annual reminder that the Howard government won back pro-gun voters with “bucketloads of extinguishment”.

Morrison has his serious face on to claim that the Howard gun laws have been keeping Australians safe since 1996, a lie.

anyway fuck that stuff moving on mate. He is (t)here today for a military training facill (sic) campaign stop. Safe is freedom, apparently.

hark! Tis the “forward posture” he announced last year. That was also campaigning, to try and recover from his decision to take an overseas holiday while the country was on fire. It was also a massive executive power grab.

another standard Morrison campaign strategy step: he has rebranded Howard Springs to claim ownership, credit, and headlines. We now have a *national resilience facility* where Howard Springs once was.

the shrategic environment. Which has been changing. Since the strategic update. The need changes and the plan changes.
This absolute gibberish.

megaphone warmongering and calling it pursuit of peace.
Q: Is sabre rattling a good idea?
A: Rejects premise, says defence capability about 400 times.

why is he so obsessed with this 2% of GDP spent on killing capability thing? He repeats it again and again. It has to be some kind of tell but I can’t pin it.

missed the Q but he must have disliked it because he lurched away to state and territories, a very common technique.

I think the “critical infrastructure” bill is the one they want to pass authorising ADF to use force domestically, to “defend” buildings.