so the NSW Premier has reinstated mandatory check-in.
a simple mask wearing rule immediately lowers infection risk and is simply government regulating public and commercial spaces. The QR system, on the other hand, will ping people to test and isolate under threat of $5,000 fines and wreck private christmas gatherings.
I realise spelling out the illogical dishonesty of Liberal Party ideology is redundant these days but anyway. Getting pinged 2-3 days later with a close contact notification is a lot more government right inside peoples lives than wearing a mask in public spaces.
hundreds even thousands of retail and hospo workers will be pinged to self-isolate in the next few days. After dealing with the public who refuse to wear masks this past week - for the government - they will be ordered to cancel their private christmas plans - by the government.
the Sydney Liberals are saying we are free to travel and gather for christmas but not to get “precautionary” [free] PCR tests because testing stations are overwhelmed since they lifted restrictions which are now reinstated in a decision they describe as “precautionary”.
obviously butchering the English language is the least of their sins. But. This insistent claim that words mean whatever they want words to mean is still oppressive clownery.
whatever else they are trying to achieve, the evidence points to a top Coalition government priority - in NSW and federally - of not spending public money where it is most needed.
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I am once again asking press gallery journalists to compute that needs based funding would and should skew to low income areas, which are typically represented by Labor and Nationals MPs. michaelwest.com.au/regional-rorts…
and to do some fucking homework on the lawfulness of handouts to organisations in seats the Morrison government wants to win. Stop telling us these corrupted processes are “legal”. Ministerial override has to be expressly authorised by the parent act. Go and check.
when constitutional law experts like Professor Anne Twomey tell a Senate Committee that the funding authority is a statutory organisation but whatever. The Davids “believe” vote-buying handouts by ministerial override are “perfectly legal”.
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.
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
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
yep, Morrison is bold and hateful enough to use LGBTQI+ teachers to attack the Andrews government as federal election campaign strategy. That’s where endless press gallery endorsement of Liberal Party nastiness gets us.
they still blab on about voters separating state and federal issues in our tiny voting heads when it suits their partisan agenda but federal-state conflict journalism is irresistible to the CPG eg coverage of Morrison’s massive fail campaigning in the 2020 Queensland election.
when a 3-time women-led incumbent Labor government increased its vote even tho messiah complex man himself was up there campaigning his coal dead heart out with the usual vote-buying announcements and military props and other toxic stunts.
the logic here is that by consenting to sex with a man, we necessarily consent to an abusive relationship. No surprise that men who join the Liberal Party think like this.
Porter, a disgraced backbencher: “turbulent year” and is “calling time on his ministerial career”.
Tudge: allegations “denied” and has “taken leave”.
Van: was it a bark? A growl? Just a man in a mask? “Extraordinary”. And his denial was an apology, apparently (ABC Sydney radio).
every verbatim detail on Senator Thorpe tho. With bonus ww “autism” interpretation. Plus what Stoker thinks of something a political opponent said. Glover then says “it must be because their blood up”.
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.