Weekend Wrap 12 February 2023: Insiders stays in neoliberal frame, Tudge quits in disgrace, bosses attacking workers

Ben Davison looks at the big stories at the end of the first
sitting week of parliament in 2023 and neo-liberal skew that
Insiders offered up to the ABC audience.


While mouth piece for the bosses pamphlet, Phil Coorey, was
promoting his friends at the Mineral's council advertising
campaign the hidden truth that profitable major corporations will
be fighting to keep workers divided and wages low during 2023 was
exposed.  Join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow


Jim Chalmer's delivered the good news that power prices won't be
going up by as much as they were forecast, due to their price cap
mechanism.  Ben analyses how the Labor government is having
to do a huge amount of heavy lifting on economic reform to try
repairing both a decade of Liberal mismanagement and the ongoing
capture of our institutions by neo-liberal ideologues.  The
Reserve Bank's continued assault on working people and dangerous
obsession with making more people unemployed, wages lower and
economic growth both lower and more concentrated into the hands
of a few is proving the Liberals with political talking points
and Labor with real problems.


Alan Tudge has quit parliament and, as usual, the truth has been
papered over by an emotional speech given by a hypocritical and
shameful middle aged upper class white man using his children as
a shield from any genuine critique.  Tudge has quit in
disgrace.  End of story.  


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