Episode 169: New Cabinets, Old Wounds, and Wacky Ted: This Week on Wednesday

Van Badham (on her own while Ben’s away!) explores Australia’s
new parliament, a record-breaking Labor majority, and freshly
shuffled cabinet - but the real news? Susssssan Ley may be the
Liberals’ new leader, but is she flying the Liberal plane
straight into the glass cliff? Meanwhile, the Greens are fighting
amongst themselves (again) about putting the “landlord” into
“leadership” and Captain Carry On - aka, Andrew Hastie - role
plays as the Aussie Pete Buttigieg… if Pete were right-wing,
allergic to universities and not very fun at a party. Van also
asks: if a National Party leadership challenge is taking place,
does it make a sound? And the answer appears to be no. No, it
does not. 


 


Meanwhile, there’s a surge in diversity on Labor’s benches worth
celebrating as well as - YES, OMG - real wage growth that’s
outpacing inflation as the actual business of government somehow
manages to roll on. And if that weren’t enough good news, there’s
been a breakthrough in the breakdown of forever chemicals, by
jiminy!


 


It may be one woman talking to herself for 45 minutes, but we
hope you enjoy it!