”The Week on Wednesday” with Van Badham & Ben Davison
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Van Badham and Ben Davison dive into the Morrison government's bungling of the COVID situation in Australia that has seen people with a disability go from being in a priority group to "refocussed" almost out of contention for vaccines, payments being cut from people left unemployed due to COVID restrictions, states going off the road map at the expense of thousands of lives and extra hospitalisations. All while Victoria has its worst day for cases and NSW has its worst day for deaths. And Singapore is having a lockdown with well over 80% of the population vaccinated.
The choices our political leaders have made during the pandemic and are making again now are determining whether people fall into poverty, homelessness and hunger. Or not.
The political pantomime that is Coalition policy around climate action has reached WWE levels of spectacle this week. With a clash between the Nationals (rural seats) and the Liberals (city seats) being billed as part of distracting from the reality that the world is moving to net zero emissions. The only questions are how and what happens to people as that occurs. Neither question is one that Morrison's political side show is interested in answering but both are the focus for environment groups, union, companies and farmers.
And the good news is that old European enmities have been set aside to create a land sanctuary some are calling "the European Amazon."
Plus we thank everyone who made The Week on Wednesday the number 1 news and the number 1 politics podcast in Australia last week!
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
Episode 66: Morrison‘s parliament and workplaces unsafe for women, living standards drop to 2018 levels, Albo tells a boofhead to sit down and jaguars!
Weekend Wrap 28 November 2021: Morrison‘s attempt to censor the internet and other intrusions into people‘s lives to distract from economic failure plus a new COVID variant
Episode 65: Morrison wants more migrant workers, Lambie takes on One Nation, Morrison chooses chaos over leadership and Washington turning waste into gold
Weekend Wrap 21 Nov 2021: Tim Paine resignation highlights Morrison‘s lack of leadership on Alan Tudge, Wages going backwards, final sitting fortnight, QAnon rallies coordinated across the globe
Episode 64: QAnon protests in Victoria, Morrison‘s 2022 election re-run of 2004, Strollout is the word of the year and good news
Weekend Wrap 14 November 2021: QAnon march in Melbourne, CoP26 ends, COVID surging in Europe, Morrison jobs policy failing
Episode 63: Morrison lies about his electric vehicle lies, ‘can do capitalism‘ leaving Australia in last place on climate plus good news on forests and Qanon and On
Weekend Wrap 7 November 2021: Farm workers win minimum wage, hospitality demands more migrant workers while 200,000 can‘t get work due to caring responsibilities plus Sticking Together launches
Episode 62: Liberal lies, cover ups and side hustles, Morrison selling gas at climate conference and ‘my name is Cleo‘ a little girl saved
Weekend Wrap 31 October 2021: Gladys explains her love circle at ICAC, Morrison to sell more gas at Glasgow, Tim Smith gets drunk and crashes his car
Episode 61: Morrison ”the weakest link” on climate action, Morrison gives Telstra billions to block China and the good news is solar powered steel
Weekend Wrap 24 October 21: Obied, Gladys, and Porter make the case for a federal ICAC, Tudge and Dutton distract from Morrison climate woes and strawberry hunger games vs truckie solidarity
Episode 60: Pru and Sally expose the divide in Australian politics, Morrison wants praise for doing half what others are doing on climate and the good news is travel between Sydney and Melbourne
Weekend Wrap 17 Oct 21: COVID updates as Vic and NSW head out of lockdown, Whats Josh Frydenberg‘s problem? And Morrison is finally off to Glasgow
Episode 59 Murdoch‘s greenwash and the fallacy of the Coalition, Insecure work and the pandemic, has Morrison learnt nothing? Good news about plastics!
Weekend Wrap 10 Oct 2021: NSW to reopen but concerns remain, Labor to buy Australian as Coalition suggests mortgage increases to pay for coal mines and removing social media anonymity
Episode 58: Right wing Perrottet picked as NSW Premier, Far right protests against Australia in USA and Poland and the good news is about forests!
Weekend Wrap 3 October: Gladys is gone, Dom is up, Constance is going federal, COVID is still kicking but maybe we‘ll get to see each other at Christmas
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