Published: December 31, 2019
The prime minister has used his New Year’s eve message to try to pretend this disaster is not different
There is a message woven into everything the prime minister says about these fires, carefully threaded through every pronouncement – that they are not extraordinary, not unprecedented.
With the skill of a man who made a pre-politics career of messaging, Scott Morrison’s narrative is of a disaster in no way different from disasters Australians have faced in the past. A terrible event to be sure, but one from which we will recover with the resilience and “Aussie spirit” we have always shown during our long history of similar crises.
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