It has become obvious that our Prime Minister suffers from the “Medusa complex”, a syndrome typified by the inability to address any issue directly.
Source: Scott Morrison’s Medusa complex
Category: Scott Morrison
Australians’ lived experiences show the PM can’t even convince his own base that he can manage their rising household expenses
Labor finally sees its chance in all this. It believes the PM, with all his backflips and contradictions, has destroyed not just his own credibility but his government’s capacity to find any credible policy positions other than the basest and most irrational fears. Thus it is finally emerging with a few policy positions of its own, but ones honed to the Morrison dilemma: policies that go to the theme that the PM is always late to the party, whether it is on bushfires, climate change or vaccines. The NBN policy release this week was a case in point: promising to fix up the NBN after it was revealed the government has had to spend more on its technologically more-modest NBN plan (which was spruiked as much more cost-efficient) than had been forecast for Labor’s plan. Morrison goes into the final fortnight of parliament not so much in a spot of bother, but in a Dalmatian’s worth of them.
Now it lays in front of us, with no meaningful words of condemnation from the Prime Minister, it becomes apparent: the corporate media and politicians seem to have no intention of quelling this unrest. In the weeks and months ahead taking us to a Federal Election, it is imperative for these leaders to convey a message of national unity in condemning this activity. If they can’t, they are unfit for office. If politicians cannot unite against homegrown extremism, Australians could have to deal with homegrown terrorism. We have an opportunity to condemn this irresponsible leadership, this wilful damage to society, because we have just seen public calls for public executions and death threats to people we have elected. And this hasn’t happened before.
Source: Coalition provocation and silence fueling ugly Melbourne ‘protests’
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Trump fence sat and Morrison took days to respond and do the same.
Ed Husic says Scott Morrison should have more strongly condemned the protestersMr Morrison said the threats voiced by protesters over the weekend had no place in AustraliaBut he said he understood people’s frustrations were drive by governments telling people what to do in the pandemic
“He was called on today to exercise national leadership to say to the country ‘we will not tolerate this type of behaviour being directed in this way to our democracy’ and it seems, like with Trump, Scott Morrison doesn’t want to upset violent extremists.”
He has some gall. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a person who finds the truth a creature best beaten, shunned and ignored, is now moving into what looks like campaign mode. At COP26 in Glasgow, he sold the world a climate change model that kept company with countries where fumes linger stubbornly, and the fossil fuels burn bravely. He made sure to do it the “Australian Way”, ensuring that emission reduction targets would not so much be met as thoroughly “beaten” without the need for taxes. He spoke of technology unproven and made assumptions unfounded.
Lying in politics is much a statement of fact as rising obesity levels in industrialised states. As that keen student of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, pondered, factual truth is ever at the mercy of the lie made in the name of political power. “Facts and events are infinitely more fragile things than axioms, discoveries, theories, which are produced by the human mind.” In his unsurpassed essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell also reminds us with severity that political language itself “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Source: Lying in Public Life: The Scott Morrison Formula – » The Australian Independent Media Network
This Crikey investigation labels the prime minister something no leader would want to be called. We don’t really want to do it. But the time has come. A comprehensive List,
In Morrisonland “saying” is more than “doing” and he’s a true practictioner, ” saying for seeming” history shows he’s lived his life like that. Fuck what lies beneath Morrisonland is a reality based on fact and rational analysis and a truth for all to agree on. However that isn’t what matters to Scotty from marketing. Belief is what dominates Morrison and in his religious world he has already been chosen so he can do no wrong and never lies.
While the vacuousness of Morrison’s net-zero “plan” and his refusal to release the underpinning modelling has been widely condemned, the reality is: no matter how detailed a plan to transition the Australian economy over the next 30 years is, it will always be a work of fiction.
Labor has branded as “extraordinary” and a “lie” comments from Scott Morrison that it is siding with China and planned to increase fuel prices at the last election, as the Prime Minister continues his backflip on previous criticisms of electric vehicles. “It’s just extraordinary … He’s prepared to say anything at all and hope that people don’t hold him to account for what he said yesterday,” Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said.
Source: ‘Another lie’: Morrison’s ‘mad claims’ on EVs have Labor outraged
The first thing Tony Abbott’s LNP did when it came into government just 8 years ago was was to cut and abandon investment into “scientific research” 40,000 Academics have lost their jobs and were not, I repeat not included in the Morrison LNP JobKeeper program. Here we have the PM who has stepped outside the country and made us the laughing stock of the world. Here we have him praising scientists for their ability to be Uber drivers.
Morrison is a man of many words however irrelevant ones in the world in which we live. Fast to learn nobody attended his address in Glasgow. He’s hiding behind science and technologies that are yet to exist and not funding ones that do. Stalling for the pocket sake of his donors making us pay and declaring it’s not a tax. Hard hats and High viz don’t make him anymore convincing.
Australia risks losing jobs to other countries if it fails to lift its below-average spending on research and development, a peak science body has warned, amid Scott Morrison’s vow to promote “technology not taxes” on climate policy. Australia invests just 1.8% of its economic output in research and development, well behind the OECD average of 2.5%.
Australia is languishing yet again with a shaky climate policy. We were late to the party in our commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and some suggested the Prime Minister had to be strong-armed by the Queen and Prince Charles to attending the UN COP26 meeting last week. And the government’s “uniquely Australian” plan to get to net zero looks woefully inadequate, relying on future technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere that will burden us with crippling costs – and with little prospect of it working at anywhere near the scale required.
Source: The coal hard facts: the economics and the science refute the so-called ‘Australian way’
An international laughing-stock who has given offence to three powerful nations, Morrison returns home with his reputation in tatters. His government will never be trusted by any other nation. It’s the most disastrous trip overseas ever taken by an Australian PM. Above all he’s been called out for what he is, a liar. Morrison’s so used to lying at home and getting away with it given this nation’s tamed corporate media monopoly that he is furious that he’s been called on it – and by another leader, no less who has put the lie to his attempt to lie about his lie. The text the PM’s office released to media does not corroborate Morrison’s claim that France knew all along that Australia would go back on its word and abandon its contractual commitment. While the UN’s COP26 may prove disappointing in its capacity to achieve binding commitments from enough nations to cut carbon emissions enough to keep to the 1.5 degree increase in temperature agreed in Paris, on a local level it has been of great benefit to Australia in exposing to the world the duplicity and dishonesty of its mining corporation puppet-government. Forget the hard hat and Hi-Vis, Morrison and his corrupt, rorty government
JEERING SCOTT MORRISON’S BLA BLA BLA PLAN ” THE AUSTRALIAN WAY”
As diplomats from wealthy countries continue to say “blah, blah, blah” at COP26, over 100,000 people growing increasingly impatient with empty promises and inaction marched through Glasgow on Saturday, with thousands more hitting the streets in cities around the world during roughly 300 simultaneous demonstrations on a Global Day of Action for Climate Justice.
Source: More Than 100,000 Take to Streets on Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
The Aus and NZ governments arrived at the awnser to the question once before and sacked him. It’s time the people did the same again. We couldn’t possibly have 4 more years of Morrison up ending Australia’s reputation. Genuine tourists and students will simply stop coming to see an once admired world. Immigration will be driven by desperation for casual work in the salt mines of this nation. Hunger Games seem to be the vision for this country.
Haven’t we suffered enough? How much more of this incompetence and stupid arrogance do we have to endure before we can finally get a government in this country that works for the benefit of the nation, and not just to the advantage of its tin-pot leader?
By the time Morrison touched down in the desert, the French ambassador had landed a potent extrapolation. If Scott Morrison’s operation was prepared to leak private text messages from world leaders to settle diplomatic scores, who could trust Australia? Jean-Pierre Thebault French ambassador says leak of Macron text ‘new low’ as submarines rift deepens Read more “You don’t behave like this on personal exchanges of leaders,” Thébault said in Canberra. “Doing this also sends a very worrying signal for all heads of state. Beware, in Australia, there will be leaks, and what you say in confidence to your partners will eventually be used and weaponised against you.” I doubt you’ve missed the saga of the text messages, but just in case – the morning after Emmanuel Macron told Australian journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome that Morrison had lied to him during the fracas, one of the president’s private texts turned up in some Australian media outlets.
Morrison also suggested “publicly” that it was the American Administration that was “incompetent” after President Biden said the treatment of France in the AUKUS matter had been “clumsy”. We saw no email leaks refuting him did we? Morrison has a well-documented history of never saying sorry and yelling “look over there” when the shit hits the fan. Or simply saying ” I don’t agree I’m done with this” and leaving others to deal with his mess. Nuclear subs are dangerous weapons they say. Will they cost Morrison his job? The certainly have brought about an unwanted focus.
The Morrison government has also taken to the distasteful practice of selective leaking in bolstering its quicksand position, a tactic which further suggests a diminution of an already less than impressive political office. A prodding text from Macron to Morrison sent two days prior to the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the contract involved a query as to whether good or bad news could be expected about the French submarines. The vulgar insinuation here is that Macron supposedly had an inkling that something was afoot from the Australian side, which hardly counts as fully informed awareness. Naturally, Morrison’s response is not noted. The Elysée further denies suggestions that Canberra made several warning efforts regarding the AUKUS announcement.
Source: Lies, Lies and Nuclear Submarines – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Sacked by NZ, Sacked by the LNP, Sack him again Australia. He hasn’t changed and never will.
All ridiculously trivial, but not quite innocent. When cornered, the Australian prime minister breaks the glass and reaches for distraction…. on Sky News, warning about “glass houses”. “Right now, you would be aware that in your own organisation there is a person who had had a complaint made against them for harassment of a woman in a women’s toilet,” thundered Morrison. Not true, said Sky’s owners at News Corp. The prime minister issued a late night withdrawal.
“I have a lot of respect for your country,” Macron said, making plain he blamed Morrison specifically for what he contends was a lie. “A lot of respect and friendship for your people.” How the story unfolded: Scott Morrison and Emmanuel Macron’s submarine stoush Morrison’s response was to defend Australia’s honour, citing his own “broad shoulders” “I’m not going to cop sledging of Australia. I am not going to cop that on behalf of Australians.”
When the Artful Dodger proved to be Artless
Today Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Dig up, prime minister By Nick Feik Image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Image via ABC News Morrison is in a hole, and making things worse In response to the comments that French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at Scott Morrison yesterday (“Do you think he lied to you?” a journalist asked Macron. “I don’t think, I know,” Macron replied), Morrison has proceeded to dig himself in deeper. First the PM’s staff leaked a text message from Macron to the Coalition’s favourite propaganda outlet, The Daily Telegraph, which dutifully ran a story around it. (Funnily enough, the Tele was one of the few mastheads that hadn’t run a major story on the fact that the French president had accused the Australian PM of lying.) The Tele proposed that the text message from Macron (“Should I expect good or bad news for our joint submarines ambitions?”) somehow proved that he had been told that Australia was cancelling its submarine contract – and that the Frenchman “just didn’t want to hear it”. It proved nothing of the sort, and there was no evidence to support this contention other than the single text message and the assertions of “sources familiar with talks between the two men”. (Gee, who could they be?)
Not content with the diplomatically disastrous ploy of leaking private messages and backgrounding against foreign leaders to the press, Morrison then took a public shot at Macron, accusing him of attacking Australia’s integrity. What’s more, Morrison added, “I’m not going to cop sledging of Australia, I’m not going to cop that on behalf of Australians.”
To be clear: Macron had not sledged Australians generally. He had sledged Morrison personally. (“I have a lot of respect for your country,” Macron said. “I have a lot of respect – and a lot of friendship – for your people.”)
Morrison’s History is that of a liar and spin doctor and like Trump thinks he has the backing to get away with the bullshit
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has joined French President Emmanuel Macron in calling Scott Morrison a liar over the cancellation of a $90 billion submarine contract, saying the Prime Minister had a reputation for being dishonest. In a fierce criticism of his former colleague, Mr Turnbull said Mr Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.
Source: Malcolm Turnbull joins Emmanuel Macron in rebuking Scott Morrison on submarines deal
No, it’s all been about whether we let the French know. And this is where the old Morrison MO comes into play. The initial response when things go wrong is that it’s someone else’s fault.
“I tried to ring but Macron didn’t take the call.” (Nobody told me or somebody else didn’t do the right thing. Think Brittany Higgins or the vaccines not arriving as early as promised.) Then,
it wasn’t my fault, but we’ll work it out and I’ll contact them and we’ll have a bit of a natter and it’ll all be ok. (Think Brittany Higgins again.)
If neither of these works, we may need Phil Gaetjens who works for the PM to launch an independent inquiry. Of course, by “independent” we don’t mean independent of the PMO, we mean independent of actually telling anyone else what he discovered or independent of actually asking anyone who might know anything.
(And again) Finally, background against the person or start an argument about some minor detail in the whole fiasco.
You’ll notice that we’ve hit that last point with the French president in the past day or so. Biden may have said that it was “clumsy” but we’ll just ignore that and create the distraction of accusing the President of knowing and, by the way, has he forgotten about the war and how we helped. Ungrateful foreigner! He’s slandered all Australians by calling me a liar.
Yes, this is Morrison using diplomacy to repair the relationship. No, not the one with France. That’s basically stuffed and, even though he’s risking any free trade agreement with the EU, he’ll double down and up the rhetoric because – just as he did with China – the issue isn’t getting a good outcome, the issue is ensuring that he’s in an election winning position.
He hasn’t suggested that war with France is inevitable, but I guess that’ll be Dutton’s job as Defence Minister.
He claims he’s not a liar but then he claime Macron insulted the Australian Public an immediate lie to boost his claim he’s not a liar. He’s a dud a real dud. Tim Smith was merely DUI. Morrison is a serial bullshitter who was sacked by NZ and Australia for his inexcusable “clumsiness”, poor judgement, and communication skills. We have witnessed all of it for the past 3 years.
In failing to offer more action this decade — the main objective of COP26 — Scott Morrison needed to make a case for Australian exceptionalism. In some sense he succeeded, but not as hoped. “The Australian Way” seems to have highlighted that this nation, as in past COP meetings, is acting as a brake on climate action, not a ready participant. Which makes it all the harder to convince ‘developing’ countries — which includes the likes of China and India — to follow suit. Scott Morrison will depart Glasgow with Australia’s six-year-old 2030 target unchanged. He may be able to brush off the criticism Australia is copping at COP26, but it is likely to follow him. Frank Bainimarama, the strong man and powerful voice of the Pacific, made it clear that success in limiting climate change should not be left to chance. “We have moral authority,” he said. “You have a moral obligation.”
French President Emmanuel Macron says Scott Morrison lied to him before scrapping a $90 billion submarine contract. In a sign relations between Paris and Canberra have not improved despite Mr Morrison’s attempts to talk to Mr Macron at the G20 summit in Rome, the French leader did not hold back when he gave his thoughts on the PM’s conduct. Mr Macron was pulled aside by Australian reporters who asked whether he thought Mr Morrison had lied about his intentions. He replied: “I don’t think, I kn
Source: Emmanuel Macron says he ‘knows’ Scott Morrison lied over submarines
An overeager PM not really a cool dude gatecrashed Macron’s conversation and then ducked any “reporter’s” questions about what Biden said about awkward AUKUS. Intent on Australian media reporting what a “cool” guy he really is Morrison took control and somehow did the opposite. Remember when he tried to force a handshake on a woman who refused after the bushfires and that old guy who told him to “fuck off”. That’s Morrison no sense of what’s really going on.
“I said g’day, I said g’day,” Mr Morrison told reporters. “He was having a chat to someone, I went up and just put my arm on his shoulder and just said ‘g’day, Emmanuel,’ and ‘look forward to catching up over the next couple of days.’ “That’s the way these events tend to work and he was happy to exchange those greetings.”
Note nobody bothered to ask what Macron thought of the intrusion. But “that’s the way promotions and Fake News works at these events” Note Morrison is his own reporter describing to us what’s going on and he’s in a rush to get his message across. A sure sign he hasn’t a clue and it all a ” PR act ”
“The only photographs of the meeting were those taken by the Prime Minister’s own photographer, Adam Taylor.”
Now is that a coincidence or arranged by Morrison or was Macron was ambushed? They don’t call Morrison Mr Photoshoot for nothing.
Source: Scott Morrison says ‘g’day’ to Emmanuel Macron as pair cross paths
It’s amazing how our mainstream media seems to be reportion through the prism of Scott Morrison whereas the US, France and the UK seem to see it and Morrison very differently.
Lord Deben says there is ‘no indication’ Scott Morrison has a plan to deliver the net zero commitment ‘we’ve squeezed out of him’
The UK government’s climate change adviser has launched a scathing attack on Australia’s net zero commitment on the eve of critical talks in Glasgow.
Lord Deben, the Climate Change Committee chair, told the BBC on Saturday there was “no indication” that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, had a plan to deliver on the commitment to net zero that was “squeezed out of him”.
“It’s very sad that a great country like Australia should change our climate,” he said.
Australia’s 2050 net zero emissions plan relies on ‘gross manipulation’ of data, experts say
Morrison a cheap con-man the accidental PM who fucked everyone over. He lied, and only Macron has called him out for who he is. A “very low grade Trumpesque salesman and certainly not anyone worthy of being a Nation’s Prime Minister . Lacking in any ” Stature”, even Biden couldn’t remember his name, Morrison nevertheless seems to have always had “a plan” and he executed it labelled “The Australian Way” and shamed us all.
US president Joe Biden has admitted the orchestration of the AUKUS pact was “clumsy” as he met with the French president for the first time since the secret submarine deal.
Mr Biden also told Emmanuel Macron that he “was under the impression that France had been informed long before” about Australia’s plan to scrap its $90 billion submarine contract with France.
The two leaders are in Rome for the G20 summit, also being attended by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, which comes as Scotland prepares to host the COP26 climate talks.
Mr Biden did not formally apologise to Mr Macron but conceded the US should not have caught the country by surprise.
“I think what happened was, to use an English phrase, what we did was clumsy,” Mr Biden said, adding the submarine deal “was not done with a lot of grace”.
Source: Biden admits to Macron about ‘clumsy’ handling of AUKUS pact
When the US President can say “Sorry AUKUS was “clumsy”. Scott Morrison can only bring himself to say “get over it”. Now, that’s LNP diplomacy and the new image of Australia. We knew what and who Abbott was. We saw Turnbull squeezed by a party divided. Morrison is simply a Golem.
” A Golem, in Jewish folklore an image endowed with life and is used in the Bible (Psalms 139:16) and in Talmudic literature to refer to an embryonic or incomplete substance. A stupid and “clumsy person”; A blockhead.
US President Joe Biden says he was unaware that France had not been given advance notice that Australia had resolved to tear up a $90 billion submarine contract, describing the handling of the decision as “clumsy”. Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron before this weekend’s G20 summit in Rome, Biden issued a full mea culpa to help repair the huge trans-Atlantic rift caused by the new AUKUS defence pact between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
Source: AUKUS: Joe Biden says ‘clumsy’ handling of Australian submarine deal should never have happened
Macron Knows Morrison for his Trust and Integrity
French President Emmanuel Macron has told Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison he has broken the trust between their two countries and it is up to Canberra to repair relations, the Elysee Palace says. In the call on Thursday, which came before the UN COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Mr Macron also urged Mr Morrison to commit to halting coal mining and the use of coal for power production.
Source: French President Emmanuel Macron tells Scott Morrison trust is broken
Ironically the Prime Minister and his fellow converts in the News Corp tabloids around the nation on Monday were trumpeting the opportunities net zero will present for jobs and growth something they all decried as reckless at the 2019 election. Mr Morrison in question time ridiculed Labor for not having a plan to reach the 30-year target apparently oblivious to the fact that so far he hasn’t taken the nation into his confidence about his hitherto secret plan. Hopefully before he boards his plane on Thursday all will be revealed. Either way he won’t be asking the Parliament to do anything about it.
Source: Paul Bongiorno: Morrison’s win over Nationals looking like a pyrrhic victory
A frustrated voting public is becoming increasingly louder against the Government’s lack of climate policy and endless incompetence, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.
“There’s little point in relying on the Labor opposition to deal with this on our behalf. As Ilic noted in an interview with CNN, we have to lead because we have no leaders.
We do have power, other than at the voting booth. We have our voices. We have social media platforms on which to use them. We can’t all do billboards or organise marches, but we can support those who are willing to take on these tasks. Morrison has revealed, inadvertently, that it is in fact our voices he most fears, because if enough of our voices consistently criticise, humiliate and refuse him, he will not hold onto power. Forget the opposition. It’s down to us.”
Source: The people versus Scott Morrison
There’s so much to contemplate in this development: the humiliation – if the federal government was apt to feel such a thing – of a state government appearing to unilaterally end quarantine arrangements (the responsibility of the federal government) and overseas arrivals caps for starters It looked for all the world as if the state government was running the joint. Perrottet the premier of Australia. Just as Scott Morrison has been dubbed the prime minister for NSW. Before Perrottet’s announcement, we had heard nothing this week from the PM since Monday – when he emerged out of The Lodge to once again try to share in the joy of (and credit for) the end of lockdown in NSW.
Source: The most abject failure of leadership in living memory
As things stand, it is a wonder Prime Minister Scott Morrison is even bothering. The Australian delegation in Glasgow is bound to be poorly briefed, confused and barely able. The coalition government, still weighed down by fossil-fuel fantasists, will continue to be engaged in a battle of such stunning incoherence any undertakings on carbon neutrality and change can only be regarded as unreliable and disingenuous. As McKenzie and a few of her lobotomised colleagues would have you believe, climate change is something that happens to other people. In the meantime, fossil fuel socialists the world over, unite!
Source: Waking up to Climate Change Dinosaurs – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Scott Morrison is giving every impression he is paralysed by the fear his government is disintegrating. With three weeks to go to the Glasgow climate summit attended by more than 100 world leaders, he cannot make a decision on whether to attend or not because he is not sure if his one-seat majority government will still exist. Two National Party cabinet ministers are running open defiance of the Prime Minister’s stated preferred position to start doing something real to achieve a net-zero emission target by 2050.
Source: Paul Bongiorno: Hot air and slogans are masking government falling apart
When the PM who dominates our Corporate MSM starts to do the “Trump Whinge” about individuals you know his pollsters are telling him he’s between a rock and a hard place. Yelling foul hasn’t shown that Trump has turned a corner it simply shows pathetic desperation.
If Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to weed out anonymous trolls on social media, he might want to start with his own government, writes Andrew P Street.
Source: A brief history of the Coalition’s fake social media accounts
There are few words here for you to read. They are not necessary to tell the lamentable tale of Morrison’s dishonesty; the embedded YouTube video does the talking. Malcolm Turnbull belled the cat in spectacular style during his remote National Press Club address on 29 September. In his inimitable style, he called out the sheer dishonesty of our Prime Minister. If you missed it, here is the link to Turnbull’s speech (although the YouTube video of his speech can be viewed at the bottom of this post). Here is a report on his speech that you may wish to read if you haven’t the time to watch it in its entirety.
Source: Living under a dishonest leader – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s security pact with the U.S. and UK is damaging Australia’s reputation on the world stage, writes Paul Begley.
A group of former US officials and experts has written to the US president, Joe Biden, warning the deal could threaten US national security by encouraging hostile nations to obtain highly enriched uranium (HEU). At the same time, the former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says if Australia does buy the submarine reactors without a domestic nuclear industry – and therefore the nuclear expertise – it will be “more plug and pray” than “plug and play”. The former Nato deputy secretary general Rose Gottemoeller has called on Australia to make a new deal with France to use their uranium, which is not weapons grade. That would heal the rift with France and ease nuclear proliferation fears, she said.
We couldn’t expect anything else from our do-nothing leader
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pointed to the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian as a reason not to introduce a NSW-style federal corruption commission.
Why on earth would a climate-change-denying PM who shows 100% support for the filthy, polluting coal-mining and environmentally destructive gas fracking industries attend the COP26 (climate change conference) in Glasgow? Wasn’t this the same fool who dragged a piece of coal into Parliament House and declared – in front of a gleeful Barnyard Joyce – that “there is nothing to be afraid of – it’s just coal! Nothing to see here!” It came as no surprise that the yellow-bellied coward, Sloth Morrison, slunk away and returned back to Australia right before the conference even started! Why? Because he knew that his climate-change-denying ideology will be held up for ridicule on the world stage at any international summit on the emergency to address important issues on a subject the LNP do not believe in! That is exactly the type of disgraceful, cowardly behaviour we have come to expect from a useless, non-achieving PM who expends more energy trying to get out of work and totally avoiding any of his responsibilities as one of the highest paid “leaders” in the free world!
Source: What could possibly go wrong? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
One of the Morrison government’s first acts was to kill off Malcolm Turnbull’s plan for greater transparency about how lobbyists interact with the federal government, leaving in place a system widely regarded as ineffective, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Source: Morrison ditched Turnbull plans for lobbying transparency – Michael West Media
The PM’s dishonesty in dealing with the French has left Australia in the invidious position of being a country that can never be trusted again.
Source: Scott Morrison’s subs deal trashed all the rules of ethical procurement
The breakdown over the NEG was the trigger which cost Malcolm Turnbull the prime ministership a week later. This time Pitt is waiting to see Scott Morrison’s plan before he decides his next steps but makes no secret that he implacably opposes net zero.
Source: Wooing the hostile beast within
“We Meet It and We Beat It.”
At that point, CBS’s Margaret Brennan could only observe that no country had actually delivered on such targets. Hardly a problem, came Morrison’s reply to the bubble’s bursting. “See, it’s one thing to have a commitment, but in Australia, you’re not taken seriously unless you’ve got a plan to achieve the commitment.” This was delightful coming from a Prime Minister who has no plans to speak off when it comes to dealing with climate change. In fact, Morrison’s tenure has been marked by an absence of plans on any major policy decision. When any have been proposed – the vaccine rollout being the conspicuous example – they have been spectacular failures.
Morrison was particularly fortunate on that score, winning over his hosts with a shameless slogan that sounded hopelessly electoral and starkly mendacious.
Source: Our Man in Washington: Morrison’s Tour of Deception – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Scott Morrison has attached us to be allies of this mindset that calls this war peace
Under the leadership of then-Director Mike Pompeo, the CIA in 2017 reportedly plotted to kidnap—and discussed plans to assassinate—WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, who is currently imprisoned in London as he fights the Biden administration’s efforts to extradite him to the United States.
Source: Trump’s CIA Considered Kidnapping or Assassinating Assange: Report
How is it Scott Morrison sacked by both the NZ and Australian Governments for shady tourist deals was allowed to bring that dept hand to a job with the LNP and become PM? In one foul swoop, Morrison has managed to fuck over France, even piss off his bestie ally America, upset the Indonesians, and stand naked with no contract in hand in front of us and the world,hoping the media will save him. He’s the magician whose performance never really works yet leaves everyone flabbergasted mouths agape by his ineptitude.
Watch this space, though, because Biden and Macron could conceivably come to an arrangement to share the Indo-Pacific marketplace, with the French supplying a small number of subs to Australia, after all. Remember that in Morrison’s rush to announcement last week he actually left Australia without a contract. The AUKUS deal still has 12 to 18 months of haggling and review ahead of it before it is signed.
Source: His sights on domestic navel-gazing, Morrison’s all at sea on the world stage
After President Biden rang President Macron this week to soothe hurt French feelings about AUKUS, a joint statement was issued. It said in part, “The two leaders agreed that the situation would have benefited from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners.” Morrison refused to take this as any reflection on Australia’s diplomatic blundering in the way it handled the cancellation of its French submarines contract.
Source: Grattan on Friday: After the deal on security, Scott Morrison turns to the shift on climate
Australia is languishing through lack of leadership. Christian Porter, Scott Morrison and the LNP have forgotten that they are servants to the people. Instead, they are trying to enslave us to a decrepit legacy system that is reliant on coercive control, and social infrastructure drip fed by political bullies.
Source: Scott Morrison’s coercive control of women (part 2) – » The Australian Independent Media Network
No matter how you look at it, this is a sorry saga of secrecy, deceit and manipulation by Scott Morrison and one that has become all too familiar domestically. Although, this is the first time the Prime Minister’s preferred methods of operation have been demonstrated on the world stage. It appears that the U.S. expected Morrison would advise the French in a timely manner of his change of plans. This is a reasonable expectation of a reasonable leader, but the Americans had not yet realised the duplicitous and, some would say, cowardly nature of the man they are working with.
The last time a major Australian political party professed independent foreign policy was 18 years ago when Labor, led by Simon Crean, opposed involvement in the Iraq invasion without a UN mandate. Since then, “sovereignty” has been little more than a word used to talk up national security fears. And fear sells.
Source: Michael Pascoe: Who sold the nuclear submarines – and our sovereignty?
Paul Keating added further concern with Australia’s current strategy in relation to China and military escalation in the South china sea if we have a situation is another reckless style Donald Trump leader is elected in the next US elections. The tensions in Scott Morrison’s move in the public and political realm in the Pacific is evident, in what appears to be very little discussion or debate with Australia’s most important Pacific partner before making his submarine buying deal which will give fresh indigestion to others.
Source: Morrison creating tensions with Asia and New Zealand – » The Australian Independent Media Network
“For us clearly, such a decision announced without any prior consultation – not just a phone call, but real consultation due to the scope of the consequences – marks a real breach of trust,” he said.
Source: ‘Lies and treason’: France could suspend military co-operation and trade talks
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