Crikey's Bernard Keane sums up.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/27/sc ... etirement/It's all about human dignity, says Scott Morrison as he leaves Parliament. If only he'd ever had a chance to practise that.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/27/sc ... etirement/It's all about human dignity, says Scott Morrison as he leaves Parliament. If only he'd ever had a chance to practise that.
Point is, I could probably delve into those red words in that same bible Scummo supposedly follows (and the red bits are supposedly quotes from JC his-self) and refute the Scummo mentality a couple of dozen times over.
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/03/15/sco ... plemented/In a Fitting Tribute to Scott Morrison, His Farewell Dinner Has Been Announced but Will Not Be Implemented
***Gentle reader of Inside Story, Scott Morrison’s Plans for Your Good is not addressed to you. Its spelling is American, Anzac Day is glossed as “like Memorial Day in the United States,” and many of the significant events an Australian follower of politics might expect to read about do not appear.
The book is really a testament to God’s plan for Scott Morrison, who wanders through the world making a few mistakes but always trying to love others and attend to God’s commands through scripture and through prayer. Biblical figures outnumber people Scott has actually met in its dramatis personae, and the targeted reader is an American evangelical with a need for Christian encouragement and — beyond a warm memory of Crocodile Dundee — little knowledge of Australia. As I write its author is in the United States spruiking the book to them.
After speaking in many tongues all his career (as politicians tend to do), Morrison comes out in Plans for your Good as fluent in evangelical. To an outsider, it is not an appealing dialect, and tends not to be concrete on any detail that lacks devotional purpose. Some passages of homiletic cliché might have been generated by an evangelical instance of ChatGPT. So the question I struggle with is whether this is the real ScoMo, or whether it is a pitch to the next mob who might support his career trajectory. Brother Scott or still Scotty from Marketing?
Kidney-dishes are available at the rear of the hall. Thank you for your time.For us suspicious bastards, it is interesting that his chief lieutenants in party matters, Alex Hawke and Stuart Robert, scrape into the book only in the acknowledgements. To bring them into the plot he might have had to mention party matters, “on water matters” and the robodebt controversy, all of which would be hard to square with his humble approach to humanity: “If you see the dignity and worth of another person, the beating heart in front of you, in all its complexity, you are less likely to disrespect them.” I hope no victims of relentless, systematic othering among asylum seekers or welfare recipients get far enough into the book to read this. It would not be good for their health.
And similarly for women. “Jen and the girls” bulk large, and I am willing to believe that Morrison is a faithful and affectionate husband and parent. The trouble is that almost no other women feature in the book and, apart from Jen, they do or decide almost nothing. This is an intensely and, I suspect, unconsciously patriarchal vision of action in the world.