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Mar 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull announced a $50 billion defence spend immediately prior to the 2016 campaign. But here he is on RN gravely pronouncing that the big spending defence announcement Scott Morrison will reportedly make today is “political”.
Idk how we would all muddle through without these white males from the wealthiest enclaves of eastern Sydney telling us that politicians do political things.
Turnbull’s defence procurement minister went on to trouser a truckload of cash to be a defence procurement consultant. Turnbull went on to lose 16 seats, then the prime ministership, and then the subsequent by-election after he left parliament in a huff.
but it seems no amount of electoral and political failure can convince the press gallery to stop promoting feelpinions of dysfunctional and hopelessly incompetent Sydney Liberals.

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Mar 7
reminder that Menzies abandoned the country during WWII and was sacked from his party and then from government. These facts are literally constitutive of the Liberal Party.
just because media bosses have raised generations of journalists to believe and disseminate Liberal Party war propaganda does not make it true. The Liberal Party record of wartime leadership is one of unmitigated failures.
by literally constitutive I mean Menzies abandoned the country to indulge his anglophilia during WWII, then was sacked from the UAP and from government; then formed the Liberal Party and sat like a dead weight on post war possibility for almost two decades.
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Mar 5
good morning from unceded Terramerragal☀️today on #Insiders are ABC radio host Raf Epstein, Guardian politics editor Katharine Murphy, and murdoch columnist Peter van Onselen. The interview is with Peter Dutton.
opening spiel: “natural disaster at home” - he means climate disaster - and humanitarian disaster abroad.
what’s the Morrison perspective, skip? Well, the invasion in another hemisphere is “reshaping the [Australian] election contest”.
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the montage is politicians and journalists talking about war, footage of the Putin invasion of Ukraine, and the usual dominance of Morrison clips, including that carefully rehearsed chest thumping line that was delivered in response to a dixer from Uhlmann. #Insiders
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Mar 5
tough gig dogsitting this weekend. ImageImage
just saw planet Janet is also having a normal one. Image
Labrador update. One of them grazes grass like a sheep and the other one enjoys standing in the water she drinks. ImageImageImageImage
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Mar 3
press gallery journalists being incredulous at the mere thought of Morrison government politicians making executive decisions that are specifically designed to shore up their incumbent power. It is just enraging at this point.
oh bothsides bothsides said the Davids breezily. We will just have to wait and see what is said by the Morrison government politician who gets tapped to lie about it before we can possibly report a fact [paraphrased]. There is an election due *nods sagely* after all.
on ABC radio this arvo a Stokes masthead journalist literally asked “what was the question?” in complete bewilderment before having [below] spelt out again. She then confidently proclaimed that partisan allocation of federal resources is bothsides bothsides never mind ask Scott.
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Mar 2
National Party leader having a normal one with his moth speech during catastrophic climate floods.
*NSW National Party leader (and deputy premier) I shoulda said but look the worst ones are. It is not that they are worse than an Ironbar or Katter, the problem is they have vastly more incumbent state-sanctioned power to do drastically destructive things.
goes without saying that it is long past the time when media should be correcting this anti-climate action pro-catastrophe propaganda instead of advertising it for free on behalf of Coalition politicians.
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Mar 2
the deputy leader of the Liberal Party has wasted no time trying his hand at sounding like a wartime leader while his boss has covid.
Morrison will be seething that Frydenberg gets to milk tragedy and promote dodgily selected economic figures for political gain without him.
this dull recital of numbers means nothing to people who need more work and more money and more income security and a place to live. It only matters to people who trade in this shit for their very comfortable salaries. Like politicians and press gallery journalists.
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