Thread by @iMusing

good morning happy Sunday☀️ today on #Insiders are murdoch politics editor Samantha Maiden, murdoch politics reporter Sarah Ison and 9fax columnist Jennifer Hewett. The interview is with an opposition party (LPA) leader, Peter Dutton.

opening spiel: no mass blackouts but panic crisis fears etc anyway. #Insiders

“suspend the energy market” is such a weird phrase to me. The market? Suspended? Is nobody buying or selling any energy? #Insiders

montage is on AEMO the actual energy regulator doing its job which is reported as SEIZED CONTROL and UNPRECEDENTED INTERVENTION. Bowen explaining to journos that storage exists and so does long term thinking. #Insiders

#makingNews includes freeing Assange and Perottet declaring it is time to put the climate wars behind us. The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently from where? The Bridge? I missed that sorry #Insiders

Speers editorialises that the energy crisis is behind us and the CRISIS has eased and we have avoided blackouts. Hewett says the energy market is complicated and “nobody knew” which is code for journalists not explaining neoliberal policy and privatisation. #Insiders

lmao Ison on “profits ahead of people” which she says is often how capitalism works. #Insiders

clip of the head of something - was it AEMO? who is not identified by chyron - and back to Speers saying crisis crisis and flicks to Maiden who says it is on Morrison and Turnbull and Abbott for failing to fix the energy market/policy #Insiders

still going on the no-blackout energy crisis. Hewett complains that Victoria is not allowing gas exploration. She says it is convenient to blame Morrison. Storage tho, which is a useful contribution. More batteries. #Insiders

the Greens are in a difficult spot says Ison. It will be interesting, fascinating, say Ison and Speers. That journalists are still trying to kick along “climate wars” is unconscionable at this point. #Insiders

clip of Perottet saying let’s end the climate wars to segue to Dutton who is asked about the “ideological” wars. Dutton says there is blame all round. #Insiders

asked about the failure of federal Coalition governments to build renewable energy supply Dutton says we “would be in a more dire situation” in some alternative universe where his party and their Coalition partners were not the government. #Insider

Dutton says he wants to have a “sensible pragmatic” conversation about the technology not being there or something. He is getting really agitated here. What’s happening with the economy? he babbles #Insiders

where the wires will be rolled out? The detail is on them? Dutton says Bowen has been telling pensioners to turn off their heaters, a lie. It is happening at nighttime, says Dutton. He wants to have an unemotional debate, he says emotionally. #Insiders

picks up on the Ison comment about negotiating with the Greens. Do you agree with 43% by 2030? Dutton suspects he will end up with something like 35% and the Coalition will not support legislation to codify the net zero target. #Insiders

they are not a government in exile, says Dutton (😂😂) He accuses Hartcher, a political journalist, of speaking to Bowen, a politician, on his portfolio of climate change. #Insiders

what the Coalition took to the election. Fact check: and were roundly defeated. #Insiders

on AUKUS. Dutton says he has spoken with weapons manufacturers in the US. Speers asks where the two subs claim was publicly available before Dutton put it in his column for a murdoch masthead. Dutton babbles. #Insiders

Speers presses on. Was the information not classified but based on conversations with the Connecticut supplier? Dutton repeats his claim that it was not classified information and asserts his “professional judgement” as former defence minister #Insiders

an Indigenous Voice to Parliament? What should we make if supporter Lesser being appointed shadow AG? Dutton says the government has not seen the detail and segues away to spouting shameful racist stereotypes and false accusations #Insiders

Dutton insists the failure to get a referendum up is not on Morrison or Gillard or anyone else - this is a recurring rhetorical theme - he likes to spread blamelessness across Coalition and previous Labor governments. #Insiders

I missed the Maiden response to weapons manufacturers. Hewett recaps some Labor campaign promises. Clip of Tony Burke on the FWC minimum wage increase decision. Speers invites Ison to fret about inflation. #Insiders

why the lowest paid workers should be made responsible for lowering inflation is not explained. Clip of Sales interviewing RBA governor on interest rate predictions. Lowe says inflation could hit 7% #Insiders

clip of Julian Assange’s dad putting plea to Albanese. Maiden says Assange has been in some form of detention since 2022? Did I mishear order did she misspeak. Anyway yes Assange has been self/detained for a decade or more. She says Assange has to be released #Insiders

it is essentially journalism [that he has been locked up for] says Maiden, saying she knows there are arguments about whether Wikileaks was journalism but it is. Ison says Albanese does not like megaphone diplomacy. #Insiders

Maiden wonders what the British government did agreeing to extradite Assange and Hewett says Biden has a lot of domestic problems and Speers says Trump flipped and flopped on Assange. #Insiders

next. National cabinet. The Commonwealth has extended covid health funding for three months. Hewett says there is relief all round, states and territories, Labor and Liberal, about certainty of funding “with the possible exception of Peter Dutton” lol #Insiders

the NSW childcare announcement. Maiden says Perottet is complex and intellectual. He is also acting like tory white males in 2022 discovered the value of affordable childcare (ed) #insiders

Hewett says NSW is the only mainland Liberal government - she means Coalition - and do they are pitching on energy and to women for the election next year and differentiating themselves from the federal Liberals. #Insiders

Ison says she is from WA which is very parochial and notes Andrews and Perottet doing a joint childcare announcement represents half the population. Maiden tell Ison to fly her flag and be a proud sandgroper. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up. Amanda is a back to you Speersy laydee.

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1538309333582086145

#FinalObservations 1 is Maiden saying Perrottet and Kean appearing at a presser with Scott Morrison to announce a housing policy that is identical to the federal Labor policy. She nearly spat her coffee says Maiden #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 is Hewett saying that blaming the previous government will wear thin and the clock is ticking on the Albanese government to deliver on energy policy. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 3 is Ison saying there will be gender analysis and a Womens economic security element to the October budget. #Insiders

the outtake is footage of McGowan and a bunch of suits guffawing. #Insiders

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1538310596151586816

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