Saturday Magazine
Saturday Magazine is JOY 94.9’s longest-running news and current affairs program
Episodes
Veteran Australian Journalist and Broadcaster, Neil Mitchell, best known for his dominant 34-year career at Melbourne talkback station 3AW, joins Macca, Kenny and Jack as they discuss the Kyle and Jackie-O meltdown and the subsequent fallout to the ARN and KIIS FM brand, and where media and radio are heading in 2026.
Macca and Kenny talk to Arunn Jegan, Humanitarian Affairs Lead – Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors Without Borders); about the “Insidious Normalisation of Horror” in Gaza and Israel’s blockade of Humanitarian Aid.
Arunn Jegan works with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as their Humanitarian Affairs Lead. He is an experienced Head of Mission and Emergency Coordinator and has worked in occupied Palestinian Terr...
Bruce Wolpe is a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies Centre. Bruce is a regular contributor on US politics across media platforms in Australia. In recent years, Bruce has worked with the Democrats in Congress during President Barack Obama’s first term, and on the staff of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He has also served as the former PM’s chief of staff.
Bruce Wolpe is a Senior Fellow (non-r...
Kenny and Macca talk to Professor Peter Greste, an award-winning journalist, author and academic who spent fifteen years with the BBC before he joined Al Jazeera as East Africa correspondent. In 2013, he went to Egypt to help cover the unfolding political crisis but two weeks into the assignment, security agents raided his hotel room and arrested him and two colleagues. They were charged with terrorism offences, and in the subseq...
Macca and Kenny talk to Josh Burns, ALP MP Macnamara, Federal Politics Update: Iran War, Cost of Living and Trump’s latest controversies.
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Macca, Kenny and Jack are joined live on air by Australian Motor Sport Legend, Mick Doohan as they discuss tomorrow’s Australian Grand Prix and Mick gives us his predictions.
Image courtesy of: Mercedes-Benz.com.au
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Nevena and John talk to ABC Journalist, Maddison Connaughton,
Maddison Connaughton is an investigative reporter for Background Briefing. She has also worked at the ABC programs Four Corners and Media Watch.
Prior to the ABC, she was editor of The Saturday Paper and a senior editor at Vice. Her reporting has also appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, The...
Nevena and John speak to Rachel Payne -Legalise Cannabis MP for South-Eastern Metropolitan, about her recent article in the New Matilda, about a lack of class in politics.
Rachel Payne is a prominent Australian politician and a key figure in the Legalise Cannabis Victoria party. Since her election to the Victorian Legislative Council in 2022, she...
John Safran discusses some observations in media and some life hacks that happened to him recently
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Nevena and John talk to Mark Nielsen – Associate Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Punch and his Plushie, Attachment Theory
A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship.
After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan provided Punch with an orangutan plushie as a stand-in mo...
Nevena and John speak to Michael Galea MP, State Member for S E Metro Region: Parliament Update
Michael Galea is an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region since his election in 2022. Based on parliamentary records from 2026, he serves as Deputy Chair of the Legal and Social Issues Committee and is active in committees covering economy, infrastructure, a...
On the 18th of February 2026, the Victorian Greens will today move to establish a powerful parliamentary inquiry into the scale and scope of anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crimes across the state, following a disturbing string of attacks on gay and bi+ men.
This comes following a troubling string of attacks on gay and bi+ men which have seen them lured to public places through fake online dating profiles and violently attacked.
The inqu...
Nevena and John Safran are in the hosting seats this week as they discuss the news, views, reviews of the week and what’s coming up in this week’s programme.
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Last segment of the week, Fiona and Macca are joined live in the studio by Josh Cox. Dir. Reptile Encounters, and his special friend Alba The Dingo.
is a specialized wildlife education company and private zoo based in Burwood East, Melbourne, dedicated to connecting people with native Australian animals. They offer a variety of ...
Fiona and Macca were joined live in the studio by Richard Keane is the Chief Executive Officer of Living Positive Victoria (LPV), a prominent community-based organisation in Aus...
Macca and Fiona are joined live on air by Tim Reardon, Chief Economist at the Housing Industry Assoc (HIA), Is the government pulling on the right levers to when it comes to building more homes?
Tim Reardon is the Chief Economist at the Housing Industry Association (HIA), where he leads the association’s economic research and policy advocacy for Australia’s residential building industry.
Fiona and Macca are joined live on air by the controversial academic and writer, Marian Tupy, Centre for Independent Studies & visiting scholar in residence from Cato in the US: Super Abundance
Is Australia getting more or less affordable? Are we heading toward resource scarcity — or an era of unprecedented abundance? Marian Tupy has spent 15 years crunching the data.
Returning to Australia following his 2023 tour, Tupy brings...
Fiona and Macca are joined live in the studio by Rachel Westaway, as they discuss Victoria’s economy, CFEMU scandal and how the new Federal Liberal Leadership team is handling things so far.
Rachel Westaway is the Liberal Member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, having won the seat in a historic February 2025 by-election. She is the first person of Thai heritage elected to the Victorian Parliament.
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