Talking Politics

[TT33]

IF it's true that the PM wasnt told about the allegations, it reflects very badly on his "leadership".
Personally I think it's a load of BS that he wasnt told. Another deflection by Teflon Scomo.

 

[Legends of 2017]

It's all "he said, she said" according to Dutton

Mr empathy.
what a grub
Cant believe he said that.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Morrison in Question Time is unbearable. His use of 'Mr Speaker' to try & distract & avoid answering tough questions just screams snakeoil & bullsit.
What an absolute charlatan he is. A disgrace.

 

[larabee]

Morrison in Question Time is unbearable. His use of 'Mr Speaker' to try & distract & avoid answering tough questions just screams snakeoil & bullsit.
What an absolute charlatan he is. A disgrace.

Agree. His default position is deflect. He just cannot answer a strait question

Morrison deflected parliamentary questions to other ministers almost 200 times since becoming PM

Exclusive: independent office unable to find one instance when Julia Gillard as leader referred a question to a colleague

www.theguardian.com

 

[spook]

If there’s one thing that we now know about Scott Morrison, it’s that a huge amount of people whose job it is to advise and support him keep an awful lot of very important information away from him. Weirdly, a large amount of that information appears to be about the treatment of women in his government.

After all, he was entirely oblivious to the widespread and systematic bullying of female Coalition MPs, despite one MP quitting the party over it (Julia Banks) and a minister declining to stand for re-election after presenting him with a report about it (Kelly O’Dwyer), which he apparently somehow missed.

But this vast and sinister parliamentary conspiracy of people refusing to alert Morrison to the treatment of women in the Morrison government isn’t limited to female members of parliament who specifically told him about it.

MPs, ministers, staffers, parliamentary security, the police, the AFP and members of Morrison’s own office all apparently conspired to keep him in the dark about the attack on Brittany Higgins by a colleague in a ministerial office. In fact, so vast and labyrinthine is this conspiracy that you could almost be forgiven for thinking that the PM is barefacedly dodging responsibility while making denials which Shaggy himself would have deemed laughably unconvincing.

Full article:

A complete timeline of Scott Morrison not knowing about an alleged rape in his workplace - The Big Smoke

According to Scott Morrison, he was the last to know about the allegations raised by Brittany Higgins. However, the timeline of events suggests something else entirely.

www.thebigsmoke.com.au

 

[IanG]

In Morrison’s government, a lack of accountability has become systemic

Essay by Nick Feik in The Monthly

medium.com

 

[IanG]

 

[larabee]

In Morrison’s government, a lack of accountability has become systemic

Essay by Nick Feik in The Monthly

medium.com

a big long list of LNP corruption right there. and it doesn't even mention the siphoning of bushfire relief funds to coalition seats:

Federal and state funds for bushfire recovery have been heavily skewed in favour of state Coalition seats with NSW State Labor picking up just 1% of $177 million handed out.

Bushfire Rorts: Coalition targets bushfire recovery funds for Coalition seats - Michael West

Federal and state funds for bushfire recovery heavily skewed in favour of state Coalition seats with NSW State Labor picking up 1% of $177m.

www.michaelwest.com.au

 

[Baloo]

a big long list of LNP corruption right there. and it doesn't even mention the siphoning of bushfire relief funds to coalition seats:

Federal and state funds for bushfire recovery have been heavily skewed in favour of state Coalition seats with NSW State Labor picking up just 1% of $177 million handed out.

Bushfire Rorts: Coalition targets bushfire recovery funds for Coalition seats - Michael West

Federal and state funds for bushfire recovery heavily skewed in favour of state Coalition seats with NSW State Labor picking up 1% of $177m.

www.michaelwest.com.au

No problem for the government though. They took on Google and Facebook for the big media barons so the big media barons will make sure their Government will be looked after.

 

[IanG]

Cabinet Minister accused of rape in letter sent to Scott Morrison, senators

The AFP have been notified after Prime Minister Scott Morrison and two senators received a letter detailing an allegation of historical rape against a Cabinet Minister.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Baloo]

Cabinet Minister accused of rape in letter sent to Scott Morrison, senators

The AFP have been notified after Prime Minister Scott Morrison and two senators received a letter detailing an allegation of historical rape against a Cabinet Minister.

www.abc.net.au

*smile* that's not good.

 

[Sintiger]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1364716765679259651

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Let’s assume for a moment all of this is true. No one told Morrison
The legitimate question to ask is why? Why would all these people know and not tell the boss? Think about your own work place and ask yourself can you imagine a scenario of an alleged rape occurring in an office and the boss not being told?
What would that say about your workplace and the culture within it?
i don’t believe it but if it is true it is also incredibly damming

 

[Baloo]

Let’s assume for a moment all of this is true. No one told Morrison
The legitimate question to ask is why? Why would all these people know and not tell the boss? Think about your own work place and ask yourself can you imagine a scenario of an alleged rape occurring in an office and the boss not being told?
What would that say about your workplace and the culture within it?
i don’t believe it but if it is true it is also incredibly damming

He's a renowned micro-manager as well right? It's either "Don't tell the PM what he doesn't want to know". Be that a PM directive or the PMO trying to protect the boss.

Either way, it's unbelievable because cabinet ministers would tell him if only to cover their own arses.

 

[DavidSSS]

He's a renowned micro-manager as well right? It's either "Don't tell the PM what he doesn't want to know". Be that a PM directive or the PMO trying to protect the boss.

Either way, it's unbelievable because cabinet ministers would tell him if only to cover their own arses.

Fair point, they are politicians so they are naturally inclined to arse covering.

That said, there is the possibility that he wasn't told because you don't tell the PM so the PM can deny all knowledge.

DS

 

[TT33]

Scomo is more evasive than Maurice Rioli Snr ever was. He could jump into a pit full of snakes & come out untouched.
Slimiest Australian politician I've ever seen & that takes some doing.

 

[eZyT]

Cabinet Minister accused of rape in letter sent to Scott Morrison, senators

The AFP have been notified after Prime Minister Scott Morrison and two senators received a letter detailing an allegation of historical rape against a Cabinet Minister.

www.abc.net.au

Thats a very disturbing story.

 

[Sintiger]

Scomo is more evasive than Maurice Rioli Snr ever was. He could jump into a pit full of snakes & come out untouched.
Slimiest Australian politician I've ever seen & that takes some doing.

It's a personal thing but he has this smirk that grinds my gears. When he is smirking I don't believe what he is saying and he smirks a lot

 

[Brodders17]

It's a personal thing but he has this smirk that grinds my gears. When he is smirking I don't believe what he is saying and he smirks a lot

He smirks because he is arrogant and doesn't respect others.

 

[artball]

Thats a very disturbing story.

it is eZy. and they won't reveal his name... and there he sits making decisions for the population ..
the system is sick .. I've always hated it, and considering the past few weeks, i hate it even more ...

 

[Baloo]

it is eZy. and they won't reveal his name... and there he sits making decisions for the population ..
the system is sick .. I've always hated it, and considering the past few weeks, i hate it even more ...

Twittersphere has narrowed it down to 2 Cabinet members from what I can see. Won't mention any names here, especially one of them as he could drown me quite easily if he wanted too.