On a Friday afternoon eight days before Christmas, I’m ushered into Scott Morrison’s private office at Kirribilli House, the official Sydney residence, to talk about the three tumultuous years of his prime ministership.
The room, dominated by a heavy bookcase along one wall, is filled with family photos and memorabilia. Over the mantelpiece is a large, framed photo of an eagle coming in to land – an art work which holds particular significance for him.During the 2019 election campaign – the election which almost no one but he and his inner circle thought he could win – he’d walked into a gallery in a marginal central coast electorate, suffering a momentary and uncharacteristic loss of confidence.
All these topics were on my list. Yet when I looked back over the record of our conversation, one of the most revealing moments came in answer to the most innocuous question.At one level this wasn’t surprising. He views himself, above all, as a problem-solver and pragmatist – “a bit of a bulldozer”, to use his own words, “very mission, task-focused. That is my nature”.
When I suggest some Australians might like to be thrown some bigger ideas to chew on, he says: “They want to live their lives.
It’s of a piece with the Prime Minister’s long-time positioning of himself as an outsider, disdainful of the “Canberra bubble” despite being at the very centre of the world the bubble supports. “I grew up in the less affluent end of the eastern suburbs down in Bronte with a dad and mum and a brother who lived in [an] aunty’s house, went to public schools all my life, and then when I got to the Shire [in 2006] absolutely loved it,” he says.The shire is Sutherland Shire, at the heart of Morrison’s electorate of Cook in Sydney’s south east, a boaties’ paradise with a good slice of comfortable homes clustering around a maze of coastal waterways.
Then he kitted up in visor and gloves to demonstrate his welding skills, angling himself to be best positioned for the TV cameras. Only later do I discover he’d burnt a finger halfway through the weld. “JobKeeper was more than just income support, it was a clear statement from the federal government that ‘you are going to be OK, you don’t have to worry about tomorrow because tomorrow’s OK … Tomorrow, there is food on the table, you are not going to lose your house, you are not going to lose the lease on your business, and we are going to cover that off until we get this all sorted out’.
DeborahSnow Could've gone harder, held him more accountable. Read half, honestly couldn't finish it to see if you tried - his deluded nonsense infuriates me auspol LNPDisgrace VoteThemOut
DeborahSnow Yep. Subscription deleted. Forever. I don't want to be reading the next piece about Kim Jong-un. Once had respect for DeborahSnow ...
DeborahSnow Reading the inflight menu
DeborahSnow This NK style Propaganda can
DeborahSnow Wow, that just makes me feel ill. Where was the follow-up? His whole idea that people only want what they need right now and that no one cares about the future. Why wasn't that followed up? The patronising rubbish in this article. Urgh!
DeborahSnow The Djokovic crisis has been brought on by Scomo himself trying to game the fiasco to capitalise on misguided public sentiment. It is not a crime in Australia to be unvaccinated just as for overseas unvaccinated visitors can get an exemption. Djokovic had an exemption
DeborahSnow It’s not just the summers that have been shadowed by crisis & self inflicted wounds. He is the dunning-Kroger effect personified
DeborahSnow Agitprop. Well done.
DeborahSnow Jesus, I read this and it’s obvious Deborah Snow walked on eggshells and failed to challenge even the most asinine of Morrison’s many self congratulatory musings.
DeborahSnow Disgraceful excuse for journalism
DeborahSnow You have to wonder why the author stopped short of listing all the mistakes and crises that this mindless Labrador has created.
DeborahSnow Fuck that's depressing. He literally has no ambition for the future of this country. No thoughts about how this country could be better. Just takes 1 crisis/day at a time.
DeborahSnow Perspective
DeborahSnow Didn’t stop Kevin rud. But he was a leader. Unlike this muppet
DeborahSnow What complete drivvle
DeborahSnow Good effort DeborahSnow at listing all Morrison’s errors, selfishness, carelessness and wilful abandon of vision.
DeborahSnow and a bigger crisis this new year to dwarf the last three without any political capital, held in contempt by the electorate and mounting death's in federal age care knowing we are better than this will be the national coming together he invoces
DeborahSnow All your puff piece has done is highlight the fact that our PM thinks 'how good is Australia' so good that I need to do sweet FA. His interest in himself so far outweighs his interest in the rest of us that he is way out of touch. I stopped reading at below. Bring on 27 Feb.
DeborahSnow Lol, self-inflicted wounds sounds like a denialist way of saying 'major fuck ups'
DeborahSnow Isn’t he supposed to serve us?
DeborahSnow He's a failed marketing man. He should be in prison FFS
DeborahSnow This kinda hagiography would make North Korean media blush 🤦♂️
DeborahSnow Sure that isn't a hawk? Because it looks like a picture of a hawk and it would be hilarious if there was a picture depicting the late Bob in his office.
DeborahSnow The comments section tells me you’re not fooling anyone.
DeborahSnow Not just summer!
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DeborahSnow 9 Entertainment’s Chr Peter Costello has spent his life propping up Prime Ministers. Morrison will speak to Deborah but not Laura Tingle. Puffery vs interrogation.
DeborahSnow Peter Costello LNP Media Propaganda PR Puff Piece. I wonder if an election is looming?
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DeborahSnow Don't waste your time reading this tripe
DeborahSnow Deb, are those your two boots we see hanging out of his arse?
DeborahSnow Are you seriously TRYING to piss off your remaining 27 readers? This is bullocks. He is dangerous & needs to go. AlboForPM
DeborahSnow This is a bit like writing up Flohs pumpkin scone recipe in the wake of the Fitzgerald report......
DeborahSnow Summary: Achievements = Nil. Lies? Yes. Able to accept when he’s wrong? No.
DeborahSnow Did you wipe your chin after that 'interview'
DeborahSnow Well, looks like the reason I cancelled my subscription remains.
DeborahSnow Was expecting more of a puff piece, this covers quite a few points and shows how entirely unfit he is as a leader. And some of the photos that chose are hilarious. If this is the best that can be done for a puff piece he’s got a tricky road ahead.
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DeborahSnow Morrison told us who he is. If only more had listened.
DeborahSnow Ask the right questions get the same sorry excuses so why bother This just feels like another propaganda piece dressed up as scrutiny
DeborahSnow Leaders rise to the challenge in a crisis. This one melts like butter on a hot plate
DeborahSnow 'For many, many months we had been addressing this bushfire event' says Morrison. How exacty? By ignoring warnings from the former fire chiefs & ordering overseas fire bombers in January after returning from Hawaii. What a pathetic excuse for his Hawaii holiday.
DeborahSnow Read the room or the reply’s… the bloke a flog
DeborahSnow This promotional piece wouldn't have been necessary if he'd just done some of his job, in any shape or form, over the past three years.
DeborahSnow Independent? Lol
DeborahSnow Inept.
DeborahSnow He knew Australia was facing a catastrophe of a fire season in April 2019. Chose to ignore the former emergency service leaders. He is not a bystander.
DeborahSnow Morrison and his party is the crisis. He has no idea how to run the country as we have seen during EVERY crisis under his leadership. Waiting for the election to be called, and word is so are many more,even his faithful voters have had enough.
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DeborahSnow Yes and good leaders shine during a crisis-
DeborahSnow Nice bull💩 puff piece Morrison is toast and this won’t help him, us Australian’s have worked him out. He’s so full of himself it’s not funny and his incompetence is astounding
DeborahSnow Morrison is a can’t. Can’t tackle climate. Can’t tackle healthcare Can’t order vaccines Can’t control the borders Can’t order boosters Can’t order RATs Can’t screw up a solution until he’s turned it into a catastrophe first.
DeborahSnow Oh dear. How embarrassment. Worst PM, ever!
DeborahSnow I’ll keep my subscription only if u start looking after the public interest again, eg. by running stories like this
DeborahSnow This is electioneering at best and propaganda at worst, but definitely not journalism. Why do you write and run this?
DeborahSnow .ScottMorrisonMP should be deeply worried about his 'legacy'. - Lose office in a dramatic defeat of his party. - Federal ICAC under a Labor govt. - Malfeasance by elected officials dealt with seriously, by a court of law. - LEGACY... first former PM to be imprisoned!?
DeborahSnow A short history of a Bullsh*t artist. For a more accurate description, see 👇🏿👇🏿
DeborahSnow Just stick your tongue down the back of his strides, why don't you.
DeborahSnow 🔴Scott kills with incompetence
DeborahSnow Need a puffer jacket for all that puff
DeborahSnow He keeps saying he’s a problem fixer but does not seem to realise that most of the problems are caused by his government and by”fix” he means a quick political fix.
DeborahSnow Crisis of their own making. These two dangerous individuals are not fit to govern and every Australian has paid the price for it. VoteMorrisonOut ScottytheFailure
DeborahSnow Why do you continue to enable him and his band of fools?
DeborahSnow Snow might have asked the right questions but the answers were just ScottyDoesNothing telling us how wonderful he thinks he is. Pure Puff. ThisisNotJournalism
DeborahSnow Can someone point out to ScottMorrisonMP that the govt does not pay the ABC, the Australian taxpayers do and we pay him and his ministers to be accountable.
DeborahSnow Puff. Piece. Peter running interference again, I see. ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism ThisisNotJournalism
DeborahSnow Who in their right mind would pay to read an obvious puff piece on a horrible PM? This is Andrew Bolt level journalism.
DeborahSnow oh look. Pathetic murdoch main stream media running protection for morrison treating The Australian public with contempt by assuming we are stupid enough to buy it.
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DeborahSnow Embarrassing article and unfit to be called journalism
DeborahSnow Why does Morrison wear R M Williams boots with a suit ? Sloppy He’s not working on a farm
DeborahSnow We remember
DeborahSnow Your paper has been called similar to North Korean press because of this article
DeborahSnow Why would anyone want to interview this political lightweight let alone read about it. Apart from his cheerleaders, his prime ministership will be forgotten quicker than Coles can run out of RATS.
DeborahSnow You're not even trying to hide it now, are you? propaganda
DeborahSnow On the ABC: ‘They keep criticising us … and we keep funding them!” ‘We’? Taxpayer money is not your money Scott! Ugh.
DeborahSnow Vomiting
DeborahSnow “They keep criticising us … and we keep funding them!” re ABC. He really is a tin pot dictator. He doesn’t fund them, we the taxpayers do, and I expect them to critique our government.
DeborahSnow Well Morrison knocked off Malcolm Turnbull..(the best intelligent PM potential we've had in years).. so suffer Morrison at your own hands
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DeborahSnow What a blatant puff piece. You obviously don’t think much of your readers
DeborahSnow He has failed Australians in every way possible whilst harbouring corruption and criminal behaviour in his cabinet. He needs to resign immediately.
DeborahSnow Hahahahahahahahwhahahahahahahah your paper is a joke
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DeborahSnow Read the room people, nobody believes this crap anymore and people have already made up their minds how they will vote so save your breath
DeborahSnow Snotty can just fade away. We need a real leader ...
DeborahSnow Not news. Not journalism.
DeborahSnow 😂🤣😂🤣 ThisIsNotJournalism
DeborahSnow What a disgusting puff piece on the worst prime minister in Australia's history. Peter Costello is turning Fairfax into Murdoch-Lite.
DeborahSnow Interesting article pointing out all the reasons no reasonable Australian should vote for him. Divine signals indeed.
DeborahSnow You mean the self inflicted bruising years
DeborahSnow I (nde) P (endent). A (lways). 💩
DeborahSnow Puff piece ThisisNotJournalism
DeborahSnow Self indulgence writ large. auspol AusPol2022 ScottyDoesNothing
DeborahSnow Nothing off limits 🤔really? Only being interviewed by the ABC by great journalists like lauraTingle is off limits for ScottMorrisonMP . TimeforTruth stoptheliesBill COP26 Climate EnoughisEnough auspol
DeborahSnow As an average leader, he would have performed 'ok' during normal times. However, we needed an exceptional leader for the changing times we are in. We need vision, compassion, trust in science, strategic thinking and the ability to garner bipartisan support. Scott hasn't got it.
DeborahSnow This article & the accompanying photo shoot of a maskless Morrison was appalling. This is North Korean-esque. It was the last straw for an increasingly partial newspaper. I will be cancelling my subscription over the phone Monday. Had some firm of subscription since 2001.
DeborahSnow A revealing interview. Leaves one wondering whether he is so dangerous and unfit as a leader because he is deceptive and unable to accept outside assessment of his performance, or simply because he is so banal and out of touch with what leadership requires.
DeborahSnow No amount of PR exercise will save this accidental PM come election. He was never fit for the office. He stoked crisis after crisis when it could have been managed easily. Only served the interest of his mates. Its time to ‘let it RIP’.
DeborahSnow Scott Morrison worst PM since Federation. We need man.....
DeborahSnow A journalist’s puff piece masquerading as journalism. Pathetic. How demeaning.
DeborahSnow Bruising? I thought he could take the hits? Also, most of the bruises are self-inflicted, so there's that...
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DeborahSnow Today marks the start of Nine Entertainment’s campaign to save Scott Morrison. Top three stories online are vanity pieces on Morrison. Like Morrison timing is poor and shooting all the bullets at the same time.
DeborahSnow scottythesociopath incredibly revealing article
DeborahSnow I don’t think this played out like he thought.
DeborahSnow Morrison is not a deep thinker is he.
DeborahSnow He’s brought it all on himself.
DeborahSnow ScottytheFailure will go down as the worst most incompetent and useless PM in Australian history. His motive isn’t to govern but simply stay in power with senseless 3 line media grabs. We need to change
DeborahSnow He’s never been a good man, he’s been an absolute shambles as PM
political_alert DeborahSnow He has two pages in his hand. He didn't read the report into the Ms B. Higgins sexual assault case. What is he looking at there? NRL Score sheet?
DeborahSnow no mention of the change in policy from ZERO to THIS.......and justifying it or not
political_alert DeborahSnow puff piece. Utter tosh.
DeborahSnow This the gimmme following representations from Scott and Co. complaining of harsh treatment from columnists within these papers?
DeborahSnow What is this shit- at least 3x pro scomo articles the day after the border fiasco reaches new idiocy.
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DeborahSnow Not just the summers, his incompetence, laziness and willingness to lie and isn’t linked to the position of earth in space, it’s just him, summer, winter, spring and autumn too.
DeborahSnow Nope.
DeborahSnow Yeah being on holidays when bushfires start is his fault lol
DeborahSnow After reading this article the one word that comes to mind to describe Morrison is DELUSIONAL
DeborahSnow Great career move by Deb. The bloke who wrote the 2019 puff piece got posted to London and is now the editor.
DeborahSnow FFS pissing in Morrison’s pocket is enough to make me bring up my breakfast. Morrison’s legacy is : a trillion dollars debt, Australia’s reputation trashed on the world stage, sexual misconduct and pork barreling commonplace and accepted as the norm
political_alert DeborahSnow Is this like a Saturday quiz to see how many lies and deceitful abrogations of responsibility we can spot in one article?
DeborahSnow 3 lead articles on Morrison, is this a pre-election campaign launch?
DeborahSnow ScottMorrisonMP The story so far
DeborahSnow ‼️Banana Republic, what are you up to today⁉️
DeborahSnow Lipstick on a pig.
DeborahSnow The SMH looks like an election brochure for Scott Morrison today. Videos, apologist articles all conveniently timed for weekend reading after two of the worst weeks of Federal Government management ever.
DeborahSnow Australians need this man to be PM now......
DeborahSnow If ScottMorrisonMP is worried about bruising just wait for the next election. The coroner will be sifting through the wreckage of charred remains looking for their teeth.
DeborahSnow We the electorate know all we need to know, and we know the path we need to walk. And we’ll walk it in a heartbeat……..
DeborahSnow ScottytheFailure created the crisis thisIsNotJournalism
'bruising' lol. Try again.
DeborahSnow ? Scott M. = crisis 🤷
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