Andrew Bolt sums it up:
SCOTT Morrison is already running out of time. He still can’t explain why he is our new Prime Minister.
That means when parliament returns on Monday, Labor will savage him as an accidental leader with nothing to say for himself.
Morrison, who badly needs to make a good first impression with an election due by May, is making it easy for Labor by simply aiming to be Prime Minister Not-As-Bad.
Nikki Sava joins in:
Scott Morrison has spent most of his time since he became Prime Minister introducing himself to Australians. The reception has been mixed, which is no surprise in such a putrid environment.
The elites have mocked his religion while the hard Right warns he has to dump Paris and cut immigration. Or else. Meanwhile, ordinary people wait to see more of who he is, what drives him and what will change. Leaked details of higher infrastructure spending, more small business tax cuts and additional school funding to placate Catholics are legacies of the Turnbull era — which, as Morrison knows, only confounds people still asking: what was the point?
But the AFR nails it:
The economy’s strongest annual growth since the end of the mining boom is set to boost government coffers and provide newly installed Prime Minister Scott Morrison the flexibility to pursue vote-winning policies ahead of an election by May of next year.
In the absence of anything of substance expect PM Pork to spend what China so generously delivered him as Treasurer in booming coking coal budget receipts.
Followed by PM Shorten.
