“Psycho” Morrison would have you believe that Labor’s Anthony Albanese is as psycho as he is:
Scott Morrison says Anthony Albanese is “unable to stand up to bullies” in his own party amid bullying allegations of late Senator Kimberley Kitching, as he ramped up his attack on the Labor leader for being hypotical on his stance towards women.
The Prime Minister said Mr Albanese’s refusal to investigate bullying allegations was “distressing” as he accused him of applying a double standard which won’t “sit well” with voters.
“I find distressing about this is, firstly, the double standard that he’s applying,” Mr Morrison said. “He’s very quick to throw stones on these issues but when it comes to actually meeting the very standard that he seeks to apply to others, then he fails at the first hurdle and he goes to ground.
The Kimberly Kitching saga is pretty horrible even if it looks like typical Labor factional bloodshed.
But it pales utterly against the twenty-something unresolved rape and sexual assault allegations in the LNP under Morrison. Another surfaces today:
NSW MP and former Liberal minister Gareth Ward has been charged over the alleged historic sexual abuse of a teenage boy and a man.
The 40-year-old was charged on Tuesday with three counts of assault with an act of indecency, and one count each of sexual intercourse without consent and common assault.
Morrison’s methods appear to come from a dark and hungry god:
A high-ranking Hillsong pastor who allegedly raped a junior female staff member while conducting an extramarital affair was subsequently promoted to a position of more authority in the church, despite Hillsong’s leadership knowing of the affair.
The revelation is contained in an internal Hillsong investigation obtained by Crikey.
The investigation, conducted by Hillsong lawyers in the United States and finalised at the beginning of last year, probed allegations from the young woman that she had not consented to sex with the senior pastor, Reed Bogard, at their initial encounter. Bogard was married at the time.
Law firm Zukerman Gore Brandeis and Crossman made a number of findings critical of Hillsong’s actions after it was made aware several years ago that Bogard had engaged in the extramarital affair with the junior female employee.
The firm found the church leadership had failed to conduct “any meaningful inquiry” at the time it became aware and that it appeared to “uniformly assume” the relationship had been consensual from the outset, even though it occurred between “a powerful church leader and a young, low-level staff person”.
The revelation of Hillsong’s flawed approach to investigating Bogard’s behaviour follows damaging disclosures made last week about church founder and figurehead Pastor Brian Houston. The revelations also raise further questions about the ability of Hillsong’s leadership to protect young women from abuse or the church’s willingness to discipline sexual transgressors.
Eeeiuuu…
Then there is the LNP assault upon any free speech that it disagrees with. From “Tiny” Tim Wilson in Goldstein to Philip Ruddock’s Hornsby:
Philip Ruddock’s Hornsby Shire Council has threatened not to collect the rubbish of residents with anti-Scott Morrison stickers on their bins after receiving a complaint from an “offended” neighbour.
The stickers feature photographs of Mr Morrison holding a lump of coal in Parliament, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, and are accompanied by captions such as “bin him” and “chuck them out”.
They were originally produced by the Smart Energy Council – whose board includes climate campaigners Simon Holmes a Court and Oliver Yates – until an intervention by the charities regulator. They are now disseminated by a separate company run by a Smart Energy Council employee.
I could go on in terms of energy psychopolitics, welfare psychopolitics, national security psychopolitics, housing psychopolitics etc. The LNP wins on all of these with daylight second.
It is no wonder, then, that in the psychopolitics stakes there is only one winner:
