Weekend Wrap Easter Election: Insiders calls out Morrison’s bigot strategy, Morrison dodges ICAC, a new health minister & disinformation warfare

Van Badham joins Ben Davison for an election special weekend
wrap.  The end of the first week of the election campaign
has seen a change in the way the media reports the campaigns, the
topics that are being covered and the insights being offered.


On ABC's Insider's program the panel openly discussed Morrison's
decision to install a bigot into a seat he does not expect to win
in order to help gain communities in other seats. Meanwhile his
own Foreign Affairs Minister refused to endorse the candidate
during their interview on the program.


Van and Ben discuss the Morrison agenda, laid out so far, as
being almost entirely based on fear, continuing to drive down
wages and job security, avoiding anti-corruption commissions
being established and creating disinformation about Labor.


The expected announcement of Anne Ruston as Morrison's pick to be
Health Minister, if he wins the election, is analysed with her
recent extreme ideological positions against women, unemployed
workers, taking advice and Medicare raising concerns for her
suitability.  


Van discusses the "Disinformation window" beginning to
open.  For Morrison to tell a big lie about Albo and Labor
on election day he needs to have created an openness to that lie
within the electorate.  People are already reporting lies
about policy, statements, people and Labor's agenda.


Ben and Van are both still sick but manage to get through the
whole episode with only one or two coughs (we just couldn't edit
them all out)!


Don't forget two of the three ways you can increase your wages
and job security involve joining your union at
australianunions.org.au/wow and the third is a combination of
natural talent, lifetimes dedication and the vagaries of popular
sport.


We also give a shout out to our supporters who have been making a
contribution at www.buymeacoffee.com/WeekOnWednesday to help us
keep reaching new audiences despite the election period.