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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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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 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

Dear Patrons of the Juice Media We hope you're spending some quality time with your family and friends over the festive season. And that you had a groovy Christmas, if you celebrate it. Thank you for supporting our work in 2024. This year we covered the widest range of issues ever: from Myanmar to J

Dear Patrons When I shared our latest Honest Government Ad the other day, I forgot to mention that the Authorisation message at the end was actually spoken by Paul Watson, who recorded it from his prison cell in Nuuk, Greenland. What a f@!king legend This wasn't the easiest thing to do, as Paul isn'

Dear Patrons, I hope you're having a great weekend. I interupt it only briefly to share the news that last night we finally reached the big M on our YouTube channel! We could never have lasted this long and come this far without the support of all our Patrons, past and present, so we absolutely want

Dear Patrons of The Juice Media Here's a quick video I made to launch us into a new year of Honest Government Ads, featuring some bloopers and behind the scenes goodies I collected for you over the course of last year Direct link to the video: Bloopers & Behind the Scenes 2023 (Patron-only video) No

Dear Patrons of the Juice Media—a final post from us before this year ends, in a few hours from now, to sincerely thank you for all your support of our work in 2023. We know it’s been a tough year for many. So we truly value, and are deeply humbled that so many of you have stuck with us and made it

Greetings from the unceded Indigenous lands of British Columbia, Canada. Thank you for all the comments you sent on my last post, which I published from New York. My time here is almost up, I fly back to Melbourne tomorrow - but my time here has been truly awesome. In Toronto, I had the honour of sh

Hello from New York! Trump is being arraigned at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office here tomorrow, so it's an interesting time to be here. (The people I'm staying with can barely contain their excitement) But I'm actually here on my way to my actual destination: Canada. I'm honoured to have be

Dear Patrons I hope this finds you well and that you are still revelling in the outcome of the recent election (how good is Scott Morrison not being prime minister!) Over the past month we've been busy fixing the HGA set, updating our audio rig, taking care of admin and most importantly, spending so

Dear Patrons Thank you sincerely for all your support during this challenging year, and all the very best to you and your families for the one about to start. I am writing this post on a pit stop en-route to Luca and Juno’s first camping trip, something we haven’t been able to do with them due to lo

Dear Patrons The Honest Government Ads just turned FIVE years old! To mark this special occasion, I asked Ellen and Zoë to make a special birthday video - and I’m proud to share it with you all today. This is their work, their writing and quirky humour and most importantly, their voices! And great p

Dear Patrons Just a quick update to let you know our next Honest Government Ad is still on the way. I don't want to get into the habit of apologising whenever an HGA is a bit late - that can quickly get tired for both of us. But I think most of you would appreciate being kept in the loop - so I just

Dear Patrons Here's the preview of our next Honest Government Ad - a continuation of our coverage of the global pandemic. After the past couple of episodes focusing on the global situation, I thought this would be a good time to focus our own Australien Government, where - after a brief hiatus of re

Dear Patrons Like you, I've been watching aghast as these fires have inflicted devastation and violence on a scale hard to comprehend. I've been itching to make an Honest Government Ad about our government's incompetence and negligence in handling the situation. It's such an unfamiliar feeling for m

Dear Patrons, A new Honest Government Ad will be coming out soon, but in the meantime I have a big announcement - we've launched a Juice Media podcast! At the start of the year I said that once we reached our next Patreon funding milestone, I'd launch a podcast so we could get into more depth about

Dear Patrons, Giordano here with a quick update as we get ready to dive into Season 2 of the Honest Government Ads. I don't know about you but we needed a little break, and some family time, after the flurry of activity leading up to the Australian federal election. We spent the first week of it get

Dear Patrons, I want to send everyone a short message of support and solidarity as I know many of you will be feeling down after the results of the Australian election. I've been reaching out to friends to make sure they have someone to talk to, even if it's just to say "yeah, I know" or to share a

Dear Patrons, I hope you enjoyed our Honest Government Ad season finale. It's been getting a huge response, we've passed half a million views on facebook in less than 24 hours! Anyway, the reason I'm writing again so soon is that I have a quick house-keeping announcement. About a year ago we introdu

Dear legendary Patrons - thank you for all your support in 2018! I'm not going to bore you with a gushing message about how much I appreciate you for allowing me to do this work. Instead, I've made a video about it! With some Honest Government Ads outtakes and Behind the Scenes action thrown in, for

Dear Patrons, Just a quick update to let you know Juice Media stickers and t-shirts have finally landed! Thank you all for your eternal patience. We're making some final tweaks (we're printing 2 more designs for the sticker pack; the t-shirt will just say "Department of Genuine Satire"; and we're al

Dear Patrons, a super quick post to bring you the latest update in the Genuine Satire saga: Yesterday, Adam Bandt (Greens MP for Melbourne) stood up in Parliament to debate the proposed bill to criminalise impersonations of the Australian Government, and read out two *entire* Honest Government Ads f

Dear Patrons I've been a bit quiet in January so I thought I'd drop in to let you know where I'm at. (This is a slightly longer post than usual, but I’ll try to make it worth your while getting to the end of it!) Firstly, as you can see from the photo above, I've finally gotten round to organising s

Dear legendary Patrons, wishing you and your families all the best for 2018. Thank you so much for your support in 2017 - you're the reason we can continue to mercilessly troll Governments. Here's a quick end of year message I made which I hope you'll enjoy. It touches on some of the key moments of

Dear Patrons, just a quick post to let you know that Patreon is listening to its community and has reversed its decision to change the fee structure. Check this out, from Patreon's CEO: https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change This has been the result of massive pressure brought about by

Dear Patrons, welcome to the latest update in the Genuine Satire saga, aka the Australian Government's partly-hilarious, partly-worrying attempts to ban satire. Following the email I received from the Government, some legend submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Government, asking for th

Dear legends, I just wanted to fill you in quickly on what's happening here. It's all rather exciting and surreal. As you might recall, I received a letter from the Prime Minister's office asking me to stop using the Australian "logo"; signed, the National Symbols Officer (whatever that even is). We

Ahoy Patreon crew, I know you're busy but please lend me your eyeballs for a minute - I have 2 quick Updates for y'all :) 1. I'm working on a new Honest Government Advert: Visit Puerto Rico - and I can't wait to release it in a few days because, following the Visit Hawai'i video, I had a crazy numbe