“I find his interest in my sunny disposition quite interesting,” Scott Morrison says, lounging back in the leather seat of his RAAF VIP jet with an air of self-satisfaction.
The pace is punishing. Each of the last four nights have been spent in a different capital city - Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Darwin. On the day of our interview, the prime ministerial jet is speeding towards the North Queensland garrison town of Townsville, where the seat of Herbert sits on a knife-edge.
A ferocious capacity to be task-focused is another Morrison hallmark. Witness his near monomaniacal dedication to "stopping the boats" when he was immigration minister. Or his falling out with Turnbull in early 2016, when Morrison as treasurer was going full steam ahead on a proposed GST increase offset by generous personal tax cuts, before Turnbull headed him off at the pass. Morrison’s former staff say they had clear signals from the then prime minister’s office to forge ahead.
Gazard is one of a small circle around Morrison who checks in with him regularly. “I send him messages, and he will call when he needs to, just running ideas past me, getting my take on things.” Others include Grebe, and long-time mentors Peter Costello [now chair of Nine, which owns“I used to talk to Peter a lot when I was treasurer,” Morrison says. “And occasionally to John. Now I talk more regularly to John and occasionally to Peter.
“Has the Newspoll us given hope? Yes,” says one. “Has it encouraged and mobilised the team? Yes. Does it galvanise donors and volunteers? Yes. Does it give us victory on the 18th? Not yet.”It's Easter Monday in the hotly contested seat of La Trobe in Victoria, a state where voters are expected to give the government a caning.
The decision to let the cameras in had some of Morrison’s advisers worried. He brushes off the suggestion it was a gamble, defaulting, as so often when challenged, to a kind of jut-jawed testiness. In the past, he’s declared the Bible is “not a policy handbook”, and deflected questions about reconciling his religious beliefs with some of his more heartless statements on refugees by saying Australians “aren’t looking for me to conduct myself as if I’m sitting on Oprah’s couch”.
DeborahSnow just a plain very ordinary grub
DeborahSnow Nah, nothing more than a Billy McMahon for his time.
DeborahSnow WTF? GENIUS!!!
DeborahSnow Australia will be history if they vote in Shorty Pants😄
DeborahSnow you seem to have become more biased towards the Liberal-National Coalition than ever before during this election campaign...disappointed, Reader of 30+ years
DeborahSnow A genious or disingenuous?
DeborahSnow The latter...
DeborahSnow Political genius how he orchestrated a leadership spill using dupes to get the job over others. But apart from that a man we won’t remember for long
DeborahSnow It would have been better if he was driven in CE1 the first Electirc P.M. Limousine but it was not to be before the election that had to come. Labor, LNP failed to help homeless next in Alphabet like cyclone naming contesting all 151 seats is the Unted
DeborahSnow Who writes this nonsense? Genius? Took his opportunity after they knifed Malcolm Got no team or policies So is conducting a one man scare mongering election campaign Confident? Overbearing Aggressive Uninspiring Born to rule mentality
DeborahSnow definitely not a genius
DeborahSnow Footnote* . . . . . . ______________________ *Shat himself at Engadine Maccas.
DeborahSnow Nutter
DeborahSnow The political genius who just got mauled in a debate with Billy Shorten, that political genius? I think the term you meant to write was political opportunist. And not even the footnotes will remember him too well.
DeborahSnow A mere footnote for the accidental temporary Prime Minister Hopeless to the core
DeborahSnow I find it incredulous that anyone in Australia wants a Liberal or a fcnnNational.
DeborahSnow Political genius? Has there been a political genius to come out of malignant Christianity? Davies Leeeve it alone|
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