Summary: This week on Something Wonky, there’s no business like Joe Business, Tony can’t stop talking about unity, we still don’t have a budget, but we do have a list of stupid things that our federal government has been doing in the mean time. Is there a changing wind in Australia versus Humanity, or just a new stench blowing in from a different angle? And in Stop The Press we have a newspaper suing a competitor because they reported news. There’s no business like Joe Business Nobody will stand up for Joe. Abbott distances himself - “well, plainly, I wouldn’t say that”. Pyne refuses six times to support his colleague. Instead, they try some idiotic lies. Abbott tries the line “whatever people may think about the way Joe expressed himself in a particular radio interview, he has a plan to ensure that all Australians are better off in the long-term. It’s the only plan that is currently before the Australian people.” And Pyne comes out with “The simple fact is that this is the guy who has driven the abolition of the carbon tax, the cost of which fell heaviest on low-income households”, winning a special award for the least accurate use of the phrase “the simple fact is” in recent Australian political history. Transcript: Joe Hockey’s apology over fuel levy gaffe Joe Hockey may be sorry, but that doesn’t mean he gets it Sloppy Joe Backs Away from Apology Joe Hockey makes things worse, say political advisers Smokin’ Joe Hockey the Treasurer is a lead Zeppelin THE FOCUS GROUP Tony Abbott can’t stop talking about unity Team Australia Tony is the captain Abbott worries that beheadings could happen here Team Great Britain Team Ukraine We still don’t have a budget Crisis, what crisis, asks Coalition, spinning as the budget wheels come off Ebola virus: Researchers hunting deadly virus cure scrapped under federal budget cuts This week in stupidity. Outraged By Coffee Shop Owner’s Racism, Aussies Respond With, Well, Racism Privatise to reduce power of unions Tony Abbott adviser warns of threat of ‘global cooling’ Weaker RET would transfer $10b to big power firms, study finds Rob Oakeshott: How big business hijacked parliament Icac: Tony Abbott says ‘problem’ was Labor banning developer donations Liberal Party won’t recontest Hunter seats in ‘act of atonement’ for ICAC scandal Misery in Australia Rises to Highest Level Since 2008 in Challenge to RBA Partisan staff undermine government institutional memory New sexting laws to exempt young people from child pornography charges Coward punch thugs face 10 years’ jail AUSTRALIA VS HUMANITY 182 Days After Reza Barati Was Murdered, Arrests Finally Made Hand of hope for Labor’s child detainees: Asylum boats stopped but children to go free What’s really happening to kids in detention? Immigration Detention Guard Sacked After Inquiries About Anti-Muslim Facebook Photo Australia going to ‘unthinkable’ lengths to return Syria detainees Wagga baby killer freed from jail STOP THE PRESS News Corp’s Clive Palmer obsession News Corp chief defends cash-strapped Australian, saying it is much loved News Corp sends in the lawyers as its CEO tells his staff there’s nothing to see here Crikey owner Private Media and News Corp reach legal agreement The Bolt report isn’t getting any saner Andrew worries that the Libs are running to the left Craig Emmerson calls Andrew Bolt a racist, on his own show Meanwhile on NITV, Andrew is shown a limit to his logic
