Thread by @iMusing

good morning happy Sunday☀️today on #Insiders are politics corros Amy Remeikis (Guardian Aus), Clare Armstrong (murdoch) and Dana Morse (ABC). The interview is with Kate Chaney, independent MP for Curtin (once held by former Liberal Party deputy Julie Bishop).

opening spiel: interest rates, energy prices and inflation. Economic and political challenges are growing. The sky is still falling. #Insiders

the federal government is “facing pressure” [from media outlets, corporate lobbyists and a decimated coalition, as Labor governments always do]. What is the government going to do about everything?!? #Insiders

the montage is about cost of living. Speers is not letting go of his thesis that the federal government is responsible for propertied, overcapitalised, white and white-adjacent households. The CPG is not letting up on its demands for cash handouts. #Insiders

#MakingNees is sky news reports that the government has conceded on a point of multi-employer bargaining settings that I missed. COP27 in Egypt - Bowen but not Albanese attending. Power prices, again. #Insiders

Speers editorialises that the federal government is responsible for gas prices [paraphrased] #Insiders

panel. What will the federal government do about gas prices? Armstrong advises cabinet ministers on price caps. #Insiders

wholesale, retail, spot prices, it does not sound like there will be an immediate announcement? says Speers. They want to set a possibly temporary policy by christmas says Remeikis. Gas companies are making huge profits, she reminds us. #Insiders

the heads of agreement have not lowered prices but if anything have stopped prices going higher, says Remeikis. Clip of Husic explaining that gas corporations are causing the price increases due to “a glut of greed”. Morse points to enforceability of policy. #Insiders

clip of Angus well done Taylor saying the government should not be mean to gas corporations. Because asking nicely for corporations to cut profits always works😂#Insiders

there is a shortfall on the east coast because gas corporations are selling at huge prices in the spot markets and making a helluva lotta money, says Armstrong. We do not need to open up new projects, it is because of greed, agrees Remeikis. #Insiders

we may not need to open up new gas fields ever, says Remeikis. Asked about offshore selling arrangements at the time [of exploration/extraction licences being issued] she says well guess what things change👏🏼👏🏼#Insiders

inflation? Some of the figures in the budget are already redundant and apparently this means handouts for overcapitalised property owners [paraphrased] - Armstrong. She says people will suffer from not turning on heating next winter in 8 months time. #Insiders

so tax cuts. There is no justification whatsoever says Remeikis. The policy is on a very short time frame, less than an iceberg lettuce. What about bracket creep says Speers. These do not do that says Remeikis. She says Chalmers says they are looking at the tax cuts. #Insiders

the broken promise narrative, from Morse and Armstrong. If we hound them about breaking the promise that is on us, the media, says Remeikis. But if they lose the election they will say it is broken promises says Armstrong. Her speculative future routine is so thin lol #Insiders

clip of Chalmers to segue to the interview. Speers opens with the WA exception re domestic supply and asks what the federal government should do? Chaney says there is a case for a short term super-profits tax. #Insiders

so a windfall tax? Chaney says it is not a long term for decarbonisation because it bakes gas into the energy supply mix. But a windfall tax says Speers. It is one of the least bad options, says Chaney. #Insiders

do we need more supply? Should we be opening up new gas fields? Chaney says we should not lose sight of the longer term goal to decarbonise and it is fossil fuels causing the challenges we face #Insiders

but shouldn’t new gas fields be opened up? No [abbr.] #Insiders

we need to look at different ways to manage our relationship with fossil fuel companies, says Chaney. There is nothing to take the place of lost revenue from the 2024 tax cuts, she says, and suggests delay at least. #Insiders

do your wealthy constituents support tax cuts they are going to benefit from? A lot of people are not only driven by self-interest, explains Chaney patiently. #Insiders

multi-employer bargaining? For the supported stream - low paid feminised industries like childcare - says Chaney, but she is concerned about overreach and is not convinced it will drive increased wages across the board. #Insiders

she is concerned about adding complexity to an already complex system, says Chaney.

Regular reminder that the simplest way to increase wages is for bosses to pay more money to workers. #Insiders

will you vote for or against the IR bill? She thinks she would vote against it at the moment, unless the multi-employer bargaining is confined to sectors where workers are low paid. Would it be better to split the bill? Has the government been consultative? #Insiders

the cross bench has been briefed but it is a short time period, says Chaney. She would like more time to consult with her constituents. This government is a lot more collaborative than previous parliaments. #QT is still problematic. #Insiders

fewer Dorothy dixers, says Cheney. If you listen to #QT some of the best Qs are coming from the cross bench, she says. #Insiders

how big a problem is racism? Chaney was at the vigil for Cassius Turvey. She says the Noongar community is hurting and his mum Mechelle is right that every child has the right to walk home from school safely.

back to panel and the IR bill. Remember IR is happening too fast and everything else is being done too slowly. The speed is because the government wants to get out in front of the [bosses] campaign against it and people need higher wages now. #Insiders

clip of Lambie swearing about future strikes ie something that has it happened. Morse asked - and agreed - says Pocock may have to concede more? Was that the Q? She quotes Albanese or Chalmers saying they have not wasted a day in government #Insiders

clip of Speers interrupting Burke on #730 about multi-employer bargaining in mining. Armstrong says if you carve out one sector where do you stop. Speculative future, still. What employers are “scared” of and the “risks” - to employers. #Insiders

there are only 8 sitting days left in the Senate this year because of the estimates, says Armstrong; and there is talk of extending the sitting days. Remeikis says unions are not what they were. We are talking about nurses, teachers, childcare, not the big wharf strikes #insiders

Cassius Turvey. Clip of Mechelle saying she does not want his death to be a call for anger. She calls for calm. She has a court case, a long way to go, and asks people not to jeopardise the court case. #Insiders

would this have been reported the same way if it was a white child, asks Morse. It took days for the prime minister to say something, most of the work has been pushed back on Linda Burney. It is Aboriginal politicians attending the vigils, she says. #Insiders

we can expect better from our politicians, says Morse. Look at the round the clock coverage of the Cleo Smith case. Where are the other ministers? They are silent, they have to be actively anti-racist, she says. #Insiders

Morse explains that the vigils are places of love because that is Aboriginal culture. Holding each other, lifting each other up, she says. She is glad people have seen this week that it is a mischaracterisation to frame Aboriginal people as angry. #Insiders

clip of Pearson saying most people do not have Aboriginal friends or in their social circle. We are not equal in this country, says Remeikis. The inequality should infuriate this country, she says. #Insiders

does Professor Langton have a point? She does and she doesn’t and she really knows what she is talking about, says Morse. The debate is legitimate, it should be Indigenous-led, what it’ll is or not going to be must be explained, we are all going to vote - Morse [abbr] #Insiders

whatabout what Dutton said about “western Sydney”? Armstrong runs thru the Liberal Party talking points about repatriation of Australian citizens. She says the women and children have seen unimaginable hardship and we have a duty to them #Insiders

Speers says the natsec advice is they are less of a threat here than there [paraphrased] and Armstrong says they are citizens, they have the right to return. #Insiders

Dana Morse in her own words.

https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1589028483954769920

#TalkingPictures is up. Fleur is a back to you Speersy laydee. #Insiders

https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1589028535490039808

#FinalObservations 1 is Morse on Andrew Leigh’s speech on the cost and criminogenic character of incarceration due to policing, especially of First Nations people. #Insiders

#FinalObservations 2 is Remeikis telling the story from a mum at food bank keeping yogurt as a Christmas treat for her kids, she says this should not happen in such a wealthy country #Insiders

#FinalObservations 3 is Armstrong saying how the Turvey family are distributing donations to organisations that run activities for kids #Insiders

Speers says he feels they have had a “powerful” discussion this week and plays an outtake of Chalmers talking about generosity of the tooth fairy in his house, an illustrative contrast with the priorities of the women on the panel. #Insiders

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

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two typos I am going to correct this week: 1/ Jacqui “bloody” Lambie fear-mongering about strikes that *have not* happened.

https://twitter.com/imusing/status/1589024241558913026

2/ Morse was saying we need Indigenous-led public discourse explaining what a First Nations Voice to parliament is *and what it is not*

https://twitter.com/iMusing/status/1589027764551974913

I am especially clarifying re the referendum to establish a First Nations Voice to parliament this week because I have organised a couple of events on Voice, referendum and republic this month.
November 16 at 2pm and 6pm in Sydney, drop me a reply for details.

one more thing (11am): #Insiders is trending at 1 in Sydney, Amy Remeikis at 9 and Dana Morse at 13.
Speers is at 19.

So what?
The ABC stopped posting guest twitter handles some weeks back, but still value the hateclick metrics generated by Speers.

Kate Chaney is also trending in Sydney. Armstrong, who works for a Sydney masthead, is not. And Speers remains way down the list. As twitter is broken by its owner, it seems likely that outrage and hateclick metrics have long been vastly overrated by media bosses.