Podcast: Free to Disagree: The Greens’ $2.8 billion supermarket plan
Dr Oliver Hartwich
11 September, 2026
The Greens want to buy 120 supermarkets and a couple of distribution centres for $2.8 billion, which one analysis puts at a saving of $68 a household a year. Oliver and Damien ask what nationalisation would actually deliver, and why New Zealand First is proposing something similar for the BNZ. Next, the AfD took nearly 44 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt, and Oliver explains what is driving German voters away from the political centre. And finally, a Greens MP called English a bastard language in Parliament, and Damien explains why that may be closer to a compliment.