Morrison wants you to criticise him for going to the football. It's a trap.
It's the same reason he doubled down on the father of daughters, I love Jen stuff - he's trying to stop the rot with blokey blokes and forgiving sheilas
Howard managed to skate through despite legitimate scandals in part because middle Australia were turned off by Howard haters, opposition so fervent it seemed irrational.
If people lose the plot over him going to the rugby (which is fine and normal, it is a Sunday) then that will become the conversation- PM cant do anything to satisfy these people, can only do wrong. Skip it, just come back on Monday and ask for real action on the real problem.

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#breaking Michaelia Cash to take attorney-general's portfolio from Christian Porter #auspol #auslaw
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Oh wow PM staff indicated to Morrison to take a question from Chris Uhlmann - the only non PNG vaccination question - and it's about Nicolle Flints speech on her experience of sexism. Now PM has to go, so none on govt handling of rape allegations. #auspol
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Every US presidential election is "hotly contested" @BreakfastNews. What's different this time is the president doesn't want all the votes to be counted. That's the news. Where is that?
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Let's cut to Trump saying his rallies are really big without mentioning they're super spreader events!
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THREAD on income tax cuts - the govt will trumpet the green column which gives a rolled up figure, but what's really going on is the yellow column is a one-off boost in 2020-21, and pink is the permanent increase.
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So the ASD won't "collect" information but they will help AFP "identify" people (by accessing their information) Hmmmmmmmm...
Seems @annikasmethurst story was RIGHT ALL ALONG, not that it was ever in doubt.
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@annikasmethurst Smethurst story said there was a push for ASD to get domestic powers. Dutton/Home Affairs denials were always nonsense, claiming that as long as their wasn't a mass information gathering power on all Australians, only on criminal suspects, that somehow made the story wrong.
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Because most of the powers in the encryption legislation apply to ALL crimes punishable with a sentence of 3+ years in prison.
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