The Hon. John Ruddick, MLC & Shane Healy on The Chris Smith Show - 05 January 2024

On today's show, The Hon. John Ruddick, MLC, discusses the latest Australian politics. Later, Shane Healy discusses the Israel/Palestine conflict.

GUEST 1 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 within that party. In 2018, he published "Make the Liberal Party Great Again," but in mid-2021, he joined the Liberal Democrats due to his disappointment with the Morrison and Berejiklian governments and their response to COVID-19 and government debt. Follow him on Twitter: @JohnRuddick2.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Shane Healey is a terrorism and youth justice expert, a former Australian Defence Force Special Operations Command intelligence operator, and an Indigenous man originally from western NSW.