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[On Scott Morrison] Has an Australian political party ever elected a man or woman so characterless to be its leader? So ignorant and open to corruption? So unaware of truth and transparency? (His lying has indeed become pathological.) So insensitive to those who cannot help themselves yet amenable to furthering the interests of those who can? So willing to endorse and foster inequality? So illiterate when it comes to science and technology? So oblivious to the needs of women that he needed the advice of his wife? So against change. So inept at policy formation and its implementation. So prone to the language of absurdity. So self-righteous in attitude toward others. So aggressive and dismissive of those who seek fairness and equality. So out of touch with a modern pluralist society. A person so unsophisticated in deep worldly insight or discernment, yet profoundly devoted to his religion.

John Lord
August 28, 2021

Scott Morrison encapsulates the retreat from values, the lack of regard for truth, for decency and the long-term public interest. (Pearls and Irritations, July 7, 2021)

Jack Waterford
July 7, 2021

This government couldn't run a choko vine up a back fence.

Anthony Albanese
April 9, 2021

In Australian politics, the bar is currently set so low, it is more like a speed bump.

Blot report
March 28, 2021

The first black irony of the PM's letter [to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate] was that in a building full of lawmakers, the police have to write to those lawmakers to point out that if a crime has allegedly been committed, they need to either report it, or, if it is a matter like sexual assault, at least seek advice from the police about what to do about their knowledge a crime has allegedly been committed, if the complainant does not want to come forward. The second irony must be in the Prime Minister circulating this piece of information around the Parliament, given the long list of people in his own government, and his own office, who it appears had reason to suspect a serious crime may have been committed, but didn't say anything.

Laura Tingle
February 27, 2021

[This was a tweet in reference to Scott Morrison's propensity to go on holidays] Shit + Fan = Holidays

Anonymous
January 16, 2021

COVID-19 has magnified the shortcomings of our failed paradigm of economy with all its imbalances, inequities and injustices. The pandemic has demonstrated a renewed demand from the citizenries of the OECD, indeed the citizens of the globe, for a new economic order. This is evident through the response to COVID-19, the burden of which fell to the State, and proved, if proof were ever required, that the State has the ability to play a leading, transformative role in crisis management and response; that the public sector has the capacity and expertise to deliver quality universal services to its citizens and do so effectively and fairly; that government can act decisively when the will is there. Yet the crisis has also shown us how so many of our citizens and their families are only ever one wage payment away from hardship; how the self-employed or workers in the so-called ‘gig’ economy lack security and are often impeded from access to basic employment rights; how private tenants in under-regulated housing markets are at the mercy of their landlords, how many designated ‘key workers’, those providing essential services, are shamefully undervalued and underpaid.

Michael D. Higgins
October 10, 2020

Andrew Bolt + Miranda Devine + Daisy Cousens + Rowan Dean + Peter Dutton + Blair Cotterell + Lauren Southern + Rupert Murdoch + Scott Morrison = Brenton Tarrant

Serkan Öztürk
August 29, 2020