Episode 95: Albo visits floods, industrial action in New South Wales, COVID getting worse and good news about maritime parks

Van Badham and Ben Davison break down how the Liberal Party and their right wing media allies have attacked Albo doing his job promoting Australia's interests in Europe while they simultaneously forgot that Dutton is literally on holiday.

Even NSW Liberal state Premier Dominic Perrottet has defended Albo saying the state and federal government had been working well on dealing with the current flooding disaster. 

Van and Ben look at what is happening with the floods from a political perspective and the immediate relief being delivered.

While Dom Perrottet may be doing better with this round of flooding he continues to fail the workers of NSW.  Today's rail worker actions come on the back of weeks of industrial action from health workers, teachers and public transport workers. 

Van and Ben look at how the Liberal ideological framework of underinvestment, cuts and punishing workers is driving disruption, undermining wages & safety and wasting both public money and people's time.  To stop the actions Dom Perrottet is threatening unions in NSW with HUGE fines and there is a public fund people can contribute to via Unions NSW.

COVID never left and it is getting worse.  Van and Ben discuss their own recent COVID experiences and why they are supporting the Australian Unions push to keep COVID isolation supports, more people wearing masks and getting boosters.  Union workplaces are safer workplaces and you can join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow

The good news this week comes from the United States (believe it or not) and is about efforts to preserve more maritime parks.

As always we acknowledge our contributors who've signed up to make regular Cadre and Extend the Reach contributions on our www.buymeacoffee.com/weekonwednesday page and Van is excited about us approaching a MASSIVE new milestone.