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I hadn’t realised the former PM’s capacity to upset ordinary people and destroy their trust in government, until now

Photograph: Steven Saphore/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Steven Saphore/AFP/Getty ImagesScott Morrison still possesses an incredible ability to divide and destroy the Australian polity.

I do not believe anyone can truthfully say they “know” Morrison. I can say I have “experienced” Scott for 22 years. I have thought about him, tried to work with him and desperately wanted to understand him as a member of his Liberal “team”. Understandably, the ordinary citizen may not care how the NSW Liberal party has been so ruthlessly used and rendered a smoking ruin. But Morrison and his government’s power games have had direct impacts on people’s lives.

this person crossed the boundaries in ways never previously imagined; the most powerful man in the land exploited a health crisis to extract yet more personal power.Read more

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