There are few words here for you to read. They are not necessary to tell the lamentable tale of Morrison’s dishonesty; the embedded YouTube video does the talking. Malcolm Turnbull belled the cat in spectacular style during his remote National Press Club address on 29 September. In his inimitable style, he called out the sheer dishonesty of our Prime Minister. If you missed it, here is the link to Turnbull’s speech: https://youtu.be/f5mpKEuVdsM Here is a report on his speech that you may wish to read if you haven’t the time to watch it in its entirety...

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By David Donovan

Prime Minister Scott Morrison must resign. The fact he won’t and will not be forced to do so illustrates, more than ever, the desultory state of Australian democracy and its ostensible guardians — the Fourth Estate.

Why should he resign?

Is it because of the laughable “plan” he took to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, which involved nothing more than a press conference repeating the word “plan” 71 times (maybe more) in 25 minutes, while brandishing a small blue pamphlet in his hammy fist?

That was an embarrassment and was probably why no one at all, apart from his perennial boosters in the media claque, turned up for his cringe-worthy and misleading speech at the Glasgow talks.

Indeed, here is the Climate Council’s dissection of this tour de farce and the excruciating video evidence of his utter irrelevance on the global stage. But, humiliating as that was for the nation, that is not, primarily, why Morrison should immediately, now, resign.

Is it for the way, on the global stage, with the world watching, the rest of the leaders of the Western World refused to engage with him, shake his hand, even look at him? Even former Finance Minister, now Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Mathias Cormann did not engage with the PM.

Despite the clearly dismal regard in which our ham-fisted Prime Minister is held by others of importance, even this is not why he should, right now, with speed and alacrity, resign his political post.

Should Morrison resign because he cancelled a major defence contract with one of our most significant and longstanding allies, for their building of our next generation of conventional submarines in favour of a U.S. nuclear option? Something French President Emmanuel Macron has stated came as a complete surprise to him, causing a diplomatic furore?

Indeed, asked by Australian journalist Bevan Shields whether Scott Morrison had lied to him, President Macron was piercingly clear:

SHIELDS: Do you think [Morrison] lied to you?

MACRON: I don’t think, I know.

Should the PM resign for also misleading United States President Joe Biden about the circumstances of the new submarine deal? Circumstances of his own making, involving his misleading France into believing it was business as usual?

In an idiotic and insulting article, The Australian asks:

‘Did the ageing President simply misunderstand the situation? Or is Mr Biden playing politics by throwing Australia under the bus in a measured way, to help repair America’s relationship with France?’ 

Or, should the Prime Minister resign for – even if not actually suggesting it – failing to correct News Corp’s ridiculous assertion that it was the “ageing” U.S. President’s memory that led to the international diplomatic blunder for which Morrison alone is to blame?

To recap, it’s been a busy week for the PM.

Morrison lied to French President Emmanuel Macron. Then Scotty lied about lying to Macron, attacking the person to whom he initially lied.

He then attempted to garner support by turning all Australians into accomplices, devising an imaginary plot in which Macron was somehow attacking all Australians and the very hallowed turf we inhabit, with the following indignant accusation:

“I’m not going to cop sledging of Australia, I’m not going to cop that on behalf of Australians.”   

Of course, at no point was Macron including Australia or other Australians. What the French President actually did, was call out a liar when he saw one and that liar is Morrison.

Does Scott Morrison somehow believe he is the personification of Australia? Of all Australians?

IA is reminded of that other vainglorious failure, King Louis XIV, who declaimed, fatefully, "l'État, c'est moi!" (I am the state!).

Moi aussi, says Morrison.

To which, Vive la révolution! is the only reply.

About Australia, Macron actually said:

"I have a lot of respect for your country. I have a lot of respect and a lot of friendship for your people.”

But this did not stop Morrison from following this gaslighting by accusing the press of “taking selfies” with the French President — another outright lie, according to Press Gallery President David Crowe.

And finally, at least so far, the PM, along with help from his besties at the Murdoch rag deceptively named The Australian, pointed the blame at the President of the United States — a scenario that can only end in tears for Australia.

All of that is appalling and utterly crippling diplomatically, but maybe Morrison could endure as PM, for a while, with the appropriate caveats and grovelling apologies. Perhaps.

But no, the reason ScoMo must go is because, purely for crass opportunistic political purposes, he leaked private text messages between himself and President Macron — an action described by France’s Ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault as “an unprecedented new low”.

And Morrison took it a step further, enlisting the help of the cheerleading Murdoch publicity machine, which dominates Australia’s media landscape, in the cover-up of his endless, shameless lies.

All over something that, as former PM Kevin Rudd indicated:

‘…could have been avoided with an ordinary diplomatic letter informing Paris that Australia's requirements had changed & asking to re-tender.’

And now, no one will ever trust Australia again.

At least not until ScoMo goes. And probably not for a fair while after that.

Today, we are an international pariah and the blame for that rests solely and squarely with our current leader.

The fact that Prime Minister Scott Morrison will not resign illustrates, more than ever, the moribund state of Australian democracy and its ostensible guardians — the Fourth Estate.

Read more: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/scott-morrison-really-should-resign-oui,15708

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Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has voiced his concerns that the rule of law is “under threat” in Australia, claiming parliamentarians have enabled an “normalisation of lies” that is undermining federal politics.

In a wide-ranging address to a public integrity organisation, Mr Turnbull complained the federal parliamentary press gallery and the News Corp media empire was too “compliant” to the Coalition government, and called recent actions of government MP George Christensen and Alex Antic “bizarre”.

“We’re starting to see a political environment which has ethically lost its way,” the former PM told an online event for the Accountability Round Table on Wednesday night.

“At the heart of this is a diminishing adherence to, understanding of, respect for the values of accountability.”

Mr Turnbull has been a vocal critic of his successor, Scott Morrison, and the Coalition since he was spilled as prime minister in August 2018. The former member for Wentworth regularly weighs in on government scandals and has joined former Labor PM Kevin Rudd’s call for further scrutiny of News Corp.

On Wednesday, Mr Turnbull launched the ‘Integrity Now’ project from the Accountability Round Table. It calls for reforms including greater parliamentary oversight of treaties, legislation and spending; changes to parliament’s question time; greater scrutiny of ministerial staff; overhauls to freedom of information laws; and a strong Commonwealth integrity commission.

Nearly three years after proposing such a body, the Morrison government has still not introduced its legislation for a federal anti-corruption body into parliament, despite having its proposal finalised.

In an online speech, Mr Turnbull bemoaned what he called “the rise of populist authoritarianism”, which he compared to fascism, in the US and Australia.

“The rule of law here is under threat as well,” he said.

“Right at the heart of that is the normalisation of things we’ve always regarded as being beyond the pale. The most fundamental of them is the normalisation of lies.”

Mr Turnbull did not mention any politician specifically in that criticism, but spoke of what he claimed was a culture that allowed politicians to “say whatever works best for [them] in the moment”.

“You get these examples where not only are people doing the wrong thing, but they don’t think they’re doing the wrong thing. And that is what creates the urgency for the type of measures we’re talking about here today,” he said.

Mr Turnbull described Mr Christensen and Senator Antic – who have spread criticisms of Australia’s COVID and vaccine rules on far-right American talk shows – as “bizarre” and “on the fringes”. But he claimed theso-called ‘blind trust’ to finance the legal fees of former attorney-general Christian Porter was “the most bizarre”.

“It didn’t wash, and resulted in him having to leave the ministry. But the fact it was even considered viable, tells you something about how bearings have been lost,” Mr Turnbull said.

He said he initially did not support the idea of a federal integrity body like NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption, claiming he did not believe corruption was a major issue in Canberra when he entered politics in 2004. However, Mr Turnbull said he now believed that a Commonwealth body, with public hearings, was needed.

The Morrison government’s federal integrity commission would not hold public hearings for politicians.

Mr Morrison has described NSW’s ICAC as a “kangaroo court” and “a bad process”. In seeking to encourage former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian to enter federal politics, despite pending results of an ICAC investigation into her dealings with ex-boyfriend Daryl Maguire, Mr Morrison complained she had “suffered terribly in terms of things that have been aired publicly”.

Elsewhere in his address, Mr Turnbull criticised the government for what he claimed was an attitude that those inside the Coalition felt they “can do whatever we like”.

Mr Turnbull also decried what he described as “falsehoods and half-truths” spread by the government over the AUKUS pact, which cancelled a submarine deal he had negotiated with France.

He also alleged the federal press gallery – the journalists stationed permanently inside Parliament House, who report daily on national politics – had become too “compliant” to the government.

“News Corp is effectively part of the government,” Mr Turnbull said.

He also questioned whether the government’s passage of the news media bargaining code – which compelled Facebook and Google to broker commercial agreements with journalism outlets – was “ethical” or a “conflict of interest”.

“The Australian people, from whom that authority came, have never been told how much money there was,” Mr Turnbull said.

“This means the government does not feel it has been held to account by the media in the way it was … far too many journalists are not doing that job anymore.”

Read more:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/12/09/malcolm-turnbull-lies-politics/

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Methinks Malcolm was naive to trust ScoMo at face value... Truth and ScoMo don't exist in the same sentence...

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