A 'Recharge Surcharge' On Your Power Bill, The Greens' Supermarket Grab & Vale Jeffrey Archer | Court of Public Opinion

Jeremy Cordeaux is back in the garage with Pete and Gary, and opens with a timely warning for anyone posting Christmas presents overseas: don't leave it past the first of December. He takes aim at the Prime Minister's chosen legacy of rewiring the nation, saying the transmission towers and wires criss-crossing the country will be remembered with every electricity bill, and slams a proposed levy on power bills to fund electric vehicle charging stations, which he dubs the recharge surcharge. If you choose an EV, he says, the cost of charging should be yours. He questions the digital duty of care legislation and why it does not extend to gambling advertising, then turns to the Greens' plan, led by Max Chandler-Mather, for the government to take over 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets and run cut-price stores. Jeremy recalls Bob Hawke-era ventures such as Bourke's department store and the ACTU's Solo service stations, and points out supermarket profit margins of around one per cent. He also calls for an end to the $200 million spent by the state government on advertising in four years. Jeremy remembers Lord Jeffrey Archer, a frequent guest from his radio days, looks at David Jones' $95.5 million loss as Country Road, Witchery and Mimco pull out of 100 shopfronts, questions the High Court's coal decision, and says South Australia's 100 per cent renewables target has quietly become 75 per cent. Plus 53,000 complaints about phone reception, Finland's search for a professional smeller, and this day in history, from Mata Hari, Napoleon's exile and the invention of shredded wheat to Penny Marshall, Cole Porter and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM streams live every Friday from the dining room table at jeremycordeaux.com and via Auscast Radio at auscastnetwork.com. Download the podcast anytime on your favourite podcast app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.