Sky News host Rita Panahi says the current political vitriol aimed at Prime Minister Scott Morrison is 'absolutely disgraceful,' as the bushfire crisis is being used to 'politicise a tragedy ... [and] bash a conservative government'. Credlin
Sky News host Rita Panahi says the current political vitriol aimed at Prime Minister Scott Morrison is "absolutely disgraceful," as the bushfire crisis is being used to "politicise a tragedy ... [and] bash a conservative government".
Ms Panahi said the current debate surrounding Australia's bushfire crisis "has been presented as an opportunity for people who got everything wrong in the lead up to last year's election to politicise a tragedy and to use it to bash a conservative government". "There has been no semblance of balance or rationality ... what we've seen in recent weeks has been utterly unhinged," Ms Panahi said.
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