god I just sat down to eat and joy of joys the white saviour is on the telly.

job keeper: support to local governments employees will be provided by the states. They are not eligible for commonwealth support.

COMMERCIAL leases. An industry code will be developed over the course of the next few days. It will be incorporated into state and territory legislation. It will regulate negotiations between commercial tenants and landlords.

so he got what he wanted, disaggregating commercial from residential tenancies. And has cemented that by making the code applicable to commercial tenants/employers eligible for job keeper packages. Morrison expects banks to “be very supportive” of landlord-tenant arrangements lol

suspending evictions under the mandatory code FOR COMMERCIAL LEASES. See how that works? The [open/closed] commercial and retail premises of business owners are more important, under this government, than tenants living in you know, homes. So socialism see Speersy.

over to the CMO. We are in control of the cruise ship issues, he says, further undermining his rapidly disappearing credibility.

he the CMO is “quietly pleased” with the direction we are going. Questions.

Q: how many lives are we saving by social distancing?
Whut kind of Q is this? Is it a Dorothy Dixer at a presser? Idgi.
A: yes I can assure you the government is very efficient, effective and wonderful, achieving lots of things [paraphrased].

Q: if churches and workplaces can continue services, why can’t the parliament sit?
A: the parliament will sit next week, with distancing rules.

Q: job keeper and reimbursement in May. What should those people who are not paid by employers and not eligible for JSP do?
A: employers should talk to their banks.
The Q was about UNEMPLOYED WORKERS. The answer was BOSSES TALK TO BANKS. Smell the socialism!

students. The acting immigration minister - Alan Tudge - will make an announcement on this later. Still no sign of Dutts then.

if you are a visitor in this country it is time to make your way home, the prime minister says sweetly. Unless you are a student nurse. Backpackers who are nurses or doctors can also stay.

Q: containment to suppression phase, what are the benchmarks?
A: I didn’t say that.
In other words, there are no benchmarks, just workshopped comms strategies.

Morrison: right now we are focused on keeping that pressure down on the virus. And ensuring the measures are sustainable. He can’t stress enough that “the budget is only so big”, a lie.

Farr: are subsequent national cabinet meetings going to be more progress reports than considering more measures?
A: yes and no, it will and it won’t, a bit of this and a bit of that, check the online safety info for your kids online learning.

This was a Q about governance.

further to the Q on federal governance, Morrison suggests that parents paint Easter eggs with their kids like he and Jenny did.

Q: what do you say to critics who say you are wrecking the economy?
A: I say every Australian matters (a lie. He doesn’t think that).

Phil Coorey: there is confusion about RESIDENTIAL tenancies.
A: hm yes moratorium anyway about commercial leases and this is very important larger tenancies will sort it out to make their businesses work but small business tenants...
all this blather is about COMMERCIAL tenants.

Q: what about people who will break distancing rules because they are inconsiderate and do you trust the figures coming out of China? [who is she??]
CMO: the Chinese “are not immune” and have a lot of people. He only trusts Aust figures.

Morrison then uses the rule-keeping Q to deliver a jingoistic little homily.

Q: option to use hardship rules to access super to pay rent?
A: we have set out those rules. JSP recipients can access $10K this year and $10K next year.
HE DID NOT SAY NO, NEVER, AND ASIC WILL FINE LANDLORDS WHO PUT THE PRESSURE ON TENANTS TO DO THAT.

Morrison is asked about Qld RESIDENTIAL tenants having to go to the tribunal and argue for a moratorium on evictions and being told it is not a law.
A: hey just talk to your landlord

asked what he thinks should be done about Chinese wet markets - yes, what the Australian prime minister thinks about regulation of Chinese marketplaces - Morrison chooses to answer. He’s not giving “cultural” opinions tho, he says. Is that what he calls it.

I was saying all week that Morrison has been working assiduously to disaggregate commercial from residential tenancies so as to direct policy towards business, which is his [economic] priority rather than homes, which is a social priority.

there is absolutely no excuse for all that basic af commentary comparing Morrison to anything other than what he is - a raving prosperity religionist and born-to-rule conservative authoritarian ideologue. He is an entirely predictable neocon patriarch.