Should we be surprised? His church has been rumoured to have called an emergency meeting because it’s about to implode due to yet another outrageously immmoral scandal? Not the one about his mentor, it’s head, Brian stepping down, or his besties being QAnon. Morrison himself has almost more nondisclosure agreements trailing him than Donald Trump. What will Scotty from Marketing do for a job after this one? He’ll need a better disguise when sending in his next application?
Why does the Australian prime minister affect more costume changes than a Ru Paul’s Drag Race cabaret act in an exploding dress factory? Because, uh, he wants you to know he’s not pretending to be anyone else. He actually said this – aloud! In front of a camera! – on an episode of Paul Murray Live. He was criticising the Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, his rival in the upcoming election, for having the raw, transformative temerity to lose a bit of weight, get new glasses and buy some new suits.
Source: As his ‘fauxgan’ act wears thin, desperation is driving Scott Morrison deeper into the dress-up box | Van Badham | The Guardian
Half of new jobs created last quarter were for Scott Morrison photo ops
"42,000 jobs were created for the PM last quarter"
They say revenge is a dish best served cold . Kitching’s body has hardly cooled when the LNP’s dirt brigade moved in to start forensically dissecting her and politicizing her death. Murdoch media were all over her like a swarm of blowflies. The Telegraph and News.com suggesting Albo was the direct cause of Kitchings heart condition and not coincidentally recruited Emma Husar as a smokescreen to assist in their dirty work.
In 2019 Husar found herself in the media’s firing line not the Party’s and her complaint was that the Party failed to back her up. Unlike Husar Kitching never issued any complaints against Party or Albo. She had a history of giving as good as she got. One feels she’d be disgusted at all those unnamed sources claiming to be “close” are now playing advocates on her behalf when she had no such complaint.
Oh My god, how quick was Morrison to run in from stage and play “the man” on cue. Too quick too staged given there were so many other more important issues being cocked up on his watch and in the news. Will Morrison be attending Kitching’s funeral trying to shake peoples hands dressed to deliver is eulogy against Albo for the cameras?
More from politics Why ScoMo will skip Kitching funeral. Former Labor MP Emma Husar has launched an extraordinary attack on opposition leader Anthony Albanese — accusing him of behaving like a “gaslighting narcissist”. Murdoch's Daily Telegraph spoke to Ms Husar in the wake of the death of Senator Kimberley Kitching amid amplifying and headlining claims of a bullying culture within the Labor party.
Source: Emma Husar: Ex-MP’s incredible attack on Anthony Albanese after Kimberley Kitching’s death | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
The Master speaks
So the great anointing has happened. John Howard has endorsed Peter Dutton as next Liberal leader. The AFR reports that the Grand Master passed the (poisoned?) chalice to the Defence Minister at The Australian Club. The coronation venue seems worthy of a Bond villain’s lair – ”a private members’ Club situated in the heart of Sydney with unparalleled views of the Botanic Gardens and North Shore” (as it boasts on its site). And it’s men-only. The tweets from Labor’s Andrew Leigh say it all
Defence goes on a media spending spree
The Department of Defence has launched a campaign “In our own backyard” to promote the manufacturing of military hardware and weapons in Australia.
The campaign has been conducted on behalf of the defence industry and is aimed at getting more Australians into weapon-making jobs.
The Department of Defence (DoD) refused to reveal how much the campaign cost taxpayers, but said that the advertising agency behind it was Universal McCann. Universal McCann received almost half a billion dollars in government media contracts in 2021, $70 million of which was from the DoD.
Despite Morrison’s efforts to shut down the ABC critical media pressure, push and shove does work. It’s why the ABC was established in the first place and why Morrison wants it gone. On March 16th TND reported Morrison’s conspicuous oversight in not sanctioning the two Russians with a 20% interest in an aluminum mfg plant conjointly owned with Rio Tinto. Today that’s been rapidly reversed. Was ScaMo slow or caught out again?Australia’s plodding action against Putin’s oligarchs
Two Russian oligarchs with ties to Australian aluminium manufacturing have been sanctioned by the federal government. Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg are named in a new sanctions instrument alongside nine Russian banks and a sovereign wealth fund and the entire Russian finance ministry. The Putin allies have significant stakes in Rusal International, which owns 20 per cent of the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery near Gladstone in a joint deal with Rio Tinto. The plant is one of the world’s largest, and hugely profitable amid a global shortage of aluminium and near-record prices. Until Friday, Australia had been conspicuous in not sanctioning either man, despite other Western nations imposing restrictions on them, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledging to stay in “lockstep” with allies.
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