journalists stop amplifying what politicians say about a virus challenge 2022.
seems the political - and false - claims about omicron made by Barnaby Joyce and Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet are causing low uptake of booster shots.
who could have predicted that Coalition politicians naturalising characteristics that are a function of public health settings would cause more transmission, infection, and deaths. Or as they call it, “risk”.
I know nothing about viruses - except what I have been forced to learn over the past two years - nor about public health but I still called the shit fed to us by Coalition politicians like Morrison, Joyce, and Perrottet.
governments that flatly refuse to PAY FOR air purifiers and RATs. In schools. Workplaces. Children. They want to cost shift to everyone else, all the time. The most powerful, most stingiest organisation in this country is the Liberal Party.
the flip side to their inordinate appetite for cruelty is Liberal Party politicians are the most ungenerous people ever. There is nothing they hate more than spending public money on essential public services.
hearing Scott Morrison has calculated that nobody remembers the half billion public dollars given to a client donor shelf company by then prime minister Turnbull and then Treasurer Morrison and then Environment minister Frydenberg to not rescue the Great Barrier Reef.
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good morning☀️happy new year! This week on #Insiders are Guardian Politics editor Katharine Murphy, 9fax (AFR) correspondent Phil Coorey and Perth radio host and columnist Gareth Parker.
The interview is with Labor leader Anthony Albanese.
opening spiel: speculative claim about omicron wave, statement that “political bruises remain”.
What’s the Morrison government perspective, skip?
Well, it “wasn’t the summer we hoped for, especially for the government”. #Insiders
montage is politicians and journalists on omicron. The Albanese line about being easier to get covid that rapid antigen tests gets a run. So does Chalmers locating responsibility where it belongs. #Insiders
hearing Perrottet is considering giving public money to business which gasp will distort the market and also calling his handouts “investment” even tho there is no ROI to the public who pay for it.
the most salient fact about charlatans like Morrison and Perrottet, apart from their economic illiteracy, is how they happily personally trouser hundreds of thousands of public dollars in salary while destroying public institutions like universal health and social security.
the Morrison government is “letting the market develop” so a Morrison government-funded agency is investigating price gouging.
Who knew.
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*
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.