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happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders with former Sky News host David Speers are former AFR political corro Laura Tingle, current AFR political corro Phil Coorey, and, unless someone has thought the better of it, a murdoch press guy who was suspended by Sky News.
happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders with former Sky News host David Speers are former AFR political corro Laura Tingle, current AFR political corro Phil Coorey, and, unless someone has thought the better of it, a murdoch press guy who was suspended by Sky News.
here is why James Campbell, who was no-platformed by Sky News, should not be given a platform on flagship ABC politics show #Insiders https://twitter.com/imusing/status/1258577538617470976?s=21
anyhoot here we are. Speers as always opens with a Morrison government slogan. Today it is “re-opening for business”. You know, that vastly unequal extractive casualised planet-destroying system that capitalists can not wait to re-start, or as they put it, “normal”. #Insiders
as previewed by Tingle yesterday, there is extended focus on the Nationals “rump” who “blackmail” governments (citing Tingle). Constance is sympathetically portrayed. Nothing on the actual Liberal front runner, a woman. Just the irrational dysfunctional men #Insiders
#WhatThePapersSay is a list of restriction-easing measures. Recall it was Speers who spent an entire #Insiders episode two weeks ago pushing to ease restrictions.
“as restrictions have now eased”, here’s Casey Briggs with #TheCurve to tell us how we’re placed, Speers boasts of his political agenda #Insiders
little case study in ACT light rail patronage on lifting restrictions, Speers interjects himself into the segment again, to ask Casey to “take us through” overseas infection rates. Like CMO Murphy, this is used to frame the “heroic Morrison government” narrative #Insiders
the Prime Minister is “piling the pressure on the two big states” says Speers. Not unlike himself lol #Insiders
the prime minister is doing all he can to urge the states to get moving, Speers puts to the panel. Tingle says the national cabinet members have each other’s measure. She reinforces state authority over their own jurisdictions, and differences across regions #Insiders
focus on Andrews. The murdoch journo whose language is too brutal for Sky News is asked how he thinks a Labor Premier is going. Cool cool cool #Insiders
clip of Morrison snorting with contempt at “staying under the doona”. Coorey is asked about the Commonwealth using its control of most money to bend the states to Morrison’s desires. Phil does his usual mild mannered this is fine, adds that Jobkeeper is very expensive #Insiders
another clip of Morrison, the bit about inconsistencies and how no one is perfect etc Tingle says every jurisdiction has been affected differently and people have got to understand that the [political] pressures will be different too #Insiders
she gives the example of Katter “who we all know and love” saying why should FNQ shit down when it has had no known cases of infection? #Insiders
lead into interview with IR shadow Tony Burke is a clip of the Treasurer announcing big scarey numbers about how much capital is not flowing to capitalists #Insiders
happy Mother’s Day especially to those who for whatever reason are alone today, says Burke. First Q is about re-opening and differential impacts. #Insiders
asked about penalties for businesses that do not provide #CovidSafe workplace, Burke agrees. He points out that just lecturing people not to go to work when sick is a casualisation and sick leave issue, “we can’t put them in a situation” of no work no pay [paraphrased] #Insiders
the arts: Burke says arts workers will be “bounced on and off” jobseeker, that the arts is not just performers but also road crews etc. Next Q is the six months limit set by government on income support #Insiders
Burke says a rigid hardline six month limit will not work. Some are missing out now, some were missing out all along, some will miss out in six mo the time.
btw it is only four-five months from now (Sept-Oct), and the income support has only just kicked in. #Insiders
btw it is only four-five months from now (Sept-Oct), and the income support has only just kicked in. #Insiders
the amendments to the Fair hur hur Work Act rammed through parliament with the income support measures while media told us Morrison had suspended ideology. It cut changes to workplace agreements timeframe to 24 hours #Insiders
Burke says he hopes to reverse the workplace agreement changes in the Senate this week. Speers then frames the coming period - *after* the Liberals blackmailed Labor into diluting workplace safeguards - as “returning to politics as usual”... later lol #Insiders
on Constance being called a cunt. Honestly. How is this a top order issue? State politics is not usually covered on this show. They are all Canberra-based journos aren’t they? #Insiders
more on Barilaro. Who the fuck cares?Tingle notes that the Nationals got less than 7% of the vote in Eden Monaro and came fourth after the Greens. Which coincidentally is the exact position of the Nationals at federal elections too #Insiders
mandatory clip of backbencher Barnaby Joyce. The bloke who is too thuggish for Sky News says Barilaro wants the seat because he wants to knock off the leader. What with Joyce in the room? #Insiders
wooooow Coorey mentions Kristy McBain, a woman and the endorsed Labor candidate, AND he mentions Fiona Kotvoy, the front runner to [again] be the Liberal candidate, a woman #Insiders
what the government is saying about the economy this week: Tingle. She calls the NPC speech Frydenberg gave “cautious”. It was actually, like the forecasts used to fabricate their pre-election budget bottom line, wildly optimistic. #Insiders
Tingle does point out, correctly, that the rosy rhetoric from government will not match real-life economic experiences of people. #Insiders
the bloke that Sky News suspended for his violent misogynist ideas says the government will regret distinguishing jobseeker and keeper. Why? Take the arts, people who can’t get jobkeeper, if it was the same payment the issue would go away #Insiders
Coorey is also an optimist, he says it will be “hard” for the government to cut jobseeker payment back to $40 a day. Hard how? Hard on their consciences? Nightly sleep? Morrison and Frydenberg keep saying it is their actual policy to cut it back #Insiders
anti-Chinese racism segment. Speers plays a clip of conspiracist nonsense coming from the worst covid-managed country in the world, the USA. He also plays a clip of Morrison with his answer to that racist shithead who brings the anti-Chinese question to every presser #Insiders
the murdoch thug thinks we should not take the lead on calling for an inquiry into the origins of the virus. He reckons we should leave that to others, transfer the risks associated with that away from our mining industry trade profits #Insiders
government corruption, so we get a clip of the Labor leader. Coorey says it is up to Labor how much of an issue to make of it. The murdoch misogynist says “all power to their elbow”. The men here dgaf about government culpability for its own corrupt practices #Insiders
Tingle is much more nuanced. She says there are questions whether the Coalition are the best government in a crisis. Clearly when it came to bushfires they were not, she says measuredly. Presumably Morrison will punish 730 for that statement of fact. #Insiders
#TalkingPictures is Bowers interviewing Ginger Meggs creator Jason (?) who lives in the US on “cartooning in the time of covid”. J says cartoonists are getting fired for criticising Trump. He also notes they have the worst possible president for the worst possible time #Insiders
#FinalObservations Phil points to the 6-month postponement of the federal government and reminds us the Treasurer will give an update this week instead #Insiders
#FinalObservations 2 is Laura Tingle reminding #Insiders that the banks have been playing ball and extending credit to business and suspending mortgage payments etc but that can’t last forever. In other words, bank bills will fall due, and government is not prepared #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3 the murdoch press guy suspended by Sky News for his misogynist expression calls recent government easing restrictions announcements “five minutes of sunshine”. We - government? - will be surprised by how many businesses don’t reopen, he predicts #Insiders
the pandawanker segment is yet more footage of abysmal NSW transport minister Andrew Constance, who is lionised by white male dominated media for showing empathy during a disaster, this time comparing him to Raiders legend Mal Meninga #Insiders
*federal government BUDGET this should be. The thing they used to launch their last two election campaigns and cancelled in a crisis. You can always count on the Liberals to do more politicking than governing, and on the gallery to pretend otherwise. https://twitter.com/imusing/status/1259271855342358528?s=21
