Ben Davison spends some time looking at the Robodebt Royal Commission report, the scathing rebuke of the Morrison government, the potential crimes of former ministers and the culture of cooperation between corporate and billionaire owned media and the Coalition of treating people in need as less than human.
Listen on Podbean here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-jvfe4-1450798
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Listen on Spotify here
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bXrXESz2bDXMtKWNSFYpA?si=dVi3KNzeQdWYpMkRJwZ_JQ
Ben explains why Robodebt was bad policy, how we avoid such policies in the future and why unions calling for a more secure public sector workforce are part of the solution.
https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1677136879995740160
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The Health Services Union (HSU) in NSW has won a pay rise of up to 8.5% for its lowest paid members and Ben explains how this union has tackled the issue of low paid "essential workers" and won.
https://twitter.com/AmeliaBrace/status/1677098453506326528
The Commonwealth has also announced changes to teacher education over the next two years so Ben has a look at why that's happened, why we need to fix the Morrison era funding set ups and what impact it has on productivity,
https://twitter.com/PublicSchoolsAU/status/1677164961578229760
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And don't miss Van's latest in the Guardian about the pervasiveness of the internet on our lives: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/instagram-threads-app-review