Looking closely at how Scott Morrison has succeeded – and the ways in which he has failed – can tell us a lot about politics, and journalism, and Australians
In 2018, I was approached about writing a profile of Scott Morrison, the new prime minister. I read everything I could and talked to as many people as would talk to me. Then I began to cut and paste snippets into folders on my computer: “Immigration”, “Religion”, “Ambition”, “Mr Average”.
I stared at these facts for a long time. Politicians are very often catalogued by their beliefs. This makes sense: it is arguably the most important thing about them. In Morrison’s case, it was hard to know what to say. He had, over a period of decades, said little definitive; on the occasions he had made clear statements, he had undermined them elsewhere. His language tended to the general, so that it was hard to take away anything clear.
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