The Unshackled Waves Ep. 256 BoJo, Jacinda Ardern, Adam Goodes and George Calombaris
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The past week’s news centered on various individual public figures. We go through the newsmakers with Senior Editor of The Unshackled Damien Ferri.
The
UK has a new Prime Minister after the members of the Conservative Party elected
by a margin of 2-1 Boris Johnson as their new leader to replace Theresa May.
There is now a lot of optimism that as a Brexit supporter he can deliver what
the British people voted for in 2016 and the UK can leave the European Union by
October 31st.
New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visited Australia last week to give a
speech at Melbourne’s Town Hall on Good Governance and met with Victorian
Premier Daniel Andrews to discuss her wellness budget. But Ardern failed in her
diplomatic mission with the Morrison government not backing down on its policy
of deporting New Zealand born criminals from Australia.
The
Adam Goodes Documentary the Final Quarter about the booing saga in the final
years of his career premiered on Network 10 last week. The media narrative now
is that the booing was racially motivated but that is only because Goodes, once
he become Australian of the Year labelled Australia as racist. This led to resentment
from AFL fans and the booing began.
Masterchef Judge George Calombaris has admitted to underpaying workers at his chain of restaurants to the tune of $7.83m. He was fined $200,000 by Fair Work. There was a lot of pressure on Network Ten to sack him from the show but in the end all judges are leaving the show because ironically, they believed they weren’t being paid enough despite being on million dollars salaries.
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