65 — Rough chuckles redux

We chat about Scott Morrison's week of waterworks, proposals to ban Posting and the big Cabinet job swap.

 

War crime update

• Afgan villagers are being allowed to testify from Afghanistan in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case.
• Check out Episode 46 for detail on Roberts-Smith’s alleged war crimes.
• Defamation laws didn’t protect the women who had their faces plastered over the front pages of newspapers and called “enemy of the state”.

Turning on the waterworks

• Scott Morrison turned on the waterworks.
• Begrudging shoutout to Ged Kearny for calling them crocodile tears.
• After questioning by a Sky News reporter, Scott Morrison lashed out, potentially outing a victim of sexual assault (turns out he maybe invented it, and made a groveling notes-app apology).
• Alleged upskirt-photographer Andrew Laming won’t contest the next election.
• ABC’s 7.30 Report empty-chair-interviewed Scott Morrison.
• Scott Morrison got bodied on A Current Affair.

Social media

• Dutton has taken a brave stand against video games.
• Disco Elysium was recently banned in Australia.
• Staffers doing things to desks because of Grand Theft Auto.
• Australia has a long and storied history of attempting to censor the internet.
• Conservatives are pushing for requiring 100 points of ID to create a social media account.
• On the committee proposing the ID requirements? Andrew Laming, who once spent 11 hours fighting on a Facebook Simpsons meme page, who has a long history of online harassment of women.

Job swap

• Scott Morrison has reshuffled cabinet again.
• Anne Ruston is minister for Women’s Safety, despite declaring that the government doesn’t need a definition of poverty.
• Jane Hume, now the Minister for Women’s Economic Security loves brown coal.
• Liberal Party federal vice-president Teena McQueen says she would “kill to be sexually harassed at the moment”.
• Anthony Albanese: “Shuffling the deck won’t change the bad hand that the Morrison Government is dealing Australians.”
• Australian of the Year Grace Tame had a more coherent take.
• The Murdoch media didn’t like this.

Actions

• Speak out about shit that’s bad. Read more Wikipedia?
• If you’re able to, attend the protest against deaths in custody on Saturday the 10th.
• Play Disco Elysium, unless you’ve got a PS4.