Morrison’s Pentecostal pork
While much of the headlines around gender and sexuality have revolved around Scott Morrison’s captain’s pick, Catherine Deves, to run in the federal election for the seat of Warringah1.
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Why I cannot vote for the Morrison government: shirking responsibility and shifting blame
As I have said ad nauseam in this series, someone online asked me and others to explain why we could not vote for the Morrison government (not that I ever would), I replied:
“The constant lies, misogyny, racism, idiocy, petulance, corruption, pork barrelling, religious nutjobbery, hatred of expertise, shirking of responsibility, shifting of blame to the blameless, the stealing of credit from the creditable. #WhyIWantChange”1
Why I cannot vote for the Morrison government: hatred of expertise
Someone online asked me and others to explain why we could not vote for the Morrison government (not that I ever would), I replied:
“The constant lies, misogyny, racism, idiocy, petulance, corruption, pork barrelling, religious nutjobbery, hatred of expertise, shirking of responsibility, shifting of blame to the blameless, the stealing of credit from the creditable. #WhyIWantChange”1
Why I cannot vote for the Morrison government: religious nutjobbery
Someone online asked me and others to explain why we could not vote for the Morrison government (not that I ever would), I replied:
“The constant lies, misogyny, racism, idiocy, petulance, corruption, pork barrelling, religious nutjobbery, hatred of expertise, shirking of responsibility, shifting of blame to the blameless, the stealing of credit from the creditable. #WhyIWantChange”1
The media’s job?
In the last day or three, while farnarcling around on Twitter, I came across an extraordinary exchange. One of the Twitterati, Antfarmer, stated
“Disappointingly [Katharine Murphy, political editor of the Guardian] just recited the misnomer [sic] that the Liberal party’s traditional strength is economic management. Really? On what basis is this furphy rolled out election after election? Which economic stats?”1
Astonishingly, Murphy replied with:
Corruption galore 11
This is the eleventh instalment of the list of corruption by politicians in federal and state coalition governments. The previous instalments have documented corruption as the instances of it became known1-10. This has followed the same system, recording them as I became aware of them.
Another world
I was asked to help crack rocks at a relatively newly discovered fossil locality a few weeks ago. It was a brief trip of only a few days, so as many people as able were ‘dragooned’ to help crack as many rocks as possible in those few days, in the hope of discovering as many fossils as we could. This fossil locality is named the McGraths Flat locality, and was discovered when the soil in the area was tilled by the property owner1,2.