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The ambush of Bridget Archer is the latest incident of poor behaviour from Josh Frydenberg and he’s now admitted that the ambush was preplanned with Scott Morrison.

On 25 November, Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer seconded and crossed the floor to support Independent MP Helen Haines’ motion to suspend standing orders so Haines’ Integrity Commission Bill could be debated. With Archer’s support, the House voted in favour of suspending the standing orders 66-64, but the suspension of standing orders under Standing Order 47 requires an absolute majority of 76 votes, meaning the bill could not be debated.

 

By Hayden O'Connor

 

In response to Archer breaking rank and crossing the floor, she ended up in a conversation with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg which was photographed and shared widely across Twitter, with users suggesting that Frydenberg was intimidating or lecturing Archer — particularly after the photo was circulated again accompanying another photo of Archer leaving the chamber with Helen Haines. However, on her Twitter account, Archer tweeted a clarification stating that Frydenberg is a ‘good person’ and was ‘checking on my welfare’.

 

Regardless of what was said in this conversation between Archer and Frydenberg, it should be noted that when offering support and checking on one’s welfare, it’s best to sit at their level rather than standing over them and it’s best to not ambush and trick them into meeting with the Prime Minister against their wishes — which is exactly what Josh Frydenberg did.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the meeting which included Archer, Frydenberg, Minister for Women Marise Payne and himself as “friendly” — yet Bridget Archer gave an entirely different account of the meeting to Samantha Maiden:

Josh was very nice to me. I agreed to go to his office to have a one-on-one conversation. Then he said, ‘I am going to take you to the PM’s office’. I go down there and Marise and the PM are already waiting there.

 

It’s not having the conversation that I have the issue with. I just would have preferred to have pulled myself together.

 

I thought I was just going to have a one-on-one with Josh.

 

I spent the first half of the conversation crying and apologising. I just really felt that I would have liked to have had the conversation later in the day.

 

 

It’s clear from Archer’s words that Frydenberg deceived her and ambushed her into a meeting that she had not consented to. Archer believed she was having a one-on-one with Josh Frydenberg but instead, she was tricked into a three-on-one meeting with Morrison, Payne and Frydenberg.

In a normal workplace for such meetings, one is given time to prepare and allowed a support person — yet Archer was not provided with time nor support and the meeting with Morrison clearly could have waited.

From Josh Frydenberg’s 1 December interview with Leigh Sales on ABC 7.30, we now know that this ambush was preplanned between Frydenberg and Morrison.

In the interview, Sales asked Frydenberg:

“So, was that a spontaneous decision that you made when she was back in your office or had you and the Prime Minister pre-planned that you were going take her around there?”

Frydenberg’s response ignored the question entirely so Sales put the question to him again:

“Sorry to interrupt, you didn't quite answer the question. Had you and the Prime Minister made that plan before you had Bridget Archer in your office or did you spontaneously decide to take her around?”

With the question put to Frydenberg a second time, it’s evidently clear what is being asked and the first sentence of Frydenberg’s response ultimately confirms that he did indeed speak with Morrison before asking Archer to meet in his office — the ambush was preplanned:

I did speak to the Prime Minister before. I obviously spoke to Bridget and I can tell you, having been in that conversation with Bridget and the Prime Minister, it was a, I think a very constructive discussion and certainly I had the best of intentions to ensure that Bridget, the Prime Minister and I and in that case, Marise Payne, had an opportunity to discuss recent developments because Bridget is not only a valued colleague and friend but she is a very important part of the team and she is discussing important issues to her electorate and indeed, to the country.

When confirming that he spoke with Morrison before meeting with Archer, Frydenberg did not use his response to declare that taking Archer to Morrison’s office was not preplanned. This possibly accidental admission from Frydenberg is yet another clear example of the toxic workplace culture within Parliament and it undoubtedly highlights the importance of the Set the Standard report.

According to MP Julia Banks, this is not the first time that Frydenberg has tried to ambush a woman into meeting with the PM. In an opinion piece this week, Banks recounted her own experience in Parliament stating that Frydenberg had played the ‘good cop’ in an attempt to ‘lure and ambush’ her into meeting with the Prime Minister — the same tactics he used on Archer.

  

Read more:

 https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/frydenberg-admits-to-planning-bridget-archer-ambush,15812

 

Note: Such belittling of women in the Liberal (CONservative) Party IS DESIGNED TO MAKE THEM MORE PALATABLE TO THE ELECTORATE. It's a trick to make ScoMo troops of "moderates" be re-elected and let ScoMo come back as the leader of the crappy party (the Liberal COnservative Party)... Don't vote for the liberal "moderate" women !!! Vote for the TRUE independent women should you not be able to vote for the Labor Party because of your convictions...

 

 

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perspective...

As the NSW Liberal Party has “quietly adopted a target” of 50 per cent female candidates for next year’s federal election, Liberal Women’s Council president Mary-Lou Jarvis says it clearly “makes sense” to have more women in a team for the perspective they bring (“NSW Libs on target to field 50 per cent women”, December 3). Ask Julia Banks, Bridget Archer, Rachelle Miller and Brittany Higgins how their “perspective” made any difference. 

 

Rob Phillips, North Epping

 

Read more:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/liberal-approach-to-standard-of-behaviour-20211202-p59e9m.html

 

 

 

 

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jobs?...

 

By Alan Austin

 

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is ramping up the falsehoods as an election looms, writes Alan Austin.

VETERAN MELBOURNE RADIO presenter Neil Mitchell asked Treasurer Josh Frydenberg point blank last Thursday if he had ever told a lie. Frydenberg immediately said “no” and Mitchell accepted this without challenge. Perhaps Mitchell hasn’t read any of the articles chronicling the multiple falsehoods. Or perhaps he has, but believes dishonesty and deception are essential for the Coalition to be re-elected.

 

Virtually all interviews on the Treasurer’s media website are riddled with bare-faced lies which commercial radio and TV presenters happily swallow, never question and frequently amplify.

 

Last Thursday, Frydenberg told Leon Byner on 5AA:

“Australia’s economic recovery has been stronger than all but two major advanced economies – stronger than Germany or Italy, stronger than Japan, stronger than Canada, stronger that the United Kingdom.”

This is blatantly false and easily disproven. Australia’s growth in gross domestic product (GDP) over the 12 months to September announced the day before that interview was a modest 3.85%. Italy’s was 3.9%, Canada’s was 4%, while the United Kingdom recorded an impressive 6.6%.

 

Yes, Australia beat Japan and Germany, but was way behind most comparable advanced economies. Sweden registered 4.7%, China and the USA both 4.9%, the Netherlands 5%, Norway 5.1%, Israel 5.9%, Singapore 7.1% and Chile an impressive 17.2%.

If we look at all 38 developed OECD member countries, Australia’s annual GDP growth ranks a miserable 30th. That is the lowest ranking on record for any period in Australia’s history. So it is absolutely false and hypocritical for Frydenberg to claim ascendancy with these figures. 

 

Employment falsehoods

Frydenberg assured Byner’s Adelaide audience that:

“We have actually seen 350,000 jobs come back since the start of September.”

No, we haven’t. The total number of jobs has fallen in each of the last three months, as clearly shown by the screenshot, below, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, released on 11 November. This shows that 146,300 jobs were lost in August, another 141,100 jobs went in September and 46,300 more disappeared in October.

 

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In total, 333,700 jobs have gone since the end of July.

 

Frydenberg claimed that:

“Programs like JobKeeper helped save more than 700,000 jobs to the point that unemployment is now lower than it was when we came to Government.”

This is plainly false. The ABS shows that when the Coalition took office in September 2013, the official unemployment rate was 5.63% with another 649,800 “employed” Australians working zero hours. That was 5.34% of the workforce, so the actual total jobless was 10.97%.

Currently the official jobless rate is 5.22% but 1,157,000 workers are on zero hours, which is 8.48% of the workforce. So the total jobless now is actually 13.70%.

Expectations and clairvoyance

In answer to a question about hopeful signs of recovery, Frydenberg said:

“We know that non‑mining investment intentions are the strongest on record with over $100 billion expected to be spent over the course of this year.”

 

Intentions? Expected to? Okay, might happen. But might not. They are not signs of success until they have eventuated.

The OECD’s critical report

Frydenberg claimed that:

“The economy is looking strong for 2022, and overnight the OECD actually upgraded the growth forecast for Australia from 3.3 to 4.1%and said the Australian economy was recovering rapidly.”

This is a gross distortion. The OECD this year has been highly critical of Australia’s woeful economic management.

Last Wednesday’s report also observed that:

  • Wages need to rise substantially, but won’t;
  • Although job numbers haven’t fallen badly, total hours worked have;
  • Vaccinations have been far too late;
  • The slow vaccine rollout has caused labour shortages in sectors reliant on foreign workers;
  • Inflation will remain high next year;
  • Federal gross debt will continue to soar from 66.8% of GDP in 2020 to 73% in 2021, then 77.2% in 2022 and up to a staggering 79.9% in 2023 (by way of comparison, gross debt when Labor lost office in 2013 was 16.8% of GDP); and
  • Relations with China have deteriorated under this Government, and are at serious risk of worsening further.

Yes, the OECD forecasts GDP growth of 4.1% in 2022. But as the blue chart shows, above, that is near the bottom of the global table. It also forecasts growth will slip back to 3% in 2023. That is not a ringing endorsement.

 

The role of the mainstream media

Frydenberg and his ministerial colleagues are continually aided in deceiving voters by the big media corporations. Their political and economic “reporters” steadfastly refuse to fact-check the continual stream of false claims.

Byner ended his free commercial for the Liberal Party last Thursday with this:

“That’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. He’s a bit of a class act, I think, isn’t he? And very accessible and happy to answer any questions.”

Why wouldn’t he be if he can assert whatever he wants, however destructively false, and be congratulated for it?

 

Read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/fact-checking-frydenbergs-flood-of-furphies-and-fabrications-,15819

 

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