VICE Australia's Election Podcast: The Home Stretch

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In our final episode, Aamer Rahman talks with our panel about what life is like for journalists held hostage by one of the longest election campaigns in Australian history. They also touch on Penny Wong's comments on the same-sex marriage plebiscite, and Scott Morrison's painful revelations about the bigotry he's suffered for being straight, white, and male.

This week's guests are editor of The Saturday Paper, Erik Jensen; paediatric nurse and activist Kate Pern; and Jess O'Callaghan, social media producer for the ABC's Radio National Drive, as well as another excellent #auspol podcast, The Party Room.

"You're blindfolded, there's waterboarding, and you can't get to sleep because they're playing Metallica with lights going off."

"When you have a woman in power, or when power dynamics start to change, people think they have a moral license to be awful."

"I mean it's such a well oiled bullying machine, it's just second nature to them."

"The fact that this is even considered to be debated in public is just so heart breaking."

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