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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Episode 78: Morrison’s flood disaster and the crisis of small government, Putin’s War and energy in the West plus solar panel flowers
Description: Van Badham and Ben Davison look at how the Morrison government's current failures around the floods are deeply rooted in their obsessive small government ideology. From defence readiness to aged care, from the NDIS to flood relief the ideological obsession of Morrison, Dutton and the Liberals has seen billions collected in taxes then doled out in rorts and dodgy deals while the sovereign capacity Australians need to keep us safe, employed and prosperous has been eroded.
Morrison has flown to Lismore to declare a national emergency in a photo-op but refuses to acknowledge that the undermining of t...