Michael is joined Dr Scott Presser, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies & former government advisor, over concerns that Prime Minister Morrison’s announcement for “a completely new system” of intergovernmental relations institutions, processes and agendas that will replace the current Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will be able to tackle issues more effectively.

“The continuation of the National Cabinet that operated during the pandemic should be a concern, given its failure to achieve national policy consistency on many key issues,” Dr Prasser says.

“These include school reopenings, travel restrictions, border closures and the pace of restarting the economy, implemented in a manner that has done great harm to our children’s education, individual freedom and the employment of many Australians. 

“That the National Cabinet will operate in the future under the same rules and processes of Federal Cabinet will further enhance the power of executive government in Australia, to the detriment of parliaments, parties and the people — with more decisions being made without community input.”

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Michael is joined by Mark Latham, Political commentator, former leader of the Australian Labor Party, One Nation state leader in the upper house, regarding the NSW government’s attempt to freeze the wages of 400,000 public sector workers.

 

Hoping to save an estimated $3billion, the proposal now seems dead in the water after it failed to secure key support from the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party following a meeting with Treasurer Dominic Perrottet & Finance Minister Damien Tudehope.

Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor with The Australian, joins Michael to discuss Beijing’s announcement that it plans to impose anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong… which is widely considered a severe blow to Hong Kong's promised autonomy.

 

This action has promoted fears that the laws could allow Chinese agents to arbitrarily arrest people in Hong Kong who are advocating for democracy even though Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung has stated, "It's for the long-term stability of Hong Kong and China, it won't affect the freedom of assembly and speech and it won't affect the city's status as a financial centre."

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Glen Nagle, NASA’s Deep Space Network, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, joins Michael about space history being made today at 6.30am Australia time.

 

ElonMusk's SpaceXcompany will attempt to launch to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station which marks the first time that a private aerospace company has carried humans into Earth's orbit.

Robert Gottliebsen, Business Columnist with The Australian, joins Michael to discuss Scott Morrison’s audacious plan to end the industrial relations deadlock… a plan which is a huge departure from Liberal Party traditions.

 

In the wake of the COVID-9, the Prime Minister is calling on business, the unions and the community to come to the table to work out a deal on reform ahead of the October budget... in the process rewriting the political battlelines in a way that would have been inconceivable before the crisis hit.

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Michael is joined by Margy Osmond, Tourism & Transport Forum Australia Chief Executive, to find out where Australia’s tourism industry currently stands as our borders are still closed to international visitors leaving domestic tourism as the only lifeline for an industry crippled by coronavirus.

 

To make matters worse, Queensland, South Australia, The Northern Territory and Western Australia though largely having contained the virus, still maintain it’s too early to allow in visitors from New South Wales and Victoria which have been responsible for about 90% of Australia’s new infections in the past two weeks.

Professor Robin Prior, University of Adelaide Professor of History / Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities, joins Michael on the 80th Anniversary of the ‘Miracle of Dunkirk’.

 

The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

 

The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week Battle of France.

 

In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this "a colossal military disaster", saying "the whole root and core and brain of the British Army" had been stranded at Dunkirk and seemed about to perish or be captured.

 

In his "we shall fight on the beaches" speech on 4 June, he hailed their rescue as a "miracle of deliverance".