEW: Jim Ball is an Australian radio personality, formerly broadcasting with the 2GB and 2UE networks in Sydney.

Shane Healey and Grant Newsham on the Chris Smith Show - 1 August 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Shane Healey is a terrorism and youth justice expert. He's a former Australian Defence Force Special Operations Command intelligence operator, and private military contractor. Shane has been deployed twice to Afghanistan (2010/2011 and 2012) as part of Task Force 66 where he provided insurgent threat assessments. When in Australia he was part of the Tactical Assault Group – East and West where he was involved in several real time terrorist incidents.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Grant Newsham is the author of the recently published "When China Attacks: A Warning to America".
He is a retired US Marine officer with decades of experience in the Indo-Pacific – to include serving as reserve head of intelligence for Marine Forces Pacific. He was the first Marine advisor to the Japan Self Defense Force and helped create Japan’s amphibious force. Mr Newsham is also an attorney with experience in international trade and public international law.

Prue MacSween on the Chris Smith Show - 1 August 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Prue MacSween is an Australian television and radio personality, journalist, social commentator, and public relations director. She’s the public relations director of Verve Communications, and as a media commentator, has made a number of comments considered to be controversial. Prue’s extensive career in the media began at Eastern Suburbs Newspapers as a cadet journalist, during which time she studied at the Sydney Technical College and completed an Advertising Certificate in 1972.

Giovanni Busa and Alex Zaharov-Reutt on the Chris Smith Show - 310724

GUEST OVERVIEW: Giovanni Busa from Sydney is now blind in one eye after a routine procedure left him "screaming, crying and in unbearable pain".
GUEST OVERVIEW: Alex Zaharov-Reutt is TechAdvice.Life Editor. He's one of Australia’s best-known technology journalists and consumer tech experts. Alex has appeared in his capacity as a technology expert on all of Australia’s free-to-air and pay-TV networks on all the major news and current affairs programs, on commercial and public radio, and technology, lifestyle, and Reality TV shows.

John Ruddick on the Chris Smith Show - 310824

GUEST OVERVIEW: John Ruddick is a member of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of New South Wales and a member of the Libertarian Party. He was an active member of the NSW Liberal Party and championed democratic reform of that party. In 2018 he published "Make the Liberal Party Great Again" but in mid-2021 he joined the Liberal Democrats after his disappointment with the Morrison and Berejiklian governments and their over-reaction to COVID-19 and the associated government debt.