EPISODE · Aug 5, 2026 · 24 MIN
LISTEN: "No Money Lying Around": 3.2 Million Pensioners Lose Their Health Rebate While The Waste Piles Up | Jeremy Cordeaux's Court of Public Opinion
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Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and he's found the government some money. From next April, he explains, 3.2 million Australians over 65 will lose the private health insurance rebate that keeps them out of the public system — a saving of $7.9 billion the government says it simply can't do without. Jeremy begs to differ, and reads Health Minister Mark Butler a list: $23.4 billion for electric-car subsidies, $100 million for a failed Bureau of Meteorology website, $65 million for journalists at billion-dollar media companies, half a billion for a Papua New Guinea rugby league team, $4.2 million for a South Pacific resort stopover for COP delegates. Priorities, Minister. He also takes on the mass citizenship ceremonies in Tony Burke's south-western Sydney — and the four flags new Australians were presented with — asking what picture of national identity that paints. Plus new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll's claim that "integrity will not be optional" (and why Jeremy says he talked himself into a corner), the belated royal commission into the CFMEU, Australia Post pushing a letter toward two dollars, and a run of gloriously useless inventions — the pet rock, diet water, the DVD rewinder. And this day in history: the World Wide Web, Hiroshima, Big Ben, and the world's oldest tree, accidentally cut down. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Minister says there's no money lying around — so Jeremy Cordeaux found him $30 billion of it. 20 TAGS (Omny Studio) Jeremy Cordeaux, Court of Public Opinion, Australian Politics, Auscast Network, Private Health Insurance, Aged Care, Government Waste, Mark Butler, Electric Cars, Citizenship, Immigration, Victorian Politics, Ben Carroll, CFMEU, Royal Commission, Australia Post, Cost of Living, Anthony Albanese, Gina Rinehart, Garage Edition Now, per your message — you'll give me the iframes once I've given you the platform details. Two things: Platform entry: Do you want me to fill in the Omny + YouTube metadata myself (like the 28 July run), or are you entering it and just sending me iframes? If you want me to do it, point me to today's Omny clip-details URL and I'll do YouTube from the Studio content list. One editorial flag (for the (b) weighting): This episode has some pointed material — the "four flags / what it means to be Australian" citizenship segment (with a jab at the rainbow flag), the $132m-to-Gaza line, and the Garma Festival aside. Per your standing (b) preference I'll keep the six articles on the broadly shareable threads — the over-65s health rebate + the "money lying around" waste list, EV subsidies vs health, Ben Carroll's "integrity" line, the CFMEU royal commission, Australia Post's $2 letter, and the useless-inventions segment. The citizenship/flags and Gaza material I'll leave out as standalone articles. Say if you'd like it handled differently. Send the iframes (and the Omny URL if you want me on the platforms) and I'll get going.
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LISTEN: "No Money Lying Around": 3.2 Million Pensioners Lose Their Health Rebate While The Waste Piles Up | Jeremy Cordeaux's Court of Public Opinion
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