Porter is saying the victim’s death has been politicised, and that nothing she said happened did happen. He is framing himself as the victim of a ‘whispering campaign’. He says ‘nothing every happened’. He’s blaming politics and media. I don’t believe him. You? #ChristianPorter
He’s now comparing himself to Shorten and blaming media for treating him differently. He is the one politicising this. Nothing like Shorten as NSW police gave up investigation when victim died. Shorten’s allegation was investigated and found no case to answer for.
Porter is saying it was all rumours that he had offended against someone decades ago. He’s still framing himself as the victim.
He’s taking time off for ‘mental health’ reasons. Again, he’s the victim. He can’t emphasise enough that he is the victim. He couldn’t give a shit about the woman who took her own life.
He’s saying he never had sex with her. She says he anally raped her and said he did it so she wouldn’t get pregnant. Why would she make that up?
He was just asked if he would like an investigation to clear his name. He doesn’t answer directly but basically says no it’s not fair to investigate as no one else is subject to such an investigation. Why wouldn’t he want to clear his name?
Says he remembers the person as a bright and intelligent but never had a relationship with her. I again ask, why would she make this up?
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Scott Morrison is to blame for dividing the nation when the second wave hit in Victoria. Before that, the whole country was in this pandemic together. It was Morrison who branded the outbreak the 'Victorian wave'. He is to blame for the division that followed. A thread👇
Of course, many media outlets were happy to assist Morrison in "branding it the Victorian wave". When they should have been calling Morrison out for this toxic, divisive politicisation of the pandemic, they were instead assisting him to promote his message.
I don't know where this came from as I only found the screen print. It records that Morrison specifically clarified that it was not a 'second wave' but a 'Victorian wave'. Thanks Scott!
Great to see NSW numbers down to single digits and huge testing. Also, in defence of NSW contact tracers, some saying they should be publishing more sites like workplaces. Just like in Vic, workplaces and family clusters aren’t released publicly as everyone is contacted directly.
This fact was always known in Victoria but that didn’t stop many people here (you know who you are) accusing DHHS contact tracers of being incompetent because they weren’t publishing every covid site and workplace. Let’s not see same unreasonable behaviour criticising NSW Health.
I’ve also seen people saying ‘look at how many sites NSW publish - they didn’t do this in incompetent Victoria’. Again - please be reasonable and think before making unfair comparisons. Vic was barely back open when undetected spread took off in June, mainly through households.
I would like everyone to learn how to avoid playing the blame game on here. The blame game - modelled by Federal Libs and Murdoch media - is the worst way to deal with covid outbreak. It simplifies and distorts what’s happening, and undermines community confidence. A thread👇🏻
So what do I mean by blame game? I’ve found with my research that political and media narratives simplify complex situations and events into black and white versions of reality. This simplification can distort reality and also becomes a lens through which future events are seen.
A perfect example of this narrative simplification - led by Morrison and Murdoch - is that Andrews was entirely responsible for Victorian second wave due to security guard leak from quarantine and ‘failed’ contact tracing system. This simplified audience understanding of covid.
Two Murdoch 'journalists' told me I was in 'bad humour' and to 'delete my account' because I said Northern Beaches locals prefer to remain there (which is fact and not a put down). Is this a good time to remind you how everyone treated Victorians during second wave? A thread👇
Helpfully, the Herald Sun (Murdoch's Herald Sun!!!) collated some of the memes that were spreading around social media when Victoria's second wave hit. I'm sure the people sharing them thought it was all in good humour, but Victorians didn't enjoy it. heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/…
I saw this one shared a lot. I know many Victorians felt hurt that they were being singled out as to blame for their covid outbreak, because they told me.
Contact tracing is important to dealing with covid, but isn’t a silver bullet. If you don’t believe me, check out what’s happening in South Korea. Their contact tracing really is gold standard, using electronic methods (our app doesn’t work). Yet they now have 1000 cases a day.
I always said it was dangerously simplistic for Morrison and much of media in turn to blame Victorian outbreak on 'bad contact tracing' while calling NSW gold standard. Covid spread is too complex to explain by one attack line. Complexity is explained here
The focus only on contact tracing was and still is a political narrative, when what the public needed was proper analysis of all the factors which contribute to spread of covid, and the reality of undetected cases. It did nothing to inform the public of risk of covid outbreaks.
Jeez, this is in SA territory the day we locked down. Surely NSW have to at least consider a short sharp lockdown to knock this on its head? I know it would be devastating at Christmas, but that’s not a reason not to do it.
Or maybe just lockdown the northern beaches? I worked for two years in that part of Sydney and have memories of the locals calling it the ‘insular peninsula’. Maybe it’s time to be really insular just for a short time?
Next minute... insular peninsula it is. Sorry everyone who has to lockdown - horrible time of year to be staying in 🙁