Morrison’s media minders will be hoping a televised interview with his family begins to smooth the sharp edges and flaws that have been on full display over recent months.
says a lot about the Prime Minister’s current political standing – and not much of it is good.
So while planning for the interview with Nine began late last year – hardly a rush job – the interview arrives at an apposite moment. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg listed all the taxes Albanese had supported over the years including the carbon, congestion and mining taxes and more besides.He even exhumed a claim the Opposition Leader had backed death taxes. Thirty years ago, mind you.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton first whacked the Opposition Leader for never having held an economic portfolio and then tendentiously claimed Labor pretended “there’s no difference between the two parties when it comes to defending our nation” but that Albanese was the least prepared Labor leader on national security since Mark Latham.
In appearing alongside his wife, Morrison’s media minders will be hoping this is the interview that begins to smooth the Prime Minister’s sharp edges and flaws – which have been on full display over the past few months – and humanise him ahead of a budget in March that will springboard into a poll expected in May.interview and the insights provided by Mrs Morrison .