Weekend Wrap 26 February 2023: Super reforms to save billions, Insiders and the phantom arguments, the greed price spiral, YES launches and Tsarina Thorpe crashes Mardi Gras

Ben Davison wraps up a huge week where the scale of corporate
profiteering, what Sally McManus calls the Greed-Price Spiral,
has been exposed as driving 69% of inflation, the nation is
debating whether 11,000 people who have more than $5M in super
should get a tax concession or whether that money is better
invested in the 24,000,000 other people struggling under a 4.5%
real wage cut, record rises in interest rates and underfunding in
our public schools.


The From the Heart YES campaign launched in Adelaide and Unions
for YES launched online (you can join your union at
australianunions.org.au/wow) as the vast majority still support
recognition and consultation being enshrined in the constitution.


At his 35th Mardi Gras parade Albo became the 1st sitting PM to
march at Mardi Gras as towards the back Tsarina Thorpe, self
proclaimed "Movement Leader", staged a one woman protest and had
to be removed.


Sadly Insider's became a turgid mess when Speers became fixated
on "Florence" the bogged drill as Chris Bowen attempted to
discuss emissions reduction policy, then for the second week in a
row Speers obsessed over a minor detail in the Voice referendum
working group that guest Mark Kenny called a "phantom argument"
and finally Speers managed to round out the show by spending less
than 10 seconds on the largest cut to real wages, record
corporate profits and the greed-price spiral by throwing to the
Murdoch journalist who made a quip about airline prices.


As you can imagine, Ben gets fired up today.


Ben also covers off the remaining dates to see The Week on
Wednesday LIVE at Adelaide Fringe tix here: 
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/the-week-on-wednesday-live-with-van-badham-ben-davison-live-podcast-af2023 


And you can catch Ben in conversation with Stephen Donnelly over
on the Socially Democratic podcast.