Man for all seasons
It’s possibly not quite where we pictured Scott Morrison’s prime ministership just before it hit the ripe old age of three months.
Strewth
Hearing Mal
Apparently Malcolm Turnbull is a “live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword type of person.”
Gone to the togs
Eric Abetz has been able to return to the all-important task of conjuring troubling mental images out of thin air.
Show of hands
There were a couple of WTF moments in Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Aunty’s own killing season.
ScoMotion Pictures
We are witnessing the birth of Pollywood.
The mountaineer
Politicians’ transcripts tend to start with a rundown of topics covered. But once in a while someone tries to liven things up.
All in a flap
Scott Morrison found time for a variation on the beloved broad church.
Quick, not painless
It was at least one of the nation’s speediest press conferences.
A kick up the ask
Even before the line “like a turd in a well” bobbed up, Strewth was having flashbacks to when Scott Morrison was in his happy place.
Great wall of ScoMo
Scott Morrison’s original 146-song Spotify playlist had just the one Australian tune.
Unafraid to dinky di
Happily, Scott Morrison is now spending even more time in front of a camera than backbencher Craig Kelly.
Ancient history
One has to admire Steven Ciobo’s optimism in declaring leadership untidiness is done and dusted.
Maybe driver
Michael McCormack showed utter fearlessness in the face of an obvious visual metaphor when he sat in a driverless car.
Resistant to rolling
Now that just over two months has elapsed since the latest putsch, we can’t help but wonder if Malcolm Turnbull missed a trick.
Hear it for the boys
We never considered Scott Morrison would be one of the people who would strike a blow for gender-neutral language.
Choice words
Choice magazine has published a rough guide to appliance longevity, and the response has been hilarious.
Among equines
Among the horses in the Cox Plate was Savvy Coup, who was most certainly not named after the events in Canberra.
Magnificence’s end
Just over two months after Bob Katter declared Fraser Anning’s solution speech “magnificent”, the sun set on even this empire.
A bridge too far
Scott Morrison’s chat with Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones was a small but perfectly formed adventure in language.
Let us all re-Joyce
To get out of the current state of politics, may we suggest rule by Barnaby Joyce, and Barnaby alone.
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