Weekend Wrap 19th June with Van Badham! Albo’s agenda, Dutton on Insiders, early childhood reforms

"The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison

Van Badham joins Ben Davison for the Weekend Wrap and a look under the hood at the Victorian and New South Wales early childhood education announcements this week. While it was a joint announcement the details highlight the public sector vs private sector approaches of the respective Labor and Liberal governments. NSW has also announced "reforms" in education which are based on policies that have consistently proven a failure elsewhere.

Albo has outlined the first three items for parliament, along with a framework for the rest of 2022. Van and Ben discuss how these priorities, emissions reduction, women's safety and socio-economic participation, employment and skills, workplace reforms that grow wages, improve collective bargaining and job security line up with Albo's embrace of the Hawke consultative approach to government.

Plus Ben reviews Dutton on Insiders, discusses how badly the Morrison era managed the economy in creating the inflation problems we now have and Dutton's attempt to avoid any responsibility while weaponising claims about child abuse, that his own government couldn't find evidence to support, to divert from the indigenous Voice to parliament.