All the major facts and figures in I, Millennial have come from upstanding, reliable sources and the lamestream media, and are all pretty easily Google-able, if you don’t believe me. I’ve included the sources for all the major claims, but I couldn’t be bothered doing a full list of references for everything because that felt too much like writing an actual book.

If you’re interested in going further down the revolutionary rabbit hole, here are some titles and sources that I drew on/plagiarised and might be useful:

• For Australian political history: Dr Elizabeth Humphrys’ How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project is dense, but fascinating and important. Dominic Kelly’s Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia is a brilliant, funny, and much-needed history of the small group of right-wing demons behind the H. R. Nicholls Society, the Samuel Griffith Society, the Bennelong Society and the Lavoisier Group, which have all done a fair bit of damage to our political landscape. I’d also recommend Shaun Crowe’s Whitlam’s Children: Labor and the Greens in Australia, Paddy Manning’s Inside the Greens, Bernard Keane’s The Mess We’re In, as well as labourhistory.org.au and the blog pipingshrike.com.

The ANU’s Australian Dictionary of Biography is a fantastic (free!) resource, too.

• For some Big Fat Socialism/anti-capitalism (and some laffs): check out Helen Razer’s Total Propaganda, Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto and The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason. While you’re at it, have a squiz at (and, if you can, support) the likes of Jacobin magazine (especially its Australian articles), Current Affairs, Overland, Red Flag, Green Left, Independent Australia, Marxist Left Review, Flood Media, New Matilda and Michael West Media. For funny and righteous analysis of the horrors of late capitalism and empire, you can’t go past Caitlin Johnstone (her blog can be found at caitlinjohnstone.com).

• On climate: Jeff Sparrow’s Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating is a brilliant examination of why our relationship to the natural world has become so broken. I’d also suggest Tim Hollo’s recent Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the End of the World As We Know It, and pretty much everything that climate and energy communicator Ketan Joshi puts out into the world (@ketanj0, ketanjoshi.co).

• If you hate privatisation as much as I do, check out publicfutures.org  and  the  work  of  Professor John Quiggin (@JohnQuiggin). If you want to get angry about how many goddamn political donations our major parties accept and the various industries they come from, head to DemocracyForSale.net, then please join the Australian Greens.

• Lastly, as you know, listening to podcasts is the greatest praxis anyone can ever do, ever. Apart from my pods, I recommend having a listen to Chapo Trap House, everything on Novara Media, Bad Faith, Well May We Say, Boonta Vista, Floodcast, The Australia Institute’s Follow the Money, the sporadically released Living the Dream, People’s History of Australia, and, of course, the IPA’s Australia’s Heartland with Tony Abbott.