Sat, 4th July, 2026: Melbourne Tartan Festival: Bernadette Rae, Glenrae Dancers Campbell Wilson, Pipe Major of City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band

Sat, 4th July, 2026: Melbourne Tartan Festival: Bernadette Rae, Glenrae Dancers Campbell Wilson, Pipe Major of City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band

Our last segment for the week, was a very special one for Macca. Joining us live in the studio is one of the organisers of the Melbourne Tartan Festival, a celebration of Scottish culture, music, dance and community right here in the heart of Melbourne. The centrepiece is tomorrow’s Tartan Day Parade down Collins Street, with hundreds of pipers, drummers, dancers, clans, societies and even Scottie dogs. And this year there’s something extra special: a world record attempt for the largest ladies pipe band ever assembled.  The Melbourne Tartan Festival is an annual celebration of Scottish culture, music, dance, clans, community and heritage in the heart of Melbourne. It was first held in 2018 and is a joint initiative of the Victorian Scottish Heritage Cultural Foundation and the Scots of Victoria Co-ordinating Group. (Victorian Scottish Heritage Foundation [https://www.vshcf.com.au/projects/the-melbourne-tartan-festival/])  The Melbourne Tartan Day Parade is on Sunday 5 July 2026, starting at 2.00 pm on Collins Street from the Spring Street / Old Treasury Building end. Expect pipers, drummers, Highland dancers, clan and society representatives, and Scottie dogs. The parade heads down Collins Street, turns into Regent Place, and finishes with a short recital near The Westin. (Melbourne Tartan Festival [https://www.melbournetartanfestival.com.au/tartan-day-parade]) The post Sat, 4th July, 2026: Melbourne Tartan Festival: Bernadette Rae, Glenrae Dancers Campbell Wilson, Pipe Major of City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine/2026/07/sat-4th-july-2026-melbourne-tartan-festival-bernadette-rae-glenrae-dancers-campbell-wilson-pipe-major-of-city-of-melbourne-highland-pipe-band/] appeared first on Saturday Magazine [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine].

Sat, 4th July, 2026: Giordano Nanni, Founder of The Juice Media / Honest Government Ads.

Joining Macca and Paul live on air this week was Giordano Nanni, founder of The Juice Media and the creator of the brutally funny Honest Government Ads series, which takes the kind of language governments use to sell us things and strips it back to what they might be saying if they were accidentally telling the truth. His latest target is Palantir, the US data and surveillance giant now embedded in government systems around the world, including here in Australia. Giordano Nanni is the Melbourne-based founder/writer behind The Juice Media, best known for the satirical Honest Government Ads series. Before satire, he completed a PhD in history, researched settler-colonialism, published books, and worked on the public-facing Coranderrk inquiry/verbatim theatre project. He has said YouTube gave him a much larger, more democratic platform than academia for sparking public debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBW9QCVDSjY [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBW9QCVDSjY]   The post Sat, 4th July, 2026: Giordano Nanni, Founder of The Juice Media / Honest Government Ads. [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine/2026/07/sat-4th-july-2026-giordano-nanni-founder-of-the-juice-media-honest-government-ads/] appeared first on Saturday Magazine [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine].

Sat, 4th, 2026, Sally Tindall, Director of Data Insights, Canstar, Cost of Living Crisis.

As one of Australia’s leading financial and political commentators, Sally’s role at Canstar is to help Australians make better financial decisions. As Canstar’s spokesperson, Sally provides her insights daily on trends and changes in the personal finance sector, translating often-complicated topics to help people understand how they might be impacted. She also helps identify and advocate for excellence in banking, insurance, energy and other key financial services sectors.  With mounting cost-of-living pressures, every dollar counts. That’s why a few well-chosen switches could see you saving more than $10,000 a year. That’s a nice little chunk of extra change in your back pocket! Canstar’s Cost of Living Comparison [https://www.canstar.com.au/cost-of-living-comparison/] looked at a wide range of everyday bills—from mortgages and credit cards, through to home and health insurance, utilities and even groceries—to see where households could cut costs. And the results are certainly illuminating. We considered the kind of household expenses you might typically see in a year, then explored potential savings. In some cases, savings came from switching to the cheapest product, and in others, from selecting Canstar 5-star rated products that balance cost and value. Individual results will vary, but our findings show just how much can be saved by reviewing and comparing everyday expenses. Here are our top tips to save heading into the new year: 1. Shop around for loans Your mortgage or car loan could be quietly costing you more than necessary. For example, if you’re paying off a $600,000 home loan or a $40,000 five-year car loan, your interest rate might be well above others on the market, and you could stand to save thousands annually simply by switching to a provider with a more competitive rate. By switching to a 5-star rated product, you could enjoy meaningful savings while maintaining quality service. Insurance doesn’t have to break the bank. Canstar found that, by selecting a 5-star rated policy, a 40-year-old non-smoker could save: * $244–$332 per year on income protection insurance * $170–$252 per year on life insurance * Hundreds more on home, contents, car, or health insurance The post Sat, 4th, 2026, Sally Tindall, Director of Data Insights, Canstar, Cost of Living Crisis. [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine/2026/07/sat-4th-2026-sally-tindall-director-of-data-insights-canstar-cost-of-living-crisis/] appeared first on Saturday Magazine [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine].

Sat, 4th July, 2026: Dan Powell – LGBTIQ First Nations Senior Project Coordinator, NAIDOC Week, 2026

Macca and Paul talk to Dan Powell – LGBTIQ First Nations Senior Project Coordinator, NAIDOC Week, 2026 Dan is a proud Yorta Yorta Aboriginal man (he/they) and the First Nations How2 Program Coordinator at Rainbow Health Australia (La Trobe University), where he coordinates a best-practice model helping Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations better support Rainbow Mob and improve LGBTIQ+ and First Nations health outcomes. A 2025 NAIDOC Pride Award winner, he brings a rich background spanning Aboriginal Youth Justice, case management, and disability services to his work advancing inclusion for Queer and Koorie communities across Victoria. Outside of work, he’s a devoted dog dad who loves music and a good boogie with friends. The post Sat, 4th July, 2026: Dan Powell – LGBTIQ First Nations Senior Project Coordinator, NAIDOC Week, 2026 [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine/2026/07/sat-4th-july-2026-dan-powell-lgbtiq-first-nations-senior-project-coordinator-naidoc-week-2026/] appeared first on Saturday Magazine [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine].

Saturday, 4th July, 2026: Bruce Wolpe, Senior Fellow, US Study Centre, 250th anniversary of American Independence

As the USA leads into the 250th anniversary of American Independence, Bruce Wolpe talks Macca and Paul through what’s going on in the USA right now. Bruce also discusses his review of the hottest new book on Trump by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman of the NY Times.  It will be in Saturday’s AGE  print edition. Trump earned $US2 billion+ in his first year as president.  This issue will metastasize. “American Pride Falls to 25-Year Record Low,” found Gallup. “Just a third of the public believes the American Dream still exists,” found the AP. “Nearly identical shares of adults from Trump, Harris and swing states say they believe the nation’s best years are in the rearview mirror — 58% in all,” NBC News. President Trump returned to the White House with an epiphany about mixing business and politics during his first term in office. “I found out that nobody cared,” Mr. Trump told The New York Times in January [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html], revealing a remarkable indifference to potential conflicts of interest. That was months before Mr. Trump’s latest financial disclosure [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/politics/trump-financial-disclosure-crypto-windfall.html] revealed on Tuesday that he made about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses during his first year back in office — even as the Trump administration has relaxed regulation of crypto companies. By tradition, American presidents have generally tried to avoid [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/politics/trump-moneymaking-presidential-history.html] appearing to profit from the presidency, often taking actions to separate themselves from the kinds of corporate entanglements that could create conflicts of interest. Mr. Trump has chosen a different path, smashing through the few norms he paid even glancing attention to in his first term, like having his family restrain its international business activity. “I got no credit in the first term,” he said in January. Now, he and his family have amassed a mammoth windfall, and so far at least, Mr. Trump appears largely unconcerned that he will face the kind of political fallout that would discourage other leaders from similar moneymaking endeavors. Even before the release of his financial filing, polling showed disapproval among Americans when it came to Mr. Trump’s handling of his family’s business. One Pew Research Center survey from September [https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/08/most-americans-think-trump-is-trying-to-exercise-more-power-than-previous-presidents/] found that more than 60 percent of Americans felt that Mr. Trump in his second term “definitely or probably” had “improperly” used the office of the presidency to enrich himself, friends and his family. The same poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans believed that Mr. Trump had not set a high moral standard for the presidency. Overall, Mr. Trump pulled in at least $2.2 billion during his first year back in office, a figure that includes other parts of his vast holdings, like real estate assets. That is compared with at least $622 million his enterprises brought in for all of 2024, before he returned to the White House. And it eclipses the revenue reported [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/trump-financial-disclosure.html] by Mr. Trump’s family business in 2020, the last full year of his first term, when it suffered steep declines as the pandemic upended the hospitality industry. And Mr. Trump and his family in his second term have only doubled down when it comes to business ventures that are profiting from his administration’s actions. Donald Trump Jr. has also expressed similar sentiment to his father, saying that his family got no credit for its restraint in Mr. Trump’s first term. That includes legislation that Mr. Trump signed last July to promote a form of cryptocurrency called stablecoin, four months after his family-backed firm introduced its own stablecoin. With his two sons standing just feet behind him on Wednesday, Mr. Trump appeared unconcerned when asked about criticism that he was profiting from his presidency. “We’re all profiting,” Mr. Trump said as he once again spotlighted the stock market. “I’m profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash and I give it to institutions. I don’t know if they know what they’re doing or not, but they buy a vast array of things.” Donald Trump Jr. [https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/donald-trump]’s venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, invested in Vulcan Elements three months before the company received a $620 million government loan. Investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, which is headed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons, has been a financial adviser or underwriter for many startups that have received government support. The post Saturday, 4th July, 2026: Bruce Wolpe, Senior Fellow, US Study Centre, 250th anniversary of American Independence [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine/2026/07/saturday-4th-july-2026-bruce-wolpe-senior-fellow-us-study-centre-250th-anniversary-of-american-independence/] appeared first on Saturday Magazine [https://joy.org.au/saturdaymagazine].