“plans are already being swung into place not just here but overseas and in the Middle East” - the usual dissembling bullshit around his empty centre.
there are some 1800 Afghans, 1800 who have come to Australia and are living here among us: Morrison.
the situation in Afghanistan is torrid at the moment. There may be some stability, it is all relative when you’re talking about a place like Kabul…
he has written a letter to Aust military, which he is now reading out. It is the exactly the kind of hallmark doggerel you would expect.
wish. Sacrifice. Mission. Serve. Passionate. Flag. Straya. Sacrifices again.
he tells Aust military that he understands, he truly does understand, that some may be questioning the mission but you know flag. Uniform.
Morrison asks military to please talk with people each and every day to your comrades and fellow veterans, family and therapists. Talk to someone. It will help to see thru the fog of these very very difficult times…
he tells military that we all thank them, a lie. He also said the mission was to end a murderous regime. No mention of the women and girls lies or training locals stuff today.
letter over, Morrison starts the campaign stump speech. There is light at the end of the tunnel, he is here to tell us. He then boasts about the vax rates and pitches for the pharmacist and GP vote.
people going in quietly getting their jab for straya.
Quiet Australians - Drink.
Quiet Australians - Drink.
lmao he is literally talking about how he is going to pull off comebacks. So transparent.
the covid recession lie, in case you were in any doubt that this is a campaign stop.
health minister, saying fuck all as usual. Echoes “as the prime minister said”, like all his cowed and bullied ministers constantly do.
ADF vax teams will start arriving in western NSW from tomorrow, hubbed out of Dubbo. It will be more than 48 hours before the first hazmat teams start arriving in western NSW.
RFDS is providing vax support in Walgett and Bourke, says Hunt. He gives an update on 10,000 masks despatched, the shortage Twitter was responding to on Sunday and Chant had not heard about yesterday.
Wyatt is up. We are seeing straight talking happening, he says. Whilst we have cultural considerations, he is impressed with the messages coming from elders like riverbank Frank Doolen, says Wyatt.
we are working hand in hand, says Wyatt. The NT land councils have put permit systems in, nobody can go to remote communities. We want to protect knowledge keepers and young ones. He congratulates Pat Turner and General Frewen.
CMO has a message of hope and trust we can build through collaboration, which he has learnt from Indigenous communities. There is no question of who is in charge of what, when it comes to the emerging situation in western NSW, says CMO.
hope, and more hope, per the Morrison campaign strategy of the day. Vaccination is key, it is our hope. Go and get vaccinated, says the CMO. The vax numbers must have reached some milestone that catalysed this campaign stop.
Q: freedom? Young girls in Afghanistan?
A: Australia has been there for 20 years. Australia does not act alone. Australia has expended every effort. Australia has done all within its power, within her power😣
A: Australia has been there for 20 years. Australia does not act alone. Australia has expended every effort. Australia has done all within its power, within her power😣
since April 430 people have been re-settled, repeats Morrison, living here in Australia now. We were getting people out from May, he says.
the forced refoulement so beloved by Morrison, Dutton and insufferable Alex Hawke.
We have no plans to return people, says Morrison. They can stay here on the visas they are on (often TPVs, so no guarantee against future forced refoulement).
We have no plans to return people, says Morrison. They can stay here on the visas they are on (often TPVs, so no guarantee against future forced refoulement).
he refers to his Abbott era role as Minister for Immigration AND BORDER PROTECTION as “Immigration minister”. White saviour. Tough on borders is for another day.
he is focused on today. He does not have time for many questions today. You know him, Chris, he is always optimistic. So optimistic. One of the most optimistic people.
are any of the 250 ADF to be sent connected in any way to the Brereton inquiry?
Morrison is gobsmacked that anyone would suggest - as the evidence overwhelmingly does - a lack of integrity in an organisation whose members shocked actual US Marines with their brutality.
Morrison is gobsmacked that anyone would suggest - as the evidence overwhelmingly does - a lack of integrity in an organisation whose members shocked actual US Marines with their brutality.
he lectures the journo who asked if we are sending war criminals back into Afghanistan [paraphrased] for a bit on how he, Morrison, loves every single military always and forever [paraphrased].
he starts pointing down the barrel and steering into the home stretch with rhetorical repetition directed straight to voters at home.
efforts doses masks ausmat teams and all the rest of it. The CMO says let’s not look backwards let’s look forwards, an incredible convenient piece of #CovidComms
asked why the government did not proactively deliver vax to people who were “so vulnerable” - designated 1b from the start - Wyatt blames hesitancy. He then recites some vax rates unconnected to western NSW.
Grattan tries valiantly to back up the young journo who asked WHY WERE VAX NOT sent into high-Aboriginal pops like Walgett sooner but Wyatt has his blame line and he is sticking to it.
and off they go. We cut to excitable Jane who is still operating under the delusion that RAAF are imminently urgently any minute now on their way to Kabul.
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