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good morning from unceded Wiradyuri lands🥶☀️today on #Insiders are murdoch politics editor Samantha Maiden, 9fax (Age/SMH) chief politics corro David Crowe and 9fax (AFR) economics editor John Tehoe. The interview is with opposition veterans affairs spokesman Barnaby Joyce.

opening spiel: Morrison “isolated and condemned” 😂#Insiders

we now know Morrison was minister for industry, finance, health, home affairs and treasurer, says Speers. Having opened with Morrison’s feelings, he then repeats Morrison’s “reasons” - according to Scott Morrison. #Insiders

the montage soundtrack is Dancing With Myself. Turnbull gets a run, Morrison gets too many clips to count. Albanese in hi vis saying Morrison was arrogant and self serving, and thus “true to himself today”. #Insiders

conga line of washed up Coalition politicians. Howard. Hewson. Cash. McKenzie. Even Uhlmann, telling us about the scandal from the perspective of “the Opposition”. #Insiders

#MakingNews 9fax is “reporting pressure is building” on Albanese to dump the Morrison tax cuts, which no media urged Morrison to dump when he passed the legislation. #Insiders

also #MakingNews is that job agencies keep public money for not placing people in jobs. Speers then editorialises that McCormack and Joyce have “not explained why” they kept Morrison’s secret ministries secret. Fact check: there is no valid reason. #Insiders

maybe he just got turned on being in a power trip, says Maiden. He looked around the cabinet table and thought “who has powers that I can’t control” and decided to be sworn into those ones. Health is the most defensible, she says. #Insiders

this frankness is mediated by Speers, who first tells us what unilateral ministerial powers means and then plays a clip of Scott Morrison giving the Scott Morrison perspective on Scott Morrison. #Insiders

it is another step toward a presidential system, says Crowe. It was absolutely wrong what he said in that press conference, says Maiden. He has some kind of messiah complex. He was not talking about the national interest but his political interest, Maiden says. #Insiders

more on the why? Why? Pls. There. Is. No. Valid. Reason. All the males are instinctively commenting from the perspective of Scott Morrison. Tehoe says the initial pandemic emergency had passed by May 2021. #Insiders

let’s look at the appointment of Lieutenant General Frewen to the vaccine rollout, says Maiden. The letter of appointment made it clear Frewen answered to both ministers. When conflicting orders arose, LG Frewen answered to the Morrison - Maiden. #Insiders

again, Speers mediates these damning facts. The rollout improved tho, says Speers. It is a gift for Labor, he claims. Clip of Albanese on official responses. The gap must be fixed, according to Speers. #Insiders

I missed Crowe on how Labor will “fix”… the megalomania of Scott Morrison? This is a dark stain on Prime minister and cabinet, says Maiden. What did they do. Speers says we still don’t know. Crowe says they have not released docs other than the appointment letters. #Insiders

if cabinet knew, Josh Frydenberg would have challenged Morrison and the party room would have rolled him, says Maiden. She re-tells the sequence of Porter showing Morrison how to get sworn in and then Morrison did it to Porter (Industry). #Insiders

a very detailed account of Corman knowing it not knowing from Maiden that I could not quite follow but it goes to the idea that Morrison could not remember [being sworn in to extra ministries by the GG] #Insiders

here we go. The GG. It is opaque by design, says Crowe. There is “to and fro” between the GG and PM we know from history, he says. We do not know if Hurley did, but GGs can and sometimes do push back (“advise”). Apparently. #Insiders

he must have known that it had not been disclosed, says Maiden. Does he not read the paper? she asks rhetorically. There are things GGs can do to slow things down - Maiden. #Insiders

Crowe on Benson. They did not know Corman did not know or something fuck who cares. What has happened is a series of stories and revelations, says Crowe. Sam’s story! says Speers. That was the Pitt decision? I can not keep up lol #Insiders

what Speers was top Dutton knew about what Morrison did. Hearsay on hearsay. The opportunity to scrutinise what Benson did sails past. Clip of Pitt on the resources portfolio PEP-11 decision to segue to Joyce interview. #Insiders

Joyce asked himself 3 questions, says Joyce. Can he undo it? Is it “legal” under s64? Does he mean constitutional? “They are not focused on this at the IGA checkout” says Joyce. #Insiders

“people think [the GG] is so stupid he did not get legal advice. Of course he did” says Joyce. Or “of course he would have”? Not sure if this was speculative or fact claim sorry. #Insiders

did he tell you? How did it happen? Joyce says PEP-11 was “alive” and he overruled a decision and… How can you overrule a minister? Joyce pauses for a nano-second. Says he is not being evasive but he can not remember how or when Morrison told him. #Insiders

asked if he made good on his leadership ballot promise to stick up for the Nationals, Joyce tells us all the extra ministries and staff and what not he got for the Nationals and then says he worked with the cards he was dealt. #Insiders

so it was a trade-off? Don’t be so obtuse, David, says Joyce. What would you do? Take it back? WHAT WOULD YOU DO. Speers explains he is not the Nationals leader. The thing degenerates into a shouting match. #Insiders

Your panel is off the dial, Joyce says. Nuclear is off the table. I have answered that. Don’t ask me again. Do you want it in writing?
Joyce is completely freaking out. Waddaya want? The angel gabriel to tell you? #Insiderw

your colleagues are angry, says Speers. Well most of it I didn’t know about, says Joyce.
Why didn’t you tell your colleagues?
I told you. I’m repeating myself.
The MATE MAAATES are getting closer together. Joyce is not waving drowning here. #Insiders

we’re you curious as to how Morrison did this? Meaning overruling the PEP-11. Nup, says Joyce. He had some big sporting deal on his mind. He negotiated the extra minister and a “regional package”. Sure mate. #Insiders

you and your hyperventilating bench, says Joyce, who is hyperventilating. The laydeez and the blokes at the IGA are not worried about this. He defaults to nuclear AGAIN. Desperate nonsense. Fuel prices, he says. Christ. #Insiders

did you know he was resources minister? This is the seventh time you’ve asked me, babbles Joyce. It is on file, you can watch it. Thanks for joining us. Good onya David, says Joyce. Another “mate”. #Insiders

still not clear, says Crowe. Total blurring of responsibility. The Nationals alternative was to blow it up in the Coalition, the political decision was to not blow it up “to that extent”. #Insiders

we need to know who the decision maker was, says Tehoe. Whether a gas corporation or an environmentalist or the Greens, he says, but stakeholders have to know who is the decision maker. #Insiders

on the IGA customers, Maiden says they will care when “taxpayers” (the public) are up for millions of dollars of compensation. She looked thru everything Morrison said on Biosecurity and gas and he said nothing on process, she says. #Insiders

there is a prima facie case that Morrison did not follow proper process [on the PEP-11 ministerial override] says Maiden. Plus Joyce “got staff he was not entitled to”??? What’s that about? Good question. #insiders

clip of Bowen on EVs. Crowe says it is interesting that Bowen is going there and is being very gentle and setting out a path and catching up for a decision that should have been made in 2015, 2016, says Crowe. #Insiders

clip of Chalmers on falling real wages. The jobs and skills summit will look at securing real wage rises and control of inflation. Productivity too, says Tehoe. The “aggressive” interest rate rises by RBA line gets a run. #Insiders

falling real wages pinned to “productivity” by Tehoe. No word on how exponentially increasing PROFITS as a SHARE of productivity and its impact on 1/ inflation; and 2/ wages. #Insiders

Maiden does not know why Joyce is shopping at IGA. The answer is that most country towns (not regional centres like Tamworth and Armidale where he actually lives) have an IGA. It is an affectation, like the way he recites Quirindi Weeabonga Wallabadah for the city folk. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up. Dan is a back to you me and us man.

https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1561139769349914624

#FinalObservations 1 is Crowe saying it is impossible to get information and the FOI system has been gutted. He lectures Labor to not copy Morrison. No word on media amplifying his every lie. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 is Maiden alerting us to who the Coalition has nominated to a parliamentary investigation into whether Morrison misled the parliament, his back bench “cellmate” Alex Hawke. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 3 is Kehoe on an East Timor matter that I missed. #Insiders

the outtake is a journo accidentally calling the prime minister mr Morrison and Albanese taking the opportunity to inform the press which ministries he does not hold. #Insiders

this has been another edition of watching #Insiders so you don’t have to👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

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