Category: Scott Morrison

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‘Good Godly Leadership’: Citipointe Christian College’s extensive links to Queensland’s LNP | Queensland | The Guardian

Citipointe Christian College principal Brian Mulheran

The road to the Dark Ages is being paved by the LNP. Will Evolution be again banned or tested in Schools? Marco Polo was declared a heretic and jailed. Hitler burned books and censorship is being called for by ISIS. The Catholic Church once banned Sociology as recently as the 50s and 60s.

Before the end of the last school year, the principal of Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College, Brian Mulheran, brought his teaching staff together and asked them to pray. Multiple teachers recall how Mulheran ran a PowerPoint presentation that listed the key elements of the federal government’s proposed religious freedom bill. As he went through them in turn, he led staff in a prayer that each measure would be enacted in 2022. 

Citipointe college and its principal jumped the gun this week, attempting to force families to sign enrolment contracts that contained anti-gay and anti-trans provisions that lawyers say likely breached Queensland’s existing anti-discrimination laws. Mulheran initially framed it as “a legitimate exercise in religious freedom” but by the end of the week, the attempt to enforce the contracts – and some say momentum for the government’s religious freedom laws – had collapsed.

In the process, what has become increasingly clear is the extent to which Citipointe – both the Pentecostal megachurch and its school – has promoted conservative political activism alongside what it preaches.

Source: ‘Good Godly Leadership’: Citipointe Christian College’s extensive links to Queensland’s LNP | Queensland | The Guardian

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Scott Morrison gave $4 million to Christian Esther Foundation

The PM’s boast in 2019 became rather hollow after the Esther Foundation started to unravel less than six months after he granted the public funds.

Source: Scott Morrison gave $4 million to Christian Esther Foundation

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Barnaby Joyce not the first to call Scott Morrison a liar

Scott Morrison feb 6 lies

The Christ Like Figure this Miracle Man only when he looks in the mirror. He sees a Truth Teller and Calls  “Bring on the Crucifixion” “False Facts can’t harm me.” Morrison pushes Billy McMahon off the pedestal of Australia’s worst PM.

Can’t recall When asked about the catalogue of lying allegations, Mr Morrison said he could not think of an instance in which he has lied in public life. “I don’t believe I have,” he responded. Whether or not entirely by its own design, Labor’s years-long effort to paint Mr Morrison as someone on bad terms with the truth has well and truly stuck. On the eve of the first Parliamentary sitting week for the year, faced with historically low poll figures and an election just around the corner, the Prime Minister is in a terrible position.

Source: Barnaby Joyce not the first to call Scott Morrison a liar

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See, Scott Morrison DOES Hold A Hose! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison prefers his women restrained, on their backs, and lying down.

“It’s definitely not a fore-runner to a leadership spill. We’re not the Labor Party who feel the need to change leaders in order to win elections. We don’t change leaders unless we absolutely have to because someone’s unable to do whatever it is that they need to do in order not to get rolled by the party.” Once the woman’s hair was washed, Mr Morrison hurried on to his next appointment: an appearance on the Masked Singer. Information about what mask he’ll be wearing has been listed as classified under the official secrets act, but it has been confirmed that he refused the Dick Nixon mask on the grounds that it was ambiguous. Of course, the election has to be held soon and then we’ll have the Prime Minister doing all those gimmicky things to make himself appear more human and the country will just have to run itself for a while!

Source: See, Scott Morrison DOES Hold A Hose! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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How Scott Morrison unleashed a COVID wildfire

When Scott Morrison first learned of the coming COVID-19 wildfire on 21 December, there were 4,492 daily COVID-19 cases. On 26 January, scarcely a month later, there were 52,920 COVID-19 cases. Total confirmed cases stood at 259,174 on 21 December, a number nine times less than the number on 26 January 26 – 2,340,046 – an increase of more than two million in just over a month.

Source: How Scott Morrison unleashed a COVID wildfire

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“Like other Aussies, Jen and I get our groceries flown in after a tender process coordinated by McKinsey” | The Shovel

The PM denied he didn’t know the price of basic food items. “That’s simply not true. I know, for example, that a barramundi from Humpty Doo in the NT costs around $18,000 a kilo, when you factor in refrigeration and express flight costs”.

Source: “Like other Aussies, Jen and I get our groceries flown in after a tender process coordinated by McKinsey” | The Shovel

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Morrison is an “arsehole”, just ask his colleagues – » The Australian Independent Media Network

There were a lot of his peers that rate him as lower than a snake’s belly. Turnbull no doubts a recent one.

It seems whatever he does, Scott Morrison leaves a bevy of disgruntled colleagues in his wake. An early job was with the Tourism Task Force where he was 2IC. After he jumped ship to join its main rival, Tourism Council Australia run by Bruce Baird, the TTF was unimpressed and changed its employment contracts to prevent others from “doing a Morrison”. From there, Morrison moved on to the Office of Tourism and Sport in New Zealand. Within weeks, the tourism board’s three most senior figures — the chair, the deputy chair and the chief executive — were gone. “I suspect it was just about power,” said board member Gerry McSweeney. “You had the meeting of two people [Morrison and Tourism Minister Mike McCully] who were very ambitious.” The Auditor-General was scathing about Morrison’s role in commissioning PwC to conduct a secret review of the board and then recommending they be sacked. “We were surprised by the vehemence and timing of this advice,” the auditor-general commented. “Mr Morrison was aware that the board’s directors (including the chairperson) had deliberately been excluded from the review process, as part of the terms of reference.” When interviewed last year, McSweeney said of Morrison, “Picking off soft targets, seems to have been a career projection of your PM.”

Source: Morrison is an “arsehole”, just ask his colleagues – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The Morrison Government’s Term Has Shown Terror Laws Target Us All

The Morrison Government’s Term Has Shown Terror Laws Target Us All

A general shift towards a more authoritarian form of governance is becoming apparent to a broader section of the populace. No longer are people blindly turning their heads away with carefree statements, such as, “I’ve got nothing to hide,” as they’ve become aware that surveillance laws have made such inroads into their private lives that they literally have nothing left to secret away. The transformation of Australia into the world’s most secretive democracy, as the New York Times put it, has been facilitated by the bipartisan passing of over 90 pieces of national security/counterterrorism legislation since the 2001 9/11 attacks were perpetrated in New York. Despite the stated aim of these laws being terrorists – specifically those of the Islamic variety – local civil liberties advocates have long been warning that these laws are incrementally eroding the rights of all citizens and residents. And the practical understanding that these laws can be turned on the general populace has really taken hold under the current Morrison government, as its term in office has been marked by press raids, political prosecutions, the targeting of critics and a retreat into opaque rule.

Source: The Morrison Government’s Term Has Shown Terror Laws Target Us All

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A tale of two stories: Tame attacked while Colbeck off ‘Scott-free’

Morrison is no Politician let alone a leader.

The constant attacks on Grace Tame and the indifferent shrug towards Minister Richard Colbeck’s disgraceful conduct highlight media bias in this country, writes Paul Begley.

Source: A tale of two stories: Tame attacked while Colbeck off ‘Scott-free’

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Morrison’s Coup De Grâce – » The Australian Independent Media Network

No wonder Morrison’s running scared. But pumping social media with Clive$’ lies about Labor’s failings is unlikely to cut it when your record reeks of corruption, ineptitude, dud deals and untrustworthiness. The worst PM of the century can’t even show some grace under friendly fire at a reception for Australian of the Year, a miserable morning tea, brightened only by a bevy of nominees for awards, any one of which is likely to show up his own inadequacies as a man and as a leader. To pick a fight with Grace Tame, moreover, and to go on radio, later, to belittle her, may cost Morrison any last skerrick of credibility. His pot-shot at Grace Tame, Australian of the Year 2021 is by extension an attack on all women and every woman’s right to expect a government that offers equality, justice and safety for all Australians, instead of a racket run to benefit a privileged few. Given his lies, his stunts, his broken promises, his empty promises, his protection of incompetent ministers and worse, together with his government’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic, his pot-shot at Ms Tame maybe his coup de grace.

Source: Morrison’s Coup De Grâce – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Taking it on the chin | The Monthly

Image of Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck speaking during Senate estimates on June 2, 2021. Image © Lukas Coch / AAP Images

History tells us Morrison was sacked but never admitted to deserving it. His errors never publicly disclosed. His term of office has been one of either “on the water matters” or outright denial of the obvious. It was amplified in his photos with Grace that the obvious to us all simply wasn’t happening. He applies the same to the outrageous behaviors of his ministers and acts in the worst of feudal of ways relying heavily on the media to protect him and move on.

It is, of course, not Colbeck who is facing severe hardship here, but those currently suffering in the aged-care system for which he is responsible. The statistics have been growing worse for days, but the latest figures are damning: it’s believed Omicron has spread to more than 700 aged-care homes, with more than half of all facilities in NSW now battling outbreaks and staff struggling to cope. One woman has thrown the situation into stark relief, telling SBS News that her father died of COVID-19 alone in his locked-down aged-care home, while waiting for an overdue booster shot, on the day after Colbeck had attended the cricket. Speaking to Breen today, Morrison said that he “understood” the criticism of Colbeck, even as he attempted to paint it as unwarranted. But it’s clear that the PM does not understand it. The fury over Colbeck’s decision to prioritise the cricket over the Senate committee, and to ignore an inquiry that is seeking to prevent mistakes from being made again, speaks to a larger anger over the government’s handling of the pandemic, and especially its bungling of aged care, with Colbeck remaining in his role despite misstep after misstep, death after death. People don’t want the government to take this criticism “on the chin”. They just want them to take it seriously.

 

Source: Taking it on the chin | The Monthly

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Prime minister, as a refugee I have done everything Australia has asked. Nine years on, why am I still in detention? | Mehdi | The Guardian

Mehdi Ali from Iran who has been in detention in Australia for nine years

Morrison  the PM of “on the water matters” even denies what it is he said these days.

“I didn’t make the statement that every single person was who was in that place was not a refugee. I said that was, to my understanding, the case with some people who were there. There are a number of people who were at that facility who have not been found to be owed protection. … I’m aware of one particular individual who has been the comment of this focus of a lot of attention, who is on such a pathway, and I would be encouraging them to take up that permanent option that is available to them in the United States. We provided it, we secured it, we got it in place. And so if they wished they could go to the United States along that pathway. And that’s what we are encouraging them to do.”

This is Mehdi’s response:

Source: Prime minister, as a refugee I have done everything Australia has asked. Nine years on, why am I still in detention? | Mehdi | The Guardian

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What is required of a woman if she wants a seat at the powerful men’s table? That she smile. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Who is that guy with Grace?

2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame yesterday met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and she did not smile at him. In fact, Ms Tame used powerful body language and a steely side-eye to convey her disdain and contempt for the man.

Source: What is required of a woman if she wants a seat at the powerful men’s table? That she smile. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Clean Our Mess: Release Guantánamo Detainees in the U.S., Close the Camp | The Smirking Chimp

Australia’s Shame is the worst it has been as we still treat Asylum Seekers in much the same way as America treats those in Guantanamo while our media pundits like Chris Kenny call it a holiday and Morrison denies they are even refugees. Humans who have been detained without trial for 20 years in the uS and here for a decade. Children have grown up in our detention camps. Meanwhile Commandant Morrison publicly lies and says said there are “no refugees” being detained at the Park Hotel.

Notice, I did say over three dozen. That’s because all 39 Guantánamo victims are legally innocent under American law, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. None of them have ever faced trial in an actual civilian courtroom and never will because their testimony was extracted under duress. KSM, for example, was infamously waterboarded 182 times. If the rule of law and due process mean anything, all 39 prisoners — not just those who have been cleared to leave — should not be transferred to maximum-security prisons on the American mainland, as liberals generally suggest. They should all be released in the United States and given every possible resource to live out their lives peacefully and successfully.

Source: Clean Our Mess: Release Guantánamo Detainees in the U.S., Close the Camp | The Smirking Chimp

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Guardian Essential poll: disillusion growing over Coalition handling of pandemic | Essential poll | The Guardian

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Last December, 41% of respondents rated the federal response to Covid as good. After the challenging summer of Omicron – with surging case numbers, increased numbers of deaths, and rolling controversy over shortages of rapid antigen tests – only 35% of respondents think the Morrison government is doing a good job, while 38% (up from 32%) of the sample describes the response as poor.

Source: Guardian Essential poll: disillusion growing over Coalition handling of pandemic | Essential poll | The Guardian

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Morrison sees votes in anti-Muslim strategy

Morrison sees votes in anti-Muslim strategy

Morrison demand us not to look in the rear vision mirror to ignore history why? So as not to amplify his own and can deny his constant lying. History, unfortunately, doesn’t support the constant fact that Morrison can be believed and he’s not a racist, a Christianist, a political user and abuser of superficial cultural differences.

THE opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, urged the shadow cabinet to capitalise on the electorate’s growing concerns about “Muslim immigration”, “Muslims in Australia” and the “inability” of Muslim migrants to integrate. Mr Morrison’s suggestion was made at a meeting in December at which shadow ministers were asked to bring three ideas for issues on which the Coalition should concentrate its political attack during this parliamentary term. The Herald has learnt several colleagues, including the deputy leader, Julie Bishop, and the former immigration minister Philip Ruddock, strongly disagreed with the suggestion, pointing out that the Coalition had long supported a non-discriminatory immigration policy and saying it was not an issue that should be pursued.

Source: Morrison sees votes in anti-Muslim strategy

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Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s ministerial team looks far from match-fit | The New Daily

Morrison wastes $3mill on ads to show Australians domestically that he’s holding his hose.

It sounded a touch desperate – Prime Minister Scott Morrison imploring backpackers to “come on down” to Australia, as the Omicron crisis escalated. “Enjoy a holiday here”, said the one-time managing director of Tourism Australia, and “at the same time join our workforce and help us”. The backpacker flow is slow, so there’ll be a $3 million advertising campaign (minus Lara Bingle) to lure them, and they’ll get a rebate on their visas if they come soon. People were quick to see the irony – while Morrison was spruiking working holidays, travel advice in the US was updated to say “avoid travel to Australia”. “Come on down” wasn’t Morrison’s only trite line.

Source: Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s ministerial team looks far from match-fit | The New Daily

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“We didn’t know just how severe Omicron would be” says PM – » The Australian Independent Media Network

After being told he was wrong months ago and after witnessing what was happening elsewhere in the UK, EU and USA  Morrison says he was “blindsided”… Not his fault

It’s alarming enough that the Prime Minister believes “admitting” wilful ignorance is a reasonable political strategy. What he’s actually admitting is that he lives in a bubble of protection from global events, medical and scientific research, and any information that does not coincide with the stories he tells himself which must be right, according to his reasoning, because God chose him to tell them.

Source: “We didn’t know just how severe Omicron would be” says PM – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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What the dickens? Morrison wants kids driving forklifts – » The Australian Independent Media Network

No the Armed Forces can’t help logistically by cooking and doing the heavy menial lifting in the Aged-Care or the Health Sectors. The overworked exhausted depleted medical staff have to do it according to Captain Benny Hill Morrison. OMG how dare we ask!!

Faced with a labour shortage he helped create, Scott Morrison will ask the national cabinet if kids can legally drive forklifts.

Source: What the dickens? Morrison wants kids driving forklifts – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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How Scott Morrison lost three core voting blocs in a week

The failings of the Coalition Government have finally dented its support among its core constituencies that are crucial to its re-election efforts, writes Andrew P Street. SAY WHAT YOU WILL will about notoriously inactive Prime Minister Scott Morrison: when he does finally make a move, he has a magnificent instinct for turning a single problem into a majestically cascading series of catastrophes.

Source: How Scott Morrison lost three core voting blocs in a week

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PM accused of ‘outright lie’ after claiming detainees in Melbourne hotel are not refugees | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Police guard outside the Park hotel in Melbourne, Australia, where pro-refugee signs and writing can be seen on the hotel's walls

I’m a White, Christian, Male and PM Ben, I don’t Lie. Ask Peter Costello at Ch9, your paymaster Ben. Besides The Age says their poll also implies Australians think I’m still more trusted than Albo. (Morrison)

Human rights advocates have criticised the prime minister, Scott Morrison, after he wrongly claimed those held in detention in Australia for as long as eight years had not been recognised as refugees

Morrison was asked by presenter Ben Fordham how it was “acceptable” that refugees in the same hotel as Djokovic had been detained for almost nine years with taxpayers spending millions of dollars “to keep them in limbo.” In response, Morrison suggested the detainees were not refugees. “Well, the specific cases, Ben, I mean, it’s not clear that to my information that someone in that case is actually a refugee,” he said. “They may havesought asylum and been found not to be a refugee and have chosen not to return, and … that happens in this country, people aren’t found to be refugees and they won’t return.”

But Elaine Pearson, the Australia director of Human Rights Watch, told the Guardian that most of those held in the Park hotel had been granted refugee status.

“It’s an outright lie to say that these people are not refugees, when most of them have had their refugee status formally recognised for years,” Pearson said.

“They’ve been through that process and it is established that they simply can’t return to their country.”

Source: PM accused of ‘outright lie’ after claiming detainees in Melbourne hotel are not refugees | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian

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Unions blast Morrison over rapid test ‘failure’ to protect workers

ACTU secretary Sally McManus unions

Morrison gives with a promise and removes it as the same time. He’s grabbed the promised RATs from those he promised Pharmacists while reducing worker protections at the same time. Has he reduced the protections for the Liberal Party itself or made his MPs pay? Why has he spent $3.5Bn on tanks and at the same time increased the potential for spreading multiple infection? Is this PMs only chance of staying in power to try and do a Trump  call off the election and declare a State of Emergency.

National cabinet’s plans to water down COVID-19 isolation rules for essential staff are “not a solution” to supply chain issues, according to unions, with leader Sally McManus blasting Scott Morrison over a “failure” to protect workers. An expanded list of workers in critical industries will be allowed to skip COVID-19 isolation if they test negative after being a close contact, under rules agreed by state and federal leaders on Thursday. But the Australian Council of Trade Unions said the plan would further increase risk to workers, without rapid antigen tests being made more widely available.

Source: Unions blast Morrison over rapid test ‘failure’ to protect workers

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Rapid Antigen Test scandal reveals Morrison’s cruelty – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison in one breath says he trusts all Australians to be responsible but not with any Government Welfare programs like Jobseeker or NDIS. Unless of course, we need to bring JobKeeper back when he will once again show how he trusts business. Morrison has walked back on his announcement and withdrawn the RATs he promised to provide for us to “pay for” unlike the US and UK. He keeps saying they are available even now but refuses to say where ,how or why they aren’t universally free. Simply showing he doesn’t trust us.

Persons”. Like me, you might have been labouring under the misapprehension that the purpose of R.A.T.s is social, in the sense of individuals taking responsibility for the larger society in which we live. We use R.A.T.s (or would, if we could get them) to ensure we aren’t infected with COVID-19 before we go out and about, mingling with family, friends and strangers. They are the cornerstone (or would be, if we could get them) of personal responsibility, that moral virtue urged upon us by a government itself so bereft of moral virtue and responsibility, personal and collective, that one can only howl with bitter mirth when they speak these words out loud.

Source: Rapid Antigen Test scandal reveals Morrison’s cruelty – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Michael Pascoe: More of same in 2021 with community grants corruption

Michael Pascoe Morrison rorts

Sleight Of Hand

The ERC members are Scott Morrison, Josh Frydenberg, Simon Birmingham, Anne Ruston, Peter Dutton, Dan Tehan, Stuart Robert, Barnaby Joyce and Bridget McKenzie.

A closer look at the 2021 grants suggests not, as does the track record of the ERC members.

For a start, while Labor seats appear to score more money than Coalition seats, there were more than twice as many Coalition grants – 102 to 46.

That raises the suspicion that Labor seats had a few large grants that don’t quite fit the “pork barrel” definition.

For example, the biggest single CDG last year was $33 million that went to the Labor-held seat of Perth.

It went to the Western Australian Cricket Association – it was for rebuilding the WACA.

That’s a bigger-picture investment than the local electorate.

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Source: Michael Pascoe: More of same in 2021 with community grants corruption

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Scott Morrison pivots back to ‘freedom’ rhetoric after ‘let it rip’ criticisms

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Morrison is as slippery as an eel and a liar to boot.

“If Mr Albanese thinks that the answer is to put Australia back into lockdown, then I don’t agree … if Labor are for lockdowns, that’s for them. My government is for keeping Australia open and pushing through. “You have two choices here. You can push through or you can lock down.” However, Mr Albanese has not called for lockdowns.

Source: Scott Morrison pivots back to ‘freedom’ rhetoric after ‘let it rip’ criticisms

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The Novak Djokovic Battle Is a Distraction. COVID Has Exposed Australia’s Health System.

In Australia, where the per capita rates of COVID are now among the worst in the world, the government has handed the health care crisis over to the free market to handle. The results are predictably catastrophic.

Source: The Novak Djokovic Battle Is a Distraction. COVID Has Exposed Australia’s Health System.

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Nicholas Reece: Failure of the federation has gone too far this time

Public trust has swung towards state leaders during the pandemic, exposing the Prime Minister’s lack of power or lack political will.

Who is responsible for international tennis players’ entry into the country for the Australian Open? On Wednesday, the Prime Minister was telling us it was Victoria, but the following day he was proudly boasting it was him.

Source: Nicholas Reece: Failure of the federation has gone too far this time

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Government COVID response a series of policy failure

While the rest of the anglo world eg the UK is issued “free” Rats Morrison has withheld doing the same,why? Simply because self-testing programs would have revealed even more Covid cases numbers in the community amplifying his failure to act. Morrison is the living example of President Meryl Streep in “Don’t Look Up”.

A vaccination program could have occurred in the first half of 2021 in anticipation of an expected winter wave of the virus. Yet by September, only one-third of the population over 16 had been fully vaccinated. We vaccinated too late for the arrival of Delta. Similarly, we knew that the Omicron variant would arrive here in December. We could have fast tracked the booster program and not closed the vaccination centres over the Christmas-new year period. We could have reduced the time between the second and third doses earlier. We failed to anticipate what could have been anticipated.

Source: Government COVID response a series of policy failure

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As COVID rips through Australia, is Scott Morrison’s media strategy starting to fail as well?

As he embarks on an election year, there is a question about whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s media communications strategy, which has served him well for a long time, is fit for the current political environment. The strategy is predicated on the proposition that Morrison is the government’s prime political asset, to be protected as necessary and exploited where possible. Doubtless this is a legacy of his “miracle” win in 2019.

Source: As COVID rips through Australia, is Scott Morrison’s media strategy starting to fail as well?

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‘So-called border vigilance’: PM’s tough guy act on Djokovic won’t distract from failed Covid response | Malcolm Farr | The Guardian

Scott morrison at a press conference standing at a lectern between two Australian flags

Greg Hunt not only showed his political corruption,his pretence but his ability to blame Victoria and the people he represents for decisions on national borders which are totally the responsibility of the Federal Government. Dumb and Dumber continue their double act in front of the media who they believe are largely on their side..

“Well, that is a matter for the Victorian government. They have provided him with an exemption to come to Australia, and so we then act in accordance with that decision,” he told reporters, clearly not knowing what he was talking about.

Source: ‘So-called border vigilance’: PM’s tough guy act on Djokovic won’t distract from failed Covid response | Malcolm Farr | The Guardian

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They ‘let her rip’, and she ripped; government collapses in Australia – Michael West Media

Sydney lockdown, Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Covid-19

It’s a dang good thing we’re winning the cricket because the government has collapsed. Scott Morrison’s Team Australia has left the health system to fail; the virus is out of control, tracking and testing has crashed, and Liberal Party corporate mates Harvey Norman and Chemist Warehouse are profiteering. Michael West looks at the price of Scomo’s “personal responsibility”.

Source: They ‘let her rip’, and she ripped; government collapses in Australia – Michael West Media

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Morrison refuses to provide free rapid antigen tests for all Australians

Scott Morrison will fund rapid antigen tests

Morrison decides he needs to allow free tests to those most likely to vote for the LNP only

“It’s clear that the costs of tests are dwarfed by the costs of inaction,” Labor leader Anthony Albanese said. Mr Morrison had previously argued against “undercutting” retailers by handing out free tests – an argument which former prime minister Kevin Rudd called “hogwash”.

Source: Morrison refuses to provide free rapid antigen tests for all Australians

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Morrison and Perrottet turn their backs on Australia’s COVID crisis

Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet have shown a reckless disregard for the wellbeing of Australians in their questionable COVID strategy, writes Geoff Dyer.

Source: Morrison and Perrottet turn their backs on Australia’s COVID crisis

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PM defends ‘big money’ jab at independents

Scott Morrison says his claims some independents are backed by 'big money' are not hypocritical.

Morrison tries to run an equivalence argument when it comes to Independents, claiming their funding is the same, and bad people are found on both sides. Yet the LNP hides over 33% of the donations that come their way. Nor does he mention the $80M being spent by Palmer to simply get 5% of the vote and preference the LNP. Furthermore, nothing is said about any other indirect corporate donations like sponsoring meet and greet functions to collect money.  “Transactional advertorials” aren’t news buy time space and propaganda provided by Murdoch, Peter Costello and Kerry Stokes designed to pollute and create a biased LNP atmosphere. While, we hear his constant complaints about the ABC whose charter is to hold all governments to account and test the veracity whether LNP or ALP of what’s being said for the benefit of all of us.

Easy money comes in the way of these indirect transactional deals. Cash flows from the top down in the form of vested interests and not from the bottom up and it’s patently clear it doesn’t flow in equal quantity to the ALP whether they are in government or not, and which is constantly battling with one arm tied behind its back. The LNP as a government has to pay and that’s reflected in their 200% increase in operational debt and the highest historical taxes demanded of us resulting in wages in hand not growing for over 25 years?

Mr Morrison said he was calling independents out when questioned over whether people could change their political stripes, such as former Liberal MP Craig Kelly quitting the party and joining Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party.

Source: PM defends ‘big money’ jab at independents

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Rapid antigen tests double in price in Australia amid concerns of price-gouging | Health | The Guardian

The price of rapid antigen tests in Australia has spiked as the Omicron variant sweeps through the population

Another “I don’t hold the hose moment”

Morrison, pushed back against calls from unions and business groups for the commonwealth to source and distribute rapid tests for free to people across the nation. He said testing was the states’ “job” and he was “glad they’re doing it”. With some Australians waiting several hours to get a free PCR test and several days to get the result, demand for rapid antigen tests has grown dramatically and prices have risen in turn. Some consumers claimed one retailer appeared to be selling the same five-test kit online for $90 on Wednesday, up from about $45 last week.

Source: Rapid antigen tests double in price in Australia amid concerns of price-gouging | Health | The Guardian

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Doctors reveal they warned Australia’s governments to secure rapid antigen tests | Health | The Guardian

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Another STROLLOUT by Morrison whos still behind doors Planning

Australia’s peak doctors’ body has revealed that it had warned governments to secure rapid antigen tests when they began planning to open up the country, after Scott Morrison described the scarce screening tool as a “precious commodity”. With fresh claims that the long-standing PCR testing system was “crumbling” as the country recorded more than 18,000 daily Covid cases for the first time, Australians were lining up at pharmacies to try to buy rapid antigen tests (RATs). Some state governments on Wednesday accused the federal government of not “stepping up” to “fill the gap” by failing to procure more supplies of the vital screening tool, while Morrison called a snap national cabinet meeting for Thursday to discuss the sharp rise in cases fuelled by the Omicron variant.

Source: Doctors reveal they warned Australia’s governments to secure rapid antigen tests | Health | The Guardian

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Michael Pascoe: PM, how do you let COVID rip in aged-care homes?

Morrison formulates another plan but executes nothing. Meanwhile the States act. Andrews buys 34m kits and will give them away at no individual cost. Morrison says “Well some people can pay and some can’t”. “We’ve been working behind closed doors”

What exactly is your plan for “living with COVID” in the couple of thousand aged-care homes that are your responsibility? Events of the past two weeks have shown “living with COVID” is a euphemism for “letting it rip”, so let’s be frank about it: Do you have any plan for letting COVID have its way with the elderly? “Letting it rip” is quite a problem in the general population as case numbers soar and hospitalizations steadily mount – but it’s another level of difficulty altogether for the third of a million Australians using residential aged care.

Source: Michael Pascoe: PM, how do you let COVID rip in aged-care homes?

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Aged spend Christmas alone, thanks to PM and Perrottet

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The ‘let it rip for Christmas’ COVID policies urged by Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet have come home to roost where they were always going to – on the elderly. More than 100 aged care homes are now in Tier 0 severe lockdown, the number suffering COVID outbreaks nearly doubling in a week. Rather than “opening up” for family Christmas, thousands of elderly Australians are confined to their rooms today, having a solitary Christmas lunch, denied all visitors, not even allowed to share the meal with their peers. On behalf of the distressed residents, their worried families and the shockingly stretched aged care workers, I invite the Prime Minister and NSW Premier to “stare down” the virus and take “personal responsibility” for a few weeks in solitary confinement, without a personal photographer for company. The tragedy of Christmas 2021 for the residents and staff in aged care facilities has been (almost) unreported.

Source: Aged spend Christmas alone, thanks to PM and Perrottet

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Court rules Morrison government grant to develop gas field in Beetaloo Basin invalid | Northern Territory | The Guardian

Environmental and First Nations activists protest against proposed fracking plans in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin, outside the Empire Energy offices in Sydney in May

Morrison’s Plan Unhinged

A Northern Territory environmental group has won a court battle over a Morrison government grant to develop the Beetaloo Basin onshore gas field. The Environment Centre NT argued in the federal court that the $21m grant for exploration wells was legally unreasonable on multiple grounds.

Source: Court rules Morrison government grant to develop gas field in Beetaloo Basin invalid | Northern Territory | The Guardian

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Michael Pascoe: Morrison confirms election tactics of lie, deny and deflect

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He says he doesn’t hold the hose. He is the hose and nothing goes past him. Morrison is who JFK directed not to ask “what will my country do for me” but “what can I do for my country”

The degradation of Australian politics continued this week with the Prime Minister doubling down on his core campaign tactics as he raised a middle digit to the concept of integrity in the use of public funds. Confronted yet again with evidence of corrupt use of government grants, Scott Morrison stuck with the strategy he, his ministers and backbenchers have used ever since his #sportsrorts hit the Auditor-General. Mr Morrison told the National Press Club 23 months ago that there was absolutely nothing wrong with corrupting community sports grants for partisan political purposes, nothing wrong with misleading hundreds of community sporting clubs, nothing wrong with wasting the time of thousands of volunteers applying for funds that would not be granted on merit. “How good are sports rorts?” he may as well have shouted, never mind The New Daily’s collaboration with spreadsheet supersleuth Vince O’Grady to fully disclose the politically corrupt nature of those grants.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Morrison confirms election tactics of lie, deny and deflect

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Scott Morrison’s ego is killing democracy

The vanity of our Prime Minister along with a complicit mainstream media have destroyed the fabric of democracy, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.

Source: Scott Morrison’s ego is killing democracy

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Historic billion-dollar defence contract with South Korea amid rising regional tensions – ABC News

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Celebrating yet another step in becoming a Military Industrial economy in the Pacific. Not only will we be the next Pearl Harbour but a munitions factory. The LNP killed the Motor Industry in Australia when we could have been a leading EV producer with all the resources on hand. Geelong suffered the brunt of Abbott’s decision that lost the LNP the Corangamite electorate. Now Morrison hopes to win it back by making the people of Geelong a military target. Needless to say Morrison won’t live there.

Australia has finalised a deal with South Korea defence giant Hanwha to build military tools in Geelong The $1 billion contract is Australia’s largest ever defence contract with an Asian nation The contract will create at least 300 jobs, according to the plan first announced in 2019.

Source: Historic billion-dollar defence contract with South Korea amid rising regional tensions – ABC News

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Michael Pascoe: Attacking ICAC is all about Morrison, not Gladys

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Funny thing about the federal government’s orchestrated multiple “Gladys for Warringah” media moments: They weren’t really about a former Liberal premier perhaps running for a former Liberal prime minister’s seat. They were about lessening the damage Scott Morrison is suffering from telling lies and running what is arguably the most corrupt Commonwealth government in our 120 years of federation.

Source: Michael Pascoe: Attacking ICAC is all about Morrison, not Gladys

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Scott Morrison says there are only four countries in the G20 with a better emissions record than Australia. Is that correct? – ABC News

Scott Morrison at a press conference tight head shot. Verdict is "misleading" with a red cross

Is Australia doing better on reducing emissions than all but four countries in the G20? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates. The verdict Mr Morrison’s claim is misleading.

Source: Scott Morrison says there are only four countries in the G20 with a better emissions record than Australia. Is that correct? – ABC News

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‘Sustainable’ logging: when will we twig to the scams? – Michael West Media

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”Trust – and verify” was the motto of the Americans when negotiating nuclear arms cuts with the Soviets during the Cold War. It may be a good policy for proponents of the new clean-energy wonder cure, green hydrogen, writes Sue Arnold. In the battle to save the planet while ensuring an adequate source of harm-free energy, we are destined to seemingly take one step forward and two steps back, or at least sideways. Scott Morrison’s carbon mantra “technology not taxes” is incapable of providing the proper policy required. Governments appear to be rushing into green hydrogen without comprehensive understanding, methodology and defined sources.

Source: ‘Sustainable’ logging: when will we twig to the scams? – Michael West Media

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All capitalism ‘can do’ is destroy our planet

Private Enterprise created the very problem Morrison says it will now fix. Capitalism is the problem that fucked the climatic “norm” in the first place.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s new slogan is hypocritically telling us that our planet’s saviour from the climate crisis is the very thing destroying it, writes Dr William Briggs. NOW THAT COP26 has come and gone, the world seems to be getting back to business. Our Prime Minister assures us that this “business” will be our saviour. All we have to do is to accept that capitalism is the cure and not the disease.

Source: All capitalism ‘can do’ is destroy our planet

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Scott Morrison renews crackdown on social media users – » The Australian Independent Media Network

For the second time this year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, bereft of the will and the capacity to announce anything useful, has again declared he will go after “anonymous trolls” on social media. His cunning plan requires forcing tech giants who own the platforms to either identify the “trolls” so they can be pursued for defamation, or pay defamation costs themselves. The proposal also requires social media users to provide proof of identity before being allowed to use the platforms. You can’t sue anonymous. This proposal is unlikely to be legislated and equally unlikely to be useful in the event it becomes law, except for the privileged few who can afford to pursue legal remedies.

LIBERAL MPs : While Parliamentary Privilege protects politicians’ anonymity protects individuals but Morrison wants that protection removed. Politician, regarded by many as trolls like Peter Dutton wants the freedom to say what he wants whenever he wants and the taxpayers to pay the legal costs to defend and sue whoever he chooses. While the individual citizens should bear their own costs. This seems to be the autocratic capture of free speech and the justice system in Australia. When compounded by Morrison’s want to also diminish class action suits by individuals against corporations it’s hardly democratization o the law but quite a reactionary desire.

Source: Scott Morrison renews crackdown on social media users – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Morrison’s sexual harassment dog act trolls women

OLD DOG, OLD TRICKS, GRABS CENTER STAGE, TO SELF PRAISE AFTER HAVING PLUNGED THE GOVERNMENT INTO PUBLIC DISREPUTE LIKE NO OTHER. CAPTAIN BUNJEE.

Morrison’s media claim is that “he’s the fastest gun in the West” when it comes to “recoveries”. The fastest ever “economic recovery”, the fastest “to change parliamentary culture”, the fastest “freedom providing” government. The fatsest to react to what we need. Of course he is, and nobody would deny that. When you hit the end of the bunjee the only way is up, and for a short moment it’s what seems a fast recovery but it’s not. For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. That’s Newton’s Law. But inevitably that’s not the best but only blinkered explanation of what’s going on. Einstein’s Relativity provides a much broader context and clearer view. In Morrison’s do-nothing world it’s often the worst. It’s why ScaMo grabs center stage and the mike to control the narrative and whatever positve outcomes others achieve as his initiative.

Basically, it’s just another opportunistic photoshoot with a bullhorn applied domestically, blinkered, linearly and never globally comparative. The ALP has had gender equality policies as their priority for over 40 years and brought women in to battle with what is essentially LNP culture and not “parliamentary culture”. They brought in quotas and still today Morrison’s autocratic LNP capture of what happens in parliament remains. He’s going to investigate Tudge no independant third party is. The system will remain untouched.

As Australian of the Year and sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame put it: ‘Parliament’s ecosystem of abuse has been revealed … 15 minutes after the 500-page Review launched today, Scott was already claiming it’s a safer workplace than when Brittany was there. This, days after he coercively orchestrated the ambush of Bridget Archer.’ If indeed there have been any improvements in the workplace culture since the Brittany Higgins allegations first surfaced in February, they have happened in spite of this Prime Minister.

Source: Morrison’s sexual harassment dog act trolls women

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The Only Value Left For ‘Values Voters’ Is White Christian Identity | Crooks and Liars

The Only Value Left For 'Values Voters' Is White Christian Identity

It’s why Mini T- Morrison gets the support from the Australian Christian minority for a Bill that’s really a mandate against LGBTQIs. It’s no coincidence that it came immediately after 75% of Australians voted for Marriage Equality and liberated a minority of us from hundreds of years of oppression.

That’s why Donald Trump became their hero. Rubin writes: In this context, White evangelical Christians’ attraction to the thrice-married philanderer Trump is understandable, as is their support for the cruelest immigration policies (e.g., child separation) and the anti-Muslim travel ban. It’s all about race and religious identity, not policies founded in Christian values and certainly not about finding a role model for civic virtues. Trump was determined to protect White evangelicals against people of color and the decline in Christian identification; that was all they could hope for in a politician. For these voters, government is a means of enforcing (they would say “preserving”) domination of Whites and Christianity as essential to America’s identity. That’s why they support politicians who demonize Black Lives Matter, demand that corporations meekly accept voter suppression, express outrage over a publisher’s decision about Dr. Seuss titles or fixate on saying “Merry Christmas.” It’s also why insurrectionists marauded through the Capitol on Jan. 6 bearing Confederate flags and wearing T-shirts mocking the Holocaust. They keep telling us who they are and what they want

Source: The Only Value Left For ‘Values Voters’ Is White Christian Identity | Crooks and Liars

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We need this do-nothing government out of our lives – The Big Smoke

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Morrison our servant wants “out of our life”

I also have to sound a small note of warning for our ‘nothing-to-do-with-me-mate’ Prime Minister. He may run the risk of being too successful. As tweeter @demirophil put it most succinctly – ‘Lots of people want this government out of their lives for good.’ Careful what you wish for, Scomo.

Source: We need this do-nothing government out of our lives – The Big Smoke