Insiders talking like the coalition breaking up is barely newsworthy tabloid gossip
Imagine if Labor had anything remotely like a party crisis like this one? Can you IMAGINE the tone of insiders if this was Labor?!
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#Labor
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I'm not saying that I endorse the Nats' policies, but the Coalition could do worse than have Littleproud as its leader.
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#insidersABC finishes with a senior moment...
Matt Canavan, yearning for the days of coal on #InsidersABC "We are handicapping ourselves by not using our own resources for energy"
So we're *importing* sun & wind, are we?
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Sussan Ley's response to China's show of strength? "Increase our defence spending to 3% GDP" (but reduce welfare & the PS). To what strategic end? Then 4%, 5%, 6%? It's a zero sum game.
Work on our real strengths to bolster regional peace: diplomacy, trade, stability...
#insidersABC #auspol
Julian Leeser's comedy show on #InsidersABC: Israel has "freedom of the press"
On #InsidersABC, #ACTU secretary #sallymcmanus proposes the most sensible approach to negative gearing: (a five-year transition to a max of 1 NG property), plus the urgent need to gain at least some tax from wealthy corporates and individuals. Bravo! #auspol
Surely bigger tax concessions specifically for business R&D would be more targeted & effective, (plus guardrails against massive AI-led job cuts) rather than across-the-board corporate tax cuts to improve #productivity
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#InsidersABC
On economics, Sally McManus is as influential as the RBA Governor (remember she was behind the Covid jobkeeper payments); she wisely & compassionately considers the interests of the entire nation.
We should listen to her on tax & housing reforms.
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#auspol
PM Albanese just won a RECORD 94 SEATS in a landmark election, and yet, #InsidersABC still has this thoroughly irrelevant and extremely partisan, insipid, irritating arse-clown as a regular on #Insiders courtesy of host David Speers.
Make this make sense, #ABC. #AusPol
#insidersABC - Mark Kenny points out Australia's leverage in defence negotiations with the US.
Trump's a real estate guy: remind him that Australia's its ally with location, location, location.
We do hold a few cards with #AUKUS.
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#InsidersABC today: pleasing to see a better panel than last week's to consider the impact of ME situation on Aust affairs.
Speers and his researchers have done their homework on "anticipatory self-defence."
Plibersek appears to have been forced to dodge questions #auspol
Great point by Raf: journos run around like headless chooks when govts propose bold structural reform: "OMG you're breaking promises!"
Maiden has no sense of journalistic responsibility. "Tough questions" are just gotchas for clicks that can create panic & undermine good policy #InsidersABC
Peter Dutton was opposed to committing troops to Ukraine, in any capacity, because he assumed he was following a Trumpian playbook: Australia First blah blah...
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Laura Tingle's throat-clearing *ahem* replaces her eyebrow, as she analyses the "respectful & dignified" defence spending discussion between Marles & Hesgeth: #insidersABC
Has any Australian journalist used ironic gestures to slice through political doublespeak, better than #LauraTingle ?
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Today on #InsidersABC, Nationals Deputy Hogan claimed the govt won't be able to meet its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2035.
Mark Kenny pointed out it was the Coalition who'd been holding us back.
California proves the target is achievable.
#auspol
#energy
Ed Husic is now, finally, able to openly speak out on Gaza.
Was Husic's back-bench banishment an act of support for Palestine by the Labor govt, intended or otherwise?
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Thank you Peter Hartcher for expressing my opinion on Dep PM Richard Marles: it would be good if he would put the same vigour into his #Defence portfolio as he does in factional plays. Marles has not been an effective Defence Minister or good communicator. @albomp.bsky.social
#LNPdump: Jacinta blames the media for their "smear campaign".
David Crowe blames the media for being too soft on Dutton.
Who's right?
#auspol
#AustralianVotes2025
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SIX women have won for Labor in SE Qld:
"There's definitely an element of a citizen's arrest".
OK, Sam Maiden, I'll pay that one 😆👏
#auspol
#AustraliaVotes2025
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"Australians are not who Peter Dutton thought we were"
(maybe you can tell that to your boss, Sam Maiden)
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#AustraliaVotes2025
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The one time I’d love to see conservative voices on the #Insiders panel is the day after that election thumping … Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt, Chip Le Grand - come on in, the water’s lovely!
#AusPol #AusVotes #InsidersABC
Photograph of Gina Rinehart in a long white dress flanked by the former Australian PM Morrison and his wife, with Donald and Melania Trump.
Dutton's now trying to distance himself from Trump?
Yet a Bradfield LNP branch held a fundraising dinner in January 2025 to "celebrate the inauguration of President Trump".
And DJT'S mate Gina runs Spud's preferred airline.
#auspol #AusElection2025
#InsidersABC
Starting to wonder which one is parody.
Note to @abcnews - Greg Sheridan is not a serious person, with compromised integrity, proven as a liar, & therefore unfit as a guest on #InsidersABC #TheDrum #abc730
Well, Peter Dutton gave voice to his pathological fear of Twitter on #InsidersABC
They know.
They know that their dominance of messaging in the MSM is now meaningless.
#MurdochRoyalCommission
I watched #InsidersABC for the first time in many months.
Niki Savva’s final take was on the Albo government’s first 6 months. She gave top marks.
No small thing from a reliable, respected & wise political commentator.
I wish the world could be talked into just being better, and that the marketplace of ideas never suffered grievous market failures, but, well, we live in this world. #insidersABC #eggboy
