Thread by @iMusing

portraying Scott Morrison as having done “not much” is unfathomable to me. All the lives he attacked and destroyed as Minister for “Border Protection” and “Human Services” and Treasurer. The planetary collapse he advocates for as Prime Minister.

theguardian.com/australia-news…

many things Morrison does are monumentally cruel and destructive. Individuals, households, population sectors and classes of persons are worse off, more anxious, poorer, unhappier, in despair, and dead - following decisions and actions for which Morrison is directly responsible.

ministerial decisions taken by Morrison cause real life and death impacts for people, including children, who are already persecuted, struggling, dealing with unimaginable hardships. “He hadn’t done very much” is a complete mischaracterisation of his record in public life.

and that is without even touching on the deliberate corrupting and aggressive dumbing down of the public sphere, the abuse of parliamentary process, the vast scale of dishonesty and secrecy - all driven by men like Scott Morrison.

those attacked and destroyed by this government - they outsource the cruelty to donors like Serco and Russo - are the most targeted, impoverished and invisibilised people in our jurisdiction. Refugees and asylum seekers. Disabled and unemployed people. Single mums and our kids.

Morrison has not done anything in the national interest. He does not act in the public good. The empty ledger in the social progress column does not nullify and erase his record of targeted cruelty.

the way political journalism is collectively promoting this book and its thesis reminds me of the constant claim that the Morrison government has “no” climate policy when repealing the carbon price and expanding fossil fuel extraction is accelerating catastrophic climate change.

leaving aside how #ausmedia love cheap tory copy as revealed here, this framing erases the fact that his curry cooking comms - co-created by Annabel Crabb and Scott Morrison - deliberately whitewashes his policy of processing Sri Lankan asylum seekers at sea.
Unforgivable.

this 2018 article on comatose asylum seeker children (“resignation syndrome”) specifically dates their condition to the five years from when Morrison became Minister responsible for their care.
Tell us again how Morrison “hadn’t done very much”.

abc.net.au/news/2018-08-2…

tl;dr: Scott Morrison has done a lot of terrible things at phantasmagorical cost. His economic management lies and phoney footy-curry cooking comms should be called out. Instead, the press gallery promote his preferred image - day in day out.