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Feb 15 5 tweets 2 min read
After Angus Taylor avoids Treasurer Jim Chalmers when asking about Interest Rates, PM Albo kindly let’s Chalmers in anyway who rips into Angus Taylor for making false claims in Sky News interviews.

“He does not have a clue & that’s why he doesn’t ask me the question!”
🔥🔥#QT
PM Albo now hammers Nationals’ Anne Webster for asking why the government didn’t provide power price relief earlier than they did.
When she voted against the relief package anyway?
Albo hilarious here 😅🤣#QT
Apologies had to delete and re-send this last one due to loading a wrong version. 🫤

Anyway, off to pick kids up from school so I’ll crack on again a bit later.
A busy day in the end. I just now, finally, have sat down, the house is moderately clean and I’ve just poured a 🍷
Planning a late walk shortly whilst listening to the rest of Tudge’s hearing (it’s a marathon!)
If it gets too much I’ll swing on some blues 🎵
And witness list is out, but from what I can tell it’s just for the 1st week, in what they say will be a 3 weeks of hearings.

Interesting names, some returning for another visit to the hot seat.

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Feb 16
Keith Pitt attacks Labor’s $15 Billion National Reconstruction Fund saying “there is not $15 Billion in this fund!” because it’s $10 billion being allocated with $5 billion to start with.🤦‍♂️
Labor’s Peter Khalil helps Pitt do the math.
“10 + 5 = 15” 🤣🤣
#houseofrepresentatives
Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather stands up to make a point of order on relevance as Tanya Plibersek answers Q on the safe guard mechanism.
Speaker warns him that Plibersek is being relevant so the point of order can’t be on relevance.
Max: “on relevance”
Bang, straight out. 🥾
Meanwhile Angus Taylor carefully avoids Chalmers and asks his question to the PM.

I’ve never seen a shadow treasurer so petrified of a Treasurer, this is extraordinary.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 16
#RobodebtRC Greggery drills in on Tudge’s meetings with Turnbull.
Tudge claims Turnbull said he appears to have “things fixed”
But when pressed if that was said, his evidence changes to
“I don’t have that recollection”

Greggery “Just that you said it before, that’s all” [1/3]
#RobodebtRC Evidence is shown to Tudge that he contracted Data 61 due to
“The inherent acknowledgement that the scheme may not be targeting those most likely to have received overpayments”

Yet Alan Tudge seems unsure if he wants to accept it. [2/3]
#RobodebtRC Greggery brings up the Data 61 Report which Alan Tudge insists he does not recall. He also says that despite it finding flaws in the scheme
“it didn’t appear an overly useful piece of work for the purposes of which we were seeking” 😳
Geez I wonder why. [3/3]
Read 7 tweets
Feb 15
#RoboDebtRC Witness List Update
In what will be a 3 week marathon of hearings, the 1st week’s schedule includes:
- Charles Wann, Scummo’s former chief of staff😳
- Megan Lees, Payne’s former chief of staff🤔
- Mark Withnell, former manager DHS🫢
- Peter Hanks KC! 👍
Scott Britton, Jason Ryman & Serena Wilson, Christopher Birrer, all returning as well. They were grilled last time.

Also Paul Menzies-McVey, former Chief Counsel of DSS, basically their head lawyer at the time.
“I’m not done with you yet, Mr Britton” Image
Read 5 tweets
Feb 15
LNP’s Jane Hume trying to pick out problems in the current government in regards to interest rates & inflation, as she probes Philip Lowe in Senate Estimates.
Asks him what more Labor should be doing at the moment.

Lowe: “Nothing”

Hume grimaces.
#Estimates
Meanwhile in the House, Bob Katter up to some weird, but not unusual antics. Honestly don’t know what he’s talking about, I couldn’t work it out.
Ok so who’s up for today’s Katter challenge? Which is to Unscramble whatever the **** Katter is talking about.

He even puts on an English accent to try get the message across. Didn’t seem to help me tho. 😂😵‍💫🤔
Read 12 tweets
Feb 14
#RobodebtRC After Alan Tudge shirks responsibility from having authority to stop Robodebt, he points the finger at former PM Turnbull & former DSS Minister Porter, but still can’t clearly answer why he didn’t at least try. [1/3]
#RobodebtRC Justin Greggery presents a response letter from Tudge & Porter to former PM Turnbull, which does not mention any of the serious flaws they were aware of at the time.
Alan Tudge suggests it was
“implied” 😳 [2/3]
#RobodebtRC Christian Porter was also questioned about his recollection of the Turnbull meetings which he says were “multiple” in number. Porter says they all “shared” a view that all “inherent flaws” could be fixed in
“short order” [3/3]
Read 10 tweets
Feb 14
#QT Sussan Ley embarrassingly tries to accuse PM Albanese of scaremongering on interest rates when they went up under the Coalition, but doesn’t realise Albo at the time was quoting her now leader, Dutton.🤦‍♂️
As the PM corrects Ley, even Peter Dutton can’t hold back his grin 😂
Dutton smiles as he looks at Ley, after her horrendously embarrassing stunt, was she put up to it? Or did she pull this one out on her own? 🤔 Image
Speaker Milton Dick, not taking any of Sussan Ley’s shit at the moment, puts her on thin ice 💥 #QT
Read 13 tweets

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