Thread by @iMusing

good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are ABC broadcaster Pat Karvelas, 9fax chief corro David Crowe and Perth radio host and columnist Gareth Parker.
The interview is with shadow Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers.
This thread is not fact-checked.

Opening spiel: “ugly protests death threats and fake gallows”. Speers says federal and state leaders are “split” over the violence.
What’s the Morrison perspective, skip? The condemnation lie came first. Then the phoney freedom comms. #Insiders

the montage, unwisely in my opinion, gives coverage to the worst threats made by protestors. Hanson gets a go too. Labor is framed as criticising the federal leadership when Labor leaders also unconditionally condemned the extremists. #Insiders

Morrison and his “sympathy” for the extremists. Birmingham and his mealy mouthed normalising. #Insiders

#MakingNews many politicians feel unsafe going to work. No connection is made to the prime minister here. The other Mirabella scored a Senate spot. #Insiders

editorialising from Speers: the prime minister the prime minister. He wants us to hear this he said that about government [regulating the lives of citizens] #Insiders

what do the VIC laws actually say? Karvelas has done more homework on the bill than the extremists, it’s a safe bet. She says the numbers on the streets are at odds with the vax rates [paraphrased] #Insiders

VIC is a better bill than what exists in other states, says Speers to Crowe, who agrees with Karvelas that the elected official (politician, Premier) call lockdowns rather than the CHO. Because accountability, which is not a functioning mechanism (see Laming). #Insiders

“now is not a great time to be having this debate vested of how people are feeling in Victoria” agrees Speers with Karvelas. Parker says people in Melbourne are frustrated by the long lockdowns, it has been only a few days in WA and this is how the federation works. #Insiders

the “condemned the violence wants government out of peoples lives” formulation gets yet another run from Speers. Crowe says he does not want to get into semantics. Unconditional condemnation would help. He moved on immediately to sympathy, says Crowe. #Insiders

there was no violence in Sydney and Perth yesterday, observes Crowe. He says there is a stronger sentiment in Melbourne about citing lockdowns faster (9fax data from a few weeks ago). The prime minister is thus tapping into valid feelings, apparently. #Insiders

clip of Dandrews on the prime minister not ordering vaccines, a fact. Karvelas says “whack!” and Speers says the Labor states are “looking quite toxic”. Karvelas says the criticism of the prime minister is in the context of the federal reaction and genuine. #insiders

the prime minister can not do but, says Karvelas, when the prime minister quote obviousky can and does do “but”. She says as the bloke who closed international borders he can not do captain freedom now - which he clearly can and is and will continue to do. #Insiders

another clip of Poorleen. Parker says we need to find a way to move beyond closed borders and the prime minister (responsible for international borders) is moving faster than state premiers (responsible for state borders) #Insiders

there is an inherent tension, says Parker, between the high overall rate and pockets of low vax numbers. Karvelas says NSW started the vax mandates earlier than anyone and their carrot-stick approach got the high vax rates. #Insiders

McGowan has not gone down the path of “lifestyle mandates” like pubs and cafes, says Parker, he put vax mandates in work places. Crowe says the “issue” has led to “debate” in federal cabinet and there is a “risk” here for the Morrison government. #Insiders

it may be a couple of percentage points in preferences from Clive Palmer and Pauline Hanson which is giving federal cabinet - a governance unit but Crowe normalises cabinet as Coalition campaign strategy unit - a headache on the [phoney freedom] “language”. #Insiders

very long clips of Morrison and his phoney freedom nonsense to segue to Chalmers, who says you can express a view in this country without dragging gallows around and that he, Chalmers, unequivocally condemns the death threats. #Insiders

the prime minister seems to want to embrace violent views and violent threats, says Chalmers. He says if the prime minister wants to play these dangerous games, the country has an opportunity and obligation to throw him out of office at the next election #Insiders

but what about the feelings of violent extremists [paraphrased]? Do you support supporting their feelings?
Chalmers says he supports health policy based on health advice. #Insiders

now about the Morrison campaign comms, says Speers [paraphrased]. Well petrol prices are skyrocketing and working families are going backwards, says Chalmers. We’ve had 8 years of stagnant wages under this government. #Insiders

flatlining productivity, flatlining business investment, says Chalmers. He calls precarious employment conditions “a cancer” and states how precarity keeps wages low. Speers interrupts to quote the ACTU on enterprise bargaining. #Insiders

their priorities are same work same pay, dealing with labour hire, addressing precarity and Speers interrupts several times to ask enterprise bargaining yes or no. Chalmers is not the industry minister but Speers is focused on wedging unions from the ALP lol #Insiders

will any taxes be higher under Labor? Drink. #Insiders

so you are not abolishing franking credits, what about discretionary trusts? He is not going to go through every line item David, says Chalmers. Speers switches to what Labor will do about the trillion dollar debt [run up by Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments] #Insiders

we will get bang for buck from the budget, says Chalmers. We will roll back the rorts, the tens of millions they have wasted. He means billions. He cites car parks as the example but only 3 car parks were actually built. #Insiders

what about #RaiseTheRate asks Speers, who does not ask government politicians this question. Chalmers says Labor welcomes input from ACOSS and says social housing is a priority. #Insiders

does skilled migration depress wages? The balance between skilled and unskilled, permanent and temporary, dealing with exploitation says Chalmers. The biggest issue in the labour market is precarious work which is why working families are falling behind, says Chalmers. #Insiders

what about a 2030 target? Are you arguing among yourselves? asks Speers in a contemptuous tone he would never use to anyone from the ruling Coalition who all hate and contradict each other, publicly, every day. #Insiders

we are having constructive conversations led by Anthony Albanese and will announce our policies before the election says Chalmers. #Insiders

he is right about wages, D1 puts to D2. Labor has to be careful they do not want a scare campaign says Crowe, about a thing entirely determined by Coalition politicians and the press. #Insiders

the RBA is forecasting wages growth, says Speers. We can’t eat forecasts, mate. It is such an easy slogan for Labor, says Karvelas. They are not afraid to prosecute the cost of living argument. Speers repeats the Morrison cost of living campaign lies. #insiders

clip of Joyce spluttering nonsense about coal exports and cost of imports. Parker generously endorses this incoherent stream of consciousness as having “some economic logic”. #Insiders

Parker says it is bold of Morrison to talk about petrol prices when petrol is close to $2 a litre. He does not say that the Coalition lies can only work with media co-operation, amplification and legitimisation. #Insiders

it is important we do not just talk about optics, says Crowe, and charts the Howard echoes of the Morrison interest rate gambit. He says “a lot of this is about both sides selling an ice cream and the government putting a lot of artificial colouring in theirs”. #Insiders

Crowe then repeats a Morrison lie and says it is not true and Karvelas says we have to call out the lies. She and Speers pivot immediately to mis-characterising the Liberals’ desire to strip Medicare and Liberals’ desire to expand #CashlessDebit (both true). #Insiders

the weird mythologising about Morrison having campaign skills - rather than endless pumping up his tires by media outlets - gets a run and Karvelas says she is so excited to see Morrison judged by the electorate on his full term. #Insiders

the bigotry bill. Nobody says it is wedge politics and religious bigotry and nowt else. Karvelas says Zimmerman is scrutinising it closely. Adultery is a ground corporate religion use for sacking staff? Is that what Speers said? #Insiders

the bullshit mandate election promise defence of the bigotry bill, and Speers observes that an integrity commission was also promised. Crowe says their [the Morrison government’s] heart is not really in it [establishing an anti-corruption body]. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up.

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1462192782567788548

#FinalObservations 1 is Parker saying The West decided to headline what Greg Hunt says last week. WA set to hit 90% during the Ashes #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 is David Crowe saying that if they do not find good candidates for a lot of NSW seats “they are toast”. Did he mention the Voices movement? Not that I heard but that was probably the context. #Insiders

sorry there is a cranky puppy here I keep missing bits. #FinalObservations 3 was Karvelas saying there is someone responsible and that is the federal Attorney General and her name is Michaelia Cash but for what she is responsible I missed. Federal Integrity Commish? #Insiders

we go out with a flashback to that footage of the prime minister forcing an old lady to hold up a gesture for the cameras after getting vaccinated. Why, I do not know. #Insiders

this has been another edition of watching #Insiders so you don’t have to👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

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correction on the outtake. Thank you!

https://twitter.com/annieljensen/status/1462202293621702658