good morning from unceded Darug lands☀️today on #Insiders are murdoch editor James Campbell, former murdoch columnist and ex-Costello staffer now 9fax columnist Niki Savva and 9fax government correspondent Phil Coorey.
The interview is with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
The interview is with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
opening spiel: Labor has decided it does want an election on climate change.
What’s the Morrison perspective, skip? Well, the “government immediately pounced” [insert tax lie, repeated obediently by Speers] but business is “siding with Labor”. #Insiders
What’s the Morrison perspective, skip? Well, the “government immediately pounced” [insert tax lie, repeated obediently by Speers] but business is “siding with Labor”. #Insiders
the montage soundtrack is Stevie Nicks. It is about rampant sexual violence (called “culture”) and bullying in the parliament. Hollie Hughes gets lots of sympathy. A reckoning, apparently. Despite strong tory resistance to change. #Insiders
#MakingNews is the pending Labor policy announcement on free TAFE place. Speers says Morrison has a messy end to the year. #Insiders
Savva says Morrison is in pretty poor shape but he can regroup. She outlines how he could have responded to the sexist parliament report but didn’t. She says he should lead instead of say it is everybody’s problem. #Insiders
Speers interrupts Savva describing the structural problem of Morrison’s failures to say “yes the bombshell was this” and plays a clip of Ms Miller on abuses by disgraced minister Tudge. Can Tudge survive? #Insiders
nobody knows, according to Campbell, whether Tudge can “survive” (Tudge will be fine. These men always are). Coorey does the usual blandifying of monumental Morrison government abuses. Did the right thing and benched the minister, says Coorey. #Insiders
establishing a complaints process is unremarkable, says Coorey. He calls parliament a “unique” workplace and claims staffers “only” work for their MP, itself a remarkable take on publicly funded staffers in the offices of elected representatives. #Insiders
lose their entitlements, lose their pre-selection, says Savva of the sexual misconduct crew. Are they the type of people we want making laws and pretending to represent the Australian people? she asks. It is blindingly obvious, says Savva #Insiders
she then repeats the widespread false assumption that other workplaces deal effectively with sexual violence complaints. No, they don’t. Just ask the End Rape on Campus folks. #Insiders
Speers and Campbell repeat what Senator Thorpe said, again. The Hollie perspective gets another run. Campbell says politics attracts horrible people. Coorey keeps pushing the unique workplace line. #Insiders
clip of Bowen reaching out to business on climate change and the fact BCA back Labor’s 2030 target. This is to segue to poor old Josh so he can lie about Labor policy, who opens with the tax lies. #Insiders
you could vote for it, says Speers. You could be the leader when Labor introduces [their 2030 target bill] he adds helpfully. Frydenberg runs the “governments legislating is bad” line cooked up by his boss, who doesn’t have the numbers to pass bills. #Insiders
are you saying business and governments around the world have got it wrong? That only you and Barnaby Joyce have got it right? Technology not taxes, says Frydenberg [abridged].
are you happy to tell your constituents in Kooyong that you oppose this 2030 target? Frydenberg starts blabbing the old tried and true “Labor policies cost money” routine and Speers steers him to the cost of inaction. Frydenberg agrees by citing one of his own speeches. #Insiders
borders. Frydenberg says Marshall makes border decisions all by him own self. Well done, Steve. Asked about cost of lockdowns, Frydenberg recites some memorised - fabricated - numbers. Speers asks about “relatively flat” wages and high costs eg petrol. #Insiders
with no mention of the GFC, and no correction from the host, Frydenberg recites some standard Liberal Party lies about competent economic management under Labor. Wages tho, says Speers. The way to get wages up is a tighter labour market, says free market man. #Insiders
fact check: the way to get wages up is for bosses to pay more money to their workers. #Insiders
the Jenkins report. We must all act, says Frydenberg. We are “leaning into this” he says. The prime minister has “already acted he asked for more information from his department” and “this is our chance to draw a line in the sand. Christ. What is he even talking about? #Insiders
when it comes to gender parity Frydenberg uses 25 years as the timeframe. Apparently getting women repping the Liberal Party up to 38% is “progress”. Your plans haven’t worked have they says Speers. We are making progress says Frydenberg. Not enough says Speers. #Insiders
very frosty closing out. Seems those two do not like each other. #Insiders
asked about the Labor climate 2030 target announcement, Coorey says it was a “muted response” from Frydenberg. Oh well then. Speers mentions pressure from independents. Coorey repeats the Liberal Party tax lie. #Insiders
rabbit n coffee is up.
https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1467261179462565904
the level of understanding is basic as anything says Coorey. If only there was some kind of industry that could inform voters on credible climate policy. #Insiders
what are the risks for Labor? Soeers asks Savva. She says Morrison will give the “scare campaign” (she means the lies Liberals tell and media obediently broadcast) a red hot go. Can his scare campaign work this time? asks Speers. #Insiders
Savva cautions Morrison that if he goes into hard defending coal in the Hunter he risks losing votes in Wentworth and Kooyong. She calls the independents “cashed up” lol the Liberal and National Parties are backed by Rhinehart and murdoch #Insiders
asked which is the better climate policy, Campbell says whoever wins the election has the “best” climate policy. Even Speers sounds surprised at this populist nonsense. #Insiders
more chit chat on independents without actually mentioning the movement. Indi is “entrenched independent territory”. Coorey on floor-crossers says some individuals put their own interests ahead of the collective hahaha #Insiders
Savva says Hunt put his heart and soul into health during covid and that Covid will be a shadow over the campaign. Coorey says Morrison is going to Bathurst and if hehe gets cheered he is in with a fighting chance. #insiders
that’s the demographic isn’t it Speers says and he and Phil chuckle fondly at the prime minister driving his campaign on toxic masculinity and constantly pitching to sexist yobbos. #Insiders
#MattPriceMoment goes to a WA Liberal Party politician who can not pronounce chihuahua #Insiders
#TalkingPictures is with Jack the Insider who is a back to you Speersy man. Kudelka wins cartoon of the year. #Insiders
#FinalObservations 1 is Coorey speculating about when Morrison will call the election and which set of lies he will prosecute. #Insiders
#FinalObservations 2 is Savva saying Albanese has “kicked off his unofficial election campaign” and wishes Labor luck in ridding us all of the Morrison government [paraphrased]. #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3 is Campbell repeating Morrison messaging and saying Labor wants the country to “evolve” (he means effect change through political leadership) while the Liberals will be pushing for “back to normal”. #Insiders
the outtake is another montage, starting mostly Scott Morrison with cameos from Albanese. Lots of covid. Women get a brief run. So does Barnaby, climate, AUKUS, and Macron. #Insiders
Lambie, of course. Morrison and his #SorryNotSorry routine. Premiers, including Berejiklian and Perrottet. They close out with Morrison campaign imagery: the prime minister saying tuff year with a christmas tree at his Parliament House office. #Insiders
this has been another edition of watching #Insiders so you don’t have to👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
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