Episode 123: Not so perfect broccolini, Murdoch boycotts Fringe, YES to the Voice, Albo’s 2023 agenda and good news about batteries!

Van Badham and Ben Davison deliver The Week on Wednesday LIVE!
from the Adelaide Fringe!  Live from the Yurt Van and Ben
expose that "broccolini" is a trademarked term and that some of
the agri-corp businesses, many around Adelaide, may not be all
they seem.  The United Workers Union are encouraging people
to contact Coles and Woolworths to demand that exploitation
doesn't make it on Australian tables.  Don't forget you can
join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow


The Murdoch organisation has boycotted the Adelaide Fringe,
Australia's largest arts festival, after a dispute about
advertising.  Van and Ben look at what Australia's NINTH
largest newspaper boycotting Australia's largest arts event has
to do with Trump, Fox News, Sky News and the cultural war that
has turned news audiences into market segments.


With The Statement from the Heart YES campaign launching and the
Unions for YES campaign underway Van and Ben open the show with a
traditional acknowledgement of country and discuss how Murdoch's
NO campaign is as much about about subscription and advertising
sales as it is trying to stop the referendum.


Albo spoke at the National Press Club about the concepts that
underpin national security and Ben and Van explore how a broader
understanding of security, security of employment, of pay, of
opportunity and community participation comes together as the
counter to the Murdoch organisation's project and Dutton's
"Noalition".


Plus there is good news about renewable energy batteries.


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Adelaide here:
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