@phbarratt With more and longer fire and other climate risks, I'd suggest that the public would rather see defence spending diverted to SES-type equipment such as temporary pipelines, water tanks, water-makers, bridges, form bombers, transport etc. Charity has a limit.
@JoeABCNews 2/ It's a pity these essential community press conferences (not political speeches) don't enable all questions to be heard, since we hear all answers. Finish.
@JoeABCNews Who was that dishevelled Qld official in a hoody, on the news the morning? He was talking total sense (e.g. keep your fuel tanks full because it's safer) and was entirely on the ball with his facts - unlike the usual suspects with their full uniforms. 1/2
@michellegrattan@ConversationEDU@bruce_haigh@deniseshrivell 3/ Morrison is almost exactly wrong to state that the APS's job is to implement the government's agenda. It's primary role is to deliver the service. Under Morrison's definition, political opponents are at risk of being disenfranchised.
@michellegrattan@ConversationEDU@bruce_haigh@deniseshrivell 2/ With a learning curve required for just about every incoming minister, the APS specialist expertise must be utilised to maintain service-delivery. After all, most new ministers (or anyone in a new role, for that matter) don't know what they don't know. 2/3
@nadinevoncohen @westozdonna Morrison this morning was talking about the Qld fires, urging people to help each other because "that's what Australians do". We do not! We have turned into cheating, cowardly, greedy, selfish class bigots. As fallacious as mateship... An example, how many hit & runs now occur?
@MinhKular@RadioNational @JacquiLambie @RNDrive@PatsKarvelas To create excuses that these "junkies" don't want to work - it's not the lack of jobs. This will be reported until it becomes "fact". The dole bludger strategy has been a strategy of the coalition since the seventies.
@KleinRevd How else can they count unemployment, other than from Newstart numbers - ergo cutting Newstart numbers reduces unemployment? If disability beneficiaries hadn't been put on the cheaper Newstart to save costs, unemployment would be lower still!
@TheKouk The pampered banks did nothing to help businesses not associated with the property/ building industry. They were lazy, like the government talking up that sector to a frenzy for its contribution to the GDP. Meanwhile, the goverment continues to give away write offs to buy equip..
@PaulBongiorno@simonahac@AngusTaylorMP I can't understand people with no financial stake in the fossil fuel regime (like Chris Uhlmann) defending it so rabidly. Equally though, capital is supposed to be mobile, so why aren't those with it in the fore-front of new technologies? Are they less conducive to monopolies?
@unionsaustralia @roseannebyrne Importantly, they also said that they release news when appropriate to maintain fear within the community of threats to national security, i.e. refugee families with young children.