Voters turn on PM over 'pathetic' response to bushfire crisis | CroweDM rharris334
Voters have turned on Prime Minister Scott Morrison over his response to the summer bushfires in a sign he could be “irretrievably damaged” by a series of stumbles, including his decision to take a holiday in Hawaii.
One voter, Rob, from the northern suburbs of Sydney, said he believed Mr Morrison had “done his dash” while another said the Prime Minister struck her as “dismissive and arrogant”. The negative impression was compounded by media coverage of Mr Morrison’s meetings with fire victims, with voters recalling the heckling he received in the NSW town of Cobargo on January 2 and his comments in South Australia on January 8 that there had been “no loss of life” when two men had died.
“Only one individual in the Sydney group was less critical of Scott Morrison and one Melbourne participant held back from overt criticism,” the research company found. Prime Minister Scott Morrison inspects what's left of a wildflower farm in Sarsfield, Victoria, in January. It was a tough month for the PM.Ipsos found that this vocal support for Mr Morrison was a “minority” view in the focus groups, which comprised nine people in Sydney and eight in Melbourne selected to be broadly representative of different age groups, voting backgrounds and suburbs.
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