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

Weekend Wrap 24 October 21: Obied, Gladys, and Porter make the case for a federal ICAC, Tudge and Dutton distract from Morrison climate woes and strawberry hunger games vs truckie solidarity


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Ben looks at how the events of the week at NSW ICAC and in the Federal Parliament involving the the sentencing of the Obieds, the investigation into Gladys and the protection racket for Porter have made the case for a proper federal ICAC.

Alan Tudge and Peter Dutton express the worst of Australian political values with hypocrisy, greed, entitlement and attacks on democratic debate in an attempt to distract from Morrison's failure to make any progress on climate action as the Nationals make empty threats to quit the government.

Reopening is speeding up as more Australian's get vaccinated against COVID

And Ben looks at two models of attracting workers into an industry with the Strawberry Hunger Games vs Truckie Solidarity.

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