Thread by @iMusing

the prime minister is up. He wants to thank Australians. He does this for a bit and then thanks *those Australians* who are complying with the NSW health orders.

not five minutes ago Anastasia Palasczuzk confirmed her governments response to the state-wide NSW lockdown. Now Scott Morrison has confirmed his support for the NSW state wide lockdown. The NSW Premier has not yet spoken on the NSW statewide lockdown.

a million doses of hope blah blah blah

he discussed the allocation of Pfizer doses with the NSW premier. He does not name her (or him lol). This decision is endorsed by the Cth CMO. No mention of the NSW CHO. The chaos inside the NSW cabinet must be off the charts.

These gabs (sic) will go into the arms of Sydneysiders in the high case LGAs. Indigenous communities get a brief, passing, white saviour mention. He needs us, his fellow Sydneysiders, in return for the Pfizer, to stay home, preaches Morrison.

Marise Paine repeats some of what the PM announced re (I think) repatriation of Australians in Afghanistan through Poland. She then lists some vax support we have provided in the Pacific and wraps with 50 years of diplomacy with Poland.

it is Hunts turn. This presser reminds me of when Morrison called a presser at the peak of the climate catastrophe fires on some flimsy pretext with a woman minister prop - Reynolds? - and then got questions on the crisis engulfing the eastern seaboard.

and now Frewen. The additional million doses will be an important fillip to the vax rollout. They will help NSW and the nation, be rolled out to hubs in SW Sydney, and then something something.

Q: did we win the war in Afghanistan?
A: the world is a complex place.

sadly Afghanistan remains a challenge. We went there to hunt down Osama bin Laden, says Morrison, a lie.

why didn’t Berejiklian take your advice and the advice of Paul Kelly earlier and are you disappointed she has not fronted the public? asks Maiden. Morrison says it is important to focus on making it work.

Q: is it okay for the NSW government to announce statewide lockdown on Facebook and Twitter?
Morrison is pleased the decision has been taken, he will leave the manner it is communicated to others.

something from Probyn. Morrison flicks to Paine, who recites the stuff about schooling for girls and protection of women from the Taliban. This from a government that can not protect its own staffers inside the Australian parliament.

should we go back in to protect those women and children?
Paine says this will continue to be discussed. So, no. She reconfigures one of the excuses given 15 years ago by Howard for us invading as a humanitarian disaster.

Q that I missed. Morrison says he has always said that for the lockdown to work, the lockdown has to work. He asks Sydneysiders to stay home. It is up to all of us to make this lockdown work, to protect people, particularly the most vulnerable people in our country.

suppression, vaccines. Those 20-39 year olds in those LGAs who are the transmitters, says Morrison. He remembers to add that they are the WORKERS. Vaccines are not an alternative to the lockdown, says Morrison, nonsensically. It is the lockdown that has to work.

Hunt wants to say the same thing, but backwards. In 30 minutes, someone representing the NSW government, probably Hazzard, will get up and say the opposite and the murdoch press will not scream chaos! Disunity!!

we went toAfghanistan to fight for freedom, says Morrison, adding to the reasons of hunting down bin Laden (assassinated in Pakistan by US forces), protect women and children (now being targeted and killed).

we do not have a vaccine passport policy in Australia, says Morrison. This is a bit like the test and isolate payment Berejiklian refused to announce. There are already systems in place, but it suits his political messaging to keep saying no vax passport.

back to Afghanistan. We are in no doubt about the character of the Taliban, says Morrison, a man with thousands of deaths and extensively legitimised male violence on his public record.

and off they go. No yelling today.