Thread by @iMusing

good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Stan Grant (ABC), Annika Smethurst (9fax) and Cam Stewart (murdoch).
The interview is with Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.
This thread is not fact-checked.
Feel free to mute by hashtag.

opening spiel: locking in new security architecture. The prime minister finds new friends in Washington. But not ALL was positive! #Insiders

[no aspect of this anglophone imperialism is positive] #Insiders

tectonic plates, figurative (anglophone imperialism v China) and literal (Melbourne) #Insiders

the montage is politicians and journalists opinions over footage of the hiviz nazi crew. Almost all the talking heads mention only one population segment of the “protestors” in Melbourne. #Insiders

much renting and kerning over a war memorial. #Insiders

#MakingNews is yet another false start on climate mitigation policy from the parties of pro-climate catastrophe coal expansion. #Insiders

“French sub snub”, followed by Speers editorialising on the Melbourne marches. #Insiders

Smethurst opens by saying the marches were not union sanctioned but were triggered by mandatory vax announcement for construction workers. She says there are 300,000 construction workers so the crowd was not representative. #Insiders

Speers puts unions top of his comments before naming “anti vaxxers” and “far right agitators”. Stewart talks about vax hesitancy in construction. #Insiders

teachers, childcare workers, nurses, aged care - all have mandatory vax (also all feminised industries - me) and corporations like Qantas and Telstra (no comment on the Morrison government leaving these questions to the states and business - me) says Speers #Insiders

two tiered society? asks Grant. Will there be a group of pariahs when we re-open for the double vaccinated? #Insiders

clip of Stoker sympathising with anti-vax construction workers. Why tradie votes matter more than nurses votes is not explained. #Insiders

it is not a huge surprise that there are growing cases in the construction industry, says Smethurst. She alludes to one of the many Andrews-blaming narratives kicking around. #Insiders

will the Andrews government have to stick with the (compulsory vax) health order? Yeah, says Stewart, because opinion polls are very much for rewarding the vaccinated. #Insiders

more people are lining up for vaccination than protesting, says Speers. Grant says Australia has had no jab no play, that communicating re-opening strategy is crucial, that the vaccinated are less likely to get severely ill. #Insiders

it will be unsustainable in the long term to have a small number of unvaccinated people, says Grant. He says two-tiered society and pariahs again. #Insiders

segue to interview clip is of Morrison sympathising with climate denial positions because change is scary. Some of us urgently struggle for change but Morrison universalises reactionary conservatism as is their wont. #Insiders

DPM and acting Prime Minister leans on the UK for inspiration. His message is about how transitioning away from fossil fuel causes chaos in Europe or something #Insiders

there will be no ships off Gladstone and England is re-opening coal-fire power stations, says Joyce. Do you just go up to families and say there are no more jobs?
What, you mean treat coal industry workers like universities and the arts? Heaven forbid. #Insiders

when you start shutting down your biggest exports the government has less money, says Joyce, ever the small town accountant. Where does he think the dividend billions masquerading as wages subsidies came from? #Insiders

to say the world is moving on from coal today is not right, says Joyce, spitting straight into the face of aspirational deputy Liberal leader Josh Frydenberg. #Insiders

throws in the standard Coalition lies about Labor. Drink. #Insiders

barley is less than three days of coal exports, says Joyce. Per year? Are apples oranges? Is barley coal? Who can say? #Insiders

DPM refers to himself as a little old rural accountant and says if you do not look at the cost “you will get yourself in more trouble than the early settlers” (who have done extremely well for themselves) #Insiders

he is a farmer who was mustering cattle yesterday as well as a rural accountant. Absolutely troweling it on for the 5% of enrolled adults who vote National here. #Insiders

all this gibberish is designed to say yes but it’s complicated. Straight up deflection. A kind of one-man sea-lioning on national television. #Insiders

ya gotta paint this in pitchers so people understand, says Joyce. If I went to Sydney and said I’m gonna shut down three lanes of the Harbour Bridge, you’d get it.
(CPG: retail politician!! Genius!!
Sydneysiders: we get climate change already, thanks).
#Insiders

lmao it’s like what Voltaire says but it wasn’t actually Voltaire, says Joyce. Okay well let’s leave that then, says Speers, but Joyce labours on with his misattributed quote to deflect Qs about his revolting backbench. #Insiders

human rights abuses against the Uyghurs? Really, Barners? Interoperability blah blah blah. #Insiders

wrap Q is on the family trapped in Perth by Alex Hawke who lived in Biloela, a town in a federal seat held by the Nationals. Joyce draws on jus soli- the girls were born here. #Insiders

Rabbit and Coffee is up. #Insiders

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1441909128339804161

panel chats for a bit about how the Morrison government wants their climate campaign messaging to land. Smethurst amplifies and legitimises the Liberal Party techtopian fantasy stuff. #Insiders

Stewart has some goss on Frydenberg talking to Joyce. Big deal. The issue is what they DO not what they say. #Insiders

back to the AUKUS. Grant calls anglophone imperialism “the democracies” and kicks the “retail politician” trope along. #Insiders

the Quod, which the entire CPG has decided is terribly significant despite no evidence and plenty of counter evidence - like vacuous speechifying on “values” snd “freedom”. #Insiders

thankfully, Grant questions whether the Quod is a collection of democracies with shared values, asks if Modi is on the side of freedom, points to history of Russia selling weapons to India and Japanese-Iran ties. #Insiders

he says Japan is managing its relationship with China diplomatically and much better than we are despite a more “vexed” history. #Insiders

apparently it was not all sweetness and light between Morrison and the Europeans! Smethurst opens with something about Labor in response. Speers cuts to the clip of Morrison confirming he dumped a $90 billion weapons contract by text. #Insiders

arguments for the subs policy switch. God. What Morrison says while blundering around the world trashing relations and endangering the region at huge cost to Australia does not get a look in. #Insiders

France is an important player in the region, says Grant. Speers says he wants to look at what Labor says. Cites Keating. Clip of Wong questioning defence autonomy. Stewart says “Labor has handled it quite well and quite maturely”. #Insiders

the cost, the jobs, sovereignty, says Stewart, all very valid questions says Stewart. Speers tells us what Scott Morrison wants in terms of electoral strategy and wedge politics. #Insiders

Smethurst says she is with Cam and Labor have not given Morrison a big enough wedge to drive home. #Insiders

more robotics in war? I thinks that’s what Grant says. He invokes Keating and Rudd on the long term rise of China and says Aust will have to spend more on defence and have to be closer to the US because that is our “military guarantee”. #Insiders

pls enjoy this pic of acting prime minister Barnaby Joyce while we wait for #TalkingPictures to be posted. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up. #Insiders

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1441914161378775044

Shalailah is a back to you Speersy lady. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 1 is Stewart saying Melbourne is the most locked down city in the world and Andrews should give Victorians “exactly the same” privileges being promised by the Berejiklian government in NSW. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 was Grant on China but I missed the substance of it sorry. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 3 is Smethurst on the Senate President announcing that he has brought forward his retirement. #Insiders

we go out with a mashup of Boris Johnson set piece “jokes” going down like lead balloons. #Insiders

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