{"id":6859,"date":"2021-03-15T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:24:13","slug":"cowards-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/cowards-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowards in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scott Morrison shuts down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/qt?src=hashtag_click\">question time <\/a>on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/March4Justice?src=hashtag_click\">#March4Justice<\/a> day then flees the chamber as Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, rises on a suspension of standing orders. Peter Dutton gags the Opposition Leader as Albanese updates the house on Brittany Higgins&#8217; extraordinary speech in front of the Australian Parliament House, earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scott Morrison shuts down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/qt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#qt<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/March4Justice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#March4Justice<\/a> day &amp; flees the chamber as OL Anthony Albanese rises on a suspension of standing orders. Peter Dutton later gags the OL as he updates the house on Brittany Higgins&#39; extraordinary speech in front of APH earlier today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#auspol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KzbSupvZno\">pic.twitter.com\/KzbSupvZno<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Marler (@Qldaah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qldaah\/status\/1371319721434378240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/yezMLf3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read what Brittany Higgins had to say when she spoke at today&#8217;s women&#8217;s march. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-03-15\/brittany-higgins-speech-womens-march-parliament-house-canberra\/13248908\">ABC<\/a><br> &#8220;<em>the Prime Minister of Australia publicly apologised to me through the  media, while privately his team actively discredited and undermined my  loved ones<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/mar\/15\/voices-raised-in-anger-are-echoing-throughout-the-land-but-it-seems-morrison-still-cant-hear\">Voices raised in anger are echoing throughout the land but it seems Morrison still can\u2019t hear<\/a> The Guardian.<br><em>Scott Morrison didn\u2019t want to come out to meet  the women, and then sounded miffed when they declined to meet him  privately in his office. At one point in the  parliament, Morrison spoke as though he thought the women of Australia  should be grateful for having the right to protest without being killed.  Protests like Monday\u2019s were a triumph of democracy because \u201cnot far  from here, such marches, even now, are being met with bullets\u201d. It is unfathomable how a moment so big can be met with a response so small.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/government-s-tin-ear-on-display-as-women-bring-their-anger-to-the-nation-s-capital-20210315-p57ax9.html\">Government\u2019s tin ear on display as women bring their anger to the nation\u2019s capital<\/a>. Sydney Morning Herald.<br><em> The federal government, from the Prime Minister down, appeared skittish  as lost explorers in a land of quicksand as thousands of women brought  their anger to the national capital. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chaser.com.au\/general-news\/scomo-awarded-feminist-of-the-year-after-not-firing-indiscriminately-into-crowd\/\">ScoMo awarded feminist of the year after not firing indiscriminately into crowd<\/a><br> <em>\u201cDon\u2019t all thank me at once,\u201d said Morrison while accepting the award.  \u201cI\u2019d also like to point out that I have been very charitable in not  spitting on any poor people today, so I\u2019m basically Mother Teresa.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison shuts down question time on #March4Justice day then flees the chamber as Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, rises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,443,4,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-politics","category-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}