The Hon. John Ruddick, MLC & Shane Healy on The Chris Smith Show - 25 January 2024

On today's show, The Hon. John Ruddick, MLC discusses the latest in 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 of that party. In 2018 he published "Make the Liberal Party Great Again" but in mid-2021 he joined the Liberal Democrats after his disappointment with the Morrison and Berejiklian governments and their over-reaction to COVID-19 and the associated government debt. Follow him on Twitter/X: @JohnRuddick2

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