Peter the Malignant Potato is talking shit again. He's rolling out the stale, old arguments against renewable energy. There's nothing new here in his message.
But his delivery has changed. I think he's had some analysts telling him his personal performance on the Dunkley bye-election was a flop, and nobody is believing his hype about Small Nuclear Reactors.
As a result, Dutton has started to mix-in some folksy humour, common misconceptions held by Boomers, conspiracy shibboleths, and some preposterously wrong assertions. It takes time for opposing viewpoints to critique his garbage, but he's already moved on to his next point quickly.
It's a subtle but dangerous shift. Dutton has adopted a media strategy used by Steve Bannon, MAGA nutjobs, and QAnon conspiracy theorists: flooding the zone with shit.
"It’s apparently of little significance to News Corp and the ABC that the alternative leader of the country is neck-deep in scandals care of Home Affairs. "
Mediocrity? Hmm. #AlboMP, O'Neil, Shorten, Burke, Dreyfus — have recently given us a national gun register that will actually make Australians safer (unlike #Dutton's screeching about the high court decision to actually involve the courts in detaining people). We also have some good reforms to the NDIS, badly needed for many reasons. Not least of which is the fact that service providers see it is a huge bucket of money. We also have Wage Theft that has been criminalised. Finally. And same work, same pay laws happening. And we also have a new migration intake strategy that should go far to reducing the abuse of overseas "students" coming to Australia and make our intake of immigrants more sustainable.
Projects hijacked by ‘political actors like Peter Dutton suddenly pretending to care about whales’.
Associate professor Michelle Voyer was startled to see an article from the internationally esteemed academic journal Marine Policy asserting that wind energy projects proposed for the waters off the Illawarra and Hunter Valley would kill 400 whales a year pop up on social media.
After all Voyer lives in the Illawarra, and due to her role as principal fellow with the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong, she has expertise in the field. She is also, it turns out, associate editor of Marine Policy. She did not recognise the article.
For those wondering about the statement by First nations groups, opposing #Dutton calls for a royal commission, but frustrated by the media for not linking to their sources, this seems to be it: https://www.snaicc.org.au/231019-joint-statement/
It’s worth remembering that the Liberal party, under Peter #Dutton, began running a soft NO campaign almost immediately after the federal election.
The Nationals announced their opposition to the voice before the question was even put forward.
The referendum was on what Indigenous leaders who co-signed the Uluru statement from the heart had asked for.
It was not Labor’s request nor was it a self-starter policy from Labor or Anthony #Albanese.
It was the request of the Indigenous leaders who had been asked by Tony #Abbott to form a consensus on what form of constitutional recognition they thought was best.
The answer was the #Uluru statement from the heart – #voice truth, treaty.
So this idea that the government didn’t work hard enough to get bipartisan support is #bullshit.
If they had given the #Coalition what it said it wanted (with no guarantees it still wouldn’t have tanked the referendum), then #Labor would have been compromising what Indigenous people had asked for – and it wasn’t Labor’s compromise to make.
This wasn’t just politics. It never is.
But for the opposition to now turn around and blame the government “for a missed opportunity” when it spent the last year doing what it could to destroy the voice proposal – which included asking misleading “questions” – is not only transparently predictable, it is another sad indictment of the state of political “debate” in this country. #auspol
This is mind boggling. I was aware of noises being made around refugees not coming by boat any more, but rather the people smugglers were bringing them in by plane. um, this report seems to have blown the lid off. Pezzullo is wrapped up in this as well. Going to be an interesting story. Another RoboDebt maybe?
How is Peter Dutton going to hold a second referendum? Only the PM can do that. Dutton is not the PM, won't be PM any time soon, and is unlikely to ever be PM.
He's trying to convince people the Voice referendum is low-stakes and he can give us a do-over if the "Yes" vote doesn't get up. What a load of shit. This is flagrant bullshit.
Dutton is importing MAGA-style tactics: "Flood the zone with shit". He lies and he lies and he lies. He's trying to deliberately exhaust us with a deluge of misinformation to the point where we can't tell truth from lies, nothing means anything, people are rendered incapable of caring, and then slip into nihilism. He dreams of being an autocrat without anyone able to challenge him.
RonniSalt @RonniSalt
This is purely about hijacking the news cycle
@PeterDutton_MP
's input into the new Reserve Bank governor is neither legally required, morally required nor required in terms of his actual expertise in economics
His opinion on this is irrelevant
The media playing with you again
RonniSalt @RonniSalt
This is one of the many reasons why traditional media consumers are splintering & looking for alternative news sources.
Don't just be bag carriers for politicians smuggling out cheap bullshit.
It's not necessary to report every single brain fart, word or thought they spit out.
Shane Morley 🐾 @shanelta
ABC News in Melbourne led with this in the 7 pm bulletin last night. Why? He has no part to play in it and his opinion doesn't matter.