good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are ABC radio host Raf Epstein, 9fax (smh/Age) columnist Niki Savva and 9fax (AFR) politician corro Phil Coorey. The interview is with LOTO Peter Dutton. not sure when the ABC will cut to #Insiders but right now we are live-streaming a PM and Doyle presser from the seat of Aston.

the first Speers metric for the night is 'a more normal Liberal margin'. the first Karvelas misspeak for teh night is saying there was a huge swing to Alan Tudge. She meant to Mary Doyle. Easy mistake to make when only one of the two is actually standing tonight.

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are ABC referendum corro Dan Bourchier, 9fax (AFR) columnist Jennifer Hewett and 9fax (smh/Age) senior politics corro David Crowe. The interview is with federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. reminder - TO LABOR - that the smh editorialised for Perottet, all corporate media outlets campaigned for the Coalition, and John Howard was exhumed as usual.

boringest booth ever no pics we did get a transphobe. He shouted at me that I can not even tell him what a foimoile is and then shouted at the indistinguishable Liberal and Labor dudes that they could not tell him what a foimoile or a moile is either.

hearing the herald has gone full Bevan to back the forced birther. relatively unusual to support marriage equality and support forced birth. Bevan is a special kind of conservative.

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are ABC 730 senior politics corro Laura Tingle, 9fax (smh/Age) international editor Peter Hartcher and murdoch foreign editor Greg Sheridan. The interview is with deputy PM and defence minister Richard Marles. opening spiel: defending Australia, helping the US, is China a threat. #Insiders

god they are still going. This is pitiful.

https://twitter.com/bradpsychology/status/1636610274672394240

lmaooo mr patois has weighed in.

Queensland parliament overrides Queensland human rights Act to accelerate criminalisation and incarceration of children.

theguardian.com/australia-news… increasing incarceration necessarily causes a net increase in violence because incarceration is itself extremely violent. These people are literally claiming that more violence = more community safety.

“police say they issued a caution under the Young Offenders Act” to the teen who was racist at Latrell Mitchell - ABC radio news. fascinated to know the charge. A NSW police caution requires people under 18 years old to “make admissions” in a police station. The police cautioning *process* - ie without judicial oversight - takes the child/teen from “presumptive innocent” to “young offender” status.

this was the exact period leading up to calling the 2016 election when the prime minister and treasurer gave *different dates for the actual federal budget* because Morrison was sweating on #Robodebt numbers to give journalists - who obliged - for the Liberal Party campaign.

https://twitter.com/maximumwelfare/status/1633699062888423425

the role of the press gallery in enabling #Robodebt cannot be overstated. Every day for years they uncritically amplified whatever Morrison said, repeated Liberal Party economic management lies, and openly admired his endless campaigning.

NSW police *made up am ambulance* to inflate the allegations against Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco.

theguardian.com/australia-news… that is called a lie. It went into evidence and was accepted by the magistrate.

ABC TV news channel has crossed love to Turnbull at the #RobodebtRC Turnbull starts by talking about himself as prime minister and having a dig at “others” who sought to run the government out of the PMO.

good morning☀️happy Sunday! On #Insiders today are Saturday Paper senior corro Karen Middleton, ABC radio host Patricia Karvelas, and 9fax (AFR) corro Jacob Greber. The interview is with shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor. opening spiel: “a super row” great here we go. Yet more public time on those 88K multimillionaires. Speers says the “sales pitch was messy” - thanks, newsroom bosses for prioritising millionaires - and “the opposition went into overdrive”. #Insiders

regular reminder that these fabricated on-paper billions were a *political* imperative. Robodebt cost billions of public dollars more than any headlined projected revenue. There was no actual fiscal “need”. The program was Coalition “economic management” campaign messaging. the Canberra press gallery and their corporate media bosses are an essential element of Coalition campaign lies. The illegality of #Robodebt was well established by the time #ausmedia swung in behind Morrison in May 2019.

this kind of thing is supported and justified by every single police force in Australia. All of them fight tooth and nail to maintain and EXPAND vicious treatment of children.

theguardian.com/australia-news… criminalisation and incarceration endanger whole communities. Create poverty. Cause marginalisation. “Disproportionate impacts” are a central organising system, not a by-product, of the carceral state.

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.

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are guardian aus politics editor Katharine Murphy, ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn, and 9fax (AFR) politics corro Phil Coorey. The interview is with federal Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers. opening spiel: orthodox and wrong economic statements about inflation and unemployment. The political fallout of an “independent” RBA. #Insiders

politician who promotes locking up children says the police should lock up children this other way.

theguardian.com/society/2023/f… turns out that when you have bipartisan policy to lock up more children the police do in fact incarcerate many many children.

uncriminalised white male living his unpoliced life in a luxurious home after enabling lethal state violence. the notion that Tudge or Miller are victims of brutality in Australian politics when the parliament just re-authorised Nauru as an RPC. Get fucked mate.

good morning☀️happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders the interview is with Cobble Cobble Professor Megan Davis. The panel is ABC referendum corro Dan Bourchier, 9fax (Age/smh) politics corro David Crowe, and 9fax (AFR) columnist Jennifer Hewitt. opening spiel: the “big ambition” of the Albanese government. Fixing the health system, submarines, referendum. The No campaign is “grabbing attention” - a newsroom choice - says Speers. #Insiders

good morning☀️happy December! Today on #Insiders are murdoch politics editor Samantha Maiden, ABC newsreader Dan Bourchier and ABC politics editor Andrew Probyn. The interview is with Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney. the government finishes the year on a high, says Speers. Significant reforms passed and Morrison censured. But the Nationals announcement on not supporting a Yes vote on the Voice referendum is “not everything went the governments way” #Insiders