thoughts and prayers for Gladys Berejiklian’s memory today. May it return when a Liberal Party politician organises to give her an overpaid executive position on a silver platter🙏🏼
Berejiklian to her intimate partner, the MP for Wagga who stood down due to corruption investigations: I will throw money at Wagga don’t you worry about that. I can overrule [the executive].
Journalist: there may perhaps be a potential public perception of a conflict of interest.
but will unavoidable ABC everyman, head Liberal Party mopper upperer, the bloke whose editorialising is impossible for any ABC audience member to miss, judge Berejiklian’s position so irredeemable he dare not touch the story again this week. Such tuff [editorial] questions.
anyway here is David Speers saying Scott Morrison has met a KPI set by Scott Morrison, to wit making an announcement that mollifies the extremists in the federal Coalition government led by Scott Morrison.
Speers and his colleagues ripped into the minority Labor government that passed climate policy legislation which actually worked AND Speers claims to believe - despite Treasury leaks contradicting Morrison comms for hagiographic rubes - what Morrison says about “modelling”.
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good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC 730 politics correspondent Laura Tingle, 9fax international editor Peter Hartcher and murdoch assistant economics editor Cameron Stewart. The interview is with Industry, Energy and Emissions minister Angus Taylor.
the Australian Way or climate con job? asks Speers. What does Scott Morrison want, skip? Well, he is on his way to Glasgow to “sell” [his pamphlet]. Speers describes the raging factional hatreds as the Coalition reaching a “fragile consensus”. #Insiders
“save the day”. Drink. The KPI set by Scott Morrison, which is for Scott Morrison to not be sacked by his colleagues, is quite something. The montage is dominated by clips of Scott Morrison mouthing Morrison government slogans. #Insiders
he is not legislating it because 1/ he can’t; and 2/ he doesn’t want to.
1. The government does not have the numbers to legislate their re-announced existing inadequate target because of all the Coalition climate denialists.
2. Morrison is leader of the denialist factions.
when ousted former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tried to legislate a target, and despite being cheered on by the press gallery, he failed. He was then taken out by the climate denialists in the Liberal Party room, led by Scott Morrison.
Abbott also mobilised climate denialists in the Liberal Party room to oust Malcolm Turnbull, in 2009. He then repealed the legislated Labor emissions reduction policy, a policy which lowered emissions. It is an existing Abbott era target that Morrison re-announced yesterday.
no we didn’t. Scott Morrison announced an unlegislated target and asked assembled journalists to tell voters he has a plan. The media, collectively, complied. This entire exercise is election campaign comms and its sole purpose has already been achieved.
Morrison will now tick “announce target” off his to-do list and move on, irregardless of a few serious climate policy journalists crying into their cups. That’s politics mate, he will say. All politics is local. He does not care about the human cost, not yours, not ours.
he is a crash or crash through megalomaniac with messiah complex and painting him as having subtlety or nuance is self-serving first-order bullshit. Cosying up to him failed. Todays announcement is another policy failure. All press coverage of Morrison is catastrophically wrong.
“the Labor Party has a plan to legislate” - prime minister Scott Morrison on the federal opposition.
this pilot election campaign launch is “a whole of ecanomy plan”. Sounds like Liberal Party polling is showing that their economic management lies still, despite all evidence to the contrary, are believed. Thanks, corporate media.
we’re gunna chieve [bodgy targets set by land-clearing accounting tricks]!! shouts Morrison. Today is about the plan, we’ll release the modelling later, he says.
good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC broadcaster Pat Karvelas, 9fax columnist late of murdoch Nikki Sava, and 10 News + murdoch columnist + UWA Professor Peter van Onselen.
The interview is with Perrottet government minister Matt Keane.
this thread is not fact checked.
I block snitchtaggers. Pls google unfamiliar terms.
lol ABC headline: “the Nationals are holding a Party room meeting to hammer out the Coalition climate plan”.
🔮Morrison takes an unlegislated target to Glasgow. Coalition climate policy remains coal expansion. Coalition politicians use public money to buy votes for their candidates. Not news. This is business as usual.
oh and entire press gallery obediently and uncritically amplify and legitimise this latest federal Coalition election campaign strategy. Also not new.
he can take a bowl of word salad to Scotland with or without the Nationals. Giving public money to client donors and local vested interests is not climate mitigation.