good morning🌞happy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Jan Fran (SBS), Pat Karvelas (ABC) and Perth radio host Gareth Parker.
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the opening spiel says the government is on the back foot about a lack of federal integrity commission and therefore the massively overblown Aust Post Cartier watch story is a thing. #Insiders
this is ridiculous. Speers reckons the prime minister is “hopping mad” about a piddling $20K watch purchase signed off two years ago. As if. #Insiders
the montage at least also features how the Commonwealth gave $30 million of our cash to a Liberal Party donor [paraphrased]. And clips of Liberal Party politicians making excuses for no federal integrity bill and feigning outrage about Holgate #Insiders
the stacking of Aust Post board with Liberal Party spivs also gets a mention #Insiders. So does the pilfering by dodgy ASIC chief Shipton. The prime ministers outrage at Holgate is “understandable” lol yeah it is but not the way Speers is framing it #Insiders
so Jan Fran, is the prime minister’s outrage over watches understandable? Fran says the timing is bad and the optics are bad but mistakes a 2018 purchase with the current pandemic era. #Insiders
Speers calls the $20K watch thing the story of the week. Fran says the PM is scapegoating Holgate. We get ANOTHER clip of Morrison performing his manufactured outrage over 1/675,000th of his own malfeasance #Insiders
Speers continues to bromance the PM. This muscular language, he says admiringly. Karvelas reckons it is all a bit overblown. Optics get another mention. She praises the ANAO and points to Shipton but Speers rushes in to keep the focus where Morrison wants it, on Holgate #Insiders
even Parker, who expands on the Shipton malfeasance, is cut off by “coming back to the issue, which is *the prime ministers reaction*” says Speers. He is very committed to this theme of “Morrison gives a flying fuck about executives stealing from the public”. #Insiders
Speers keeps coming at the absence of a federal integrity commission from this strange tangential angle before switching to “Labor went in hard” and here is the PM’s response —> ANOTHER clip of Morrison shouting. #Insiders
the government found time to attack universities, and Fran says they also found time to try and take phones away from refugees. Karvelas agrees. The Commonwealth has huge departments, of course they can consult during corona, she says. #Insiders
the WACCC model, from Parker. He says AG Porter comes on his show often and the line is more money for existing Commonwealth investigative bodies (fact: ANAO funding cut) and the timing for a federal integrity model is “unclear”. #Insiders
Parker says the fact is the federal government has an integrity commission model they just have not acted on it. Not said: the model is piss weak. Referrals only. No public hearings. No retrospectivity. #Insiders
interview, with federal minister for industry, science and technology Karen Andrews. Should executives of public agencies be paid these stratospheric salaries? (He says “earning”). Andrews says we have to attract the best and brightest. A long disproven trope. #Insiders
Andrews tries to imply that a 4-week inquiry into Aust Post - which will undoubtedly cost way more than $20K - but Speers says that won’t tell us about ASIC or elsewhere. She says “and then potentially look more widely” which means... nothing. #Insiders
handouts to industry (“grants”). Who decides who gets the money? Andrews. She says she will get advice from Industry Aust and the CSIRO. Speers asks for an assurance that the handouts will be “at arms length”. Nope. She will make the decision, CSIRO will give “advice”. #Insiders
how will your government gets us out of recession? The industry handouts (“collaboration stream”) is worth around $800 million or is it $70-80 million? I am not sure if I missed it or she dropped a zero in the space of a sentence #Insiders
now we have $7 billion “being rolled out” in skills? These numbers make no sense. No wonder Morrison can jump up and down over $20K while targeting $8.1 billion spending on political criteria #Insiders
why can’t you roll the money out now to keep pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia? Now? Andrews puts a future vaccine on the table in response to this. Time warp alert. #Insiders
she cites Resmed “investigating” ventilator manufacture and CSL prepping for covid19 vaccine manufacture. Speers asks if CSL has capacity. CSL is an excellent organisation, says Andrews. CSIRO advises her that CSL can get ready. #Insiders
what’s the timeframe for being prepared to manufacture a future vaccine? Protein-based: now. Otherwise, work is underway. Speers pushes. A year? Finally she commits. About 9 months but there are a lot of variables. #Insiders
are you worried that the Frecklington curfew policy [of criminalising Blak children] will target Indigenous kids? Do you support the policy? Andrews LAUGHS at this question, at targeting and locking up Blak kids, and endorses the policy. #Insiders
thankfully Karvelas points to the basic absurdities of setting timeframes for a non-existent vaccine. She thinks the 9-12 month timeline seems realistic. #Insiders
again with border closures. Parker says life in the west is unrestricted. He also says that we need two plans, a vaccine-exists plan and a no-vaccine-exists plan. Presumably he means policy, since “plan” always means “vacuous announcement” under Morrison #Insiders
reopening - borders, businesses - still the bone Speers will not let go. He frames this with christmas, a Morrison fave. Parker interrupts Fran to add “people need hope”, another Morrison fave. #Insiders
Victorian restrictions speculation time. Karvelas says this is potentially explosive. The idea of unity about re-opening in Vic is not true. It has gone on too long, that is genuine feeling in the community. The government has to get on top of contact tracing #Insiders
resentment and frustration given numbers are now so low. I think this is a fair enough call really. Victorians, especially Melburnians, have been incredibly ~ and successfully ~ compliant. #Insiders
Speers agrees with Karvelas that the community reaction is mixed, but back to the politics, he says. “Business has piled in” says Speers. Piled on? Clip of Frydenberg whining out his usual pandemic politicking. #Insiders
clip of Dandrews saying Frydenberg “is not a leader he is just a Liberal”. Karvelas says he does have leadership ambitions !! and that both politicians were being... political. Insightful #Insiders
aged care. More staff, more money, minimum nursing ratios, a new aged care commission. Nothing on existing inspection regime being utterly useless and it is aged care BOSSES, the employers and profiteers, who are responsible lack of recruitment, training, and equipment. #Insiders
Clip of “courageous”. Fran says aged care failures are years in the making. Points to the 50 sexual assaults a week. Parker says more staff. Still nothing on the comprehensive failure of aged care bosses who trouser public cash to neglect elderly folk. #Insiders
how do we pay for it? asks Parker. He suggests an increase in the Medicare levy. Nobody points out that the money is currently going into aged care profiteers pockets, not service provision, so why should the public keep paying for that? #Insiders
#TalkingPictures here https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1320136739319500800
#FinalObservations 1 is Jan Fran on the POTUS debate saying she will not make a prediction but might be nervously clutching a morning wine on US Election Day.
#FinalObservations 2 is Parker saying that WA treasurer Ben Wyatt attracted twice the cash as the most popular premier in the country in bids for dinner with them at a Kerry Stokes charity do #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3 is Karvelas segueing by saying Ben and Ken Wyatt are cousins, and close, and get on well, and the report by professors Langton and Calma on “an Indigenous voice” has been delivered to [federal minister for Indigenous Australians] Ken Wyatt. #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3(2) is Karvelas saying the federal government has rejected a constitutional body and this [report is on what] looks like a legislative body (it is) which she calls “problematic”, adding that Aboriginal people have waited too long. #Insiders
Speers agrees that Aboriginal people have waited too long but nobody clarifies that nobody other than the Morrison cabinet is “waiting” for a legislated voice to government, or not that I have seen. #Insiders
we go out with a clip of Albanese doing a presser about childcare and women’s labour market participation which is funny because a kid knocked the microphone stand and is not the serious matter of our financial independence from males #Insiders
*as opposed to expanding the police state, our financial independence is essential to getting free from males coercive control over women and children. #Insiders
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