Episode 102: Inquiry into Morrison’s power grab, ACTU Climate plan for jobs summit, neo-liberal higher ed and good news on PFAS

"The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison

Van Badham and Ben Davison breakdown the solicitor general's findings about Scott Morrison's shadow government of one, himself. There will be an inquiry and Morrison says's he'll participate but looks to be imposing conditions. Van explains how Morrison's conditions are a Trump tactic to shift blame and stall any real progress.

As Labor's support surges ahead of the Jobs and Skills summit the ACTU, Australian Unions, has put out a discussion paper on how to create jobs while taking action on emissions reduction and climate change. Van and Ben discuss the difference having genuine stakeholder engagement and participation makes to the policy process and, given the upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit, what this might mean for laws in our workplace. The best way to a secure job and higher wages is to be a union member so join at australianunions.org.au/wow

The neo-liberal corporatisation of higher education has smashed job security in our universities while also sending the wages of the executives who are making profit driven decisions about higher education through the roof. Ben shares a recent discussion he had with a leader of the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union) on how the Liberal party used people's pre-conceived ideas about the sector and a strategy of not engaging stakeholders to create a workforce that is now mostly casual, underpaid and often the victims of wage theft.

The good news is about PFAS, the "forever chemical" might not be so "forever" after all!

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