Wake Up Australia

It’s just six days away from the state election and the polls are saying the coalition has a 50 / 50 chance of re-election.  Some say this is a huge surprise given the accomplishments they have achieved since being in power having inherited the mess that Labor left behind.

NSW’s economy in the last eight years has gone from being last in Australia to now be the best… so why doesn’t polling reflect this?

A man who has been responsible for a lot of the Libs accomplishments over the last four is Dominic Perrottet, NSW Treasurer & Minister for Industrial Relations who joins Michael on Wake Up Australia to talk about some of the projects included in around $87 billion worth of infrastructure spending.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

18/03/2019

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

15/03/2019

A big decision faces Australian law when it yesterday it was revealed an Australian female Jihadi bride stuck over Syria with two young children says that her daughter needs urgent medical care and she wants to come back to Australia. 

According to the ABC, the 24-year-old says “I’ve got no money. I’m not allowed to have money. They don’t give us food here. They don’t let us contact our families”.  But she says that “her daughter needs milk… she doesn’t have money to buy milk, so for the sake of a daughter can we all please come back”.

The clincher is that she says “I want to come back to my country.  I’m an Australian citizen”.

But it is a simple as that?

Michael is joined by Levi West, Director of Terrorism Studies at Charles Sturt University Canberra to discuss this vexing problem.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

14/03/2019

The increasingly precarious nature of Australia’s electricity grid & our energy security is deteriorating because our politician’s obsession with decarbonisation.

Surely it’s been correlation rather than coincidence that as we forced more and more renewable into the grid, the price has gone through the roof while that same energy has simultaneously has become less available and less reliable.

This is hurting industry by sending workers into energy poverty, removing money from the economy which would otherwise be spent on clothes, food or renovations.

Barnaby Joyce has called for a cease-fire in tirade against coal but has been howled down by his own side.

Michael is joined by Professor Ian Plimer, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne & author of ‘The Climate Change Delusion and The Great Electricity Rip-Off’ who explains that unless we have coal, we do not have electricity for cooking, for heating, for cooling, for trains or for lighting…

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

13/03/2019

It seems Labor is hell bent on framing the upcoming federal election as a referendum on wages.  According to Bill Shorten and his finance supremo Jim Chalmers the minimum wage it too low and now they’re talking about having a ‘living wage’ rather that a minimum wage. 

Michael is joined by Professor Judith Sloan, Contributing Economics Editor The Australian who recently wrote “the bottom line is that minimum wages are a blunt and potentially dangerous way of improving the living standards of workers… particularly in the context of sluggish productivity growth”.

“It’s a fine line between granting pay rises and workers losing hours and jobs… and new entrants finding it harder to secure employment”.

Listen to Wake Up Australia with Michael McLaren, the Full Show Podcast here.

12/03/2019

Michael McLaren speaks to Leader of One Nation NSW, Mark Latham less than 2 weeks out from the state poll.