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A Fireside Chat with Mr Morrison

28 Wednesday Nov 2018

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Emmjay

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Billy McMahon, Billy Wentworth, Scott Morrison, Sharkies, Tony Abbott

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(Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images borrowed with thanks)

An intimate interview with the PM – by Emmjay

Sco      Go the Sharkies.

Emm:  Yes, good, thank you Mr Morrison.

Sco:     They were great weren’t they !

Emm:  If you say so, Mr Morrison.

Sco:     And I do say so, mate.

Emm:  Mr Morrison, what’s your reaction to the Victorian election result ?

Sco:     Call me Scomo.  Go the Sharkies.

Emm: Mr Morrison, the Victorian election ?

Sco:     We was robbed.  Did you catch that ref ?  I mean his seeing eye dog should do the one-way trip to the vet.

Emm:  The Victorian election ?

Sco:  Sorry, you were saying ?

Emm:  Mr Morrison, I was asking you for your take home message on your reaction to the Victorian election result.

Sco:     There was loose talk that we didn’t have a prayer – but I did one for them and I cried a bit.

Emm: … and ?

Sco:     Well, well, nothing happened.

Emm:  So, divine intervention was a fizzer ?

Sco:     What church do you go to, son ?

Emm:  I play third ukulele at St Generic’s Brand.

Sco: Well, son, I think it was probably your fault. Ya have to play in key and in time.

Emm:  Sorry, I’ll try harder in the next election.  Who’s having that again ?

Sco:     Somebody told me that.  No, wait… I think there’s some snags ordered for the Happy Clappers of Shark Park.

Emm:  Close, Mr Morrison.  It’s the NSW election in March next year.

Sco:     How’s our form there ?

Emm:  I believe that the verdict is still with the TV ref.

Sco:  Will there be Sharkies contesting ?  Go the Sharkies !

Emm:  Indeed, Mr Morrison.

Sco – checking his mobile phone “It will be fought on local issues”  

Emm:  Like Wentworth ?

Sco:  Australia’s best Prime Minister ?  William Charles Wentworth.  I used to call him Bill.  My mate Bill.

Emm: He died even before your little dust up with NZ Tourism.

Sco:     I was robbed.  Those ALL Blacks have no understanding of the offside rule.

Emm:  They say the Nez Wealand taxpayers was robbed.

Sco:     It wasn’t my fault that “Put a shrimp in the hungi” flopped.  I mean, what’s a hungi ?  Some kind of pagan ritual?  Of course, no God-fearing bloke is going to go there for some druid nonsense.  Did I tell you that I turned back the boats ?

Emm:  From New Zealand ?

Sco:  From Shark Park.

Emm:  No you didn’t.

Sco:     Yeah, I did.  Coz I’m fair dinkum.

Emm: Was Malcolm fair dinkum ?

Sco:     Who did he barrack for ?

Emm:  I have no idea.  Does he barrack at all ?

Sco:      There you have it.  Not like David Steinbergstein.

Emm: The former candidate for Wentworth ?

Sco:     Bill ?

Emm: No, the proposed candidate for Wentworth.

Sco:     Sonja ? She was a snappy dresser.

Emm: Yes she was.  Mr Morrison, what did the Coalition learn from the Victorian election ?

Sco:     Did you realise you just typed “coal” ?  I love coal, it’s all black and shiny like my BMW.

Emm:  Well the voters of Wentworth didn’t seem too fond of your coal policy.

Sco: Ha ha you just typed coal again !  Twice.

Emm: Was the coalition’s lack of an energy policy or a climate change policy something to do with the Victorian election – I believe the Murdoch press called it a Coalition rout.

Sco:     How dare you suggest that the Victorian coalition is routed !  OK, the Sharkies didn’t run, but I prayed for them and I had a little cry too.  So, did my minister Pasta Farian.

Emm:  Or did it have something to do with the bogus war on South Sudanese youth in Melbourne.

Sco:     I have been accused of racism, you know ?

Emm:  You don’t say !

Sco:     Yeah, although I’m a fair dinkum bloke, I will not abide by street violence. Nobody. Not even people the colour of coal are above John Laws.

Emm: Are you saying that you ARE racist on the black gangs street violence issue ?

Sco:     Those dickheads who point to the 40% decline in youth violence in Victoria in the last four years are turning a blind eye.  I reckon it’s because South Sudanese youth are hard to see at night.

Emm:  So, what was the cause of the Coalition rout in the Victorian election or in the seat of Wentworth – a seat it is alleged that has only ever been in Liberal hands.

Sco:     It was a state issue.

Emm:  Wentworth is a Federal seat.

Sco:     I know that.  It’s held by my mate Billy Wentworth.

Emm:  Billy’s been extinct for decades and so is his love child Billy McMahon – perpetually voted as Australia’s worst Prime Minister – until he was unseated by Tony Abbott.

Sco:  But the Sharkies are great !  Go Sharkies !

Emm: Have you got any tourist tips ?

Sco:  Put another shrimp on the barbie !

Emm:  Thanks. That’ll be a few million dollars please.

Sco: Sure.  The cheque is in the mail.

Emm:  Mr Morrison, thanks for your time.

Sco:  No worries, anything for a fair dinkum Aussie bloke.  Go the Sharkies.

Emm:  Oh FFS !

Marc Chagall

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by Mark in Gerard Oosterman

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Marc Chagall, Scott Morrison

Marc Chagall

By Gerard Oosterman

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Australia’s minister for immigration, Scott Morrison and his off-shore and on-shore detention policies have now caused four deaths and a considerable number of attempted suicides, fifty or so by children.

It is totally wrong for this man to remain in office.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/self-harm-asylum-seekers-detention-surged-serco-report

If you are concerned and want to be part of taking action; Please voice your concerns to:

Address:
Scott Morrison MP
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
PO Box 6022
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone: 02 6277 7860
Fax: 02 6273 4144
Email: minister@immi.gov.au

It is as wrong now to inflict terrible conditions and treatment on people that have done no wrong, as it was during the days of Buchenwald.

I’ll leave you this lovely poem inspired by Marc Chagall.

When I read this poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I had to chuckle, according to the poet his work is meant to be read aloud:

Don’t Let that Horse.

Don’t let that horse
eat that violin
cried Chagall’s mother.
But he
kept right on
painting.

And became famous
And kept painting
The Horse With Violin in Mouth
And when he finally finished it
he jumped up on the horse
and rode away
waving the violin.

And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across.

And there were no strings
attached.

Batshit Crazy

04 Friday Jul 2014

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Uncategorized

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Batshit Crazy, Clive Palmer, Fiona Katauskas, Kevin Andrews, New Matilda, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott

Batshit Crazy

Borrowed with thanks from Fiona Katsauskas over at New Matilda. Do go over there and subscribe.

 

Cartoon just about sums it up

 

The Cruelty of Australia

30 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by gerard oosterman in Gerard Oosterman

≈ 10 Comments

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Christmas Island, Dawes.Asylum, Kirkland, Norfold, Scott Morrison

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/28/cruelty-its-part-of-the-australian-experience?CMP=ema_632

Cruelty? It’s part of the Australian experience.

Our treatment of refugees is barbaric in an authentically Australian mode, given our early history of penal settlements. Cruelty is a product of our loyalty to the current political order.

How can it be that Australia, a nation whose self-image is of fairness, frankness, and anti-authoritarianism, is so cruel to asylum seekers? It would be better to ask whether the current regime of imprisonment and torture is anything new. It is, after all, the latest in a long history of Australian cruelty, a constant presence in our culture since white settlement.

The usual fallback is to blame a lack of political and moral leadership, a series of “lurches to the right”, or a “dark victory”. The Greens, who brand themselves as the compassionate party, claim that they could do better – if only they could take government. But isn’t it strange that we lay the burden of “fixing” the asylum seeker gulags issue at the feet of parliamentarians, the same group of people who decided to lock them up to begin with?

To say it’s even possible to fix gives the parliament too much credit. More powerful nations, whose immigration flows are comparably much higher, end up conducting their debates along the exact same lines as us. This includes governments run by the left; as I wrote earlier this year for ABC Religion, the French in particular have often been cruellest under socialist leaders, including François Mitterrand.

That said, Operation Sovereign Borders is barbaric in an authentically Australian mode, given our early history of offshore penal settlements like Norfolk Island and Port Arthur. Unfortunately, because nobody bothers to read Australian history, we mainly access the memory of these colonial torture chambers through a popular myth: that convicts who were skilful, hard working and well behaved in the early settlement period were given tickets-of-leave and made a new life (including as constables and barristers), while the baddies, murderers and repeat offenders were shipped off to Norfolk to be flogged and tortured.

Like much of our officially permitted myth-making, this picture of Australian history is a useful fiction that validates current political arrangements. After all, if it wasn’t useful, wouldn’t it just be forgotten?

Convicts numbers Australia
Plan of the accommodation of convicts in Norfolk island. A 2010 study of over 6,000 convict records by Tim Causer, the largest to date, found that the overwhelming majority were not professional felons, but unskilled labourers.

Nearly 70% had been brought to Australia after committing non-violent property offences. Two-thirds had only been punished a single time before their original transportation to Australia, which according to Causer’s reading of the records, could mean “anything from 10 years in prison (a rare sentence) to a couple of days locked up for drunkenness.” In other words, the prisoners at Norfolk Island, Port Arthur and the rest were for the most part ordinary labouring men.

Other early settlement histories have come to a similar point. Nonetheless, the myth of the felonry, the criminal class and the lash has defeated one revisionist historian after another. It retains its stranglehold over the Australian imagination in part because, like all myths, it establishes a false moral order: that good character and hard work were enough to avoid punishment in the colony. It wasn’t true then, and at heart we know it’s not true now.

Unexceptional people were sent to Norfolk as a matter of course, and as a result were treated with exceptional cruelty – not to deter criminals (which the Australian penal settlements failed to do), but to maintain and justify a regime of arbitrary low-level cruelty against the rest of the transported convicts on the mainland.
Convict Ship

However, those under the lash did not cease to see themselves as British subjects: punishment tends to breed loyalty to an established social order, rather than encourage rebellion. This is why nobody bothers to read classic Australian fiction, which at its best is anti-colonial and anti-establishment. We no longer know how to find it enjoyable, and that’s a shame, because it offers a clear vantage point from which to view our current situation.

In the pivotal scene of Marcus Clarke’s classic convict novel, For The Term Of His Natural Life, Kirkland (a convict up for a flogging) encourages the protagonist Rufus Dawes to deliver his punishment: “‘Go on, Dawes,’ whispered Kirkland, without turning his head. ‘You are no more than another man.’”

Dawes, also a prisoner, stops after 50 lashes. “I’ll flog no more”, he says. “Get someone else to do your blood work for you. I won’t.” He himself is tied to the triangle for Kirkland’s share plus a few dozen more. Then the novel’s real scandal occurs:
Convict Ship

“For 20 lashes more Dawes was mute, and then the agony forced from his labouring breast a hideous cry. But it was not a cry for mercy … He cursed all soldiers for tyrants, all parsons for hypocrites. He blasphemed his God and his Saviour. With a frightful outpouring of obscenity and blasphemy, he called on the earth to gape and swallow his persecutors…”

Dawes, by condemning the pointless and arbitrary colonial order that forces him to terrorise one of his fellows, is the novel’s hero.

By contrast, North, the priest and “establishment humanitarian” character (tellingly also a “confirmed drunkard”, or by today’s lax standards, a hipster epicure) fails in his pledge to save Kirkland from the lash. He instead turns up halfway through hungover, and finds himself delighting in the spectacle: “He would fain have fled, but a horrible fascination held him back.”

The tragedy of Operation Sovereign Borders is that it descends even further from this awful scene. The asylum seekers on Nauru and Christmas Island are not even punished as part of the established legal order, becoming subjects of the state as a result of their suffering. The federal government refuses to recognise their personhood as attracting inherent legal rights, which permits them to be maltreated. It is little wonder that they want to die, they are not even seen as human beings by the authority to which they want to submit themselves.

If we accept this description of asylum seekers (what Agamben calls homo sacer) then the spectacle of members of parliament crying over asylum seekers who drowned off Christmas Island was nothing more than unadulterated narcissism: “It makes me, a powerful elected member of government, upset to see that the legal structure I help perpetuate causes an utterly powerless person to either drown or be tortured.”

They are actually worse than North, who in Clarke’s novel at least has the decency to be ashamed at his failure. When he cries “No. Not if you are Christians!” at the sight of Kirkland’s flogging, he does not look for validation from those around him – unlike our MPs, who were no doubt glad to receive praise for their tears.

Immigration minister Scott Morrison’s decisions are even more loathsome, because he hides his gleeful administration of Operation Sovereign Borders behind a range of military and parliamentary processes. It would be more honest for him to be more like Marcus Clarke’s commandant Burgess, who laughs while Dawes is flogged, taking direct pleasure in doing his duty.

“But it’s sick to enjoy that!” you say. Yes, it is. So why do you support a system that delivered Morrison to power? Because it’s the parliament?

“The parliament has to do all kinds of distasteful things. That doesn’t mean we enjoy it”, you reply. Really? So much for the rule of law – the asylum seekers haven’t committed a crime!

“Yes they have, they came illegally.” Even if that were the case, so did your ancestors – and they were treated the same way. That’s the trained outburst of a broken person, who identifies with the authority that dominates him rather than with justice – not the words of a natural bigot.

Why is Australian culture cruel? Because that’s the behaviour our cruel state demands from us to show loyalty.

The reality of Morrison.

15 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by gerard oosterman in Uncategorized

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John Hewson, Latifa, Myanmar, Rohinngyan, Scott Morrison

1210_morrison_ahttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-15/asylum-seeker-baby-brisbane-hospital-rejects-scott-morrison/5093782

Former Liberal Leader John Hewson has accused Immigration Minister Scott Morrison of arrogance and condemned as inhumane his decision to limit an asylum seeker’s access to her sick baby.

Latifa, a Rohingyan woman from Myanmar, gave birth in Brisbane’s Mater Hospital last week but was returned to a Brisbane detention centre while her baby remained in the neonatal intensive care unit.

For several days the Immigration Department only allowed Latifa to visit her baby at the hospital between 10:00am and 4:00pm.

On Sky News, Dr Hewson accused Mr Morrison of arrogance, saying his treatment of the woman was ridiculous.

“It’s inhumanity in the extreme in my view, I mean a mother in these circumstances is normally given 24-hour access to a child in intensive care,” Dr Hewson said.

“I mean for heaven’s sake, you know Morrison can go make all the short-term points he likes out there but this is something I think that sends absolutely the wrong message.”

The baby was discharged from hospital yesterday.

A spokesman for Mr Morrison yesterday said doctors at the hospital had advised that it is common for mothers not to stay overnight because of bed restrictions.

But in a statement to ABC’s AM program, the Mater Hospital suggested the mother should have been allowed to visit her child whenever she wanted.

The hospital says it encourages new mothers to be involved in the baby’s care wherever possible to help establish a strong bond, and does not place restrictions on visiting hours.

“Once a mum is clinically well enough to go home, she is discharged from hospital, but is encouraged to be involved in her baby’s care wherever possible to help establish and strengthen her bond with her baby,” the statement said.

“Mater places no restrictions on women and they can visit their baby anytime where possible.”

Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce executive officer Misha Coleman says Latifa should have been shown more compassion.

“Of course all of us who’ve had babies know that if they are in intensive care or special care, you can’t necessarily sleep by the cot all night, but you can certainly be down the hallway or on the next floor,” she said.

“So that when the baby needs to have milk [or] be fed, the mother can be called and is very, very close at hand.”

Libnat Product Endorsement #19 – Boat Stoppers

28 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Emmjay, Politics in the Pig's Arms

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Indonesian response, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott, Turning back th boats

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Story by Emmjay

Challenge to readers:  Some aspects of this article are probably made up.  Other bits are direct quotes.  Try and spot which bits are ludicrous – first correct entry wins a boat.  Or a lunatic government.

In a reasoned response to the flood of German adventure tourists being smuggled into Australia by unscrupulous smuggler pirates, Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott announced that they would stop the boats and turn back the Teutonic hordes by buying every single boat and turning them back to from whence  boats came.

The <insert barely relevant media source here> went on to report…….

The policy also includes bounties to buy boats from owners who might be tempted to sell them to smugglers and to give Indonesia more money to improve its own search and rescue capabilities.

The Opposition’s immigration spokesman Scott Morrison spoke to chief political correspondent Sabra Lane.  Points to Sabra for keeping her lunch down.

SCOTT MORRISON: The measures we’ll announce today deal with the practical commitment to regional cooperation and the single minded focus on deterrence. Now that will include everything from significantly upgrading our involvement in joint operations with Indonesian national police, to work with them and make that offer.

In also involves community outreach program which would involve a bounties potentially through, working through villages, buying boats back where you can. But also just promoting the awareness like we did after the Bali bombings with counterterrorism to raise awareness that people smuggling is a criminal activity and it’s things that shouldn’t be encouraged or supported.

SABRA LANE: On the buying of the boats, would you need to talk to Indonesia about that first? Who would make the approach; would it be Indonesian officials or Australian officials on the ground?

SCOTT MORRISON: All of these programs will be run through cooperation with officials in Indonesia. And what’s in the policy today is about an offer of practical support of a nature that will put meaning to regional cooperation initiatives.

Regional cooperation isn’t about talk; it’s about actually doing things. And we need to significantly upscale the work that is being done throughout the region, not just in Indonesia but also in Malaysia and Sri Lanka and that’s what this policy seeks to address.

From the Guardian – August 26 –

Opposition leader Tony Abbott‘s plan to buy boats from Indonesian fishermen to prevent the vessels being used by people smugglers has been slammed by Jakarta as unfriendly and an insult to Indonesia.

The buyback plan has met with heavy resistance in Jakarta, with a senior member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s ruling Coalition saying it showed Abbott lacked understanding of Indonesia, and the broader asylum-seeker problem.

Mahfudz Siddiq, the head of Indonesia’s parliamentary commission for foreign affairs, said on Monday that it was Abbott’s right to suggest the policy but warned that it had broader implications for the relationship between Jakarta and Australia.

“It’s an unfriendly idea coming from a candidate who wants to be Australian leader,” Siddiq told Australian Associated Press.

“That idea shows how he sees things as (an) Australian politician on Indonesia regarding people smuggling. Don’t look at us, Indonesia, like we want this people smuggling.

“This is really a crazy idea, unfriendly, derogatory and it shows lack of understanding in this matter.”

—ooo—

 

Abbottian Attack Dog

09 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by Therese Trouserzoff in Warrigal Mirriyuula

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cartoon, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott

Abbott with Abbottian Attack Dog – Morrisonii scottocious

Digital Mischief by Warrigal Mirriyuula

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