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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Episode 141: Faruqi vs Hanson as racism finds its voice, why a bigger surplus is good, NACC starts with a smorgasbord and good news about EV batteries
Description: Van Badham and Ben Davison dive into the explosion of bots, trolls and online hate that is being targeted at YES campaigners and how Pauline Hanson is using her vile and inexcusable comments about Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi to eliminate protections against discrimination and open the flood gates on hate speech.
The farm workers we reported on last episode won their strike and you can win better pay and conditions by joining your union at australianunions.org.au/wow
Ben and Van look at why a budget surplus now is a good thing, why a...