"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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Episode 56: Far right riots in Melbourne, Morrison skips country to play submarines with Biden and Boris but the good news is about fossil fuels
September 22, 2021 08:14 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison breakdown what's happening in Melbourne as far right infiltrators have been rioting, attacking union offices, attacking police and desecrating working class sites. It is a cracking deep dive into fascism, what's driving the riots, why union offices and sites have been targeted, the baffling political responses and what we can do to ensure democracy and our communities are protected. Van discusses what's driving these "new far right" adherents and gives some insig...
Weekend Wrap 19 September 2021 Nuclear subs blowing up jobs, diplomatic and trade relations, Morrison‘s Port Problem, Pro-Covid protestors and union wins!
September 19, 2021 03:37 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBBen Davison is back with the Weekend Wrap looking at how Morrison's Nuclear sub deal is blowing up Australian jobs, threatening trade relations with China and the EU and resulting in the only European power that cares about the Indo-pacific region withdraw their ambassador from Australia and the United States (their oldest ally). But we will now get eight instead of 12 subs. In 2040. And "that fella", as Biden calls Morrison, has only had to part with $90 billion of our taxpayer funds to m...
Episode 55: Porter‘s mystery donor and Morrison‘s problem with accountability, Education under attack, COVID updates and good news about cows
September 15, 2021 08:12 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine the latest Morrison government transparency failure as Christian Porter receives a "blind" million dollars for his legal fund that even Malcolm Turnbull can't stomach but Frydenberg says is "within the rules". Its been over 1,000 days since Morrison announced the as yet undelivered national anti-corruption organisation but he has found time to cut the national audit office budget after it uncovered sports rorts and a $30 million payment to a Liberal Party ...
Episode 54: Morrison‘s father‘s day jaunt, Women‘s summit ”platitudes”, more vaccinations needed before COVID under control and good news about scooters & football
September 08, 2021 09:07 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine how Scott Morrison's decision to fly to Sydney for father's day weekend, at tax payer expense across two closed borders, was compounded by the sleight of hand photo used on his social media and speaks to his continued poor judgement in the wake of his trip to Hawaii, the family pub crawl around Cornwall and his decision to deal with the politics, rather than the substance, of his party's "women problem". The Women's Summit, Morrison's attempt to make the r...
Weekend Wrap 5 September 2021: Morrison minister calls COVID reopening a plan for a framework that might change as a plan plus Jobkeeper overpayment hypocrisy and worker wins for the week
September 05, 2021 02:45 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MBBen Davison breaks down Morrison Minister, Stuart Robert's, appalling explanation of the COVID reopening plan on Insiders as NSW hits 24,000 active cases, The Saturday Paper exposes Galdys' 1,700 secret hospital cases and News.com reveals there are three children are in ICU with COVID19. The Morrison government won't publish the list of companies that received Jobkeeper even though $13 BILLION was over paid to profitable companies yet it is chasing down thousands of workers who received Job...
Episode 53:COVID here to stay, Morrison kills off respect at work for women, The recession and good news on magnetic liquid fighting microplastics
September 01, 2021 07:15 - 1 hour - 85 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison analyse Gladys delusional optimism about COVID reopening, Dan's sombre lockdown extension and the increase in far right foreign agitation as orchestrators of COVID spreading events in Australia are arrested overseas. The Morrison government drops protections for women from sexual harassment from its respect at work legislation as women across Australia campaign and make #wewontwait trend. But is the fact that Michaelia Cash is the industrial relations minister an...
Weekend Wrap 29 August 2021: Glady's and Morrison delusions of Freedom day while 15,00 COVID cases active, daily records tumble, a thousand in hospital and 10% of jobs destroyed
August 29, 2021 02:59 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBBen Davison looks at the delusions of Glady's and Morrison as Australia reaches more than 15,000 active COVID cases, smashes through 1,200 new cases a day, hospitals are overwhelmed, ambulance services issue warnings and testing clinics are attacked. The Doherty Institute tries to clarify that even at 70% vaccination rates, if COVID is as loose in the community as it is now, the only solution is lockdowns as Mark Butler goes on Insiders and warns that 6 million Australians will still be unv...
Episode 52: Morrison & Glady's rolling COVID disaster, Corporates trying to use the pandemic to cut job security as workers fight back and the good news is roads that charge electric cars
August 25, 2021 09:02 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine the rolling disaster that is Morrison and Glady's handeling of the COVID pandemic as NSW records a record 919 new cases and two hospitals, Blacktown and Westmead, are unable to take any more COVID patients. The Ruby Princess inquiry finds the Morrison government didn't learn from mistakes overseas and let 600 COVID infected people out into community. This as the UK and unvaccinated in the USA start to die and overwhelm hospitals in record numbers and Morr...
Weekend Wrap: Morrison goes on Insiders to spin vaccines failures and abandoning Aussies in Afghanistan, COVID doubles in NSW in 10 days, violent fascist recruitment rallies broken up
August 22, 2021 03:20 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBBen Davison analyses Morrison's claim he can't (or won't) bring home every Australian stranded in Afghanistan and the implicit promise to abandon our allies as thousands of people try to reach safety. The bungled vaccine rollout is also dismissed by Morrison as something unforeseeable despite experts, Labor, unions and business all warning his government in 2020 that we needed more Pfizer and more local manufacturing capacity. The exclusion of children from the vaccine rollout targets and ...
Episode 51: Morrison fails allies in Kabul, COVID explodes in NSW, wages go backwards and good news on electric highways
August 18, 2021 06:38 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine the situation in Afghanistan, Morrison's abandonment of our allies, the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, what is happening to the Hazara people and the fears many have for women, girls and minorities. People are desperate to get out as Taliban leaders declare national pardons but Taliban fighters are reportedly beating up fleeing civilians and the West scrambles to respond to the thousands of people in need of a visa, a flight and a new home. Van and Ben...
Weekend Wrap 15 August 2021
August 15, 2021 07:00 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MBBen Davison looks at the current COVID crisis, how Morrison and Gladys have helped each other avoid responsibility as Australians die and states are locked down by the Delta variant that was allowed to leak out of Sydney but a Premier and a PM too slow to react, too arrogant to do what was needed and too political to put our health above their polling numbers. Morrison turned down an open ended offer from Pfizer for vaccines last year becasue, at $20 a dose, he said they were too expensive....
Episode 50: Houston, Canavan, Christensen and Kelly, The company Morrison keeps. Morrison blames developing countries to avoid climate action. COVID gets worse. Good news is whiskey powered trucks!
August 11, 2021 08:08 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison explore the company Prime Minister Scott Morrison keeps as his pastor faces charges of concealing a crime, one of his senators spouts Bannon neo-fascism and made up numbers on the ABC and one of his members in the lower house regurgitates foreign conspiracy theories and finally gets called out on it by the parliament. Plus there's Craig Kelly, Gerard Rennick and even a bit of Barnaby! The IPCC, and reality, says humans are slow cooking our only home but Scott Morr...
Weekend Wrap 8 August 2021
August 08, 2021 06:36 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBBen Davison recaps a great Olympics for Australia during a difficult time and discusses some of the highlights that bought the nation together. COVID remains out of control in Sydney with more deaths, record case numbers, growing hospitalisations and a creeping lockdown that feels piecemeal to the rest of the nation. Brisbane comes out of lockdown as Cairns goes in and Melbourne is back in lockdown as Tasmania and WA record cases. Wins for workers at McCains, we acknowledge aged care work...
Episode 49: NSW suffers 233 new cases of COVID as man in his 20's dies, Morrison's women problem is a problem for everyone, good news about solar cars!
August 04, 2021 08:24 - 56 minutes - 77 MBVan Badham, in lockdown Sydney, and Ben Davison, with a crying dachshund, dive into the mishandling of the Sydney lockdown, the spread of Delta, how Morrison's attacks on the public sector have resulted in needing to use the Army for a health crisis and what we can do to remove barriers to vaccination. The workers at McCain are back at work following their win over the multinational corporation's attempt to lock them out, workers at Coca-Cola in WA are standing strong against attempts to cu...
Weekend Wrap 1 August 2021
August 01, 2021 03:19 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBMcCain in Tasmania locks out the workers for asking for equal to with other McCain workers denying them wages in a cold Tasmanian winter: Listeners can support the workers with a crowdfunding campaign set up by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Gladys' mockdown continues to fail the people of NSW as 239 new cases of COVID are reported with up to 150 of them active in the community while infectious and over 100 not linked to a known case. People are starting to die in their ...
Episode 48: Gladys locks down for another month, Morrison gives a little more but still no wage subsidy as food prices rise. Canavan and the capitol hill riot link. Good news about plastic and PFAS
July 28, 2021 07:50 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison, still separated by hard borders and COVID lockdowns, analyse what is happening as Sydney locks down for another four weeks, Victoria starts to cautiously reopen and Morrison decides to let 400,000 Sydneysiders both pay their rent and eat! Ben breaks down the jump in cost of living and how the failure to see through support for working people may be taking fresh food off many household menus. Matt Canavan is appearing on the Bannon show while George Christensen'...
Weekend Wrap 25th July
July 25, 2021 06:17 - 19 minutes - 27.1 MBBen responds to the march of the traitors, COVID updates, the need for Australians to stand together as one Commonwealth against the agents of Murdoch.
Episode 47: Gladys "Mockdown" fails, Morrison's leadership failings continue, Is the UK opening up or giving up? And the good news is about oil and gas in Greenland!
July 21, 2021 07:55 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBVan Badham (locked down in Sydney) and Ben Davison (locked down in Melbourne) examine how the Glady's "mockdown" failed to stop the spread of the Delta variant and now more than half of Australia is in lockdown with almost 1,500 COVID cases in NSW. Sadly hospitalisations, ICU admissions and ventilations have almost doubled since last week's episode. Morrison holds a press conference to tell Australian's what a good job he's doing, lie about vaccination rates and pretend $350 a week from th...
Weekend Wrap 18 July 2021
July 18, 2021 02:07 - 14 minutes - 20 MBMorrisons vaccine failures allow 105 new COVID cases in Sydney as Gladys finally suggests people should wear masks outside. 7 are now ventilated and another person has died. Victoria carries the cost of Morrison's politicking with 16 cases linked to the NSW outbreak. Australian Unions are calling for Jobkeeper to return but Morrison has refound is ideological goggles are is refusing to help people keep their jobs. Can you believe that no Morrison Minister has resigned over abandoning 36,...
Episode 46: Gladys extends Sydney lockdown, Morrison puts party before nation, China watches our wargames and good news about goats!
July 14, 2021 07:25 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBVan Badham, in lockdown Sydney, and Ben Davison, fresh from a Tier 1 exposure, breakdown Glady's Sydney lockdown extension, the pressure on workers in Fairfield and the growing impact of the Liberal's "confusion first" approach. Morrison's decision to increase payments to Sydney, in a way not open to Melbourne during Victoria's lockdown, has incensed people as partisan politicking gone mad. Morrison's government has tried to justify the favourable treatment using the same tricks it has off...
Weekend Wrap 11th July 2021
July 11, 2021 05:12 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBGlady's lockdown lite results in 77 case today, 52 in hospital, 15 in intensive care and 1 death. Morrison continues to fail with on 9% of Australian's vaccinated The RBA acknowledges that manipulation of migration policy has resulted in lower wages as the failure of neo-liberal economics continues to be exposed Ash Barty wins Wimbeldon!
Episode 45:Coronavirus versus the world, Scott Morrison is "Menacing Wallpaper" and the good news is about.... Antelopes!
July 07, 2021 22:14 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBWith Van Badham stuck in Sydney lockdown while Ben Davison remains in Victoria, we consider how Australia has managed to stuff its vaccine rollout even without the problems that have caused crisis in Indonesia and Russia. We ponder how some of the country's most privileged private schoolboys have been vaccinated... but their teachers haven't - oh, and remote communities haven't, either. Former MP Julia Banks unloads on the sexism culture of the LIberal Party, and tips a bucket on Scott Morri...
Weekend wrap Jul 4, 2021
July 04, 2021 02:12 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBMorrison’s failure sparks a four stage plan to pretend everything is ok NSW lockdown continues with aged care outbreak Stranded Aussies now six months past due but big business come and go as they please Morrison’s finance Minister goes on Insiders to praise car park corruption saying “Australians had their chance..” Julia Banks reveals the darkness beneath the Liberal Party masks.
Episode 44: Morrison vaccine failure locks down millions! $330 million spent on car-park election pork-barrelling! Medicare cuts start tomorrow!
June 30, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBVan is trapped in a locked-down New South Wales and doesn't know when she'll see Ben again, but the podcast continues through the miracle of technology and a fervent desire to discuss Scott Morrisons many, many, many failures. How many? SO MANY: on coronavirus vaccines, quarantines, Astra-Zeneca, jobkeeper, Medicare, the inter-generational report... just for starters. Meanwhile, the good news is about the transformational regenerative agriculture of Inga trees and tropical rainforests. Also,...
Special LIVE from Wagga Wagga: Glady's gold standard sparkling COVID cluster, Morrison trades jobs for Bentley's and Blue Label, workers stand up against oppression
June 26, 2021 23:05 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison take The Week on Wednesday on the road recording a LIVE episode at the Wagga Wagga Interesting Festival. Recorded on Saturday June 26th moments before Sydney entered COVID lockdown, Van and Ben discuss the issues Glady's handling of the outbreak and take questions from a live festival audience. This special episode also looks at the impact of the Australia-UK free trade agreement on jobs, the economy and broader social structures with the audience asking; Is Tony...
Episode 43: Workers strike for better wages as Morrison era cuts pay packets, Barnaby is back dragging us down into the darkness, NSW enters its COVID Winter and good news about bees!
June 23, 2021 05:34 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison discuss the workers who are taking action at General Mills and how everyone can support them by boycotting Old El Paso & Latina Fresh products. They explore new research which shows average working people are $254 a week WORSE off under the Morrison government, how ANZ and Macquarie Banks are taking money out of worker's pockets and what we can do to lift wages in Australia. HINT: Join your union Barnaby Joyce is back in the Deputy PM chair and both Van and Ben...
Weekend Wrap Jun 20, 2021
June 20, 2021 03:19 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBCOVID Update: QLD has a case, NSW has more cases, Morrison rejected 40 million Pfizer doses -Changes to Super target industry funds while letting rip off bank funds continue -World Refugee Day -Minimum Wage changes & exploitation of temporary migrant workers -Nationals bicker over leadership
Episode 42: Morrison and his QAnon friends, Barilaro isn't so friendly to Jordy, Minimum wage to increase, Biloela family update & good news!
June 16, 2021 07:33 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine Scott Morrison's QAnon friendships as exposed by 4Corners. Van puts her expertise on internet conspiracy theories to good use as she and Ben discuss what this might mean for democracy, the Morrison government and our society. John Barilaro has made accusations that have resulted in the arrest of the producer for FriendlyJordies. Van and Ben talk about Barilaro, the work of Jordan Shanks, what these events might mean for freedom of speech, freedom of sati...
Weekend wrap Jun 13, 2021
June 13, 2021 03:58 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB-Pressure grows on Morrison to let them go #HomeToBilo -G7 meets but Morrison does photo op instead of policy work -IR update on wages, 2nd jobs & vaccination leave Plus Morrison wants to gag charities
Episode 41: Medicare cuts slammed by doctors, Biloela family left to rot, Morrison looking to cut wages AGAIN and good news about trees and bees
June 09, 2021 08:23 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at the Medicare cuts that have been slammed by doctors and have inspired action from Australian Unions to save Medicare from Greg Hunt's dream of an American style, privatised healthcare system. A family from Biloela has been left to rot on an island for 1000 days, a toddler is a preventable blood infection and a community wants the family to come home. So why is Morrison spending $6 million keeping them in a 400 bed detention centre? And how do we get thin...
WeekendWrap Jun 6, 2021
June 06, 2021 03:35 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB-85 cases of Covid in Victoria but hope ahead l -Morrison finally agrees to fund a quarantine centre but can’t tell us how many aged care workers have been vaccinated -Morrison passes super laws that are a punishment looking for a crime as cross bench cuts ministerial powers -Merivale empire grows on the back of stolen wages as Morrison’s I.R. Minister poses with the CEO, attends his fundraiser & scraps wage theft laws
Episode 40: Scovid lockdown continues in Victoria, Harvey Norman as the face of corporate greed, economic growth for the few not the many and good news about airships!
June 02, 2021 06:13 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBVan Badham & Ben Davison look at how Scott Morrison's failure to rollout the COVID vaccine has created the #Scovid hashtag, left 98% of people in supported disability care accomodation unvaccinated and brought Australians a world of confusion. Meanwhile, a Morrison minister called aged care workers "dregs", another minister told locked-down casual workers to "go to Centrelink" and the Deputy PM thinks "a week isn't a long time to go without pay". Gerry Harvey volunteers to be the face of cor...
Weekend wrap May 30, 2021
May 30, 2021 05:35 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBScovid outbreak locks down Victoria for seven days A mystery case in an aged care facility And Morrison’s ministers tell Victorians to go to Centrelink, where they won’t be eligible for any support at all!
Episode 39: Morrison's vaccine strollout puts Victoria under lockdown cloud, Canberra cover up culture continues & good news about plastic waste
May 26, 2021 06:27 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at how Morrison's failure on COVID vaccinations and quarantine might have blown Australia's head start and left Victoria facing another lockdown. The Canberra cover-up culture continues as Morrison's three seperate investigations into the Brittany Higgins allegations devolve into farce, outright sabotage and total misdirection. Meanwhile the senate estimates processes is being obfuscated by Liberal appointed senators trying to help Michaelia Cash and securit...
Weekend Wrap May 23, 2021
May 23, 2021 02:27 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBBen Davison looks at: Gerry Harvey complains about being made to pay the taxes he asked for, Victoria makes big business pay for mental health Unemployment is down but there are fewer jobs Labor will scrap the privatised INDUE card Upper Hunter stays national and maybe there’s a deeper message about regional communities.
Episode 38:Vaccine "Stroll-out", the CEOs say profits are worth a few deaths, Morrison's university failure, gig workers win... and SEABIRDS!
May 19, 2021 06:17 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison analyse the dangers of Scott Morrison's too-slow COVID vaccine "rollout", budget cuts to the university sector aren't smart thinking, gig economy workers have a win at last... and there's also good news about seabirds. Also, we have some exciting news about *this very podcast!!!*, Van sniffles and the dog gets upset about worker exploitation. Enjoy!
Weekend Wrap May 16, 2021
May 16, 2021 02:24 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBWeekend Wrap! (With new sound quality!) Hidden budget nasties Albo’s powerhouse budget reply Frydenberg makes clear Morrison supports wage cuts and exposes the sham of “tight labour market = wage growth” Wage thieves want more temporary migrant workers Tas Labor changes leader Hawke commemoration NSW restrictions to lift #Idahobit day
Episode 37: The big breakdown of Morrison's band aid budget and good news about fish!
May 11, 2021 23:34 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison breakdown the Morrison government's latest budget offering and get under the headlines into what is really happening with aged care, childcare, wages, training, climate change and the secret cuts. The so called "women's budget" doesn't actually have much for women. There's some tinkering with superannuation, some pre-election sweeteners and a lot of ignoring experts while praying that "technology" saves us from climate change while allowing multinationals to ext...
Weekend Wrap May 9, 2021
May 09, 2021 05:36 - 12 minutes - 11 MBIt’s budget week! Morrison claims economy “not as bad as it could be” but is that really good enough? We look behind the headline numbers on unemployment, the NDIS, Super, Aged Care and wages to see how power is shaping our nation. And Abetz is relegated to an i winnable spot but is it a payout ploy?
Episode 36: Is Morrison preparing for an early election? Sabre rattling on China and The Winter of COVID.
May 05, 2021 08:33 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at the Morrison government clearing the decks, appointing their mates, pumping the budget with watered down Labor policy and ask the question; Is Morrison preparing for an election in 2021? Dutton keeps rattling his sword in the direction of China but is he setting us up to be the chicken killed to scare the Monkey? Van and Ben talk about our relationship with China, trade, geo-politics and why going to war with a country who has nukes and an army larger tha...
Weekend Wrap May 2, 2021
May 02, 2021 05:44 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBMorrison threatens 9,000 Australians with prison if they come home Gutwein wins re-election in Tasmania It’s budget week so the Liberals are trying on mangled versions of Labor policy And a happy May Day to everyone
Episode 35 India's record COVID outbreak, International Workers Memorial Day, Tasmania goes to the polls and the good news is about jaguars
April 28, 2021 06:49 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBVan Badham & Ben Davison look at the record breaking COVID outbreak burning through India as 8,000 stranded Australian's are told by Morrison they won't be allowed to return any time soon and the world slowly starts to deliver help to the worlds most populated democracy. It is International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) and we commemorate the 178 Australians killed at work in 2020, offer solidarity to the efforts to keep workers safe and celebrate the good things workers, in union, have won t...
Weekend Wrap Apr 25, 2021
April 25, 2021 04:14 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MB-The climate summit shows Morrison’s ambitions are half of the USA’s and will kill the Great Barrier Reef. -Morrison wants to be thanked “not for what we have promised, but what we deliver.” So we look at his “delivery” on aged care, disability, wages, mining executives and bonuses for retail bosses. -Perth goes into lockdown as COVID hits new global records -Anzac Day we reflect on the sacrifices made by our servicemen and women in service to the ideals of Australia
Episode 34: George Floyd's murderer convicted, Morrison fails on vaccines for aged and disability care, 1 in 3 suffer financial stress plus good news on SuperLeague and bananas
April 21, 2021 05:50 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison look at the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and what it might mean in the USA as well as what it might say about Australia's failure to act on the 30 year old recommendations of the royal commission into aboriginal deaths in custody. Morrison promised aged care residents and workers were a priority for the vaccine program which was why people in disability accomodation had to wait. So why are 85% of aged care workers still not vaccinate...
Weekend Wrap Apr 18, 2021
April 18, 2021 05:37 - 10 minutes - 9.87 MB10 minute weekend wrap on: -Morrison does a dance with Twiggy Forrest to hide the devilish details in his “economic miracle” -Victoria opens 3 mass vaccination hubs -Peacock passes & Philip’s funeral
Episode 33: Australia Post scandal, Morrison turns to the states on vaccines, Murdoch defends Carlson's "theories" & good news about trees & rhinos
April 14, 2021 06:30 - 48 minutes - 66.5 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison break down the scandal engulfing the treatment of Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate and how it connects to the Liberal Party plans to privatise our postal services. Morrison has announced "mass vaccination" centres for Australian's between 50-70 with no timelines and seemingly no plan but he will be holding national cabinet meetings twice a week so the state Premiers can do the actual work for him. Tucker Carlson has repeated a vile far right conspiracy theory...
Weekend Wrap Apr 11, 2021
April 11, 2021 06:13 - 10 minutes - 9.76 MB-Morrison fails on vaccine rollout as confusion reigns over blood clots, Astra Zeneca safety and Pfizer capacity -When is a commitment to implement 55 recommendations not a commitment? When it’s Morrison talking about Respect at Work -The senate is holding hearings on Job Security -Prince Philip has died and that’s sad for his family.
Episode 32: Morrison plays vaccine blame game, big business wants to cut minimum wages, NZ opens a travel bubble and good news about birds and blue skies
April 07, 2021 06:56 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison examine Morrison's attempt to blame the states, the EU, the media, anyone but himself for the failure to meet Covid vaccination targets and what is really going on with the failure to deliver vaccines to the millions of Australian's who should have been vaccinated by now. The IMF says the economy will grow strongly, if we get our vaccines, and the Morrison government wants to take credit but it also says the economy is going badly so Australia can't afford an incr...
Episode 31: Morrison's Men problem, the vaccine rollout that's not rolling and good news about condors and trees
March 31, 2021 06:06 - 50 minutes - 69 MBVan Badham and Ben Davison discuss the Morrison Men problem that has seen his approval rating with women drop to 40%, a "Prime Minister for women", the political rise of women who are anti-women and Grace Tame, the Australian of the Year, challenge Morrison on his ministerial reshuffle. Our dynamic duo also look at Morrison's failure to reach his own target of 4 million vaccinations for Australians by the end of March which has coincided with a COVID outbreak in Queensland and New South Wal...
Weekend wrap Mar 28, 2021
March 28, 2021 03:20 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBJobkeeper ends destroying 150,000 jobs Jobseeker cut to 2nd lowest rate in the western world Andrew Lamming to quit politics but Morrison won’t fire him despite his behaviour The Evergiven is stuck and it’s driving up petroleum prices Queensland had a COVID outbreak Tasmania is going to an election And the Morrison government abandons its “Raid your retirement to pay for your flight from domestic violence” policy.