Thread by @AmandaPerram

"Our most important responsibility is to keep Australians safe and protect our way of life, values and freedom."

Scott Morrison
Prime Minister

Let's have a look at how Australians and Australia being kept safe the LNP way (Spoiler alert...not very)

A thread.

#Australia #SOS

Twenty-eight people are confirmed to have died in the Australian bushfire season since October 2019.

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Two deaths have been attributed to bushfire-related smoke.

au.news.yahoo.com/australia-bush…

More than 2030 people died after receiving a Centrelink robo-debt notice. The Federal Court of Australia has since found that Centrelink’s debt recovery system is
unlawful

abc.net.au/triplej/progra…

Almost 30,000 older Australians have died waiting for home care in the last two years.

themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/…

More than 1200 Australians have died while waiting for an NDIS package in just three years, which includes 65 children. 35 of those children were under the age of six years old.

adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus…

There have been 13 known deaths in offshore detention or of those associated with offshore processing since February 2014.

There have been 19 known deaths of people seeking asylum onshore on Bridging Visas, or refugees on temporary visas since 2013.

monash.edu/arts/border-cr…

The NSW bushfires alone have lead to the deaths of over a billion animals and 'hundreds of billions' of insects. Several Australian animals have been pushed to the brink of extinction with as much as 30 per cent of koala habitat destroyed

abc.net.au/news/2020-01-0…

The National Farmers’ Federation estimates in excess of 100,000 sheep and cattle have been killed, and hundreds of thousands more will have to be euthanised.

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Nearly 17 million hectares burned and more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed this bushfire season.

9news.com.au/national/austr…

The NSW state government is considering evacuating the residents of as many as 90 towns that are seriously affected by drought as they completely run out of water.

thefifthestate.com.au/articles/day-z…

Millions of fish died in three separate events due to "serious deficiencies in governance and management" which have "eroded" the intention of the 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the Water Act of 2007.

abc.net.au/news/2019-02-1…

In March 2018, The Australian Conservation Foundation revealed that Australia has lost more animals to extinction than any other country in the world with more than 1800 plant and animal species and ecological communities currently at risk of extinction.

nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/aust…

Half of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached to death since 2016. Thirty percent of the coral perished in 2016, another 20 percent in 2017. The effect is akin to a forest after a devastating fire.

nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/…

Indigenous deaths in custody have worsened & according to the federal government’s own measures, the majority of recommendations dating back to the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991 have either not been implemented or only partly implemented.

"It is my vision for this country, as your Prime Minister, to keep the promise of Australia to all Australians."

I still don't know what the promise of Australia is, but going by what the LNP and Morrison have done so far, it sure as hell doesn't involve our safety and security.