A clearly frustrated ScottMorrisonMP has gone face-to-face with Waleed Aly on theprojecttv. Suffice to say, there were fireworks. See what went on here: TheProjectTV
This was Waleed Aly’s opening shot at Scott Morrison — and it set the tone for a tense and fiery 30-minute interview between the pair.the Prime Minister denied that his party had a poor track record with engaging Australian Muslims, denied claims that he urged his party to capitalise on Islamophobia in 2011, and refused to rule out preferencing One Nation last at the federal election.
Mr Morrison responded: “I can only say anyone who may have told the journalist the smear in that way. There were a number of people in that meeting who have gone on the record to support that that didn’t happen.”The one question Mr Morrison couldn’t answer was whether he would preference One Nation below Labor and the Greens at the next election.But Aly insisted that wasn’t his question, restating that he wanted to know if the Liberal Party would put One Nation last.
Mr Morrison refused to do so. “All I’m saying at this stage is that we’ll never do a preference deal with One Nation and we’ll settle on everything else at the time of nominations closing,” Mr Morrison said.Aly also asked Mr Morrison whether he thinks it’s a “problem” to talk about asylum seekers through the “prism of them possibly being rapists, murderers and pedophiles”.
Mr Morrison addressed the medivac bill in response, saying, “You’ve got to be honest with people... if a bill that was put forward and supported by the Labor Party was going to create risks for managing the transfer of people in the community, I’m not going to say those risks do’t exist. There are real risks. There are very real risks.”
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