Tag Scott Morrison
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Thus Spake Mungo: ScoMo talks much, says little
We still don’t know just who or what the new prime minister is, but he is determined to tell us whether we like it or not. Our manic leader is seldom lost for words and this is just as well as he appears chronically short of ideas.
September 17, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 8 -
Greenpeace tells PM to ‘get your hand off it’
Greenpeace Australia Pacific climbers have taken to the flagpoles outside Parliament House to send a message to new prime minister Scott Morrison as he returns for the first day in parliament since taking over as leader of the country.
September 10, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Thus Spake Mungo: ScoMo turns to Menzies’ ghost
When the world falls apart, when all those careful plans collapse in smouldering ruins, when the present seems desolate and the future seems hopeless, there is only one recourse: invoke the ghost of Robert Menzies.
September 10, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 5 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Meet Morrison’s new generation of retreads
So this is what Scott Morrison calls his new generation of leadership. It consists mainly of retreads from the previous ministry, with the absence of one of the very few the voters actually liked – Julie Bishop – and the resurrection of some we had thought we were well rid of.
September 3, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 12 -
ScoMo’s pro-coal agenda
Lyn Dickinson, Pottsville. It is all very well for incoming Prime Minister Scott Morrison to announce that drought relief is at the top of his agenda, but what does he plan to do about it? How long can we afford... Read More →
August 29, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
A peek at Rupert Murdoch’s revised walking dead cabinet
Good riddance Turnbull, a PM of massive wealth and ego who left office without much record of accomplishment. Remember when the Libs scoffed as Labor tore itself apart?
August 29, 2018 | Hans Lovejoy | 14 -
What will ScoMo’s energy policy look like?
It says something about the state of Australia’s politics that the new prime minister, the man who brandished a lump of coal in parliament, is considered a moderate, at least in comparison to the forces he beat to the job.
August 28, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Scott Morrison elected next prime minister
Update: P Scott Morrison has been elected Liberal Party leader in a 45-40 vote.
August 24, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Yet another tax tweak
Scott Morrison has inched forward to another interminable episode of tweaking the tax. This time it’s the scales of the returns the states get from the commonwealth’s GST, but, as always, do not hold your breath.
July 9, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 4 -
Thus Spake Mungo: ScoMo’s budget and the politics of greed
Scott Morrison’s budget has been greeted as underwhelming, which is probably the way he likes it. There are no real losers, apart from… a basket of deplorables who do not normally vote for the coalition.
May 14, 2018 | Mungo MacCallum | 5 -
Penurious premiers stonewall Scott Morrison
We had been told that everything was on the table. But when the guests arrived with their carpetbags and wheelbarrows to avail themselves of the largesse, it turned out that Stingy Scott Morrison had removed all but a handful of the goodies.
December 14, 2015 | Mungo MacCallum | 1 -
Abbott says Morrison misled public
Tony Abbott says he wasn't warned by anyone of the impending leadership challenge, which resulted in his removal as prime minister.
September 22, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Thus Spake Mungo: The making of our immigration monsters
I’ve pondered it before and I am pondering it again – what is it about conservative immigration ministers that makes them so horrible: nature or nurture? asks Mungo MacCallum.
June 10, 2015 | Mungo MacCallum | 4 -
The demented duo’s weird marine adventure
Immigration C-in-C Scott Morrison and his executive generalissimo Angus Campbell have gone rogue. It is time, past time, to confront the obvious: Operation Sovereign Borders is out of control and running amok, writes Mungo MacCallum.
May 13, 2014 | Mungo MacCallum | 6
