Soon the antics of Scott Morrison and co will fade into the distance, never to be written about again. But not today, dear reader, not today. Because it turns out that the man who famously doesn’t hold a hose, does hold a whip — and he knows how to use it.
Nine News got some footage of the former PM’s leaving do at Kirribilli House overlooking Sydney Harbour, where the Morrison family thanked staff for their service in a very traditional way: Jenny served up some margs and Scott cracked the whip (no, really).
Footage shows Morrison on the lawn getting out a whip and having a solid crack (and looking like he’d done it before), while guests look on and one awkwardly claps. Then Jenny and daughter Abbey also have a go and guests stand around worried they’re going to be asked next.
The reaction online was one of general confusion: why a whip, Scott?
But honestly, we should probably be thankful. At least he didn’t serve up raw chicken to his guests, or tackle any of their seven-year-old sons to the ground.
Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese will soon make the big move from Marrickville in the inner west to take up residence in Kirribilli — and if his inner-west friends are anything like mine, he’ll never hear from them again once he crosses the bridge.
Umm – the Prime Minister of Australia lives in The Lodge in Canberra, the capital of Australia, so why the assumption that he’ll live in KIrribilli?
Kirribilli should be sold and the proceeds used for public housing.
If it was sold you know a dirt bag will end up with it. Keep it.
Agree don’t sell it but open it up for public housing anyway.
Wasn’t it originally meant for government guests?
Albanese stated that he will move to Kirribilli as this would be appreciated by his current neighbours.The security required for his Marrickville home is too invasive for the locale.
Why not the Lodge, the official residence?
@Woopwoop
I suspect it has something to with his shared custody arrangements with his former wife AND Kirribilli House has been called the bunker Kirribilli for obvious reasons.
Has he got another kid apart from the adult son?
His only child is 21
Well past any custody arrangement
I hope Albanese doesn’t move to Kirribilli. We don’t need another PM for Sydney.
The Prime Minister living in Kiribilli is an insult to the Federation of states. The very reason The Lodge is the PM’s residence is to show the country that the PM represents THE WHOLE COUNTRY, not just Sydney.
LJH rationalised his move into Kirribilli as a necessity due to his schoolage children. If Keating had tried this on, the Tories and the Merdocracy would have gone ballistic. “The arrogance …. I think my brain is going to explode!”
It is a security nightmare due to its harbourside location and costs multi-millions per term for security around the clock.
In view of the huge fuss over whether or not senior parliamentarians actually live in their electorate – despite parliament and the offices of the CPS departments relevant to their ministry being located in Canberra, it is kind of funny that, if they are promoted sufficiently, their presence in the electorate actually poses a hazard to their neighbours.
Not so. No PM has ever represented WA, even when they were born here. Scomo as Treasurer sorted out our GST woes, thank God. Kinda bulldozed his way through it, bless him. But that’s as close as anyone got. Now that we’ve turned as red as the desert sands it’s kinda sad to see the old blue bulldozer with the white cross on the side whip-crackin’ his way into the wide blue yonder. So long, Buddy! But wait… What’s this? I can still hear the big diesel chuntering away! Has he only gone for a miraculous refit? A quick shufti at the Lazarus chapter in the Book? A reboot from a higher power? (Shell BP/Texaco). Like the Terminator, will he be back?
If you believe in miracles, they can happen.
John Curtin?
Why is it only Sydney and NSW that there is an alternative Prime Ministerial Residence to The Lodge? Surely it’s time there was one in every State, on the off-chance that one day we get another PM who didn’t live in Sydney beforehand.
Or they could just live in the national capital Canberra at the lodge like everyone else up until Howard. If they don’t want to do that then don’t put your hand up for the job.
I agree. It’s a given that any PM will be spending a lot of time in Canberra, but if the PM has school aged children, they shouldn’t have to leave their school and friends behind and relocate to Canberra. How many of you would want to live there?
Plenty of people (well, mainly men) uproot their family and move to a new post.
It was never use, nor intended, as an alternative Prime Ministerial Residence to The Lodge – that was entirely Hyacinth’s hubris and overweening arrogance.
And the fact she was heard more than once to bellow, “I will NOT live in the same city as her!”
I have family in Marrickville, they don’t even go to the beach let alone cross the bridge 🙂