438 – Is Peter Malinauskas A Liberal Party Asset?
Political commentators Robert Godden and David Olney join Steve Davis to debate whether Peter Malinauskas’s own missteps are pushing disillusioned ALP supporters toward Jack Batty and Ashton Hurn, before turning the Spin Detector tool on a Health Minister’s response to an ambulance ramping crisis and weighing up whether Sunday’s Stop the Chop march can actually change anything — capped off with a new ska single, “For Pete’s Sake”. Steve Davis surprised himself this week by liking not one but two posts from South Australian Liberal politicians, so he called in long-time political commentator Robert Godden and geopolitics expert David Olney to ask a pointed question: is Peter Malinauskas becoming the Liberal Party’s secret weapon, not by helping them, but by driving his own supporters into their arms? The verdict: Jack Batty and Ashton Hurn are operating like grown-ups in a party otherwise described as riddled with “decrepit fossils and weird
