Hunt is holding a clashing presser with the prime minister. He says “the prime minister and myself” several times tho. The government is still falling apart at the seams then.
Hunt has a professor with him. ABC TV news then cuts away from Hunt in Melbourne and goes back to Morrison in Canberra.
Pressers at ten paces on an actually serious matter, the omicron variant, and manufacturing fear, Morrison’s desire to extend control our social media accounts.
Morrison is still saying safe, safety, safely over and over. The strategy could not be more obvious. Asked about the Solomon Islands, he refs the “Minister for Defence” - not Peter - and recites safety free country etc etc a few more times.
this is one of the worst stump speeches I have ever watched. The deployment of NSW Police to the Solomons? His lack of objectivity on where to involve the NSW Police in peoples lives is extremely dangerous.
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Morrison is up. Claiming he follows “medical expert advice”, a lie. Segues across to Solomon Islands. Then gets down to the campaign stump speech, which is on imposing his government into peoples lives on social media.
ramping up the fear factor. Safe safe safe. Risk risk risk. He says social media trolling is “corrosive”, which is how Sam Maiden described him and his ICAC attack on #Insiders this morning.
lmao Morrison is telling everyone to be scared of bigots *on social media*. He weaponises women victims who are stalked online and experience “terrible abuse” for his government interference and control bill.
good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are Guardian politics editor Katharine Murphy, murdoch politics editor Samantha Maiden and 9fax (AFR) columnist Jennifer Hewett. The interview is with Anne Ruston, a woman, and Morrison government social services minister.
opening spiel: “keeping the faith”.
what’s the Morrison perspective, skip?
well, the prime minister wants to “end religious discrimination” lol #Insiders
Morrison tried to marshal “his troops” but apparently failed. The montage is on Coalition chaos and disunity. Canavan appropriating an abortion campaign principle gets a run. Lambie’s goddamn bloody adult does too. Soundtrack is house of fun (Madness?) #Insiders
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.
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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
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
Laura Tingle seems to be the only press gallery journalist reporting on the fact that both the Berejiklian and Morrison governments decided to enact partisan pandemic policies across Sydney.
when former Liberal Party leader now under investigation for corruption Gladys Berejiklian stood up every day bleating at us to get bigger houses and have smaller families so low paid precariously employed western Sydney workers could keep delivering 85% of essential services.
I wonder* if Berejiklian’s office shredded a heap of documents and trashed a bunch of multi million dollar contracts at various stages of negotiation and completion so as to fuck over her factional enemies in the Liberal Party no matter what the cost to the NSW public.