Morrison’s vacuity goes beyond a hard-core stoner-level lack of motivation to repair broken people, places, policies and promises. His reign of disdain is a study in apathy and indolence, full of absences and shirking. His infamous justification for his mid-bushfires Hawaiian holiday – “I don’t hold a hose, mate” – is just the tip of the iceberg. (from https://theshot.net.au/politics/the-long-long-long-list-of-all-the-times-that-scott-morrison-has-said-its-not-my-job/)
Nadine von Cohen
April 22, 2021
The paradoxical implication is that the same psychological characteristics that enable male managers to rise to the top of the corporate or political ladder are actually responsible for their downfall. In other words, what it takes to get the job is not just different from, but also the reverse of, what it takes to do the job well. As a result, too many incompetent people are promoted to management jobs, and promoted over more competent people. (quote from: 'The empty smirk' by John Birmingham)
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
April 9, 2021
This government couldn't run a choko vine up a back fence.
Anthony Albanese
April 9, 2021
One of the clearest markers of privilege in Australian society is whether your problems get cast as ‘clinical’ or criminal. This is how we end up with 10 year old children in police custody and 50 year old MPs sent off for counselling.
Lisa Pryor
March 28, 2021
In Australian politics, the bar is currently set so low, it is more like a speed bump.
Blot report
March 28, 2021
If you steal a bottle of water you get fined. If you steal a whole water truck you got to jail. But if you steal all of Australia’s water and sell it to foreign interests, who then sell it back to desperate Australian farmers at twice the price, you get called ‘the Honourable’.
Victor Kline
March 21, 2021
As I've said many times, when a journo with a readership of 100 000 slams someone with no capacity to reply, that's free speech. When 1000 people on Twitter, each with 100 followers, return the favour, it's a disgraceful pile-on.
John Quiggin
March 14, 2021
Hey, Scott Morrison, I got a letter from Centrelink. I did not read it but everything in it is a lie and I deny it emphatically. I now demand medical leave to heal myself mentally.
Peter Sab
March 8, 2021
[In response to a question about Morrison's 'as a father' comment regarding the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins] It shouldn’t take having children to have a conscience. “And, actually, on top of that, having children doesn’t guarantee a conscience.”
Grace Tame
March 3, 2021
I’m so sick of seeing Christians in America claim persecution. You aren’t being persecuted for loving Jesus, you are being held accountable for not acting like him.
