Scotty from Marketing trashes Australian tourism

It is a darkly amusing irony. Via The Australian:

You might refer to him as “Scott”. Possibly the Prime Minister. Maybe just “the PM”. People on both sides of the political fence often use the abbreviation “ScoMo”. But for a growing number of Australians there is a different way to refer to our current Prime Minister.

He is now “Scotty from Marketing”. Across social media and in day-to-day conversations, more and more people are using the phrase. It’s already proven immensely popular on Twitter, with #ScottyfromMarketing trending several times over the festive period. And there seems little doubt that as 2020 progresses use of the nickname will become even more prevalent.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.