The Sutherland Shire’s isolation has created a uniquely self-referential culture that is deeply suspicious of outsiders and actively tries to keep them out. The sort of conflict Channel Ten wants to feed off.
Scott Morrison
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Open letter from an infectious disease physician: Dear Scott Morrison….
Trent Yarwood, an infectious diseases physician, accuses Scott Morrison of crass political opportunism.
Crikey Says: Recipe for a beat-up
Start with the headline, and work backwards. Pick a theme. In this case, riff off the idea of a game show giveaway.
The Coalition’s fog of fiscal confusion
The Coalition’s confusion over its fiscal policy reflects the gap between its small government rhetoric and political reality.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Politics the art of the possible
Crikey readers have their say.
How does the Coalition really feel about asylum seekers?
The government’s asylum seeker deal with Malaysia seems to have altered the Coalition’s own policy.
Get Shorten: the opposition’s only highlight
While the Opposition focused on targeting Bill Shorten, Labor appears to have decided there are diminishing returns in keeping a low profile on immigration.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Who let the dog whistle politics out?
Crikey readers have their say.
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Pure Poison Podcast: Did I mention that I met Tony Jones?
A packed podcast from the Pure Poision team this week, covering the Middle East, Scott Morrison and refugees, the Broadmeadows election, disability pensions, mining companies and more.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: ‘Islam in Australia’ a debate we should be allowed to have
Crikey readers have their say.
Political snippets: Ignoring what the people think
My own observations and conversations suggest the anti-Muslim sentiment is both strong and growing.
The ideology dividing both parties
Ideology and personalities are usually the stumbling blocks to political unity. But they work in quite different ways in the Liberal and Labor parties.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Golf club poll: Morrison’s a d*ckhead
Crikey readers have their say.
Political snippets: Are we too scared to find out?
Apparently a petition like this one calling for a ban on Muslim immigration has been tabled some 68 times in Federal Parliament.
Malcolm Fraser: multiculturalism hasn’t failed, only the Liberal Party
Multiculturalism is not a failed idea, says former PM Malcolm Fraser. He welcomes Labor’s re-embrace, but in this piece for Crikey he condemns his former Liberal Party for creating a climate of fear on the issue.
Jericho: Scott Morrison apologises? What bollocks
Yesterday the media ran the line that Scott Morrison came out and apologised for his gutter trash comments about asylum seekers’ funerals. That’s bulldust, says Greg Jericho. He only apologised for his timing.
Grattan: Morrison’s disgraceful effort
Michelle Grattan fires up over MP Scott Morrison’s non-apology for his “insensitive” comments about asylum seekers attending funerals, declaring that Abbott needs to “get back the discipline”, before the Opposition unravels completely.
Taking the pulse: switchboards light up over asylum seeker funeral
On Monday, opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison sparked a debate by questioning the appropriateness of using taxpayers’ dollars to fly relatives of victims of the Christmas Island shipwreck to Sydney to attend a funeral ceremony.
Hockey stands aside from Islamophobia campaign
Scott Morrison’s attempt to exploit the funerals of the Christmas Island victims forms part of a series of attacks on Muslims from sections of the Liberal Party.
Senior Liberal staffer: Hockey must go
Joe Hockey should be forced to leave his position as Shadow Treasurer after he undermined colleague Scott Morrison and manipulated the funerals of asylum seekers for political benefit, writes an anonymous senior Liberal Party staffer.
Scott Morrison defends your taxpayer dollars from dead refugee children
I’ve been trying to avoid jumping to conclusions, but in light of Scott Morrison’s gut-turning comments about refugees I’m beginning to suspect that he might not be a particularly nice man, writes Jeremy Sear.
‘Bizarre’ and ‘unworkable’ — Morrison’s plan for asylum seekers
Opposition immigration spokesperson Scott Morrison’s plan to send Afghan asylum seekers — who arrive in boats — back to camps in countries such as Pakistan and Iran is doomed to fail, say asylum seeker advocates.
The Coalition’s desperate ploy on immigration
Clearly concerned that the Coalition are facing heavy defeat on August 21, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison have announced a crass piece of opportunitism today - a plan to cap immigration at 170,000 a year.
