Lt. Col Saris Sangari on McBride & Brennan - 30 September 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: US Army Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Sargis Sangari is CEO of The Near East Center for Strategic Engagement, founder of United Assyrian Appeal, the host of the foreign policy current events podcast NEW PARADIGMS with Sargis Sangari, and Host of The National Security Hour on I-Heart Radio. While serving in the US Army, Sargis had six years of continuous combat deployment in the Middle East, conducted 144 combat patrols 22 Special Forces missions, and survived 7 IED attacks. His website is www.necse.net
https://unitedassyrianappeal.net/
 

McBride & Brennan - 23 September 2023

Maj. Stuart McCarthy on McBride & Brennan - 16 September 2023

On today's show, Maj. Stuart McCarthy  discusses the 'gamifornication' of the Australian veterans' affairs department's billion dollar 'veteran centric reform' program, designed and delivered by the multinational consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). This is probably the worst scam perpetrated on a federal government department so far this century, with the fallout only beginning to emerge in the Defence and Veteran Suicide Royal Commission."
GUEST OVERVIEW: Stuart McCarthy is a retired Australian Army officer whose 28 year military career included operational deployments to Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), Ethiopia & Eritrea, Indonesia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Since leaving the Army in 2017 he has been a vocal advocate for injured and disabled military veterans and their families, including the establishment of the ongoing Defence & Veteran Suicide Royal Commission. In 2021 he was a lead advocate for the repatriation of local Afghan interpreters who had worked for the Australian Defence Force, prior to the Taliban takeover. He has also been published in medical journals on the ethics of military drug trials and the adverse effects of quinoline antimalarial drugs. His more recent advocacy efforts have focused on high level command responsibility for alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.

Dr (Major) Glenn Kolomeitz on McBride & Brennan - 9 September 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Following his career with the Australian Defence Force, Glenn worked as a Defence Policy Adviser at Parliament House. He then returned to permanent service deploying on operations to East Timor and Afghanistan with the Special Operations Task Group and subsequently appearing within the specialised role of Military Prosecutor at courts martial and before Defence Force Magistrates. Glenn has applied his professional excellence as a former serving New South Wales Police officer with significant experience in prosecutions, coronial investigations, and counter terrorism. Leaving the Regular Army in 2013, Glenn practiced as a Barrister, starting his own Law Firm and becoming the Director of his own Corporate Investigations Company. He regularly makes submissions and gives evidence in veteran-related matters to various government inquiries and the media.

McBride & Brennan - 2 September 2023

Mary Kostakidis on McBride & Brennan - 26 August 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Mary Kostakidis was involved in public broadcasting for almost 3 decades. She was a member of the management team that set up and developed SBS television in 1980 and presented its flagship World News for 20 years. After leaving SBS her work has reflected her interest in how power is exercised and the impact on people, on democracy, in geopolitics, and in regard to human rights, and the role of the 4thEstate. Mary was a member of the Human Rights Consultation Committee that inquired into the adequacy of the protection of human rights in Australia. She has served on many Boards and Committes. In years past Mary has penned OpEds published by Fairfax and the Guardian but in more recent times has gravitated to independent media first via Declassified Australia and periodically her articles appear in John Menadue’s Policy Journal Pearls and Irritations.

Frank Coorey on McBride & Brennan - 19 August 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Frank Coorey is a lawyer, activist, film-maker and Byron Bay local and raconteur discussing Australian politics, AUKUS and David McBride's documentary screening in Byron Bay tonight. 

Soraya Lennie on McBride & Brennan - 12 August 2023

Bernard Collaery on McBride & Brennan - 5 August 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Bernard Collaery is Principal Partner at Collaery Lawyers. For over 40 years Bernard Collaery has successfully fought for clients in internationally and nationally prominent catastrophe law cases involving multimillion dollar medical malpractice lawsuits focusing on hypoxic birth and other medical misfortunes. Bernard Collaery has also conducted, as Counsel, many criminal hearings in the Magistrates Court and many significant major crime trials as Counsel for the Accused in the Supreme Court. Bernard Collaery’s practice abroad has included assisting a witness in the inquest into the death of H.R.H. Diana, Princess of Wales, and the prominent and long-running inquest into the deaths aboard RAF Hercules XV 179 on 30 January 2005 in Iraq. Throughout his career as attorney, advocate and politician (including ACT Attorney General), Bernard has been a fearless advocate for human rights on many fronts.

Kym Staton & Soraya Lennie on McBride & Brennan - 29 July 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Kym Staton is an Australian filmmaker, poet, and singer-songwriter. He is Director of "THE TRUST FALL: JULIAN ASSANGE", a new documentary about and in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The film has been two years in the making and its global premiere is booked for Melbourne on 30 July 2023.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Soraya Lennie is an Australian-Iranian investigative reporter. From 2010, Soraya was based in the Middle East, including Iran, Qatar and Turkey and have worked for numerous international organisations including Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye, PBS, Euronews, CNN, BBC and TRT World. She lived in Afghanistan after the fall of the government and the Taliban takeover. In addition, Soraya is the author of the non-fiction book Crooked Alleys: Deliverance and Despair in Iran (HURST, 2021). She is now based in Lisbon, Portugal.