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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Episode 108: Anti-government protests sweep Iran, Thorburn saga is about more than money and the good news is no new extinctions in Australia
Description: Van Badham and Ben Davison open by looking at the sweeping reforms of paid family and domestic violence leave and enshrining an employers responsibility to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace that the union movement in Australia has won and how women leaders make societies, and social movements, better (you can join at australianunions.org.au/wow).Â
Our hosts contrast this democratic advancement with the repressive regime in Iran and the violence that oppression of women in Iran has created.
The killing of Mahsa Amini and the weeks of violent clashes, government suppression, mass arrests a...