"The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison

Episode 130: Duttons unelectable boofheads, Greens block more homes and a listener sends good news about batteries


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Van Badham and Ben Davison discuss Dutton's "unelectable boofheads" and their response to the resignation of now former shadow minister for Indigenous Affairs and shadow Attorney General Julian Leeser which has swung wildly from "Albo should apologise" to their media mouth pieces calling him a "traitor" and "self indulgent".  What does this mean for the ever "unelectable" Liberal Party?  Van and Ben take a peek at the factional swamp that Dutton lords over and offer some ideas of what might be next.

Van and Ben remind everyone that if you worked over Easter you should be getting penalty rates and to talk to your union if they don't appear on your pay slip.  Join you union at australianunions.org.au/wow

While the Liberals allow their backbench to indulge in conspiracies and speculate about the effect gravity has on climate change people generally assume the Greens are a little more ideologically consistent so have been shocked that Greens have both blocked Labor's National Housing Fund, of 30,000 new homes, for not providing enough homes while simultaneously campaigning in their own seats across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to stop new homes being built.  Including 1,300 on an old industrial estate and former barracks in Brisbane.

Van and Ben discuss how Housing is a macro and a micro issue and why the Greens talk about being the party of renters while voting with the party of landlords.

Plus a supporter from our www.buymeacoffee.com/weekonwednesday page has sent in good news about renewable energy batteries in Western Australia!

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