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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Weekend Wrap 13 March 2022: Morrison’s defence waste exposed on Insiders, Flood fundraiser highlights Liberal failures, Eureka ban a symbol of skewed priorities
Description: Ben Davison breaks down Labor shadow defence minister, Brendan O'Connor's, Insiders interview in which he exposes the wastefulness of the Morrison-Dutton government. Billions spent on equipment that doesn't work, given to Liberal donor companies that have no staff and on contracts that will never be delivered. All in pursuit of an arbitrary "Spending as a percentage of GDP target" while Dutton fails to effectively deploy the defence forces we have to support covid controls and flood relief.
The nation dug deep to support a flood relief telethon overnight but with the insurance bills likely to top $1 BILLION Be...