Not Good Enough

65 — Rough chuckles redux

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We chat about Scott Morrison's week of waterworks, proposals to ban Posting and the big Cabinet job swap.

 

War crime update
  • Afgan villagers are being allowed to testify from Afghanistan in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case.
  • Check out Episode 46 for detail on Roberts-Smith’s alleged war crimes.
  • Defamation laws didn’t protect the women who had their faces plastered over the front pages of newspapers and called “enemy of the state”.
    • Turning on the waterworks
    • Scott Morrison turned on the waterworks.
  • Begrudging shoutout to Ged Kearny for calling them crocodile tears.
  • After questioning by a Sky News reporter, Scott Morrison lashed out, potentially outing a victim of sexual assault (turns out he maybe invented it, and made a groveling notes-app apology).
  • Alleged upskirt-photographer Andrew Laming won’t contest the next election.
  • ABC’s 7.30 Report empty-chair-interviewed Scott Morrison.
  • Scott Morrison got bodied on A Current Affair.
    • Social media
    • Dutton has taken a brave stand against video games.
  • Disco Elysium was recently banned in Australia.
  • Staffers doing things to desks because of Grand Theft Auto.
  • Australia has a long and storied history of attempting to censor the internet.
  • Conservatives are pushing for requiring 100 points of ID to create a social media account.
  • On the committee proposing the ID requirements? Andrew Laming, who once spent 11 hours fighting on a Facebook Simpsons meme page, who has a long history of online harassment of women.
    • Job swap
    • Scott Morrison has reshuffled cabinet again.
  • Anne Ruston is minister for Women’s Safety, despite declaring that the government doesn’t need a definition of poverty.
  • Jane Hume, now the Minister for Women’s Economic Security loves brown coal.
  • Liberal Party federal vice-president Teena McQueen says she would “kill to be sexually harassed at the moment”.
  • Anthony Albanese: “Shuffling the deck won’t change the bad hand that the Morrison Government is dealing Australians.”
  • Australian of the Year Grace Tame had a more coherent take.
  • The Murdoch media didn’t like this.
    • Actions
    • Speak out about shit that’s bad. Read more Wikipedia?
  • If you’re able to, attend the protest against deaths in custody on Saturday the 10th.
  • Play Disco Elysium, unless you’ve got a PS4.

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