Both the Cookers and @liberalvictoria (yes, I know there is some crossover) failed abysmally in #VicVotes for much the same reasons. They each exist inside information bubbles/echo chambers that don't mirror reality. #auspol 1/4
Most @LiberalVictoria MPs have blocked every dissenting voice on social media. They read only Murdoch's rags, listen only to 3AW and watch only @skynewsaust and consort only with people like themselves. They believed their own BS. #auspol 2/4
The Cookers on the other hand ignore most mainstream media, they interact online via a plethora of inter-connected social media sites that all represent the same crackpot views and consort with other cookers with the same beliefs. They too believed their own BS. #auspol 3/4
Both groups believed they represented the majority view of most Victorians, because that's all they ever heard from their respective echo chambers. Both were ambushed by reality. #auspol 4/4
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[A Thread] Make no mistake. #Robodebt was rooted in Pentecostal prosperity theology, coupled with Libertarian economics. A vile combination. It was initiated by Morrison as Social Services Minister. #auspol#RobodebtRC 1/7
Expanded by Morrison as Treasurer and then handed off to fellow Pentecostal, and Morrison bestie, Stuart Robert, then Government Services Minister - who went on to vigorously defend the now illegal scheme. #auspol#RobodebtRC 2/7
Pentecostal prosperity theology suggests people who are poor or ill or unemployed because they are not Godly enough. In other words it's their own fault. And if its their own fault why should others support them? #auspol#RobodebtRC 3/7
[A Thread] Although many of us were saying it for years, @ScottMorrisonMP has been exposed both anecdotally and formally as being utterly unscrupulous and without any semblance of basic ethics or morality. His character was well-known with his @liberalaus party. #auspol 1/6
That his colleagues actually chose such an individual to be their leader is a severe indictment on @liberalaus as a political institution. If he was the best they had, how bad were the rest of them? #auspol 2/6
That the vast majority of media commentators were actually urging voters to choose Morrison over @AlboMP, a fundamentally decent man, is an indictment on them. Actions such as theirs imperil democracy. It is an abuse of our trust in them. #auspol 3/6
[A Thread] The Stock Exchange (@ASX) has very strict laws and rules regarding the timely disclosure of information that could affect share prices. These were put in place to protect shareholders' from unscrupulous Directors. #auspol 1/4
Our parliament needs similar laws. If we regard polling as akin to share pricing. Laws should force the timely disclosure of information by governments (and oppositions) that could affect voter intentions (polling). #auspol 2/4
Had such laws been in place, Morrison and his co-conspirators would not have been allowed rort the treasury and secretly usurp power as they did. And if they were to, they would now be facing significant gaol time. #auspol 3/4
[A thread] The warning flags for @LiberalAus should have gone up in Nov 2018, when the Andrews VIC Labor govt stormed through to its second term. Poor talent, religious zealotry and a lacklustre campaign by the Libs saw Andrews win in a landslide. #auspol 1/5
The Libs didn't heed the warning from VIC and doubled down on its incompetence for the WA State election in Mar 2021. As a result the McGowan WA Labor government was returned with a massive majority, leaving the Libs with only 2 seats in parliament. #auspol 2/5
In Mar 2022, the SA State election was held. The incumbent Liberal Premier was kicked out after one term. Why? Because he led a talentless divided rabble, that was being undermined by branch stacking by religious zealots...and Malinaiskas was an excellent alternative. #auspol 3/5
[A thread] Morrison is a Pentecostal. That means he's bought into their hocus hook line & sinker. To have religious faith means having the ability to consciously suspend logic & critical thinking in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence - believing your own BS. #auspol 1/5
On vaccines, Morrison placed his absolute faith in AstraZeneca, to the detriment of superior mRNA offerings. So much so did he believe this crap that he didn't even bother to order Pfizer, even when the company approached him to. #auspol 2/5
Morrison preached that NSW was the "gold standard" in contact-tracing, even though it had never been tested the way Victoria's was. That too was bullshit. It fell over on it's first real test, and in fact at one stage needed back-up from Victoria. #auspol 3/5
[A thread] Morrison is gearing up for an election based on "freedom". His rhetoric the last few days has been around giving Australians choices (he actually used this justify his #EV backflip). #auspol 1/9
Morrison is subtly, and not so subtly, painting Labor as anti-freedom and dictatorial. He is being backed of course by Murdoch. He cannot fight an election on fiscal rectitude as he has blown out a trillion dollar debt and tripled the deficit. #auspol 2/9
He is using the Victorian lockdowns and other Labor states border closures (WA and QLD) as political weapons - using them as evidence of Labor's willingness to curtail personal freedoms and choice. #auspol 3/9 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…