Shadow health minister Chris Bowen says the management of the Ruby Princess cruise ship, now docked at Port Kembla near Wollongong with the 1400-strong crew on board, is an 'ongoing disaster'. Live updates: rubyprincess
If you are a Scott Morrison fan, then this is a very, very good time for you. You can’t get enough? Don’t worry, there’s more on its way. John Howard loomed larger in the national imagination, but that was because he stuck around for such a long time. Once he’d been there a decade, it was difficult to imagine Australia without him. Morrison may yet come close to achieving the same type of cultural omnipresence, only in a much, much shorter time frame.
But now, there is only one story on the front page of papers, and it is inseparable from Morrison. Every few days he makes an announcement about coronavirus. And Australians actually watch these press conferences. Tony Abbott, at the start of his own reign, adapted Fraser, saying “Happy is the country which is more interested in sport than in politics”. Now there’s no sport to be interested in.
This phase of regular announcements will pass, but Morrison isn’t going anywhere. As a friend said to me this week, he is now sitting in every boardroom, in the form of JobKeeper. He is with us as we leave the house for our allotted exercise, as we decide to keep the kids in childcare, as we check our super.
Scott Morrison has never been keen on voters knowing him well; his beliefs, outside religion, remain mysterious. But a prime minister can’t avoid voters for long. If they didn’t know much about Morrison before, they will by the time this ends. Every habit, every trait, will become familiar – witness the Morrison lip-syncing videos on TikTok. If teenagers are paying attention, you can bet others are as well.
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