Wake Up Australia

Dr Shane Oliver, Chief Economist at AMP capital, joins Michael to talk about Australia’s economy which has slowed to levels last seen during the GFC.

Domestic consumption has been weak as households have been spending less to save more & GDP growth tumbling under 2 per cent over the past year.

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Michael is joined by Brendan Nelson AO, Director of the Australian War Memorial & former minister in the Howard Government to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day.

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War 11.

Code-named 'Operation Neptune', D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

With the Reserve Bank dropping its official interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to a new record low of 1.25 per cent yesterday, Michael talks to Terry McCrann, Business Commentator with The Australian to discuss the state of the Australian economy.

The RBA had been under mounting pressure to stimulate a clearly faltering domestic economy, with retail sales figures showing consumers had cut back their spending.

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Michael is joined by Keith Pitt, Federal Liberal National member for Hinkler, who has joined a group of coalition MPs seeking to reactivate a campaign to lift the ban on nuclear power in Australia

In an effort to drive down power bills and reduce emissions, they will put forward the motion in the senate to set up a committee which will only go to a vote if more than one Senator objects.

Michael is joined by Dr Keith Suter, Managing Director of the Global Directions Think Tank on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

In the early morning hours of June 4th 1989, student-led demonstration in Beijing were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law and sent in the military to occupy central parts of the city.

Troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square with estimates of the death toll varying from several hundred to thousands.

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Michael is joined by James Hulme, Director of advocacy for the Committee for Sydney to discuss Sydney’s growing water problem as NSW’s drought worsens.

With Sydney water restrictions kicking in June 1st, the Committee for Sydney believes that now is the time to have a serious civic debate about recycling drinking water.

He points out that plenty of other cities do it: London, Singapore & even Perth

Michael is joined by Tasmanian Senator & former employment minister Eric Abetz who has written to the Fair Work Ombudsman &  Australian Human Rights Commission asking for investigations into the termination of Israel Folau’s contract with Rugby Australia.

Senator Abetz has asked both bodies to consider whether the sacking of Folau represents a breach of the Fair Work Act or the Australian Human Rights Commission Act.