good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are AFR journo Jennifer Hewitt, ABC and all-round legend Laura Tingle and murdoch columnist (and former media advisor to Peter Costello, Liberal Party ninefax boss) Niki Savva. This thread is not fact-checked.

the Speers opening spiel is that Australia is better off than most other countries, some cheap speculation about next year, and then #WorkChoices2, which is the perfect 2-party framing for the kind of conflict journalism Speers practices #Insiders

the montage is all #WorkChoices2. hahaha clip of Probyn saying last time a PM tried this he lost his seat and government. #Insiders

#WhatThePapersSay something something five eyes retaliatory tariffs. Hilariously, Speers puts his own weekend column on. It is #Insiders goss on the re-shuffle around Cormann saying Dutts won’t get defence. What a piece of work.

first up to the panel is the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT). Tingle says it is fine to tidy up the “odds and sods and rats and mice” of the award system but she is more interested in casualisation of the workforce and the BOOT. #Insiders

regular reminder that comfy privileged people crapping on about the complexity of the award system never point out that corporations only ever underpay workers to the tune of many hundreds of millions of dollars. Wage theft is theft, not “complexity”. #Insiders

Hewitt and Savva are very blasé about Morrison’s hateful ideological attack on workers. It is all academic to them. And waste everyone time with WDLD and WWLD (what did Labor do and what will Labor do). #Insiders

Speers busily puts the Morrison government line/lies again this morning. The same lies the Liberals told about cutting wages via cutting penalty rates, which turned out to be a lie. Do you think this is a bit of a scare campaign by Labor he asks like the stooge he is. #Insiders

more politick from Savva and from Hewitt. They really do not care about workers at. All. Just Liberal Party campaign strategy. Hewitt plays down the percentage of casual workers. Tingle, a breath of fresh air, says the number of people with multiple jobs has jumped 20%. #Insiders

clip of shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland to go into the interview with Morrison bagman and Communications Minister Paul Fletcher. He is asked first up about the law to try and charge google and fb for hosting links to news on their platforms. #Insiders

*competition policy tool kit* lmao DRINK. Fletcher then confuses free market theory with democratic principle. Because Liberal Party politicians do not have a fucking clue about market theory. As Keating always said, they are the party of business, not markets. #Insiders

the letter Fletcher sent whining about #FourCorners reporting facts on sleazy Liberal Party misogynists. Fletcher will not respond to paraphrased speculation about a future response from ABC chair Buttrose. #Insiders

Q: will you rule out sacking Ita Buttrose?
A: I’m not going to rule anything in or out.
Q: well you could rule out sacking the chair of the ABC.
A: I have no intention of sacking the chair of the ABC. She does a very important job.
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Fletcher echoes the same crap Turnbull used to ponderously intone when he was busted meddling in ABC editorial independence. Accurate and impartial. Which is funny because in fact Liberal Party politicians hate lots of accurate reporting, like on their sleazy misogyny. #Insiders

Savva speculates about a future #FourCorners episode on sleazy politicians who are not Liberal Party politicians. Tingle is appalled that Fletcher tweeted out his letter to Buttrose. Not a press conference. A tweet. What a piece of work he is. #Insiders

broken thread (I am possibly a teensy bit hungover lol) continues here. https://twitter.com/imusing/status/1337888768158650368