In the federal election campaign, PM Morrison’s wife and human shield has briefly distracted the debate from his “psycho” character and ineptitude.
On Hawaii:
Mrs Morrison told Karl Stefanovic she wished the damaging scandal “never happened”.
“We did disappoint. Did we make the right decision? I thought I was making the right decision for my kids,” she said.
“I obviously was wrong. Yes, we were over there seeing it and we were like… we really need to get home.
“I wish that had never happened. But I can’t change it.”
Mrs Morrison also criticised the former Australian of the Year after the recent incident at The Lodge, where Ms Tame was famously photographed during a frosty exchange with the PM.
Mrs Morrison quickly admitted she wished Tame had shown “manners and respect” and was “disappointed” by the whole exchange.
Did Scott give Jen a list of who to attack beforehand, or what?
Where are the manners and respect in the Morrisons’ medieval religious legislation that has already unleashed the sleaze cult to persecute those it deems deviant and is still crippling the party?:
Warren Entsch has come under fire for abandoning an offer to help first-term Liberal MPs vote up religious discrimination bill amendments to protect LGBTQ+ students.
A Liberal MP told Guardian Australia that Entsch had “promised the ‘youngsters’ in the party that he would provide them cover” to stand up to the Morrison government before refusing to join five colleagues who crossed the floor.
The comments are the latest salvo in a battle over the government’s decision to ditch the bill due to amendments preventing religious schools discriminating on gender and sexuality.
Where are the manners and respect in the Morrisons’ hatching an egg on their latest allegations around sexual misconduct?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison received a report into minister Alan Tudge on January 28, a committee has heard.
Mr Tudge’s former staffer Rachelle Miller last year alleged emotional and, on one occasion, physical abuse by the minister while the pair had an affair.
The Education Minister, who intends to recontest his Victorian seat of Aston at the federal election, strenuously denied the allegations and went on leave in December while the investigation was conducted.
For that matter, where are the manners and respect for Australian citizens after the Morrisons:
- abandoned citizens overseas amid a pandemic;
- butchered two vaccine rollouts and inflicting two unnecessary recessions not experienced elsewhere;
- unleashed the plague with no support;
- let the sick and elderly die in piss and shit;
- enabled the wholesale abuse of women in parliament;
- misappropriated billions for pork;
- endorsed the pillage of Australian gas;
- smashed Australian workers with immigration;
- marginalised Australian youth with a housing bubble.
So on and so forth to the ends of the earth. All done with manners and respect.
Here’s what the electorate thinks of the Morrisons:
Willoughby delivered an 18% swing against the Liberals, almost all of it to independent Larissa Penn.
Some specific factors are relevant: the loss of Gladys Berejiklian’s personal vote would have been significant. And in Tim James, the Liberals — or more accurately the preselectors of Willoughby — put up a wholly inappropriate figure: a doctrinaire right-wing male factional operator straight from the business-as-usual playbook that has seen the Liberals’ north shore heartland increasingly look at small-l liberal independents.
Penn didn’t have a high-profile campaign, but Zimmerman is up against Kylea Tink, who has been campaigning hard for months. Zimmerman and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be hoping North Sydney voters noticed Zimmerman leading the way against the attack on trans kids last week. Zimmerman held North Sydney in 2019 by 13.6% against Labor.
As Michael Yabsley wrote yesterday, it’s Willoughby that points to real trouble for the Liberals in what is now a serious battle against independents who offer voters similar social and economic values to self-described moderate Liberals but who have the freedom to push for real action on issues like climate and integrity.
The loss in Bega — after another great moment of judgment for Andrew Constance — is squarely on the NSW and federal Liberals for failing to deliver much-promised bushfire recovery assistance. Running Fiona Kotvojs, a well-known climate denialist who has dismissed the link between climate change and bushfires, in a region still rebuilding after being immolated in 2019-20, wasn’t a smart move either.
…for a state that for much of the past two years has been held up as potential rich pickings for Morrison to stave off losses in other states, Saturday delivered a sobering message: he’ll need a lot of resources to hold off independents in wealthier areas of Sydney, and he can’t count on Constance winning Gilmore.
In the nicest and most polite way, Australians have enough of the Morrisons.
