I've started reading The Game, a political book by Sean Kelly, describing how Scott Morrison worked his way to becoming Prime Minister. With Kelly's past associations with the ALP, you'd expect it to be a bit of a hatchet job but it's not like that, although it's particularly unflattering. And recent revelations about Morrison's behaviour have over-shadowed anything a political commentator might suggest. Mr Kelly suggests that Morrison has developed a 'flat' character for himself: the daggy dad who follows the Sharks and cooks curry once a week. Many Australians can relate to that and don't necessarily look any deeper. Other voters, like me, are turned off by the shallowness of his persona, but we're in the minority.
It's worth a read if only to show how easily politics in Australia can be manipulated by determined individuals with the wrong motives.
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