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good morning☀️happy new year! This week on #Insiders are Guardian Politics editor Katharine Murphy, 9fax (AFR) correspondent Phil Coorey and Perth radio host and columnist Gareth Parker.
The interview is with Labor leader Anthony Albanese.
opening spiel: speculative claim about omicron wave, statement that “political bruises remain”.
What’s the Morrison government perspective, skip?
Well, it “wasn’t the summer we hoped for, especially for the government”. #Insiders
montage is politicians and journalists on omicron. The Albanese line about being easier to get covid that rapid antigen tests gets a run. So does Chalmers locating responsibility where it belongs. #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC broadcaster Pat Karvelas, 9fax columnist late of murdoch Nikki Sava, and 10 News + murdoch columnist + UWA Professor Peter van Onselen.
The interview is with Perrottet government minister Matt Keane.
this thread is not fact checked.
I block snitchtaggers. Pls google unfamiliar terms.
lol ABC headline: “the Nationals are holding a Party room meeting to hammer out the Coalition climate plan”.
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian politics corro Amy Remeikis, 9fax economics editor John Tahoe and 9fax international editor Peter Hartcher. The interview is with Morrison government chief spinmeister and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham.
opening spiel is “going nuclear”, correctly pronounced; and “greater reliance on the US”. #Insiders
editorialising. We have been “watching economic coercion for years”, apparently. And have “sent a message to Beijing” too. Goodness. I thought the China trade restrictions on us began under Morrison? #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC 730 chief political corro and all round CPG legend Laura Tingle, 9fax chief political corro David Crowe, and murdoch politics editor James Campbell.
The interview is with Morrison government minister Stuart Robert.
Robert is currently minister for “employment, workforce, skills, small business and family business” but whatever. His actual tasks are to direct public money to preferred constituencies and take the heat for monumental failures and cruelties like #CensusFail and #Robodebt.
opening spiel: D1 starts with his “states split” narrative. This is the journo favourite about how the federal and NSW governments want one thing and all the other states and territories want another. Vic is the exception here. #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian exec editor Lenore Taylor, Perth radio host and columnist Gareth Parker, and Berejiklian fan Phil Coorey.
The interview is with shadow health minister Mark Butler.
This thread is not fact-checked.
Speers open with the perspective of the prime minister, who “goes on the front foot” yet has not “convinced” all the Premiers.
carnage in Kabul, which Speers says dominated “behind the scenes” while in public the Morrison government launched its lates re-election campaign pitch [paraphrased] #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Saturday Paper journo Karen Middleton, ABC (Triple J) journo Shalailah Medhora and murdoch ass. editor Cameron Stewart.
Interview is with Scott Morrison.
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Kabul falls, the Taliban is back, opens Speers. Back home NSW has reported highest ever daily case numbers, which Speers calls a “record”. #Insiders
the scenes from Afghanistan have “dented American prestige”, Speers editorialises, and Australia “scrambles” to get its people out. #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are murdoch politics editor Samantha Maiden, ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn and 9fax (AFR) columnist Jennifer Hewett. The interview is with shadow industrial relations minister Tony Burke. I block snitch taggers.
the “NSW delta outbreak” has put the whole state into lockdown. #Insiders
Sydney rules tightened, says Speers. Delta in the regions, reaching “Indigenous communities with very low rates of vaccination”. #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian politics editor Katharine Murphy, former Liberal Party staffer and x-murdoch columnist now of 9fax Niki Savva and former Liberal Party staffer and murdoch columnist Peter van Onselen.
the interview is with federal minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt.
This thread is not fact-checked.
I block snitch-taggers, which is a word you can google.
#Insiders
opening spiel: most Australians now [again] locked down. The worsening of the Sydney outbreak, its spread to the regions, Vic and Qld: the reality has set in” says discovery doctrine David. #Insiders
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC Indigenous Affairs editor Bridget Brennan, ABC western Sydney reporter Kathleen Calderwood, 9fax international editor Peter Hartcher and podcaster Mark Kenny.
The interview is with NSW health minister Brad Hazzard.
opening spiel is Sydney struggles, QLD snap lockdowns, and the twelveteenth announcement that political “leaders” have a plan. #Insiders
montage is Premiers plus the PM on various lockdowns and the latest iteration of Morrison’s lockdown-vaccine-vaccine-lockdown blame-shifting rhetoric. Leaders bickering over credit for the federal disaster payment. Soundtrack is the Police (King of Pain) #Insiders
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