"There's more where that came from
Morrison offers journalists $5k to stop asking question about anti corruption commission
If Scott Morrison wanted to make the voters of Warringah reach for the garlic, quoting the former member they threw out in 2019 was quite the tactic.
‘’I don’t share Matt Kean’s view, I share Tony Abbott’s view,’’ Scott Morrison said as pressure mounted on the Liberal candidate in the Independent-held seat to step aside. Katherine Deves, who campigns against transgender people competing in women’s sport, remains the Liberal candidate. NSW Treasurer Kean says Deves should quit, Abbott says she should resist the ‘’pile-on’’.
Independent Zali Steggall didn’t look like losing; now she could go on a skiing holiday until May 21 and beat the Liberals.
On the ABC’s Insiders the idea was put around that Morrison
is willing to sacrifice the ‘’teal’’ seats where independents are
running strong campaigns against moderate Liberals. The genius of the
ploy is that more conservative Labor-held seats might be prised loose.
There may be something in that.
What we don’t care about according to the LNP and MSM.
It seems the most extraordinary story: Seven Coalition MPs on the record “have hit back at criticism of Scott Morrison’s broken promise to deliver a federal ICAC, declaring voters aren’t raising the corruption commission”. It also seems like a story successfully promoted by “Coalition sources”. To paraphrase, “the punters don’t care about integrity in government, so we don’t need to”. As far as excuses go for not delivering the integrity commission promised four years ago, it is pathetically, miserably, depressingly weak, albeit still better than Scott Morrison’s actual excuse: “It’s Labor’s fault.”
Source: Michael Pascoe: The election campaign is silent on the biggest issues
Last week, the first week of the election campaign was dominated by Albo’s gaffe. It was a bit of a shocker, to be sure, but hardly deserving of blanket coverage when the Morrison campaign was flat-out pork barrelling with the taxes of ordinary Australians, simply buying votes with somebody else’s money. And what of the straight out lies, that the subsidies for logging companies would bring about 73,000 jobs, or that – having sold the Port of Darwin to the Chinese on a 100 year lease for just $510m – it was a good idea to build another port for $1.5bn with no consulting engineers or financial modellers involved to assure us it was even feasible. ABC has little choice but to listen to what people are saying on social media, not spurn it. Elitism will only ruin their credibility. That means recognising that its corporate media peers are institutionally biased and driven by commercial and political agendas. In other words, they will have to do their own work, ignore the clickbait. It won’t be easy. Who has really been lobotomised here?
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