“pandemic leave disaster payment” will be established, says Morrison. What we are dealing with here is a disaster, he says. The payment will be for workers with no sick leave to self-isolate.

a $1500 payment for the fortnight of self-isolation when directed by a health official. “There will be no economic reason to go to work.” Morrison then lectures casual workers again. When it is employers with large low-paid casual workforces who caused workplace transmission.

the disaster payment will be delivered through existing disaster payment infrastructure, Morrison says, comparing it to the climate catastrophe bushfires. Which has been... disastrous. He says “disaster” another five times, confining the payment to the DISASTER in Victoria.

asked if making the disaster payment available in other states might have a pre-emptive effect of heading off disaster in other states Morrison repeats that the disaster payment is for the pandemic disaster zone, not states that do not have a disaster.

Morrison also repeats several times that the disaster payment is for people who “find themselves” in the situation [of working for an employer who chooses to rely on casual workers and refuses basic conditions like paid sick leave].

workers without paid sick leave can apply for the DISASTER payment more than once if advised by a health official to self-isolate more than once. Don’t get any ideas, insecure workers. This is not a structural change to our crap conditions that caused workplace transmission.

Biongiorno wants to know if Morrison is “happy” with the deranged avalanche of hydroxichloroquine posts from Morrison-sponsored MP Craig Kelly on fb. But Morrison does not want to get into that.

child care? Morrison says the situation in the rest of the country is unchanged - a lie - and he suspects there may have to be changes to childcare in Victoria but he is not announcing those yet.

instead of answering a straightforward policy question - he had a pandemic child care policy, he abolished it - Morrison addresses himself to the emotions of voters which he says he understands. Which is no substitute for you know CHILD CARE.

tough decisions tough decisions yeah we know how much he hates spending public money on essential services already. Morrison moves on to gaslighting Andrews. Posturing about Commonwealth support while constantly referring to Victoria the DISASTER.

it was the childcare question that put the wind up him. Switched to paternalistic lecture mode - can’t be conceding that his decision to abolish child care sector supports was a misogynistic attack on mothers in the paid workforce per headship doctrine - and did the bolt.

Karvelas and Vic Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Paul someone are still accepting the dangerous and irresponsible proposition that staying home is “up to the individual” worker and “some people have still not got that message”.

as long as politicians, business and media keep kicking down on precarious workers and demand that the lowest paid people should save neoliberal capitalism from its fucked up self, there will be workplace transmission.

“marginalised workers” are marginalised by the individuals who enrich themselves from underpaying precarious workers. And those individuals are, with a straight face, demanding that low paid precarious workers take a pay cut and responsibility for public health. Get fucked.

“just stay home” to a casual worker is “just take a pay cut and get behind on your bills so as to benefit the same society which treats you as nothing but an expendable unit of labour”.

god almighty and now ABC News24 are replaying that phoney paternalistic empathy routine the chief clown performed in lieu of restoring material support for mothers in the paid workforce, which he already abolished, because he is a misogynist bully.