Simon Banks
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Simon Banks is one of Australia’s most highly respected government relations, campaigning and strategic communications professionals.
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I'm going to put this as politely as I can
@ScottMorrisonMP
's Government
No longer cares whether it is corrupt or not
Or whether they enable corruption
That makes them unfit to govern
Each and every one
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FWIW
@ScottMorrisonMP
repeatedly said he couldn’t make a decision about the Biloela family because he said he wasn’t the responsible Minister
And yet he likely was
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I really don't know why
@ScottMorrisonMP
says he understands "the frustrations" of those, some of which urinated on the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne
Some of whom also waived Nazi flags
I don't
Do you?
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I love Australia
That's why I will be voting for
@AlboMP
He works hard
He takes reponsibility
He turns up
He plans ahead
Vote
@AustralianLabor
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"My priority is to ensure Bill Shorten never becomes Prime Minister of this country." -
@PeterDutton_MP
's first sentence
Not to build a better country
Not a plan for the future
Just a negative anti-Labor rant
He just failed his first test of leadership
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Suddenly
@ScottMorrisonMP
confirms that our international borders are his responsibility
LOL
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Let's be clear
@ScottMorrisonMP
is the laziest
Most useless
Incompetent
Lying
Hypocritical
Waste of space, Prime Minister
I and the vast majority of Australians
Have ever known
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Australians are learning the hard way
In the middle of a pandemic
That
@ScottMorrisonMP
simply doesn't believe in Medicare
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I think there is one thing an increasing number of Australians can agree on
We want
@ScottMorrisonMP
"out of our lives"
#auspol
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We have a rambling, incoherent, inconsistent, lying, mudslinging fool as our Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
#QT
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Remember when
@ScottMorrisonMP
told you that Craig Kelly wasn't an anti-vaxxer and refused to do anything about him
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Is there a single epidemeologist in Australia who thinks
@gladysB
is doing the right thing?
Just asking for all of us
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Whenever a gun massacre occurs in the US
Most Australians shake their heads and wonder why they don't act to protect themselves
Well Australia, when it comes to climate change
Many around the world are look at us right now
In exactly the same way
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So let me get this right
@ScottMorrisonMP
has gone to the Northern Territory
And is angry that he let the Port of Darwin be sold to China
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Just your friendly reminder that the second highest taxing Government in Australian history is
@ScottMorrisonMP
and
@JoshFrydenberg
The highest was Howard-Costello
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He says he's:
* Not responsible for aged care
* Not responsible for quarantine
* Not responsible for our borders
So just what is
@ScottMorrisonMP
's day job?
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Today either
@ScottMorrisonMP
or
@GladysB
lied about whether the Commonwealth offered military support to NSW during these “unprecedented” bushfires that wasn’t accepted
At least one of them lied
At a time of crisis
Let’s now figure out who did
And then terminate their career
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Why does
@ScottMorrisonMP
think that effectively calling the current and former heads of ASIO liars is in the national interest?
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Just your friendly reminder that
@JoshFrydenberg
is the second highest taxing Treasurer in Australian history
#qt
The highest is Peter Costello
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Let's be clear
@ScottMorrisonMP
just got caught out lying about both the Doherty Institute modelling
And the preconditions of the National Plan
#QT
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If it wasn't for parliamentary privilege
Pretty sure
@ScottMorrisonMP
would be at serious risk of contempt of the NSW ICAC
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Just your friendly reminder that Australia first achieved 3 x AAA credit ratings in 2011 after the GFC under
@AustralianLabor
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Apparently it wasn’t considered
#CovidSafe
for
@Dom_Perrottet
’s new Cabinet to be sworn-in today inside and without them wearing masks
One rule for them, another for you
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Compare the pair
When a crisis broke out:
In Victoria,
@DanielAndrewsMP
turned up day after day answering all questions
Federally,
@ScottMorrisonMP
narrowcasts on Facebook, no questions, on a platform he has said you should not trust
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Dear
@ScottMorrisonMP
&
@Dom_Perrottet
Take "personal responsibility" you say but:
* I'm not the one not wearing a mask
* The store no longer has a QR Code
* Can't find a RAT test to buy
* Not eligible for a booster yet
So when are you going to take "personal responsibility"?
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"The Liberals and Nationals have always stood for lower taxes..." said
@AngusTaylorMP
last night
The two highest taxing Governments in Australian history have been:
(1) Howard and Costello
(2) Morrison and Frydenberg
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Remember when
@ScottMorrisonMP
said he was not going to set Australian against Australian?
Today he said likened Queenslanders and Western Australians to "cave-dwellers"
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Agree or disagree
@TurnbullMalcolm
is right to point out
@ScottMorrisonMP
's lies about his personal involvement in the sale of the Port of Darwin to the Chinese
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Pretty sure
@DanielAndrewsMP
and Victorians didn’t want to have to start “living with COVID” via
@GladysB
and NSW’s catastrophic error on lockdowns
@abc730
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It's good to hear that
@PeterDutton_MP
thinks turning up is an important part of leadership on Indigenous issues
Because I remember when he walked out on the apology to the stolen generation
Now he's walking out on The Voice
His actions speak louder than words
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Look I could be wrong
But I'm guessing that calling people in Queensland and Western Australia "cave dwellers"
Isn't as popular as some in the LNP thought
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The National Cabinet has effectively just passed a vote of no confidence in
@ScottMorrisonMP
's handling of the health impacts of
#coronavirus
He should resign and make way for a leader the States can have confidence in
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There is a clear pattern here: a Government unprepared for
* a bushfire crisis they were warned about
* an aged care crisis they were warned about
* a slowing economy they were warned about
Plus many more
Who isn't doing their job
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
You
#leadership
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After the Opposition has spent the last week criticising the PM for travelling overseas
Now
@PeterDutton_MP
is - travelling overseas
I am not critising Dutton's decision to travel
But he and his team are among the most lazy and obvious hypocrites I have ever seen
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A Prime Minister, a Federal Health Minister and Treasurer
Knowingly, deliberately, undermining a public health response that is working in the middle pandemic
This is stomach churning
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Today
@ScottMorrisonMP
claimed that Labor put Australia's AAA credit rating at risk during the GFC
Australia earned 3 x AAA credit ratings for the first time ever in 2011 after the GFC and under Labor
That AAA credit rating went onto "negative watch" under the LNP
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Dear Australia
According to
@ScottMorrisonMP
it is now your “personal responsibility” to have a reliable stock of RAT tests
Despite him only telling you less than a week ago you needed them
As he failed to order enough
Because “he doesn’t hold a hose, mate”
PS He has plenty
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If I received a 31 page credible (if unproven) allegation of a serious criminal offence by one of my staff
I would have read it - 4 days later
I don't know a single CEO who wouldn't
And yet that is
@ScottMorrisonMP
's testimony about his own dereliction of duty
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The highest taxing Government in Australian history is still the Howard and Costello Government
Yet
@sussanley
keep saying taxes will always be lower under the LNP
That is simply not true
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I do not want to denigrate the great job so many media outlets have done over recent days
So many of the journalists on the ground - across all networks - are doing an amazing job
But the
@abcnews
has been outstanding
Saving lives
They deserve a significant funding increas
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Yesterday
@GregHuntMP
criticised
@alboMP
for supporting what he just announced today (the bringing forward of booster shots) saying "it is no surprise"
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West Australians won't forget that
@ScottMorrisonMP
backed Clive Palmer
Over
@MarkMcGowanMP
and them
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As of midnight tonight
NSW will have more
#Covid
restrictions than the ACT and Victoria
But don't worry
@ScottMorrisonMP
will either lie about it, forget about it or protect his
@LiberalNSW
mates
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Just your friendly reminder
As we see the awful scenes coming out of India
That
@ScottMorrisonMP
wanted Australians to learn to live with
#Covid
-19
And recently argued for re-opening our borders mid-year pre-vaccination, with 1000 cases a week
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I see
@AlanTudgeMP
has released a lecture telling
@JasonClareMP
what he should now do as Education Minister
I suspect the vast majority of Australians couldn't nominate a single thing
@AlanTudgeMP
did to improve education as Minister
@JasonClareMP
should just do the right thing
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Today
@ScottMorrisonMP
said he understood "the frustrations" of protestors in Melbourne
Some of whom previosuly urinated on the Shrine of Remembrance
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For such a prolific tweeter,
@AlanTudgeMP
is eerily silent on the fact that last week, the Federal Court found he had:
“engaged in conduct which can only be described as criminal”
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On his Facebook page TODAY
George Christensen has been campaigning againt vaccine mandates
Yet that is central to his own Government's decision to deport
@DjokerNole
from Australia
As just upheld by the Federal Court
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No CEO of a major corporation in Australia
Would survive a litany of allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation against his employees
And yet not have taken action with consequence for any of them
And yet that is
@ScottMorrisonMP
tonight
@abc730
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Now
@ScottMorrisonMP
is saying that the
#Omicron
#Covid
-19 waves' hit to consumer spending was "predictable"
Yet
@JoshFrydenberg
didn't predict it in his December
#MYEFO
Budget update
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Just your friendly reminder that the highest taxing Australian Government since WWII is still Howard and Costello's
And the highest spending was Morrison and Frydenberg's
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Dear WA
If Clive is for NO
Then time to vote YES
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Just your friendly reminder that
@ScottMorrisonMP
still hasn't released any economic modelling of the cost of NOT acting on climate change
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Whatever you think of the LNP's response to
#coronavirus
now
It has exposed their lies and deceit about the GFC over the last decade
We won't have an election for a while
But when we do
Kick the LNPs out and leave them out for at least a decade
Only way they will learn
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So the Shadow Treasurer hates business
Shadow Health Minister hates Medicare
Shadow Education Minister hates teachers
Shadow Employment Minister wants to give workers a pay cut
Shadow Communications Minister hates the ABC
Is there a pattern here
@PeterDutton_MP
?
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Look I am sure that in an ideal world
@scottmorrisonMP
would make Rapid Antigen Tests free
It's just that his office is still struggling with the colour-coded spreadsheet so they are only available in LNP held seats
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I am old enough to remember when
@ScottMorrisonMP
regularly threw
@gladysB
under the bus when she didn’t do what he demanded
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"Natasha Stott Despoja...ran her campaign for a UN job almost completely from her home in Adelaide...
...she travelled to Washington in March and Canberra during the pandemic but otherwise campaigned via Zoom from her study, holding about 190 meetings."
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It appears that
@ScottMorrisonMP
couldn't even bring himself to make the short drive across the Bridge to Woolloomooloo Wharf this morning
To wish our sailors heading off to help the people of Gippsland godspeed
#Wherethebloodyhellareyou
Continuing his
#Leadership
failure
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"What a thrill to be able to tell our grandchildren that we were there to witness the birth of the next big thing in political theory: trickle-down responsibility. It went about as well as trickle-down economics"
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I am old enough to remember when
@scottmorrisonMP
told us his failed
#CovidSafe
App worked like “sunscreen”
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Can't wait until Craig Kelly and George Christensen figure out that Margaret Thatcher supported action on climate change and closed the UK's coal mines
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Well that discussion on
@abc730
about the lack of a JobKeeper clawback mechanism was illogical dribble by and humiliating for
@JoshFrydenberg
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Remember when the start of 2022 was going to be easier to deal with than 2021
That is what
@ScottMorrisonMP
promised you
That was 11 days ago
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I see
@ScottMorrisonMP
thinks it is our “freedom” that has made Australia stronger this last two years
Factually wrong
It is our our sense of community, shared purpose and looking out for one another that has done it
He’s out of touch
A clueless ideologue
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Just your friendly reminder that
@ScottMorrisonMP
and
@barnaby_joyce
have taken no action of any consequence against any of their own MPs who have encouraged protests against lockdowns
And who spread disinformation about
#Covid
-19
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In short, tonight's National Cabinet outcome is a complete repudiation of pretty much everything
@ScottMorrisonMP
has argued for this last 18 months
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Australia
By being relatively Covid-19 free
Had an enormous economic opportunity
Tonight
@ScottMorrisonMP
vaccine failure has thrown us under an economic bus
This is the most catastrophic failure of public policy by any Government in 80 years
And they were warned, repeatedly
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If anyone thinks
@ScottMorrisonMP
's decision to appoint
@cporterwa
as Acting Leader of the House is a sign of a PM on top of his political game
Then just wait...
Be patient...
#tickticktick
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If you don't like lockdowns
Just remember
@GladysB
's negligence
Backed to the hilt by
@ScottMorrisonMP
Put you there
They are not your saviours
Their negligence put you in this cage
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Let history record
@ScottMorrisonMP
backed Clive Palmer over
@MarkMcGowanMP
Scott might want to forget
Western Australians won't
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Asked repeatedly
@PeterDutton_MP
can't explain why
@AngusTaylorMP
knowingly kept a 20% increase in electricity prices a secret from the Australian people before the election
@abc730
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A massive lie by
@PeterDutton_MP
claiming that Labor has contemplated breaking the alliance with the US
Clearly desperate or totally delusional
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The NO campaign can't turn out tens of thousand of people to publicly support their cause
Because they are not a mass movement
They are elites
Peddling doubt and fear
Plus a few of those "keyboard warriors": they always rail against
And will argue against yet again
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So
@Dom_Perrottet
thinks he won tonight
NSW has lost under his failure of competence and leadership
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Pretty embarrassing for
@JoshFrydenberg
despite his yelling and flapping of arms that he is the second highest taxing Treasurer in Australian history
The highest being Peter Costellu
#QT
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Meanwhile over on Facebook today
A certain LNP MP is claiming the fact it rained in Canberra today is proof against the science of climate change
I kid you not - because it rained - today
Meanwhile
@ScottMorrisonMP
does nothing, but laugh
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"..there is no substitute for solar & wind power this decade & next, supported by batteries, transmission..& peaking gas..
Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years"
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The Doherty Institute and Treasury modelling both confirm that:
* It is a race to get vaccinated; and
* Hard, early lockdowns reduce both the health and economic costs
@ScottMorrisonMP
was wrong on both
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Has there been a statement today from anyone inside the LNP condemning the neo-Nazis and anti-vaxxers that have been involved in today's violent protests in Melbourne?
Or have they lied and tried to blame it on "unions", despite the resounding condemnation by unions today?
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So
@ScottMorrisonMP
who:
* tried to withhold funding from the States if they went into lockdowns
* backed Clive Palmer to open State borders
* backed
@gladysB
2 months ago arguing against a NSW lockdown
Yet again wants to punish States that act on expert medical advice
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Bathurst was better when there were still Australian made cars on the track
@ScottMorrisonMP
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Before:
"… unlike Labor, we are not coming after people’s superannuation…"
@ScottMorrisonMP
Just 7 days later:
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I thought a major
@abcnews
personality owed Australia a massive apology on their return from leave tonight for their now proven errors on
#Covid
-19 and lockdowns
We didn't get it
Worth an entire episode of
@ABCmediawatch
Instead all we got was deflection
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Just had the misfortune of reading
@AngusTaylorMP
's response to Labor's climate chnage policy today
I can spot 9 blatant lies
And that's before you figure out that by accepting his own logic he is basically calling himself corrupt
“Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus”
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On becoming PM,
@HonTonyAbbott
cut funding for local and regional Indigenous voices
Preferring the views of his hand-picked
As a Minister in the Howard Government, he voted to extinguish native title
He's every reason why Australians should vote YES for
#TheVoice
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Given the significant adverse impact that
#Robodebt
had for so many Australians
And the shocking evidence to date
I can't think of another Royal Commission
That has received less media coverage
It's hard to conclude that this is anything other than shameful neglect
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Today has revealed a secret plan to privatise
@australiapost
And a secret plan to cut the
@NDIS
When are you going to "get out from under the doona"
@ScottMorrisonMP
?
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I don't care which side of the so-called spat on vaccine rollout you are on
But 72 hours later
If you were PM
You'd call a meeting of medical experts to sort this out
That
@ScottMorrisonMP
hasn't, tells you everything you need to know
He created this mess
He can't solve it
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As
@joshfrydenberg
says the LNP “philosophically believe in lower taxes”
Yet he is the second highest taxing Treasurer in Australian history
And Peter Costello is the highest
They say one thing, deliver another
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"The verdict on the week is simple: It was the worst trip overseas for an Australian prime minister in living memory."
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A week ago
@ScottMorrisonMP
and his Government:
* still wanted all kids to go to school
* was berating Premiers for wanting tougher social distancing measures
* mid blame game with NSW over cruise ships
* hadn't planned for the surge at Centrelink
* opposed a wage guarantee
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