Morrison's cancellation of Monday's #ClosingTheGap statement is a brazen effort to wriggle out of accountability. His four predecessors — Liberal & Labor — all marked the anniversary of @NationalApology by standing accountable for their govts' successes and failures. He refuses. https://twitter.com/osbornep/status/1360044418934272003

All Australians deserve to know on Monday how their government is succeeding or failing in terms of meeting the #ClosingTheGap targets — just we have for the last 13 years. There's no reason why they couldn't do it, except Morrison is too embarrassed.

Morrison has canned Monday's #ClosingTheGap report because he's too afraid to stand in parliament and say: "We've been spending money like crazy, but none of it went to Indigenous housing, and we didn't restore the $500 million we cut from Indigenous services either." Pathetic

What is it about Morrison's utter contempt for accountability? Whether he's making excuses for ministerial corruption, slashing the Auditor-General's budget, or slow-walking the national integrity body. Cancelling Monday's #ClosingTheGap statement is just the latest example.

Morrison now says his government will report later in the year. Let's see if it's real accountability, or just another #ScottyFromMarketing PR stunt. It seems the only news Morrison ever wants to discuss is good news — well sorry, Scott, but being PM doesn't work that way.

If you want to know more about Morrison's remodelling of #ClosingTheGap and also the Uluru Statement, here are my comments to the National Apology Breakfast this morning: https://kevinrudd.com/2021/02/12/remarks-national-apology-breakfast-12-february-2021/