I don’t want to upset anyone but if “civil unrest” flows from deporting [tennis player], it has no legal bearing on the spurious nonsense Hawke offered in his “reasons” for visa cancellation, which he was not legally obliged to provide.
press gallery journalists: hmm is this political?
Morrison government minister:
every “sacrifice” - like the many preventable deaths, just as Coalition immigration policy settings deliberately destroy human lives - is being squandered by laziness, targeted maladministration, and the hopeless incompetence of the Morrison government *right now*
this sacrifice bullshit is straight up #CovidCampaign comms, designed to tell comfortable triple vaxxed retired or wfh Liberal and National Party voters in their big houses with iso ensuites that they are regular folks just like mr phoney footy fan himself.
more shameless campaigning. Millions of people are unsafe in this country - in their own homes, in prisons and other institutions, in workplaces, on the streets - every single day.
one other thing I would be interested to know is how the decision-making power apparently seamlessly transfers from Home Affairs (Andrews) to Immigration (Hawke). In the most recent Biloela family appeal it went the other way- from Coleman (Immigration) to Dutton (Home Affairs).
if he is genuinely astonished, Crowe is neither qualified nor competent to cover federal politics. If he is faux astonished, the bias is off the scale.
this kind of performative wide-eyed faux naivety is so obnoxious in highly paid professionals. Morrison is a rashly destructive political leader and his inordinate appetite for cruelty has been widely documented, in the public domain, for over a decade.
How Scott Morrison Fucks Over Workers And The Public Good By Behaving Exactly As All The Evidence Would Predict.
part 2 of 2 here. Both tweets have multiple replies describing similar experiences, people saying they were emailed about “emergency” requisition of their RAT orders, imposed on suppliers by the federal government.
Morrison was conspicuously agitated when asked about allocation of RATs procured by the federal government. My guess is the “emergency” designation is legally regulated and defined and he has stretched it to retroactively cover for incompetence.
“emergency services and that includes law enforcement and corrective services” - Scott Morrison.
ten per cent is a pretty low estimate of infected and isolating workers but moving on. Morrison is blaming the extremely high transmission rates on infectiousness. Disruption to workforces are inevible.
mask is off hur hur on why he is so aggressive about schools being open. Schools open means shops open, he says. Schools open means health care workers. His decisions are based on keeping Australians at work, says Scott.
segue to interview with Sydney Festival chair is clip of Sara Saleh asking that the Festival not accept funding from Israel to artwash its atrocities.
The chair opens with a tory trope: taking the Israeli cash is “typical” and the festival has “always done it”.
Sydney Festival chair is very sorry that artists have been “pressured” into withdrawing and this is something they “never want to see again”. He is talking about the success of the boycott campaign.
the line cuts out. Hamish puts the Q as to whether the Festival enjoys the support of artists. The chair - whose line is breaking up - says the artists have been put in a “compromised” position. Not says: the Festival accepting $20K from Israel caused this “compromise”.
Morrison government fossil fuel commission (trading as covid commission). Remember not to fall for the “nothing on climate” lies served up by press gallery journos. Coalition policy is to spend public money on increasing emissions. Has been for years. abc.net.au/news/2020-05-2…
ftr Abbott did not just campaign on repealing the price on carbon. He had a piece of policy garbage called “direct action”, comprised of giving free public money to big polluters. Turnbull maintained it. Morrison rebranded and upped these corporate handouts.
every federal coalition politician is a climate criminal, by definition.
why Sydney Festival board members should answer their critics:
Hamish telling RN breakfast audience that the ABC has repeatedly invited “Sydney Festival leadership” to appear on the program. He says BDS convenor and Israeli embassy spokespo up shortly.