Friday 22 April 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL 22/4/22 ; Morrison Morrison go down to the edge of town and just vanish

 

voters Julia Banks integrity voters

Time for integrity

Once, when I was a government MP under Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership, I was watching him in a TV interview. At the end, the host held a ‘fun pop quiz’ requiring ‘one-word answers only’. What’s the most important quality in a Prime Minister?: Without hesitation came the then-prime minister’s answer. Integrity. I believe him.

The aspiring prime minister Anthony Albanese has said of himself, “what you see is what you get”, and I will treat you with ‘respect and integrity’. And he also says he will implement an Integrity Commission. I believe him.

Aside from MPs on the cross bench and in other parties, I have lost count of the number of current and former Liberals MPs and members – many of whom I know personally – who, in addition to the ones who have ‘gone public’, say that Morrison can’t be trusted, is only interested in power not people, and has no integrity. I believe them.

Source: Julia Banks: Voters are losing faith in political integrity. They’re partly right

 

 

 "We can't have people wasting taxpayer money on unessential items"

Morrison to be given cashless debit card so he doesn’t blow money on carparks, subs 

 

May be an image of 1 person and text that says '"THE CASHLESS DEBIT CARD IS HELPING VULNERABLE PEOPLE GET BACK ON THEIR FEET." " -Scott Morrison, Federal Election 2022 Debate FACT CHECK X There's no choice: People on the card have to purchase from certain stores. X It's racist: Aboriginal communities are forced onto the card. X It's a handout to financial institutions: The Indue card is a privatised system that benefits investors not people. Abolish the card. Authorsedlby1.BaliniGetBis Authorisedby Baldwin, GetUp, Brisbane'

FACT CHECK 1: “In the last 12 months, the budget has turned around by over $100 billion. That is the single biggest turnaround in a budget in 70 years. And the reason for that is we’ve got people into work, off welfare and into work.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison, leaders’ debate, April 20.

On the face of it, this does represent an improvement of “more than $100 billion”. The trouble is, the biggest deficit year – 2021-22 – has dropped out of the latest budget period.  Put another way, a big part of the improvement referred to by Morrison happened simply because of the end of the pandemic.

not because of Morrison’s “perfect management”

FACT CHECK 2: “It’s important to remember that they [the Coalition] had already doubled the debt before the pandemic had hit.” Labor leader Anthony Albanese.

When the Coalition came to power in September 2013, gross debt (mostly in the form of Treasury bonds) was about $280.3 billion,

By the time the pandemic hit, around January 2020, gross debt was about $568.1 billion. This was, as Albanese said, about double the level of gross debt prevailing when the Coalition was elected.

According to the federal budget papers, by June 2014, about nine months after Tony Abbott won the 2013 election, the ratio of net debt to GDP was 13.1 per cent.

By June 2019, on the eve of the pandemic, it had risen to 19.2 per cent.

A rise in which Morrison leadership was very much involved .

Source: Election 2022: Fact checking budget claims made by Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese during leaders’ debate

 
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