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this reads to me like distilled neoliberalism, mainlined straight into the bloodstream and pumped by the neoliberal heart to every cell in the body, including the brain. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/governments-are-there-to-prioritise-premier-maintains-stance-on-pork-barrelling-20201208-p56lm7.html
conflating politics with public administration is her goal here. There is no excuse. She knows, and if she didn’t which she does, she ought to know. It is called constructive knowledge and highly placed public officials like Premiers have it.
deliberately misinforming the people on basic democratic principle and institutional power arrangements has been a conservative project since they lost the English civil war in 1651.
an old explainer I wrote back when Tony Abbott, backed into office by the entire press except Guardian Australia and the Age, was fuckwit in chief. Should anyone want a corrective to the absolutely deliberate bullshit Berejiklian is spouting today. https://imatthewsblog.com/2014/09/22/legislation-is-policy-law-is-politics/
remember when the Liberal Party cheer squad told NSW we needed smiley Mikey Baird to sell off gold plated poles and wires to his mates and decimate TAFE and electricity bills skyrocketed? And then Berejiklian said demolish stadium something bullshit? These fucking people.
impossible to overstate the significance of pro-Liberal Party bias taking precedence over the fact that Berejiklian is a woman of colour. Similar to the race illiteracy of journos (and tbf the judges) on that federal court challenge to Gladys Liu. https://twitter.com/imusing/status/1334443156138385408
regular reminder that needs-based government spending on public services would skew to areas held by the Labor Party, by definition. Rich people vote Liberal. Berejiklian is saying her government is for spending public money on partisan vote-buying instead of public services.
it is hugely important to Liberal Party politicians like Berejiklian and Morrison that their revolting ideology be naturalised and normalised by incumbency and corporate media. They can not “compete” on the “merits” of their claims, because their policy positions are abhorrent.
