Deboning Power - Critical analysis by Dr Angela Williams
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Power is not immune to challenges. These twenty minute episodes cut through power games and suggest ways to understand, challenge and dismantle the lies we are fed.Dr Angela Williams is the author of Snakes and Ladders: The dark truth of Australia's justice system through the eyes a woman sent to prison twice for the same crime.
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Spin Busting - What Australia can learn from the US coup
January 07, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBOh America. In the face of what’s happening in America, I ask Australia to reflect on our similarities to America as we all reel at the armed insurrection attempted today by Trump supporters. I read Call it what it was: a coup by Rebecca Solnit from The Guardian Australia for a more relevant overview than I could provide. From her analysis, I identify the following changes we need to demand: Honesty in politics needs to matter again. We need to demand truth and accountability. Divisi...
Getting better - Talking with sex workers
January 05, 2021 01:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBTwo days ago I posted on Facebook about a woman who contacted me to ask questions about my sex work for ‘her own personal curiosity’. This episode responds to that and expands on how we talk about sex work. Apologies, includes a gendered slur. My Facebook post: Woman in the comments of the news conference today asked about how the sex industry was coping with covid. I referred them to Scarlett Alliance for resources. They asked to DM me for their potential public health masters or ...
Monday Kink - Pain and Catharsis
January 04, 2021 05:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBFor the first Monday Kink of 2021 we are looking at pain and catharsis. We read about endorphins, the brain’s natural opiate, from On the Safe Edge by Trevor Jaques and talk about different ways of understanding the pain threshold. We celebrate how endorphins can soothe emotional pain as well and physical. The potential for pain as a therapeutic tool is unpacked by way of the idea of therapeutic kink and manufactured opportunities for catharsis. We define this term from Ian Buchanan’s Dic...
Getting Better - Snakes and Ladders - Chapter 1 - read by author
January 01, 2021 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBAnd welcome to 2021. I’m taking a break from thinking today to share the first part of my memoir Snakes and Ladders. Published in early 2020, Snakes and Ladders didn’t get anywhere near the promotion it deserved when it came out and so I’m giving you a gift of the first part as read by the author. Snakes and Ladders was published by Affirm Press in Melbourne. You can check out their page here https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/snakes-and-ladders/#post/0 or buy it from most online re...
Spin Busting - The experts Gladys is ignoring
December 31, 2020 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBOn the last day of 2020 we are listening to experts for once. This episode cuts through the power web between NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the billionaire funders of the Liberal National Coalition, and shows how the ‘expert opinions’ feeding into decisions are being shaped by this entanglement of money and corruption. We then go back to 18 December 2020 and listen to Dr Norman Swan’s expert advice to lock down the Northern Beaches and manda...
Spin Busting - NSW's sick Covid priorities
December 30, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBAfter watching every press conference with NSW Premier Gladys Berijiklian since 17 December 2020, I have ranked her priorities as I see them. There is much swearing in this episode. Much swearing. Listen along to hear my evidence for the following list. Priority 1: Protect the confidentiality of patient zero. Priority 2: Protect the Northern Beaches and keep their businesses open and profitable. Priority 3: Keep the fireworks to protect the income of hospitality businesses. Prio...
Getting Better - Going no contact and keeping yourself safe
December 29, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday we are talking about going no contact with your family and how to use that as a transformative tool. This one does get a bit brutal and includes discussion of child abuse, including sexual as I reflect back on the deaths in 2020 of my step-father, aunt and mother. I describe the costs and benefits of cutting off an abusive family with the reminder that there are no winners in this game. By going no contact are are taking back the power from our abusers. This can be an exceptional ...
Monday Kink - Building resilience with kink - and getting better
December 28, 2020 03:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBOn the last Monday of the year we are looking at how to build resilience with kink. I take you through my own journey from submissive to dominant and show you how it was an outcome of the processing of my mother’s abuse. I then introduce you to my 5 step plan for building resilience, kink entirely optional. Step 1: Acknowledge that bad stuff happens. Step 2: Accept your feelings, no matter what they are. Step 3: Process your feelings safely, without blaming or shaming yourself and ...
Getting Better - Building resilience with kink - and Monday Kink
December 28, 2020 03:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBOn the last Monday of the year we are looking at how to build resilience with kink. I take you through my own journey from submissive to dominant and show you how it was an outcome of the processing of my mother’s abuse. I then introduce you to my 5 step plan for building resilience, kink entirely optional. Step 1: Acknowledge that bad stuff happens. Step 2: Accept your feelings, no matter what they are. Step 3: Process your feelings safely, without blaming or shaming yourself and ...
Talking around Trolls
December 23, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBToday we are talking about Trolls to help everyone skill up for an online Xmas. The right-wing cheer squad are out in force and they’re gonna be fishing for reactions while sinking down the holiday booze, so best we have a plan. This episode looks at how women are becoming more active as professional troll herders, aka social media community managers, and how this comes out of grass roots efforts by women to combat online bullying. A huge shoutout to Magda Szubanski for her courage and r...
Getting Better - Talking around Trolls
December 23, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBToday we are talking about Trolls to help everyone skill up for an online Xmas. The right-wing cheer squad are out in force and they’re gonna be fishing for reactions while sinking down the holiday booze, so best we have a plan. This episode looks at how women are becoming more active as professional troll herders, aka social media community managers, and how this comes out of grass roots efforts by women to combat online bullying. A huge shoutout to Magda Szubanski for her courage and r...
Spin Busting - NSW Covid bubble pops and Gladys hides in plain sight
December 22, 2020 03:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBToday we look at the Avalon outbreak and wonder if NSW was set up for failure by Scott Morrison’s constant chants that we needed to be open by Christmas. We look at the history of Covid in Australia, going back to the Ruby Princess, the cruise ship full of pentecostal Christians that was allowed to disembark 3 days after bans were put in place. The Bulletin suggests that dodgy middle of this night phone call may have related to the in-laws of a ‘powerful federal minister’. We analyse the...
NSW Covid bubble pops and Gladys hides in plain sight
December 22, 2020 03:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBToday we look at the Avalon outbreak and wonder if NSW was set up for failure by Scott Morrison’s constant chants that we needed to be open by Christmas. We look at the history of Covid in Australia, going back to the Ruby Princess, the cruise ship full of pentecostal Christians that was allowed to disembark 3 days after bans were put in place. The Bulletin suggests that dodgy middle of this night phone call may have related to the in-laws of a ‘powerful federal minister’. We analyse the...
On Mondays We Kink: On therapeutic verbal humiliation
December 21, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBOn Mondays We Kink and today our kink is verbal humiliation. Comes with a content warning for sexual assault and a language warning for gendered slurs. This podcast brings you some theory from SM101: A realistic introduction by Jay Wiseman and lots of my personal experiences to talk about how verbal humiliation can be a tool for transformation and change, but only when used with care. You get a little listen in on this morning’s session with my beautiful trans girlfriend and an analysis ...
Monday Kink - On therapeutic verbal humiliation
December 21, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBOn Mondays We Kink and today our kink is verbal humiliation. Comes with a content warning for sexual assault and a language warning for gendered slurs. This podcast brings you some theory from SM101: A realistic introduction by Jay Wiseman and lots of my personal experiences to talk about how verbal humiliation can be a tool for transformation and change, but only when used with care. You get a little listen in on this morning’s session with my beautiful trans girlfriend and an analysis ...
One month of Deboning Power and I'm hooked
December 18, 2020 03:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBToday we are celebrating a month of Deboning Power with a wrap up and some launches. We meet the amazing Cate Steele, my hero (but you have to listen to find out), launch the Facebook page at facebook.com/deboningpowerpodcast/, and revive the Patreon now at patreon.com/DeboningPower. I’ve decided this is going to be my job since I’m pretty much unemployable after 2 psychological injuries in 2 different workplaces. Deboning Power is here for the long term. Yaaaay! Find out more Links...
Update - One month of Deboning Power and I'm hooked
December 18, 2020 03:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBToday we are celebrating a month of Deboning Power with a wrap up and some launches. We meet the amazing Cate Steele, my hero (but you have to listen to find out), launch the Facebook page at facebook.com/deboningpowerpodcast/, and revive the Patreon now at patreon.com/DeboningPower. I’ve decided this is going to be my job since I’m pretty much unemployable after 2 psychological injuries in 2 different workplaces. Deboning Power is here for the long term. Yaaaay! Find out more Links...
The China/WHO story is spin
December 17, 2020 02:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBToday we look at Australia’s latest attempts to formalise the East West divide through a PR campaign on China. In January, a team of WHO investigators is heading to China to investigate Covid-19. The person of this story told by Australia’s state sponsored media ABC is low on named sources or facts but gives unnamed sources to spout of threats to China. This podcast looks at the history of the Free Trade Agreement with China and wonders if we didn’t start the fight in the first place wit...
Spin Busting - The China/WHO story is spin
December 17, 2020 02:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBToday we look at Australia’s latest attempts to formalise the East West divide through a PR campaign on China. In January, a team of WHO investigators is heading to China to investigate Covid-19. The person of this story told by Australia’s state sponsored media ABC is low on named sources or facts but gives unnamed sources to spout of threats to China. This podcast looks at the history of the Free Trade Agreement with China and wonders if we didn’t start the fight in the first place wit...
Spin Busting - Healing House, sending women to prison for Jesus
December 16, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBToday we are looking at some breaking news about Healing House a Christian healing rehab centre in South West Sydney, NSW. Healing House was set up by a recovering addict and provides prayer healing and cultish indoctrination instead of drug and alcohol treatment. I describe my own experiences in pentecostal prayer circles and stab at the problems inherent in a system where women can be sent to jail for not believing enough. Also discussed - the Women’s Justice Network and the problem wi...
Healing House - sending women to prison for Jesus
December 16, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBToday we are looking at some breaking news about Healing House a Christian healing rehab centre in South West Sydney, NSW. Healing House was set up by a recovering addict and provides prayer healing and cultish indoctrination instead of drug and alcohol treatment. I describe my own experiences in pentecostal prayer circles and stab at the problems inherent in a system where women can be sent to jail for not believing enough. Also discussed - the Women’s Justice Network and the problem wi...
Consent counts in politics too
December 15, 2020 02:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBAustralia is in a non-consensual relationship with an abusive federal government and they aren’t listening to our safe word. This episode compares consent in the kink world with the current state of Australian politics. Listen along to find out how the national Covid commission, a little gang of business executives, have used the smokescreen of 2020 to lay out a plan of reforms for Morrison’s monstrous front bench to enact. We didn’t consent to this and we’ll be paying for it every secon...
Spin Busting - Consent counts in politics too
December 15, 2020 02:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBAustralia is in a non-consensual relationship with an abusive federal government and they aren’t listening to our safe word. This episode compares consent in the kink world with the current state of Australian politics. Listen along to find out how the national Covid commission, a little gang of business executives, have used the smokescreen of 2020 to lay out a plan of reforms for Morrison’s monstrous front bench to enact. We didn’t consent to this and we’ll be paying for it every secon...
Simon Says Consent - On Mondays We Kink
December 14, 2020 03:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBFor our first On Mondays We Kink, we talk about consent and how it matters at every stage of the kink journey. I share the story of Simon, a man who tried to bribe his way into our party on the weekend rather than provide me with a phone number. I use this case study to look a t the need for consent to be consent, clear and visible. And this is his remarkable email: I follow rules and hope you reconsider. It's that I'm not in an open relationship and need my privacy. Find out more ...
15 years on from the Cronulla Riots
December 11, 2020 03:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBToday we look at the Cronulla race riots and wonder what it means to have a Prime Minister who embraces the Cronulla culture. Fifteen years on from that day, I have a sinking feeling that Morrison’s a PM for the people who gathered on the sand more than those who came by car and train. All my research today was from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison Find out more Links at deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/ \ paypal...
Spin Busting - 15 years on from the Cronulla Riots
December 11, 2020 03:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBToday we look at the Cronulla race riots and wonder what it means to have a Prime Minister who embraces the Cronulla culture. Fifteen years on from that day, I have a sinking feeling that Morrison’s a PM for the people who gathered on the sand more than those who came by car and train. All my research today was from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison Find out more Links at deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/ \ paypal...
Scott Morrison on suicide and men’s emotions
December 10, 2020 01:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBWarning - today we are talking about suicide. Please look after yourself and seek support if you need it. Today we are talking about how our Prime Minister Scott Morrison talks about mental health and suicide and how this is contradicted by his actions after he mocked the shadow treasurer for crying during the industrial relations reform debate in parliament. Morrison’s tweet: twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1150963956544000001?s=20 Guardian: Scott Morrison's suicide prevention advis...
Spin Busting - Scott Morrison on suicide and men’s emotions
December 10, 2020 01:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBWarning - today we are talking about suicide. Please look after yourself and seek support if you need it. Today we are talking about how our Prime Minister Scott Morrison talks about mental health and suicide and how this is contradicted by his actions after he mocked the shadow treasurer for crying during the industrial relations reform debate in parliament. Morrison’s tweet: twitter.com/ScottMorrisonMP/status/1150963956544000001?s=20 Guardian: Scott Morrison's suicide prevention advis...
Cashless Welfare Card as Ritual Shame
December 08, 2020 03:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBToday the Australian Senate is voting on a bill to expand the cashless welfare card (CWC) after it was pushed through the lower house yesterday. It is the final sitting day of the year. The CWC is a tool of shame that the LNP Governments have used to punish poor people for existing. This podcast looks at the experiences of some people on this card and the many inquiries that have found problems with it. I hypothesise about the generation we’re raising and the impact of the children being...
Spin Busting - Cashless Welfare Card as Ritual Shame
December 08, 2020 03:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBToday the Australian Senate is voting on a bill to expand the cashless welfare card (CWC) after it was pushed through the lower house yesterday. It is the final sitting day of the year. The CWC is a tool of shame that the LNP Governments have used to punish poor people for existing. This podcast looks at the experiences of some people on this card and the many inquiries that have found problems with it. I hypothesise about the generation we’re raising and the impact of the children being...
On Pleasure and Cobra Kai
December 07, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBToday we talk about pleasure, balance and Cobra Kai. We’ve just set a new rule in my house where on Mondays we do kink. In this podcast I decide to pull that over here, starting out with this critical analysis of pleasure. Pulling on ideas from Derrida, Barthes and Burke, we define pleasure, jouissance and the sublime. Finding balance, I decide, means something different when you are balancing a history of abuse and trauma. The pleasures to be found in kink unlock a state of transformat...
Getting Better - On Pleasure and Cobra Kai
December 07, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBToday we talk about pleasure, balance and Cobra Kai. We’ve just set a new rule in my house where on Mondays we do kink. In this podcast I decide to pull that over here, starting out with this critical analysis of pleasure. Pulling on ideas from Derrida, Barthes and Burke, we define pleasure, jouissance and the sublime. Finding balance, I decide, means something different when you are balancing a history of abuse and trauma. The pleasures to be found in kink unlock a state of transformat...
Getting Better - Strip search trauma - and Spin busting
December 04, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBThis is a hard one that comes with a trigger warning for cops and sexual violence. This week a former prisoner was strip searched by the police at Parramatta train station because her Opal card ran out of money. This search was done in public. This cast looks at my strip searches in prison from Snakes and Ladders and thinks about how the NSW police force are using their powers now. This is my greatest fear and the reason I don’t go anywhere, but particularly not on public transport. I p...
Strip search trauma
December 04, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBThis is a hard one that comes with a trigger warning for cops and sexual violence. This week a former prisoner was strip searched by the police at Parramatta train station because her Opal card ran out of money. This search was done in public. This cast looks at my strip searches in prison from Snakes and Ladders and thinks about how the NSW police force are using their powers now. This is my greatest fear and the reason I don’t go anywhere, but particularly not on public transport. I p...
Viva la Podcast
December 03, 2020 03:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBToday we celebrate 13 episodes by looking at how podcasts are a powerful tool of the media revolution. The podcast allows us to speak our minds in a space where we’ve traditionally been spoken at. By inverting this hierarchy, podcasts allow us to find and share individual experiences and viewpoints. In an environment where both politicians and media companies are becoming harder to trust everyday, taking and owning the tiny space of a podcast can be revolutionary. Chris Barker Cultur...
Getting Better - Viva la Podcast
December 03, 2020 03:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBToday we celebrate 13 episodes by looking at how podcasts are a powerful tool of the media revolution. The podcast allows us to speak our minds in a space where we’ve traditionally been spoken at. By inverting this hierarchy, podcasts allow us to find and share individual experiences and viewpoints. In an environment where both politicians and media companies are becoming harder to trust everyday, taking and owning the tiny space of a podcast can be revolutionary. Chris Barker Cultur...
Therapy
December 02, 2020 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday I poke at therapy and how we can use it to take our power back. Not much research today, 'cept for some Foucault fangirling, so here are some links about some of the tools I've used on my journey. Meet Shrinkola: Australia's detention regime sets out to make asylum seekers suffer, says chief immigration psychiatrist Peter Young praised for revealing detention's toll on asylum seekers My book Snakes and Ladders A overview of Michel Foucault’s ideas on ‘truth telling’ Women Wh...
Getting Better - Therapy
December 02, 2020 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday I poke at therapy and how we can use it to take our power back. Not much research today, 'cept for some Foucault fangirling, so here are some links about some of the tools I've used on my journey. Meet Shrinkola: Australia's detention regime sets out to make asylum seekers suffer, says chief immigration psychiatrist Peter Young praised for revealing detention's toll on asylum seekers My book Snakes and Ladders A overview of Michel Foucault’s ideas on ‘truth telling’ Women Wh...
Spin Busting - The China Tweet
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBToday we analyse the ‘China tweet’ as a satirical photomontage and consider if our outrage at China is being misdirected. The episode looks at the tweeted image as propaganda designed to reflect back at us Australia’s hidden war crimes. It is a shout out to our hypocrisy which Scott Morrison has no right to censor. NY Times: Regarding The Torture Of Others By Susan Sontag Guantanamo: My Journey Guardian: Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crimes re...
The China Tweet
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBToday we analyse the ‘China tweet’ as a satirical photomontage and consider if our outrage at China is being misdirected. The episode looks at the tweeted image as propaganda designed to reflect back at us Australia’s hidden war crimes. It is a shout out to our hypocrisy which Scott Morrison has no right to censor. NY Times: Regarding The Torture Of Others By Susan Sontag Guantanamo: My Journey Guardian: Australian special forces involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crimes re...
Getting Better - Women talking about sex
November 30, 2020 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBToday we are looking at the power dynamics that impact on women speaking about sex on the internet. We dig into the contradictions between women speaking about sex as empowerment and trolls speaking at women about sex as a threat. Explores my experiences speaking in the sexualised space of Fetlife versus my carefully collated Facebook feed. We use bell hooks and Tillie Olsen to work out how to own our right to be heard. Talked about Tillie Olsen Silences bell hooks Talking Back: thin...
Women talking about sex
November 30, 2020 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBToday we are looking at the power dynamics that impact on women speaking about sex on the internet. We dig into the contradictions between women speaking about sex as empowerment and trolls speaking at women about sex as a threat. Explores my experiences speaking in the sexualised space of Fetlife versus my carefully collated Facebook feed. We use bell hooks and Tillie Olsen to work out how to own our right to be heard. Talked about Tillie Olsen Silences bell hooks Talking Back: thin...
Shameless Gladys
November 27, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBToday we are poking at NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s claims yesterday that pork barrelling ‘is not illegal’. We explore the narrative she is attempting to construct here and wonder what I means for her to run a trial by media on a topic that’s headed for ICAC. Referred to today: Berejiklian concedes $140m grant scheme was pork-barrelling, but says 'it's not unique to our government' Shredded documents at centre of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian grants controversy recovered by forensic ...
Spin Busting - Shameless Gladys
November 27, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBToday we are poking at NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s claims yesterday that pork barrelling ‘is not illegal’. We explore the narrative she is attempting to construct here and wonder what I means for her to run a trial by media on a topic that’s headed for ICAC. Referred to today: Berejiklian concedes $140m grant scheme was pork-barrelling, but says 'it's not unique to our government' Shredded documents at centre of NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian grants controversy recovered by forensic ...
Getting Better - Secrets and Shame
November 26, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday we look at secrets, shame and the tangled webs of power that go along with them. Not much reading at all, brief references to Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, but otherwise this all just pulled from my experience. Ends up with a description of what shame feels like in the body. **** Help me pay the podcast rent at paypal.me/AngelaJWilliams Join the conversation at Facebook Have I mentioned that I wrote a book? And that you can find me on Facebook? Or read my bl...
Secrets and Shame
November 26, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday we look at secrets, shame and the tangled webs of power that go along with them. Not much reading at all, brief references to Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, but otherwise this all just pulled from my experience. Ends up with a description of what shame feels like in the body. **** Help me pay the podcast rent at paypal.me/AngelaJWilliams Join the conversation at Facebook Have I mentioned that I wrote a book? And that you can find me on Facebook? Or read my bl...
Spin Busting - Transparency Fixes Corruption
November 25, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday’s episode looks at the knife of transparency and how we could use it to help cut out our corruption. We explore our dropping annual score on the transparency.org Corruption Perceptions Index and look at the steps our government is taking to slow down this conversation. Sorry - I forgot my inclusive language today - I know you’re not all ‘guys’. Spank me, I need it. Stuff we talked about today https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019/results/aus THE THREE MOST POWERFUL CHECKS AGAIN...
Transparency Fixes Corruption
November 25, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBToday’s episode looks at the knife of transparency and how we could use it to help cut out our corruption. We explore our dropping annual score on the transparency.org Corruption Perceptions Index and look at the steps our government is taking to slow down this conversation. Sorry - I forgot my inclusive language today - I know you’re not all ‘guys’. Spank me, I need it. Stuff we talked about today https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019/results/aus THE THREE MOST POWERFUL CHECKS AGAIN...
Spin Busting - Criminal Trade Unions
November 24, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBThis episode looks at the recent raids by the Australian Federal Police on offices and homes associated with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (aka CFMEU). It looks at the increasing criminalisation of the trade union movement, tracing it back through the AFP's Trade Union Taskforce and the 2014 Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. Includes a list of the many 'crimes' uncovered in the RC. (Tune in later in the week to compare this to rec...
Criminal Trade Unions
November 24, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBThis episode looks at the recent raids by the Australian Federal Police on offices and homes associated with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (aka CFMEU). It looks at the increasing criminalisation of the trade union movement, tracing it back through the AFP's Trade Union Taskforce and the 2014 Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. Includes a list of the many 'crimes' uncovered in the RC. (Tune in later in the week to compare this to rec...