.mrseankelly: Scott Morrison is starting to take us into his confidence - that's important
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.
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.
Second, the government’s expert advisers discussed the modelling with the media. Some clarity emerged. “If we relaxed and went back to normal we would see a rapid, explosive resurgence in epidemic activity,” said one. This is a useful pointer to just how complicated the government’s decisions are about to get.
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