We’re all in this together.
From the Lying Press:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under fire for accepting exemptions for a Father’s Day trip to Sydney to see his family, with Labor accusing him of “appalling judgment” after crossing borders with the nation’s two biggest states in hard lockdowns.
“You’ve got to have the same rules for people,” former opposition leader Bill Shorten said on Tuesday.
Mr Morrison has been in Canberra for several weeks as federal parliament sat in the capital.
Flight records showed a taxpayer-funded Dassault Falcon 7X jet – a private plane operated by the Royal Australian Air Force – travelled from Canberra to Sydney and back again on Saturday afternoon. Another Dassault flew from Canberra to Sydney and back on Monday morning.
Mr Morrison’s office confirmed he briefly returned to Sydney at the weekend – including Father’s Day on Sunday – before returning to Canberra on Monday. Both cities are in lockdown, but people coming from Canberra do not need an exemption to travel into NSW.
Mr Morrison did, however, need to seek an exemption from the ACT government to return to the territory.
Usually that would be accompanied by 14 days quarantine, but he was given an exemption to return for meetings, with the PM classed as an “essential worker”.….
Privately, senior Labor sources were livid at the news of Mr Morrison’s trip. They questioned why the Prime Minister needed to return to Canberra at all, claiming he could have conducted the national security committee meeting from Sydney.
Some compared it to Mr Morrison’s infamous, secret trip to Hawaii during the ‘black summer’ bushfires. Mr Shorten pointed out in a tweet that Mr Morrison had only last week criticised Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk for granting border exemptions to the families of rugby league players – a decision she later admitted was wrong.
It is understandable that Aussies are angry that the Prime Minister can travel about Australia as he pleases for Father’s Day while the proles are forced to hug their loved ones over the Coolangatta Wall:
Father’s Day in 2021. Families split by the border meet at plastic barriers to celebrate. Hundreds of people lined up along the road, some have tables and chairs @10NewsFirst @10NewsFirstQLD pic.twitter.com/THtAtBy6EL
— Johnpaul Gonzo (@JohnpaulGonzo) September 4, 2021
It is a clear case of one rule for thee, no rules for me.
However, there is a bigger story in here. The so-called National cabinet is itself ”not a real Caninet” yet it has been making sweeping, arbitrary decisions affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of Australians. All attempts to reign in the power of this cabal, or at least provide some transparency, have been stymied.
From the Controlled Opposition:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has introduced a Bill to protect the secret discussions of state premiers within National Cabinet.
Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge, brought the COAG Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 on Morrison’s behalf last Thursday.
The Bill’s purpose is to extend the secrecy protections of Federal Cabinet to cover the contents of National Cabinet.
This comes after the embarrassing ruling from the Federal Court when Justice White determined that National Cabinet was not a real Cabinet and must open itself to Freedom of Information requests under the Freedom of Information Act 1978.
Tudge introduced his speech with the absurd claim that, “The Bill ushers in a new and exciting era for our federation.”
An era, one might point out to Tudge, that includes the prime minister, state premiers, and health experts deliberately concealing their decisions from the people of Australia.
“A new and exciting era for our federation.” Always call it the opposite of what it really is. That’s called inversion. You know who likes inversion…
The takeaway from this is that the Lying Press is content to serve up to its readers the illusion of party politics. Different members of the ruling class establish factions and pretend to support one faction over the other. In modern times it is red team versus blue team. In the Classical Era it was blue team versus green team.
The existence of the National Cabinet and its refusal to accept any kind of oversight is an example of this artifice in real time.
Furthermore, the collusion of the Lying Press is telling. They serve up the emotive story of the Prime Minister’s double standard on Father’s Day, but sweep the more substantive story of National Cabinet unaccountability under the rug.
This is because the members of the Lying Press are ticket takers, they are privileged members of the ruling class and they serve the interests of the ruling class.
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