{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F4c5d0a19-ed6e-4fbd-bcc0-8dac5b9f5c52","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 197 \u2013 Scare Campaigns, Batteries and Harry","description":"According to conservatives, a Labor victory will be the end of the world or at least the end of the weekend. Meanwhile, Morrison burns cash and we discuss Taiwan and car batteries.
\n3:33 It will be the end of the world, don’t they know?
\nTerry McCrann says Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen have made it official and fully public: Labor has a two-stage strategy to destroy Australia.
\nNo, I do not mean cause conventional left-wing pie-in-the-sky harm \u2026 Nor do I mean a Labor policy framework that threatens to take Australia to a crazy Gough Whitlam-style future \u2026 No, I really do mean destroy: as in demolish, level, raze, wreck and, most pointedly, end the existence of Australia.
\n6:10\u00a0 Bill Shorten wants to end the weekend if the world hasn’t ended already … apparently
\nScomo kicks off a scare campaign.
\n8:17 What is so special about the Big C – Jimmy Dancer?
\nFrom Tim Woodruff in the John Menadue Blog
\nThis policy may be very helpful for those who wish to access private care. It will have minimal impact on those cancer sufferers who use the public system. The patients targeted by Labor\u2019s policy who are affected by the huge out of pocket costs have chosen to seek care privately for a multiplicity of reasons. One is the wish to go to a doctor of their choice. This is very understandable especially for some of the common cancers like breast cancer. However, such choice is currently denied to those many Australians who know from the start that they can\u2019t afford private.
\nIt will have no impact on those who struggle with the delays and costs for non-cancer illnesses. Whilst cancer is the leading cause of years of life lost in Australia, our patients suffer and die from heart disease, strokes, kidney failure, diabetic complications, arthritis complications, asbestosis, mental illness, suicide, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and many other treatable and often preventable conditions. As doctors we see the lot. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death. Mental illness is the leader when it comes to years of quality life lost. Patients without cancer often suffer as much or more than cancer patients because they live longer. To ensure excellent affordable access to care for patients who suffer from cancer is fantastic. To deny similar access to all the other patients with the many causes of pain, suffering, and death is an insult to doctors and their patients. It goes against every principle which guides our profession. We treat patients, not diseases.
\n14:45 Election not called yet
\nFrom The Shovel.
\nNew Government Ad Just 30-Second Clip Of Scott Morrison Burning Taxpayer Cash.
\nAfter spending more than $250 million on official government advertising since January last year, the Coalition has decided to try another tactic to get voters\u2019 attention, with a 30 second commercial that\u2019s just Scott Morrison setting tax dollars alight.
\nA spokesperson for the Liberal Party said that after developing so many official advertising campaigns over the last year, the government had totally run out of things to promote and decided actually burning money was a more efficient way to fuck over taxpayers.
\n\u201cFor the past 15 months we\u2019ve been burning taxpayer money in a figurative sense, so we thought we may as well get literal and actually just burn five million dollars, which is about the amount we would\u2019ve spent this week on advertising anyway.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}