good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Guardian Aust executive editor Lenore Taylor, murdoch politics man Simon Benson and ninefax politics man David Crowe.

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opening spiel is a statement the prime minister made presented as fact and a vague question as to whether the prime minister will also do something responsible for climate change mitigation (A: no). #Insiders

next is a couple of press gallery favourites, thebullshit of “the governments plans are becoming clearer” (there is no coherent plan, just claims to have one) and conflict journalism (“climate wars”). Lazy, complicit and unhelpful nonsense. #Insiders

#WhatThePapersSay budget speculation in ninefax, with tax cuts for wealthy households misrepresented as “spending”. It isn’t. #Insiders

a bland statement about whether Trump will replace RBG with no context as to what that means regarding women’s rights, our bodily autonomy, and the men who would force us to give birth against our will #Insiders

MORE gas #scottaganda to lead into the interview with the prime minister which was recorded “late on Friday” so dw Morrison has it broken the habit of a prime ministership and lifted a finger on the weekend #Insiders

plan plan plan. Target. Morrison says he is focused on the [fantasy eg CCS] technology. Meet it and beat it, says the slogan bogan. #Insiders

this is so embarrassing. Speers spoons a Morrison denialist phrase (“technology neutral”) into Morrison’s mouth. No context on Liddell, which Turnbull also made grand announcements about heavying private sector energy corporations. The press fell for it that time too. #Insiders

Why gas?
Gas chose itself, the prime minister lies.
Nothing from Speers on the covid Commission being stacked with gas corporation executives.
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same style of lie on CCS. What makes you think CCS will be effective in the future? Speers asks. It already is, the prime minister lies. Santos wants to do a carbon capture and storage project, he says.
Time machine alert.
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unlike in February, Speers girds himself and asks a question about coal. Is it realistic that Australia ever build another coal fired power station?
Morrison refuses to rule out coal, and says the free money he gave to consultants on Collinsville was a genuine inquiry. #Insiders

next is the rate of JSP and JK. Morrison gets a free ride to brag about the unemployment figures, which showed zero net increase in hours worked #Insiders

treasury says we have to increase aggregate demand, Morrison recites, and claims to have a “suite of measures” which he does not name. Nobody says stimulus. Morrison then creepily calls the unemployment figures “a pleasant improvement”. #Insiders

it is double the jerkery with these two in the room. What if unemployment hasn’t peaked? What if it has? David I’m trying to answer the question. Okay. Morrison mentions jobs for women and young people who, as always in a patriarchy, have the toughest conditions. #Insiders

of course Speers does not challenge Morrison on women and young people doing it hardest l; nor does he challenge the buffoon who keeps picking fights with Beijing when he lies that he is “drawing together a region that is focused on stability”. #Insiders

shorter #TheCurve: the Andrews government public health policy settings are succeeding. Briggs still goes out of his way to toe the golden Gladys line tho. Speers says “very good news” in Victoria. Only bad news is personalised to the Premier, apparently. #Insiders

panel. First up is Crowe reciting gas transition technology road map. Labor doesn’t have that architecture (a road map) yet, he says. It is hard to see how to give “rock solid investment” certainty to industry, says Crowe, as tho neoliberals do not trumpet market purity #Insiders

it is really hard to see where the road map is going, says Taylor. It’s like a road map to nowhere she observes, correctly #Insiders

hodge podge market interventions are very expensive for consumers, says Taylor, and the government’s plan is very confusing. Like a road map to nowhere, she repeats. #Insiders

the market will do what’s best for the market, Benson says, incorrectly. He means private sector producers act on self-interest - often the WORST outcome for consumers, who are also in the market. The government already operates in the market he adds, citing Snowy Hydro #Insiders

Crowe asks to jump in and show off his grasp of market theory too and Taylor responds that the government can not spruik gas AND claim to be technology agnostic. She is the only one making policy sense again today. #Insiders

asked about the Labor position on gas, Crowe gives anecdata on ninefax readers letters to the editor. Speers offers a garbage point about wedge politics which he calls “pitching Labor against those workers”. #Insiders

we are still on Labor, the clown for the Hunter, Shorten, and gas. Speers even mentions cost of climate policy. Benson craps on about gas, and the SA battery. His offering is so limited that Speers asks Taylor to address battery storage. #Insiders

oh thank goodness. Taylor says lets not get caught up in the binary “do you support coal” or gas, of the government wedging a Labor. She says so Labor hasn’t released a policy? We don’t know what the government is going to do either! Don’t get caught up in the politics #Insiders

back we go to Benson pushing the techtopian crap. Hydrogen. CCS. Why not explore it? he says, as tho hydro, solar, wind and battery storage were not already proven technologies. Taylor says CCS is not commercially viable anywhere in the world #Insiders

not to rule out CCS altogether, Taylor says, but it doesn’t work at scale and it is not a get out of jail free card to keep mining fossil fuels. #Insiders

lol Taylor is way too smart for Speers. He decides to move onto the employment figures, or jobchurn, which he presents in his usual Morrison message-compliant way #Insiders

clip of Dr Chalmers (shadow treasurer) to segue to... what the government will do on the JSP and JK? What part of cutting the rate next week does Speers not understand? Taylor is “astonished” that the government won’t confirm not cutting JSP further #Insiders