good morning! Happy Sundaytoday on #Insiders are ABC radio host Virginia Trioli, ninefax exec editor James Chessell and murdoch columnist, 10 news reporter and project tv panelist Peter Van Onselen. This thread is not fact checked.

the opening spiel is about re-opening schools, from the perspective of the prime minister and conflict journalism - will the “debate” test the unity of the national cabinet? #Insiders

montage: the collapse of virgin. Footage of McMicMac in statesmanish mode, which I missed during the week. Morrison and Albanese get alternate clips too. And the infamous footage of Frydenberg denying any “plans” to increase the GST #Insiders

my god. They replayed the clip of Dutton campaigning for the Queensland LNP with the most horrific claims about teachers unions up there. The imagery he uses is graphically defamatory and does not bear repeating #Insiders

what the papers say. More on schools and some murdoch gibberish about re-opening restaurants, that Speers, bless ‘im, frames as “of course”, we can only consider easing restrictions because we are doing a great job mate. He is soo obviously pro re-opening lol #Insiders

#TheCurve Casey Briggs gets to deliver his segment without the phoney dialogue with Speers format that was brought in last week. #Insiders

It was Obama COS Rahm Emmanuel who said never waste a good crisis, Speers tells us. Isn’t he the guy Josh Lyneham was modelled in? A Clinton deputy COS? Anyway. On to re-opening the economy, broadly speaking #Insiders

Trioli points to how quickly we were able to switch to WFH in a crisis - this is a flexibility and productivity convo, basically - that focuses of course on the professional class #Insiders

clip of RBA Governor Phillip Lowe on economic reform including the “complex” industrial relations system. PvO has a blather. Not much to hear here. All this is softening up stuff to create the impression that neoliberal policy settings are somehow post-covid recovery #Insiders

more footage of Morrison, same theme. A grab-bag wish-list of worker-hating union-busting pro-biz bullshit that is being packaged as intelligent recovery planning instead instead of you know bog standard and failed neoliberal experiments with live human subjects #Insiders

clip of Albanese pointing to attacks on workers disguised as “industrial relations reform” goes to Trioli dismissing what the ALP leader says as oh yeah of course Labor will say it is an attack on workers... as tho Liberal governments do not attack workers? Okay. #Insiders

this skewed framing is followed by look we don’t know what any of this looks like after the virus - that there is no way of knowing whether or not Liberal governments will attack workers, which is wrong. The “in the end only time will tell” school of BBC journalism #Insiders

off we go to shadow Home Affairs minister Kristina Keneally. Senator Keneally is always right across her brief. Speers interrupts incessantly. Keneally parries. He insists on asking her to confirm to the Morrison government line, blaming NSW Health over BorderForce #Insiders

this questioning federal Labor politicians as tho they are in government is so aggravating. The Commonwealth are ultimately responsible for what happens at our borders, Keneally clarifies, multiple times, as Speers insists that responsibility was “delegated” to NSW #Insiders

would you like to see Border Force take control of these decisions? Asks Speers. Jesus. Why? Border Force has built in redundancy, there is always another agency with the actual expertise required - customs, the navy, immigration officials - wherever the BF thugs are #Insiders

finally someone says live on national telly that the government is running an ideological agenda. There is no evidence that cutting company tax has a positive effect on economic growth from anywhere in the world, Keneally points out #Insiders

Keneally lists people and policy areas the Morrison government has neglected - the arts, universities, temporary visa holders, international students, casuals. Speers tries to gotcha this, apparently without any knowledge of the actual jobseeker vote in the parliament #Insiders

Q: so jobkeeper should include temporary visa holders? Won’t that - gasp - increase. The. Cost??? High end economic analysis from Speers here #Insiders

schools. Keneally emphasises the states and territories leadership over federal messaging. She pays tribute to teachers, and Speers hastily agrees before moving right along to the tracing app (feminised unionised frontline workers boring, technology sexy) #Insiders