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Labor today voting with the LNP to cut $158bn from revenue in tax cuts for upper middle to upper class Australians. Next will come the brutal cuts to the poor to pay for it. Only Adam Bandt and Andrew Wilkie voted against this obscenity.
If the shot seems familiar, it is similar to the photo in the WMWS logo from 2010 when only Adam Bandt and Andrew Wilkie voted against offshore detention brutality for refugees.
00:02:29 Ratchet time - it's the squandering billions on tax cuts phase and both big parties are here to vote for them!
00:06:58 Interlude: Labor gives up on NewStart
00:10:58 Splitting off the even more absurd tax cuts
00:14:58 "Politics Of Envy"
00:26:57 Israel Bloody Folau and the pitch for a new Religious Privilege
00:46:00 Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Lyle Shelton, and the end of the "Australian Conservatives"
00:48:00 Pyne's new job
00:50:49 Trump praising our cruelty to refugees; Scammo Telling China And The US What For
00:54:00 War In Iran?!?!
01:00:54 Australia Vs Humanity - refugee in Manus to be charged with attempting suicide
01:05:27 Tom's Happy Thought
00:01:25 Tax cut brinkmanship
00:10:15 Alan Jones boasts about how the Libs always lie to tax cut voters, and how futile it is for the ALP to placate these people
00:21:56 Setka, and how to protect female workers by taking away their rights
00:27:56 Dutton trying to bring "medevac" back
00:31:18 Tax rises and death taxes - the Libs' attack on people with student "debts"
00:38:54 IPA watch: whistleblowers -> press freedom -> freedom of propagandists to spout bullshit.
Brandon and Denise join Jeremy to reminisce, while Jeremy feels a new hope for the future. Or is it the past?
00:01:07 Albo's ascension (remember him? See episode 59)
00:06:15 Better approaches to what happened in the campaign; $387bn out of your pocket; the 95% Giant Mortgage policy and The Party of Debt
00:21:08 Bowen tries to apologise to ACL types; ACL reveals that it's not interested in "christian policy"
00:30:50 Nick Carr tells us what's stuck in his craw
00:34:50 How to get people to vote against the policies they actually like (tl;dr - drive them to the edge, and then frighten them)
00:40:38 "News.com.au is very left wing"
00:44:30 ALP approaches going forward (tl;dr - frame immediately the cost of living pressures coming from Scummo, starting with power prices jumping immediately the Libs were returned)
00:57:19 Bipartisan legislation to stop people impersonating the AEC - also reminding people that the Libs didn't just lie, they cheated