the prime minister Scott Morrison announced deployment of 1700 military personnel to aged neglect facilities in a stump speech today. Here is some fine print on the last Liberal Party campaign announcement that was advertised for free by every major media outlet.
to translate two of their fave fetishes - economic management and militarisation - the Morrison government is now distorting the labour market in aged neglect by simultaneously opposing a wage rise (wages are the price signal of labour markets) and deploying the ADF.
don’t say I never tell ya nothing about 1/ Liberal Party economic management lies; 2/ Morrison’s obsession with militarisation; and 3/ hopelessly compromised wilful ignorance of the Canberra Press Gallery in failing to join the dots on both.
the FWC wage case is a verifiable fact, as is the ADF announcement. The aged carer workers crisis has been reported for weeks. The “bonus” - to be “passed on” by sleazy profiteers of neglect - is RIGHT THERE on the health dept website. Do the work. Fuck.
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looks like the prime minister has done a campaign event in the parliament making extremely high profile comments on a forthcoming criminal trial before the ACT Supreme Court.
he directly apologised to the [alleged] victim of a serious sexual offence for the terrible things that [are alleged to have] happened to her in the parliament.
verbatim, he is “sorry to Miss Higgins for the terrible things that took place here”.
classic Morrison government. Like its model for covering up corruption and its bill for expanding religious discrimination, we get Sex Discrimination report responses deliberately designed to ensure sexual misconduct is deflected, delayed, still committed with impunity.
more campaign comms bullshit. Anything but take action to end harassment and abuse hey.
regular reminder the Morrison government predictably does worse than nothing. Not nothing. Worse. Then they campaign on doing the thing which is worse than nothing, like hounding unemployed people to misery and death then shouting about the unemployment rate.
good morning! Happy Sunday☀️this week on #Insiders are Guardian Aus politics corro Sarah Martin; Sat Paper politics corro Karen Middleton; and ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn.
The interview is with Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews.
This thread is not fact checked.
opening spiel : a hypocrite a liar a horrible person and a liar are “savage character assessments of the prime minister” says Speers.
What’s the Morrison perspective, skip? Well, it was meant to be the week of government re-set #Insiders
ministers insisted the prime minister is a fine fellow, Speers tells us, omitting the crucial detail - they spoke to how he treats his ministers, not the contempt he displays to the electorate or cruelty to entire population sectors. #Insiders
hey remember when Sarah Ferguson got a promotion to cover the 6 Jan insurrection after promoting one of its key protagonists on an apparently serious Australian investigative journalism show.
journalism loves rich white males with incumbent power, episode infinity.
literally impossible to picture #NPC giving a platform to anyone who would represent the progressive equivalent of a Clive Palmer. Where are the invites to BLM folks and unemployment activists?