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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Weekend Wrap 8 January: Republicans finally settle on McCarthy, Dutton’s polyphonic press conference to undermine the Voice
Description: Ben looks at how the dysfunctional Republican Party took a record number of ballots to finally elect the only candidate they had for speaker and why the next two years may be ungovernable for the Party that once saw itself as the "natural party of government".
Peter Dutton has kicked on 2023 behind in the polls and desperate to find a pathway into government. Today's press conference on The Voice was a classic polyphonic speech, talking to multiple audiences with a different set of meanings. It was crass, it was disingenuous, it displayed how he remains beholden to fa...