His party and the electorate know by now the most they can expect from him. It is not impossible that this ‘most’ could see him leader at the next election, perhaps still prime minister afterwards. But he will grow no further into the role. He has never represented any abiding idea and has no unfinished business. We would hold on to this nurse only for fear of finding something worse…
Before and during the pandemic he has had unlimited access to public resources. He has not scrupled to use them for partisan, often quite improper purposes. He has an enormous capacity to believe that anything in his own interest, or the government’s short-term political interest, is in the public interest, even when it has been in breach of the law, the decencies and undermines long-standing institutions and conventions.
On a brighter note in Australia we have a history of not electing a government but tossing out the current mob. I agree I wish I was voting for something in an election and not against someone.
Epic beat-down, yes, but the grist is at the end: "Labor has yet to persuade anyone that it deserves to win. Nor have they invested the mission with the appearance of a crusade for a better Australia. At best, they are describing what the Liberals are doing wrong. It is not enough." That, IMO, is being charitable, given that Labor have vigorously and unhesitatingly supported every cack-handed ratcheting-up of surveillance powers. Every tax cut. They don't even bother to describe what the Liberals are doing wrong, most of the time.
Morrison's only advantage is that the queue behind him includes Dutton, Cash and Frydenberg. The reason that he has the job at all is because his colleagues feared that Turnbull would win.
When was the last time anyone heard a story about a better Australia? 1996? No, 2016. Our polity reject that notion. We embrace banana republic.
On a brighter note in Australia we have a history of not electing a government but tossing out the current mob. I agree I wish I was voting for something in an election and not against someone.
Epic beat-down, yes, but the grist is at the end: "Labor has yet to persuade anyone that it deserves to win. Nor have they invested the mission with the appearance of a crusade for a better Australia. At best, they are describing what the Liberals are doing wrong. It is not enough." That, IMO, is being charitable, given that Labor have vigorously and unhesitatingly supported every cack-handed ratcheting-up of surveillance powers. Every tax cut. They don't even bother to describe what the Liberals are doing wrong, most of the time.
Morrison's only advantage is that the queue behind him includes Dutton, Cash and Frydenberg. The reason that he has the job at all is because his colleagues feared that Turnbull would win.
When was the last time anyone heard a story about a better Australia? 1996? No, 2016. Our polity reject that notion. We embrace banana republic.