October 13, 2021

Episode 59 Murdoch‘s greenwash and the fallacy of the Coalition, Insecure work and the pandemic, has Morrison learnt nothing? Good news about plastics!

1 hour 7 minutes

Van Badham and Ben Davison dive into the miraculous conversion of the Murdoch empire from climate skeptics to "Mission Zero" warriors. They explore how all it has taken is decades of campaigning, billionaires identifying the money making and subsidy extracting opportunities and enough space to allow the likes of Bolt, Gleeson and Panahi to hedge his bets for the man who destroyed Turnbull, Rudd and Turnbull again, over climate policy to start helping save the planet on which he lives.

Meanwhile the National Party, "led" by a very "tired" sounding Barnaby Joyce, is trying to reposition itself as the party of "battlers" after having spent the last twenty years being the party of Gina and Twiggy in a last ditch effort to play "outsiders on the inside who can get wins for you!"*

*You must be one of a small handful of national party preselectors

Van and Ben also examine a recent report on the impacts of job insecurity in the retail sector on Australians trying to care for their kids and/or their parents. Van and Ben link the insecure work crisis to how the COVID pandemic has spread through Australia and examine ways in which people can resist casualisation and the under valuing their humanity so we can have a functioning society.

Plus there is good news from France on new ways to recycle plastics using leaves!

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