Episode 76: Morrison attacks workers and children, real wages cut, billionaires are not the answer to climate change

Van Badham and Ben Davison look at how the diverging political
fortunes of Morrison and Albo are driving Morrison into ever more
desperate acts of political theatre at the expense of working
people and children.


On Monday the NSW Liberal's effectively conspired to shut down
the train system by locking out the workers and then spent the
entire day using a decision, made by their management team (some
who had played the same role locking out workers at Qantas), to
attack workers, union leaders and the Labor Party.


From Prime Minister Morrison and his industrial relations
Minister Michaelia Cash to the boy prince Premier Perrottet and
his Transport Minister David "I don't answer my phone after dark"
Elliot the full weight of the Liberal Party was focused on
blaming the workers for stopping the trains when the truth is
that it was the NSW Liberal government and their hand picked
underlings who threw the state into chaos.


Tuesday saw no apology but did see Morrison move onto his other
favourite target group; trans children.  On the same day
that we received a copy of "This is me", a heart warming picture
book written by a teacher and AEU member about sporty young
people coming out to their family the Prime Minister of Australia
was supporting banning trans children from playing sport.


Van and Ben discuss how this behaviour by Morrison is about his
desperate attempts to revive his political fortunes in the face
of news today that real wages are going backwards, living costs
are going up, insecure employment rampant and his ideologically
driven leadership has made things worse.


The news that billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canadian
private equity fund Brookfield want to buy AGL has been greeted
by some as the arrival of climate change Batman but Van and Ben
breakdown why the low ball offer was never likely to succeed and
what it tells us about the battles between billionaires for power
and money.  Never simp for a billionaire.


Plus there is good news about carbon capturing soft drinks in The
Netherlands!  


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