Happy New Year from Speakola

That's it for 2025! Hope it was a good one for you.

Dec 31, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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Twelve years of Christmases

My best man took his own life twelve years ago. Like everyone who has lost someone they love to suicide, I flailed in the aftermath. I still flail…

Published on Good one, Wilson! • Dec 22, 2025

'The hate that begins with Jews, never ends with Jews' — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks 'Understanding Antisemitism'

Australia is reeling from the Bondi murders. For decades we've thought our gun laws would protect us from mass shootings, and our isolation would…

Dec 16, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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'All is not lost, all has not been in vain' — Lyndon Johnson's last speech

LBJ delivered his last public words at a Civil Rights Symposium at the LBJ Library 40 days before he died. If you watch the YouTube, he's clearly weak…

Dec 12, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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'President Trump is trying to silence me, threatening to kill me for saying what is true'

Today Senator Mark Kelly delivered a speech that made me think of John Glenn and his famous Gold Star Mothers speech.

Dec 2, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE #60 — Steve Kilbey at The Church's ARIA Hall of Fame induction, 2010

The Church had two singles voted into Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 singles of all time and are one of our greatest bands with classics like 'Under…

Dec 1, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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November 2025

'He was just jogging beside me, smiling, as he caught me'

Jonah Lomu died ten years ago today. He had a heart attack from a complication relating to his chronic kidney disease. His arrival as a rugby star was…

Nov 19, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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Race Around the World Tips #1 - The 'Here's Me!' PTC

The first in a series of posts aimed at helping contestants apply for the new season of Race Around the World. This one is my 1997 piece to camera intro…

Published on Good one, Wilson! • Nov 15, 2025

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Well may we say ... 50 years today

Is it the greatest ever Australian speech? Maybe not. But it's definitely the greatest ever Australian soundbite!

Nov 11, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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October 2025

'The pledge of that generation to this generation'

It's 80 years today since the UN Charter was ratified on 24th October 1945. It's words were movingly invoked in this speech by Tony Benn MP, responding…

Oct 24, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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The man who lived — RIP Abram Goldberg 1924-2025

The oldest man to appear on the Speakola podcast has died, aged 100. Abram Goldberg survived the Holocaust and made living his mission. He was a…

Oct 11, 2025 • Tony Wilson

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September 2025

The free feed Puskas would want us to have

The AACTA Awards are kinda like the Australian Oscars. with the emphasis on the kinda. Ange & The Boss is eligible for Best Documentary Feature, and…

Published on Good one, Wilson! • Sep 29, 2025

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