Scott Morrison starts bushfire repair with states after weekend of confusion

The tension over consultation and coordination undermined the federal and state response to the fires at a time when Mr Morrison was on the defensive over his decision to go on holiday before Christmas and his release of a social media video on Saturday night to promote his response to the fires.

Two Australian Army soldiers help people evacuate onto a Chinook helicopter at Omeo showgrounds in Victoria on Sunday.Asked whether Mr Morrison’s holiday in Hawaii had been a mistake, Mr Howard said he was not going to criticise the Prime Minister for a holiday. "All I can say is I wasn't aware of it, I found out about it via the media reports," Mr Fitzsimmons told Nine’sprogram. "We then spent a fair bit of time with the military liaison and the Commonwealth liaison that are embedded here in our centre trying to understand what the details were."“There was a breakdown in communications at the defence liaison level with the headquarters yesterday,” Mr Morrison said.

"The scale of the disaster is enormous and it is a reminder of the terrible threat that nature provides in this country," he said.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH So Scotty from marketing's mistakes are the army's fault now Here's a tip,don't help anyone cause Scotty Bill blame you

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH For all the time spent in front of the press the government has done sweet fa. Even if they do intervene you can bet your bottom dollar they will be working angle so they screw us in the end .

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH my nomination for quote of the year....the prime minister blamed... hollow man

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH And then we got this.. what is Morrison doing here ?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScoMoInferno SnakeOilSalesman SloganBogan TheHoneymoonIsOver ScomoMustGo ScottNoLove ScottyDoesntCare TheRaptureIsComing ScottyFromMarketing NotMyPM SackMorrison MarchOnMorrison ItsTimeToRiot AustraliaBurns TooHotForScott ThatsNotWhatLeadersDo

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Then name & shame them PM. It's not acceptable for highly paid senior ADF officers to stuff up like this - or is the PM making shit up?

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CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Don't think it'll be too long before Gladys Berejiklian steps up to let him know where to go. Politely of course.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH The buck stops where ScottMorrisonMP? Leadership 101

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH I can’t read it, the headline already blows my mind

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Is this an admission about the NBN?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Other people and organisations have been repairing long before Scomo chimed in

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH He couldn’t pick up the phone to the fire chief ? But he can call the NSW police commissioner for Angus Taylor

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Hopeless ScottyFromMarketting throwing 'Defence Personnel' under the bus for his absence of leadership.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Yes it's anybody's fault but the PM's. You let us down ScottMorrisonMP . Australia should have been better prepared but you ignored the warnings you were given. ScoMoResign AustraliaFires ClimateCriminal

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Gaslighting. Blame others.

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CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Mhhhhhhhh How can anyone believe that

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Now he’s blaming the ADF?! Will there be no end to this man’s blundering? I swear he’s just making it up as he goes! To think, if he’d met the fire chiefs back when they first asked, all this could have been avoided and a proper national response put in place months ago

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Grub.!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Well if you want to ignite anger among those who know how to organise their shit - start with accusing them of being disorganised. Bring on the Coup.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Everything is always someone else’s fault hey?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH This man still thinks it is all about him. Wish he would resign. His leadership in this is non existent but by God his ego is in the way.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH always someone else's fault, has he tried blaming labour?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Anyone else Scott Morrison would like to throw under the proverbial bus. Wow imagine chucking Defence under the bus ..obviously Morrison is happy to throw Linda Reynolds under the bus too 🤔 Auspol

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScottyFomMarketing blames everyone else except the person in his mirror.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH hello good evening my name is mariofernandogosio i am single i live in france

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH FFS

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH I blame ScottyfromMarketing

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Morrison spent how much of our money on that empathy training?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH That boy ScottyFromMarketing is a bit dim eh…? He was trying to get a root in a paper bag… No wait Find a bear with $50 in his hand… Anyway I lost track of what he was trying a long time back AustraliaBurns

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH I loved the body language at the press conference in Nowra .... good idea to have Gladys stand between Scotty and Fitzy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gladys, Fitzy and the General looked quite uncomfortable to say the least.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Just wear the fck up Scott. Any decent leader would, oh wait!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Australia blames him.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH He has form as a liar!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH You cannot blame others, excuse your gov't negligence & corruption any more ScottMorrisonMP. We want to know why we have no emissions reduction, no energy efficiency, and no energy transition policy recognized by the IEA?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH About time ScottMorrisonMP started to question the agenda of his government publicservants & their management abilities especially with an emergencyalert & just as well we are not in a war as we would loose with these staff auspol ABCNews wapol wanews ABCPolitics fires

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH He is a selfish coward!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH SootyMorrison: How good am I at deflecting blame!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH What broke down where and when? Do your job.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Useless, absolutely useless...

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH yeah, blame everyone but yourself, as fucking usual

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Scomo was too busy making ads portraying himself as a saviour to handle this like a leader. idiot

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Oh! it’s their fault. 🤔 I feel better now that the PM found his scapegoat(s)

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScottMorrisonPM Is such a sad sack. Try shutting your mouth for a day or so. 😂

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CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH The PM has blamed the Moon for tidal changes on earth.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH You are the PM. You take the blame. Mate.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH How hard is it for the PM to pick up the phone and speak to the RFS chief, letting him know of 3000 troops? Especially since he visited the RFS center. I guess he thought it was beneath him to call him...he is a PM after all. Playing politics while our country is burning.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH It’s called ‘throwing his people under the bus, again’ actually..

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH The break down was Morrison himself. He couldn't run a pub chook raffle without stuffing it up. Every job he's had has seen him fail & no amount of government spin will change the fact.🤔

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH There seems to be a lot of people around our Dear Leader who are making his “strong, decisive, considered actions” look like those of an amateur, rookie, cub scout leader in year 4 - “it’s not my fault, I was let down by (insert name here)!”

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH So not his fault then.. Do we like peanuts?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Do Morrisson blames the Army for his own lockups? Typical!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScottMorrisonMP probably has Adani on speed dial but not the NSWRFS or CFA chiefs running the relief operations BBCWorld ABCaustralia auspol ClimateCriminal ClimateEmegency

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH It’s been a cluster

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Scott Morrison phones NSW Rural Fire Service chief Shane Fitzsimmons about his mammoth military intervention but ends up speaking to cleaner who transfers him to the gardener who hangs up laughing.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH You can see his priorities tell the media first As for climate change, an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH He’s a completely incompetent narcissist. And he still says climate change is no problem, we need him gone, now !

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CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Surely he has RFSCommissioner on speed dial?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Yeah right, because ADF personnel are known for not following orders?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Of course he blames others . This is the game he plays. Blame blame . !!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Blame blame blame...

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Hope there's never a war. This sort of thing one would expect is practiced regularly. We are suppose to have a multi million dollar National Coordination Centre and state disaster centres totally aligned. More practice needed.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH The buck stops anywhere but here...

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH If he can't take some responsibility, if he can't own his actions, he cannot be a credible leader.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH I’m genuinely shocked he didn’t try and pin this on Labor some how...

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScottMorrisonMP LiberalAus LiberalNSW australianlabor AlboMP GladysB NSWRFS RFSCommissioner DeptDefence

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH My dog Bonnie shows greater leadership skills than our PM

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ' human judgement in social and political matters to e utterly distorted, warped, and twisted both in its interpretation of objective fact...distorted by emotional forces within ourselves, ... whose very presence, for the most part to be unaware'1951:105 Morrison is so unaware!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Yes blame the ADF ScottMorrisonMP you dickhead

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Need a pretty big bus to throw an entire department under it.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH The man is utterly incapable of taking personal responsibility for anything.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH He is a sly pig

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Please start taking responsibility for your words and actions ScottMorrisonMP better still, please step down, you’re unfit and incapable of leading this country.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Everyone else’s fault except him. Self responsibility is not a right wing virtue at all. Very typical of elite conservatives. All crooks!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Favorite acronym at a former employer - 'SEP'. Someone Else's Problem

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CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Ti's always a break down, this is all your incompetence & stupidity. Ignoring those Former Fire Experts & hanging onto ridiculous CLIMATE denier mates. Fire is burning the Country WAKE UP & face facts. Emissions & overpopulating before infrastructure is in place water & sewer

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH We blame you ScottFromMarketing scomogot2go

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH More Spin

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Does this man ever take responsibility -like a proper grown-up - for anything, I wonder

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH When will you take any responsibility ScottMorrisonMP ?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Vote of no confidence. Anyone not affected by these firestorms not allowed to say anything because I’ve heard some of you 😡. You have NO IDEA what we’ve been though. He is a disgrace. Loved his ad for the liberal party this morning. Classic sociopath. 🖕🏻

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH This man always blames someone or something else for his incompetence. I guess it’s some form of psychology projection or narcissism.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH The only thing that Scomo demonstrates consistently is his lack of admitting that he was wrong.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH My bad. Unfortunately my 'blame other people' program was running instead of my 'help other people' program. I'd like to say that it won't happen again but.... Beep bloop boop. ScoMo Scomomustgo RoboScoMo

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Sack him!

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Reasonable explanation. Scott Morrison continuing to lead and work hard regardless of the enduring and pointless pile on. supportscottmorrison

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH But he got his ad out faster than a lightning strike...

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Of course he does, nothing is EVER his fault, surplus over anything else.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Morrison clearly is not a leader. Not coping with the level of the ongoing national crisis and neither are the LNP. The LNP demand for loyalty is a political behaviour well known to breed corruption

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Everyones fault but Scottties What a piece of shit he is.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH You say breakdown, I say incompetence. Potayto potahto

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH LiarFromTheShire

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH As always with ScottyfromSELFMarketing, it's never his fault. There's always someone else to blame.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Such breakdowns tend to happen when you tell the media first.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Q SMH=NO Credibility? SMH📢'Breakdown!Climate!ScomoBad!' Devastated Aussies USED as Tool by SMH to Spread ClimateLIES+Smear ScottMorrisonMP? Incite Divide of Aussies Suffering Fear/Loss? Politics in Midst of FIRE CRISIS=LOW Act? Unite+🙏4 Victims Caught in ClimateLIE CROSS🔥

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH .. what so he's moved passed blaming State gov and now it's the Army's fault?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH A man takes responsibility for his actions. A leader carries responsibility as part of his office. Morrison is proving he's neither.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH His modus operandi, blame someone or something else, take responsibility ya fwit

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Forever deflecting and blaming someone else for his incompetency. ScottyfromMarketing is no leader.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScottMorrisonMP always someone else's fault eh mate?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Prime minister ScottMorrisonMP has advised the world “ NONE OF IT IS MY FAULT... NONE OF IT... NONE AT ALL”

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH That would be right, the Turd who Rose to the Top always throws others under the bus.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH How good is passing the buck?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Being a good manager 101. Don’t blame other people for your mistakes.

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH ScottyfromMarketing is not a good communicator. Quick with the blame game. No collaboration. Not a good leader. ResignMorrison

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Same breakdown about his trip to Hawaii?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH So, he didn't just explain lack of comms ability was ego and ignorance of decency then? Surprising! scomopromo ScottyFomMarketing auspol

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH Gee he does a lot of blaming doesn't he?

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH BSE blame somebody else

CroweDM ChrisBarrett_ AlexSmithSMH This guy is meant to be a leader!! Leading chaos!!?

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