Showing posts with label Scott Morrison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott Morrison. Show all posts
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Morrison goes full Trump and democracy begins to suffer
Channel
9 News online,
22 November 2018:
Scott Morrison insists
police need immediate access to encrypted messages to stop future terror
attacks.
The prime minister says
new laws giving police access to the messages must pass federal parliament in
the final sitting fortnight of the year, after three men charged with plotting
a terror attack in Melbourne were accused of using encrypted communications.
"Our police, our
agencies need these powers now," Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney on
Thursday.
"I would insist on
seeing them passed before the end of the next sitting fortnight."
He said the foiled
Melbourne plot showed it was incredibly important for authorities to have
powers to intercept encrypted messages on apps like WhatsApp.
Mr Morrison urged the
committee examining the laws to wind-up its review as soon as possible so the
laws can be passed.
The Liberal-chaired
committee has scheduled three public hearings on the bill, with the final one
set for December 4 - two days before parliament rises for the year.
To pass the encryption
legislation before then, the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security would
likely have to bring forward or abandon the hearings.
The next
Encryption Bill public hearings are scheduled for 27 November, 30 November and
4 December 2018. In addition to evidence from the full five hearings there are
87 submissions the Parliamentary
Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security needs to evaluate before
writing its report to Parliament.
Both Prime
Minster Scott Morrison and Home
Affairs Minister Peter Dutton are
reportedly applying pressure to the Joint Committee to throw out standard
parliamentary practice and deliver its report no later than 3 December.
It appears
that both theses hard-right politicians are determined to kill off democratic
processes whenever they see an opportunity to do so.
Saturday 24 November 2018
Quotes of the Week
“ScoMo’s blue bus is the perfect symbol of the man and his government –
a brash, ostentatious cliché, non-functional and completely phoney.” [Journalist Mungo MacCallum writing in The
Monthly, November 2018]
“Australians often
over-estimate the proportion of the population that is Muslim, with Ipsos
surveys finding respondents believe it is 17 per cent when the reality is 3 per
cent.” [Journalist David
Crowe, writing in The
Sydney Morning Herald, 18 November 2018]
“Later, Fairfax Media went to another publicly-accessible area from where the Cutaway is audible. Mr Turnbull was heard to lament the Coalition was presently "not capable" of dealing with climate change as an issue, despite it being "a profound problem".” [Journalist Michael Koziol writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 November 2018]
“If
they're going to fine everyone who calls Scott Morrison a "fucking
muppet" this country will never be in debt again.” [Richard O’Brien, Twitter,
19 November 2018]
Labels:
climate change,
immigration,
Malcolm Turnbull,
Scott Morrison
Friday 23 November 2018
This was Australia’s faux prime minister Scott Morrison proudly pointing out that he had been fundraising at considerable taxpayer expense
This was
Australia’s faux prime minister Scott
Morrison proudly pointing out that he had been fundraising at considerable
taxpayer expense in order to fill the election campaign coffers of the the Liberal
Party of Australia.....
The Courier-Mail, 19 November 2018, p.6:
While he was on the
Queensland blitz early this month, Mr Morrison confirmed he attended
fundraisers. Many of the donations came from Rockhampton and the Sunshine
Coast.
“I’m meeting with
supporters all around Queensland and I don’t make any apologies for that,” he
said.
“We’re raising funds for
our campaign to make sure Bill Shorten never becomes prime minister in the
country.” Mr Morrison was the special guest at Liberal National Party
fundraising events in several regional towns.
Here is what
he was not boasting about this month……
Seven years before he
was sacked as managing director of Tourism Australia – amid serious concerns
about his management practices – Scott Morrison was the subject of criticism in
a New Zealand audit report examining his activities as head of NZ’s Office of
Tourism and Sport.
A 1999 New Zealand
Auditor General’s report challenged the future Australian prime minister’s
handling of an independent
review of the Office of Tourism and Sport (OTSp) where he was managing
director.
The OTSp was a
quasi-independent body offering policy advice to the New Zealand government and
experienced the loss of a number of board members and officials during Mr
Morrison’s tenure. He finally resigned from the job in 2000 a year ahead of his
contract schedule and returned to Australia….
During Mr Morrison’s
time at the helm of OTSp in the 1990s, New Zealand’s then Tourism Minister,
Murray McCully, praised his input and defended importing him for the job.
“Australia actually
happens to do a bit better than we do out of both tourism and sport,” Mr
McCully said at the time.
But the Auditor General
and the NZ Labour Opposition questioned his performance.
In New Zealand in 1999,
the Auditor General found Mr Morrison had launched a PriceWaterhouseCooper
review of OTSp which precluded contributions from senior staff and the board.
He had said the review
was independent of them, but it seems they were not aware of this.
“Mr Morrison’s
explanation came as a surprise not only to (the office’s CEO and board members)
but also to the Minister himself,” the report said.
“These people had
regarded the PWC report as the review referred to in the purchase agreement.”
The Auditor General’s
report said the board should have been told it had a duty, under the
review arrangements, to commission its own “independent” review.
“It seems that at no
point did Mr Morrison do so,” the Auditor General found.
In June 2000, the New
Zealand Herald quoted the Labour Opposition’s tourism and sport spokesman
Trevor Mallard as blaming Mr Morrison for problems with the OTSp and the
minister.
“And a key reason for
that was that it was run by Mr Morrison, an Australian who was seen as Mr
McCully’s ‘hard man’,” said the report.
“Australian standards of
public sector behaviour ‘are lower than ours,’,” added Mr Mallard.
He was quoted as saying:
“My experience with Australian politicians is that rules and ethics are not as
important to them as they are to New Zealanders.”
Mr Morrison did not
respond to the claims but was supported by the Tourism Minister as “highly
regarded”.
He had lifted the energy
levels and the competence levels substantially above those previously servicing
tourism and sport, said Mr McCully.
Australian Labor is
closely examining the Prime Minister’s career before he was elected to
Parliament in 2007 and the New Zealand experience could be raised.
His next job after New
Zealand was as NSW Liberal Party state director but was linked to the party’s
2003 election failure.
Mr Morrison became
Tourism Australia managing director in 2004 but left in 2006, again ahead of
schedule….
Ever since Scott
Morrison was sacked from his job as managing director of Tourism Australia in
2006, the reasons for his dismissal have been kept secret.
At the time and since,
public speculation has variously attributed the now prime minister’s removal to
a personality clash with his minister, a falling out over changes to the
organisation’s structure, and a dispute over the agency’s contentious “Where the
bloody hell are you?” campaign.
But an auditor-general’s
report completed 10 years ago, which has escaped public scrutiny until now,
reveals that in the period leading up to Morrison’s dismissal, his agency faced
a series of audits and a review of its contractual processes ordered by the
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, amid serious concerns about its
governance.
The auditor-general’s
inquiry into Tourism Australia – which followed these reviews, and was
conducted after Morrison’s departure – reveals information was kept from the
board, procurement guidelines breached and private companies engaged on
contracts worth $184 million before paperwork was signed and without
appropriate value-for-money assessments.
THE AUDIT REPORT OMITS
THE NEXT EVENT IN THE CHRONOLOGY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MINISTER AND TOURISM
AUSTRALIA – THAT BAILEY SACKED MORRISON THE SAME MONTH.
The Australian National
Audit Office (ANAO) report examines three major contracts that Tourism
Australia signed while Scott Morrison was managing director. It criticises
processes in all three cases but especially the contracts for global creative
development – advertising campaigns – and media placement services.
Ten years since the
audit, and 13 years since the contracts were signed, those two completed
contracts appear not to be listed on the government’s AusTender website, where
all contracts are required to be available for public viewing.
Searches, including by
AusTender staff, have failed to locate them on the site this week. Procurement
rules say they must be reported within 42 days of the contracts being entered.
The 2005 request-for-tender documents announcing the proposed contracts are
listed…..
The audit report
criticises extensively the agency’s processes for drafting, executing and
managing the contracts, the opaque accounting processes involved in aspects of
them and poor communication with the board and regional offices, including by
service providers. It details Tourism Australia’s failures at the time to
adhere to guidelines – the signing of a contract without incorporating
measurable performance indicators and non-existent risk assessments or
value-for-money analysis.
Tabled in parliament on
August 6, 2008, the report was one of more than 40 the Audit Office had
produced in the previous 12 months.
It escaped public
attention at least partly because it was not among the handful that
parliament’s joint committee on public accounts chose to examine further in its
role as chief audit scrutineer. At the time, the committee was chaired by then
Labor MP Sharon Grierson with then Liberal MP Petro Georgiou as her deputy.
When the report was
tabled, Morrison was a member of the public accounts committee, which was
tasked with considering it for review. He resigned from the committee six weeks
after the report was tabled and, it is understood, some months before the
committee formally considered it. The Saturday Paper does not suggest
Morrison influenced the audit’s treatment. Grierson says that as Tourism
Australia had accepted its three recommendations, and nobody on the committee
raised any issues, the report was not officially examined further – standard
procedure in dealing with the volume of audits each year.
The Saturday Paper lodged
detailed questions about the audit report with Morrison’s office but was told
he was not able to answer them in the time available.
Performance reviews of
the two key contracts between 2005 and 2007 – contained in the audit – revealed
Tourism Australia had failed to disclose to its own board that it had
underspent $3.9 million on one of the contracts in 2006-07.
It was found that in one
case invoices had been raised before the contract was signed and that in
another case the price paid in some areas of a contract was “more expensive
than the benchmark”.
The audit report does
not mention then tourism minister Fran Bailey’s sacking of Morrison in July
2006, nor any of the alleged preceding tension between them that has been the
subject of public speculation since.
But The Saturday
Paper understands the events and issues the audit report outlines played a
significant role in Morrison’s removal. Unconfirmed news reports have since
alleged that he received a payout of more than $300,000.
Asked to comment this
week on the report’s contents in relation to Morrison’s dismissal, Bailey would
only repeat the one comment she has made before: “I reiterate that it was a
unanimous decision to get rid of Mr Morrison by the board and the minister.”
She added: “I have
always treated confidential matters as confidential.”……
The
Guardian, 18
November 2018:The Morrison government has extended emergency three-month funding contracts to 16 more financial counselling, legal aid and charity groups to keep them open over the Christmas holiday period after it cut their funding with little warning.
The move was made
without fanfare, logged quietly on the Department of Social Services website on
Wednesday evening.
It comes as the social
services minister, Paul Fletcher, faces continued criticism for his
department’s decision to overhaul funding arrangements for key community
services groups in the lead-up to Christmas.
In some cases, barely
two months’ notice has been given to groups to prepare for dramatic cuts in the
new year – a time of year when thousands of Australian families have
traditionally needed more emergency assistance and financial counselling.
On Wednesday
evening, the Department of Social Services (DSS) released a document on its
website saying it would extend emergency three-month funding contracts –
covering the period 1 January 2019 to 31 March 2019 – to 16 organisations that
had lost their funding in the latest round of grants:
FMC
Relationship Services
EACH
Uniting
(Victoria and Tasmania) Limited
VincentCare
Victoria
Odyssey
House, Victoria
Mallee
Family Care Inc
Anglicare
SA Ltd
Centacare
Catholic Country SA Ltd
The
Trustee for The Salvation Army (NSW) Property Trust
Southern
Youth and Family Services Limited
Vietnamese
Community in Australia NSW Chapter Inc
The
Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q.)
C
Q Financial Counselling Association Inc.
Prisoners’
Legal Service Inc
Agencies
for South West Accommodation Inc.
CentreCare
Incorporated
Neither the government
nor the department has drawn attention to the funding extensions……
Saturday 17 November 2018
GIF of the Week
— Richard Au Tuffin 🌈 (@RichardTuffin) November 14, 2018
Labels:
Scott Morrison
Friday 16 November 2018
Australia’s Trump Lite is overseas seeing what other trade opportunities he can wreck
The Australian, 13 November 2018, p.2:
Scott Morrison has
mounted the strongest defence of any allied leader so far of Donald Trump’s trade policies,
denying that Washington has turned protectionist because of its imposition of
tariffs on China.
“The US wants to see
greater trade and more open trade and they want to see it
on better terms,” the Prime Minister told The Australian in an interview in his
Sydney office. “It is yet to be established that the US is pursuing a
protectionist policy.”
Mr Morrison said he did not agree with the
protectionist interpretation of the administration’s trade policy.
Mr Morrison leaves
today on a trip to Singapore and Papua New Guinea for APEC and ASEAN-related
summits, during which he will meet US Vice-President Mike Pence, Chinese
President Xi Jinping, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a range of regional
leaders.
He gave a distinctive
reading of US trade policy.
“If I could summarise US
policy, it is that what they’ve been doing until now has not produced that
(freer trade) so there should not be an expectation that they’ll continue
to do things the way they have been.” But Mr Morrison makes a
controversial judgment: “That doesn’t mean their objective has changed — their
objective being a more open, freer trading system around the world, with a
rules-based order, and everybody respecting those rules and those rules not
being stacked against any one group.
“They have particular
views about how things affect them, then there are other issues around
intellectual property and so on where we have said there are some real issues
here and things that need to be resolved.” Stressing that it was too early to
conclude that the US had made a long-term switch to protectionism, he said:
“You can only judge it on the results, not the rhetoric, so let’s see.”
Mr Morrison cited the trade deals the Trump administration
had done with Canada and Mexico and said many commentators saw early Trump trade moves
against those nations as indicating long-term protectionism, but the result was
new trade deals.
Mr Morrison also
stressed that his government was not taking a position for or against the US or
China in their trade dispute: “We’re not really judging either party in
this because we trade with both and we’ve been successful (with
both), whether it’s staying clear of US tariffs on steel and aluminium or with
China, which is our biggest trading partner.
“We maintain a pragmatic
balance.” This is Mr Morrison’s first Asian summit season, but soon
after the APEC and East Asia summits he will attend a G20 summit, where he will
meet the US President.
Early yesterday, in an
interview with David Speers on Sky TV, he slightly misstated government policy
when he said definitively that territory in the South China Sea was not Chinese
territory.
He cleared this up in a
series of later interviews, confirming that Canberra does not take a position
on the merits of respective nations’ claims to territory in the South China Sea……
BACKGROUND
Crikey,
12 November 2018:
Morrison’s “stop
asking questions from the Labor Party” diktat to the ABC has taken
Australia one step closer to a political discourse dominated by Trumpian
semiotics of “fake news” and “enemies of the people”.
Like Trump, Morrison’s
aim was to undermine the media — and particularly the ABC — in the minds of
that mythical creature, the Liberal Party base, and help out News Corp on the
way through.
It came in the same week
that Trump ramped-up his own war on journalists: revoking
White House clearance from CNN’s Jim Acosta, dismissing another
reporter’s “stupid
questions” and calling a third a “loser”.
For a journalist, Morrison’s
insult is greater. Trump’s name-calling is straight out of the primary school
playground; Morrison’s crack goes to the heart of personal and craft integrity…..
The “journalist as enemy
of the people” trope is perhaps the most institutionally damaging part of
Trumpian semiotics adopted by Morrison. But it’s not the only one.
He seems to be aiming
for the Trump look, too. There’s the now-ubiquitous base-ball cap, with
Australian branding substituting “Make America Great Again”. There’s the single
thumbs-up to say “we’re in this together” to go along with the trademark Trump
two handed thumbs-up.
The social media of
choice — multi-platform video snippets — similarly taunt with a “laugh-at-me or
laugh-with-me, but notice me” Trump sensibility.
His prime ministerial
speech patterns reflect both the Trumpian blather of his opening press
statement (“a fair go for those who have a go”) interspersed with the
cut-through insults: “Bill Shorten is union bred, union fed, union led.”
Morrison’s insults do have somewhat more political content than the
personalised “Lyin Ted”, and “Little Marco” that Trump pulled out during the
2016 election.
Policy commitments tend
to be the same vague generalities (“we’re gonna fix this”) and he uses the same
thought bubble technique (Jerusalem, anyone?) to focus the debate on him, for
good or ill.
Meanwhile, Trump has
shown he’s willing to learn from Australia, as he famously suggested in his “you’re
worse than I am” compliment to Turnbull. The “migrant
caravan” that dominated right-wing discourse in the lead-up to the US
mid-terms would have chimed in Australian minds with the familiar sound:
Tampa, Manus, Nauru.
Labels:
foreign affairs,
right wing politics,
Scott Morrison,
trade,
Trump Lite
Monday 12 November 2018
FauxMo is not cutting through so he's started the flag routine
The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November 2018 |
Standing in front of two Australian flags, interim Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison has "called out" violent, extremist Islam, saying it is the biggest religious threat to Australia. Scott Morrison says radical Islam threatens Australia's way of life.
Given Morrison history of politicizing his own extreme religious views pushback was inevitable.......
Dear #PMScum, over the last few years more people have died on #Manus & #Nauru at the hands of yourself and Dutton than have been killed by terrorists in Australia. Since you are both extremist faux-Christians, I'd argue that you are more dangerous than Islamic extremists #auspol— John Wren, Fair Dinkum Scomophobe (@JohnWren1950) November 10, 2018
Australia's faux prime minister now has an Australian flag behind his desk as a photo opportunity prop and religious images showcased for effect. Dog whistles discreetly kept out of sight. Yep, a hard right PM at the helm following the US GOP campaign playbook pic.twitter.com/B8PapxjG4l— no_filter_Yamba (@no_filter_Yamba) November 10, 2018
Labels:
Scott Morrison
Sunday 11 November 2018
Australian Politics 2018: the emperor's new clothes
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i360’s services were used in this year’s South
Australian state election and it is rumoured these services will be available to Liberal
Party sitting MPs during the 2019 federal election campaign.
It’s no
accident that interim Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison (who
had a Kiwi grandfather and a mother who was a New Zealand citizen by descent)
has suddenly turned himself into a virulent ‘ocker’ - complete with an Aussie beer or
meat pie in hand, thumbs forever standing to attention when cameras begin to
click, spewing forth g’days and fair dinkums ad nauseum while sporting a cheap Australian flag lapel pin on his
business suit jacket. Togged out in hi-vis vests whenever possible. Wearing a veritable parade
of caps for less formal media moments as a "good bloke' and nicking the moniker “ScoMo” from
other Facebook users for his own public relations purposes.
No recognition of his own multicultural background for Scott Morrison - it might offend the One Nation supporters he is so obviously wooing!
No recognition of his own multicultural background for Scott Morrison - it might offend the One Nation supporters he is so obviously wooing!
One has to
suspect he is personally getting a calculated makeover by a professional
image manager. If the image advice is coming from Finkelstein and Kunkel they are definitely not earning their salaries.
The problem
for Morrison is that he has been a federal MP since 2007 and was a Cabinet
Minister from September 2013 until he became prime minister in August this year, so his underlying character is widely known to the national electorate.
A man without a genuine empathetic bone in his body; single-mindedly ambitious, self-righteous, arrogant, prevaricating, unwilling to accept responsibility for the consequences of his ministerial decisions, a shameless dog whistler and, a victim blamer from way back who believes that political or business success and/or personal wealth are visible manifestations of God's approval of the individual and consequently lacking success and wealth indicates moral failure.
His track record as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (18.9.13 to 23.12.14), Minister for Social Services (23.12.14 to 21.9.15) and Treasurer (21.9.15 to 26.08.2018) precludes him from ever being considered a good bloke.
His track record as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (18.9.13 to 23.12.14), Minister for Social Services (23.12.14 to 21.9.15) and Treasurer (21.9.15 to 26.08.2018) precludes him from ever being considered a good bloke.
So it was
inevitable that the artifice of his new persona would be mocked……
The
Guardian, 7
November 2018:
He didn’t want the job,
it was handed to him – just ask him. But now that the mantle of greatness has
been thrust upon him, Scott Morrison,
ScoMo to you thanks, is going to take that mantle, put a surf cap from Mick
Fanning’s mum on it and serve it meat and three veg. Fair dinkum. He’s the
nation’s daggy dad and, just in case you weren’t aware of it, he’s going to
stone the flamin’ crows and show you just how ridgy-didge he is. Below are some
memorable quotes. But who said them? Our 30th prime minister, or an Australian
icon?
Top of Form
1. "That’s why you keep backing it in. If
something is working well, you should back it in. And that’s what we are doing
here."
Scott
Morrison
Alf
Stewart from Home and Away
2. "The right is
constantly procreating while the left is grooming a dead dog."
Scott
Morrison
Cleaver
Greene from Rake
3. "No wonder the
country’s in a mess."
Scott
Morrison
Ted
Bullpitt from Kingswood Country
4."We’ve got a
future CEO of the farm down here, I reckon. He’s pretty keen on the ice
cream."
Scott
Morrison
Bill
Heslop from Muriel's Wedding
5. "This is me
doing what I do – I’m out, I’m listening, I’m hearing and I’m doing."
Scott
Morrison
Kenny
Smyth from Kenny
6. "It’s a simple
rule: pants first, shoes second. That always usually works for me."
Scott
Morrison
Alvin
Purple from the movie of the same name
7. "Feels good to
be on the road again. Feels like a drug. Not an illegal drug, a good
drug."
Scott
Morrison
Russell
Coight from All Aussie Adventures
8. "Mate, I think
I’ll take you down to Canberra and let you give the boys a bit of a
rev-up."
Scott
Morrison
Barry
McKenzie from The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
9. "People don’t
hassle me. It’s always very friendly anywhere in the world."
Scott
Morrison
Paul
Hogan
10. "Lily and I had
a great time yesterday doing the hot lap with Mark Skaife and coming down it
was a bit like doing the Wild Mouse."
Scott
Morrison
Steve
Irwin
11. "And yeah, fair
dinkum, we should be supporting Australian businesses."
Scott
Morrison
Darryl
Kerrigan from The Castle
Image Credit:The Guardian
Thursday 8 November 2018
Scott Morrison hits the campaign trail - complete with bus
On Saturday 3 November 2018 interim Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook (NSW) Scott Morrison announced he would be in Queensland this week.
On Sunday 4 November he announced the first of the election campaign promises for that state - $200 million towards Townsville water supply.
The bus accompanying Morrison in Queensland is allegedly being paid for out of LNP coffers.
However it is principally a visual prop for Morrison as he rolls out his 'ocker' social media videos and announces his financial sweeteners because for most of the trip in will be empty except for its driver.
As consenting authority he has apparently signed off on the use of a Royal Australian Air Force VIP jet for most of his travel and that of his staff, so it will be Australian taxpayers paying the considerable airtravel costs as well as the hotel bills.
In 2013 the hourly operational cost of such a special purpose aircraft was in the vicinity of $50,000 plus fixed costs. How much will Defence be billing the public purse for four days of VIP air travel over Queensland to kickstart this LNP federal election campaign in 2018?
Side view of Morrison's bus complete with 'borrowed'* nickname as signature.
Note:
* There are a number of men (including businessmen and athletes) from the United States and beyond with the nickname "ScoMo" who have long established Facebook accounts - one ScoMo going back as far as 2006.
Morrison's Taxpayer-Funded Electioneering Junket:
Day One
Day One
Morrison’s
team film
him standing on the sand at Broadbeach wearing a Rip Curl American-style ‘trucker’s hat’ made somewhere
in Asia which was sent to him by an ‘admirer’, promising to wear
more of the same in the coming week and talking up support for 'Australian' businesses like Rip Curl.
Also promising
backpackers (with a billion dollars in their pockets) will have a great time
working on farms bringing in crops, at the same time as introducing a workforce
test so Australians are given the first chance to get that casual farm work
- with no explanation about how he will manage to produce this rural nirvana
except by extending backpacker and working holiday visas by three months and
raising the age limit for these visas from thirty to thirty-five.
Morrison additionally pledged $112 million towards the tram extension between Broadbeach and Burleigh.
Day Two
Morrison turned up to a Maroochydore pie factory for a photo op (left), slipped in a quick doorstop, pressed the flest at thr CWA, then down to Caloundra to press the flesh again at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club where he was careful to be photographed with a Queensland beer in his hand.
Before boarding his VIP jet to fly into Rockhampton ahead of the campaign bus.
He could have stayed in Sydney to eat a pie, do a doorstop, have a beer at the races and fail to pick the Melbourne Cup winner without the taxpayer having to pick up such a hefty tab.
Day Three
Still in Rockhampton, still in that silly cap and just a bit late in announcing $800 million for a local ring road project - the Queensland Labor Government announced the jointly-funded ring road in February 2018.
Then onto Gladstone and then that VIP jet again heading to Townsville where he was scheduled to appear on a special edition of Paul Murray Live to answer voters’ questions in a forum broadcast on Sky News and WIN from 8pm AEST.
This is Morrison's third visit to Townsville in 2018 and his second as interim prime minister. Is he buying an investment property there?
Wonder how many dollars he'll have left in his election campaign Santa sack by the time the actual writs are issued?
Day Four
And the day is yet to unfold......
Morrison additionally pledged $112 million towards the tram extension between Broadbeach and Burleigh.
Day Two
Morrison turned up to a Maroochydore pie factory for a photo op (left), slipped in a quick doorstop, pressed the flest at thr CWA, then down to Caloundra to press the flesh again at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club where he was careful to be photographed with a Queensland beer in his hand.
Before boarding his VIP jet to fly into Rockhampton ahead of the campaign bus.
He could have stayed in Sydney to eat a pie, do a doorstop, have a beer at the races and fail to pick the Melbourne Cup winner without the taxpayer having to pick up such a hefty tab.
Day Three
Still in Rockhampton, still in that silly cap and just a bit late in announcing $800 million for a local ring road project - the Queensland Labor Government announced the jointly-funded ring road in February 2018.
Then onto Gladstone and then that VIP jet again heading to Townsville where he was scheduled to appear on a special edition of Paul Murray Live to answer voters’ questions in a forum broadcast on Sky News and WIN from 8pm AEST.
This is Morrison's third visit to Townsville in 2018 and his second as interim prime minister. Is he buying an investment property there?
Wonder how many dollars he'll have left in his election campaign Santa sack by the time the actual writs are issued?
Day Four
And the day is yet to unfold......
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