Table Scraps returns to Brunswick Ballroom to dissect Australian politics over dinner, and you're invited.
Forget polite dinner party chat — Table Scraps is back at Brunswick Ballroom this July, swapping small talk for a proper political brawl.
The new edition, titled Table Scraps: The Party’s Over?, turns its attention to Australia’s shifting political landscape, with the two-party system feeling more like a distant memory with each passing election.
Independents and fringe parties are picking up votes that once went straight to the major parties, and this dinner-table discussion wants to know why, and whether the swing toward right-wing politics is something we should’ve seen coming.
Brunswick Ballroom’s Table Scraps: The Party’s Over?
- Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne
- 7 July, 6:00pm
- Tickets here
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The night is hosted by Rachel Withers, host of 3RRR’s Spin Cycle and a well-regarded political writer in her own right.
Joining her at the table are Monique Ryan, independent MP for Kooyong, Osman Faruqi, political journalist and co-host of the Lamestream podcast, and Kos Samaras, former Victorian Labor strategist and pollster. A final guest is set to be announced shortly.
Each Table Scraps unfolds like an actual dinner, structured across courses.
There’s an Entrée to warm up the table, a Main Course where the real argument lives, a Side Dish that shifts the angle entirely, and a Dessert worth savouring.
After a short break, the floor opens up to the audience, who submit topics for Coffee & Port; the loosest, most unpredictable stretch of the night, where nobody quite knows where the conversation will end up.
It’s not a panel, and it’s definitely not an echo chamber. With an independent MP, a former Labor strategist and a political journalist all at the same table, there’s plenty of room for disagreement; and that seems to be exactly the point.
Tickets are on sale now for what’s shaping up to be one of Melbourne’s more unconventional political nights out.
Come for dinner, stay for the argument, and leave with a lot more to chew on than when you arrived.
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This article was made in partnership with Brunswick Ballroom.
