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happy Sunday!
Today on the #Insiders couch are Pat Karvelas, Phil Coorey and David Crowe.
The interview is with Penny Wong.
#TalkingPictures is with Amy Remeikis.
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happy Sunday!Today on the #Insiders couch are Pat Karvelas, Phil Coorey and David Crowe.
The interview is with Penny Wong.
#TalkingPictures is with Amy Remeikis.
This thread is not fact checked.
I reserve the option to block snitch-taggers.
Speers opening spiel is on “an offensive tweet” and how the Morrison histrionics that followed [paraphrased] #Insiders
seems Speers is of the view that Morrison should have delegated responding to a troll tweet to someone more junior (ya think?) not that he is saying so directly. #Insiders
the entire montage is dedicated to Australian politicians responding to a trolly tweet, including those saying it was just a mid-level official etc while the framing continues to blow the thing out of all proportion. #Insiders
#WhatThePapersSay is about overseas travellers. First the arrivals who jumped straight on domestic flights and second the people still stranded. Also Malcolm Turnbull has said something about his signature failpolicy, climate change. #Insiders
Aust-China relations are the dominant theme for today. The Foreign Relations Bill, a Federal power grab giving the Commonwealth power to override foreign investment like the Vic Belt and Road “initiative” which will do wonders for Aust negotiating parties eh. #Insiders
We go to Crowe first. He points to Chinese human rights abuses. Not said, ever, is the human rights violations committed by Australian governments, notably violating collective Indigenous rights to self-determination. #Insiders
mumblin’ Phil in the mildest possible way seems to say that perhap just possibly the overwrought carryon from Morrison may have been just a spot OTT #Insiders
another clip of Morrison, the multi-flag iso set up, and of a Chinese official saying the tweet was just a normal Chinese artist depiction. Karvelas repeats the human rights line and adds that the PM played into China’s hands. #Insiders
back to Crowe who carefully pretends that Morrison was compelled to carry on the way he did before saying that maybe the PM asking for what he can not get, including an apology from China, was poor judgement by Morrison [paraphrased] #Insiders
and back to mumblin’ Phil who says he can not make up his mind, bothsides bothsides, which is not quite as humble as it sounds given Phil adds maybe shoulda left it to the foreign minister and his equivocal version of “all politics are local” #Insiders
in other words Phil has made up his mind but opts against publicly criticising the government. This weasleiness is praised by Karvelas. We then turn to whether Albanese got his response wrong, which of course has no access to power repercussions for gallery journos #Insiders
and there it is. Crowe and Coorey are much more forthcoming on what they think the opposition leader got wrong. Clip of Albanese running a jobs and national interest line to lead into the interview with [shadow foreign affairs minister] Penny Wong. #Insiders
Wong says a more assertive China has not come out of nowhere. She says the government lacks strategy on export market diversifying. Aust is the most dependent of all countries on selling our products to China. #Insiders
what is Wong suggesting needs to be done? Answer the question and provide free advice to the Morrison government, Senator!!
A: Work with other nations, allied nations, to enforce the rules; and diversify export destination markets. #Insiders
A: Work with other nations, allied nations, to enforce the rules; and diversify export destination markets. #Insiders
Wong says the Morrison government should focus on national interest instead of announcements. She questions how it was okay for [Foreign Affairs minister] Marise Payne to call for the virus investigation on #Insiders because the gov wanted an announcement.
so with a week of hindsight, was the Morrison reaction to the troll tweet proportionate?
Wong hopes he thought “carefully” about the “escalation” of his response to an “assertive, sometimes aggressive China”. Seems unlikely imo. #Insiders
Wong hopes he thought “carefully” about the “escalation” of his response to an “assertive, sometimes aggressive China”. Seems unlikely imo. #Insiders
apparently bipartisan consultation in foreign affairs responses was more common when Ms Bishop was in the portfolio. Wong has written to Payne about the Foreign Affairs bill but was stonewalled by the sounds. #Insiders
Wong says Morrison used the bill as an announcement to distract from federal failures in aged care and he is using the media to prosecute his political arguments and Labor would instead make its case (against the Vic BRI) sensibly and calmly. #Insiders
nobody mentions that it was a Liberal government that gave China a 99-year lease over Darwin Port, an incredibly strategic site given it is where US marines rotate in and where many asylum seekers boats, which Morrison frames as a natsec threat, are processed. #Insiders
on quarantine and the Howard Springs model, which is in the NT where the Commonwealth basically does what it likes, Wong says Morrison “would rather blame the states which he continues to do” [instead of take s 51(ix) quarantine responsibility]. #Insiders
ugh. What the pro-Liberal #Insiders love doing more than anything else: re-package what a senior Labor frontbencher said herself in their journo words. Speers, Karvelas and Crowe all get a turn at this but not Coorey. #Insiders
clip of Frydenberg talking in that laboured mogadon way he has. Insulting our intelligence. Like we are all as thick as he is. “The road ahead is long and bumpy.” Clip of Chalmers who is actually qualified to speak on economics. #Insiders
Coorey tells us that Frydenberg did a really fabulous job of not gloating about what is in fact a continuing Morrison austerity recession. Scraping the barrel there. Spliced clip of various Liberal and National Party politicians mounting the new portmanteau slogan word. #Insiders
more Coorey running Morrison government comms on the national account news. Karvelas says the economic figures are contingent on the public health policy success. Speers segues off to “tapering” #JobKeeper [wage subsidy payments to business]. #Insiders
drink. Crowe calls the public wage subsidy “stimulus”. He blathers for a bit about how #Jobkeeper was a shared effort, mistaking Frydenberg’s petty presser timing to divert from McManus at the #NPC for government-Union co-operation. #Insiders
clip of Health Dept deputy sec prof Skerrit on Australian approach to a vaccine. Coorey says the UK vaccine rush is a political act and “Britain” has completely and utterly mismanaged the virus and unlike Aust and NZ they squandered its advantage as an island nation. #Insiders
what about the next round of IR legislation? The government will want this over and done with by next year leading into an election year says Crowe. Labor will seek to “blow it up” for the “Labor base”. All wholly Liberal Party perspective. #Insiders
hmmm Coorey does not entirely agree with Crowe. But he also assumes IR reforms that benefit to bosses is somehow necessary, when it has been tanking the economy for years. Karvelas says the “union divorce” bill is about Setka DRINK #Insiders
#TalkingPictures starts with the photo op that was every major media outlet reporting that the prime minister was driven to work one day last week. https://twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1335357029569839104
Amy Remeikis carries off that look a thousand times better than drunk voter suppression woman.
#FinalObservations 1 is Coorey saying the National Party are rumbling among themselves. Something about LNP Liew O’Brien who left the federal Nationals party for the Federal Liberal Party room some time back #Insiders
#FinalObservations 2 is Crowe flubbing his lines about the #NPC which has just a changeover of President from Sabra Lane to a Laura Tingle. I think Crowe got a bell too. He also heads the press gallery from memory. Incredible mediocrity #Insiders
#FinalObservations 3 is Karvelas saying this coming week we should look out for the report from the inquiry into Rio Tinto blowing up the Juukan Gorge site and report from [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner] June Oscar. #Insiders
