Episode 82: Morrison’s trust deficit worsens, Liberals with questions to answer, election battle lines drawn, good news about Fortnite and Ukraine

Van Badham and Ben Davison dive into the mess that is Scott
Morrison's relationship with the truth as the week since the
budget has seen Morrison called "unfit to be Prime Minister" by
member's of his own government, state Liberals MPs write articles
on why they "cannot vote for the reelection of a Scott Morrison
government" and ABC Fact Check find him to be "misleading"


All while his intervention in the NSW Liberal Party
pre-selections has been called a "debacle" by NSW Liberal Premier
Dominic Perrottet. 


When the fish rots from the head it soon spreads to the rest of
the body, Van and Ben look at some of the Liberals with questions
to answer following exposes by FriendlyJordies, The Guardian and
the SMH on Peter Dutton, George Christensen and Andrew Lamming
respectively.


As the trust deficit in the Morrison government grows the
election battle lines are being drawn with Albo's budget reply
focussing on aged care support, wages for workers and "putting
the care back into aged care, child care and medicare."  Jim
Chalmers, the man who would be Treasurer, has given a Press Club
speech and picked up on the themes of insecure work and low wages
while pointing out the Morrison era "to gdp" targets on tax etc
are "arbitrary" and "all politics and bad economics".


At the same time ACTU Leader Sally McManus has been at a small
business conference talking about the need for Australia to be
self reliant and that the claim for a 5% increase in the minimum
wage is about ensuring a better life for each generation of
Australians. 


To help ensure a better life, better work and better wages, you
can join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow


And the good news is that Fortnite gammers have raised more than
$144M for the people of Ukraine to help provide essential food,
shelter and other supplies.


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