On the Money this week: States across the country are facing electricity generation challenges. New South Wales has been threatened with blackouts as power workers go on strike. They are calling for an end to an 18 month industrial relations dispute with Essential Energy. Meanwhile, Tasmania is facing a crisis of its own with hydropower threatened by decreasing dam levels and Tasmania’s link to mainland power, Basslink, still out of action. Also on the show, the dark side of a sharing economy: we ask the experts if Uber is hurting or helping the economy.

Show Features:

• Adam Searle, Shadow Minister for Small Business and Industrial Relations and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in the State Legislative Council
• David Llewellyn, Shadow Minister for Energy in Tasmania.
• Hank, Uber driver
• Jim Minifie, Productivity Growth Program Director at the Grattan Institute
• Sarah Kane, Associate Professor in the School of Management at the University of Technology Sydney

Producers: Andrew Barclay ,Vincent Su and Roderick Chambers

Executive Producer: Catherine Zengerer