Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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arriving in Australia at that time after Thatcher was, as I said, I could breathe again because there was multiculturalism that was being celebrated.
There was, you know, SBS television and radio, which is a mini United Nations.
If you go to the SBS building in North London,
You have 130 language departments within it.
Even Yiddish is being practiced.
And this is all public service.
The university was the way universities used to be before Thatcher.
In other words, we didn't have that culture of writing everything down and accounting and
And, you know, research assessment exercises where everybody is just crazily writing down little brownie points that everybody else has won or not won.
And, you know, the film industry was having a renaissance in Australia at the time because of public money that was going into developing local culture.
The pubs were replete with wonderful bands, you know.
ramsaku bands you would go on the same night to three pubs have three pints of beer and listen to three different bands um the weather also helps between you and there's a great guy so the first five years of my being in australia was just a joy yeah and then you left because was it because of the political turn again yes and then even before john howard a third rate version of thatcher was elected
I could sense, you know, it's just like here.
You can sense the change of the environment through the rise of xenophobia.
I mean, when I arrived, there was no inkling of xenophobia.
By 1993, because of the recession in 1991, this is what recessions do.
They create discontent.
Discontent can easily morph into xenophobia, into misogyny, into this kind of malignancy.
And I could sense, you know, I could hear the first voices against the aborigines, that they were scroungers, that they were exploiting the white population as if it was possible.
Fascism is always there in the background.
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