Thread by @iMusing

good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian exec editor Lenore Taylor, Perth radio host and columnist Gareth Parker, and Berejiklian fan Phil Coorey.
The interview is with shadow health minister Mark Butler.
This thread is not fact-checked.

Speers open with the perspective of the prime minister, who “goes on the front foot” yet has not “convinced” all the Premiers.

carnage in Kabul, which Speers says dominated “behind the scenes” while in public the Morrison government launched its lates re-election campaign pitch [paraphrased] #Insiders

montage neatly juxtaposes Berejiklian telling everyone covid zero is impossible and Palasczuzk announcing zero new cases in Queensland. Morrison government messaging is reliably amplified. #Insiders

children and covid. Announcements, with the start date for 12-15 year old bookings very much in the fine print. Hunt saying to book kids in and do not wait, the opposite of availability reality #Insiders

#MakingNews poling shows two thirds of Australians agree with vax passports, venues excluding unvaxxed folks etc and the US drone strike in Afghanistan with standard “terrorist” propaganda. #Insiders

#TheCurve cases are going up and up and most cases are in western Sydney and there is a dire situation in west and far west NSW. The death rate of “this NSW wave” is lower. #Insiders

wait and see how the effects of thousands of cases from this week alone will be felt in the health system, says Briggs. #Insiders

international comparisons. We are not looking at a UK Freedom Day type scenario, says Briggs. He says Denmark is looking at dropping all restrictions and are currently recording one or two deaths per day. #Insiders

we have lower “natural immunity” ie fewer survivors of the disease so are relying on vaccines. #Insiders

what Scott Morrison wants and what the nation needs, editorialises Speers. #Insiders

panel. We start with what Phil Coorey thinks of the Morrison campaign. He has no choice says Coorey, and endorses the vax target campaign. There is nuance in the plan, he says. #Insiders

we need to be a little bit mature about it says Coorey. It is right to dangle out hope, he opines. Lol anyone looking to Liberal Party politicians for their hope is either rich or thick #Insiders

spliced clips amplifying Morrison’s messaging, which Speers then repeats for good measure. Obviously the fact that NSW Health is groaning under the weight of the exponential spread in western Sydney is not mentioned to “balance” this. #Insiders

Taylor explains the risk management approach instead of simply repeating what Morrison wants the electorate to hear. Clip of McGowan saying people will die. #Insiders

if border closures don’t effect you they don’t effect you, says Parker, channeling Morrison. He says WA people are living with a single constraint - checking in. He repeats the “fractured federation” line. #Insiders

is the view that this can continue indefinitely? That WA can keep covid out forever? asks Speers. At some point you have to bring people along and set out the way out, says Parker. #Insiders

this week all the WA media published interviews with Kerry Stokes on a road map out, says Parker. He says it will be interesting to see if public opinion moves after this intervention by Stokes using his “opinion assets”. #Insiders

segue to interview clip is the federal CMO on children who have covid. Opening Q is whether 12-15 year olds should be included in the “70-80%” target. Butler says yes. He says parents want to know when their children will be vaccinated. #Insiders

yes but it is a mild illness in children and not many are hospitalised, says Speers (abridged). Butler says vaccinating children is also about slowing down transmission and says 60% of 12-15yo in Canada are fully vaccinated. #Insiders

so you are saying it is not safe for NSW to end the lockdown before the 70-80% includes 12-15yo - Speers doing his push polling routine. Butler talks about parents concerns. Speers counters with Doherty targets. Butler supports the Doherty targets. #Insiders

BUT DO YOU SUPPORT THE NATIONAL PLAN Speers repeats roughly 600 times. #Insiders

we want to see the end of lockdowns, says Butler, so let’s get on with implementing the plan safely instead of bungling it like the prime minister has bungled the vaccine rollout. #Insiders

contact tracing. Butler points to the failed CovidSafe app. He says a safe implementation requires TTI and enduring vax rates reach Indigenous communities, people with disabilities. Speers moves on. #Insiders

there are two covid experiences, says Butler, heavy internal restrictions in some states, few restrictions but hard borders in others. But what about re-opening at 70-80% asks Speers, repeatedly. National cabinet has to answer that, and hasn’t yet, says Butler. #Insiders

Berejiklian regards Morrison as a bully, says Butler. Yes but when would Labor re-open? asks Speers again. So you’re not going to say? Okay, says Speers, answering his own question. #Insiders

you have no problem with pubs and restaurants requiring vaccination? Butler says there is systems work the government needs to do and Labor is happy yo have the debate. Speers repeats the question in which he has embedded his answer. #Insiders

boosters. Yes we are going to need booster shots, says Butler. Bit that shouldn’t detract from poorer countries getting access to vaccines. #Insiders

rabbit n coffee is up. Starring grab after grab of Scott Morrison stump speech slogans.

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1431761009740505091

panel. Speers returns to 12-15 year olds who can “start booking in a couple of weeks”. Taylor says the inclusion of kids in the targets matters less than reintegration, face to face learning, schools ventilation #Insiders

the quicker we can vaccinate down the age groups the better, says Taylor. It might be a mild illness for kids but they can transmit back to adults. #Insiders

Speers is back on his Labor and the plan whataboutery and Coorey is on hand to back that bullshit in. Yes well they say a lot can go wrong not that I’m saying Labor will stymie the plan says Coorey. Well, no. That would be people like the Vic Liberals. #Insiders

in the west the current situation is safe and zero says Parker. If it gets to not safe and not zero McGowan will know who to blame, he says. #Insiders

all very well to look to the plan but there are also current shortcoming says Speers. He says Chsnt has been talking equity “in the last couple of weeks” and plays a clip of Chant naming prisoners, Indigenous people, homeless population, as vax equity targets. #Insiders

a lot of aged care workers are still not vaccinated, says Taylor. What happened to the priority plan? She asks. We need to go back to prioritisation, the situation in Wilcannia is disgraceful, says Taylor. #Insiders

Parker jumps in to say a chief WA cop has been made chief vax commander and remote communities have lie vax rates. #Insiders

easing restrictions in NSW. Baby steps, Speers calls the NSW Liberals political strategy. Teachers need yo be vaccinated. There will be very little sympathy for the unvaccinated, says Coorey. Speers says Labor has no problem with requiring vax proof to go to the pub. #Insiders

some pubs you cannot get in wearing a singlet, says Coorey. Hur hur. Some in the government have a problem with it, says Speers. Taylor says they might have a problem with the far right libertarians that they will have to manage internally. #Insiders

the idea that Liberal Party politicians are not okay with excluding some people entry from some venues is ludicrous of course. Look at the Australia Club. #Insiders

clip of ACT chief minister Barr saying he does not want a spat with John Barilaro about whose virus poo was in the Canberra sewage system. #Insiders

clip of Morrison doing his hero posturing bullshit. Parker cites Dutton on the attack at the airport and questions the Biden withdrawal strategy. Yes there will be people left behind, says Parker, but what more could Aust do? #Insiders

“debate about” getting more people out earlier, says Speers. Clip of Dutton with his terrorist propaganda. Taylor says yes our 20 year mission has failed and we have left people behind, like security workers at the Aust embassy #insiders

Speers sympathises with the difficulty for politicians making decisions about you know invading others peoples countries and destroying other peoples lives. #Insiders

it was always going to end this way, says Coorey. Unless you colonise and stay a very long time, Afghanistan will just go back to being Afghanistan. He praises the “honesty” of Tony Abbott on a trip to Tarin Kowt in 2013. #Insiders

a bunch of churches are calling for resettlement of 20,000 refugees from Afghanistan. Taylor says it is odd that we have not seen any public contact between Biden and Morrison. (Pretty sure Biden simply can not abide Morrison - Ed) #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up.

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1431767301125296129

#FinalObservations 1 is Parker saying the Perth Wildcats NBL team have appointed a new coach whose name is Scott Morrison lmao and a new report finds that the disastrous Liberal Party WA state election campaign is the fault of Matthias Cormann. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 was Taylor on a public issue whose point I missed sorry #Insiders

#FinalObservations 3 is Coorey saying despite Dan Andrews best efforts Victoria probably will not host a sporting final whose detail I also missed. AFL probably? #Insiders

we go out with an unnecessarily long clip of a white male who can not pronounce chihuahua. #Insiders

this has been another edition of watching #Insiders so you don’t have to👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

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thank you for the fact check. #FinalObservations 3 Coorey clarification here. #Insiders.

https://twitter.com/PinoGap/status/1431769943679242243

and to the several poo fact checkers, thank you!

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