Thread by @iMusing

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are ABC Indigenus Affairs editor Bridget Brennan, murdoch politics reporter Clare Armstrong, and Canberra Rimes columnist Professor Mark Kenny. The interview is with Climate Change and Energy minister Chris Bowen.

btw my connection is highly likely to drop out today.

opening spiel: tax breaks for the 1% could be wound back, which “Carrie’s political risk” - yes the “risk” of a media campaign for inheritance handouts. #Insiders

as per, Speers reliably promotes the “promises” hook that Coalition politicians - and beneficiaries of inherited wealth who work in media - will run. #Insiders

the montage is on the Coalition-corporate media campaign for maintaining public cash handouts to rich people with huge estates. Clips of Dutton and his captain no lie (TaX!1!!1) #Insiders

the hunny funny line, with clips of Dutton and Ley contradicting each other #Insiders

#MakingNews the Greens campaign to ban new coal and gas are in Nine newspapers and which seats they will target. Good. Ukraine. Mardi Gras with clip of Albanese. The PM firstness claim is Captain Cookd of course. #Insiders

Senator Thorpe protesting against cops at pride [paraphrased] gets a run. #Insiders

we start with super havens for wealthy testators. Armstrong calls the $3 super million club their “bank balances” which is wrong - they would pay the full rate of tax on a bank account with $3 mil in it. #Insiders

it is an investment vehicle with favourable tax treatment, clarifies Kenny, of the publicly subsidised inheritance arrangements. Brennan is not sure that this “national conversation” about super will be respectful. #Insiders

it is only the top end of town, says Brennan. Around 11,000 people. We have massive challenges, cost of living, aged care, NDIS, she says. Speers throws doubt on limiting the change to the 1% with no evidence. #Insiders

apparently assistant treasurer Jones had to “walk back” the hunny metaphor - thanks to Coalition politicians being incredibly petty I guess #Insiders

clips of Albanese to shore up the promise narrative Speers is promoting. Kenny chooses the kite flying cliche. He compares breaking a promise to the Abbott government. #Insiders

what kind of harm can the broken promise broken promise broken broken promise broken promise narrative do? Armstrong obliges by repeating the Coalition lines. Clip of Dutton on the same strategy. Kenny then repeats the Coalition lines, twice. Great work, team. #Insiders

the message for the government is to formulate their policy carefully, says Brennan. “Top end of town” arguments will be made without using those words, says Kenny, because that framing did not go down well in 2019. #Insiders

those old views on super wars perhaps do not wash with the younger generation, says Brennan. A brief sojourn into the unaffordability of housing - no mention of landlords and corporate gouging - and we are off to the interview. #Insiders

[dropped out. When I reconnect Bowen is talking about cement]. Bowen says the safeguard mechanism takes X tonnes of emissions out of the air. Was it 200 million? I missed the figure sorry. #Insiders

asked about banning new coal and gas, Bowen says we will be at 82% renewable power supply by 2030. He says the other 18% has to come from somewhere [not says: by burning fossil fuel]. Do we need new coal tho? #Insiders

the Labor Party is not proposing new coal mines, says Bowen. So a ban on opening up new coal mines? That is not their agenda, says Bowen. Beetaloo? Does it have to be fully offset? Bowen says that was the agreement - no net increase in emissions. #Insiders

will the Cth chip in to buy offsets for Beetaloo? No that is a matter for the NT government says Bowen. Pressed a third time, Bowen says there have been no Cth-NT discussions on the federal government funding carbon offsets for this NT fossil fuel project [paraphrased] #Insiders

in 2005 Albanese was introducing a bill for a climate trigger, says Speers. And you were doing lunchtime at Sky news, says Bowen. NB Albanese was in opposition in 2005 (Ed) #Insiders

Snowy 2.0 says Speers. Bowen says we need a plan in place to get the project back on track. Remember when Turnbull flew to the Snowy Mountains twice for his 2.0 announcements. With a massive media pack. Morrison campaigned there repeatedly too #Insiders

but NOW we might need a review of the whole project. Was it ever viable? I thought Turnbull spent billions on buy back from the states alone? It has not all been smooth, says Bowen, name checking some white male executives to support his viability claims #Insiders

green hydrogen. To Germany? Australia is a partner of choice, says Bowen, and he has asked the states to re-write the strategy. He says green hydrogen is central to their desire to see Australia become a renewables export powerhouse. #Insiders

back to panel. Armstrong says the Greens ultimatum-offer on no new coal and gas is Bandt dealing them out of the governments preferred mechanism. Kenny chimes in with the CPRS narrative, which apparently re-conjures itself #Insiders

Snowy. The machine called Florence has been bogged in soft soil “for quite some time” and it is unclear what work it ever did. Kenny says a lot of tunnels have been dug around the world. Where were the geology and soil tests? he asks. We need to free Florence chortle #Insiders

it is getting increasingly expensive, says Armstrong on what was always a Turnbull vanity project. Maybe we need another machine from the other end to free Florence suggests Kenny. #Insiders

next up is a referendum. Brennan summarises a number of fronts - whether most voters are engaged [yet], the realities for Indigenous people on the ground, Voice to Parliament and/or executive? #Insiders

Speers asks Kenny to kick the parliament-executive can down the road. This is a red herring being promoted by coalition politicians and murdoch mastheads. Kenny sets out the hypothetical future high court challenge speculation that I think originated with Craven at ACU. #Insiders

there is no greater need for advice than from First Nations people, says Brennan. The gaps are unacceptable. Meaningful consultation with people who know how to deliver policy on the ground is what’s missing, she says. #Insiders

the final wording goes from the working group to cabinet to a parliamentary committee, and we will know it by August? Is that what Speers said? Clip of Burnie saying the Voice will be to the parliament not the government. #Insiders

Armstrong runs a “behind closed doors” narrative and says the wording should be debated at committee level, and 90% of people they need to vote Yes are not engaged at that granular level. I think she made that stat up #Insiders

detail detail detail. Most voters are not going to move from a maybe to Yes or maybe to No based on this detail, says Armstrong. Brennan says most Australians will be asking themselves “will this help”. #Insiders

once again Kenny helpfully clarifies and repeats the Coalition position, that detail is complicated or something. #Insiders

clip of McManus spelling out the source of inflation, which is corporate profits. Armstrong says anyone booking a flight would not be super happy about corporate profits. Well yeah. Profits are for the propertied class of shareholder landlords (-Ed). #Insiders

on to Putin, who Kenny says will not back down. China? asks Speers. Zelenskyy will not cede a centimetre of Ukrainian soil. The Pre-annexation of Crimea borders questions. Brennan says Zelenskyy has been a very powerful communicator. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up with a mention of Danny Eastwood at Koori Mail! Yay. Wilcox is a back to you David laydee. #Insiders

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1629615976101871616

#FinalObs 1 is Brennan on Albanese at Mardi Gras. She says he could have had more glitter and recommends the interview with Jeremy Fernandez #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Kenny on something something John Howard on the first #Insiders episode and a by-election something. I missed the significance of this but Howard was in power at the time.

#FinalObs 3 is Armstrong saying she was in Madrid with the prime minister last July and NATO something but my connection dropped out again 😩#Insiders

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