Thread by @iMusing

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn, 9fax (AFR) columnist Jennifer Hewett, and 9fax (smh/age) economics corro Shane Wright. The interview is with Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

hard to please everyone, opens Speers. He repeats the lies and greedy sentiment we get from the Coalition who claim to represent a “middle Australia” with no self -respect and wants endless government handouts. #Insiders

Speers then repeats the false framing about help for the poorest people. The montage features a lot of Angus Taylor. Whining Hume gets a run on her chosen constituency, the whining demanding handout-happy “middle Australia”. #Insiders

weird how the minute Labor delivers a surplus the media stop screaming about debt and deficit and accept the Coalition framing that everything is suddenly about interest rates and inflation. #Insiders

#MakingNews is Tasmanisns protesting against a federally funded AFL stadium. Clip of Lambie telling them to stick their stadium. The Deeming-Parker-transphobic nazi drama in Victoria also. #Insiders

Speers editorialises the same bullshit again about “help” for poor people. This fucking narrative. Speers belongs to the wealthiest most privileged demographic on the planet. #Insiders

panel. How did Chalmers go? Wright says he stretched a very thin piece of material across a large area. Hewett does a bit of this for people here that for people there. Probyn repeats Coalition economic management lies the press gallery love so much #Insiders

FLATION. Drink. Clip of Chalmers saying the energy relief plan will take inflationary pressure off - yes, by definition, because of how power bills are calculated in CPI - and Speers puts to Wright that economists can not agree chuckle chuckle. #Insiders

Wright explains that not everything is inflationary eg some of the extra spending is on submarines - not inflationary. Some is overseas missions - not inflationary. He wisely avoids explaining the expectations-inflation fairy designed to be all things to all economists #Insiders

you can complain and criticise without offering solutions, says Hewett of Dutton, and quickly bothsides herself. She too repeats the apparent demand of an unidentifiable middle Australia bitching and moaning and lining up for government handouts. #Insiders

the coalition policy announcement on JSP cutting off at a higher income, which is solid. A third of JSP recipients are unemployed, says Wright, but the rest are working so the whole income support needs to be fixed. Hewett says UB is always going to be controversial. #Insiders

lol Probyn airs the idea that Dutton is recasting himself as something more/other than the tuff Qld cop #Insiders

interview. Chalmers opens with happy Mothers Day greetings. Speed opens with the points about the working poor. The budget has “help” for “most vulnerable” and they are proud of that says Chalmers #Insiders

what about the Dutton announcement around higher income before JSP cuts back. Chalmers says he has an employment white paper coming and they are looking at wages and work and Labor wants workers to be able to “provide for their loved ones”. #Insiders

housing. Chalmers recites a bunch of programs from rent assistance to the future fund thing. Claims the developer policy will build a million homes by 2029. More supply more affordable, says the Treasurer. #Insiders

how about rent freezes? A matter for the states and territories, says Chalmers, and Albanese will work with them at national cabinet. Housing and homelessness are huge priorities in their first year of government, he says puzzlingly. #Insiders

in principle? Rent freezes, or do you worry about landlords and the impact on them (hahaha) Chalmers says what the federal government can do is increase rent assistance etc Speers tries again. You must have a view on rent freezes? Chalmers has a view on rent assistance. #Insiders

NDIS efficiencies? It is a demand-driven program, says Chalmers. They are moderating growth in costs through overcharging by providers, fraud. How did you arrive at $74 billion over ten years in savings? Overcharging, waste, fraud, Chalmers repeats. #Insiders

I am not sure why Speers is so hung up on this particular $7 billion per year? Maybe we could get the same level of savings from cutting waste and fraud in defence?

he has only seen a one-page explanation for the huge saving on NDIS efficiencies, says Speers. There will be more info girth coming for people to interact with says Chalmers (I missed the milestone he named for this) #Insiders

bracket creep. When people earn more money they pay more tax. Chalmers says they support people in middle Australia and remind us of the tobacco tax increase. Stage 3 tho? Chalmers says they have “other priorities” than reviewing Stage 3 #Insiders

why tho why. Chalmers says they found other ways to organise the budget than revisit Stage 3 and “returning bracket creep” is a worthy objective. They cut in at $45K says Chalmers but the bulk goes to people on over $200K says Speers. #Insiders

wrap up Q is a Pareto principle arrangement about “no state worse off” was it GST? Presumably. Only WA is in surplus atm I hear. #Insiders

Huw is up #Insiders

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Speers does an eerie Mike Moore on the funny guy. Are the coalition going to pass the budget, the JSP increase? Wright says the higher cut-off for people on income support might be picked up and Hewett said not straightaway bc who gets credit chuckle #Insiders

the GST Pareto commitment - no state worse off - is to 2027 says Wright. He says SA gets hit, Tassie too, he is howled down by Hewett and Probyn saying no no the federal government will have more money to share around and want to keep those WA seats they won #Insiders

clip of the Senate debate on the developer fund bill. Greens Senator Max Chandler going viral on tiktok says Speers with his clips about the rental crisis, one has a million views, his reach dwarfs any government politician. Probyn says social media is putrid. #Insiders

there is no quick fix says Hewett. She says there will not be a solution coming out of national cabinet or the federal government and it has been building for a long time allsides allsides god she is a negative nellie #Insiders

the developer fund again, and the numbers. Wright says we need 200,000 dwellings per year. Hewett says the states take federal cash for housing and reduce their own spending on building more housing. I believe it. #Insiders

clip of Shorten to go back to the NDIS efficiencies. Probyn says it is about eligibility not for example developmental delay. That other screening snd services for delay. Again, the states vacated the field as soon as federal funding rolled into town #Insiders

some per cent of 5 year old boys are on the NDIS? Really? No word on the demographic who are accessing public money for a 5 year old boy who has what? Delay, ASD or ADHD diagnoses. #Insiders

a point about NDIS savings via Commonwealth procurement instead of retail and we move on to the Farrell delegation to China. #Insiders

clip of Albanese announcement being interrupted by Mike Bowers ring tone? Was that the joke? Back in Black I think #Insiders

#TalkingPictures with legend David Pope and that glorious tree. David is a back to you David man. #Insiders

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#FinalObs 1 is Probyn wishing a happy Mother’s Day to his wife and ma and his ma in law is impacted by the chemist - script change. #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Hewett saying that federal Labor is not only lucky to get the iron ore rivers of gold and higher income tax receipts but also to be in government everywhere except Tassie where the Libs just went into minority. No meritocracy mythology for you, Labor! #Insiders

#FinalObs 3 is Wright also reciting happy Mother’s Day to the wife and mother and ma in law. When did this become a thing? He lists the many (more) reviews coming the treasurers way including the employment white paper. Big year! Speers chuckles #Insiders

the outtake is whining Jane Hume mangling a quote she attributes to mass murderer Winston Churchill. A certifiable fucking mess of a clip. #Insiders

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