Simeon Boikov, David McBride & Omar Khan on The Dean Mackin Show - 1 December 2023

On today's show, Simeon will discuss with Dean the top stories of the day in Australia. Later, David McBride discusses his father, William McBride's role in yesterday's apology, as McBride blew the whistle on the whole thing.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Australian-born Aussie Cossack rose to prominence during the NSW lockdowns as an outspoken media personality notorious for his hilarious interactions with the NSW police and numerous large-scale campaigns against corrupt politicians. Boikov left Australia at the age of 18 to study at the Moscow Sretensky Seminary. It was here that he had his first posting as a journalist Whilst in Russia Boikov became heavily involved in the Russian Cossack movement. Upon returning to Australia Boikov was elected the Ataman of the Australian Cossack chapter and founded a pro-Russian political newspaper called Russian Frontier. In May of 2022 the Aussie Cossack was jailed for 10 months for breaching a suppression and non-publication order for content posted to his YouTube channel. After successfully winning an appeal against the severity of the sentence Aussie Cossack left prison. In December 2022 the Aussie Cossack defected to the Russian Consulate in Sydney where he was granted diplomatic asylum. From his studio within the Consulate building, he now broadcasts daily on TNT Radio.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Major David McBride is a former military lawyer and 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.

GUEST 3 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.