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Dear Legendary Patrons QUICK UPDATE! Here's the full version of our latest Honest Government Ad in super-dooper 4k widescreen format. Aka, the good old YouTube version: Honest Government Ad | The Great F*ckoffening This version includes a new line for Brazil, where people showed that with good organ

Dear Patrons Here is the audio preview of our next HGA! (PREVIEW) The Great F*ckoffening | Honest Government Ad I'll share more thoughts when we publish the video in the coming days, but for now I'll just say this HGA is about all the youth-led protests happening around the world and the the ways go

Kia ora Patrons! A quick message to let you know I just published a short cut of our Visit New Zealand HGA to support our friends in Aotearoa who are heading into a crucial election on Sat 7 November. We published the video on Instagram/FB (where it hit over 1 million views in just one day). The vid

Dear Patrons A quick update to this post to let you know the YouTube version is now published: Honest Government Ad | Bullshit™ This extended version includes the insane story of California's forest offset program, which set aside 6M offset credits to compensate for losses due to wildfires over the

Dear Patrons Our next Honest Government Ad, provisionally titled, "Bullshit!™", is on the way. We'll miss the end of August by a couple of days... (not that I think anyone's really keeping track, other than myself) so I just wanted to drop a quick post to let you know it's coming. Given the tight de

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to make! Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres (And here's the Instagram version) The Ai data centre frenzy / hype / bullshit is taking over the world; yet another example of how much of the fuckery we're seeing today is caused o

Dear Patrons Here is the preview of our new Honest Government Ad PREVIEW: Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres There's been a lot of coverage of the Ai Data Centre "boom" around the world. But not enough has been said about the unholy marriage between the Ai industry and Big Gas. A topic that conc

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us produce. Honest Government Ad | Palantir We are continuing our international Government™ HGA series, which ties together events happening across the world. We had a huge response to our last Government™ HGA: the Instagram video al

(Edit: doh, i forgot to include the link to the audio file: have added it below!) Dear Patrons Here is the preview of the forthcoming Honest Government Ad! PREVIEW: HONEST GOVERNMENT AD | PALANTIR We had a lot of fun filming this one, despite how f**ed the situation is. The finial video should be ou

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to produce: Visit the Kimberley! We published the vertical edit yesterday, on our Instagram, where it's already had over 700k views and 8,000+ shares; and our Facebook, where it's had over 400k views. And our Tiktok. I held off on

Dear Patrons Here is the audio preview of the latest Honest Government Ad! This one took a little longer to make and I'm still editing it, so we'll miss the end of month deadline (not that we let deadlines worry us too much, here at the Department of Trying to Live a Somewhat Balanced Family Life Wh

Dear Patrons Today is the 10th anniversary of the Honest Government Ads 🥳 What a privilege it is to cover a decade of shitfuckery. All made possible by the help, love and support we’ve received over the years. Especially from you, our Patrons—past and present. Whether you've been supporting us sinc

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to produce. This is one of our Government™ episodes, where we take a big-picture look at what's going on on planet Earth... It's not a pretty picture. But there's also some glimmers of hope - from Hungary, Ireland, Nepal and Bangl

Dear Patrons Before I share some feedback from our latest HGA, I want to let you know that we deeply appreciate your support during this period. We know many are feeling the pressure of increased costs as the world is dragged deeper into chaos courtesy of the orange shitgibbon. So just like during c

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to produce: Honest Government Ad | Alcoa: How to be 'Merica's Bitch After we published our Woodside HGA, we had a lot of WA folks in the comments asking us to look into what's happening there with Alcoa. And when I did, I knew thi

Dear Patrons Here is the preview of our next Honest Government Ad! (PREVIEW) Honest Government Ad | How to be 'Merica's Bitch This one's focused on Western Australia, but it's also about how our natural heritage is being sacrificed to the giant cuntaloupe. A reminder that what's happening in the USA

Dear Patrons! Here's the latest video you've helped us to produce! Since Meg O'Neill announced she's moving over to BP, Woodside Energy is looking for a new CEO... so we thought we'd lend them a hand. (Coz we're helpful like that). Honest Government Ad | Woodside! As you can see, we've wasted no tim

Dear Patrons! Here's the audio preview for our next video which will be published later this week. As you can see, we've wasted no time getting to work after migrating across the continent to Western Australia. And we thought we'd make ourselves useful here by teaming up with local talent to cover W

Dear Patrons This update comes to you from the middle of the Nullarbor Plain! What are we doing in this beautiful, desolate Mad-Max landscape, you ask? Good question. We’re halfway through a 3,500km family roadtrip from Melbourne to Western Australia for the final week of the school holidays. But it

Dear Patrons Happy new year and welcome to our very first video of 2026—made possible by your support! Honest Government Ad | Santoss Tour Down Under This one needs little introduction. Fossil fuel companies like Santos and Woodside are killing our planet and don't deserve to stick their shitty logo

Dear Patrons of the Juice Media We hope this finds you spending some quality time with your loved ones. We know many of you work hard to make the world a better place, and to support your families. But I hope you're finding the time to slow down and make good memories as we approach the new year. Th

Dear Patrons Here is our latest Honest Government Ad which you've helped us to produce. Taking a break from auspol has been somewhat salubrious; but we're stoked to be back on our usual beat! And we're kicking off with a topic that is being talked about a lot right now: the Australian Government's s

Dear Patrons I have two important things to share with you! Firstly, here's the preview of our next Honest Government Ad about the Social Media Ban. That's right, finally an Australien Governmernt HGA! You've been so patient, Aussie Patrons (and I love you for it) On Dec 10, our world-first ban on S

Dear Patrons A quick update from us as we approach the end of November! Firstly, in breaking news: this morning the federal government finally struck a deal with the Greens in the Senate to pass it's Environment (EPBC) Act reforms. As you know, this is a topic that we've covered several times over t

Dear Patrons Here's our latest Honest Government Ad! Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims LNG This LNG project is cooked on so many levels. And not just because of it's deep connections to Trump and MAGA oligarchs. But I'll let the video do the explaining. What I do want to highlight though, is that we

Dear Patrons It's the first of the month so here's a quick update about what's in the oven! I'm currently editing our next HGA, and it's a big one. This episode is the result of our August trip to northern British Columbia, where we met Gitxsan and Gitanyow communities and learned about their next b

Kia ora, Patrons Here's the latest Honest Government Ad, you've helped to make possible: Visit New Zealand! This was one of our most requested international topics. And we've had so many requests from Kiwis (some of them quite desperate) to make an Honest NZ Government Ad for them, that I decided we

Dear Patrons I've been quiet lately coz I don't want to spam you with an email every week. But here's a quick catch up on things over the past month or so! Firstly, the super-short HGA about the Global Sumud Flotilla we made hit something in the order of 6+ million views across our pages - of which

Dear Patrons Here's the latest Honest Government Ad! Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla This one is about the Global Sumud Flotilla - the largest civilian maritime mission to Gaza, to date, comprising 50 boats, with hundreds of people from 40+ countries - in an attempt to open a humanitari

Dear Patrons Giordano here with a quick media update following our latest HGA: Visit Norway. Here's a mildly butthurt article in Aftenposten, Norway's biggest daily newspaper, with a full article about the HGA. They even reached out to the Minister of Climate and Environment for comment lol. And Equ

Dear Patrons Welcome to the first HGA of Season 4 Honest Government Ad | Visit Norway! It's the 100th episode of the series.... And as you can see it's in 4K! Thanks to you, we finally upgraded our camera and lights for Season 4. (Or should I say, Season 4k). As mentioned when I shared the preview y

Dear Patrons After a magical trip to British Columbia (more about that below), we're back home—and we've wasted no time in jumping straight back into work. Here is the audio preview of our latest Honest Government Ad - Visit Norway! As always, you're the first to hear it and feedback is warmly welco

Dear Patrons of the Juice Media We hope this finds you and your loved ones well. As you know, we've been taking a break these past few weeks. But during this time we've also been getting ready for Season 4, and I'd like to share some exciting news about what we've been up to—and what's coming up. Ma

Dear Patrons Here's our wrap-up video for Season 3! Featuring bloopers and behind the scenes from the past year of Honest Government Ads, plus thoughts about what's in store for Season 4. I hope you enjoy it! As mentioned in my last post, I planned to publish our wrap-up video in May. But on May 28,

Dear Patrons I hope this finds you and your loved ones well. Here's a quick check-in to let you know what we've been up to in May! 1. Hard-core familying: I promised Luca and Juno I would take a break after the election so we could hang out; and as you can see, we've made a good start on that—readin

Dear Patrons Whether you're Australian or one of our international supporters, I am sure you all share a deep relief in seeing that Australia (like Canada just a few days earlier) rejected Trump-style politics. That we elected a more progressive Parliament (even if not as progressive as some may hav

Dear Patrons Here is our latest HGA which you've helped us to produce! Honest Government Ad | How To Vote 2025 I tried to share this with you last night but after a marathon editing session (which has been going on for the whole of April, with back-to-back videos), I just had to crash for the night!

Dear Patrons Here's our latest Honest Government Ad for the 2025 election season, and it's about the esteemed leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton - who deserves a video all about him: Honest Government Ad | Peter Dutton Pete hangs onto his seat of Dickson by a tiny 1.7% margin. It's the most m

Dear Patrons Here's the audio preview for the next HGA. You can listen to it by clicking on this link This one's about the esteemed leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton MP, the member for Dickson—the most marginal seat in Queensland. It would be a tragedy if he were to lose his seat in Parliame

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to produce Honest Government Ad | Anthony Salmonese’s Surprise No you're not dreaming, we published our last HGA about Canada's election only last week, and we're back already with another episode this week. Booya That's coz we're

Dear Patrons Here is our latest Honest Government Ad! Honest Government Ad | Canada Election 2025 This one is for our friends in Canada who are having a pretty rough time leading into their next election. I wasn't planning to make a video about Canada's election - which will take place on April 28,

Dear Patrons / Previews Club Here is the preview of the next Honest Government Ad we've produced. (Preview) Canada 2025 Election | Honest Government Ad wtf? Our PM just announced our Australian election and we're making a video about Canada?! Well you see, Canada is also having an election - and it

Dear Patrons Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to produce! Honest Government Ad | Minority Government This was a challenging one coz let's face it, “minority government” is not the sexiest topic for a YouTube video. Thankfully here at the Juice Media we’ve developed a knack fo

Dear Patrons Here is the preview of the latest Honest Government Ad we've cooked up! (Preview) MInority Government | Honest Government Ad I'll have more to say about this episode when we publish the final video. Suffice to say for now, this is part of our mission to help voters better understand how

Dear Patrons Yes, we're back already with the next Honest Government Ad! Honest Government Ad | Our Last Fair Election? First of all, I'd like to introduce you to Liv Rian - the new actor who joins us for this HGA to fill in for Ellen. It's a hard act to follow, but I think she did a top job, consid

Dear Patrons Here we are, back with the preview of the next Honest Government Ad you've helped make possible. (PREVIEW) Australia's Last Fair Election? | Honest Government Ad As you can see, straight after publishing the Nuclear HGA and taking some safety precautions following certain doxxing threat

EDIT: Thank you so much for all your thoughtful comments in response to this post, it was truly heartwarming to read them this morning! I just wanted to add that as well as Bluesky, we're also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thejuicemedia Some of you kindly pointed out that this is an even bet

Dear Patrons Here is our latest Honest Government Ad that you've helped us to produce. The first one of 2025! I have a couple of things to say about this video, if you'll indulge me. (If not that's totally fine, just watch the video!) I started researching this topic in December, during our break, a

Dear Patrons Thank you for your patience! Here's the audio preview of our next HGA, about the Coalition's nuclear "plan". And as always, you are the first to hear it: (Preview) Honest Government Ad | Nuclear (Australia) This is our first HGA of the election season and as you can see, I've decided to

Dear Patrons Happy new year! This is a quick message to let you know that yes, we are back on deck, and yes, our first video of the year is coming! And as you can see from the photos, we've dived straight into the deep end of with Dutton's nuclear "plan". I was hoping to publish this HGA by the end