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Scott Morrison has refused to release any official notes from his conversation with the New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller, and insists there was nothing inappropriate about attempting to influence the NSW police chief’s investigation into the conduct of one of his ministers, Angus Taylor.
With the police investigation into Taylor’s decision to allegedly doctor official documents in some weird crusade against Sydney Mayor Clover Mayor ramping up, the Energy Minister and Member for Hume represents one of the three seats that Morrison needs to retain the balance of power and not embarrassingly hand over government to Albanese.
And with his Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and newcomer Gladys Liu currently being investigated over their unethical campaign decision to present Chinese-language pro-Liberal propaganda as official Electoral Office signage on election day, it seems that could very much be the case.
That is, unless he can hold on long enough until the nation forgets about the fairly blatant level of corruption within his government, and start opening their Chrissie presents!
After having already tried his luck with dominating the news cycle with his concerns surrounding Australia Day debate, religious freedoms debate, kids not being in school because of climate change protests, and more recently – critics trying to claim that climate change is the reason kids can’t go to school because of bushfires – it appears there are only a few more stereotypical populist cliches that Prime Minister Morrison can pull out of his sleeve before everyone tunes out of politics over Christmas.
After spending the last few days being pinballed around Parliament by a growing NSW right-wing faction within his own party, Scott Morrison has only a short window in the 2019 calendar year to accuse the PC police of trying to ban Christmas.
That’s if he wants to crowd out the news cycle to steer away from the fact that one of his own cabinet ministers broke the law by forging documents to defame his criticis and then lied about where he got them from.
As a devout Christian and an an increasingly noisy populist with not many policies about anything, Morrison is in a perfect position to take advantage of middle Australia’s nostalgia and appreciation for this time of the year, by accusing ‘lefties’ of trying to take it away from them.
However a ‘War On Christmas’ isn’t the only play left in his book. Political analysts say ScoMo could also make a run at how a lack of coal will see old people being unable to afford to turn on their air conditioning this summer.
Failing that, the Prime Minister could accuse Lebanese teenagers of ruining the atmosphere at Cronulla beach over the holidays, and send text messages to all of his mates encouraging them to bash wogs on sight.
