Weekend Wrap 20 March 2022: Labor wins in South Australia, Morrison couldn’t stop a penguin invasion, teachers under strain & pork barrelling backfires

Ben Davison looks at how Peter Malinauskas won the South
Australian for Labor focussing on health, ambulance waiting
times, public ownership of assets and jobs while the Marshall
Liberals, blinded by infighting and scandal, set the wrong,
wasteful priorities.


Morrison minister, Simon Birmingham, appeared on Insiders this
morning to claim the people of South Australia had been "tricked"
and that there were no lessons for the Morrison government. 
The Morrison government will be handing out some form of one off
payments in the budget but doing nothing to address the systemic
issues of insecure work, declining wages or rising living costs.


Greg Sheridan offered the insight that under Morrison and Dutton
we "couldn't stop an invasion of penguins" given the hollowing
out of our defence capability, despite huge amounts being given
out to contractors and offshore suppliers.


Morrison's attempt to pork barrel the flood relief has backfired
with one NSW coalition upper house MP resigning in protest and
another claiming it would be "hard to vote for him"


And Morrison minister, Stuart Robert, has called public sector
teachers duds as new research shows they in fact working 60 hours
a week, 1 in 3 is thinking of leaving teaching and the
independant and catholic school teachers are now looking at
taking industrial action too.


A sharp 20 minutes to wrap up your weekend.