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the “no play” label is WHY Morrison branded his punitive policy “no pay”. Like “national natural disaster” obscures anthropogenic climate crisis; and slurring jobkeeper (paid to bosses) with jobseeker (the old newstart) together. Confusing and misleading is a key comms strategy. https://twitter.com/julieleask/status/1295951520979017729
and like his other comms strategies, the way Morrison dreams up deliberately confusing branding of his policy announcements relies on press gallery laziness - like not bothering to clarify that JSP is just the old newstart - to achieve the desired confusion.
why does the prime minister want to confuse voters on his policy settings? Because he likes using the power of incumbency for extreme (and very expensive) cruelty against specific sectors of the population; and Liberal voters like being told comforting lies about public spending.
speaking of blurring concepts for political purposes, I see acting CMO Paul Kelly, as did David Speers last weekend, endorsing the Morrison comms strategy of falsely conflating “unforeseeable” with “unprecedented”.
•unforeseeable is a legal term of art.
•unprecedented is political rhetoric.
You’re welcome.
•unprecedented is political rhetoric.
You’re welcome.
disclaimer I studied torts pre-CLAs and it was students who told me un/foreseeability has nothing like the cache it had back in the day when we learned liability for negligence almost entirely from case law but look that doesn’t mean it isn’t a term of art god I’m old 
1/ PM says thing.
2/ tweeters note his words are words.
3/ journos tweet “hint” in PM words.
4/ “news reports” PM said he feels or is gonna do thing.
5/ tweeters note PM often says such things and amounts to jack shit.
6/ journos publish “analysis” of words PM said.
7/ repeat.
2/ tweeters note his words are words.
3/ journos tweet “hint” in PM words.
4/ “news reports” PM said he feels or is gonna do thing.
5/ tweeters note PM often says such things and amounts to jack shit.
6/ journos publish “analysis” of words PM said.
7/ repeat.
confusing and misleading voters is a core tory value, and the vast majority of journalists - and all media outlets, as the collective “fourth pillar” of Westminster-model systems of control over the public sphere - are invested in it.
the Liberals are incumbent power in the Westminster model we have here and Labor, even when in government, are a deviation from the norm. That’s why federal Liberal government failures are repackaged as “federalism” or “democracy/politics is broken”.
the reason Australia - laughably - has a self-perception of egalitarianism is that Australian hegemony was determined by English perceptions and the idea of women and men without property voting was like wowowow so egalitarian - from an English perspective - in 1901.
the colonial authors of the Australian constitution sent a bill to be passed by the UK Houses of Parliament, sitting in its imperial capacity, that enfranchised citizens here who by gender/property ownership criteria were not allowed to vote over there.
it was nearly 30 years before limitations on voting in the UK, based on gender and property ownership, were brought in to line with where white Australian suffrage had been since 1901.
