"The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
292 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin notorious Guardian columnist Van Badham and her labour activist co-host (and partner!) Ben Davison. As they deep-dive into the big news themes of the week and provide fresh, irreverent analysis about what's really going on in Australia and around the world.
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Weekend Wrap 25 September 2022: Coalition doesn’t have policies its in opposition, Labor abolishing cashless debit card, creating a federal ICAC and leading in Vic and NSW
September 25, 2022 01:19 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB"We don't have policies, we are in Opposition, not in Government" Jane Hume Coalition Finance spokesperson on Insiders. That simple statement, which the plethora of anti-union policies on the Liberal website suggests in not true, sums up a lack of care, interest or genuine commitment to improving Australia from the Dutton led Coalition. Ben explores the Insider's interview, the Coalition policies that do exist, how the federal anti-worker approach has seeped into the NSW and Victorian Libe...
Episode 106: Morrison a cabinet of one, Labor’s new budget and new approach, gig reforms ready for delivery and good news in WA AND Queensland
September 21, 2022 08:16 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine the revelations that Scott Morrison held 739 cabinet committee meetings where he was the only member of the committee to avoid public scrutiny over his lack of genuine policies. Our hosts also offer solidarity to the workers who have been locked out, are taking action or have had to go on strike and encourage listeners to join their union at australianunions.org.au/wow and check out the funds to support locked out workers at https://knauf-lockout-fund.rais...
Weekend Wrap 18th September 2022: RBA admits lack of worker power undermining wages and bosses profiteering
September 18, 2022 01:22 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBBen Davison makes the Weekend Wrap a "royal funeral free" zone and focuses on Insider's short coverage on the Reserve Bank's appearance at the parliamentary committee and the state of Australia's economy. The RBA admits that a lack of worker power has made wage cuts and profiteering possible while CEO's and executives claim huge increases for their own pay increases. Meanwhile the bosses pamphlet (the Australian Financial Review) claims offshoring jobs will magically increase local wages, ...
Episode 105: NSW state of chaos, too many jobs but not enough pay, breakthroughs in Ukraine and the good news is about air
September 14, 2022 12:13 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison discuss how the latest industrial action on New South Wales' rail network is a worker provided win for commuters and a revelation about the New South Wales Liberal government's ongoing state of chaos. Remember you can join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow New data shows that record numbers of workers in Australia hold down multiple jobs but still can't get ahead, which is why union campaigns for secure jobs remain so crucial. Van runs through the analysi...
Weekend Wrap 11th September 2022: SPECIAL Van Badham joins Ben to discuss parliament, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and what’s next
September 11, 2022 02:06 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison discuss the big issues from the week in parliament, including the first climate legislation in a decade, family and domestic violence leave and the scrapping of the the multi-million dollar grant program to the governor-general's pet foundation, before the historic passing of Queen Elizabeth. Van and Ben - both republicans - discuss why the passing of the Queen is a historic moment, the differences in Australian and British reactions, why Prime Minister Albanese's...
Episode 104: Qantas Gets Joyced, the Economy, and Dutton Goes Nuclear
September 08, 2022 07:38 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison overcome their technology issues and meet online with Ben in Brisbane and Van back in Victoria. They discuss the ongoing corporate failure at Qantas, and a situation best described as an omnidirectional clusterJoyce. Meanwhile, Dutton's "Leftovers" on the Opposition benches have decided they now like workers, who themselves are having to take action to raise wages despite the nation experiencing full employment and rising productivity. Van and Ben dive into the mur...
Weekend Wrap 4th September 2022: Jobs Summit wins for workers, Dutton’s ideological blinkers and big business turns on small business
September 04, 2022 02:03 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBBen Davison gives a breakdown of the Jobs and Skills Summit. Looking at the outcomes, the positioning, the deal making and the politics behind the biggest step change in how Australia's economy is set up since the Howard era. Australian Unions made huge progress towards multi-employer bargaining, tripartite decision making on the transition to net zero as well as skills and policies that improve access for women, workers with disabilities and migrant workers to better pay and secure employ...
Episode 103: The jobs summit, wages, unequal pay day and tax cuts
August 31, 2022 08:17 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison devote a BUMPER EPISODE to talking through: the modern Australian workplace ahead of Labor's Jobs and Skills Summit, the leadership of Sally McManus, Australian unions AND small business to get multi-employer bargaining back into the national discussion, and the *insane* suggestion of sending 13-year-olds into the workforce, and the origins of such a dopey idea. Ben and Van also share the personal stories of three workers, Janene, Chris and Paul, who are making th...
Weekend Wrap 28th August 2022: Morrison Inquiry announced, Robodebt royal commission, Sally McManus on Insiders
August 28, 2022 01:25 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBBen Davison takes a look at the Morrison Inquiry's role in safeguarding our democracy, the Robodebt Royal Commission's role in safeguarding our social democracy and Sally McManus's ideas to get wages moving again. Start by joining your union at australianunions.org.au/wow The government has announced an inquiry into Morrison's shredding of democratic convention to be conducted by a former High Court judge and Ben looks at why the Morrison supporters are squealing. The Robodebt royal commis...
Episode 102: Inquiry into Morrison’s power grab, ACTU Climate plan for jobs summit, neo-liberal higher ed and good news on PFAS
August 24, 2022 06:49 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison breakdown the solicitor general's findings about Scott Morrison's shadow government of one, himself. There will be an inquiry and Morrison says's he'll participate but looks to be imposing conditions. Van explains how Morrison's conditions are a Trump tactic to shift blame and stall any real progress. As Labor's support surges ahead of the Jobs and Skills summit the ACTU, Australian Unions, has put out a discussion paper on how to create jobs while taking action...
Weekend Wrap 21 August 2022 Barnaby admits ignoring Morrison power grab to keep perks, gig economy ruling needs overturning and Morrison’s grants scam
August 21, 2022 01:06 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBBen Davison dives into the Morrison Modern Manufacturing Initiative Scheme that saw $828M handed out, including in five announcements during the election. Insiders had former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce on for a car crash interview where between calling for modular nuclear power plants in every town he admitted he didn't confront or make public Morrison's secret portfolios because he had been given ministries the Nationals weren't entitled to, staff they weren't entitled to and was concerned th...
Episode 101: Morrison’s shadow government, unions launch skills and migration plan, wages cut as profits soar
August 17, 2022 07:33 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison try to unpack the Morrison secret shadow government as the full extent of his additional portfolios is exposed. While Morrison flatly denies any wrong doing most of the country thinks he should resign from parliament and that he has undermined democratic processes. Van and Ben breakdown what happened, why it is a problem and what might happen next. While the legacy of Morrison's Napoleonic power grab continues to be record cuts to wages and record increases in...
Weekend Wrap 14 August 2022: Bowen’s masterclass on Insiders, Morrison’s COVID power grab and real economic reforms
August 14, 2022 01:25 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBBen Davison reviews how Insiders failed to discuss one of the biggest political stories of the week; Scott Morrison SECRETLY making himself health and finance minister during the early stages of the COVID pandemic. Ben breaks down why Morrison might have done it, asks who knew and would Peter Dutton do the same if he gets the chance? Chris Bowen gave a masterclass interview on Insiders where he outlined the complexity of the electricity market while providing assurance that real reforms ar...
Episode 100: Jobs summit clash, Trump raided and good news about the Great Barrier Reef
August 10, 2022 05:20 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison breakdown why Peter Dutton has refused the invitation to attend the Jobs and Skills Summit at the same time his junior coalition partner and own shadow Treasurer are demanding an invitation. While the Liberals seem determined to call everything a "stunt" Labor's ministers are consulting with stakeholders from business and the union movement on how to get the economy going again. Australian Unions have today put out a paper calling for economic reforms that would ...
Weekend Wrap 7th August 2022: Climate progress as Dutton moves to culture war mode and a look at Uberisation in the NDIS
August 07, 2022 02:35 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBBen Davison gives a wrap up of the "end of the climate wars" (its not really), the culture war being built to oppose the Voice, Dutton's union bashing and his nuclear folly. Don't forget to join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow (you know Dutton will hate it) With Paul Karp's Guardian piece exposing the "Pay to get paid" Uber platforms in the NDIS Ben discusses how Uber style "contracting" is undermining the assumptions of employment in the NDIS, the profiteering that is happening...
Episode 99: Broken economics, climate change targets, Liberals at it again and good news on plastic
August 03, 2022 07:39 - 1 hour - 95.4 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison give a quick update on the goings on at parliament (Aged care reforms, workers in the halls, cultural policy, a review of defence and attempts to claw back the "Workforce Australia" program) before jumping into how the economic establishment has gotten things so very wrong during the cost of living & inflation crisis. With inflation climbing and interest rates rising but wages going backwards and profits at record levels Van and Ben discuss how the fever dream of ...
Weekend Wrap 31st July 2022: Albo announces Voice question, grim economic outlook inspires rapid Labor agenda and rebalancing workplace power
July 31, 2022 01:07 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBBen Davison looks at Prime Minister Albanese's Insiders interview from Garma where he outlined his plan for the constitutional referendum and the enshrinement of the indigenous Voice to parliament. How the Voice comes into being will depend on winning the referendum and Ben analyses the approach Albo is taking to make sure he wins the debate. The 1st week of the 47th parliament saw a flurry of legislation. Ben examines why aged care reforms, emission reduction targets scrapping the cashle...
Episode 98: The challenges facing Albo’s parliament, half of Australia has COVID, Morrison AWOL, Bison are BACK!
July 27, 2022 01:30 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison take a look at why Anthony Albanese's government faces some significant challenges as the new parliament sits for the first time. Van and Ben discuss the emotional opening of parliament and why Labor's time in government, particularly under the current circumstances, is so important. With neo-liberal economic ideologues dominating the institutions of our economy the Labor government's drive for more secure work, better wages, paid family and domestic violence lea...
Weekend Wrap 24th July 2022: Tony Burke talks workplace reforms on Insiders, Climate change targets, Liberal scaremongering & it pays to be union
July 24, 2022 01:15 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBBen Davison examines Tony Burke's Insider's interview where he announced the end of the ABCC misusing taxpayer funds to persecute workers over union stickers, logos and flags. Minister Burke also discussed how some corporations are using "loopholes" to lower wages as an Age/SMH piece finds workers in union agreements are winning higher pay rises than non-union workers. Join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow Tony Burke is promising minimum standards for all workers, the end of "ille...
Episode 97: Barilaro busted, Corporations driving up inflation, Labor commits to 30:30 by 2030 to fix environment & COVID update
July 20, 2022 07:50 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at how John Barliaro has come totally unstuck as his former chief of staff testifies that the former NSW Nationals Deputy Premier created the New York trade position with every intention of taking the job himself. Tanya Plibersek has released the previous Morrison government's environment report which has some damming facts and figures about the state of Australia's environment. Van and Ben discuss the Labor promise to establish an Environmental Protection A...
Weekend Wrap 17 June 2022: Albo listens to workers on paid pandemic leave, Bandt threatens to vote with Dutton on Insiders & Van and Ben get MARRIED!
July 17, 2022 05:15 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBVan Badham joins Ben Davison for a very special weekend wrap. Our hosts got married yesterday! In a small family ceremony at the beach where Van's father's ashes were put into Botany Bay, Van and Ben have tied the knot. But the news waits for no one. Albo's decision to reinstate paid pandemic leave payments for worker's who have to isolate shows the power of working people raising their voice together and the willingness of a Labor government to listen to workers. The union movement (whi...
Episode 96: Making the job summit work for workers, Bosses bumper bonuses, COVID update and good news about sand
July 13, 2022 10:48 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at the Albanese Government's announcement of a jobs and skills summit, who might be going, who thinks they are going, what it is supposed to achieve and why the Liberal Party is totally confused about what is happening. Australian Unions are positioning to have the summit fix our broken workplace laws, improve wages, job security, working conditions for women and access for all. To be part of the movement, like Steve (listen and you'll understand), go to aus...
Weekend Wrap 10th July 2022: Bye Boris, Sri Lankan upheaval, Abe assassination and media fails, NSW attacks workers, COVID update
July 10, 2022 08:24 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MBIn 20 minutes Ben looks at the resignation of Boris Johnson, who remains Prime Minister but is no longer the leader of the Tory party, the political upheaval in Sri Lanka as the President and Prime Minister resign following the citizens taking over the Presidential palace and the assassination of former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe by a suspected conspiracy theorist. Ben has a particular focus on the failures of Australian media in recent coverage of events that could have or may yet...
Episode 95: Albo visits floods, industrial action in New South Wales, COVID getting worse and good news about maritime parks
July 06, 2022 02:13 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison break down how the Liberal Party and their right wing media allies have attacked Albo doing his job promoting Australia's interests in Europe while they simultaneously forgot that Dutton is literally on holiday. Even NSW Liberal state Premier Dominic Perrottet has defended Albo saying the state and federal government had been working well on dealing with the current flooding disaster. Van and Ben look at what is happening with the floods from a political perspec...
Weekend Wrap 3rd July 2022: Albo rebuilds Australia’s reputation, Per Capita shines a light on NDIS, grim COVID milestone
July 03, 2022 02:38 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBVan Badham joins Ben Davison for a special Weekend Wrap to discuss the rapid rebuilding of Australia's international reputation, the latest Per Capita report on systemic risks of contracting in the NDIS and Australia suffering our 10,000th COVID death. Albo and the Labor government have rapidly rebuilt Australia's international reputation with allies in Europe and pacific embracing the new government. The results are tangible with new trade, regional security and bi-lateral relations that ...
Episode 94: The boomer fantasy of wage spirals, the failed states of America and good news about Queensland coal
June 29, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 105 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison emerge from their COVID isolation to breakdown the real story behind the wages debate in Australia. The reality doesn't match the ideological chest beating from the business lobby who were quick to claim a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) mandate for a wages cap (their isn't one) to stop a "wages spiral" and that Sally McManus, leader of Australian Unions, had called the RBA governor a "boomer". (She didn't). Van and Ben look at the ways collective bargaining is...
Episode 93: Morrison’s march through the institutions uncovered, we have COVID and Albo signs up for ambitious action on climate change
June 22, 2022 05:39 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison have COVID! But that doesn't stop them from examining how a decade of Liberal/National government gave Morrison the chance to stack out various Australian institutions, ranging from the ABC to the Reserve Bank. While many appointments across government may have been on merit the uniform ideological background of people on the Reserve Bank Board have many people questioning the recent demands by the Governor of the RBA for workers to wear more pay cuts and suggest...
Weekend Wrap 19th June with Van Badham! Albo’s agenda, Dutton on Insiders, early childhood reforms
June 19, 2022 01:41 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBVan Badham joins Ben Davison for the Weekend Wrap and a look under the hood at the Victorian and New South Wales early childhood education announcements this week. While it was a joint announcement the details highlight the public sector vs private sector approaches of the respective Labor and Liberal governments. NSW has also announced "reforms" in education which are based on policies that have consistently proven a failure elsewhere. Albo has outlined the first three items for parlia...
Episode 92: Workers win pay rises, how Labor won government, coal fails during snap and good news about energy transitions in WA
June 15, 2022 06:56 - 1 hour - 101 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison celebrate Minimum Wage day as 2.7 Million low paid workers in Australia are set to receive at least a 4.6% and up to 5.2% increase in wages. We look at who will get what and when. As well as the dollars and cents, Van and Ben break down the economic and socio-political realities of the minimum wage decision, what we need to do to help lift the wages of the other 75% of workers in Australia not on minimum awards (it starts by joining your union australianunions.or...
Weekend Wrap 12 June 2022: Shorten on Insiders talks NDIS fixes, Qantas, Merivale and toxic corporate cultures
June 12, 2022 03:04 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBBen Davison looks at Bill Shorten's Insider's interview and his push to fix the NDIS. With 90% of NDIS providers now unregistered, organised crime infiltrated into the system & foreign private equity extracting profits Shorten has promised that if "you are delivering personal care you have to be registered" that people will be "paid the proper award" and we to "make sure people are qualified". While every dollar invested in the NDIS returns $2.25 the lack of quality control, auditing and m...
Episode 91: A decade of economic damage, minister making their mark, NSW workers face down wage cuts and good news about sea grass
June 08, 2022 05:45 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at what's happening in our economy as the Reserve Bank raises rates, inflation spikes and wages continue to go backwards in real terms. Van and Ben get underneath the headline figures to look at what's really driving inflation, who's profiting and why wage increases are exactly what we need to get the economy humming. You can get your wages moving by joining your union at australianunions.org.au/wow They also examine how the Liberal/National policies of the...
Weekend Wrap June 5 2022: Liberal energy policy bites, profits soar as wages crash, Labor makes moves
June 05, 2022 01:59 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBBen Davison looks at Labor's moves to scrap the cashless debit card, end the outsourcing of Centrelink call centres and lift the minimum wage while acknowledging National reconciliation week and Mabo Day. Insider's had National Party leader David Littleproud on who expressed "no regrets" over the policies of the last decade of Liberal-National misrule, lied about Labor's efforts to fix the energy crisis and doubled down on the Morrison era policy of supporting multi-national gas companies o...
Episode 90: Albo’s new Labor Ministry, Does the media have a class bias, and Dutton imports culture wars
June 01, 2022 07:04 - 1 hour - 100 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison dive into the new Albanese Government Ministry with a look at some of the key changes as well as an explainer on how "factions" work and directly answer some direct listener questions. Big appointments in defence, skills, education, environment, climate change, NDIS, government services, aged care, housing, Indigenous Australians, infrastructure, the arts and workplace relations all align with some key Labor priorities for this term of government. Many groups are...
Weekend Wrap 29 May 2022:PM Albo’s first week, Insiders learns nothing from election, Dutton the glass jaw villain, Barnaby for the chop and industrial actions
May 29, 2022 01:28 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBBen Davison looks at a huge first week for the Albanese Labor government as five ministers bring the Muragappan family home to Bilo, push to lift wages, rebuild our relationships in the Pacific, ensure our role in the Quad and commit to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a Voice to parliament. Ben also reviews the latest episode of Insider's where Phil Coorey calls Education, Health, The NDIS, ICAC, early childhood, aged care, industrial relations, the arts, infrastructure, climate chan...
Episode 89: PM Albo and the gang of four, Liberal Leader Dutton, Murdoch media fails and democracy sausages
May 25, 2022 07:20 - 1 hour - 92 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine the first few days of the Albanese Labor government as Albo and his gang of four are sworn in to start the transition after a decade of Liberal-National rule and so Albo can attend the regional security pact meeting known as "The Quad". Van and Ben look at Labor's policy priorities between now and the end of the year, the make up of the parliament, the failure of the Liberal Party to hold any of the inner city Liberal "seat by rights" and what we will be l...
Weekend Wrap: Post election special with Van Badham and Ben Davison
May 22, 2022 07:48 - 42 minutes - 59 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison talk about election night 2022, the first openly left/centre left LIVE Election night broadcast and the current state of play for the Australian parliament. With Albo's Labor Party winning a majority but the most independant MPs elected into parliament since before WWII Van and Ben look at what has happened from a macro perspective and how this election signals that Australia is still a Menzian/Hawke nation. A concept that Morrison's "Liberals" seem to have forgo...
Episode 88: Morrison cuts wages, jobs and retirements, unions win domestic violence leave, election 2022
May 18, 2022 06:46 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison break down Morrison's re-election platform of wage cuts, job cuts and raids on retirement on the very day the Morrison government has delivered the worst wage figures in more than 20 years. With profits up, sales up, CEO pay up, the cost of living going up and Morrison demanding workers wear a $4,000 pay cut Van and Ben ask the question; "How can Morrison be promising to cut wages, cut jobs and raid people's retirements but still be in with a chance of winning th...
Weekend Wrap 15th May 2022: Albo calls for wage rises on Insiders, Morrison promises to change and delivers more of the same and Dutton’s lies
May 15, 2022 01:03 - 16 minutes - 23.2 MBBen Davison looks at Albo's Insider's interview and the key point that Australians with jobs are now having to rely on food banks while Morrison argues for more pay cuts and against a $1 an hour wage increase. Morrison ended the week promising to change but immediately doubled down on all the same old policy positions. The Liberal campaign launch shows a weakening grip on older voters and Dutton says things that are untrue about China and the USA. While Ben attended a union organised chora...
Episode 87: Morrison demands workers take pay cuts, voting has started and the 3rd leaders debate
May 11, 2022 04:11 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at why Morrison is demanding that Australian's accept pay cuts of $2,000 each as he rails against the idea that wages should keep pace with inflation. Since Morrison responded to Albo's question on whether or not every worker should be paid the minimum wage with "it depends" the focus of the election has been on wages. Workers in aged care, hospitals and education have all recently taken action to lift wages, Australian Unions have increased their minimum wa...
Weekend Wrap May 8 2022: Waleed gets it wrong on Insiders, Tanya nails workplace reforms, Medicare scandal and 2nd debate
May 08, 2022 01:49 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBBen Davison covers why Waleed was wrong to suggest we need more wage cuts to control inflation as Australian workers have already lifted productivity by more than 10% points since 2013 and Treasury tells us that for every 1.5% lift in productivity we can sustain 4% increases in wages WITHOUT impacting inflation. And wages have been going backwards. Ben looks at why inflation is happening despite wage cuts and what can be done about it as he reviews Tanya Plibersek's Insider interview promi...
Episode 86: Halfway through election 2022 who is winning? Morrison or Albo?
May 04, 2022 08:35 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison are joined by the host of hit political podcast, Socially Democratic, Stephen Donnelly to discuss the 2022 election...so far. The crew examine some big questions: Is Labor's polling lead translating on the ground? Has Morrison lost control of the economic and national security narratives? Have Australian Unions turned "economic management" into a discussion about "managing wage growth and lower prices"? Is the mainstream media losing its influence or is it ju...
Weekend Wrap: May Day 2022, James Campbell’s Insiders embarrassment, Labor’s campaign launch & Morrison’s campaign chaos
May 01, 2022 08:15 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBThis May Day Ben Davison gives a 20 minute wrap up of James Campbell's embarrassingly fact free appearance on Insider's where he dismissed the democratic rights of two thirds of Australian's and everyone who has experienced wage cuts over the past two years. Remember union member's have more secure jobs and earn more so join at australianunions.org.au/wow Ben looks at Labor's promise to launch a RoboDebt royal commission and the justice it may bring for nearly 400,000 Australian families. ...
Episode 85: Morrison bungles the economy, Labor launches economic policy and chaos in the coalition campaign
April 27, 2022 08:49 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at how Morrison has bungled the economy. Despite his many promises he is set to increase taxes for 10 million households, has overseen a 5% spike in inflation (just two months after promising it wouldn't go above 4.25%) and is delivering a $2,000 real wage CUT. Van and Ben look at how the inflation spike, wages cuts, impending interest rate rise and ongoing job insecurity shows Morrison's economic ideology that "government can't do things" is built of false ...
Weekend Wrap: Morrison’s ”blessing” a curse on NDIS, Barnaby’s Insiders sell off plus wage theft & pork barrelling
April 24, 2022 02:11 - 26 minutes - 37 MBBen Davison looks at Morrison's explanation that his debate response to a mother who's child has had their NDIS support cut that he was "blessed to not have had to go through that" was about the difficulties in navigating the NDIS, rather than a comment about children with a disability. Even if we take Morrison at his word it is, at the very least, a condemnation of his own failure to properly deliver the NDIS. Plans have been cut by an average of 4%, appeals to the AAT have doubled, fore...
Episode 84: Morrison promises wage cuts, Labor to reform NDIS, COVID rules changing and good news on solar storage
April 20, 2022 08:16 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at Morrison's promises on workplace laws and what the real impact will be for working people. They also give a roundup on the changing COVID rules and election state of play. Morrison's campaign continues to take place in workplaces where workers are being offshored, wages cut, temporary migrants exploited and former Liberal Minister's chair the board. The work of unions in exposing these travesties while also fighting for better wages, safer workplaces and ...
Weekend Wrap Easter Election: Insiders calls out Morrison’s bigot strategy, Morrison dodges ICAC, a new health minister & disinformation warfare
April 17, 2022 05:59 - 1 hour - 94.7 MBVan Badham joins Ben Davison for an election special weekend wrap. The end of the first week of the election campaign has seen a change in the way the media reports the campaigns, the topics that are being covered and the insights being offered. On ABC's Insider's program the panel openly discussed Morrison's decision to install a bigot into a seat he does not expect to win in order to help gain communities in other seats. Meanwhile his own Foreign Affairs Minister refused to endorse the c...
Episode 83: Morrison ”hosts” the media, election campaign highlights and low lights, good news about solar panels at night
April 13, 2022 07:12 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison discuss "horse race" political journalism in light of the revelations that Morrison is "hosting drinks for the media" during the campaign and that the "cash rate gaffe" was based on a question asked after a visit to a nursing home that needed nurses but where the media wasn't interested in asking about aged care policy. With disinformation campaigns having shaped national elections in Australia, the UK and the USA in recent years Van and Ben discuss why trust in t...
Election kick off special: Morrison has called the election!
April 10, 2022 06:27 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBVan Badham joins Ben Davison to discuss the opening salvo's from Morrison and Albo on the first day of the election. They take a brief look at some of the battle ground seats around the country, the key issues that have been put forward by the leaders and seperate some of the spin from the reality. So settle in for a wide ranging chat about the issues, the leaders, how the systems of our democracy work and some frank confessions about who has eaten chalk and people's favourite cheeses in t...
Episode 82: Morrison’s trust deficit worsens, Liberals with questions to answer, election battle lines drawn, good news about Fortnite and Ukraine
April 06, 2022 07:02 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison dive into the mess that is Scott Morrison's relationship with the truth as the week since the budget has seen Morrison called "unfit to be Prime Minister" by member's of his own government, state Liberals MPs write articles on why they "cannot vote for the reelection of a Scott Morrison government" and ABC Fact Check find him to be "misleading" All while his intervention in the NSW Liberal Party pre-selections has been called a "debacle" by NSW Liberal Premier Dom...
Weekend Wrap 3 April 2022: Frydenberg’s train wreck on Insiders, Unions are campaigning to lift wages & Putin’s war crimes?
April 03, 2022 01:30 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBJosh Frydenberg gave a train wreck interview with David Speers on Insiders. From refusing to fund aged care wages to it being exposed that he had planned to reduce the price of medicines but had it cut from the budget and continually saying he and Morrison were offering "temporary cost of living relief", when what we need is a permanent improvement in living standards, Josh came across as a man who doesn't believe his own spin. Australian Unions have put in a minimum wage case claim to lif...