Bloke meets woke in 2021 showbiz wedding of the year!

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Roll up for the showbusiness wedding of 2021. The red carpet will glitter. The paparazzi mosh pit heave. The women’s magazines bid furiously. The gltiz. The glamour!

  • Morrison’s cabinet reshuffle has promoted two new women to the cabinet so they now make up seven of 23 spots!
  • Nobody has been dropped so Morrison will carry three abuse-tarnished (in political terms) MPs to the next election.
  • Marise Payne will head, with Morrison, a new cabinet taskforce to stop the blokes from not being woke (even though her Ministry for Women has not released a single statement in the past year).
  • Amusingly, Morrison has delivered a tricky way to shift media attention from his blokey ineptitude to a wokey sheila because Senator Payne “is effectively, amongst her female colleagues, the prime minister for women”.

In short, bloke meets woke in 2021 showbiz wedding of the year! Typical Scotty from Marketing but getting very bloody weird.

Meanwhile, in the real world:

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  • Andrew Laming will likely be reported to police for taking happy snaps up women’s dresses.
  • Laming is coming under increasing scrutiny for all manner of whackness.
  • The NSW Coalition MP accused of rape is sinking.
  • The new Morrison lineup has been declared the most talentless in history by left press.
  • And the most whacko in history by the right press with the showbiz wedding coming under particular attack.

That’s the rub. This has now turned positively strange as the entire government warps around weirdo Scott Morrison’s psychological failure to come to terms with the very simple notion that blokes should not rape wokes.

So, from here on we will see a non-stop campaign by women to unseat this government until the election day. It will certainly compromise, and very likely drown out, every policy debate, statement or intent. That’s what comes of resolving nothing.

If it were not for the long-suffering women of parliament and their right to your empathy, your correspondent might be inclined to ask for it.

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About the author
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.