The worst kept secret in Australian politics is out. PM Scott Morrison is deeply disturbed and disordered:
The increasingly strained relationship between the NSW and federal Liberal governments has been further inflamed after explosive and damaging texts were revealed in which former premier Gladys Berejiklian purportedly labelled Prime Minister Scott Morrison a “horrible, horrible person”.
In the exchange, an unidentified state or federal minister allegedly called Mr Morrison “a complete psycho”. The texts, revealed by a senior journalist at Mr Morrison’s National Press Club address on Tuesday, offer a rare insight into a seemingly toxic atmosphere between the two Liberal governments ahead of four NSW byelections and a looming federal poll.
And, right on time, the minions of evil delivered with a backgrounding to journalists on the dead:
Aged care workers have described comments by the federal health minister, Greg Hunt, on Covid deaths in the sector as “astonishing” and “disrespectful”, and say the significance of those deaths is being downplayed by politicians.
On Monday, Hunt addressed a growing number of deaths in aged care, with 473 Covid-related aged-care deaths recorded in January alone.
“The latest advice that I have is that approximately 60% of those that have agonisingly passed have been in palliative care,” Hunt said. He added: “The definition is that they have passed with Covid, and they are absolutely rightly counted as a national loss. But approximately 60% of those that have passed were in palliative care.”
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation federal secretary, Annie Butler, said the comments were “astonishing”.
“How much more disrespectful to elderly Australians can this government be,” Butler asked. “To turn around and say basically, ‘you were just going to die anyway,’ rather than acknowledging that they died faster and in difficult conditions because the government didn’t look after them well enough.
“The comments are just outrageous because elderly people can be in palliative care for a week, for two weeks, or even years, and the aim is to make sure the person has the best life they can have in that time. Letting Covid rip through homes and these people become infected is hardly delivering people the best quality of life that they can have.”
Just as astonishing and revealing, this horror story is being visited upon the Morrison Government’s core constituency. This goes directly to just how loony the PM is, unable to manage even his basic political interests with a half-considered policy.
Australians don’t need Berejiklian’s confession to know the truth. Morrison’s cold disregard for Australians has been repeated over and again in bushfire neglect, parliamentary rapes, compulsive pandemic failures, extraordinary corruption and relentless lying.
It wasn’t all bad. The serendipity of having Psycho Morrison on hand to break the China relationship is something the friendly fates delivered the Lucky Country.
But, now, it’s time to rid ourselves of this dangerous freak before he kills us all and eats our flesh with a side of fava beans and a nice Chianti.
