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.

McBride & Brennan - 22 July 2023

Dean Yates on McBride & Brennan - 15 July 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Dean Yates was head of mental health and wellbeing strategy at Reuters, until January 2020. Before that he was a journalist,bureau chief and senior editor at Reuters for more than 22 years. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter in Iraq. What followed was an unravelling of everything Dean thought he knew of himself. His PTSD was compounded by his moral wound - the devastation of what he thought he knew of the world and his own character and beliefs.After years of treatment, including several stints inside a psychiatric facility, Dean has reshaped his view of the true meaning of life. In his recently published book, Line in the Sand, is that journey to a better way of being.

Jeff Morris on McBride & Brennan - 8 July 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Jeff Morris has worked in financial services since graduating in Economics and Law from Sydney University in 1985. He became a Vice President of the investment bank Bankers Trust and worked for the Commonwealth Bank as a financial planner in 2008. He became a whistleblower to ASIC in 2008 and achieved a measure of vindication when CBA was hit with an enforceable undertaking and forced to compensate victims of malpractice. He suffered retaliation, including a death threat, was diagnosed with PTSD in 2011 and resigned from CBA in February 2013 with a resolve to pursue a Royal Commission into the banking industry, teaming up with journalist Adele Ferguson and Senator John 'Wacka' Williams to secure a Senate Inquiry in June 2013 as a first step. He testified and provided 9 submissions to the Inquiry. The Senate Inquiry reported in June 2014 and its' damning report fully vindicated Jeff Morris and endorsed the call for a Royal Commission. The Banking Royal Commission was finally called in December 2017, exposing egregious misconduct and fully vindicating the stance he had taken since 2008. Literally $Billions in compensation has been paid to victims of bank malpractice as a result of the fire lit by Jeff Morris. Both the Chairman and CEO of CBA eventually apologised to him personally.. His career in financial services was however ended by his whistle blowing. Today he tries to help others going through the whistle blowing journey and campaigns for the reform of whistle blower laws.

James DiEugenio on McBride & Brennan - 24 June 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: James DiEugenio has been researching the four major assassinations of the sixties-JFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King & Robert F Kennedy for the last three decades, with a special concentration on the JFK case. He has written three books on the subject, including The JFK Assassination and Destiny Betrayed. Jim's been a consultant on Robert Kennedy Jr.'s book American Values and is also editor of the website http://www.kennedysandking.com%2C/ which deals with the aforementioned assassinations. He is the screenwriter of Oliver Stone’s latest film, JFK Revisited. That film, sold in 11 foreign countries, has been released in two versions, a two hour release subtitled Through the Looking Glass, and a four hour version, subtitled Destiny Betrayed. The film, in both versions, has sold in ten foreign countries and has been shown on Showtime in the United States.
Jim's website again is http://www.kennedysandking.com/ Check out James DiEugenio's book JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass at this link on Amazon amzn.to/3JEDGth