Weekend Wrap 15 January 2023: Workers beat wage thieves at Mantle, Pell is gone and who is Perrottet really?

Ben Davison explores how workers at the Mantle Group stood
together in union against a sham agreement that saw hundreds of
workers denied their proper wages.  The Queensland and New
South Wales based hospitality company continues to deny any wrong
doing but the case is damning for the company (who might face
criminal charges) and a win for workers.  Join your union at
australianunions.org.au/wow


This week saw the death of George Pell.  Ben, from Ballarat,
talks about what this has meant for him, his community and how
one man's indifference to the suffering of others has caused
damage that even his death will not simply repair.


NSW Premier Dom Perrottet gave a press conference this week where
he admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform at his own 21st
birthday.  Ben questions how NSW youngest premier couldn't
have known that was an inappropriate thing to do and how the
dysfunction of the NSW Liberals is exposing that maybe Dom
Perrottet is really only interested in having power.


Plus there's a reminder of you can catch The Week on Wednesday
LIVE at the Adelaide festival from the last week of February to
the middle of March tickets here
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/the-week-on-wednesday-live-with-van-badham-ben-davison-live-podcast-af2023