"What I envisage is guaranteeing to the Australian people at this time of crisis that we will meet every cost that needs to be met," he said."What is ... is to do what it takes to pay what costs to ensure that we can get Australians back up on their feet.
Mr Kelly suggested members receive a tax-free daily income and employers should be legally bound to release them from work. "There will be those who will regard these options as controversial. In any event, the climate change projections we are looking at may leave no other choice, and we must talk about this now."The bushfire recovery fund will operate alongside three levels of existing disaster relief payments available through the Commonwealth.
But he won't sacrifice the tax cuts for the wealthy
You can’t sacrifice something you never achieved!!
The surplus would be wiped out regardless of the bushfire crisis. Morrison will use this to cover his tracks...
Oh wah wah wah, my imaginary surplus that I only got by cutting essential government services in favour of loosening tax brackets on the rich. Give me a break. This isn’t a sacrifice at all.
Oh tough guy. You’ve ripped everything and everyone else. Go for it.
You’re not supposed to run the country as a business. It’s the people’s money for the people.
Saw that coming before any fire started.
'Sacrifice'- seriously. A. It's our money, not his. B. He's ripped off every poor and vulnerable person in the country C. He hands out $30Billion a year in bloody frankingcredits and D. He gives Murdoch $882million in 'tax rebates' auspol australiafire Australiabushfire
APadeau There never was a real surplus, just underpaid NDIS, aged care etc.auspol
HE’LL sacrifice the surplus! He really does have a God complex, doesn’t he? Everything he says, it seems to be all about him. Nothing will save him now, no matter what he says or does, it’s too late. Trying to make himself the hero, it’s all about saving his job nothing more.
What a big man. It was bullshit anyway.
Sacrifice the surplus? Please, we are the sacrifice.
How can you sacrifice a surplus when it was only projected? .ScottMorrisonMP and JoshFrydenberg are dreaming if people are going to buy this line. They are the cause of the disaster by inaction on climatechange and obstruction of investment in clean renewables.
Has ScottyFromMarketting explained why he ignored the Garnaut report from 2008 warning, in Scientific detail, of this potențial crisis?
Stop throwing away our money on waste, inefficiency and so called national defense. We've a few Billion right there.
Akarnious Well done!
He What? That's an Insane Statement! He's Lost It! And besides . . . He just Sacrificed Himself!
“And we’ll take it out of welfare payments.”
So sacrificing nothing then :p
It's not your f*cking money, ScottMorrisonMP - it belongs to the people. Give it to the people who need it now. ClimateCriminals
Let's not pretend the 'surplus' was anything other than a fantasy, eh? Can't we call time on letting their bullshit stand, yet?
He’s breathing a Smokey sigh of relief he can spend. He screwed the economic pooch, now he’s buying us flowers.
He's a hypocrite and the biggest tosser PM this country has seen for years.
Turn back the clock I’m sure Hockey and SlowMo bagged out SwannyQLD when he was hedged in by the GFC and falling commodity prices. The fires look like being Scott Morrison’s GFC Karma ScoMoResign
He could always deduct it from the $29 billion subsidy his GOV gives to the fossil fuel industry each year.
What surplus!? ScottyfromMarketing There was no surplus! TheLiarfromtheShire
and so he should
This is a very dangerous statement which I am sure will come back to haunt him.....!🤔😮
What? Sacrifice? The bastards never sacrifice anything..........It's a wonder he even came back from Hawaii. Guess he was planning of saving his fat ar*e!
Rubbish he just don’t want to lose hot seat at pm
Predicted surplus was always an accounting trick at best. Bushfires have given ScottMorrisonMP an excuse for it vanishing. Any chance we'll see any change to handouts to wealthy individuals and companies? Essential increase in Newstart will remain 'unfunded empathy'.
How can you call using a surplus (that's if one even came to pass) to help rebuild from this devastating situation a sacrifice? ScottFromMarketing doesn't seem to grasp the importance of using the right words.
But he won't change to positive climate change policy😡
due to the bush fires Morrison and co will not juggle the books to make it look like we have a surplus, now they will blame the fires for not achieving some thing they could not achieve in the first place.
You need to demand an answer from him what is ScottMorrisonMP and Jenny going to SACRIFICE? Do you wonder if He They They R a Cult Wonder If they Truly UNDERSTAND the REAL Meaning of Sacrifice. It's DOING WITHOUT Special situs Or things For Ever to improve Someone Else's Lives.
pallisier Never let a good crisis go to waste. There never was a surplus. He's using this as an excuse for what was bound to be an abject failure (magical surplus) being missed. Odds on the paltry funds promised being underspent? ScottyFromMarketing
It's funny how he is suddenly more 'giving' when he realised the political consequences of his deliberate inaction and inability to give a damn about what has been happening since early November.
So we may as well have elected the mob that had the $80 million plan to establish the National Aerial Bushfire Fighting Fleet back in March 2019.
Ah ha ha....Bet no one saw that coming.
He is a toad fish & a snake oil salesman: don’t believe a word of it. About as believable as the $1000.00 everyone was going to get reimbursed in their tax!
How about we forget the idea that a surplus is a good thing. I don’t pay taxes to give the government spare cash. I willingly pay taxes for spending on the public good. Sadly too much of our taxes subsidises private interests and corporate welfare.
Listen to all the experts. Nothing is ever good enough!?
Signaled ain’t good enough ScottMorrisonMP . You have the means and people are demanding it. You represent the people so do as they wish not as you personally wish.
Whoops doo. $2b is not going to cut it
Only a beginning. We need to restructure some key industries and transition away from coal.
He can outsource Australia government to India and have more surplus like his government did cutting large number of federal jobs and out source to India and Japanese company and cut wage growth. NO bushfire tax Scomo already I am struggling to pay bills.
ScoMoResign
Willing to sacrifice? There wasn't any surplus to begin with.
Wow, thanks for using OUR money to fix a crisis that you could have mitigated, ScoMo!
Well, the budget surplus is a little medal you wanted to hang around your own neck. The costs of fighting and rebuilding from the fires, and keeping people and animals safe, belongs to all of us. And the money belongs to all of us. So, yeah, you better!
Please...The economy was stagnant before the bushfires. In Scomos eyes these bush fires are probably the best thing to happen to the Australian economy since the mining boom. Watch the government squander this golden opportunity as well.
ScoMoResign will sacrifice a lot more to make himself look good ... auspoI AustraliaOnFire ClimateEmergency
He's willing to put people ahead of money? What a hero!!
There was never a surplus
Too late Scumbag. WALK :-(
Plenty of money in 280,000 Federal Public Servants costing costing $3.9 b for billion a week...cut some of those bludgers loose...
You mean he’s going to blame the bushfires for his faults!
Maybe if he’d done this when the fire people wanted to meet with him, we may have had a different outcome.
And the cash he got from the coal industries
He doesn’t have a choice .. jeez what is this man on... its an international disaster!!! BBCRosAtkins piersmorgan ScottMorrisonMP ScottFromMarketing
Yeah but his reticence to do so is the reason the response has been so slow. If he could’ve gotten away with it politically, he would’ve. Hopefully everyone can see this.
I thought a surplus was sacred?
Really every cost? Doesn't bring back the dead stock & wildlife or the families any respite of their grief What Scummo should have done is listen to the experts in April, had a national plan & put it in place in Oct rather be smirky about it until he got bitch slapped by Earth
Does this mean he will be using the money we donated? We don’t want him in control of the rfs funding we are giving!Is the money on top of the money already allocated to road and infrastructure budget?5cent per $100.00 won’t go far if shared with gov chosen contractors for road!
He must be now reading an authentic catechism.
Via Asher_Wolf 'So ummmm, the Disaster Recovery Allowance is a *taxable payment* - there's gonna be a tonne of people who end up with a FTB or CCS robodebt as a result.'
How generous of him. It’s the country’s money and he is paying to fix his mistakes with it.
Another Useless promise Broken
Just stop franking credits... pays for all of it...
The fires are just the excuse he needed to can the fake surplus.
What about the Future Fund
Big bloody deal! It's OUR money anyway.
The horse has bolted You horse came in second last. A great leader opens the pages of history And leaves his mark Lead the way Don't be led astray Its not the money Ralph Its how much you love the People who voted for you. Become a leader who is loved
Surplus is a neoliberal lie to justify cutting public spending and handing out tax breaks. Surpluses are not important in the least.
Lol love how it went from surplus to “budget surplus” because they couldn’t follow through on their lie to get the country back in to the black. Now Scumo uses this as an excuse to cover for his incompetence, and steals AlboMP proposals and claims them as his own
Is he willing to revisit the LNP's farcical emissions reduction policies?
LIKE the BANK enquiry's HE had to be dragged there!! NOW he is waking up to ANOTHER case of MISGUIDED wiseness!!
But ScottyfromMarketing is not willing a climate change emergency and to do anything to upset the big polluters
We never wanted the surplus anyway. Just lnp spin.
What a con man! This is the sort of stimulus the RBA has been calling for the last 2+ years! On the back of an emergency at last the LNP will now inject money into struggling communities. It will be interesting to watch the pork barrelling!
Sacrifice 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We the people have been sacrificing a lot for the amazing surplus. Even Robo debt has boosted it.COALitiansApocalypse
There never was any surplus!! And now scomo is using this crisis to say he will sacrifice the surplus!! 😯😯
Meaning money ripped from NDIS, robodebts, funding cuts to essential services...
How magnanimous of him. Sheesh! $$$$$ before people is what he lives by. The country burns while his surplus gathers dust. He must be in a great deal of pain having to open the bank to help Australians now. Such a callous sociopath.
Survival of him!!! Is all he is considering
Dithering Government...they'll ditch you nexy....havent heard or seen anything of Dutton he's waiting in the wings
Well get used to it Scomo ...thats the price of CLIMATE CHANGE....heard of that ?
As long as it's not his fault. He can blame someone else, possibly Labor.
Give it a break. There was never going to be a surplus. With the massive donations coming in from around the world, he could put the money he stole from the NDIS back!
This feels a bit like the government treating Australia on fire as a one off, not the new world. How much long ternm additional funding has been announced for the fire services?
He was never going to return a surplus anyway, even with his NDIS underspend. The fires were very opportune for the government.
Willing? Willing? You must be joking SBS?
Perfect excuse
Why is this praise worthy? I'm sure no-one would want budget surplus at the expense of helping to recover from the bushfire disaster. Too little too late Scomo
Damage control. “We will meet every cost?” We as in tax payers? You want a pat on the back for distribution of public funds? ScottMorrisonMP
Try this Sco ... bloody ...Mo
There is a campaign from the losers of the 18/5/19 election to overturn the result Labor Greens leftists and the taxpayer funded fake news media ABC and SBS trying to weaken the PM in order to force the NEG pay more taxes policy. Climate Change is a Fraud and people voted against
Finally! ScottyfromMarketing dragged kicking and screaming to the correct solution. Again.
Oh pfffft! Stop helping her m paint himself as capable. Try tgecoverseas media approach. Too little too late and betting it ends up in some rich blokes pocket. uselessmedia
What surplus? Sounds like ENRON.
And then blame Labor......
More Lies
Stop giving away our money
Oh yeah, the 'surplus' we were going to have despite doubling our national debt that was at least in part on the back of gutting the NDIS. The surplus that was too be a meaningless trophy to wave around in Parliament..FFS.
Thanks for the sacrifice mate.
I'm OK with that.
Or is he just establishing an excuse?
How wonderful, the government is willing to spend the taxes it collects from the people to assist the people 🙄
Hey ScottMorrisonMP how about also axing those 140 BMWs you are planning to buy at $100K each for MPs. There is nothing wrong in still driving around in Holden Caprice. AustraliaFires auspol2020 NotMyPM ScottyfromMarketing
Hilarity. So with looming shortfall on budget promises in spite of launching class warfare claw backs, PM will falsely now claim fire response ate it up. More retrospective number fiddling/ arse covering from ScottyfromSELFMarketing
Robbing eyer to pay Paul This guy's is as good a economic manager as flyscreens in our submarines
More spin
Well woop de doo
As with the banking royal commission, & every other move towards the common good, he & his stooge govt are dragged, kicking & screaming, in this direction. This flip has more to do with branding & PR than any actual sensation of doing what's right. Wolves in sheep's clothing.
So the people who paid 35 bucks for the mugs... do they get a refund ?
Too late
He is “willing”?!?!? It’s not his money!!! The government manages public money!!
Now kick this oxygen thief to the curb.
May as well fix the NDIS whilst ur at it!
He is only giving back what he has already stolen from the less fortunate, pensioners & public services. Imagine if he had the balls the cut franking credits. He could rebuild every town & have his surplus most likely
So why has Packer come forward with the funds that the government should have put up?
Too late and dragged kicking and screaming after weeks of denial and a holiday. If only protecting Australians was as important when it was just warnings rather than a disaster for his government and a taint on his leadership .
Morrison's advisors obviously picked up on people's rage about how LNP repeatedly put their budget surplus first since their election. The point of a surplus is backup in a national crisis but of course he's making it seem like a symbol of his generosity. ScottyfromMarketing
Oh no!! Not the surplus!!!
This level of management required is far too big for little LNP boys to handle in a reactive fashion. Can't wait till low IQ conservative sheep voters to figure out that this gov ain't whats best for them.
There's a big story here, but this one isn't it!
We wouldn’t need to if we hadn’t handed over $80 billion dollars to fossil fuel companies that pay no tax.
What about $6 billion on farnkingcredits? every.fucking.year.
Oh that's nice of him 🙄
Isn't that so big of him?
It’s not his surplus ... right
It was never going to happen, with or without this catastrophe. It was just a way to justify cutting services to the vulnerable. The flim flam man is at it again, ably assisted by mumbling Josh. auspol AUSTRALIANBUSHFIRES ClimateEmergency
How kind of him to spend the funds we generate
Unsettling to have a reactive rather than proactive party in Government. AustraliaisBurning
The **NDIS Surplus will pay the people of Australia for us destroying the East Coast of Australia and beyond with our Liberal National Party Climate Change Denial !!!!
The **NDIS will pay the people of Australia for us destroyingnthe East Coast of Australia with our Climate Change Denial
I hope the PM's pledge is sincere and not like David Elliott's 'pledge' in Budget Estimates to provide volunteer firefighters 'everything they possibly need.' Source: page 30, para. 1 at:
Gee wow 🙄
He already has
Handy!
ScottMorrisonMP willing to sacrifice the LiberalAus only core value, the BudgetSurplus? No if he wants to remain PrimeMinister ! auspol auspol2020 bushfireaustralia australiafire nswisburning nswbushfire NSWFIRE NSWfires sydneyfires SydneyIsChoking
How do you sacrifice a forecast? Will it be done humanly? And what about the vegans? Can it feed cattle? ScottyfromMarketing
More funding for National Parks? Ahhhhh no!
Now, let's discuss franking and corporate tax evasion.
The surplus was always a figment of the governments’ imagination.
As long as the franking credit refunds are safe buddy
What he also needs do is give up fossil fuel royalties and subsidies. If not the fires will return pretty much every extended season.
Of course he should be meeting every frigging cost - it's the Govt. He's not personally sacrificing a budget surplus. It's not your money scummo
To save his own arse scottyfrommarketing doesn’t want to lose his job desperate graspingatstraws
Not his vacation though.
yep.... the big 2 billion promise is just over 4 months of franking credits...time to get rid of this rort so $ can be spent in areas of need
just the cover he wanted
Gee that’s big of him.
What surplus. Stop letting this man gas light us. He has an excuse for his failure, that is all.
Willing to sacrifice Really!!!! Like that is more important than people, animals and the bush. Like investing in people, animals and the environment first won't pay off for future generations. You are senseless ScoMoResign berejiklianbushfires koalakiller
He’s a dead duck if he doesn’t
Every change SM has announced is an idea first expressed in recent days thru twitter. Is this ‘thoughtful prayerfulness’ the kind of govt we need, i.e. frantically swinging in the ethereal winds and snatching ideas without acknowledgement or an overarching strategy? I think not!
His statement “we will meet every cost” cannot be anything else but a blatant lie.
Morrison you never had a surplus you lot tripled the debt and have just taken money from the people in need and made a pretend surplus.
The 'surplus' you mean?
Why don’t you stop subsidies the LNP pay to fossil fuel companies & actually have them pay tax for the natural resources they strip from OUR country? You could use the $ to secure our food & water for the future & to prepare for a world where we don’t rely on finite resources.
‘Sacrifice’?
Coalition haters will not eccept anything from the PM only blood ,sad to see so much resentment towards the PM in the midst of this disaster
That’s nice. So he’s actually going to consider helping the country? Well I suppose that is a change.
Let’s just see
ScottMorrisonMP what happens when displaced families face the realities of kids needing to go back to school. Parents needing to go back to work when they have no homes
He was also willing to sacrifice millions of hectares of bush land as he cut funding for services and refused to help.
Sacrifice? ScottMorrisonMP what good is a surplus other than to pay yourselves on the back yet again while your people try to pick themselves up and rebuild their lives. Thanks to volunteers and everyday citizens people have places to go and food to eat.
That’s what it’s for. It’s not a 10 year term deposit.....
Really?! As if he has a choice.
Spinning a lie again ScottMorrisonMP We all know there was never a surplus.
Where is that future fund? We don’t hear about it at all. What’s it for if not to help shore up the future for those who’ve lost everything and those who may in the FUTURE?
?! There never was a surplus, just rubbery rorted figures. Watch DearYourMajesty MorrisonFires ScottFromMarketing
Franking credits anyone? AlboMP ScottMorrisonMP auspolwatch
Piers Morgan sums him up.....”....that was a dereliction of his duty as leader of Australia.” ScottMorrisonMP piersmorgan AlboMP auspolwatch mjrowland68
This man is a danger to Australia. Morrison must resign.
Just more spin and lies. Wasn't looking good anyway. Heard there are conditions on that $2B. Need to research thevspin. There will be benefits to him/LNP. Need to find out what they are.
Willing? 1. There was never any surplus. 2. The surplus was based on cutting services to the handicapped and a large number of vital services including the bushfire fighting air wing. 3. The government cut investment when stimulus was required causinga flat, declining economy.
Oh WOW... what a sacrifice! Thank you so much saint Scott ScottMorrisonMP fires firecrisis
No thanks, would prefer that he sacrifice his career, and RESIGN.
Does this cost include social and environmental costs as well. Will be way above 2 billion.
he's out here tryna save his ass now
ScottMorrisonMP scarifice!!!! Your kidding me!!!
And the out he always wanted/ needed- there was never going to be a surplus anyway..
Sacrifice. What is he sacrificing? The surplus is made up of the public’s taxes. Can we stop making out that this ginormous clusterfuck of a PM is a victim. He & his flying monkeys are the reason we are in this hell. No ifs or buts
How good is a surplus! And coal for that matter? ScottyfromMarketing Scomomustgo Adani auspol MorrisonFires
Thanks JoshFrydenberg for protecting the bastards that caused this ClimateEmegency & making the victims pay for the cleanup. Your shitfuckery won’t be forgotten. LNPfail ClimateCriminals EcoTerrorists
Well what a suprise! So this tragedy that this government has ignored the environmental warnings of, whilst allowing huge companies to pay zero or very little tax. Is now going to use this an excuse for not reaching its fictitious surplus! Give me a break!
ScottMorrisonMP will “meet every cost” to prevent the loss of his Prime Ministership, but previously he refused to make additional investments when the only losses he would have been preventing would have been Australian lives, environment and properties.
That’s big of him!! It’s our money
Cut the dole of those bums that abused you will help.
Two things, First I'd hope so, they've hardly convinced anyone of proactive leadership so far, not doing this would be a nail in the coffin. Secondly, what's the actual chance of him delivering it in a declining environment anyway. Probably makes it an easy out. Saves Fraudenberg
The millions of creatures who were killed or are dying - creatures that did not need to die - CANNOT recover Ecocide LNPClimateCriminals
Joke, Joyce auspol
How about axing the overinflated Pension for Life scheme that the politicians enjoy & divert those funds towards the recovery effort? Mental Health & Trauma Centers will need to be developed etc etc The Politicians live on the same pension as the rest of Australia.
Great news
You mean he's willing to sacrifice the NDIS, which is the surplus that the Liberals have managed to keep by screwing over people with disabilities with so much bureaucratic red tape that they can't access vital services? That surplus? Oh goodo!
It's true. I will begrudgingly spend the people's money on the people. Nobel prize, please! ScoMo ScottyFromMarketting auspol
Do not believe ScottyfromMarketing ScottyfromSELFMarketing
How generous
lmao like he was gonna deliver a surplus anyway, Frydenburg already firgot to carry a zero once
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