Leon Kofmansky & Dr Alan Moran on The Damien Richardson Show - 21 March 2023

On today's show Leon Kofmansky discusses COVID overreach in the Jewish community and Dr Alan Moran discusses failing banks.
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Leon Kofmansky is a member of the Orthodox Jewish community. Recently he stood as an Upper House candidate for the United Australia Party in the state election. Leon works in compliance and is married with young children.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Alan Moran is Principal of Regulation Economics. is a noted economist who has analysed and written extensively from a free market perspective. Regulation Economics and associated organisations offer analysis and advice on a range of public policy issues where business and government interact. Dr Alan Moran 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. Subsequently, he played a leading role in the development of energy policy and competition policy review as the Deputy Secretary (Energy) in the Victorian Government. Dr Moran has published extensively on regulatory issues, particularly focusing on environmental issues, housing, network industries, and electricity and gas market matters. 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.

Dr Peter Ridd & Peter Richards on The Damien Richardson Show - 21 March 2023

On today's show Dr Peter Ridd discusses the latest IPCC report which calls for more action to protect the Great Barrier Reef, and Peter Richards talks about the Australian government's insane position on Ukraine.
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr Peter Ridd is a geophysicist with over 100 publications and 35 years’ experience working on the Great Barrier Reef and developed a wide range of world-first optical and electronic instruments for measuring environmental conditions near corals and other ecosystems. He was head of Physics at James Cook University for over a decade before being fired, in 2018, for questioning the quality assurance systems used by reef science institutions. Some of the poor-quality work relates to the effect, or lack of effect, of climate change, and agriculture, on the reef. Dr Ridd now works, unpaid, with agricultural organisations, and the Institute of Public Affairs to improve quality assurance systems of “science” used by Australian governments to make environmental laws and regulations.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Peter Richards is a retired '2 Commando Unit' from the Australian Army. He is a Veteran of multiple tours and his interests are in tensions within China and the Russia and Ukraine conflict.

Katherine Deves & Belinda Bernardini on The Damien Richardson Show - 20 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Katherine Deves is an Australian lawyer who ran as a Liberal Party candidate for the federal seat of Warringah in the 2022 Australian election. She co-founded Save Women’s Sport which states that sport must be categorised by sex, not gender identity.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Belinda Bernardini has worked in property departments of city law firms for 15 years before opening her own business in the Melbourne suburb of Croydon and later Lilydale. Her conveyancing business has been operating since 2009. Belinda started My Place Yarra Valley in June last year to reconnect people in the Yarra Valley community after many were isolated under the draconian COVID restrictions of Premier Daniel Andrews. Belinda has done extensive research into the 20-minute neighbourhood concept and has prepared presentations on the subject to educate the My Place Community.

Randall Crocker & Tony Nikolic on The Damien Richardson Show - 20 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Randall Crocker has a marketing and advertising industry background of some 40 years and is presently career transitioning into counselling. He has attended the weekly Melbourne freedom rally for the last 2.5 years at which he has dispensed 85,000 flyers so far for the last 14 months to help educate about vax injuries etc.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Tony Nikolic is General Manager of AFL Solicitors. He is a highly accomplished Lawyer and Criminologist with a great passion for learning about law and providing efficient and effective legal aid to clients to achieve favourable outcomes. Committed to social justice, he consistently offers pro bono legal work and devotes a portion of his time to disadvantaged persons; aiming to make a positive difference in their lives whilst contributing to the betterment of society. He also has a background in both criminology and whistleblower protections.

Omar Khan & Vicki-Anne Richardson on The Damien Richardson Show - 17 March 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Omar Khan is a global consultant who has advised clients in the US, UK, Europe, South America, South Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific and Australia on leadership responses to opportunities and crisis. His firm, EPL Global seeks to convey better information for better decision making. Omar has helped to convey and promote Dr Shankara Chetty’s “8th Day Protocol” a COVID treatment that has been successful, requiring no “controversial” or off label drugs. Sri Lanka is one of the countries where front-line doctors have been successfully applying its principles.

Lauren Styles & Dr Bella d’Abrera on The Damien Richardson Show - 17 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Lauren Styles has worked in the financial services industry since 1999. In this time Lauren has worked in areas specialising in superannuation and life insurance. Lauren has over 20 years of experience between corporate and private practice, specialising in development of appropriate wealth protection strategies for employed and self-employed clients, with a focus on SMEs, equity transfer and key person insurance. Lauren is highly regarded in the industry for her product and technical knowledge, along with her skills in being able to find appropriate insurance solutions for clients with complicated circumstances. Lauren is also regarded highly for her ability to procure outcomes for claimants with difficult claims. Lauren holds a Diploma of Financial Advising from the Securities Institute. She has also guest lectured for financial planning students at Latrobe University, presented at industry conferences and been published in industry media. Lauren has been a finalist in the 2020 and 2021 IFA Excellence Awards 'Risk Adviser of the Year'.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director, Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. She has BA in History and Spanish from Monash University, an MA in Spanish from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She has written and illustrated a children’s book, is the author of The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism 1484-1515 and a trilogy on the English Reformation. She is currently on the Advisory Committee for the National Archives and is also member of ‘History Reclaimed’ a counter-offensive against “fake history” comprising a group of more than 40 senior UK and Anglosphere academics. Bella is a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia, the Herald Sun, the Daily Telegraph and The Australian., and appears regularly on Sky News.

John McBride & David McBride on The Damien Richardson Show - 16 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: John McBride grew up in an active Labor Party family. He gave up on the ALP after Keating’s last term, which was too woke for him. John joined the Democratic Labour Party in the early 2000s, a party which were at least ideologically opposed to the cultural Marxists. He worked for a few years as a Parliamentary Advisor in the Victorian Legislative Council for a DLP member. More recently, John ran as a candidate for the Freedom Party for the federal Senate in 2022 to support Damien Richardson’s candidacy to be above the line on the ballot. John is currently working on a documentary about Ivermectin.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: David McBride is an Australian whistleblower. In 2011 and 2013, he served in Afghanistan as a military lawyer to the Royal Australian Regiment and Australian Special Forces. David McBride made information on war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan available to the ABC. If convicted of the charges against him, David McBride faces many years in prison.

Barclay McGain & Cameron Blewett on The Damien Richardson Show - 16 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Barclay McGain is an economics research fellow at the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance living in Brisbane, Queensland. He is a frequent contributor to the Spectator, Caldron Pool and Quadrant magazine on topics relating to tax policy, government waste and industrial relations reform. Barclay is currently studying a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Queensland majoring in Quantitative Methods. He was involved heavily with the ATA's campaign to decrease the Fuel Excise Tax (FET) which was ultimately implemented in the 2022 federal budget. In his spare time, he enjoys cricket, politics and navigating the ins and outs of cryptocurrency.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Cameron Blewett is an avid blogger and podcaster, with his main focus being the host of The Fifth Estate podcast where he covers the events of the day, and talks about those things that the corporate press and politicians won't cover. Having followed conspiracy theories from the days of when it was a hobby rather a calling, Cameron has no problem supporting those that need to be supported, and also taking the wind out of the sails of those that are too ridiculous to be true. Having been vegan for over 30 years and a shooter for most of them, Cameron is able to see through the propaganda on both sides.

Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell & Trevor Kitchen on The Damien Richardson Show - 15 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party representing the Northern Victoria Region. She was elected in the 2022 Victorian state election. Prior to entering Parliament, Rikkie-Lee was a wife, mother and dairy farmer. She was inspired by a light switch moment to do with water legislation that pushed her into the political world. This is what prompted her to run for Parliament.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Trevor Kitchen is a whistleblower who helped expose the so-called "Forex scandal" in 2013. He now faces extradition to Switzerland on a charge of "criminal libel" for labelling a banker "a parasite" in emails.

Richard Wolstencroft & Dr Paul Oosterhuis on The Damien Richardson Show - 15 March 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Richard Wolstencroft is an Australian filmmaker and director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Paul Oosterhuis is an Australian anaesthetist with over thirty years' experience, including in critical care and resuscitation. He has been brought before the Medical Board of NSW for posting information on social media regarding COVID-19. His posts related to early treatment and prophylaxis, PCR tests, and risk-benefit calculations regarding COVID-19 vaccination and lockdowns. Dr Oosterhuis attended a Medical Board hearing on September 3rd, at which the Board suspended his registration. At his hearing, Dr Oosterhuis presented extensive evidence on the accuracy and defensibility of his social media posts, including their public interest value. The Board, however, declined to engage in any discussion regarding the evidence. Instead they enforced the ban on doctors contradicting the government, and suspended him without discussion.