We were warned repeatedly from within the party’s own ranks that there was something wrong with ScoMo. It was obvious to anyone with an ounce of insight anyway.
So, today’s ScoMo blood-letting is all pretty boring stuff. Crikey’s wrap is typical:
Then prime minister Scott Morrison refused to sign off on a $600 million skills package for NSW because he hated its Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean, according to conversations that people “from both sides of politics” recalled with former employment minister Stuart Robert. Robert reckons he can’t remember saying it, as the SMH reports. It’s one of the many revelations in Niki Savva’s sprawling political exposé, Bulldozed. One of the then PM’s closest allies, Liberal MP Alex Hawke, says Morrison “got addicted to executive authority”, “didn’t really take advice from people” and “wasn’t the greatest listener”. The former immigration minister added that the Liberals would have rolled him for going on a holiday to Hawaii during Black Summer’s bushfires if the pandemic hadn’t hit afterwards (hmm, true or a convenient rewrite? Morrison’s ill-fated holiday was December 16, and the pandemic was declared on March 11, nearly 12 weeks later).
