”The Week on Wednesday” with Van Badham & Ben Davison
News:Politics
Ben looks at the reopening of NSW, some of the issues other places have faced when reopening and what the concerns might be for us here in Australia.
Morrison sent his minister off to Insiders to talk about social media accountability while totally failing to address the fact The Australian has numerous anonymous articles and manage to not be asked a single question on the National Party plan to increase mortgages to support a $250 billion (more than three times the size of Jobkeeper) program to fund mines that no one else wants to invest into.
This continues the Morrison government's record of avoiding tough economic discussions and any accountability for the high levels of real unemployment and underemployment, wage cuts, the replacement of ongoing jobs with casual and labour hire jobs and the handing over of $5Billion in infrastructure funds to foreign head contractors rather than using Australian companies.
By contrast Labor used the NSW State conference this weekend to announce its new Buy Australian Act that would lift us up the innovation index, the digital competitiveness index and see Australian companies get major government contracts to employ local workers.
As we start to hit vaccination targets and things reopen theres never been a more important time to follow the health advice, get vaccinated, wear your mask and ignore the wannabe celebrities prepared to sacrifice your life for a few headlines about them.
Weekend Wrap May 9, 2021
Episode 36: Is Morrison preparing for an early election? Sabre rattling on China and The Winter of COVID.
Weekend Wrap May 2, 2021
Episode 35 India's record COVID outbreak, International Workers Memorial Day, Tasmania goes to the polls and the good news is about jaguars
Weekend Wrap Apr 25, 2021
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
Weekend Wrap Apr 18, 2021
Episode 33: Australia Post scandal, Morrison turns to the states on vaccines, Murdoch defends Carlson's "theories" & good news about trees & rhinos
Weekend Wrap Apr 11, 2021
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
Episode 31: Morrison's Men problem, the vaccine rollout that's not rolling and good news about condors and trees
Weekend wrap Mar 28, 2021
Episode 30: Morrison isn't getting it, Fires and Floods as climate changes, Jobkeeper ends this week with the destruction of 100,000 jobs and rat island recovers
Weekend Wrap Mar 21, 2021
Episode 29: The March for Justice, IR Omnibus Bill, Vaccine rollout & good news about polystyrene
Weekend wrap Mar 14, 2021
Episode 28: Morrison's Job Massacre, Meghan and the Modern Monarchy and Good News About Mars... and Toads!
Weekend Wrap Mar 7, 2021
Episode 27: More Morrison crises, aged care royal commission & good news about busting Nazis and fighting climate change
Weekend Wrap Feb 28, 2021
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