”The Week on Wednesday” with Van Badham & Ben Davison
News:Politics
Van Badham and Ben Davison look at the Morrison government's failure to make workplaces in Australia safer for women with the latest report showing even the parliament is plagued by bullying and harassment. Morrison's failure to deliver on the last report into these issues across the economy doesn't bode well for his so called promise to implement these new 28 recommendations.
Australian living standards have declined to 2018 levels with the latest economic figures showing Australia has just had our 3rd worst economic report EVER. With wages going backwards, petrol prices climbing and fewer secure jobs under the Morrison government it is no wonder the once impenetrable "better economic managers" title is shifting away from the Morrison Liberals.
Albo got fired in parliament this week with his call out of Peter Dutton to "sit down boofhead" capturing a national mood. Morrison's government voted against itself numerous times as some thought cuddling up to anti-vaxers and QAnon conspiracists was more important than good governance, for which they received no punishment while others were given Prime Ministerial "counselling" when they crossed the floor to vote for a federal ICAC.
The good news is that the Mexican Jaguar being saved by local communities working together with government and conservation groups.
Weekend Wrap: Putin’s war in Ukraine and floods in Queensland
Episode 76: Morrison attacks workers and children, real wages cut, billionaires are not the answer to climate change
Weekend Wrap 20 February 2022: Morrison gets desperate on national security while welding his own face, South Australia off to the poll and WA set to reopen
Episode 75: Morrison plays the ukulele while Liberals burn Australia, Dyson Heydon and the Liberal problem with women plus good news about clean energy & trees
Weekend Wrap 13 February 2022: Van gives a special breakdown of how ”get Albo” week got turned on it head with Labor beating Morrison on religious discrimination and more!
Episode 74: Morrison’s parliament apology but what’s really changed? Colbeck no show on aged care crisis, Morrison MPs support QAnon protests and a million flowers bloom
Weekend Wrap 6 February 2022: ”We need to get him out” Morrison minister flaps on Insiders, Barnaby and Colbeck show Morrison priority is image over lives, the bigot bill and around the states
Episode 73: Qanon loons caravan of crazy, ”psycho” Morrison crashes at Press Club, ’how to vote cheques’ won’t solve aged care crisis and good news about bees!
Weekend Wrap 30 January 2022: Ash Barty and Special K win at Australian Open, Albo on Insiders, COVID update and Where is Richard Colbeck?
Episode 72: Grace Tame channels Australian women, COVID deaths spiking, Australia and Survival Day plus good news on rivers
Weekend Wrap 23 January 2022: Morrison wants kids driving forklifts, The Wiggles win the Hottest 100, WA keeps borders closed, Vic and NSW announce school restart plan
Episode 71: Morrison rambles while states make COVID moves, aged care calls for military help, NDIS being left behind in vaccine race and good news about Australian birds
Weekend Wrap16th January 2022 Morrison’s blunders see corporations trying to send COVID positive workers back to work, Djokovic exposing the flaws at immigration & WA prepares for Omicron
Episode 70: Morrison let it rip now the shelves are bare, ideology vs policy vs politics on COVID and were Djokovic’s COVID test results altered?
Weekend Wrap 9th January 2022: COVID explosion in Australia, staff shortages, school return delayed and what the Djokovic saga shows us about asylum seeker policy
Episode 69: Morrison surrenders to the virus, what Omicron means for you and the good news about beavers!
Episode 68: Omicron COVID strikes back, What we learned about Morrison‘s government in 2021 and will 2022 be any better?
Weekend Wrap 12th December 2021: Qld to reopen, Omicron brings boosters forward, tornado exposes the brutality of US workplaces, inequality gets worse
Episode 67: Special focus on the impacts of insecure work
Weekend Wrap 5th December 2021: Morrison ends 2021 in a shambles, Albo launches Powering Australia and skills training while transport workers win and teachers prepare for strike
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