Episode 11 - The Party Line on the NDIS, migration and the Liberals

The team start this ep with a bold marketing ploy: attacking our listeners. We then discuss Jordy’s invitation to attend am allegedly anticapitalist forum hosted by SBS (turns out, it wasn’t). We then discuss the disgraceful comments made by Zack Polanski in relation to migrant workers in the UK, and what it reveals about the limits of liberal anti-racism, before launching into a critique of Labor’s NDIS program and their plan to use AI to further dehumanise and disenfranchise people with disabilities, as well as the workers who support them. The main segment features Chloe Rafferty from Red Flag Radio, our smarter, more sophisticated elder sibling, who led us in a discussion about the current crisis in the Liberal Party, why Sussan Ley is not the answer, why the Teals are no better, and how the growth of the far right will impact Australian politics into the future.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors, Persephone Waxman and Charlie Wardrop.

Content

If ‘ethical consumption’ changed anything, they’d make it illegal | Red Flag

NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul | The Guardian 

A Marxist analysis of the Liberal Party  

Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider review – the best criticism of identity politics | The Guardian 

Headlines: 

Trump wins his peace prize from Fifa – any chance of a VAR review?   

Is gentle parenting to blame for low attendance rates - The Australian

The CALDA Clinic | Award Winning Premium Rehabilitation

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply 

marxismconference.org.au 

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