Episode 154: Corporates fight to keep loopholes, Be that teacher for every child, Medicare boost and good news about spiders

Van Badham and Ben Davison shine on a spotlight on the attempts
by corporate giants BHP, Qantas and Doordash to keep the labour
hire, forced casualisation and sham contracting loopholes open at
this week's senate committee hearings.


Van lays out what is wrong with capitalism in Australia and why
being in your union, join at australianunions.org.au/wow, has
never been more important with over $9,000,000,000 that could
become wages if the loopholes close.


Jason Clare, federal Education Minister, and Prime Minister
Anthony Albanese today launched a $10M campaign to recruit more
teachers.  Ben and Van discuss why its a good start but that
getting the 98% of public schools that are currently underfunded
up to the minimum standard will do more to address the workload,
wage and classroom issues that are creating teacher
shortages.  You can send the PM a postcard at
https://www.foreverychild.au/postcard to show your support for
every child being able to access a quality public education.


Albo had a busy day as he also joined Health Minister Mark Butler
to announce a boost to the Medicare bulk billing incentive. 
The tripled incentive will help 11,600,000 Australians get better
access to bulk billing doctors.


Van and Ben discuss why they focus on these core material stories
that impact millions of working people when so much of the media
is now dominated by culture war issues.


The good news is from our friends at Labor for Farrer and is
about spiders!


Plus Van gives a shoutout to our Cadre and Extend the Reach
supporters.  Head over to
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grow our audience.