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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian chief politics corro Sarah Martin, ABC radio RN Breakfast host Fran Kelly and 9fax (AFR) government corro Phil Coorey.
The interview is with formerly disgraced former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce.

opening spiel: three weeks into the Sydney lockdown and rules are tightened; Victorians forced to stay home too. #Insiders

18 months in, nearly half the population is locked down, says Speers. Berejiklian is described as changing from “lockdown skeptic” to harshest rules. This “harshest” idea is the Speers theme this weekend. #Insiders

the montage soundtrack is History Repeating. Speers segues is in with the statement that millions of people are relying on income support. The splicing contains routine conflict journalism framing, pitting Berejiklian against Andrews. #Insiders

#MakingNews the Shttigraph has “reported” the construction shut down in Sydney with big scary estimated costs and job losses. 9fax spoke to McCormack lol so what #Insiders

Briggs. He runs through workplace transmissions and undetected/untraced transmissions by geography. Forgets to clarify that health, emergency and aged care workers can leave the closed LGAs, subject to three day swab rule. #Insiders

Victoria, then vaccination rates #Insiders

now that Berejiklian has worked it out, there now appears to be a consensus among the states that lockdowns are needed. [Now that Andrews has read Morrison the riot act] it seems to be understood that income support is needed from day one. #Insiders

the construction “pause” is what Speers hangs his “harshest lockdown” - he calls it “going further” this time - on. #Insiders

panel. Kelly says she fielded so many calls from people anxious about inessential retail being open. Lists book shops, candle shops etc. it was about time, basically, by the time Berejiklian finally came around. #Insiders

the manly tradie big deal construction question goes to Coorey. He says it will hurt a lot more than tradies. Describes existing testing measures at construction sites. Big losses etc we could see “another negative quarter”. #Insiders

Kelly says yes look also the lack of planning will exacerbate the problems caused by construction shut down. Speers tries to stop her. Yes yes it is not easy, he says. Here is Berejiklian with her pleading and projecting cabinet anger onto the population. #Insiders

what has been going on behind the scenes, Sarah? This is after Kelly just explained that proper planning was *not* going in behind the scenes. There was no [political] appetite for deaths and hospitals being overwhelmed, says Martin. #Insiders

Speers tries to flick this to Phil to get the 0Liberal and National Party view” but Sarah mistakes it for a follow up and says there. Was. No. Choice. Coorey then obliges with the usual economic gumph as tho an economy can power through an overwhelmed hospital system. #Insiders

life looks normal again in Britain judging by the sport he was watching over there, says Coorey. He gives the deranged view of Jason Falinski some air. #Insiders

clip of Andrews explaining that going early and going hard means lifting earlier, a fact that Berejiklian conceded yesterday, which means the two premiers are in agreement, but Speers chuckles and frames Andrews as sniping. #Insiders

obviously Andrews gets no credit for making Morrison change the 1-week lockdown payment delay. Bickering, says Kelly, of what became consensus once Berejiklian and Morrison were dragged kicking and screaming to basic public health and fiscal policy settings. #Insiders

for whatever reason, Speers discovered that low paid workers are “particularly” impacted by loss of income this week. He keeps saying it. Discovery doctrine. #Insiders

clip of non-lockdown-consensus extremist Matt Canavan explaining his anti-lockdown views. Asked about bestie Marty’s views, Joyce says lockdowns are “suppression” and save lives. He says he is in Walcha, twice. #Insiders

you said a few weeks ago you can smell the burning flesh? Why? Joyce says it was a paper interview and not on the record? Was that the claim? No apology then says Speers and Joyce says yes of course he apologises #Insiders

he has had his first jab and the Morrison government has done a very good job of matching vaccine supply with demand, lies Joyce. #Insiders

Joyce says he is at Walcha Road, twice. This is to make a laboured terrible simile about the menu at the Walcha Road Hotel. Sautéed tadpoles? The question is “what is on the menu and what does it cost?” says Joyce #Insiders

Joyce tries to get into the Coalition politician happy place of making up shit about opposition policy but Speers stops him and says you are in government what do you think. #Insiders

this goes round and around until Speers gives up. On net zero, Joyce says, about 30 times, show us the plan and show us the cost. Recall the press gallery did this to Labor last election so from Joyce’s perspective it works as political messaging. #Insiders

third person again. Pretends government accounts bear any resemblance to household accounts, again. This is an old fave from Joyce the accountant. #Insiders

China. Joyce feigns concern for human rights violations against the Uighur population. Runs the “Chinese spy ship sitting off our coast” line Dutton has been pushing. They are still our biggest trading partner tho says Joyce. #Insiders

trade for prosperity for your children your listeners grandchildren children’s children lmao the generation rhetoric is always a sign of weakness. Joyce says “it” has to be done from a position of strength #Insiders

women. Joyce is on the women’s task force. What do you think are the most pressing issues facing women? Are you going to sign up for the [one hour optional] training? Got no problem with that says Joyce. So will you do it? What, is this a trick question? asks Joyce. #Insiders

deputy Darren Chester? I do not decide the deputy, says Joyce. The party room does. I got absolutely no problems working with Darren. It’s a decision of the party room. He says Walcha Road three more times. #Insiders

pressure on the government when it comes to the vaccine rollout. Drink. “Pressure on” is Speers code for Morrison fuckups. Kelly says as much. She calls it “stuff up” and describes myriad micro and macro vax failures. #Insiders

we didn’t have that A1 rolllout from the start, says Kelly. We still do not have [all] aged care workers and disability workers vaccinated. The vax rollout is the meta failure, basically. #Insiders

clip of Morrison deflecting blame to ATAGI. Coorey says whether he was blaming atajee or not, it is just a fact that we lost access to AZ for 40-60s and when the PM said under 60s can talk to their doctor “he got flamed for that”. Apologetics for Morrison all the way. #Insiders

Rudd. It exposed the fact that Morrison had not made the call, says Martin. It was a problem for the government, their response was unedifying, it was compared to all the Cormann calls he made, they could have just said thanks Kevin says Martin. #Insiders

I thought [the Rudd Pfizer intervention] was a team Australia moment says Kelly bless #Insiders

back to division in the National Party room. Coorey says perhaps it depends what day you talk to Barnaby. Speers says maybe Canavan is pitching to Nats constituency other than farmers? He means donors. #Insiders

net zero still not an actual Morrison government policy setting, remains the fact of the matter. #Insiders

the unemployment “rate”, which fell because labour market participation fell. Kelly says low unemployment is good but. She distinguishes the covid disaster payment from jobkeeper as “it is individual” now. Not said: Gerry Harvey and friends can not steal it. #Insiders

I missed the last bit. Something about flatlining wages I think, which has been a dead hand on economic growth since 2013. Coorey compares whatever it was to legislating increased employer superannuation contributions. Might cause a caucus ding dong, he says. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up.

https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1416547010866466816

#FinalObservations 1 is Kelly saying Tony Blakeky is putting out modeling tomorrow on projected lockdown duration and necessary measures. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 is Coorey promoting the Boris Johnson approach. He says we have to get used to the virus in the community in this country if we want to go to the golf the Grande Prix and Wimbledon.

Hmmm fascinating says Speers.
Ghouls.
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#FinalObservations 3 is Sarah Martin with more on the mess in the Nationals party room. Sounds like the climate denialists are determined to put their extremist nonsense before trade which seems kind of illogical and self-defeating. #Insiders

we go out with a tribute to outgoing Speaker Tony Smith who announced this week that he can no longer stomach working with Morrison [paraphrased] #Insiders

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