Sharri Markson, Sussan Ley, Jane Hume (Image from a Sky News Australia video)
Sky News is having a collective conniption over Sussan Ley’s shadow ministry reshuffle, and it’s a spectacle so off-world it could pass for political parody. Normally, Sky’s busy canonising the Liberal-National Coalition as Australia’s saviours, but Ley’s post-election shake-up after Labor’s May 3 landslide has their presenters spitting fire at their own darlings. It’s like watching a family reunion where everyone’s suddenly arguing over who gets to carve the roast.
Rita Panahi, Sky’s resident provocateur, kicked things off by slamming Ley’s picks as “not exactly empowering” for conservative women, taking aim at the demotions of heavyweights like Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Jane Hume, and Sarah Henderson. Price, a Sky favourite and their unofficial MAGA-style mascot, got relegated while Hume and Henderson were left scrambling for relevance. Panahi’s outrage smells like betrayal – how dare Ley not consult with Sky News!
Meanwhile, Sharri Markson, never one to miss a chance to swing, reportedly scorched Ley for ghosting Hume for days before the announcement, suggesting it was a gutless snub. Markson seems less mad about “empowerment” though, but more livid about Ley’s moderate pivot – threatening Sky’s hard-right fantasy.
Are you lapping it up?
The irony is thicker than a Murdoch chequebook. Sky News, usually a cheerleader for anything Liberal, is now turning its cannons inward, framing Ley’s reshuffle as a betrayal of the conservative cause. Perhaps they’re reeling because Ley didn’t deliver the Trumpian dream team they’ve been hyping (Jacinta for PM, anyone?).
It’s a delicious identity crisis: a network that thrives on loyalty to the Coalition cause now clutching pearls over a leader daring to pick her own squad. With hard-rights dumped and moderates elevated, Sky’s narrative is crumbling faster than their ratings on a quiet news day. This isn’t just a meltdown – it’s performance art, a right-wing rage-fest so over-the-top it’s practically begging for a satire sketch. (Where are you, Rossleigh?)
Pass the popcorn, people.
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Sty Sky newsless scribble and squawk is dogshit media. It saves by using grubshit direct from the employed scribbling and squawking manufacturers. Ms. Markson is as bright as a dog's date in a coal mine at midnight, while Ms. Panahi regularly splinters brooms through speeding. Add in bulging bowel Bolt, the profit source for Sorbent, and it is a scene of media, obscene...thanks, Mucking Furdoch...
Thanks for the laugh Phil,a timely Friday pick-me-up.Apparently, the same garment rending is happening at the Australian,that expensive dog shit wrapper.
And a big hello to that fuckhead Sheridan.
Ley is not rabidly religious right wing enough for Stinking Arsehole Discharge and Lord Shrivelled Nutsack Merdeock. I expect we'll see more and more pathetic whining from them.
Today's satire is tomorrow's Nostradamus...
These were my thoughts last week: "I predict that the new senators will take their place in July. (So far, I’m probably right!) A short time after this, David Littleproud will make a comment about being open to reconsidering a coalition. When this doesn’t happen, Jacinta Price will announce a challenge and there’ll be a spill. Someone else – possibly Well Done Angus, certainly someone else will be too Hastie, then Dan Tehan will say that he’s a country member – at which point someone will say that so are the rest of them (it’s the sort of pun that needs to said aloud, in case you haven’t heard it before) – then Dan will continue and suggest that he’s in the best position to talk to the Nationals and then it’ll be on for young and old and we’ll be left with Rupert’s New Corpse backing Labor because they’re the only ones who can actually deliver."
A little early on the reconciliation and wrong about it not happening but we'll see about the rest...
In other words, like all commentators, economists, tipsters and Sky After Dark, I'm right about all the bits I didn't get wrong!
Yes, Rossleigh I do 'remember' that pun.
I heard Pauline Hanson say that with her increased numbers in the Senate she was committed to exposing the climate change scam - these numpties are going to have fun at our expense, I don't know if I'm up to watching.
I think we can thank Gough Whitlam for that "yes, we remember"jibe.
The thing from the "Terrorgraph", in particular, is a quiet version of Price.
I think price is a perfect 'see you northern territory'
The clp has always been associated with white, racist, sexist, male dominance so to so to select a black female to the only certain canberra position is testament to her ability to project her clp character.
She has 3 years to prove her liberal choice was worthwhile or disendorsement.
The fact that these hideous, rusted-on right-wing racists, callously inhumane elitists and malignant misogynists in Murdoch's internationally-condemned and reviled Sky (Lie) News have been snubbed by their favourite political psychopaths in the LNP, is a joy to watch and can come under the heading of "What goes around, comes around!". The reality is that these treacherous backstabbing miscreants in the right-wing continue to not only continue to lie and deceive the Australian public, they go on and on betraying each other! The ONLY loyalty, priority and ambition held by the corrupt, self-serving sociopaths in the LNP/Murdoch/IPA/SkyNews' "Alliance" is to THEMSELVES.
The fact is that 99% of intelligent, compassionate and egalitarian Australians are sick to the back teeth with the never-ending whingers and the dangerously undemocratic fascists who park their pretentious behinds in the reprehensible, born-to-rule LNP/Murdoch/IPA/SkyNews' so-called ALLIANCE! Enough! History has already PROVEN that the "EVIL ALLIANCE" of callously inhumane psychopaths, rusted-on white supremacists, alpha male misogynists, insufferably contemptuous elitists and intellectual midgets, have NEVER EVER EVER achieved a thing - NOT. ONE. SINGLE. THING - that has EVER provided any advantage or benefit to working- and middle-class Australians and it is highly unlikely that they ever will!
The fact that the overwhelming majority of educated, compassionate, egalitarian Australians have now so thoroughly REJECTED them at the last federal election, is not at all surprising - it was INEVITABLE! Well done, Australia! It just proves that, unlike the unspeakably stupid, racists and rusted-on misogynistic majority in America - who went out on a limb to support that appalling sociopath, Trump, who is not only an internationally discredited pathological liar, a recidivist misogynistic predator but a CONVICTED CRIMINAL to boot - Australians have far higher standards and are 100 x times more discerning! There is NO PLACE in our egalitarian, multicultural society for the appalling Trump-supporting pathological liars, misogynistic predators and born-to-rule political psychopaths in the LNP - they are long, long passed their "Use By Date" in this wonderful nation of ours!