Nat Chat: A Common Sense Podcast
The Victorian Nationals are the only party dedicated to representing Regional Victoria. A group of common sense people, with a lot of life experience, working for the good of the the communities they live in.
This is the long conversations you don't get to hear and we're also featuring people who are kicking goals around the electorate and those that have big ideas.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Episode 22 - A lesson in humility and common sense with David Littleproud
As the great Bill Belichick once said "True leadership is when you do the best thing for the team, knowing it's not the best thing for yourself."
David Littleproud has faced a pile on fr…
Episode 21: Tim Bull MP on the Kokoda Scholarship Program
Hon. Tim Bull MP has taken the lead on the Kokoda scholarship program the Liberals & Nationals have been running over the past decade or so.
It fits - he is the Shadow Minister for Veter…
Episode 20 - Luke Alexander, United Firefighters Union - The lack of common sense will cost you
Look, I never thought I'd see the UFU come on a Nats podcast. History will show that we haven't been friends. However, history also shows that I work with anyone if its in the best in…
Episode 19 - Damo Bradshow, speedway, common sense and crazy conspiracies
If you've ever been to Olympic Park Speedway, at least in the past 30 years or so, or you've ever switched your wireless over to 1467 The River, then you'd know the gravely sounds of Da…
Episode 18 - Anne Webster, election 2025
It's been a long time in the making this election.
We knew it was coming, but no one knew exactly when, so the campaign has been on for a long long time.
Anne has rallied the LNP to be ab…
Episode 17 - Toby Hederics, a head full of common sense
I thoroughly enjoy the art of conversation. I hold it in high regard.
I’ve met and got to know a lot of different people from all walks of life Let’s say I have.a fascination with getti…
Episode 16 - Common sense in our young people
This is one of my favourite chats.
The location, the people I was speaking too, the common sense that flowed from them, the ideas - it was everything.
Yes, it happened a while ago, but…
Episode 15: The Night The Phones Fell Silent
** Before you start this podcast - please be aware that this could be quite traumatic for some listeners and it contains some very sensitive and personal recollections of traumatic even…
Episode 14 - A bit of common sense with Julie Waters, Mildura Rural City Council Candidate
We are well into Council elections and for Mildura Rural City Council this is the first time under a ward system.
Seems odd when other regional cities and towns are moving away from it a…
Episode 13 - A common sense approach to the housing crisis with Ben Ridley
You know by now I’m very pragmatic, Very Practical, which is what attracted me ti the Nats in the first place. We love conversations with other pragmatists, like Ben Ridley - not only…
Episode 12 - A common sense approach to Council
With Mildura Rural City Council now under a ward system, there is are new candidates, candidates that have run before and some with no opposition.
Having the platform of a podcast is a …
Episode 11 - The only Olympian in Victorian Parliament
This podcast was supposed to be a special Olympic episode, but things happened, it got delayed, life got in the way for me but I'm back. Just in time for the Paris Paralympics, so tech…
Episode 10 - Young Nats have oodles of common sense
This is one I've been holding onto for a while. Since Nats State Conference in May in fact.
There's a couple of reasons for this; A) Annabelle's birthday is this week and she's now no lo…
Episode 9 - Josh Waters, common sense champion on and off the track
Josh Waters has won not one, not two, but three Australian Superbike Championships, and looks good to potentially win his fourth this season, something that no one, in the history of A…
Episode 8 - A common sense kind of guy, Mick Harrington
You'd remember Mower Mick from The Voice in 2021.
That angelic voice that floated from the vocal chords of a seemingly man's man from Gippsland.
We were all stuck at home, don't pretend …
Episode 7 - A common sense approach to roads and the budget
Labor can't manage money, they can't manage projects and it's your family paying the price, particularly on our roads.
Danny O'Brien, Member for Gippsland South & Shadow Minister for Ro…
Episode 6 - A common sense approach to the budget with Shadow Treasurer Brad Rowswell
On the eve of the Labor's tenth budget in a row, here is the next installment of our common sense podcast.
Budgeting and trying to pay your debt down makes sense to most of us.
As does, n…
Episode 5 - Why celebrating ANZAC Day is just common sense
I am certainly no historian, but I do love learning from history and I do believe all aspects of history should be told.
I also believe that these stories should be told over and over a…
Episode 4 - We put champions on racetracks and common sense on the agenda
I ended my inaugural speech in Parliament with “we put food on your plate and champions on racetracks” and not a truer sentence has ever been spoken in that place….
This week the Mildura…
Episode 3 - Uncle Colin Clarke makes a lot of common sense
Uncle Colin Clarke - a Barkindji- Ngyimpaa man, passionate about common sense, listening to the right people and the work he does, Brother to Brother with Dardi Munwarra.
Dardi Munwurro …