The Malevolent Morrison Muppet Goverment

[eddiesmith]

They pulled funding when they realised it was well above budget, unlike the state government which doesn't care how many billions above budget unneccasry projects cost.

Also they've spent 12% of funding on 11% of projects, seems about right to anyone who's not just a sook.

[stui magpie]

[eddiesmith]

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The malevolent mendacious muppet Morrison Government were finally magnificent. Little did I realise how this thread title would be so prescient. However, credit where credit is due. The Morrison government were magnificent in destroying the Liberal Party, of giving voice to the right wing misogynistic nutters and in my seat of Goldstein returning Tim Wilson to his beloved private enterprise. Well done Scotty. You did it so well. 😊😊😊

[David]

Long time no see, WPT! Hope you've been doing well. As a fellow Goldstein-dweller, I was also pleased to do my part to send Tim (and his government) packing.

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^Ah G’day David. Well who’d a thunk a safe seat like Goldstein would go against the Libs. I’m still gobsmacked. My vote counted 😊. Again I must thank the malevolent mendacious muppet that Morrison is. Well done him alienating a hell of a lot of people.

I thought this article by Richard Flanagan nails it (gee I with I could write like him) he and his brother Martin are just incredible writers:

"As the results rolled in it was difficult to grasp: the Liberals of the 2020s, eerily like the Soviet communists of the 1980s, were suddenly an anachronism. Like the Politburo, they too had become entrapped within their fervent ideologies and grown so distant from reality that they lost the moral legitimacy to govern. Power was now haemorrhaging away in a death agony of lost seats.

Morrison was widely credited as the architect of this annihilation. But perhaps he was no more than the sinister final act of a larger story that began decades earlier when John Howard was elected prime minister in 1996....."


https://www.theage.com.au/national/morrison-government-s-fall-marks-end-of-howard-era-ascendancy-20220525-p5aod6.html

Let’s hope for a less nasty and more collaborative time in our Federal politics.

[doriswilgus]

Yes,let’s hope so,WPT^.It is time for a more collaborative,less confrontational approach in politics.And welcome back to the forum as well.This place hasn’t been the same without you.😊

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[David]

Can anyone explain to me why this secret ministry thing is such a big deal?

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/no-obstacle-for-morrison-in-a-constitution-that-doesn-t-recognise-a-pm-20220815-p5ba0t.html

My understanding is that government ministries have always been shuffled around, and PMs have previously held multiple roles (like Abbott famously appointing himself minister for women). I also understand that governments sometimes configure ministerial hierarchies in unusual ways, as Rudd famously did with his four-person "kitchen cabinet". I guess the question I have is, should anyone care if Morrison had additional ministerial duties, and if the public didn't know about it, and did it have any actual impact on how they governed?

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[stui magpie]

I'm still not clear either why it's such a fuss.

The logic behind doing it seems reasonable, and generally it seems that if had been open about it at the time, no one would have given two hoots, but for some reason, not being open about it is the problem.

The Ministers were still the Ministers and still had their ministerial powers and seemingly he only used the Powers once and I don't even understand why he did that. If a Prime Minister (or Premier) tells a Minister not to approve something, doesn't ultimate power rest with the leader anyway?

Use Victoria as an example, the Health Minister or CHO were hardly going to issue declarations that Dan disagreed with, even if they technically had the power to do so.

So many people are jumping up and down about it, on both sides, it's clearly a bigger deal than I understand.

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Bernard Keane who is being perused by Murdoch the younger puts it well re the opposition and their glorious (not) ex leader:

How did it take this long for opposition MP’s to realise Scotty from Marketing (say no more) couldn’t be trusted with political norms and conventions…..


https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/16/coalition-mps-finally-discover-real-scott-morrison/

It started well before of course with the Mad Misogynist Monk.

[stui magpie]

"Political norms and conventions". Isn't that just a different way of saying "Custom and practice" which is the way things normally get done, even though there's no rules or policy in place to say it has to be done that way?

I'm not defending Morrison, I just don't get the angst.

I get why Ministers would feel pissed off that the boss got sworn in to get their ministerial powers without telling them, but why would Albo be so worked up?

[Pies4shaw]