Thread by @iMusing

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are 9fax (smh/Age) culture news editor Osman Faruqi, murdoch political editor Samantha Maiden and 9fax(smh/Age) chief corro David Crowe. The interview is with Greens housing spokespo Max Chandler Mather.

opening spiel: like Dutton, Speers claims that we are all “challenged” by the BRS verdict, a lie. Lots of people already knew the military and the particularly the SES is a viciously violent and racist outfit. #Insiders

stay 2 of the spiel is how PwC makes its squillions. Another feigned head scratching routine. Again, plenty of people know these firms enrich themselves on the public purse for the benefit of a wealthy elite. #Insiders

*SAS, sorry. The SES are volunteers who actually help the public. montage opens with Gillard and Chalmers praising BRS. Clip of that bullshit Dutton spouted about all 25 million Australians being as thick and racist and violent as the troop respecters, which we are not. #Insiders

#MakingNews is a 9fax report with evidence of BRS threatening witnesses to try and cover up the truth of his actions. #Insiders

also #MakingNews is a plug for the #Insiders interview, gambling ads, and a plug for a Probyn piece.

Speers editorialises that the ADF who testified in the truth defence proceedings at the BRS defo trial are heroes. #Insiders

panel. We start with D2 on the huge cost of the trial to “both sides” but of course we pay too for the judge and court staff and all the infrastructure. What about the significance for a “nation” (he means the troop respecters) that revered its military? asks D1 #Insiders

things went very wrong in some instances, says Faruqi about Afghanistan. He says Albanese and Dutton are being cautious because both parties of government supported the war #Insiders

clip of Dutton who prioritises the SAS soldiers “and their families” which governments do not give a flying fuck about, traditionally. Clip of Albanese also mounting platitudes. #Insiders

should he lose the VC? Well someone was stripped of a VC for stealing a cow, says Maiden. These are far lesser crimes than what BRS is accused of, she says. We need to have a discussion about the BRS exhibit at the AWM - Maiden, abridged #Insiders

a situation where Stokes was calling journalists scumbags, says Maiden. Apparently private investigators were hired to dig up dirt on Nick McKenzie? Speers returns to the question of the BRS shrine at the AWM which he calls “all the heroics [shown] there” #Insiders

we are talking about an exhibit that valorises BRS not whether he should go to jail, says Faruqi. A lively “remove him/tell the actual story instead of current propaganda” debate follows. #Insiders

god imagine if the BRS exhibit was the one that tells the truth about ADF.

senior military figure were refusing to sign supporting letters at the time, says Faruqi. People have known there is something questionable about BRS for a long time says Maiden. #Insiders

Maiden tells a story of BRS lying blatantly and having a go at her and then getting calls from people who know all sorts of stories about BRS but can not report because they work in Stokes-media dominated WA #Insiders

the VC as collateral thing. Maiden says it sounds like the deal is Stokes is holding it as collateral for funding the defo action and it goes to the AWM “if” they lose. #Insiders

clip of Uncle Phil lecturing the housing-stressed to lead to interview. Price controls distort supply? Chandler Mather says no. A lot of renters are now in rental stress so the rent increases are leading directly to evictions so price controls are good, actually. #Insiders

during the pandemic there were rental freezes says MCM. That was during a crisis, says Speers. This is a crisis, David says MCM. It was temporary tho says Speers. Unlike the ongoing pandemic amirite😷#Insiders

around the world rent caps work, says MCM. But not all countries have rent caps says Speers. Our research shows that with rent caps, rental stress declined and there was no impact on supply says MCM. What research who where barks Speers. #Insiders

jesus David. Let the man speak. Landlords are not that fucking important. #Insiders

Australia is spending less on public and affordable housing than ever. Lowest it has ever been, says MCM. So are you going to join Peter Dutton then? asks Speers. #Insiders

the shortage is 675K homes and the government target is only 30-35K homes a year so the investment corporation policy is inadequate anyway regardless of vehicle/design - MSM abridged #Insiders

buy back private rentals to make them affordable housing? I missed the details sorry. Average people per dwelling? Lowe is wrong about share households says MCM. The shift has happened around smaller nuclear families, not young singles. #Insiders

supply supply, because Uncle Phil said so, says Speers [paraphrased]. They talk about supply instead of rent freezes because it is long term and benefits developers when rent freezes benefit RENTERS (Ed) #Insiders

we zoom in on the electorate of MCM which seems a petty and unprofessional strategy by Speers but MCM lists a bunch of geo-urban characteristics and types of housing that could be built in his seat. He says developers want to do whatever they want. #Insiders

back to panel. Are they [gov and Greens] closer to housing policy compromise? Maiden says yes (abbr). This $2.5billion proposal to spend DIRECTLY on building houses? It is less than the $4.1 B surplus points out D2 helpfully #Insiders

interesting that the Greens blinked first, says Faruqi. They really should disclose as close a relationship as “mother is a federal Senator” on this show imo. Speers repeats “there are plenty of landlords out there”. Not more than renters, David. #Insiders

Greens politicians like being landlords too says Maiden, butter wouldn’t melt, and Speers guffaws “they do!” and we move along to what the RBA might do on Tuesday. Speculative macro being a panel happy place. #Insiders

the minimum wage increase? Faruqi says the wage rise “was so big” and not putting workers ahead in real terms. The FWC said it will not cause a wage price spiral says Speers. Anyway, he says. No word on corporates and landlords causing inflation RIGHT NOW. #Insiders

PwC. Clip of Estimates but I missed who we were listening to. His argument is the government is hastening by confidentiality, says D2. Nobody told Treasury? asks Speers. Nobody told any minister at any point says Crowe sweet summer child. #Insiders

clip of Sen Barbara Pocock expressing scepticism that this confidentiality and nobody knew line holds up. Maiden suggests desire for future PwC stipends May be a factor. It was the Tax Practitioners Board in the end, apparently, who had the guts to act. #Insiders

Faruqi suggests cooling off laws which we have for ministers - these are utterly unenforceable (Ed). What is the parliament going to do? Issue an order that a corporation sack a staff member likeChris Pyne? #Insiders

Mr popular says Speers and we go to a clip of McGowan. He is tired. Is it more exhausting these days? Maiden says yes the pandemic was exhausting. Happily for politicians choosing to do nothing whatsoever about the ongoing pandemic is wholly supported by major media #Insiders

Crowe pivots to federal Labor prospects in WA and popularity gains since the election last year. Lays out the Albanese strategy for consolidating in WA and elsewhere.
And he is there every 5 minutes, says Speers. He seems especially catty this morning. #Insiders

#TalkingPictures is up #Insiders David is a back to you David man (3x as many David’s as women today).

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#FinalObs 1 is Faruqi on student “debt ticking time bomb” and a “growing resentment among young people” wth at politicians do not understand how hard these conditions are #Insiders

#FinalObs 2 is Maiden on somebody attending a swingers event I missed the details sorry #Insiders

#FinalObs 3 is D2 on some serious face something might happen at NATO or not #Insiders

the outtake stars an absolute legend AUSLAN interpreter and Mark McGowan on going for a run and having a kebab. Good chuckle. Not sarco. The interpreter is brilliant. #Insiders

the outtake is up #Insiders

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

thanks fact-checkers. The Maiden observation was about Liberal Party Fadden candidate who has apparently been rehabilitated presumably coz merit you know how disgraced white males are their top talent.

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