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good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Guardian politics editor Katharine Murphy, murdoch politics editor James Campbell and former Costello staffer/murdoch columnist, current Costello-chaired 9fax (SMH/the Age) columnist/author of new book Niki Savva.

the interview is with employment and workplace relations minister Tony Burke. #Insiders

opening spiel: Andrews makes history, federal implications, tuff times for Liberal Party politicians. #Insiders

final week of federal parliament. “Historic” election in Victoria. The Age says “hope defeats hate” and the herald Sun says Dan Slam.

Speers editorialises there is a trend of voters turning away from the major parties lmao he means the liberal party. #Insiders

we cross to a state political reporter who lazily recites laptop class and other one dimensional bullshit. Not all doom and gloom for the coalition because the nationals had a good night lol so not great for the liberal party huh #Insiders

the statue. Christ. What is it with this damn statue. #Insiders

who will be the next liberal party leader in Victoria given so few to choose from lmao 19 seats projected. Clips of Guy saying he respects the right of Victorians to vote which seems a pretty low bar for the leader of [what has been] a party of government #Insiders

Premier Andrews making his #Insiders debut? He tells Speers that his politics is about the work, not the win, and he is grateful to Victorians for another term and for a MAJORITY government. #Insiders

Speers repeatedly tries for the triumphalist grab which he does not get. But how do you really feel? Humbled, says Andrews. He is glad Labor has been *resoundingly* returned, he says. Victorians support the science. Integrity is doing what you said you’d do #Insiders

renewables and not exporting gas. Andrews says he would have a state gas reserve but constitutionally can’t. (I thought WA does tho? Which constitution?) We have a prime minister with an agenda after nine wasted years, says Andrews #Insiders

it has been a toxic campaign, says Speers, not naming his friends and colleagues who ran it. Did you consider allowing murdoch to drive you from politics [paraphrased]? No. He will serve the full term, says Andrews. #Insiders

there were Victorians who wanted to give a boot up the back side to Andrews and it was a dismal devastating result *for the Liberal party* says Savva. #Insiders

where did it go wrong for the liberal party James? Its campaign infrastructure is not fit for purpose, says Campbell. The polls get it wrong every time says Savva. No it was right polling wrong time says Campbell. Sarco? Hard to tell. The pity party is nauseating. #Insiders

unfuckingbelievably, Speers revisits his seat of Kew thesis by referring to the federal electorate of KOOYONG. He seems to have worked out that a liberal party loser does not own the seat. Baby steps. #Insiders

Murphy opens by promoting Savva’s book and then promotes her own quarterly essay. She says the majors had a coherent climate policy in Victoria and that’s why they held out against independents at state level. #Insiders

Dutton is doing a weird Tony Abbot reboot, says Murphy and she says there is a danger the liberal party becomes a regional party. Danger? To who? Liberal party operatives? #Insiders

money is important, candidates are important, says Savva. She says the community independents had a lot of money to draw on. There is no comparative fact on the liberal party spend to ground this claim. #Insiders

Dutton will not be popular in those [teal Indy metro type] electorates, says Savva, as tho popularity is the issue. She says 2022 was all about getting rid of Scott Morrison, a lie. #Insiders

now on to the book THE BOOK Savva is here on the public broadcaster to promote. Clip of Albanese releasing the Bell report. Murphy runs the why did he do it line (irrelevant) and the “swore himself in” line (wrong) and repeats the Morrison excuses. #Insiders

the book YOUR BOOK NIKI Savva says Morrison treated his loyal colleagues, cabinet (presumably including the ones who hated his guts - all of them) and the parliament with contempt. He treated them like dirt, she says. “He should pack his bags and go” - Savva #Insiders

do you think he will go? Speers asks Campbell. His next move will be back to the church, says Campbell. Will there be a censure? Murphy says it would be awkward for Dutton. Why? asks Campbell. Democracy is at the bottom of their priorities says Savva, of the tory party😂#Insiders

lmao Campbell and Savva are saying the quiet part out loud today and Speers is not coping with this outbreak of sharing what the #Insiders really think with audiences on the public broadcaster.

clip on wages, was it at the RBA? I missed who, sorry. Burke is in Canberra, he says, because he has been up late negotiating with Senator Pocock. The IR bill will pass the Senate, he says. #Insiders

small business: all recommendations of the Senate inquiry will be adopted. Up to 20 employees for the small biz stream and up to 50 employees need to be comparable when it comes to multi-employer bargaining. #Insiders

access to better bargaining for the low paid stream. Independent advice to government on budgets with public info about “challenges” with respect to “some of the poorest people in the country”. Jobseeker? Sole parents? That’s right says Burke. #Insiders

he seems to be announcing some kind of structural cover for the government to be “advised” - using an evidence based policy model put forward by Pocock - to finally getting around to raising the rate #RaiseTheRate #Insiders

it is not his portfolio, says Burke, so he can only give the headline points. He does not want to touch this budget advisory strategy for creating political cover to #RaiseTheRate. We go back to multi-employer bargaining. It is not industry-wide unless the FWC decides #Insiders

employers opt in or their workers vote to opt into multi-employer bargaining, says Burke. Will the parliament sit on a Saturday? asks Speers. To pass a bill enabling workers to get paid for the value they produce?? Lol Burke has a go at lazy liberals [paraphrased] #insiders

the Bell report. Burke notes the Donoghue advice and says Morrison was enabled for years. He says Morrison had a cabinet of one. He denied anyone else time to speak on legislation. He was always like this, says Burke. #Insiders

so you must find a censure motion irresistible? To make the opposition uncomfortable? He is not going to get ahead of the captain and nor should he, says Burke. Righto see ya then #Insiders

back to panel. Murphy, correctly, picks up on the #raiseTheRate announcement first. Campbell says the claims about industrial relations are overblown, and repeats the Liberal Party scare campaign key word (“1970s”) anyway. #insiders

more on the IR bill. Savva says ACEA has “expressed concerns” and the government is “lucky” to have a sensible centrist like Pocock holding back the elected government. He wants the territories rights bill too tho says Campbell. He is not extreme tho says Savva. #Insiders

her Liberal Party friends in the ACTA who voted for Pocock to get rid of Zed (she means ousted Liberal Party politician Zed Seselja) are happy with their choice, says Savva. Unlike Joe’s imaginary friends in Victoria lol #Insiders

I missed the rest of the IR chatter. Speers tries to get some interest in the Liberal Party whining about sitting on a Saturday but nobody cares. Clip of Robert on QandA saying he is not paid for meeting with foreign gov reps to “steer business to his mates” (Campbell) #Insiders

is there material relating to his time as minister that could be incriminating? Asks Speers. Lol. No. There is no law against schmoozing foreign guv officials and sending business in the direction of mates, mate. #Insiders

Savva makes this point, essentially, and says you would not have assumed we need a law against the prime minister getting himself sworn into multiple ministries and not publishing it either. Murphy says there are grey areas in politics. #Insiders

it reinforces the perception that there is one culture for politicians, one rule for politicians, she says, missing the point as most people do of who gets POLICED which is how the actual prison population is constituted. Politicians are UNPOLICED. #Insiders

Speers tries half-heartedly to dig a bit more on whether there are any material or actual consequences to Robert for abusing his position for his mates’ gain (no). The NAC is coming in says Savva. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up. Jack is a back to you Speersy bloke. #Insiders

https://twitter.com/InsidersABC/status/1596638680583753729

#FinalObs 1 is Speers spruiking an essay by Murphy and a book by Savva #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Murphy saying “kingmaker” Pocock lives in the ACT so the government can not rely on him wanting to fly out and go home as senators are wont to be #Insiders

#FinalObs 3 is Campbell saying something about a transport workers election. I missed the detail. #Insiders

#FinalObs 4 is Savva saying Albanese settled into the role of PM comfortably, more so than anyone since John Howard she says. #Insiders

Speers spruiks his dreary podcast and cuts to an outtake of the prime minister who Savva just described as comfortable, confident etc at a spelling bee stumbling over magnanimous. #Insiders

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2:20:20 is where Speers says the state seat of Kew “falls within his seat his old seat of Frydenberg that went to Monique Ryan the teal independent” about the federal electorate of Kooyong.

iview.abc.net.au/show/victoria-…

after carefully steering Anthony Green to talking about Kew, which was vacated by the former shadow Attorney General Tim Smith after he totalled his Jag while drunk by crashing into a fence which remains not fixed, Speers says he is “getting mail” that the Liberals retain Kew>>

Jess Wilson is the suet of new member the Liberal Party really needs, he says, meaning she’s a woman. “So that’s one bit of good news in an otherwise very tough night” says Speers, of the Liberal Party retaining a blue ribbon seat.

he drops the “seat of Frydenberg” clanger and, still channeling Josh (recall he was “getting mail” as he went on this bender), says “he might take a bit of heart from that but perhaps might be a little concerned about some of the other territory WITHIN HIS SEAT”.

“but anyway that’s an interesting one to note there that the Liberals have at least managed to hold on to that seat of Kew” he babbles. PHEW YES “INTERESTING”, DAVID. I THINK YOU GOT AWAY WITH IT MATE. NOBODY WILL NOTICE EXCEPT 15 PEOPLE ON TWITTER.

statue fact check. Not being a Melbs person I had no idea why this is such a chortle source.

https://twitter.com/MettaBhavana1/status/1596665544916480002

#RaiseTheRate fact check. Explains why Burke was distancing himself from it: the ideologically incoherent insistence on dividing unemployed workers from waged workers. Most Labor and union heads take this position, which ignores fundamental labour market dynamics.

https://twitter.com/davidpocock/status/1596646341488566272