Last night, Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed all things welfare and the economy with 7.30’s Leigh Sales.
It was an entirely forgettable discussion, filled with tired lines about not raising Newstart while spending millions on stigmatising recipients, save for one thing: Morrison’s time-warp colonial office design.
Gone, or at least hidden from view, were his pride and joy, two two-dimensional “I stopped these” boat trophies Morrison made for himself at parliamentary art and craft time, replaced with what appears to be a three-dimensional replica of Captain Cook’s prized Endeavour. A tipster has confirmed to Crikey that on the wall behind it, is a map of Cook’s voyages.
Morrison has also chucked on a green and gold tie, strategically placed an Aussie flag, and is donning an Aussie flag pin, lest anyone forget whose side he’s on.
The office reno reveal should come as no surprise, however. Morrison’s love of the ‘strayan invasion saw him pledge $25 million in January this year to turn his seat of Cook into a memorial of Cook, $5.45m for a Cooktown 2020 festival, and $6.7m to fix up the Endeavour replica for a replica voyage.
That now infamous brainfart saw the marketing guru meet with members of the Guugu Yimithirr tribe during a visit to Cooktown, and while we can’t fault him for accepting their spear as a gift, standing between Indigenous Australians and Cook impersonators, with this particular stance is undeniably off.
And check out this photo of Morrison admiring Cook’s anchor. Dude loves colonisation!
But then again, it’s not just settlement that Morrison’s got form with. He doesn’t mind a war-machine photo-op either. We also have seen the PM loving the $1 billion construction of navy ships, or, down below, celebrating submarines with Christopher Pyne and French Defence Minister Florence Parly.
Here he is just wandering around a US aircraft carrier mid-war games, while Chinese warships watch on.
Here he is on his visit to Christmas Island, taking time off from spending millions on reopening a facility generally recognised for having put detainees through hell to gaze, longingly, at the ships beyond the horizon.
Still, at least he kept the flags to just one and kept his feet off the expensive gear, unlike one of his recent predecessors.
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So, our defective P M, the liar from the shiar, is trying to personally corporatize idiot patriotism, with jingoism, propaganda, items of salvation, relics to worship, the whole indigestible soon to be faecal flood of his fringe superstitious idiocy. Disgusting.
The entire LNP have been busy turning lying into an art form for the last 10 years or so, but only Abbott and Morrison have made a religion of it.
Retribution surely awaits them all, in the form of a Federal ICAC.
I am worried.
This scummo bloke ( or his advisors ) are smart as anyone in pollytricks, and better than most.
What really works for them is scums acting ability. He can really look honest and self assured while spouting utter garbage. His “I am one of you” act is perfect and his portrayal of honest and deep concern is perfection. his method of dealing with questions and verbal challenges has been exemplary so far. Calm,honest in appearance,rational and injecting folksy little homilies at the right moment. In fact a lovable, in control and reliable person.
I’m guessing that the LNP will do very little while in Govt.,not rock the boat, duck any controversy and be re elected by the mass of the populace. They have shown that they are adverse to change and just want everything to carry on calmly.
In applying his approach He could even survive major drama, Financial crisis or Climate events. The peasants are easy to convince, and his portrayed persona would allow him to spout enough BS to get him over most events. The LNP picked a winner.
And there he was aided and abetted by journalisms bed bug Leigh Scales giving him a verbal blow job. No wonder friendlyjordies has a bigger following than the LNP/ABC.
I think Leigh Sales got a really good snapshot of Schmo/ Slowmo/ Scummo; as soon as he was brought back to the hard question he had dodged, he raised his voice, arm extended towards to camera and angrily snapped. I can see a bully towards women and behind closed doors.
Prior to this, he had been waxing lyrical, as the “boy from the shire” which an interesting construct for a First Fleeter from Waverley.
As a First Fleeter, and the member for the seat of Cook you can imagine just how excited he gets about the advertising opportunities and reflected glory he can draw to himself with an enormous statue of Cook, self seeking and crass, I agree. Expect it to be on his letterhead and a baseball cap logo too!
Now, about, the brilliant seaman and navigator and the man who mapped the east coast of Australia and observed the transit of Venus, testing a chronometer which was the reason for his trip.
Of course, as a sailor myself, I personally have a huge respect for Cook.
To get the sextant shot he needed of the transit of Venus, off what is now Cooktown, the Endeavor was becalmed and in danger of hitting a reef, carried there by a 2 meter swell and tide run, his solution was to put his crews in the long boats and have them row with all their might.
He was and is considered to be a humble man, successful, famous, and internationally recognized for all his accomplishments including getting his crew to drink lime juice and so, not losing even one crew man to scurvy.
Contrast Cook’s life’s accomplishments with those of the Ad man, smug, condescending and when challenged by a female, aggressive. Really offensive on many levels.
Yeah, but if yawanago, yageddago eh? How good is Scomo?
As the saying goes “if you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made”
He’s ok in the pics and I couldn’t help thinking of the various Kim Jong Il Looking At Things websites that were big a few years ago. Kim had mastered it better but was playing to a different more captive audience.
What else do you expect the “Member for Cook” to decorate his office with? …. Those were the days….
“….. Keep movin’, movin’, movin’
Though they’re disapprovin’
Keep them bludgers movin’, rawhide
Don’t try to understand ’em
Just rope ’em, throw, and brand ’em,
Soon we’ll be livin’ high and wide ….”
….. Any snaps from Kealakekua Bay?
‘Scott Morrison – The Anecdotal Prime Minister.’
We’re in trouble if he’s been on deck of a US aircraft carrier. He’ll have gotten a big stiffy for war so that he’s likely to follow the US into whatever idiot venture it’s got planned next. Oh yes, blockading Iran, whose crime apparently was having remained in and abided by an international treaty. Happened to Blair and others. We need a stiffy register of which politicians have been on deck of a US aircraft carrier.
One slight advantage of his gurning is that he speaks less when doing so.
Small mercy but we take what is going.
Just gobsmackingly the most ghastly sub-human ever! I have now put a filter on anything LNP, just all so naff
I don’t want to know.