Voters really are entitled to know whether this government has a plan that extends beyond Scott Morrison’s inveterate brinkmanship
Morrison won’t care about the hole in the middle of the doughnut. He won an election three years ago with no policy, and no pitch, apart from Bill Shorten is the bill Australia can’t afford. I suspect a concrete agenda creates liabilities for a prime minister who wants to be able to pivot with maximum speed until he hits the precise formula to drag the Coalition across the line.
If you think this last point is an overstatement, or a cynical eyeroll, just think about this past month, where Morrison has lurched between we must get government out of people’s faces, right now, because who needs government – to come to Big Daddy. Only a Coalition government is sufficiently present and muscular to save you from Xi Jinping and his useful idiots in Australia. Whiplash is for wimps.
Morrison also won’t care about the institutional backlash that has accompanied his tactical hysteria this week. That’s a transaction cost of changing the conversation from deaths in aged care to national security. If the current play doesn’t work, he’ll pivot again. But out in the real world, voters really are entitled to know whether this government has a plan for them and for the country that extends beyond Morrison’s inveterate brinkmanship.
‘What remains to be seen is whether Anthony Albanese can find an extra gear. He’ll need it, because Morrison isn’t bringing a knife to a gunfight.’, funny then that the media narrative casts Albanese as the small target actor.When the communist hunters rolled into Canberra looking for scalps, Albanese rolled Labor up into a tiny ball.
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