Behooz Boochani II West Gate Bridge Memorial II OTW on the Budget II OTW on Cashless Welfare Card II This is the Week That Was II Lifestyle Politics

Saturday, 17 October 2020 - 7:30am to 9:00am
Westgate Bridge Memorial 50 years

This week we hear from Behrooz Boochani who is now settled in New Zealand after 6 to 7 years held at Manus. He was speaking with his commissioning editor and writer Geordie Williamson at the 10th Sandy Duncanson Lecture put on by University of Tasmania as part of their Island of Ideas Series.

We follow with a little of the online Westgate Memorial held on Thursday by Victoria Trades Hall,

Over the Wall looks at the budget and follows with a look at the push to make the cashless welfare card national,

Kevin Heally rounds up the week 

Isabelle Horton from Socialist Alternative Melbourne Uni branch gives a left wing critique of lifestyle politics.