ryttu3k:

“At least it’s not Dutton!” yeah but like.

In December 2010, questioned the Gillard government on paying for relatives of asylum seekers who died in an accident to attend their funerals.

In February 2013, wanted increased police surveillance of asylum seekers who had committed ‘antisocial behaviours’.

In September 2013, selected as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, where he:

• launched Operation Sovereign Borders, aimed at stopping all refugee boats from entering Australia
• asked for advice on how to refuse giving permanent visas to 700 refugees
• slashed Australia’s refugee intake from 20,000 to 13,750
• was found by the Australian Human Rights Commission to have failed in his responsibility to act in the best interests of children in detention, with the prolonged mandatory detention causing significant mental and physical illness and developmental delays
• has overseen conditions in Manus Island and Nauru so bad that self-harm, mental illness, attempted suicide, and actual suicide is endemic
• passed a bill that gave himself the power to return refugees to their place of origin, detain them without charge, and refuse giving refugees who arrived by boat access to the Refugee Review Tribunal

In December 2014, selected as Minister for Social Services, where he:

• claimed that new mothers were ‘rorting’ the system and ‘double-dipping’ by claiming both government and employer-paid parental leave schemes

In September 2015, selected as Treasurer, where he:

• attacked ‘do-gooders’ who allowed Muslim children to sit out on singing the National Anthem during Muharram (a mourning period where joyful things like singing isn’t permitted)
• had a nice cozy lunch with Rupert Murdoch, Lord High Overseer of Australian media (and voted against measures that would prevent too much media ownership concentration)
• claimed he had ‘endured bigotry’ due to refusing to allow same-sex couples to marry
• brought in a lump of coal to parliament, saying, “This is coal. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared. It won’t hurt you”, and claimed that anyone concerned about the environmental impact of coal mining and burning to have “an ideological, pathological fear of coal”
• proposed drug-testing sewerage to see if people on welfare were using drugs
• got rid of penalty rates for people working on Sundays and public holidays
• pushed out cashless welfare cards
• voted against a Royal Commission into violence against disabled people
• proposed an amendment to the marriage act which would allow parents to remove their kids from classes if they talked about ‘non-traditional marriage’
• rejected an increase on Newstart (unemployment), currently sitting on $560 a fortnight, because “my priority is to give tax relief to people who are working and paying taxes” (Newstart recipients currently get $14,560 a year; the poverty line is currently $22,152 a year)
• has scrapped billions in funding for homeless and housing groups
• supported Trump’s Muslim ban and claimed it was a sign of the rest of the world ‘catching up’ to Australia
• latest budget: tax cuts to the rich, reduction in social services to the poor, slashed the budget for environmental protection, the ABC, and foreign aid

Like yeah he’s not Dutton but he’s not a good alternative. Turnbull was a moderate who was constantly being stymied by hard-righters. Morrison is one of those hard-righters.

He’s xenophobic, homophobic, hates the poor and the environment, and is directly responsible for harm and deaths to people in detention, including kids. Nothing about this is good except the possibility that the Coalition is so irreparably fractured that we might get an early election and turf the whole lot out.