Weekend Wrap 8 August 2021

Ben 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 worker day and the passing of Richard Trumka and Lina Cabaero as workers, in union, keep rejecting pressure to accept pay cuts.