Blaksiders

#86 A Special Blaksiders Recap (Thank you!)

For our last episode of Blaksiders in our weekly show format, Pete and Gem look back at the news and current affairs highlights we've loved talking to you about over the past two years. Farewell for now!

#85 A Drug for Our Times

This week, Peta and Gemma pick-up a conversation started by Canadian journalist Geoff Turner about Ozempic in his CBC podcast 'On Drugs'. Ozempic and similar brands (GLP-1s) are a pharamaceutical drug that have been described as the viagra of our generation. We disucss the implications of trying to medicate the population against stigma. This episode went to air Monday 24th November 2025.

#83 Trash or Treasure?

This week, Gemma and Pete dabble in critic culture and give their hot take on Ryan Murphy's 'All's Fair'. This episode was broadcast on Monday 17 November 2025.

#82 Badge Behaviour

Pete and Gem disucss the news from the week involving the police. We're asking, when is a 'system error' more likely a systemic feature of modern policing? And who's job is it to fix it?

#81 On a Hiding to Zero

This week Peta and Gemma talk climate change and the Coalition's biggest challenge yet.