Journalist asked:“You’ve said that your leadership needed to change gear to be what Australia needed during the pandemic. But what Australians are also unhappy about responses to the fires, floods, women’s safety, integrity commission. Are you saying the pandemic coloured your response to those other issues, or can we expect a change in approach beyond the economic recovery and opportunity you’re talking about?”
Morrison explained: “Jenny refers to it as the ‘Morrison Men’. My father, my brother and I, we go in and fix things. And sometimes when we go in and fix things, people can get the impression that perhaps we are not as aware of many of the sensitivities that can be around these issues.” “We see a crisis, we see a problem, we see a need. My brother’s a paramedic. He turns up on a scene, he sees a child who is in great danger. He just gets to work.” “I must admit, I’m a bit the same,”
"The question, if you recall, mentioned “fires, floods, women’s safety [and the] integrity commission”. When the fires came, he went to Hawaii. When there were floods, he called in the ADF, for photo opportunities. When a staffer was raped in his party’s Parliamentary offices, the only thing that got done quickly was getting the couch cleaned. As for an integrity commission, he promised it before the last election and has voted against one 31 times. Some fixer. As for COVID — when COVID was starting to boom in Australia in 2020, he announced on a Friday the restrictions were to begin on Monday, then was spotted singing in church that weekend. He didn’t order enough vaccines, after insulting Pfizer by not speaking to them directly and sending a junior official to negotiate the purchase. When the deadly Omicron strain hit, Morrison bought up all the R.A.T. tests and stockpiled them so no one could buy one anywhere. Now Australia has the highest COVID infection rates in the entire world. If Scott Morrison is a fixer, I’d hate to see him try to destroy the joint. But wait a minute...Didn’t he call himself a bulldozer? Maybe he doesn’t always lie."
source: i n d e p e n d e n t a u s t r a l i a . n e t
