Scott Morrison was almost out of the gates after his brief visit to the Royal Easter Show when a man holding a beer ran up. “Prime minister! Prime minister! I’m from Cobargo!” The eyebrows of the media advisers near Morrison shot up | katinacurtis swr...
Scott Morrison was almost out of the gates after his brief visit to the Sydney Royal Easter Show when a man holding a beer ran up.The collective eyebrows of the media advisers near Morrison shot up.Credit:But there was no repeat of the infamous Black Summer poor reception Morrison received in the NSW town. Cattle farmer Christopher “Rocky” Allen, son of Cobargo’s mayor, just wanted to give the PM a hat branded with his stud name, Rockstar Cows.
With wife Jenny and daughters and Abbey and Lily in tow, Morrison patted cows, alpacas and Luna the llama and shook dozens of hands.Loading “I had a chat with Jen this morning about where the various egg purchases were up to,” Morrison said. He added several chocolate figurines and a decorative raffia rabbit statue to that total.“You know me, I’m sweet as,” came the reply.
“You should have come in a fishing jacket, you could have walked away weighing twice as much as when you came in.” Labor candidate for Leichhardt Elida Faith stands inside a 3D mole mapping machine in Cairns, watched by Senator Nita Green and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.Albanese went almost as far north as he could and still be in Queensland, making a run to Cairns which sits in the electorate of Leichhardt.
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