Janet Albrechstsen usually writes LNP partisan garbage, and judging by today, she should stick to it:
Nemesis went some way to explaining why. One was Morrison’s problem with women. Normally I’d give a wide berth to ABC types claiming that Liberal men have women problems. It’s usually biased bunkum.
But Morrison was dreadful on this front. He needed to speak to his wife to understand the gravity of an alleged rape in a minister’s office. Then came the cynical and superficial reshuffles, promoting a few more chicks to improve his electoral appeal, throwing the word women into a few more ministerial titles, promising a “fresh filter” in all matters to do with women, and announcing that Marise Payne was the prime minister for women.
It is all true and the very reason MB campaigned for his removal. Morrison was fantastically misogynistic. He was thrown out of power for it.
But that is neither here nor there so far as history is concerned.
All history will remember of Morrison, objective history written by facts divorced from narcissistic Aussie drivel, is that he was the bloke that blew up China.
It wasn’t Donald Trump. It wasn’t some other global power. It was Scott Morrison.
Our obnoxious PM so needled Beijing that its mask of “China’s peaceful rise” was ripped off and the reality of its imperial ambitions fully exposed to freedom-loving people everywhere in the 14 conditions to end democracy:
Morrison did this all by himself. He got no support from the CCP-bought Labor opposition. No support from Washington or Europe. No support from anybody.
Yet, afterwards, Morrison was invited into all of the significant liberal forums on earth to illustrate what had happened.
It was a critical turning point in the democratic world’s attitude towards China. A revelation of what it was really about.
Of course, there is much more to the pivot of democracies away from China. COVID and the Ukraine War were the major events that turned the tide.
But, for once, Australia lived up to its self-described balderdash of ‘punching above our weight’ in international affairs. That is an understatement.
It is not unfair to say that Scott Morrison saved ANZUS, created AUKUS, helped resuscitate NATO, and bolstered Western civilization itself by preventing China from buying it all.
Now, the tide of global capital is going out on China, and there is nothing to stop it:
Sure, Scott Morrison was obnoxious at home, and he had to go (we couldn’t know what a disaster Albo would be).
But in the biggest of big pictures, Scott Morrison reached global heights of powerbroking for the liberal good that few have enjoyed.
The next time you want to whinge about Morrison losing the LNP power, Janet, you might want to recall that he saved your right to say anything at all.
