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Laura Tingle

Morrison overtaken by the lapping tide of events

Belittling climate change in the Pacific might come back and bite you when China is countering our new nuclear submarines with its own island bases.

It was September 2015 and the then immigration minister, Peter Dutton, was waiting with prime minister Tony Abbott and social services minister Scott Morrison for a meeting to start at Parliament House.

With the television cameras rolling, the three engaged in some “light-hearted” sotto voce banter about the late arrival of some of the attendees.

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Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.

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