Hey yo

Not only did the government give away a ton of money to marginal seats just before the election in the form of community sports grants to organisations that weren’t eligible for it  including $50,0000 for a building in Morrison’s electorate that had already been built - BUT the government also ignored its own drought program criteria so it could give millions to places that weren’t eligible. Another bribe to win the election!

In response to the pandemic Morrison doubled Newstart - which finally meant welfare recipients could stop skipping meals just to make ends meet. It took a global pandemic for him to consider letting people on benefits live above the poverty line! But it’ll all be reverted back down in 6 months - or maybe even less! So he doesn’t really care about caring about the poor at all, he just didn’t want people who needed temporary assistance to hate him and lose votes! He’s also decided that the votes of the disabled community don’t matter because unlike other forms of support that were doubled - the Disability Support Pension remained low and instead got a one-off payment of $750 instead of a boost. In fact some people had their NDIS support cancelled and are unable to get essentials so Morrison has pointedly ignored vulnerable people and let them suffer!

Speaking of not giving a shit about people - Morrison excluded international students from any form of support and so now they’re relying on free meals from foodbanks to survive and some students have gone a week without food. International students inject $32 billion a year into Australia’s economy and create jobs. But of course the party of climate deniers doesn’t give a shit about higher education because they made sure that universities were basically incapable of claiming Jobkeeper for their staff. The more you look, the more people are excluded from support, and the more people suffer because Morrison doesn’t actually give a shit about people, he just wants enough people to be tricked into voting for him.

The Prime Minister’s Office hand picked a bunch of people from oil and gas companies to form a commission to find a way to grow the economic post-pandemic. They came back and said “give us lots of subsidies for gas and let us frack.” How blatantly obvious can you get trying to rig the results of a commission to support fossil fuels over renewables?

Scott Morrison literally said Australia never had slavery. He just outright erased Australia’s colonial history - Indigenous people were stolen from their lands and community, forced to work, and were exploited and had their wages stolen - even up to the 60s and 70s. What an abhorrent denial and ignorance of Australia’s racist history.

Scott Morrison said that welfare was too “generous” now that it’s no longer under the poverty line so it’s an “impediment” for the unemployed to go get jobs (during a recession and a global pandemic??? WHAT JOBS???) He’s perpetuating the harmful stereotype that poor people are entitled and lazy which is just classist bullshit from his mega-rich ass.

When a female Minister was directly asked about her experiences with a culture of disrespect and sexism towards women Scott Morrison IMMEDIATELY INTERRUPTED HER and gave a completely pointless and rude addition to the conversation over the usage of the words “bonk ban.” Way to prove how much of a sexist dickhead you are Morrison!