good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Renee Viellaris, Raph Epstein and Gareth Parker. The interview is with self-quoting meme machine Josh Frydenberg. This thread is not fact-checked. All tweets are hashtagged for those who want to mute.

“extraordinary amounts” of money “will flow” Speers begins. Soon, soon, the money will flow. Like last week, he makes the curve-flattening claim without qualification #Insiders.

the montage is based on the livelihoods and lives binary. Omission of a million casuals from one of the streams of money that is going to flow gets a run. Lots of politicians delivering #StayHome messages #Insiders

#SundayPapers still a Speers monologue. Like the murdoch man he will always be, he open with a story on “easing restrictions” that says some businesses may re-open with distancing rules. This is confusing: there was no general shutdown in the first place #Insiders

#TheCurve, a wrap of numbers more granular* than discussion among political journalists #Insiders
*sorry.

Speers summarises the “easing restrictions” vs #StayHome conflict. And mentions the breaking news that there has been another death traced to the Ruby Princess. No commentary on that debacle yet. #Insiders

panel opens with the great spendathon. Cheapness of credit gets a mention from Raph, high credit card interest rates do not.
Q: Renee, has the government got it right? A: absolutely perfect and if it’s not they will get it perfect into the future [paraphrased] #Insiders

Parker also has a go at distinguishing Jobseeker and Jobkeeper payments, which have been deliberately designed to segregate the unemployment queue; and confusingly named to obscure this glaring fact and purpose #Insiders

the question of employers forcing staff to do meaningless hours/irrelevant work for the job keeper payment is poorly understood. Footage of Porter saying what matters is that “the employee keeps their job”. The unemployment stats, in other words #Insiders

the questions of omitting casuals, council workers, arts sector and international students are covered by footage of shadow Treasurer Chalmers shown to lede the interview with Frydenberg #Insiders

Q: so you have the [discretionary ministerial] power to extend the payment to others, when would you use it?
A: look the parliament is not sitting but when it did we passed a historic package, magnificent it was [paraphrased]. #Insiders

[from drafts] asked what we are doing for migrant workers, Frydenberg says “we are giving them access to their superannuation” asked about what foreign workers should do, Frydenberg tells them to go back to where they came from #Insiders