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.