Ramping Hits A Record 5,891 Hours, An $800 Toothbrush & The Housing Slump That Echoes 1986 | Court of Public Opinion

Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens on the strange and the serious. First the strange: a passenger on an American flight duct taped to his first class seat after a mid air outburst, which Jeremy turns into a run of one liners, and Harvey Norman's double page spreads for an $800 Dyson electric toothbrush, camera and all, which sets him wondering how the human mouth became such a gold mine. Then the serious. Ambulance ramping has hit a record 5,891 hours, five years after Labor won an election promising to fix it, and the union that campaigned on the issue has gone quiet. Aged care beds, the worst housing market in forty years, headline after headline, and Jeremy asks whether the media honeymoon is finally over. He looks back forty years to 1986, Chernobyl, the Challenger disaster, and a Hawke and Keating housing experiment they eventually had to scrap, and joins the dots to today. Plus the digital duty of care legislation heading through Parliament, why he would rather empower parents than pass another law, GDP growth propped up by subsidised electric cars, and billions in public money poured into Whyalla steel and an aluminium smelter. He wants to see the agreements before anyone signs us up, and asks why union controlled super funds are called industry funds. All that and this day in history. The Court of Public Opinion streams live every Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (ACST) at jeremycordeaux.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.