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

Weekend Wrap 3 April 2022: Frydenberg’s train wreck on Insiders, Unions are campaigning to lift wages & Putin’s war crimes?


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Josh Frydenberg gave a train wreck interview with David Speers on Insiders.

From refusing to fund aged care wages to it being exposed that he had planned to reduce the price of medicines but had it cut from the budget and continually saying he and Morrison were offering "temporary cost of living relief", when what we need is a permanent improvement in living standards, Josh came across as a man who doesn't believe his own spin.

Australian Unions have put in a minimum wage case claim to lift minimum wages by 5%, business lobby groups want a cut, yet the Morrison government won't even commit to funding a regulated increase in aged care wages. Go to australianunions.org.au/wow to join and support wage increases.

The budget showed wages have gone backwards and will keep going backwards.  Ben looks at how workers are standing up against wage cuts and job insecurity from nurses, and printers, McDonalds workers and security guards to carpet makers and aged care workers.

There is also a quick summary of the situation in Ukraine where Putin's forces are leaving a trail of destruction in their withdrawal and accusations of massacres are emerging.

And there's a huge congratulations to our www.buymeacoffee.com/weekonwednesday supporters who have helped the podcast have our third record breaking month IN A ROW!

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