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Situation Theatre

March 11, 2020

Government Which Bungled Bushfires, Citizenship, Census, Christmas Island, Drought, Energy Policy, Leadership, Murray-Darling, NBN, Reef, And Robo-Debt Also Unexpectedly Bungling Coronavirus, Economy

by Sarah Johnson


Image from The New Daily

Image from The New Daily

Image from The New Daily

Image from The New Daily

By Situation Theatre 11/3/2020

Weird.

The Prime Minister for at least today, Scott Morrison, handled the bushfire crisis so poorly, victims refused to shake his hand and conservative firefighters told him to go fuck himself.

The Government lost its majority because several of its members forgot they were also citizens of other countries.

They ran Australia’s first online census which was a “major disaster”, with millions of households unable to log in to complete the forms.

They spent $185 million reopening and promptly re-closing Christmas Island detention centre, then dumped a beloved Australian family there, along with hundreds of potential coronavirus victims.

Their response to the National Drought Emergency was described as panicky, unfocused, and belated.

They’ve been slammed by every relevant expert in the country for their climate sabotage, and their one failed energy policy, the NEG, killed off their leader.

They’ve been through three Prime Ministers in less than seven years, and may yet lose another one.

Their environmental mismanagement may kill off both the Murray-Darling Basin and Great Barrier Reef.

Their botched rollout of the NBN was described by experts as a “national infrastructure disaster” costing $51 billion.

Their robo-debt scheme issued automated debts to individuals who owed nothing, and has been linked with 2030 deaths.

So you can see why their shambolic coronavirus response and clueless economic management comes as a bit of a shock.

I mean that quite concretely and specifically. Josh Frydenberg and Scott Morrison give every indication that they literally don't understand how macroeconomic stimulus works

— Ben Eltham (@beneltham) March 10, 2020

*Please note there is plenty more bungling where that came from but there’s only so much time in the day, you know? And that’s not even starting on the corruption.

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