good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian politics corro Sarah Martin, murdoch politics editor James Campbell and 9fax economics corro Shane Wright. The interview is with Liberal Party backbencher Katy Allen.
opening spiel is “crunch time for the Nationals” who are being increasingly referred to as “the junior Coalition partner” these days. #Insiders
what is the Morrison perspective, skip? Well, he “needs” the Nationals to lock in behind him for when he goes to Glasgow. There is no evidence for this claim. Federal Liberal Party climate policy wreckers have been backed by media and re/elected for decades. #Insiders
the montage is a net zero mash up. Politicians and journalists commenting on the pro-climate catastrophe federal Coalition government, which they call 2050 and 2030. Nothing on the fact Ley approves coal mine expansion and appeals climate court cases. #Insiders
#MakingNews opens with easing restrictions in Victoria, which could reach 70% this Friday. The state-federal Liberal Party stoush is presented as “foreign students and tourists” get priority in NSW. #Insiders
the factional and Party hatreds and monumental climate policy failures in the Liberal and National Parties are framed as “don’t expect them to hold hands” and “some might be angry”. #Insiders
“interesting” that Taylor will be in the National Party room, says Martin. She canvases the various positions of Nationals factions. If they were going to accept “the” plan - the techtopian nonsense announced by Morrison - we would know by now, says Martin. #Insiders
clip of pro-climate catastrophe Senator Bridget MacKenzie telling Fran Kelly that the Nationals just want their utter clownery to be taken seriously #Insiders
the Nationals will kick it down the road, says Campbell. It is not legislation so whatever who cares they are just campaigning on it, he says. A carpetbag full of cash, shiny boondoggles, Nationals fantasies like inland rail will be announced, says Campbell. #Insiders
the Gladstone rail [fantasy] is not worth it unless we ship coal along it for 100 years, says Wright. The cost is measured by how much government takes from taxpayers wallets. The technology not taxes [slogan] is bollocks, says Wright. #Insiders
reminder from Speers that Morrison carried a lump of coal into the parliament. Clip of Morrison saying carbon credits for Kazakhstan and other lies about Labor, apparently to support Speers’ claim that Morrison “has come a long way” lol no he hasn’t. #Insiders
it is political expediency and also “quite the journey” for the prime minister, says Martin. She calls this turning the Queen Mary around and “deftly done”. Again, the coal mine expansion and pro-climate catastrophe federal court appeal do not support this rosy take. #Insiders
Morrison will shape his campaign strategy in those seats “where climate change is the issue”, says Martin. Campbell says Morrison is banking on Labor offering “bigger and better” climate settings so he can “flog them for it”. #Insiders
the world has changed, says Speers, as tho action on climate has not been urgent for decades. Campbell says the 2007 election was the last majority election? Is that what he says? When Abbott won in a landslide on a climate wrecking platform thanks to his employer? #Insiders
I missed the next comment from Martin but it was still about the Coalition and it’s re-election prospects, because that is essentially the only lens offered by this program. #Insiders
the RBA deputy Governor has said climate change is the first point economic issue, Frydenberg has tried to make the same case, that climate change is a first order issue says Wright. Hmmm fascinating says Speers. #Insiders
lmao but of to-ing and fro-ing about the murdoch green washing between former murdoch TV front man and current murdoch print editor #Insiders
surely the announcement he is going to Glasgow means he has to lock in a deal, says Speers. He can go with a grab bag of promises, says Campbell. #Insiders
omg this is incredibly embarrassing I thought the interview was with member for Higgins Katy Allen but it is with shadow finance spokeswomen Katy Gallagher. Apologies!! #Insiders
surely Labor will want to top whatever the Morrison government comes up with to take to Glasgow? Gallagher calls the government position embarrassing. #Insiders
is the Labor plan settled or is it still being worked on? There is work ongoing, says Gallagher. We are a responsible opposition. The Labor policy will be ready for the next election. #Insiders
here we go. Vic Labor. So what. The IBAC is doing its work. #Insiders
Gallagher says Albanese and Andrews intervened and acted immediately and to wait for the IBAC process. Speers wants to spend more time on branch stacking. Weird that he is not deifying a politician for being [checks notes] investigated by a corruption agency. #Insiders
look says Gallagher this is a relatively minor matter, Byrne is helping the inquiry, wait for its outcome, this is why Labor has a federal integrity commission. Speers says there is doubt that IBAC has jurisdiction over a federal politician. #Insiders
the Labor federal integrity commission model - which is designed to expose corruption, while the Morrison government model is designed to cover up corruption - is not followed up, however. Branch stacking in one Vic seat is more urgent, apparently. #Insiders
oops, spoke too soon. Would a federal corruption body have jurisdiction over… branchstacking? Branch stacking? Asks Speers. He could ask about the $8 billion Morrison government vote-buying spree, but moves on instead. #Insiders
failure of quarantine and vaccine rollout causing lockdowns. For some reason the Morrison government decided quarantine was a matter for the states, says Gallagher. She says we should have been coming out of lockdowns a year ago. #Insiders
has the time passed for a $300 incentive for vaccination? “Do we still need it”? Gallagher says she goes that incentivation is not needed but that incentives do work. #Insiders
Speers asks twice more about a thing that does not exist. Gallagher says Labor was simply addressing the need for higher vaccination rates to be achieved sooner. #Insiders
back to panel. Clip of Perottet saying Sydney is open for business, an old Abbott slogan. He says NSW is leading the world lol no we aren’t. Clip of Morrison saying Sydney is not wide open yet. “Steady on Dom” smiles Speers indulgently at this Liberal Party disunity. #Insiders
absolutely critical policy differences affecting millions of people, public health, livelihoods, between two of the most powerful men in the country who belong to the same party is a matter for sheepish grins, apparently. #insiders
locking people down was itself a huge incentive to get vaccinated, says Wright. The $6 billion for jabs has nothing on the $30 billion cost of lockdowns. Carrot or stick, smiles Speers fondly of this typically wasteful and chaotic Liberal Party economic management. #Insiders
he will get to the prison city of Melbourne in a sec, promises Campbell, and rails for a bit about the PMO daily shifting sands on international arrivals. #Insiders
another clip of Perottet, on migration. He is talking about bringing in a city the size of Perth every four or five years, says Wright. RBA Gov Lowe pointed to the impact of migration on wages, he says. Liberal Party migration policy settings are political [paraphrased] #Insiders
it would be a winner for Labor, says Campbell, if Albanese came out and said Aussie jobs for Aussie workers. He sees no downside to [entrenching xenophobic campaigning further into the electoral politics landscape]. #Insiders
boosting migration to people up GDP figures, says Martin, continuing the theme of migrants being discussed strictly in terms of electoral benefit or downside to the parties of government. #Insiders
it is crowding out other forms of investment, says Campbell. He says we will see “as the economy roars back” how low productivity really is in the Australian economy. Low productivity masked by migration in the past seems to be the argument. #Insiders
back to branch stacking in Victoria. Drink. #Insiders
obviously nobody has done any research on how widespread branchstacking is across all branches in all parties of government. Like that time actual nazis easily infiltrated the Nationals. Labor leadership narrative gets its usual airing. #Insiders
still going. The obsession with a single Victorian branch internals is matched only by the regular obsession with a single Victorian union Secretary. #Insiders
ripping off us as taxpayers!!! This is terrible. How much, David? Anything remotely approaching the cost of Joyce and his affairs? Tudge and his affairs? Porter and his? The Regional Community funds? Car parks? No? #Insiders
#TalkingPictures is with the mighty Amy Remeikis✌🏼#Insiders
Amy is a back to you Speersy laydee #Insiders
#FinalObservations 1 is Wright on getting a hair appointment and observing that the federal budget is really closely tied up with the election (in 2016 and 2019 the Liberal Party used the federal budget as a campaign launch pad - me). #Insiders
#FinalObservations 2 is Martin saying Albanese visited the seat of Hunter this week. #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3 is Campbell returning to his migration as campaign strategy theme. #Insiders
the outtake is a mic mute blooper. Surely we have seen enough of those. #Insiders
this has been another edition of watching #Insiders so you don’t have to👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
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