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Laura Tingle

Morrison’s sandbagging isn’t stopping the tide against him

The Prime Minister has plenty of money to stuff into marginal seats, but seems strangely deaf to those whose lives have been washed away.

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South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has just won an election. Rather convincingly. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is trying to win one. Given the assistance he is getting from his own side of politics of late, he would probably just settle for winning unconvincingly.

Malinauskas is all fresh-faced enthusiasm and big ideas. Scott Morrison, like his government, just looks tired and – quite a lot of the time – petulant.

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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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