The Malevolent Morrison Muppet Goverment

[stui magpie]

Pretty much every .pdf document started life as a word document or some other editable format before being converted to make it harder to amend.

If it's been converted by software, turning it back to word, amending it then turning it into a .pdf again is a piece of piss. Trickier if it's been scanned and NFI what formatting and line spacing has to do with it

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Now the lying bastard has unfortunately been shown up as lying (again) through his front teeth that under his Goverment we'll have a strong economy

"...Three quarters into our run of five weak quarters, Scott Morrison fought the election on a claim to had delivered a Strong Economy. The two subsequent sets of national accounts have destroyed that masterpiece of the marketer’s art..."

https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/please-no-more-pollyanna-impressions-in-the-budget-update-20191208-p53hx0.html

Lying scumbag from the happy-clappy marketing team that Scott Morrison represents.

[Wokko]

Nobody cares about budget forecasts, they're all voodoo and rubbish. I do agree with you from the other side of the chamber, Morrison isn't doing enough to stimulate business; cutting regulations, cutting company taxes and slashing Government spending would earn brownie points from the economic right. It's pretty much what Trump has done; get Government out the way so business has a chance to thrive.

He's starting to look a lot like Turnbull; Labor lite. Keep spending, keep taxing just a tiny bit slower than Labor will. The public service cuts are a good start though, so I'm still reserving judgement.

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Angus Taylor has to resign: another direct source shows he’s lied again including lying to Parliament. What a dickhead.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/dear-angus-taylor-let-me-remind-you-of-our-encounter-at-oxford-and-why-it-matters-20191212-p53jkl.html


Ministerial responsibility? Ministerial accountability? Another f*ckup Morrison you lying c*nt and p*ick.

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Where's Scotty from Marketing? MIssing in Action?

Don't worry he's on holidays in Hawaii.

If he's killed by some stray lava (prone to Hawaii) we can all rest assure that the knucklehead from the Nationals is our acting PM.

Good grief

[stui magpie]

I keep reading on Social media that Morrison should be doing something about the bushfires instead of whatever else he's doing, like going on holidays.

Fire services, like parks, are State responsibilities. If the states need federal support, whether money or resources, they know the channels to use and it ain't directly to the PM.

What exactly is he supposed to be doing? Staged photo ops kissing fire fighters or putting "closed" signs on coal mines? I know it's all partisan politics but WTF do people really think he should be doing?

[David]

I mean, it’s not going to make this (or the next) summer any cooler, but some meaningful climate policy might not be a bad start. Everyone knows they’re doing SFA.

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[Wokko]

You mean doing things like this?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-12/federal-government-announces-aerial-firefighting-boost/11790862

[stui magpie]

The states coordinate the fires and fire fighters, the feds provide assistance as and when asked. The military have been offered if required, if the volunteers are to be paid it's up to the states to do it and the feds can fund it.

I've seen the calls for "leadership" on social media, usually starting with the "This isn't partisan, but..." then comparing Morrison with an example of a Labor MP running toward disaster for a photo op.

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Scotty from marketing is MIA

"...Let’s talk about Scott Morrison’s holiday. The prime minister is on holidays, presently, while the country is still burning.

Morrison’s ill-judged holiday has become a thing, a totem, a social media event. It somehow epitomises everything that’s wrong with this bloke. As well as failing to show up at a critical time, leaving the running of the country to Michael McCormack, who struggles to run his own mulish political party, let alone anything else, Morrison is a hypocrite because he once blasted Christine Nixon for eating dinner during a bushfire"....

"All of this is fair enough. Morrison is a politician who likes to rumble, so it is unsurprising when the rumble returns to his doorstep. If you want to engage in some gratuitous commentary about Nixon’s poor judgment in the middle of a natural disaster to score a cheap point on the Bad Show, it will come back and bite you on the backside...."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/18/scott-morrisons-holiday-is-not-the-problem-his-lack-of-leadership-on-the-bushfires-is

"...Ten years ago, an ambitious young Liberal MP led the charge attacking Victoria’s police chief Christine Nixon for choosing to eat dinner at a gastropub as the horror of Black Saturday, the worst bushfires in the state’s history, unfolded.

Scott Morrison was that MP’s name and he did not hold back when condemning her actions when asked on the ABC’s Q&A program in April 2010.

“She’s clearly made a bad judgment call. That happens to people from time to time, but this was a very serious issue,” Mr Morrison said.."

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/12/18/scott-morrison-holiday-black-saturday-attacks/

Oh dear.

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oooh sprung bad!!

[Wokko]

It's the job of a state's emergency services to be active and available during a bushfire, not the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth.

Do you need it written out in crayon on a copy of The Guardian to understand?