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We acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded by the First Nations people of this land.
G’day voters, and welcome to the show notes for the fourth episode of 3 White Guys + Guest, a political podcast for a cynical nation.
The rate by Maxine Beneba Clarke, poet laureate for the Saturday Paper.
Our plus guest this week is journalist, anti-poverty activist and federal leader of the Affordable Housing Party, Andrew Potts.
As the fight to increase Newstart ramps up, we take a look at what is needed to protect welfare in Australia, and why it’s so necessary. Subjects for discussion include wage theft, wrestling, and windmills.
You can find the link to the podcast at the bottom of this page.
Cool and Normal
The attacks on Bob Brown for opposing a windfarm are exhausting and hypocritical
Bob Brown’s opposition to wind farm labelled hypocrisy
The Robbins Island wind farm debate
‘Dark satanic mills’: Tony Abbott continues his crusade against wind turbines
The starting salary for a federal MP or Senator is $211,000. They can also claim expenses, with an average total of $215,900 per politician.
The top 1% of income earners in Australia starts at $237,300.
We are ruled by the elites. The notion that earning $200K+ doesn’t put someone in the “top end of town” is how these rich fuckwits continue to suppress wages, keep unemployment stagnant for over a quarter of a century, and shut millions out of the property market (in 2017 the 226 federal politicians owned 524 properties, a number that doesn’t include properties kept in their partner’s name).
Low-paid workers and wage theft
Employers could face jail over wage theft under new laws
Tough wage-theft laws will achieve little without greater enforcement
Over 20% of Australians aged 15 – 65 are not working
Over 2000 people died after receiving Centrelink robo-debt notice, figures reveal
Centrelink cancels 40,000 robodebts, new figures reveal
Government debt program grows murky as it grows in size and reach
Labor calls on government to scrap ‘malfunctioning’ robodebt scheme
Robo-debt scheme ramped up with Medicare data matching
Labor MPs urge party to ‘show some guts’ on raising Newstart
‘The nation will have to do something’: Labor MPs pressure Albanese over franking credits
Centrelink robo-debt system is ‘extortion’, says former tribunal member
‘It’s not a pipe dream’: five things Australia could do now to end poverty
‘Pick fruit or lose welfare’: PM says
How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders
Housing
Australian house prices falling at fastest rate in a decade
We had a chance to fix the housing crisis. The moment’s now passed
The housing bust and why it’s likely to continue
Australia’s property bubble shows the lessons of the 2008 crash haven’t been learned
Australia is on the brink of a housing collapse that resembles 2008
Is Australia in a rental affordability crisis?
Study makes shocking findings about housing affordability crisis
Housing crisis: The ‘Australian Dream’ becomes renter’s nightmare
Mascot Towers: Unlicensed tradies, falling standards blamed for building cracks
Cutting red tape: cause and effect
Conservatives hate red tape – unless it’s to regulate the behaviour of their enemies
