HeyJared"The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
"The Week on Wednesday" gives you a deep-dive into the news themes of the preceding week, every week. It's digestible, accessible and light-hearted half hour from two people unafraid to tell it like it REALLY is.
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Episode 180: Fascist Versus Bin, Britain Has a New PM… and How to Feed a Thirsty Bee” (opens the original)
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This week on The Week on Wednesday, Van Badham engages a lively and timely discussion about modern British politics and its resonance for Australia with recently elected councillor and UK Labour activist, Peter Marshall. Together, they pick through the wreckage of a smashed and unpopular local conservative movement and examine how billionaire money, chutzpah and social media manipulation have been weaponised to drag a right-wing, fringe-dwelling opportunist into the centre of national political
EPISODE 179: An AI Invasion SPECIAL EPISODE, with extra good news about puffins. (opens the original)
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Van Badham is joined this week by Australian Writers’ Guild CEO Claire Pullen for a SPECIAL EPISODE on the artificial intelligence invasion. Who owns AI? Who profits from it? Who gets to write the rules? From the challenge of copyright theft to the transformative impact of new technology on your job, my job and everyone’s job, Van and Claire go deep into sovereign capability, workplace automation and the political power of The Worst People in the World. They explore why the fight over AI is real
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