Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has told unemployed Aussies to turn off Netflix and get a job in regional areas. The regional Australia Institute has identified 50,000 unfilled jobs in regional Australia, as a drop in temporary foreign workers due to COVID-19 saw more than $38m worth of fruit and vegetables rotting in Aussie farms. Mr McCormack has told unemployed Aussies to go bush to fill the void, but shrugged off suggestions it was insulting to call the unemployed lounge lizards. I say to those people who perhaps have done reasonably well off JobSeeker, who may have earnt more than they could have dreamt of, it is perhaps time to turn the Stan and Netflix off to come to the regions (where) you can have a better life, he told Today.
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Labor s health spokesperson Chris Bowen has strongly criticised Mr McCormack s defence of Mr Kelly. Mr Bowen said he was concerned Mr Kelly was spreading dangerous misinformation. Craig Kelly has engaged in a systemic and deliberate attempt to undermine our medical health professionals, he told reporters. [He] is a menace, and at every turn, Scott Morrison, and now Michael McCormack, acting prime minister, have failed to call him out. It is dangerous because this is a time for confidence in our decision makers, he added.
Mr McCormack later defended his refusal to criticise Mr Kelly. You might look out there and say the sky is blue . but I can see from her that it is grey, he said.
I abhor any violence, violence of any form, Mr McCormack said. The Black Lives Matter protests cost 19 lives, those lives matter. All lives matter.
Shadow Health Minister Chris Bowen said the comments were beyond disgusting .
Labor has demanded an apology from Mr McCormack â along with action to clamp down on MPs online claims.
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Hughes Liberal MP Craig Kelly recently labelled mask-wearing for children as child abuse. Craig Kelly has engaged in a systemic and deliberate attempt to undermine our medical health professionals, Mr Bowen said.
But Mr McCormack did not condemn Mr Kelly s remarks, saying facts sometimes are contentious .