{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F995dbed4-c2df-4f28-987c-a066b8096d0a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 166 \u2013 Needy Private Schools, Free Will and Other Myths \u2013 an Australian Podcast","description":"We start out with a shout out to Wilks and Tim and then launch into a discussion about government funding of private schools in Australia. If you want a private system, then you should fund 100% yourself. It is no surprise that Scott Morrison has thrown money at the private school sector. His argument that it is to help drought-affected families makes no sense given the Catholic hierarchy decides which schools get the money and they have previously distributed their money very unfairly to the detriment of poorer Catholic schools. Of course, Labor must accept a lot of the blame as they entered a bidding war with the Catholics. The funding model used to guess the school’s economic status from the socioeconomic status of the catchment area but now they use the actual income of the families of the school and as a result, the wealthy inner-city Catholic schools will miss out. $614,000,000 is designed to ease the burden of rich families having to pay their proper share. To help your dinner party debates we present a short history of how private school funding started at Goulburn and how we could replace the Goulburn Catholic schools for an extra 1% per annum.\u00a0This and the TPP could be enough for The Fist to vote for the Greens.
\n27:05 Waz joined us to discuss a thought experiment regarding doctors performing circumcisions.
\n43:27 Letters to the editor, how did we go? – The Age Vs News Corp
\nOur democracy is in trouble. We said that in episode 135 when we learned the ABC bosses pulled Emma Alberici’s article. Now we find out they wanted to sack her. –\u00a0ABC chairman Justin Milne told former managing director Michelle Guthrie to sack high-profile presenter Emma Alberici following a complaint from then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
\nThere are competing theories about what caused News Corp to align steadfastly to the right, given the success it has had playing the parties against one another.\u00a054:04 It seems that\u00a0Lachlan Murdoch will be no betterthan his father.
\n1:00:13 With a headline like this\u00a0\u201cI KNEW PM SCOTT MORRISON AT UNI AND HE WAS A DICKHEAD\u201d! Former Liberal Party insider spills beans on \u201czero talent weirdo\u201d\u00a0I was inexora...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}