Scott Morrison's short-term political interests have changed, so now he's claiming to have changed his position on electric vehicles.

He's visiting Toyota Altona in my electorate today to whitewash his record of lies & scaremongering on EVs

Here's the inconvenient history:
While he denies it now, in the last election Scott Morrison did say that electric vehicles would be the end of the weekend:
As always, this was just Scott Morrison pretending to be something that he isn't. People who know cars know that the instant torque offered by electric vehicles offers plenty of opportunity for excitement on the weekend. He's just a fake, fake, fake. theconversation.com/heres-why-elec…
Worse than this, were are a selection of the ads he ran on Facebook scaremongering about EVs during the last election.

They are all straight up lies. There was no proposed ‘car tax’.

It’s was made up by a marketing man who treats the Australian public with contempt.
Maybe if the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison govt hadn’t destroyed the car industry in Australia - costing 2500 of my constituents their job - Scott Morrison would have known that Toyota will offer an electrified version of all its models by 2025 - including the Hilux in his lying ads.

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8 Nov
Today Scott Morrison is visiting Victoria for the first time in 173 days.

Extraordinarily he’s chosen to come to Toyota Altona in my electorate for a media event to do a backflip on his scaremongering about electric vehicles being the ‘end of the weekend’ in Australia.
It's the same Toyota Altona site where the policies of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Govt cost 2500 jobs.

It’s just across the road from the Altona refinery where over 300 jobs were lost this year.

It’s just up the road from the Willy Shipyards, where 1500 jobs were lost.
Scott Morrison abandoned Victoria during the pandemic. But the policies of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government have left us abandoned for 8 long years years.

This government has done nothing to fight for secure jobs in our community. We’ve seen the consequences first hand.
Read 4 tweets
27 Aug
In a cracking story, The @canberratimes has obtained a damning report on Scott Morrison’s bungled CovidSAFE App.

The Doherty model, & the PM’s reopening plan, relies heavily on ‘optimal testing, tracing, isolation & quarantine’.

Given that, this report is a must read 🧵👇
Some highlights of the report’s findings.

The report was finalised in March 2021, so doesn’t include the Delta out breaks.

But it’s clear that the CovidSAFE app was completely useless to contact tracers in the Victorian second wave.

It didn’t find a single close contact.
This was shortly after Scott Morrison described the CovidSAFE app as providing ‘protection’ like ‘putting on sunscreen’.
Read 12 tweets
27 Mar
Things that Scott Morrison HASN’T sacked MPs for - a thread:
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27 Mar
After 8 long years of Coalition government has decimated their front bench, this is what we are left with - Stuart Robert as the Minister with responsibility or cyber security.

A thread of the Master of Disaster’s tech policy highlights 🧵👇
That’s A LOT Of Internet

theguardian.com/australia-news…
That’s EVEN MORE Internet itnews.com.au/news/covidsafe…
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26 Mar
What is going on inside the Morrison Government on cyber security policy? The short answer is after eight years it’s a complete mess. The long answer is too long for a tweet, but I spoke on it in Parliament this week 👇🧵
parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/genpd…
The Morrison Govt has been so engulfed by its own sleaze and scandals it’s been distracted from this important national security issue in the face of the Hafnium and SolarWinds campaigns.
When the Exchange vulnerability became public:
-The Defence Min. was on leave
-The Acting Defence Min., also the Min. for Women, was in hiding from the media.
-The Asst Defence Min. still hadn't received his charter letter 3 months after his appointment.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
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25 Mar
An impressive effort from Sussan Ley in her #qt Dorothy Dixer just then, telling the Parliament that the Morrison Govt would ‘soon’ be introducing an Online Safety Bill.

That would be the Bill that was debated and passed through the House of Representatives last Sitting Week.
It shows really commitment to the Morrison Government’s “always be announcing” ethos.

Continuing to do forward sizzle announcements for things that have already occurred really is impressive.
The Online Safety Bill that Sussan Ley promised would soon be introduced is currently in the Senate awaiting further amendments from the govt and a second reading debate there.
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