It is a fantastic lesson for every organisation that is playing out in Canberra. The LNP has foolishly allowed a deeply disordered human being to take its leadership and the results are now plain for all to see.
Such personalities do not lead for the benefit of the organisation. They don’t lead in any way at all. They groom and form alliances, they demonise and divide. Their only goal is to remain at the top of the greasy pole and they arbitrage the health of everything around them to do it.
No group of people can survive this intact for long. It results in the wholesale disintegration of relationships, rampant distrust, the confusion of the abused, mounting rage and organisational paralysis.
Moreover, if the culture is infected by it, as has happened in the LNP, then all sane individuals will be driven out as the group falls apart like some burning lunatic asylum.
And so I present to you the Morrison Government in all of its hideous glory:
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has been hit with a damaging cabinet leak revealing he was rolled over a plan to convince renegade MPs opposed to the government’s religious discrimination bill.
After a torrid start to the parliamentary year, which saw Morrison’s character come under question after the leaking of a damaging text message, the prime minister has spent the week attempting to corral MPs into supporting the religious discrimination bill.
In a story published late on Thursday, The Australian reported Morrison had been rolled in a cabinet meeting on Monday over a proposal to try to win over moderate MPs by introducing a beefed-up version of the government’s integrity commission bill.
Horse trading the composition of the integrity commission in return for the right to poofter-bash is a nice metaphor for the depths of gaslighting underway.
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Scott Morrison has been rolled by his own cabinet, despite telling members he was putting his leadership on the line in a bid to secure safe passage of his religious discrimination bill.
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Angry Liberals are blaming Prime Minister Scott Morrison for putting them through a “shambles” in Parliament after he shelved a draft law on religious freedom to avoid a Senate defeat amid a new leak from federal cabinet.
Mr Morrison ended days of division on the Religious Discrimination Act by sending parts of the plan to a new inquiry after five Liberal MPs crossed the floor at 4am on Thursday to vote with Labor and the crossbench to prevent schools from discriminating against transgender students.
The move came after a key Liberal, NSW senator Andrew Bragg, told the government he was prepared to cross the floor in the Senate to defend the changes made by the five MPs in the lower house despite intense efforts by Mr Morrison to restore his original package.
…“This is wrong in a modern society and it should be fixed,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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Defence Minister Peter Dutton told the ABC the defeat was unexpected because MPs had given their word they would not cross the floor.
“He was frankly, I think, misled,” Mr Dutton said.
“There were undertakings that were given, the undertaking wasn’t honoured.
“I’m not going to go into private conversations that were had but the government doesn’t go into a vote like that unless there’s been assurances given.”
Labor’s deputy leader Richard Marles said Mr Morrison had been wounded.
“The whole week has played out with the kind of horrible inevitability of a David Attenborough doco,” Mr Marles said.
“Increasingly the Prime Minister is looking like the slowest wildebeest in the herd.”
Now, Morrison will have to take his medieval legislation to the election, the mother of all bad ideas. And god knows it:
A number of Christian groups across the country have reacted with fury over the drama surrounding the government’s barely breathing religious bill, claiming they are also facing discrimination.
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) and Christian Schools Australia (CSA) are among the high profile names to trash the PM and the federal government, with the Director of Public Policy for CSA particularly unhappy on Sky News.
Conservative Christian organisation Family Voice questioned the Prime Minister “why the hostile attacks?” and Liberal MP Jason Falinski claimed Australians of belief “remain unprotected under the law”.
“This is an open and tolerant society, we have protections under law on issues of gender, disability, sexuality – and that should be … extended to freedom of thought, freedom of belief and freedom of association,” Mr Falinski told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
…The Morrison government shelved its controversial religious freedom laws after a high adrenaline day which saw the bill, with amendments, pass the House of Representatives in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Those amendments mean protections for gay and transgender children from discrimination by religious schools.
The move shocked many conservatives, with political party Australian Christians calling it “simply unacceptable”.
As the Morrison god-wedge fails, medieval Christian groups know that they are better off with a status quo in which they can quietly persecute those that they deem evil. All that Morrison has achieved with his eleventh-hour god-wedge is to make that visible. And now he has to campaign with his god-wedge front and centre!
Everything that “Psycho” Morrison touches ends the same way. In abuse, incredulity, rage and division. This has been obvious from the moment that Morrison was forced out of his Canberra bubble (which extends as far as Hawaii) to confront real humans:
The MSM trails behind Morrison like some devil dog licking up the scraps. It has no idea what is going on. Thankfully, we have the fierce Grace Tame who has seen it before and processed the outcome:
“On the 17 August last year, not five months after being named Australian of the Year, I received a threatening phone call from a senior member of a government funded organisation, asking for my word that I would not say anything damning about the Prime Minister on the evening of the next Australian of the Year Awards.”
“You are an influential person. He will have a fear,” they said. A fear? What kind of fear – I asked myself. A fear for our nation’s most vulnerable? A fear for the future of our planet? And then I heard the words, “with an election coming soon…”
And it crystallised a fear — a fear for himself and no-one else, a fear he might lose his position or, more to the point, his power.”
Sound famialiar to any one? Well, it does to me.
I remember standing in the shadow of a trusted authority figure being threatened in just the same veiled way.
I remember him saying “I’ll lose my job if anyone hears about this, and you wouldn’t want that would you? No.”
All organisations should take keen note. Promote a Morrison-like “psycho” at the pain of death.
