Dole Bludgeoned

Dole Bludgeoned is episode 112 of the podcast, Boonta Vista. This episode was released on 20-Aug-2019.

Description

The whole crew is reunited to take a look at the Australian Media's recurring obsession with demonising welfare recipients and their tendency to believe any boss who claims he can't give away jobs that pay a million dollars a year. As always, check out our friends at the Australian Unemployed Workers Union online (unemployedworkersunion.com) and on Twitter (twitter.com/ausunemployment)

Intro Scenario

Summary	Written by
Cold open: 9 News headline about cashless welfare card not stopping people buying stuff. Scenario: Waiting in line at Centrelink.	Andrew

Hosts

Guests

No guests this episode.

Segments

Timestamp	Segment	Notes
0:02:45	Unnamed Segment	Intro leads straight into the discussion of Dole Bludgers, the history of demonising welfare claimants
0:27:20	Unnamed Segment	Article repeating someone#s claims that they can't get people to take enormous wages to work laying floors, have to employ people on working visas, based on an amount they heard someone made one week after doing it for many years Ben also finds another article based on stuff they reckon in the past.
0:47:00	Unnamed Segment	Other ways the dole bludger myth is shown up: Wages and standard of living for working people also not improving, a cyber crime lab opens in Brisbane claiming to be combatting welfare fraud by spying on social media but the example given is a training provider scamming the government, and the Big Issue being weirdly multi-level-marketing in how it helps its sellers.
1:04:30	Unnamed Segment	Just a coda on the end of the episode where Ben talks briefly about a cool bigfoot artist he saw while in the US

Episode Notes

Ben returns from his US trip

Other Information
Outro Music
Movies Referenced	The Flintstones (1994), Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Fad Diets	No
Crime Passes	No
Hundredth Episode Gong	N/A

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