Episode 73: Qanon loons caravan of crazy, ”psycho” Morrison crashes at Press Club, ’how to vote cheques’ won’t solve aged care crisis and good news about bees!

Van Badham and Ben Davison look at the latest Qanon protests in
Canberra that have seen a Go Fund Me suspended, a pile up on the
highway and demands for MPs, not in parliament, to come out of
parliament to answer questions from unmasked and unvaccinated
"protestors".


Down the road from the parliament house protests Scott Morrison
delivered a National Press Club speech full of self
congratulation, reminders that things could have been worse, half
baked policies and laundry lists of stats that bear no
resemblance to lived reality.  In the questions that
followed he was torn to pieces by a cascade of insightful and
explosive revelations about his honesty, his failures and his
integrity.   The subsequent attempts to spin the
disaster have only further stripped away the facade of the "daggy
dad" to expose the "fraud" politician who "cares more about
politics than people" and is desperately out of touch with the
lives of ordinary people.


The "how to vote cheques" of up to $800 for fulltime aged care
workers has been called out as being symbolic of the "trinkets in
place of diamonds" approach that Morrison has consistently taken
to the aged care sector.  Despite the sector, the staff and
unions all agreeing wages need to increase Morrison has ruled out
supporting a wage case to improve conditions in aged care and
continues to defend his government's performance.


Van and Ben explain why Sunrice workers have gone on strike and
how Morrison's government refuses to help protect the wages of
the thousands of Qantas workers that the company, heavily
subsidised by taxpayers, is trying to cut by up to 65%


And the good news is about bees!


Don't forget we give shout outs to all our Cadre and Extend the
Reach supporters which you can check out on the supporter page
here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/WeekOnWednesday