Thread by @iMusing

good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Saturday Paper politics corro Karen Middleton, Triple J politics reporter Shalailah Medhora and Westralian politics editor Lanai Scarr.
The interview is with Morrison government health minister Greg Hunt.

what Morrison wants: crunching into reverse, the prime minister road tests his election campaign slogans #Insiders

hard hats, says Speers admiringly, telling voters that Scott Morrison is in election mode as tho he is ever not campaigning. Speers then repeats what the prime minister says about opposition policy at the last election, a lie. #Insiders

the montage could be mistaken for a Liberal Party campaign ad. Clip after clip of Scott Morrison lying and Scott Morrison lying about lying, plus his campaign slogans. #Insiders

Bandt telling the truth on the carbon capture and storage scam, Albanese pointing to Morrison government climate failures - all spliced with what Morrison says to counter basic facts #Insiders

#MakingNews has a clip from the Cop whose significance I missed, a story on children getting vaxxed, and some desperate lies from Frydenberg on disastrous Liberal Party economic management #Insiders

editorialising from Speers on what Scott Morrison wants, how Scott Morrison wants to win the election, and erases as usual the fact that the press gallery is critical to their campaign strategy of lying about disastrous Coalition economic management. #Insiders

we open with #COP26 shortcomings and Middleton and Scarr both say the world has not taken sufficient action and Australia certainly has not done enough [paraphrased] #Insiders

the commitment to come back in a year and make firmer commitments seems to be the #COP26 news. The #Insiders panel ask whether this means it is in an Australian election year. Seems it is set for November and this beyond the next federal election. #Insiders

EVs. Medhora says the biggest problem is affordability. Speers repeats the Morrison lines and then plays a clip of Morrison saying the Morrison lies. Middleton says Morrison is sucking the emotion from “end the weekend” to put it on climate wars via EVs. #Insiders

it is about decreasing emissions, says Scarr. We are a dumping ground for emotions intensive vehicles because there is no legislated CO2 vehicle emissions standard. But will Labor take a VES to the next election asked Speers. #Insiders

clip of Plibersek saying there is no VES. Scarr says EVs “tripped up both leaders” at the last election. Middleton says give Morrison an inch and he takes a mile. But this is the problem for Labor, says Speers. “Give him an inch and he’ll smash it” Speers says. #Insiders

Medhora has the numbers on EV uptake. She drops a pin in 2030 for emissions reductions and EV uptake. Middleton says the manufacturers will stop making high emissions cars. The demand is there, says Scarr. Hmm yes the prime minister said this week, says Speers. #Insiders

the planned corruption of the CEFC by the Morrison government. They want to give money earmarked for investment in renewables to their fossil fuel buddies, presumably Santos and its CCS “project”. #Insiders

Scarr says we need to invest in thus far unscaleable and unproven technology. This seems to be an argument for corrupting the Clean Energy Finance Corp and giving cash to Santos rather than say properly funding the CSIRO. #Insiders

the McKinsey modelling. Medhora says it falls 15% short. It is not a net zero commitment, she says, because the modelling only gets 85% of the way there. So what are Labor going to do, says Speers. #Insiders

are Labor going to pay for their own modelling, asks Middleton. Labor could use the modelling paid for by the BCA chuckles Speers hur hur hur.
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clip of Dr Fauci on booster shots to segue to the interview. Essential, says Speers to Hunt. Yes? Hunt says we are first in the world after Israel to start a whole of nation booster program. Goodness. He is launching a campaign today saying get a jab. #Insiders

so is it a three dose program? asks Speers. Hunt says Murphy and ATAGI advise that two doses is fully vaccinated. He the recites the take home from a column published this weekend penned by Professor Peter van Onselen. #Insiders

Hunt sounds well off the mark. We have hit a mark he says. Throws a few percentages around. Says they “will continue to follow the medical advice on risk”. He is announcing opening international terminals today. With duty free, prompts Speers. Yes duty free says Hunt. #Insiders

the reminder of his duty free talking point is the only interruption from Speers, who lets Hunt ramble on about grandchildren and grandparents and children and cancer and humanity and then interrupts to feed him a few lines about families reunited and Christmas. #Insiders

seems Speers has chosen state borders for the performative conflict today. After asking a federal minister about when WA should re-open, Speers asks about Indigenous people and vaccination (he calls this “rates”). Hunt says “it” is uptake, not access. #Insiders

Hunt name checks Ken Wyatt and Pat Turner and Indigenous controlled health orgs and we move on to children (under 12s) and vaccines. Hunt says only the USA has provided emergency approval for 5-11 year olds. #Insiders

the Aust approval body are medical experts and operate independently and do not want to rush approval, says Hunt. What about grandparents hugging kids at christmas? - Speers. Hunt says he will leave that to the experts and blathers about Australian families for a bit #Insiders

this Frankie J Holden ad must be super cringe for Hunt to keep spruiking it like this. Commonwealths ad buy cash for media corporations tho I guess. Unless it is another YouTube foray. #Insiders

just quickly says Speers to the bloke who was Abbott and Turnbull and Morrison government environment minister from memory. About #COP26. We have set our target says Hunt. He quotes Shakespeare and a Morrison slogan. #Insiders

have we agreed to update our targets next year? asks Speers. Is that what we have agreed to in Glasgow? Hunt says he will leave [existential threats to the future of humanity] to others and reels off cheap Morrison slogans like a man with an ear worm. Meet n beat etc. #Insiders

Middleton says the Morrison government will kick their “target” into the long grass until after the election. Medhora, optimistically, says “they will legislate what they know they can achieve”. Counterpoint: they will not legislate shit bc he does not have the numbers. #Insiders

clip of Keating on the absence of Australian geostrategic interests in Taiwan. Middleton says he was extremely benign and if China moves then Australia will have a right decision. Very tuff, nods Speers gravely. #Insiders

we should be debating how we handle this relationship [with China] says Speers. No word on the fact Morrison has trashed the relationship. Clip of Albanese saying the usual (trade with China matters, abridged). #Insiders

Scarr says Keating is a distraction for Albanese and refs the hawkish nonsense Dutton came out with this week on Sunrise. Speers and Middleton say Morrison can/will/has weaponised Keating’s words to “go the cheap anti-China” line. They mean racism. #Insiders

lmao graphic of which seats the leaders are campaigning and margins. Extended clip of Morrison and his cheap sloganeering. Speers repeats this Morrison slogan of the week for the eleventieth time. #Insiders

how does this east coast campaigning - where Morrison is attempting to capitalise hur hur on the re-opening after lockdowns - he means appropriating credit for the efforts made by Premiers and residents - play in WA? Lanai? You must miss your family in WA? #Insiders

lol Lanai is from Sydney and her family are in Sydney, she says. She just works as the political editor of the only major West Australian newspaper. #Insiders

Middleton explains how the federal Liberals are counting on the strategy they have chosen in Victoria, hoping the state Labor government will cop shutdown frustration while federal politicians who did nothing but snipe reap votes. #Insiders

Speers responds by again telling us ~ what Liberal Party politicians want voters to think ~ about their disastrous economic management. He is nothing if not consistent. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up. Chatfield is an insomniacs [Keating] man.

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#FinalObservations 1 is Medhora saying an Aboriginal man was found dead in Cessnock Prison this week [an Aboriginal man was shot dead in Seven Hills too] and that steal thing has been criminalised in VIC #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 is Scarr saying the government has to finalise its religious bigotry bill this session? Was that the claim? And that there is chatter about former NSW Liberal Party leader Gladys Berejiklian running in the federal seat of Warringah. #Insiders

#FinslObservations 3 is Middleton saying the Morrison government has to elect a new speaker - this is a bigger numbers deal than anyone is saying - and she pays tribute to outgoing Speaker Tony Smith. #Insiders

the outtakes are a couple of campaign stop bloopers from the [undeclared publicly funded tedious 7 month long federal election] campaign trail #Insiders

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tough decision, Middleton said. Not right. Tough.

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sigh. And stealthing (removing condom without consent) has been criminalised in Victoria. Not steal thing. Stealthing.

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