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  • this scapegoating of Scott Morrison's really getting nasty yesterday again.

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  • The Firefight Australia concert.

  • They should have been a day of people coming together, dozens of musicians and tens of 1000 strings turning up to raise nearly $10 million for victims of the Bush fires.

  • But there was host Celeste Diver, who just had toe have yet another child is shot of the prime minister at one stage, even wearing a T shirt mocking Morrison for going to Hawaii at the start of the fires and savaging him to the crowd.

  • Ozzy's we've been together way have to look after each other because it turns out people at the top.

  • That is pathetic.

  • Perfect here is Barbara saying, Let's look after each other.

  • But then using cheap politics like someone else, the scapegoat for the fires?

  • And why tell such a vicious on truth about Scott Morrison?

  • Now, look, I know Morrison made a bad mistake by going on his holidays with his family to Hawaii this Saturday fights.

  • I know that.

  • So does he.

  • I mean, how often has he said again and again to get for two months now?

  • I'm sorry I made a mistake.

  • I'm sorry I made a mistake.

  • But to accuse him now of not caring for the fire victims, I'm not doing anything for them.

  • Effect during the fires Morrison sent in the Army, for instance, and since then he's given victims $1000 per head out to get on their feet.

  • It's given a weekly recovery allowance of the lost income.

  • Free health counseling grants an interest free loans of business, too.

  • And on it goes.

  • And here's Martian today, responding to Bob, this cheap shot I look, I've got a thick skin, and I understand that over the period of the summer, you know that people felt felt really wrong about things.

  • But what I do know is what the government has done, and what the government has done is put in place the first compulsory call out to put our defense force reserves on the ground boots on the ground that provided incredible leaf.

  • Two Australians affected by bushfire communities.

  • We put $2 billion into a national bushfire recovery agency, and more than half of that has already been committed in the matter off less than two months.

  • So sad to see him still having to just find yourself like this.

  • As for Celeste Barber, look, she has done wonderful things for fire victims.

  • She starting appeal that raised $51 million.

  • Cute us to her.

  • But Celeste Barber should be a lot more forgiving of Morrison's mistake because she's made a beauty herself.

  • I have to say, at least the prime minister's money is getting two victims.

  • Barber's is not.

  • That's because she promised on this you get the money to fire victims.

  • But she channeled it instead to the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, which legally can't use that cash for anything except buying fire equipment and training.

  • You can't give it to families.

  • So the money that Barbara raises all tied up while she calls in the lawyers to sort it out.

  • Who knows what that'll cost?

  • And the head of another fundraising sight.

  • My cause claims babble was warned before she went off half cocked.

  • I think that her words trying to now bring in the legal fight and try to move where the funds of going is attention grabbing because the funds can't be moved.

  • The funds have been donated toe orifice.

  • That's where people understood the funds were going to, But unfortunately, she misled people by saying that the funds were going elsewhere, such as the wildlife charities or to Victoria.

  • Now I'm not going to slag off Celeste Barber's someone who doesn't care about the victims.

  • That would be vicious.

  • It would be false.

  • It would be unfair.

  • It would be divisive.

  • Just like her attack on the prime minister.

  • We're better than this, certainly.

this scapegoating of Scott Morrison's really getting nasty yesterday again.

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